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6 "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.) rvr - * 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 i ? - r ~ - * 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