1836, bin in 1843 a portion of this adhered to the Scot- tish Established Church, while a portion, in sisterly al- liance with the Free Church of Scotland, prosecuted its work in England on the footing of a Church with sepa- rate and independent jurisdiction. In 1872 the two bodies into which the English Presbyterians finally di- vided—the one then called '1'ln Presbyterian Church in Mi' other United Presbyterians presented the following relative Btrength:
Pn b. Cnlted Pretb, Potal
Pi ies 7 5 12
1 132 105 23"
Settle;! ministers 123 ;«i 218
Baling elders 646 560 1,1C6
Communicants 28,960 17,si;i 41,s'J7
Missionary ami benev- olent eillrrtions £7, 80s £7,781 £15,089
Stipends £2T,528 £18,487 £46,012
In 1876 the statistics presented at the fortieth meeting of t he Synod of the English Presbyterian Church showed
that the number of communicants was 29,045, the total
ai ml of receipts for the year £98,484, and the amount
of stipends paid £':>*, 009. The income for home mis- sions had been £2133. Seven new fields of labor had been occupied. The expenditures of the Foreign Mission Committee had been £8268 for the support of 12 mis- sionarit a in < Tina, beside- ;; at home for rest. 56 native evangelists, and ■_';; students. < m June 18, 1876, the first synod of /'/'• Presbyterian Church of England was constituted by the union of the two bodies. Th. United Church then consisted of II presbyteries, with 263 ttion8; on. Hon members, with a yearly income of £160.000. In 1877 the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of England comprised 258 congregations, dis- tributed into in presbyteries, with a membership of
13,434 communicants. The entire ino of the Church
during that year, both congregational ami synodical, in- clusive of £6210 2s. from special sources, was £157,455 1 2*.
The schemes of the < Ihurch, placed under the charge of standing committees, are as follows:
1. Home Missions, including Church Extension, Evan- gelization, Temperance.
2. Foreign Missions. — Principally in China, where there are fifteen European missionaries and forty-nine native evangelists, and twenty-seven students in train- ing. There are sixty-live stations in all. many of which have been organized as churches, situated in the dis- tricts ol Amoy and Swatow, and the island of Formosa. In connection with these there were, at the close of 1876, 1974 communicants. There is one missionary sta- tion in India. Many of the late United Presbyterian congregations maintain more it less their connection meanwhile, as was understood at the union, with the foreign missions of their former Church. The commit- tee aids missions in Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal. Italy. Bohemia, and Russia.
:;. Jewish Mission. — The sphere of this work, with one missionary, the Rev. Thomas Meyer, is London. There is a mission-hall, with reading-room. The means used arc domestic visitations, public meetings in the hall, prayer -meetings, and meetings with inquirers. Thirty-seven Jews, besides casual inquirers, were more or less under regular instruction in 1S77. There were three baptisms.
1. Education. — A theological seminary is maintained in London. It has three professors: the Revs. Dr. Lor- imer, Dr. Chalmers, and the Rev. Mr. Gibb (resident). A generous member of the Church, 1.'. Barbour, Esq., of Manchester, having made provision for the endowment of an additional chair, the Church is taking steps lor making appointment of another professor in 1878. The committee aKo takes charge of superintending and aid- ing a number of scl Is, especially in rural districts.
5. Sabbath-schools. Th.' < mittee reported to the
Synod in 1*77 348 scl Is, 5382 teachers, 51,185 schol- ars on the roll, of whom 20,271 are children of parent;; belonging to the Church, and 1510 are in senior .lasses. Much Christian work is done among the young by Other means.
6. Sustentation Fund. This was a scheme in opera- tion, at the date of the union, in the Presbyterian t Ihurch in England only the United Presbyterian church aid- ing its w.ak.r congregations by another plan. This necessitates now some transitional and imperfect action. The equal dividend for last year t.> th.- congregations on the fund was £200, raising the minimum ministerial stipend lo that amount, 'lie whole sum paid as sala- ries was £63,21 I. ol which forty per cent, passed through this fund.
7. Publications. This committee issues the \t
and Children's Messenger, monthly periodicals of the Church, and during the past year has prepared a me- morial volume containing records ..f the union. It con- templates the continuance of instructive manuals, ot" which two have been published for the use of the Church. Other provisions are: (a) Widows and Orphans'1
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Fund; (b) Church Building Committee; and (c) Aged and Infirm Ministers' Fund. See Hume, Hist, of Eng- land; Neal, Hist, of the Puritans ; Sketch of the His- tory and Principles of the Presbyterian Church in Eng- land (Lond.) ; HaUam, Constitutional History of Eng- land ; Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac ; M'Crie, A nmals of English Presbyterianisiu (1872).