Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — WORK DONE IN A YEAR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORK DONE IN A YEAR.

Report* Submitted to the Presbyterian General Assembly. The annual reports of the various church hoards submitted to the Presbyterian General Assembly, in session in the New York Avenue Church at Washington, show encouraging results in every branch of the work. The report of the permanent committee on temperance enters into that subject largely in detail and makes many recommendations. The report emphasizes the statement that the church is not a political organization, but owes it to God and humanity to give unequivocal utterance on such moral questions. The total reoeipts of all the boards during the year amounted 1o $2,709,'><>2, an increaso over .1892 of $178,705. The report of the Board of Church prection Fund shows that during the year there were 239 applications for assistance, upon whioh grants were made aggregating $105,391, and loans $01,192. This total exceeds any previous year in the history of the board, and still there is an insufficiency of supplies. The result of the year’s work of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Acudemios has

not provod a disappointment to the expectations of the church. During the year the receipts havo boon $75,134, and the donations in the shape of aid aggiegated $63,030. Forty institutions have been assisted and twenty States occupied. The aggregate enrollment of etudents is 4,002, of whom 2,704 uro engaged in systematic Bible study. The report of the Board of Foroign Missions displays a very satisfactory condition of affairs, the only gloom being caused by the death of lour missionaries. During the year forty-tix new missionaries were sent into the field, making a total in connection with the board of 622 missionaries, which with aotive agents of all grados roaches a total of 1,047, Including 187 ordained ministers. The detailed reports from the missions in Japan, China, Corea, Siam, and Laos, India, Persia. Syria, Africa, Mexico, Central America, and South America, the board says, call for thanksgiving. The outlook was never more encouraging. The expenditures for missions in the more important flolds wero as follows: Africa, $34,407; China, $180,067; India, $157,070; Japan, $94,902; Corea, 33,583; Mexico, $89,401; Persia, $96,042; Siam and Laos, $47,953; South America, $87,103; Syria, $61,206; United States Indians, $19,848. The expenses of the home department wore $50,200.

NEW YORK AVENUE CHURCH,