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Missions The Indiana Year's 35

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Yearly Meeting, which was adopted at the close of a long discussion, after expressing the cordial esteem of English Friends for their American brethren, and conveying to them a fresh message of love and encouragement, reaffirmed in general terms the belief of the society in the fundamental and scriptural principles of the Gospel of Christ, but with respect to this particular article, recorded that "this meeting refrains from expressing any judgment on the contents of the declaration now produced." The following statement of the doctrine of justification by faith and regeneration, and on the beginning of salvation, has been adopted by the Indiana Yearly Meeting, with the reservation that it is not intended to cover the whole ground of belief on any other point:

By repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ, the sinner experiences justification. This is pardon, forgiveness, remission, absolution for his past transgressions. By faith in the atoning blood of Christ shed on Calvary, the guilt of his sins is taken away, and their legal penalties remitted. He experiences conversion." This implies a change of heart and becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus. He experiences regeneration-a new birth, a new life in his soul, a being born again of the incorruptible seed. He experiences adoption; he becomes a son. He experiences the witness of the Spirit, and cries, Abba, Father! and then Christ does dwell in his heart by faith. Sanctification begins contemporaneously with and as soon as a man is justified. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom, also, we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.'

Missions.-The Indiana Yearly Meeting has adopted a proposition for the formation of a "Board of American Friends' Foreign Missions," to exercise for the present advisory functions, while it is left optional with existing associations of men and women Friends whether they shall surrender the control of their work to it; the board not to be organized till six yearly meetings have agreed to unite in it.

Several American Friends' Women's Societies for Missionary Work have been established within recent years. The first was formed in connection with the Western Yearly Meeting, in 1881. Others have been organized, in connection with the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, in 1882; Iowa, 1883; Indiana, 1883; New England, 1884; Ohio, 1884; Canada, 1885; North Carolina, 1885; Kansas, 1885; and New York, 1887. College Societies have been formed at Earlham College, Indiana, and Wilmington College, Ohio. In 1886 these societies had 3,892 members, and had raised $27,840. The "Friends' Missionary Advocate" is published in their interest, at Chicago.

The American Indian Missions are under the control of an associated committee, which returned a total of 383 members in the meetings of the Indian Territory, showing a net increase for the year of forty-six. There are also stations among the Mexican Kickapoos and Iowas. White's Manual Labor School, in Indiana, occupying an estate of 760 acres, is well supplied with buildings and mechanical shops, and re

turned in 1888 an enrollment of 85 pupils, more than half of whom were professed Christians. Three day-schools in the Indian Territory had 64 pupils. Other schools, wholly or partly under the care of individual yearly meetings, were maintained among the Eastern Cherokees in North Carolina, at Tunesassa, N. Y., and at Douglass Island, Alaska; having a total enrollment of 344 pupils. The expenditures of Friends during the year for Indian education, including buildings, had been $9,222.

The mission in Mexico returns 42 members admitted, and a total enrollment of 127 pupils in the schools. Schools for boys are sustained at Matamoras and Victoria; for girls at Victoria and Quintero; and a boys' and girls' school at Santa Barbara.

A mission conference of Friends was held in London, in April. Mr. Samuel Southall, of Leeds, occupied the chair. It appeared from the reports that the society is indirectly represented in Japan by four or five members. Mechanical and religious labor are carried on in South Africa by Mr. Elbert Clarke. A numfavorable opening was recognized in Burmah. ber of missionaries are at work in India, and a Two missionary Friends are laboring in China. In Madagascar, Friends have many thousand native Christians under their care. sults of effort among Syrians have not been wholly satisfactory. The results of home mission work were encouraging.

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The Friends' Missionary Station at Constantinople was established in 1881, and is carried on in harmony with the work of the American Board. A meeting was organized in 1883, with twenty men and women as members. The mission has an estate valued at $8,000, at Stamboul, with a dispensary, which is resorted to by Moslems and Armenians. An industrial school is carried on at Bahjijig, sixty miles from Constantinople, with which thirty pupils are connected.

FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON, eighth ChiefJustice of the Supreme Court of the United States, born in Augusta, Me., Feb. 11, 1833. He was graduated at Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1853, studied law in Bangor with his uncle, George M. Weston, and then at Harvard Law School, and began practice in 1855 in his native city. There he was an associate editor of the "Age," served as President of the Common Council, and became City Attorney in 1856. He resigned that office in June of the same year and removed to Chicago, Ill., where he was in practice for thirty-two years. He rose to the highest rank in his profession, and was concerned in many important cases, among which were the National Bank tax-cases, one of which was the first that was argued before Chief-Justice Waite, the Cheney ecclesiastical case, the South Park Commissioners' cases, and the Lake Front case. He was a member of the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1862, and in 1863-'65 of the lower house of the Legislature, where he was a leader of one

branch of the Democratic party. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1864, 1872, 1876, and 1880. On April 30, 1888, he was nominated by President Cleveland to be Chief-Justice of the United States, and on July 20 he was confirmed by the Senate. On October 8 he took the oath of office and entered upon his duties. Judge Fuller is, with one exception, the youngest

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GEORGIA. State Government.-The following were the State officers during the year: Governor, John B. Gordon, Democrat; Secretary of State, Nathan C. Barnett; Treasurer, R. U. Hardeman; Comptroller-General, William A. Wright; Attorney-General, Clifford Anderson; Commissioner of Agriculture, J. T. Henderson; State School Commissioner, James S. Hook; Railroad Commissioners, Alexander S. Irwin, C. Wallace, L. N. Trammell; Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court, L. E. Bleckley; Associate Justices, M. H. Blandford and T. J. Simmons.

Finances. For the two years ending on September 30 the report of the State Treasurer is as follows: Balance in the treasury on Sept. 30, 1886, $250,927.96; receipts during the subsequent year, $1,682,652.89; disbursements during the same time, $1,583,818.47; balance on Sept. 30, 1887, $349,762.38; receipts during the subsequent year, $1,900,692.21; disbursements in the same time, $2,019,103.07; balance on Sept. 30, 1888, $231,351.52. The State receives $300,000 each year for rental of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and $25,000 from hire of convicts, in addition to the amounts raised by State taxation.

The bonded debt of the State bearing interest on Sept. 30, 1887, was as follows: Bonds of 1884, interest 4 per cent., $3,392,000; bonds of 1877, interest per cent., $2,141,000; bonds of 1870, interest 7 per cent., $2,098,000; bonds of 1872, interest 7 per cent., $307,500; bonds of 1876, interest 7 per cent., $542,000; obligations to the State University, $255,000 total, $8,735,500. To this should be added $91,040 of non-interest-bearing bonds not canceled, but of which $74,235 were canceled during the present year, leaving the total debt on September 30, $8,752,305. The issue of 1877 will become due on Jan. 1, 1889, and for the purpose of meeting this obligation the Legislature of 1887 authorized the issuance of $1,900,000 of new bonds at a rate to be fixed by the Governor. During the present year a sale of these at 4 per cent. interest was negotiated at a premium of 44 per cent. This is the highest price ever paid for bonds issued by the State, and indicates an increased confidence in its credit. On October, 1890, the bonds of 1870 will mature, and it will devolve upon the Legislature chosen this year to provide for their payment.

member of the Supreme Court. He has attained reputation as a public speaker. Among his addresses are one welcoming Stephen A. Douglas to Chicago in 1860, and one on Sidney Breese, which is prefixed to Judge Breese's "Early History of Illinois" (1884). The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the Northwestern University and by Bowdoin College in 1888.

Provision was made by the Legislature of 1887 for gradually reducing the debt by creating a sinking-fund for the years 1887 and 1888 and for the years 1897 to 1915, inclusive, thus carrying into effect the clause of the State Constitution requiring that $100,000 should be raised each year by taxation, and held as a sinking-fund, for the payment of State bonds.

Assessments. The total assessed valuation of property for 1888 was $357,167,458, of which $29,304,127 was the valuation of railroad property. The valuation for 1887 was $341,504,921, of which $24,899,592 was railroad property. The following table gives some details of the assessment of 1888 compared with that of 1879:

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The valuation of property held by colored persons has risen from $5,182,398 in 1879 to $9,631,271 in 1888.

Education. The following statistics of the public schools for the school-year 1887 were compiled and published during 1888: Schools for white pupils, 5,083; schools for colored pupils, 2,512; schools established under local laws. 201; enrollment of white pupils, 208,865; enrollment of colored pupils, 133,429; total, 342,394; average attendance, 226,290.

During 1888 a census of persons within school-age was taken, showing 292,624 white and 267,657 colored children, or a total of 560,281. Of the total, 61 per cent. were enrolled as school-attendants during 1887, but only 41 per cent. were in regular attendance. The average length of the school-year is not over three months. During 1887 the sum of $493,509.52 was raised by the State for the schools, and $302,477.74 by city and county taxation.

An act to establish a technological school, as a branch of the State University, and forming one of its departments for the education and

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