"The whole German empire has 330 gymnasia, 14 pro- gymuasia, 4S4 other high schools for young men, with a total of 177,370 scholars.
" According to the list of the minister of worship, there were on Sept. 1, 1874, in all Prussian elementary schools, 35,191 places for teachers, 1430 of which were filled by Catholic female teachers without salary.
"The German empire has about 60,000 elementary schools with 0,U00,l)0u scholars; for every 1000 inhabitants about 150 attend school. The elementary education is growing: in the year 1S72-73, 4.58 per cent. ; in the year 1873-74, 3.9S per cent. ; and in 1875-70 not quite 3 per cent, of the recruits in Prussia could not read.
"(C.) Christian Associations. — (I.) Mission to the Heathen. — Germany has eight of the sixty-three Evangelical Mis- sion Societies for the heathen, of which only the Mora- vian Mission stands in an immediate connection with the Church. Of the 1559 mission stations and 2132 mission- aries, Germany supports 274 stations and 470 mission- aries; Germany and German Switzerland, 502 missiona- ries. Germany contributed for mission purposes in one year, £107,000.
"In 1875 the German missions had—
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5,488
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"This represents about 290 statious, 500 missionaries, 46,000 communicants, 130,000 members, 27,500 scholars, and £107,000 expenses.
"The Basle Mission (established 1S15) has 108 mis- sionaries and 35 principal stations in West Africa, East India, and China, s<i73 Christians and 11,349 natives un- der its care, and 3926 children in the schools; expenses £40,000.
"The Rhenish Mission Society (established 1S28 in Bar- men) has 02 missionaries, 48 principal stations in Africa, China, and East India, and about £15,000 expenses.
"The Hermannsburg Mission (e-.tabli.-hed 1849) has 70 missionaries. 50 stations in America, Africa, East India, Australia, New Zealand, and an income of £11,000.
"The Berlin Mission Society (established 1824) has 53 missionaries, 33 stations in Africa (Capeland, Orange, Free State, British Karirland, Natal, and the Transvaal Repub- lic), with 6215 baptized people, and an income of about £12.01)0.
"The Gossner Mission (established 1S3S in Berlin) has 14 missionaries, 0 stations among the Khols aud Hindus,
20,000 persons under its care, and an income of about £7500.
"The North-German Mission (established 1836 in Brem- en) has 11 missionaries, 5 statious hi New Zealand aud West Africa.
"The Moravian Mission (established 1732 in Berthels- dorf, near Herrnhut, kingdom of Saxony) has ICO mission- aries, 92 stations in Greenland, Labrador, North America, West Indian Isles, South Africa, in the Alpine valleys of the Himalayas, and in Australia.
"The Lefpsic Mission (established 1830) has 20 mission- aries, 10 stations in East India (Tainulaland), 9179 Chris- tians under its care, and an income id' about £12,000.
"(2.) Mission among the Jews. — In Germany there are the Society of Friends of Israel in Basle, besides four Jew- ish missionary societies.
"The Berlin Society (established 1822) works at Berlin, has two ordained missionaries, one layman, one or two colporteurs, and an income of £SI 0.
"The Rhenish-Westphalian Society for Israel (estab- lished 1S44) works in Rhiuelaud, Westphalia, Hesse, and the neighborhood ; has one ordained missionary, one lay- missionary, one colporteur, and an income of £7S0.
"The Evangelical Lutheran Central Association for Is- rael (established 1S49) has one missionary, a house for proselytes, and is supported by the Lutheran Church of Saxony. Bavaria, Ilet.se, etc.
"The Society of Friends of Israel in Strasbnrg is small.
"(3.) Home (Inner) Missions, etc. — Space fails to name all the smaller or larger Home Mission associations which can be found in the different parts of Germany.
"It may only be mentioned that the 2700 deaconesses of the thirty-four German Deaconesses' institutes are not only employed in hospitals, but, at least in part, for the visitation of the sick and the poor, and for instruction in the numerous schools for little children, for which pur- pose the institutions at Nonnenweier, Kaiserswerth, and Hanover train deaconesses ; that so many Sunday-schools have sprung up in the last ten or tifieeu years in Prussia that a central committee is formed at Berlin ; and that the Rhenish and Westphalian Sunday-school Union at Elber- feld and Barmen, the conferences of which are excellent- ly attended, can organize particular district unions, in or- der to influence more vigorously the many Sunday-schools.
" We cannot speak of the associations'and institutes in the different provinces of Prussia — viz. Saxe- Weimar, Wiiftemberg, Lippe-Detmold, and Alsace-Lorraine— which take care of and educate orphan children ; nor can we describe the work of the many refuges for neglected chil- dren in all parts of Germany, nor that of the twenty insti- tutions for fallen women, and partly for fallen men, nor that or the thirty-five associations aud institutions for dis- missed prisoners.
"Very important for protecting from evil youug men who go to the towns are the Christian Homes, upwards of 100 in number, in which the young working-man rinds cheap and clean lodgings and meals, a friendly Christian word, and very often the necessary work. The second Christian Home at Berlin (established in 1809), from Oct. 1, 1874, to Jan. 1, 1876, lodged 16,000 young men, on 39,000 nights. In these homes the numerous Young Men's Chris- tian Associations have comfortable quarters. In Germany there are four large unions of Young Men's Christian As- sociations, fl'he union of the Rhenish-West phaiian Young Men's Associations, which has its headquarters at Elber- feld, comprises about .120 associations ; the Eastern Union, which lias its centre at Berlin, has about 100 associations, with 3ooo members ; the union in the kingdom of Saxony has 16 associations, with 300 members ; the South German Union has its 25 associations, with 500 members, chiefly in Wi'ntemberg and Baden. Besides these, young clerks have formed two separate unions.