From Individuals, for The General Work ($388 of it paid as Memorial).. $9,106 00 8,515 00 Freedmen-Church, School, and Individual ($700 of it paid as Me- U. S. Government, in Rentals (which have ceased since July 1). Reformed Church, in support of a Minister... 66 Board of Education, and its Predecessors-aid for a number of students for the Ministry, amount unknown.... Board of Publication, and its Predecessors-liberal grants to every request made, or indorsed by Committee... Total Fund received during the year.. $52,285 86 8,021 86 3,740 00 71 95 300 00 7,168 75 1,500 00 $76,966 54 Total received by the Treasurer during the year..... Paid for Current Expenses of Work...... $61,163 65 .$51,020 73 4,714 86 55,735 59 $5,428 06 Paid on Indebtedness.. Balance in Treasury, May 1st, 1871...... DUE. Balance on Indebtedness, shown in Statement of August 31st..... $13,074 29 Total, exclusive of that on Real Estate...... 290 17 2,878 80 $16,243 26 $10,815 20 Total, exclusive of that on Real Estate, less Cash Balance Of the $3400 indebtedness on real estate, $2300, the amount due on the Mission property at Winnsboro, S. C., has been paid. Of this, however, $1300, generously loaned by Mrs. A. C. Brown, of New-York City, will be due her July 24th, 1871. On the Normal School property at Winchester, Va., $575 were due on the 6th of June, 1870; and the balance, $600, will be due on the 6th of June, 1871, to which must be added the interest that has accrued. Aside from Memorial gifts for special objects, the amount contributed by churches and individuals is $1939.12 less than the amount received from the same sources last year. Though the amount given by many churches has been small, yet the increased number contributing is encouraging. Quite a number of boxes of good second-hand and other clothing, and good second-hand Sabbath-school and other books, have been given to the Freedmen. In view of the heavy indebtedness upon its work, the Committee, in making out its schedule of school-work for the year, reduced it, with but three exceptions, to that which is strictly parochial; dropping, with their teachers, such schools as had no individual church connection. In the work thus reduced, the regular Missionaries of the year have been as follows: Ordained Ministers-of whom 19 are colored, 34; Licentiates-all colored, 2; Catechist-all colored, 23; Teachers-male-of whom 13 are colored, 16; Teachers-female-of whom 9 are colored, 42; in all, 58; Total, 117—of whom 66 are colored. Rev. J. W. C. Pennington, D.D., Jacksonville, Fla.; Rev. George W. Stinson, Brunswick, Ga.; and Mrs. Mary D., wife of Rev. J. A. Chresfield, Lexington, N. C., have died. Churches organized during the year, 8; whole number under care of the Committee, May 1st, 1871, 97; communicants added-on examination-1007; on certificate, 167; whole number of communicants, May 1st, 1871, 7688; baptized-adults, 830; infants, 462; marriages reported, 134; whole number of Sabbath-schools, 82; whole number of scholars in Sabbath-school, 6220. A good degree of special religious interest has been manifested in several churches, resulting in encouraging additions. Of church Buildings, 4 have been completed during the year, 11 are incomplete, and the whole number is 67, upon 6 of which there is an indebtedness of $5933. Belonging to these are 9 Manses, or Homes, upon one of which is an indebtedness of $1300. The united value of these Churches, Manses, and Homes, is $70,934. This estimate does not include the buildings of Biddle Memorial Institute, nor of Wallingford Academy. SCHOOLS. Whole number of schools, as reduced for the year, 45; whole number of pupils, 4530; whole number of teachers, 58. To this should be added, as belonging to the work of the year, the Schools of the Freedmen's Department of the P. C. H. M., in which 53 teachers labored 99 months, from May 1st, to June 30th, 1871, but of which we have not data for a fuller statement; also self-sustaining schools taught in vacation by students of Lincoln University, commissioned by our Committee. The eagerness with which children and youth embrace the opportunity of attending our schools, the earnest desire of their parents that they should reap the advantages thus offered, and their aptness to learn, seem unabated. As a rule, the Committee employs as teachers, only members of the Presby. terian Church, and they seem in general to feel that their mission to the Freedmen is religious as well as educational, and to act accordingly. Our schools, with but few exceptions, if any, are opened with prayer, or reading the Scriptures, or both; and the catechism of our Church has been generally taught in day or Sabbath-school, or in both. In some schools the religious influence of the teacher has been very marked. Biddle Memorial Institute, Charlotte, N. C.; Rev. S. Mattoon, D.D., Presi dent. This Institute, established for the special purpose of training colored preachers, catechists, and teachers, as instructors of their own race, holds a place of the first importance in the work of the Committee, and reports 100 students enrolled during the present term. It has a fine location upon a plat of eight acres, a good building, two good houses for professors, and one small dormitory, valued in all at over $13,000, and clear of debt. Through the efforts of its President, a partial endowment of one professorship has been secured during the past year, and its completion, with the endowment of at least one other, at an early day, is exceedingly desirable. Among other wants, are scholarships of $100 for a single year, or for each of a number of years consecutively; a general fund to aid students who can support themselves for but part of a single term; an additional dormitory; and supplies of bedding and substantial clothing-the latter being in constant demand. Wallingford Academy, Charleston, S. C., Rev. J. H. Bates, Superintendent, has a good building, including a chapel; also a Teachers' Home, the whole, including lot, valued at $13,000. It enrolls over 300 pupils, but has neither endowment nor philosophical apparatus. It is clear of debt. The Normal School, at Winchester, Va., Mr. O. M. Waring, Principal, has a valuable lot; a building that answers for the present; reports 95 pupils; and under its able Principal, would be a school of much promise, were it not for its indebtedness, which, if not soon relieved, will probably prove fatal even to its existence, as, owing to the pecuniary embarrassment of the property of this school, the Committee have felt obliged to authorize negotiations for its sale. Scotia Seminary, for colored girls, at Concord, N. C., under superintendence of Rev. Luke Dorland, and opened but a few months since, reports 45 pupils in attendance. It has a small lot and Manse, or Home, with means enough to put up a small School Building for present use. But it greatly needs funds suffi cient to purchase additional grounds and put up such a building as its design and prospects demand. It should also be well endowed. This Institution is the only one of its kind under the care of the Committee; and its success is esteemed of special importance, both for the training of teachers for schools, and for the proper cultivation of refinement and virtue among both sexes. It has no indebtedness, and should be so continued. The Committee has been especially desirous of presenting to this Assembly, its work entirely relieved of the heavy indebtedness which so greatly embarrassed it when committed to its care, and thus in readiness for that enlargement for which the necessities of its field so loudly call. But after special and persistent effort, it is with feelings of sadness, that it is obliged to report, but half success in this regard, and its work accordingly still carrying a burden by which it is seriously trammeled-the churches not having come to its help as it was earnestly hoped they would. ELLIOT E. SWIFT, Chairman. A. C. MCCLELLAND, Secretary. IX. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE. IN submitting to the General Assembly their Seventeenth Annual Report, the Trustees of the Presbyterian House would, first, express their profound sense of the loss which they and the denomination have sustained in the death, on the 24th day of December last, of their late associate, the Rev. ALBERT BARNES. In this death, the Trustees lament the removal from them, not only of one whose clear judgment and conscientious fidelity to all trusts made him a pre-eminently wise and safe counselor, but also of one whose talent and scholarship and piety adorned his times, and gave to the world a beautiful illustration of the power of God's grace in Christ to ennoble human character. The Trustees individually recognize, in this providence, an added force to the Master's injunction, "Be thou faithful unto death." From the report of the Treasurer, duly audited and herewith submitted, the Assembly will see that the receipts and expenditures of the year have been as follows: Total receipts, including balance, Leaving a balance of, $6329 49 5575 12 . $754 37 The Trustees report that, in accordance with the commitment by the last General Assembly of the Management of the Ministerial Relief Fund to the Trustees of the General Assembly, they have discharged the Executive Committee of the Ministerial Relief Fund Agency, and have directed the Treasurer of said Committee, to pay to the Treasurer of "the Relief Fund for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers," the funds belonging to the Ministerial Relief Fund. They have also directed their own Treasurer to pay to the Treasurer of the Relief Fund, the interest which, from time to time, shall accrue from the Permanent Fund. The Trustees further report that, in accordance with the direction of the last General Assembly, they have conveyed to "the Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of Publication" the house and lot Nos. 1334 and 1336 Chestnut street. The Trustees still further report, that they have been certified of the devise to them, by Charles R. Starkweather, late of Chicago, deceased, of one third of one eighth of his estate in trust, "for Sabbath-schools and Sabbath-school purposes.' The executors of Mr. Starkweather's last will and testament have some three years, from this present time, in which to settle the estate; but, when the estate is settled, the interest of the Trustees, it is thought, will have a value near twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). The Trustees have accepted the trust, and have united with the executors in arrangements to appreciate the value of Mr. Starkweather's real estate in the city of Chicago. The term of office of the following Trustees expires during the present sessions of the Assembly, viz.: Mr. John C. Farr, Charles S. Wurts, M.D., Rev. Daniel March, D.D., Rev. William T. Eva, and Rev. Thomas J. Shepherd, D.D. A Trustee is also to be elected for one year, the unexpired term of the Rev. Albert Barnes, deceased. Respectfully submitted, By order of the Trustees, Philadelphia, May 2d, 1871. THOMAS JAMES SHEPHERD, Secretary. IV. The Finances. I. THE REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. (1.) THE ACCOUNT CURRENT. THE whole amount received by the Treasurer from April 1st, 1870, to April 1st, 1871, was $35,821.03; making, together with $10,952.95, the balance in the hands of the Treasurer from last year, the sum of $46,773.98. The Expenditures during the year have amounted to $40,352.33, leaving a balance in the hands of the Treasurer, at the close of the fiscal year, of $6421.65. The following is an abstract from the several heads of Receipts and Expenditures. The Receipts are as follows: Balance from last year, Contingent Funds, contributed from Churches, etc., Commissioners' Fund, Rev. J. Eastburn's Bequest, Rents, Interest, etc., Fund for Disabled Ministers, etc., Relief Fund for Disabled Ministers, etc., Scholarships, Students' Fund, 66 66 Contingent Fund Theological Seminary, Contingent Fund, Boudinot Missionary, Fund for Books for Pastors' Libraries, Interest Account, $10,952 95 2,142 16 470 52 655 43 9,057 89 1,749 44 1,846 75 2,849 70 376 38 615 30 952 44 317 64 664 50 13,093 00 365 38 644 50 $46,773 98 3,287 64 713 28 609 71 17,944 41 1,693 15 664 50 1,782 96 2,735 14 361 33 1,000 00 596 85 322 26 914 35 Permanent Funds invested, Permanent Fund, Disabled Ministers, etc., 26 75 Balance in the hands of the Treasurer, April 1st, 1871, 7,700 00 6,421 65 $46,773 98 GEORGE H. VAN GELDER, Treasurer. Philadelphia, April 1st, 1871. |