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"Other Foreign W
organized work, the
Orleans and other
congregations anion;
garians, Syrians, etc.
for their own sake, f<
world's sake. The
come the more there
we have an unparal
t iic viospei tne cou
These missions amo
in our country repn
Home Mission worl
part of our church 1
lost for Christ. It
far-reaching in its re
THE ANNUAL STj
The Presbyterian <
tainly to be commend
the Minutes of the A
reached us in three
journed. It is well
that every officer in
from the committee a
? cents.)
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wi course, we turn
mary." It is the mc
How many memb
during the last chtn
previous years the i
14,367, 13,476, 12,41(
tions are larger tha
Church's history. F(
Another precious f<
in membership is tli
Church. It is 10.073
was 9,508; in previou
borhood of seven or
The total number
two hundred and eig
The year 1874 is th
tics included both tl
Synod of Missouri,
one generation. Ir
Churth members has
increased from 106,00
more than a hundre<
ngure let us compart
Candidates for the
1878 only 145. Now
from 1874 is 115 per
hundred per cent.
The number of mil
1660, only seventy f
half as great as tha
But the number oi
from 1,764 to 3,265.
Some people say tl
lected at the present
true. Yet the cond
baptisms have increj
forty per cent.
In this connection
number of infant b?
y
THE PRESBYTERIi
rork.?In addition to this larger
re are Sunday-schools in Newcities
conducted by individual
g the Chinese. Japanese, IlunThese
people must be reached
_>r our country's sake and for the
greater number there are who
are to return, and through them
leled opportunity to reach with
ntries trom which they come,
ng the foreign-speaking peoples
esent a distinct advance in our
: and indicate a desire on the
Lo have a share in winning the
is a work most important and
suits."
\TISTICS OF OUR CHURCH.
Committee of Publication is cered
for their punctuality in issuing
ssembly. A copy of the Minutes
weeks after the Assembly adand
neatly printed. We trust
our Church will secure a copy
t Richmond and study it. (Price
t first to the "Comparative Sum>st
interesting page of the book,
ers were added on examination
rch year? Answer, 15,998. In
nuiuuer aaaea nas Deen I4,15J,
). We think this year's addin
in any previous year in our
Dr this let the Lord be thanked,
mature appears. The net increase
e largest in the history of our
In the year 1907 the increase
s years it has been in the neigheight
thousand per annum,
of members is 279,803, nearly
fhty thousand.
e earliest one in which the statistic
Synod of Kentucky and the
The interval is thirty-five years?
1 this interval the number of
much more than doubled; it has
0 to about 280,000; the growth is
1 and fifty per cent. With this
; the growth in other directions.
ministry in 1874 were 199; in
they-number 431. The increase
cent; from 1878, it is nearly two
listers has increased from 972 to
>er cent. This increase is only
it of the membership,
churches has almost doubled?
hat infant baptism is being negday.
We apprehend that this is
itions might be worse. Infant
ised from 4,249 to 5,880?about
there is an interesting fact: The
iptisms annually about fifteen
VN OF THE SOUTH.
years ago was about five the
the number of admissions t(
From this deduct the num
6,495?and we have the nun
to communion this year on 1
in infancy. This number i
many as the number of infa
ago. Perhaps in those da)
were not reported. Possibl
infant bantisms are unrenort
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THE BENEVOLENT
Of the Year Just Closed.
We are still looking over
the General Assembly. Let
increase in membership has
The growth in contributio
the Assembly's Home Missic
000?a hundred per cent; tc
$10,000 to $80,000; to Foreig
to $450.000?about four hunt
Salaries, from half a million
The total of contributions
paper money; in 1882 it was,
year it is in gold?$3,608,00
Membership has increased
cent; wealth has increased t
cent; the total of contribu
therewith.
If it be true, as reported, tl
of Central University pledge
tion of the traditions, relatio
ciples of the Presbyterian C
purpose to conduct the insl
complete and vital sympathy
Church,'' it is pertinent to a
all acts or deliverances of i
dealing squarely with the C
it right to hold on to the CI
petuatc her traditions and p
time to receive money from
principle of which is that it v
which is denominational in i
trol? It would seem to us
of the Fund wovrld pause be
institution which has such a
of undenominationalism.
It seemed strange to the C
Paul and Silas, who had be<
to the place, should be driver
had only begun. But the
ever advanced through diff
and has made most progres
The indifference which, in
and unbeliever, is so common
vailing lack of deep convictic
is almost entirely wanting,
amounts to more than a m<
that we are sinners in God's <
accompanying it and no fee
wrought that we abhor the
grief and hatred.
1
June 30, 1909.
>usand a year. This year
) communion was 15.998.
ber of adult baptisms?
nber of persons admitted
lie basis of their baptism
is 9,503, nearly twice as
nt baptisms fifteen years
s some of the baptisms
y tins year some of the
:ed.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
the statistical report of
us recall the fact that the
been about 150 per cent,
ns has been greater. To
>ns, from $56,000 to $116,>
Ministerial Relief, from
pi Missions, from $29,000
Ired per cent; to Pastors'
to $1,136,000.
in 1874 was $1,111,461 in
, in gold, $1,130,133. This
0.
a hundred and fifty per
wo or three hundred per
tions has not kept pace
hat the Board of Trustees
'd itself "to the perpetuans
and fundamental prinhurch,"
and declared its
titution "in a relation of
y witn tne fresbyterian ]
sk whether '^egardless of (
synod or /yemblj7, it is
Carnegie FouhlatioVi ? Is
lurch and to s?ek t, petrinciples
and a the savne
a fund the fundaniental
will not aid any instit ut\on
its government and coii?
that the admimstra tors
fore rendering aid to iiny
"string" to its declaration
\
Christians at Philippi that
mi providentially directed
1 from it when their wofk
work of the Church has
iculties and persecutions
. _ ! -
s wnen most opposed.
both professing Christian
, must grow out of the pre>n
of sin. The sense of sin
and the conviction hardly
?ntal state, 9 simple belief
sight, with no compunction
ling so profound and insin
and turn from it with
fm