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Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ear $4,477.32 in excess of the year before, and showing asteady and healthful growth in the matter of self-denial as well asthat of self-reliance. In addition to the amount given by these people for self-supporton the field—none of which goes into the Boards treasury or entersinto our accounts, they sent to the Freedmens Board for its work$644.37, and to the other Boards of the church, $1,656.20. Addingthese items to the amount given among themselves for self-support,the total amount given this last year by them for religious andeducational purposes, at home and away from home, rises to thegenerous and significant sum of $70,899.85. The following statement furnished by the Treasurer shows howour accounts stand as compared with last year : In comparison with last year there has been a decrease ofreceipts from churches of $4,236.70, and from Sabbath schools adecrease of $467.27, and from legacies a decrease of $39,973.31.There has been an increase of receipts through the Womans Execu-
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BoAKD OF Missions for Freedmen. tive Committee of $3,227.12, and from miscellaneous sources anincrease of $4,975.08. The total decrease in receipts this yearas compared with last is $36,475.78. To meet this deficit and ifpossible to get through the year without debt, the expenses on thefield were cut down $18,386.04 below the previous year. Hadwe received from the Million Dollar Fund the full amount of thelast years debt, we would have closed the year without any interestbearing debt. Tiie decrease in our expenditures this year on the field was$18,386.04, the decrease in expenditures the previous year was$26,576.70; so that in the last two years we have narrowed upour annual expenditures to the extent of $44,962.74. The debt of last year as shown in the Treasurers statement was$22,351.56. This included interest-bearing notes to the amount of$10,500 together with money we had received from insurance, lesscash on hand. Of this $22,351 the Assembly Reunion FundCommittee has paid $12,599,

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