BOARD OF MANAGERS OK THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY O F T H E JJroteatixnt »iptscopal €l)urcb in ttjc 11. 3. of America. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES, RECOGNIZED AUXILIARIES, AND MISSIONARY BISHOPS. FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31st, 1882. WITH ANNUAL TABLES. NEW YORK : P u b l is h e d a t N os. 22 a n d 23 B ib l e H o u se , Second Floor, Fourth Avenue Entrance. vdoulcnts. Reports of Committees, Auxiliaries, etc................. 403 Annual Report of the China Mission....................... 501 The Forty-seventh Annual Report of the Commit­ Annual Report of the Bishop of Haiti .................. 504 tee for Domestic Missions............................. 405 Annual Repor t of the Bishop-Elect of Cuernavaca Report of I reasurer. Domestic Committee.......... 412 in Behalf of the Mexican Branch of the List of Domestic Missionaries................................. 417 Church ....................................................... 508 Bishop Clarkson’s Seventeenth Annual Report__ 421 Statistics African Mission.......................................... 510 Bishop Tuttle's Sixteenth Annnal Report.............. 421 Statistics China Mission........................................... 511 Bishop Morris’ Fourteenth Annual Report............. 428 Statistics Japan Mission........................................... 512 Bishoji Whitaker’s Thirteenth Annual Report ... m Statistics Haitien Church...........................................512 Bishop Pierce's'Report for Arkansas and Indian Statistics Mexican Church.........................................518 Territory............... .............................. 435 List of Foreign Missionaries, etc............................ 514 Bishop Hare’s Tenth Annual R ep ort................. 4-16 Report on Stated Publications................................ 515 Bishop Spalding’s Tenth Animal Report........... 444 Report on the Standing Committee on Trust Bishop Elliott’s Eighth Annual Report................... 419 Funds...................... 517 Bishop Wingfield's Eighth Annual Report........... 454 Eleventh Annual Report of the Woman’s Auxil­ Bishop Garret’s Eighth Annual R ep ort................ 456 iary to the Board of Missions......................... 5il Bishop Dunlop's Second A n n u a l Rep"rt................. 404 Report of the American Church Misssionary Bishop Brewer's Second Annual Report ............... 467 Society................................................................541 Bishop Paddock’s Second Annual Report.............. 47d Report of the League in Aid of the Mexican Branch Annual Report of the Committee for Foreign Mis­ of the Church : ..................................... 547 sions to the Board of Managers............. ‘ . 473 Report of the American Church Building Fund Report of Treasurer, Foreign Committee, facing Commission..................... 552 page.................................................................. 514 Annual T ables..................................................... 555 Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop of Yedo 490 Subscribers to General Missions................................583 Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop of Cape Act of Incorporation.................................................. 587 Palma* ........................................................... 49R Missionary C an on.................................. ... .... 58S BOABD OF MANAGERS DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE Protestant (Episcopal €l)uucl) in tt)c IS. 0. of America. All the Bishops of the Church, members ex officio, The Secretaries and Treasurers of the Domestic and Foreign Committees, ex officio, And, appointed by the General Convention of 1880, sitting as the Board of Missions, Rev. Henry C. Potter, d . d . Mr. F. S. Winston. Rev. H. DyerjD.D. Mr. J. C. Garthwaite. Rev. Charles H. Hall, d . d . Mr. George N. Titus. Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck, d .d . Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Rev. E. A. Hoffman, d . d . Mr. William Scott. Rev. William N. McVickar. Mr. Charles R. Marvin. Rev. George Leeds, d .d . Mr. William G. Low. Rev. J. Livingston Reese, d .d . Hon. Benjamin Stark. Rev. J. H. Eccleston, d . d . Mr. Lemuel Coffin. Rev. Thomas F. Davies, d . d . Hon. H. P. Baldwin. Rev. James Saul, d .d . Mr. R. Fulton Cutting. Rev. William Tatlock, d .d . Mr. Howard Potter. Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., d .d . Mr. Joseph W. Fuller. Rev. Qieo. Williamson Smith, s .t .d . Hon. John A. King. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, d .d . Mr. C. M. Conyngnam. R e v . A . T . TWING, d .d ., Secretary of the Board. R e v . A. T. TWING, D.D., Secretary, R e v . JOSHUA KIMBER, Secretary, Mr. WM. BAYARD CUTTING, Treasurer, Mu. JAMES M. BROWN, Treasurer, FOR DOMESTIC MISSIONS, FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS, 22 Bible House, N. Y. 23 Bible House, N. Y. S tate d M e e t in g s .—In the City of New York, at 2 o’clock P. M ., on the second Tuesday of December, March, June, and September. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, AUXILIARIES, Ete. A n o t h e r year of increasing financial prosperity has come and gone, and the undersigned— the Special Committee of the Board of Managers, appointed to supervise the publication of the Annual Reports— in presenting to the Church the following record of her Missionary work for the year ending September 1st, 1882, are thankfully able to repeat what was said twelve months ago; that, “ in the matter of finances, the past year, as the Reports of the Committees show, has been the most prosperous in all the history of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society.” Because of large receipts from legacies, the aggregate amount of funds in the Domestic Department is greater than ever before; while, for the same reason, and because some of the appropriations for the erection of buildings were laid over to the new year, the Foreign Committee (as will be observed by their Report) came very near reaching the cash basis at which they have so long been aiming : or, in other words, that Committee had on general account, September 1st, 1882, a credit balance which was within $8,000 of the aggregate 404 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, AUXILIARIES, ETC. of outstanding liabilities for work performed at the various Foreign Stations to that date. Another cause for thankfulness is the fact of a deepened interest in the Missionary Conferences : which, in most instances, have gained for themselves a position of recognized worth in the Church. Five of these have been held since September, 1881. The first met at New Haven, Conn., and was mentioned in the last Annual Report; the second in Boston, November 13th ; the third in Utica, November 29th ; the fourth in New York, December 13th, and the fifth in Buffalo, June 6th. Another encouraging feature in the record of the past year is the Joint Heport of the Secretaries, in which, as will be observed, it is stated that the Publications of the Society (The Spirit of Missions and The Young Chris­ tian Soldier and The Carrier Dove) instead of being a tax upon the Mis­ sionary contributions, have not only paid for themselves, but have also together contributed Six Thousand Dollars toward their share of the Central Expenses of the Board. The Special Committee desire to call attention to the laborious and valu­ able service rendered by the various Standing Committees : particularly to those of the Committee on Trust Funds (the Report of which is herewith published), that on Missionary Meetings, and that on Office Expenses. The labors of the second named were much lightened by the kindly efforts of the local com­ mittees in the several places where the Conferences were held. One other fact remains to be mentioned. Archdeacon Kirkby, who has rendered efficient service during the past year, has been appointed by the Board of Managers to continue for another year the work he has been doing, and also to supervise and assist the Clergy of the Church in the introduction into their various Parishes of that Plan of Systematic Offerings which has been so thoroughly tested and found so successful in other Branches of the Church. Among the various instrumentalities now employed to increase the interest of the Church ia Missions and to enlarge her contributions toward the great work foi C h rist that this Society is aiming to achieve, it is believed that none will be more fruitful or more efficacious than this well considered and well tried plan of systematic giving; and the earnest attention of all who have the Missionary work of the Church near at heart is besought upon the subject. H e n r y Y . Sa tte r l e e , R. F ulton Gu t t in g , C. V a n d e r b il t , A. T . T w in g , J o sh u a E imB'Er , Special Gommiike-, etc. THE FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR DOMESTIC MISSIONS. Being the Fifth to the Board o f Managers of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society o f the Protestant Episcopal Ohurch. Individual or associate Christian thought and deed never rise to a higher plane of service than when they are in loyal and loving accord with the Divine arrangements for the enlightenment and restoration of those who are in culpa­ ble and perilous estrangement from truth and God. Men and women, as individuals or in association, thus elevated in thought and purpose, sustain a Missionary attitude, character and responsibility. They are the receivers and dispensers of light. Ordinarily, persons are not saved— placed in a state and condition of salvation— exclusively on their own account, for what there is in them that is worth saving, but, in addition to this, for what, with new aptitude and powers, they are thus made able to do in saving others. The Church, bereft of her Missionary charter, or with that bright symbol of office and func­ tion lowered from its proper position and trailing in the dust; the Ohurch, without Missionary impulse, so constant and effective as to be the restless and ruling law of her life, has parted with or lost out of sight the half, if not more than half, of all valid reasons for her existence here or elsewhere. As far as American Churchmen are especially and responsibly concerned, this branch of the one Ohurch is G od’s great Missionary Society in this land and in this world— His human agency into which every aiding power of Heaven is ready to descend when properly sought and co-operated with.