The following are among the other undertakings of the United Presbyterian Church :
Home Mission Fumh — This fund is under the direc- tion more immediately of the Home Committee of the Board of Missions. Its object is to supplement the sti-
pends'of the weaker congregations, to support mission- ary stations, to aid in the support of catechists, and maintain a scheme of home evangelization.
By the Stipend Augmentation Scheme and its Siuplus Fund, including arrangements which have been made with certain congregations in reference to allowances for house-rent where manse accommodation has not been provided, the following general results in regard to the stipends of ministers for the year 1877 have been obtained :
104 Stipends have been raised to £200 per annum, with manse or allowance for rent of £20.
38 Stipends are less than £200, but not under£197 10s.
37 " " 197 10s., " " 190.
32 " " WO, " " ISO.
14 " " 180, " " 1-0.
10 •' " 1TO, " " 1G0.
8 " " 1G0, " " 157 10s.
13 Stipends are under the former minimum of 157 10a. 256
All the other Stipends in the Church are upwards of £200 per annum.
In evangelistic effort and home evangelization £5047 were expended in 1876 under the direction of the Home Committee of the Board of Missions.
The Aged and Infirm Ministers' Fund has a capital fund of £35,593, with a reserve fund of £1000, and provides an annuity of not less than £50 per annum to aged and infirm ministers and missionaries of the Church.
Manse Fund. — For this scheme £52,772 have been raised by subscriptions and donations up to December, 1876, and £49,449 expended up to April, 1877, in grants to 232 congregations; and the conditions on which these grants were offered required the congregations to raise not less than £90,341, as it is stipulated where grants are given that the manse shall be free of debt when the last instalment of the grant has been paid.
The Foreign Mission Fund is to defray the expenses of the foreign missionary operations of the Church. The missions supported out of the fund, nine in number, are situated in Jamaica, Trinidad, Old Calabar. Kaffra- ria, India, China, Spain, Japan, and Algeria. In these nine missions there are 46 ordained missionaries, 7 Eu- ropean medical missionaries, 6 European male teachers, 11 European female teachers, 9 ordained native mission- aries, 69 native evangelists, 190 schoolmasters, 32 native female teachers, 14 other agents, 61 principal stations, 131 out-stations, 8077 communicants, 1655 inquirers, 220 week-day schools, 10,741 pupils, with a total educated agency of 384. The income of the Foreign Mission Fund for 1876 was £42,872 17s. Ad.
Under the direction of the synod, the Foreign Mis- sion Board voted, during 1876, the following grants, viz.: (1) To the Union of Evangelical Churches of France, £500; (2) to the Evangelical Society of Lyons, £150; (3) to the Evangelical Society of Geneva, £250; (4) to the Belgian Missionary Society, £200; (5) for evangelical work in Bohemia, £150 ; (6) to the Walden- sian Church, £350 (including £100 towards the salary of the Rev. J. Simpson Kay of Palermo) ; (7) to the Free Church of Italy, £100 ; (8) for evangelical work at Aix-les-Bains, Savoy, £50; (9) to the French Canadian Missionary Society, £100; (10) for Rev. Ferdinand Ce- sar's work in Moravia, £75; (11) for outfit and passage of two ministers to Australia, £340; (12) to Rev. David Sidney, Napier, New Zealand, for salary of evangelist (three years), £150; and (13) salary of Rev. Dr. Laws, of the Nyassa mission of the Free Church. These grants amount in all to £2715. Besides these special grants made directly by the Foreign Committee, the following special contributions by individuals were sent through the hands of the synod's treasurer: (1) £1530 from the Theological Hall Students' Missionary Society, for pastor Yakopian's work in Cesarea, Cappadocia; (2) £5 for Protestant churches in Bithynia ; (3) £1 6s. 3d. for Mount Lebanon Schools; (4) £100 for Protestant Church in Bohemia; (5) £50 5s. for Rev. F. Cesar's work in Mo-
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ravia; (6) £20 for the Union of Evangelical Chinches in France: (7) 4'4o 4*. !</. for evangelical work a) Aix- les-Bains, Savoy: (8) £44 for Christian work in Paris; (9) £25 for Reformed Church in the Netherlands; (10) £131 2s. !■/. for the Waldensian Church; ill i £50 for the Free Italian Church ; (12) £4 2*. for Rev. J. S. Kay, Palermo; (13) £5 for Mrs. Boyce's Orphanage, Bordi- ghera; (14) £33 6s.8d.ioi Freedmen'e Missions Aid Society; and (15) £606 18*. 7,1. for the Agra Medical Mission (Dr. Valentine's scheme). These donations, destined by the donors l'<>r the objects specified, amount- ed in all to £2631 5a. 2d., which, added to the grants ad- ministered by the Board — viz., £2715 — make the total contribution of the church during 1876, for objects out- side the Foreign Mission, £5346 5s. 2d. The ordinary congregational income of the church for the year 1876 was £233,114; the missionary and benevolent income £82,927; and the benevolent income nol congregational
£62,226— the total, including the English igrega-
tions, up to June, 1876, being £406,204. See Bether- ington, Hist. of the Church of Scotland; Cyclop, of Re- ligious Denominations (Lond. and Glasgow); Wilson, Presb. llitt. Almanac. See United Presbyterian Cm rch.