BISHOPS OF PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES-Continued. A. Kozlowski, Chicago, is Bishop of the Old Catholic Church, and S. Kaminski, Buffalo, of the Polish Catholic Church. Bishops Tikhon, of North America, and Innocent, of Alaska, represent the Greek Orthodox Church, and Archimandrite Raphael, New York, the Syrian Greek Orthodox Church. The next triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church will be held in Richmond, Va., October 2, 1907. The next quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held May 6, 1908, the place to be determined by the book committee. The next general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will be held May 5, 1910, at a place not yet determined. American Unitarian Association. THIS ASSOCiation was organized in Boston, Mass., May 25, 1825, and incorporated in 1847. Its objects, as defined in the report of the Committee on Organization, are as follows: 1. To collect and diffuse information respecting the state of Unitarian Christianity in our country. 2. To produce union, sympathy, and co-operation among liberal Christians. 3. To publish and distribute books and tracts, inculcating correct views of religion, in such form and at such price as shall afford all an opportunity of being acquainted with Christian truth. Secretary-Rev. Charles E. St. John, Boston, 4. To supply missionaries, especially in such parts of our country as are destitute of a stated ministry. 5. To adopt whatever other measures may hereafter seem expedient-such as contributions in behalf of clergymen with insufficient salaries, or in aid of building churches. President-Rev.Sam'l A. Eliot, D.D., Boston, Mass. | Vice-Presidents-Joseph W. Symonds, LL.D., Portland, Me.; John Harsen Rhoades, New York, N. Y.; George E. Adains, Chicago, Ill.; Horace Davis, LL. D., San Francisco, Cal.; Thomas J. Morris, Baltimore, Md. Assistant Secretary-George W. Fox, Boston, Mass. Universalist General Convention. THE Universalist General Convention has jurisdiction over the_ecclesiastical organizations of the Universalist Church in the United States and Canadian provinces. It meets biennially, the next meeting being ordered for October, 1907. The Convention is composed of the presidents, vice-presidents, and secretaries of the State conventions, and of clerical and lay delegates from the State conventions. All laws relating to fellowship, ordination, and discipline originate in the General Convention, and it is the final court of appeal in all cases of dispute or difficulty between State conventions. It has funds to the amount of over $350,000, the income of which, with the contributions of its constituency, is used for missionary and educational objects. The officers of the Convention are: President, Frank P. Bennett, Saugus, Mass.; Vice-President, George B. Wells, Philadelphia, Pa.; Secretary, Rev. J. M. Atwood, D.D., Rochester, N. Y.; Treasurer, Frank W. Wise, Boston, Mass. The Young People's Christian Union of the Universalist Church was organized October 22, 1889, "to foster the religious life among the young people, to stimulate to all worthy endeavor, to train the young in the work of the Universalist Church, in the promulgation of its truth, and the increase of its power and influence." It has about 9,000 members, and its general officers and executive board are: President, Rev. Frederic Williams Perkins, Lynn, Mass.: Secretary, A. Ingham Bicknell, 30 West Street, Boston, Mass.; Treasurer, Prof. Arthur W. Peirce, Franklin, Mass.; Miss Georgia Burnham, 2729 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Harry R. Childs, 47 Worth Street, New York, N. Y.; Miss Mary Fosdick Jennings, Detroit, Mich., and Frank Goddard Mellen, Hartford, Ct. The National Council of Congregational Churches Is composed of delegates from Congregational conferences and associations, and was organized November 17, 1871. It meets once in three years, and the next triennial meeting will be held in Cleveland, Ohio., October, 1907. The officers are: Moderator, Rev. Washington Gladden, D. D., LL. D., Columbus, Ohio; Secretary, Rev. Asher Anderson, D. D., 614 Congregational House, Boston, Mass.; Treasurer, Rev. S. B. Forbes, Hartford, Ct.; Registrar, Rev. Joel S. Ives, Hartford, Ct. Reformed Church in America.* OFFICERS of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America: President, Rev. Donald Sage Mackay, D. D.; Vice-President, Rev. Samuel M. Zwemer, D. D.; Stated Clerk, Rev. William H. De Hart, D. D.; Permanent Clerk, Rev. Henry Lockwood. The Treasurers are: Synod's Board of Direction, F. R. Van Nest; Foreign Missions, Rev. J. L. Amerman, D. D., Assistant Treasurer; Domestic Missions, William T. Demarest; Education, Peter Quackenbush; Publication, Abraham C. Holdrum. The Corresponding Secretaries of the Boards are: Foreign Missions, Rev. Henry N. Cobb, D. D.; Domestic Missions, Rev. William H. Vroom, D. D.; Education, Rev. John G. Gebhard; Publication, Rev. Isaac W. Gowen, D. D. Denominational headquarters, 25 East Twenty-second Street, New York City. * Known formerly as the Reformed Dutch Church. Presbyterian Assemblies. OFFICERS OF THE LAST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN TRUSTEES. President-John H. Converse, LL.D., Philadelphia. | Treasurer--Charles B. Adamson, Philadelphia, AGENCIES OF THE CHURCH. The following may be addressed at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City, viz.: The Board of Home Missions, the Board of Foreign Missions, the Board of Church Erection, and the College Board. The following are located at 1319 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., viz.: The Trustees of the General Assembly, the Board of Education, the Board of Publication and Sabbath-school Work, and the Board of Ministerial Relief. The Board of Missions for Freedmen is located at 102 South Sixth Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Church magazine, The Assembly Herald, has its office at 1328 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. OFFICERS OF THE LAST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. * Allen G. Hall (Elder), Nashville, Stated Clerk-Rev. W. A. Alexander, D. D., 501 College St., Clarksville, Tenn. TRUSTEES. President-Dr. E. Nye Hutchison, Charlotte, N. C. | Secretary and Treasurer-John R. Pharr, Esq., C.| Charlotte, N. C. SECRETARIES. Foreign Missions-Rev. S. H. Chester, D. D., Nash- | Ministerial Education and Relief-Rev. H. H. Home Missions -Rev.S.L.Morris, D.D., Atlanta,Ga. *Commonly known as the Southern Presbyterian Church. Alliance of the Reformed Churches THROUGHOUT THE WORLD HOLDING THE PRESBYTERIAN SYSTEM. THIS organization represents nine Reformed and Presbyterian Churches in the United States, with a constituency of 6,500,000; the Presbyterian Church in Canada, with a constituency of 600,000, and more than 80 different denominations on the five continents other than North America, with a constituency of at least 25,000,000 persons. The American Secretary is the Rev. W. H. Roberts, D. D., LL. D., Philadelphia, Pa. The following are the organizations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico which are members of the Alliance: PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NORTH. Stated Clerk-Rev. W. H. Roberts, D. D., LL. D., 1319 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Next meeting of General Assembly, Columbus, Ohio, May 16, 1907. (Communicants, 1,158, 662.) PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SOUTH. Stated Clerk-Rev. W. A. Alexander, D. D., 501 College Street, Clarksville, Tenn. Next meeting of General Assembly, Birmingham, Ala., May 16, 1907. (Communicants, 252, 882.) UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA. Stated Clerk-Rev. D. F. McGill, D.D., 1508 Chartiers Street, Allegheny, Pa. Next meeting of General Assembly, Denver, Col., May 22, 1907. (Communicants, 145,535.) CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.* Stated Clerk-Rev. J. M. Hubbert, Marshall, Mo. *Reunited May 24, 1906, with Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. (Communi、 cants at time of reunion, 185, 212.) REFORMED (DUTCH) CHURCH IN AMERICA. Stated Clerk-Rev. W. H. De Hart, Raritan, N. J. Next meeting of General Synod, Albany, N. Y., June 5, 1907. (Communicants, 119,355.) Stated Clerk-Rev. John Ph. Stein, D. D., Reading, Pa. Next meeting of the General Synod, Akron, Ohio, May 17, 1908. (Communicants, 264, 931.) REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, GENERAL SYNOD. Stated Clerk-Rev. John H. Kendall, D. D., Tarentum, Pa. Next meeting of the General Synod, Cedarville, Ohio, May 22, 1907. (Communicants, 3,500.) ASSOCIATE REFORMED SYNOD OF THE SOUTH. Stated Clerk-Rev James Boyce, Due West, S. C. Next meeting of the Synod, November, 1907. (Communicants, 12,620.) SYNOD OF THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA. Stated Clerk-Rev. J. W. Sproull, D.D., 122 East North Avenue, Allegheny, Pa. Stated Clerk-Rev. John R. Johns, Randolph, Wis. Stated Clerk-Rev. Robert Campbell, D. D., Montreal, Canada. Next meeting of General Assembly, June 5, 1907. (Communicants, 232, 734. ) PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MEXICO, GENERAL SYNOD, Stated Clerk-Rev. William Wallace, Saltillo, Mexico. Next meeting of the Synod, July, 1907. (Communicants, 8,000.) National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. THE following statement of the purposes of the society was prepared for THE WORLD ALMANAC by an officer of the Union: The National W. C. T. U. was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, and is the sober second thought of the great woman's crusade. It is now regularly organized in every State of the Union. There are about 10.000 local unions, with a membership and following, including the children's societies, of about half a million. The W. C. T. U. has forty distinct departments of work, presided over by as many women experts, in the National Society, and in nearly every State. All the States in the Republic have laws requiring the study of scientific temperance in the public schools, and all these laws were secured by the W. C. T. U.; also the laws forbidding the sale of tobacco to minors. The first police matrons and most industrial homes for girls were secured through the efforts of this society, as were the refuges for erring women. Laws raising the age of consent and providing for better protection for women and girls have been enacted by many Legislatures through the influence of the Union. The World's W. C. T. U. was founded through the influence of Frances E. Willard in 1883, and already has auxiliaries in more than fifty countries and provinces. The white ribbon is the badge of all the W. C. T. U. members, and is now a familiar emblem in every civilized country. The headquarters of the National organization is The Willard, Rest Cottage, Evanston, Ill. The following are the officers: President, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, Portland, Me.: Vice-President-atLarge, Miss Anna A. Gordon, Evaston, Ill.; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Susanna M. D. Fry, Evanston, Ill.; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman, St. Louis, Mo.; Assistant Recording Secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson, Valley City, N. D.; Treasurer, Mrs. Harriett W. Brand, Evaston Ill. Church Temperance Society. GENERAL OFFICERS.-President, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, S. T. D., Bishop of Missouri; Vice-Presidents, sixty Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Chairman, Rt. Rev. Frederick Courtney D.D.; Vice-Chairman, Rev. D. Parker Morgan, D.D., of New York; Treasurer, Irving Grinnell; General Secretary, Robert Graham. The Society was organized within the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1881. Its adult membership combines those who temperately use and those who totally abstain from intoxicating liquors as beverages. It works on the lines of moral as well as of legalsuasion, and its practical objects are: 1. Training the young in habits of temperance. 2. Rescue of the drunkard. 3. Restriction of the saloon by legislation. 4. Counteractive agencies, such as iced water fountains, lunch wagons, coachmen's and firemen's coffee vans, coffee-houses, workingmen's clubs, reading-rooms, and other attractive wholesome resorts. The Church Temperance Legion (compris ng the Knights of Temperance, Young Crusaders, and Veteran Knights) deals with boys, seeking to induce them to keep sober, pure, and reverent from the earliest years of manhood, and it endeavors to perpetuate those habits in men. Headquarters, the Church Mission House, New York. Society of St. Vincent de Paul. THIS great Roman Catholic organization, founded in Paris, France, in which its head office is located, has branches in every part of the civilized world. Its principal mission is the care of the poor in their homes to the end that the unity of the family may be preserved, but it conducts many other works of charity, such as free employment bureaus, Šummer homes, boys' clubs, hospital and prison visitation committees, etc. The local or parish branches of the Society are known as conferences; these conferences are grouped in sections under the jurisdiction of Particular and Central Councils, and the latter, in the United States, are under the jurisdiction of the Superior Council, which is located in New York City, with its office at No. 375 Lafayette Street. The officers of the Superior Council are as follows: Spiritual Director, The Rev. Denis J. McMahon, D.D.; President, Thomas M. Mulry; Vice-Presidents, Joseph A. Kernan, James E. Dougherty, Secretary, Edmond J. Butler Treasurer, Michael J. Scanlau. Christian and Missionary Alliance. OFFICERS.--President and General Superintendent, Rev. A. B. Simpson, 692 Eighth Avenue, New York City; Secretary, A. E. Funk; Treasurer, David Crear. The Christian Alliance was founded in 1887. It combined with the International Missionary Alliance in 1897, and the present title was adopted. Membership consists of all professing Christians who shall subscribe to the principles of the order and enroll their names. The objects of the Alliance are stated to be Wide diffusion of the Gospel in its fulness, the promotion of a deeper and higher Christian life, and the work of evangelization, especially among the neglected classes in distant and especially in heathen countries. "' State auxiliary and local branches are being rapidly formed. Connected with the Alliance are the Missionary Training Institute, Institute for the Training of Home Workers, Berachah Home. The headquarters of the Alliance are at 690 and 692 Eighth Avenue, New York City, but some of its buildings are located at Nyack, N. Y. The Young People's Christian Union. THE Young People's Christian Union of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ was organized June 5, 1890. It is a union of all forms of young people's societies within the Church, uniting them for the purpose of denominational direction. There are now 2,025 societies, of which 545 are junior societies. The total membership is 81,300. A mission church has been built in Los Angeles, Cal. Each conference is called a Branch and holds its annual conventions, when a review of the year's work is made and new plans are laid. At present there are about forty Branches or districts, and nearly every one is doing something special in missions, either at home or abroad. The General Union holds its convention every two years. The Watchword is the organ of the Union. Single subscription, $1.00: club rates, 75 cents. Its circulation is nearly 40,000. H. F. Shupe, D. D., Dayton, Ohio, is editor. Last year, 1906, $1,200 were raised for the equipment of Albert Academy, Freetown, West Africa. The Junior work is one of the strong departments, superintended by Mrs. G. W. Kitzmiller, Dayton, Ohio. Rev. F. S. Bowman, Harrisburg, Pa., is superintendent of Bible study, Mahlon Miller and C. J. Roberts are superintendents of missions; Rev. J. S. Kendall, Cleveland; Ohio, is superintendent of Christian Stewardship. The principal officers are: President, Rev. J. G. Huber, D. D., Dayton, Ohio; Corresponding Secretary, H. F. Shupe, Dayton, Ohio; Treasurer, E. Jay Rogers, Dayton, Ohio. Young Men's Christian Associations. OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE. -Office, No. 3 West Twenty-ninth Street, New York. Chairman, Lucien C. Warner; Treasurer, Frederick B. Schenck; General Secretary, Richard C. Morse. Board of Trustees - Treasurer, Jas. G. Cannon, New York City. The International Committee is the general executive of the Associations of North America. It consists of 54 representative Christian laymen, and employs a force of 53 secretaries in the home and 66 in the foreign fields. OFFICERS OF THE WORLD'S COMMITTEE.-Headquarters, No. 3 Général Dufour, Geneva, Switzerland. Chairman, R. Sarasin Warnery; Secretary, Louis Perrot; Treasurer, Paul Des Gouttes; General Secretaries, Charles Fermaud and Christian Phildius. The committee is composed of members representing America, Australasia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, and India. OFFICERS OF THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.-General office, No. 215 West 23d Street, New York. Chairman, Edmund P. Platt; Treasurer, Samuel Woolverton; State Secretary, John W. Cook. This committee was incorporated under the laws of New York April 14, 1886, having for its object "the establishing and assisting Young Men's Christian Associations, and generally to provide for the spiritual, intellectual, physical, and social well-being of young men in accordance with the aims and methods of Young Men's Christian Associations of the State of New York." The membership in the State is 54, 288, divided as follows: General, 29, 548; Railroad, 11, 428; Student, 3,390; Boys' Departments, 8,625; County and Small Town, 447. A biennial meeting of the State Association, comprising the 178 Associations in the State, is held in February, the even years. OFFICERS OF THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. — General office, No. 156 Fifth Avenue, New York. President, W. Fellowes Morgan; Treasurer, Samuel Sloan, Jr.; General Secretary, Henry M. Orne. There are 8,332 associations in the world, of which 1,868 are in North America. The total membership of these American associations is 405,789; they occupy 552 buildings of their own, valued at $30,857, 430, and have 555 libraries, containing 580,774 volumes. They have 36,293 young men as students in evening educational classes, and 153,473 in their physical departments. They employ 2,339 general secretaries and other paid officials, and expended last year for current expenses-local, State, and international-$5,319,153. The World's_Xoung Women's Christian Association. THE World's Young Women's Christian Association was formed in 1894. Eleven National Associations are now affiliated: Great Britain, United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Norway, Sweden, India, Denmark, and Hungary. The headquarters are in London. Office, 26 George Street, Hanover Square, West. The Executive Committee is composed of a resident membership in London and two representatives from America and other countries. Mrs. George W. Campbell is Chairman, Miss Clarissa Spencer, General Secretary. The second World's Conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland, July, 1902. The American Committee was formed in 1886. General office, 917 Hartford Building, 140 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill.; Eastern office, Room 60, 289 Fourth Avenue, New York City. There are now associations affiliated with the American Committee in 552 colleges and 104 cities, with 24 State organizations. Each State holds an annual convention. The national convention occurs biennially. Each year seven conferences are held to train volunteer workers in Bible study and association work. These meet at Capitola, Cal.; Asheville, N. C.; Lake George, N. Y.; Lake Geneva, Wis.; Waterloo, Iowa; Lakeside, Iowa, and Seaside, Oregon. Attendance in 1904, 2,836. A training institute is conducted to prepare young women for positions as secretaries. The Evangel, the official organ of the Association, is published monthly at Chicago. America joins with the World's Association in observing the second week in November as a week of prayer for young women. Student Department of the American Committee is one of the members of the World's Student Christian Federation, and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions is also connected directly with the Student Department. Mrs. J. S. Griffith is Chairman, Miss Mabel Cratty is General Secretary of the American Committee. Membership of local associations connected with the American Committee, 100,252. American Tract Society. The THIS Society was founded in 1825. For eighty years it has published and circulated, by sale or grant, books, tracts, and periodicals, representing the best Christian literature approved by all Evangelical Christians, and is the almoner of their gifts to the destitute. Its total issues at home, in twenty-four languages, number 754,957,006 copies. It has helped Foreign Missions, in one hundred and thirty-seven languages, to many millions of copies; in value, $758, 713. 25. Its colporteurs have visited over 15,676,378 families, and circulated over 16,587,938 volumes. The Society is dependent upon donations and legacies for its support. Offices, 150 Nassau Street, New York. President, Major-Gen. O. O. Howard; Secretaries, William W. Rand, D. D., George L. Shearer, D.D., and John H. Kerr, D. D. American Bible Society. THE American Bible Society was founded in 1816. It is a charitable institution, whose sole object is to encourage a wider circulation of the Scriptures without note or comment. It invites the contribution and co-operation of "all who accept the Bible as their rule of life and believe that every human being is entitled to know what it teaches concerning truth and duty." The officers are a president, Daniel C. Gilman, Baltimore, Md., and twenty-six vice-presidents, headed by J. L. Chamberlain, Maine. Among the others are Gen. O. O. Howard, Vermont; Cortlandt Parker, New Jersey; Frank M. Cockrell, Missouri; John W. Foster, District of Columbia; T. A. Brouwer, New York; Cyrus Northrop, Minnesota: James H. Carlisle, South Carolina; Howard Van Epps, Georgia; E. E. Beard, Tennessee; William J. Northen, Georgia; William A. Robinson, Kentucky; John B. Smith, New Hampshire; W. P. Dillingham, Vermont; David J. Brewer, District of Columbia; James A. Beaver, Pennsylvania; Elbert A. Brinckerhoff, New Jersey, and John N. Stearns, New York. There are thirty-six managers, divided into four classes as to terms of office. The Secretaries are: Rev. John Fox, D. D., and Rev. W. I. Haven, D. D. The Treasurer is William Foulke. The issues for the year ending March 31, 1906, were 2, 236, 755 copies, and for the ninety years of the existence of the Society, 78,509, 529 copies. This includes Bibles in many foreign tongues, and the languages of several American Indian tribes. (The British and Foreign Bible Society, established in 1804, has distributed to March 31, 1906, 198,515,199 copies.) The offices of the Society are at the Bible House, Fourth Avenue, New York. Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor. OFFICERS OF THE UNITED SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. -Office, Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. President, Rev, Francis E. Clark, D. D.; Treasurer, William Shaw; General Secre tary. Von Ogden Vogt. Each society is in some local church, and in no sense outside. It exists simply to make the young people loyal and efficient members of the Church of Christ. It is the Church training the young. Its motto is, "For Christ and the Church," In November, 1906, there were 67,830 societies, with a membership of 4,069,800, chiefly in the United States and Canada, and in Australia, Great Britain, China, India, Japan, and in all missionary lands. It is found in about the same proportious in all the great evangelical denominations and in all their subdivisions. The United Society is simply the bureau of information for all the societies. It prints the literature, supports one general secretary, and is the general headquarters of the work. It levies no taxes, however, and assumes no authority, but every society manages its own affairs in its own way. It is supported by the sales of its literature, badges, etc. It is managed by a board of trustees, representing the great evangelical denominations, the President being Francis E. Clark, D. D., the founder of the society; General Secretary, Von Ogden Vogt; Treasurer, William Shaw. The executive committee of the board of trustees meets quarterly to consult concerning the best interests of the society. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. THE head office of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions is at the Congregational House, 14 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. There are three district offices, at the United Charities Building, Twenty-second Street and Fourth Avenue, New York City, Rev. C. C. Creegan, D.D., District Secretary; at 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill., Rev. A. N. Hitchcock, Ph. D., District Secretary, and at Y. M. C. A. Building, San Francisco, Cal., Rev. H. Melville Tenney, District Secretary. The following is a list of the officers of the Board elected at the last annual meeting: President, Samuel B. Capen, LL.D., Boston, Mass.; Vice-President, Rev. A. J. Lyman, D. Ď. Prudential Committee, H. A. Wilder, Rev. Edward M. Noyes, Edward C. Moore, D. D., Henry H. Proctor, Boston, Mass.; Edward Whitin, Col. Charles A. Hopkins, Boston, Mass.; Prof. Arthur L. Gillett, Frank O. Winslow, A. H. Wellman, Rev. Albert P. Fitch, Boston, Mass.; Rev. E. H. Byington, Beverly, Mass.; Corresponding Secretary, James L. Barton, D. D.; Editorial Secretary, E. E. Strong, D. D.; Associate Secretaries, Harry Wade Hicks, Rev. William E. Strong: Recording Secretary, Henry A. Stimson, D.D.; Assistant Recording Secretary, Edward N. Packard, D. D.; Treasurer, Frank H. Wiggin. The American Board, which is the oldest foreign missionary society in the United States, was organized June 29, 1810. During the past ninety-four years of its history it has sent out over 2,300 missionaries, of whom 565 are now in service. Into the 589 churches which have been organized by these missionaries there have been received from the first 186, 675 members. The total receipts from the beginning have been about $36,908, 721. The mission fields now occupied by the Board are: Mexico; Micronesian Islands; Philippine Islands; Japan; North China; Shansi, in Northwestern China; Foochow and Hong Kong, in Southern China; Ceylon; Madura, in Southern India; the Marathi field of Western India; East Central Africa; Southern Africa; West Central Africa; European and Asiatic Turkey; Austria, and Spain. United Society of Free Baptist Young People. A GENERAL Society representing the local societies of young people of the Free Baptist Denomination. The officers are as follows: President, E. P. Metcalf, Providence, R. 1.: Vice-President, Re 7. T. J. Mawhorter, Wawaka, Ind.; Recording Secretary, Miss Agnes Collins, South Danville, N. H.; General Secretary, Harry S. Myers, Hillsdale, Mich.; General Treasurer, Rev. Arthur Given, D. D., Providence, R. I. There are 500 societies, with a membership of 18,000. Baptist Young People's Union of America. THE Union represents young people's societies connected with Baptist churches in all the States and Canada. The following are the International officers: President, John H. Chapman, Chicago, Ill.; Vice-Presidents, George Miller, Baltimore, Md.; Principal A. L. McCrimmon, M. A., Woodstock, Ont. George W. Truett, D. D., Dallas, Tex.; Field Secretary, George T. Webb, 324 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill.; Recording Secretary. Rev. H. W. Reed, Ph. D., Rock Island, Ill.; Treasurer, H.B. Osgood, Chicago, Ill., H. C. Lyman, Manager. The Union was organized July 7 and 8, 1891. It holds annual meetings. Next meeting will be held at Spokane, Wash., July, 1907. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew. THE following was prepared for THE WORLD ALMANAC by the General Secretary: "The Brotherhood of St. Andrew is an organization of men in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Its sole object is the spread of Christ's kingdom among men. It works under two rufes, known as (1) The Rule of Prayer: To pray daily for the spread of Christ's kingdom among men, especially young men, and for God's blessing upon the labors of the Brotherhood, and (2) The Rule of Service: To make at least one earnest effort each week to lead some man nearer to Christ through His church." The There are now 1,200 active chapters, with a membership of about fourteen thousand men. Brotherhood idea has also taken root in Canada, and the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada has been formed, with two hundred chapters and fifteen hundred men. A similar organization has been formed in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Forty chapters have also been formed in Australia, and have been organized into a Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the Church of England in Australia, June 12,1896, the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the Church of England was formed. The Brotherhood includes a Junior Department to train young men and elder boys for Christian work. It has 400 chapters in the United States, with about five thousand members. The officers are: President, Robert H. Gardiner; Editor of St. Andrew's Cross and General Secretary, Hubert Carleton, Broad Exchange Building, Boston, Mass.; Ofice Secretary, Edgar G. Criswell. The Secretaries will furnish information and literature to any one who may be interested in the work. |