The Church has sixty-eight dioceses and twenty-three missionary jurisdictions in the United States and nine foreign jurisdictons under the care of bshops using the same Liturgy and yielding obedience to the constitution and canons enacted in General Convention. Sée. Bishops of the United States. Consecrated. ....1895 Alabama-Charles M. Beckwith...1902 ..1899 California, Los Angeles-J. H. John Colorado-Charles S. Olmsted.. ster son .1896 California, San Joaquin-Louis C. Sanford (missionary).. .1911 .1902 Montana-Leigh R. Brewer.. 1880 1899 .1908 1909 New Hampshire-William W. Niles...1870 ..1906 New Jersey--John Scarborough. ...1875 New Jersey, Newark-Edwin S. Lines.1903 Osborne .1904 Indiana, Indianapolis-Joseph M. Francis 1899 Indiana, Michigan City-John Hazen 1895 Iowa-Theodore N. Morrison.. .1899 H. S. Longley, suffragan. 1912 Kansas Frank R. Millspaugh. Kansas, Salina-Sheldon M. Griswold (missionary) 1895 North Dakota-Cameron Mann (miss.). 1901 .1889 1889 ary) ..1898 ..1903 Kentucky-Charles E. Woodcock. ..1905 ton Louisiana-Davis Sessums. Michigan, Marquette G. Mott Williams Maryland-Easton-Wm. F. Adams..1875 Davies ..... Michigan-Charles D. Williams. .1900 Pennsylvania-Philip Rhinelander. .1911 .1911 .1882 1911 Darlington .1906 Pennsylvania, Bethlehem-Ethelbert Talbot 1905 ..1887 .1896 mick Michigan, Western-J. N. McCor .1906 Pennsylvania, Erie-Rogers Israel.. ..1911 Salaries and wages paid in the carriage and wagon industry amounted to $45,555,00€ in 1909. Africa, Cape Palmas-S. D. Ferguson (missionary) James H. Van Buren, late Bishop 1902 1912 .1885 Arthur S. Lloyd, Bishop, President Brazil-L. L. Kinsolving (misionary). 1899 The 1910 convention of the Church, held at Cincinnati in October, authorized the election of suffragan bishops without the right of succession in the dioceses in which they are chosen. The first bishop elected under this authorization was Charles Sumner Burch, of Richmond, Staten Island, who was chosen on November 10 suffragan bishop of the Diocese of New York. In 1911 Thomas J. Garland was elected suffragan bishop of Philadelphia and William E. Toll suffragan bishop of Chicago. In 1912 J. Chauncey Linsley was elected suffragan bishop of Connecticut, but declined. H. S. Longley became suffragan bishop of Iowa and F. A. McElwain of Minnesota. AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS. The presiding bishop of the church is the Most Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Missouri, No. 74 Vandeventer Place, St. Louis, Mo. The next general convention will be held, beginning Wednesday, October 1, 1913, in New York City. Officers of the House of Bishops.-Chairman of the House, the Rt. Rev. Boyd Vincent, D. D., Bishop of Southern Ohio; secretary, Rev. Samuel Hart, D. D., Hartford, Conn.; assistant secretary, Rev. George Francis Nelson, D. D., New York, N. Y. Officers of the House of Deputies. - -President, Rev. R. H. McKim, D. D.. Washington, D. C.; secretary, Rev. Henry Anstice, D. D., New York; assistant secretaries, Rev. Carroll M. Davis, St. Louis, Mo.; Rev. William C. Prout, Herkimer, N. Y.; Rev. James G. Glass, Anniston, Ala.; treasurer of the convention, William W. Skiddy, No. 82 Wall street, New York, N. Y. The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.-President, Right Rev. A. S. Lloyd; secretaries, John W. Wood and Rev. Hugh L. Burleson, No. 281 Fourth avenue, New York City; educational secretary, Rev. A. R. Gray, No. 281 Fourth avenue, New York City; recording secretary, Rev. F. J. Clark, No. 281 Fourth avenue, New York City; treasurer, George Gordon King, No. 281 Fourth avenue, New York City; assistant treasurer, E. Wallis Roberts, 281 Fourth avenue, New York City. The American Church Building Fund Commission.-Established October 25, 1880, by the Generai Convention. It aims to raise a fund of $1,000.000 by annual offerings from all congregations (as recommended by the General Convention) and by individual gifts. Portions of the principal are loaned to build churches and rectories. Out of the accumulated interest donations are made to complete new churches. The officers of the corporation are: President, Rt. Rev. Edwin S. Lines, D. D.; vice-president, Rt. Rev. C. Kinloch Nelson, D. D.; second vicepresident, General James Grant Wilson; secretary, General James Grant Wilson; treasurer, George Gordon King; corresponding secretary, Rev. J. Newton Perkins; assistant treasurer, E. Walter Roberts. The office of the commission is at the Church Missions House, No. 281 Fourth avenue, New York. The amount of the fund is $522,509.42. Has made gifts amounting to $155,100. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew.-There are 1,580 senior and junior chapters, with about 15,000 members. Official organ, "St. Andrew's Cross," published at the National Office. Officers: Edward H. Bonsall, pres.; H. D. W. English, first vicepres.; Courtenay Barber, second vice-pres.; Hubert Carleton, D. C. L.. general secretary and editor "St. Andrew's Cross;" George H. Randall, associate sec.; H. W. Atkinson, treas.; A. R. P. Heyes, asst. sec.; field secretaries, G. Frank Shelby, the West; B. F. Finney, the South; Leonard V. Webb,. New England; Franklin H. Spencer, New York District. National headquarters, Broad Exchange Building, No. 88 Broad street, Boston, Mass.. Girls' Friendly Society in America.--Officers: Miss Mary A. L. Neilson, presi The output of beer in 1910 was: United States, 1,908,010,377 gallons; Germany, 1,703,666,460 gallons; Great Britain, 1,479,352,280 gallons. dent, No. 325 South 12th street, Philadelphia, Penn. Central office, Room 56, Church Missions House. Members United States, 33,266; associates, 7,361. The Church Endowment Society.-Officers and Board of Trustees: President, the Rt. Rev. W. F. Adams, D. D, D. C. L.; vice-presidents, the Rt. Rev. C. Whitehead, D. D.; the Rt. Rev. C. S. Olmsted, D. D.; the Rt. Rev. W. C. Gray, D. D., and the Rt. Rev. C. P. Anderson, D. D. All the bishops of the American church are honorary vice-presidents. Secretary general, the Rev. E. W. Hunter, of New Orleans; treasurer, Thomas E. Baird, of Philadelphia. The above officers with the following persons constitute the board of trustees: The Rev. H. B. Bryan, Bermuda, Long Island; Hon. Levi P. Morton, New York; Colonel E. A. Stevens, Hoboken, N. J.; Albert Delery, Beulah, Miss.; H. Jones Saunders, San Francisco; E. Worthington, Cincinnati, and D. S. Clark, of Mariana. This society exists to secure endowments for the episcopate, cathedrals, parish churches, asylums, hospitals, schools, religious orders, domestic and foreign missionary societies and all enterprises of a religious, educational or charitable character. It labors in any diocese or missionary_jurisdiction without expense to either. For particulars, address Rev. E. W. Hunter, secretary general, rector of St. Anna's Church, New Orleans, La. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 1904 James W. Bashford... 1904 William Burt 1888 James M. Thoburn.. *Retired. Residence. 1839 Orange, N. J. 1867 Indianapolis, Ind. 1874 Philadelphia, Pa. 1880 Pekin, China. May 27, 1849 New England. 1884 Buenos Ayres, Argen. 1874 Helena, Mont. Agents of Book Concern.-Homer Eaton, general agent; George P. Mains, No. 150 Fifth avenue, New York; H. C. Jennings, Edwin R. Graham, No. 220 Fourth avenue West, Cincinnati. Official Editors.-"Methodist Review," W. V. Kelley, editor; "The Christian Advocate," George P. Eckman, editor; James R. Joy, assistant editor; Sunday school publications, J. T. McFarland; "Northern Christian Advocate," Liston H. Pearce and H. E. Woolever, Syracuse; "Pittsburgh Christian Advocate," J. J. Wallace, Pittsburgh; "Western Christian Advocate," Levi Gilbert; "Der Christliche Apologete," A. J. Nast; "Haus and Herd," A. J. Bucher, all at Cincinnati; "Northwestern Christian Advocate," E. Robb Zaring, Chicago; "Central Christian Advocate," Claudius B. Spencer, Kansas City, Mo.; "California Christian Advocate,' F. D. Bovard, San Francisco: "Southwestern Christian Advocate," Robert E. Jones, New Orleans; "Pacific Christian Advocate." R. H. Hughes, Portland, Ore.; "Epworth Herald," Dan B. Brummitt, Chicago; "Sandebudet,' William Henchen, Chicago; Book Editor, David G. Downey, No. 150 Fifth avenue, New York. The value of furniture and refrigerator products in the United States was $239,886,000 in 1909. Board of Foreign Missions.-President, Bishop Luther B. Wilson; corresponding secretaries, S. Earl Taylor, William F. Oldham, Frank Mason North; recording secretary, S. O. Benton; treasurer, Homer Eaton; assistant treasurer, H. C. Jennings, Cincinnati, Ohio. Offices, No. 150 Fifth avenue, New York. Board of Home Missions and Church Extension.-Corresponding secretaries, Offices, Ward Platt, Charles M. Boswell, Robert Forbes; treasurer, Samuel Shaw. No. 1026 Arch street, Philadelphia. Board of Education.-Corresponding secretary, Thomas Nicholson; treasurer, J. E. Leaycraft. Offices, No. 150 Fifth avenue, New York. Freedman's Aid Society.-Corresponding secretaries, P. J. Maveety, I. Garland Penn; treasurer, H. C. Jennings. Offices, No. 220 West 4th street, Cincinnati. Board of Sunday Schools.-Corresponding secretary, Edgar Blake; treasurer, Edwin R. Graham. Offices, No. 14 West Washington street, Chicago, Ill. Board of Conference Claimants.--Corresponding secretary, Joseph B. Hingeley: treasurer, Marvin Campbell. Offices, No. 14 West Washington street, Chicago, Ill. Methodist Brotherhood.-General secretary, Offices, No. 150 Fifth avenue, New York. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America The General was adopted in 1788, and the first General Assembly met in 1789. Assembly embraces the 40 synods and 296 presbyteries of the church, which has a total membership of 1,380,058. Total contributions last year for missionary and educational work and congregational expenses, $25,798,615. The next meeting will be on May 15, 1913, at Atlanta, Ga. Its officers are: Moderator and Chairman of the Executive Commission, Mark A. Matthews, D. D., Seattle, Wash.; vicemoderator, Mr. James Yereance, New York City; stated clerk, William H. Roberts, D. D., LL. D., Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Penn.; assistant clerk, James M. Hubbert, D. D., No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia; permanent clerk, William. B. Noble, D. D., LL. D., No. 1323 Linwood avenue, Los Angeles, Cal. Trustees-Pres., George Stevenson, Philadelphia; sec., Benjamin L. Agnew, D. D., LL. D. Office, No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia. Board of Home Missions.-Pres., Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, D. D., New York; sec., Rev. Charles L. Thompson, D. D.; associate secs., Rev. John Dixon, D. D., and Dr. Joseph Ernest McAfee; treas., Mr. Harvey C. Olin; supt. of school work, Mr. Marshall C. Allaben; supt. church and labor dept., Rev. Charles Stelzle; supt. Indian dept., Rev. Thos. C. Moffett, D. D.; supt. immigration dept., Rev. Wm. P. Warren H. Wilson, Ph.D. Shriver; supt. dept. church and country life, Rev. Woman's Board-Pres., Mrs. F. S. Bennett; sec., Miss Julia Frazer; treas., Miss Office, No. Dora M. Fisk (acting); young people's sec., Miss M. Josephine Petrie. 156 Fifth avenue, New York City. Board of Foreign Missions.-Pres., George Alexander, D. D., New York; cor. secs., Mr. Robert E. Speer, Arthur J. Brown, D. D., A. Woodruff Halsey, D. D., and Stanley White, D. D.; asst. secs., home dept., Eastern section, David McConaughy; Central section, Rev. Charles E. Bradt, Ph. D.; Southern section, J. M. Patterson; Western section, Rev. Ernest F. Hall; honorary educational sec., T. H. P. Sailer, Ph. D.; Sabbath school sec., Rev. George H. Trull; treas., Dwight H. Women's Foreign Board-Pres., Day. Office, No. 156 Fifth avenue, New York. Office, No. 156 Fifth Mrs. W. Packer Prentice; treas., Miss Henrietta W. Hubbard. avenue, New York City. Board of Education.-Pres. Rev. Charles Wadsworth, jr., D. D., Philadelphia; Office, cor. sec., Rev. Joseph W. Cochran, D. D.; treas., Mr. Edward R. Sterrett. No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia. Educational Society.-Pres., W. H. Talbert, Nashville, Tenn.; cor. sec., Rev. W. J. Darby, D. D., Evansville, Ind. Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work.-Pres., Hon. Robert N. Willson, Philadelphia; sec., Rev. Alexander Henry, D. D.; supt. young people's work, ; business supt. and treas., Mr. Frank M. Braselmann; supt. of Sabbath school training, Rev. James A. Worden, D. D.; editorial supt.. ; supt. of depositories, Mr. John H. Scribner. Office, No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia. Cumberland Board of Publication.-Pres., Hamilton Parks; sec., John H. De Witt, Nashville, Tenn. Board of Church Election.-Pres., F. G. Burnham, esq.; cor. sec., Rev. Duncan J. McMillan, D. D.: treas., Mr. Adam Campbell. Office, No. 156 Fifth avenue, New York. Board of Missions and Church Erection.-Vice-pres., Rev. E. E. Morris, D. D.; cor. sec., J. M. Patterson, St. Louis, Mo. Board of Ministerial Relief.-Pres.. Rev. John R. Davies, D. D., Philadelphia; cor. sec., Rev. Wm. H. Foulkes, D. D.; treas., Rev. W. W. Heberton, D. D. Office, No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia. Cumberland Board of Relief.-Pres., J. E. Williamson; cor. sec., S. B. Sansom, Evansville, Ind. Board of Missions for Freedmen.-Pres., Rev. Samuel J. Fisher, D. D.; cor. sec. and treas., Rev. Edward P. Cowan, D. D. Office, 513 Bessemer Building, Pittsburgh, Penn. College Board.-Pres., John H. MacCracken, Ph. D., New York; sec., Rev. Robert Mackenzie, D. D.; office sec. and asst. treas., Rev. George R. Brauer. Office, No. 156 Fifth avenue, New York City. Permanent Committee on Temperance.-Chairman, Rev. E. Trumbull Lee, D. D., Wilkinsburg, Penn.; cor, sec. and treas., Rev. John F. Hill, D. D., Conestoga Building, Pittsburg, Penn. There is invested in hotels and restaurants in Switzerland about $175,000,000, and the aggregate number of persons employed in the establishments is over 100,000. Ministerial Sustentation Fund.-Chairman, Rev. John R. Davies, D. D.; cor. sec., Rev. John R. Sutherland, D. D., Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia. Brotherhood.-Pres., Charles S. Holt, Esq.; sec., Mr. Walter Getty; office, No. 509 S. Wabash av., Chicago, Ill. Christian Life and Work.--Chairman, Rev. Mark A. Matthews, D. D., Seattle, Wash.; sec., Rev. William H. Roberts, D. D., Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia. "Assembly Herald" Managing Committee.-Chairman, Rev. A. Woodruff Halsey, D. D., New York City; manager, Horace P. Camden. Office, No. 1328 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Presbyterian Historical Society.-Pres., Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D.; cor. sec., Rev. Charles R. Watson, D. D.; rec. sec., Rev. Walter A. Brooks, D. D.; hon. librarian, Rev. Louis F. Benson, D. D.: treas.. De Benneville K. Ludwig, D. Library and museum, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia. D. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (SOUTH). The general officers of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U. S. (South) are: Stated clerk and treasurer, Rev. Thomas H. Law, D. D., Spartanburg, S. C.; permanent clerk, Rev. J. D. Leslie, D. D.. Cisco, Texas; executive secretary of foreign missions, Rev. Egbert W. Smith, D. D., Nashville, Tenn.; executive secretary of home missions, Rev. S. L. Morris, D. D., Atlanta, Ga.; executive secretary of Christian education and ministerial relief, Rev. H. H. Sweets, D. D., Louisville, Ky.; executive secretary of nublication and Sabbath school work, Mr. R. E. Magill, Richmond, Va.; general superintendent of Sabbath schools and young people's societies, Rev. A. L. Phillips, D. D., Richmond, Va.; moderator of the last Assembly, Rev. T. S. Clyce, D. D., Sherman, Texas; president of the board of trustees of the Assembly, George E. Wilson, Esq., Charlotte, N. C. The next General Assembly meets in the North Avenue Church, Atlanta, Ga., May 15, 1912. The Presbyterian Church (South) is composed of 14 Synods, comprising 85 Presbyteries, which have on their roll, according to the reports of 1912. 3,392 churches, 1,734 ministers and 292,845 communicants. The reported enrolment in Sabbath schools is 245,495. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OFFICERS. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Headquarters, Congregational House, Boston. New York City office, Charities Building, Fourth avenue and 224 street. President, Samuel B. Capen, LL. D.; secretaries Dr. Cornelius H. Patton, Dr. James L. Barton, and Dr. Edward Lincoln Smith, D. D.; treasurer, Frank H. Wiggin; editorial secretary, Rev. William E. Strong; associate secretaries, Rev. Enoch F. Bell, Rev. Brewer Eddy; district secretaries, Secretary E. L. Smith, Charities Building, New York, in charge; Dr. A. N. Hitchcock, 19 S. La Salle street, Chicago, and Rev. H. Melville Tenney, Mechanics' Bank Building, San Francisco. Congregational Home Missionary Society. Fourth avenue and 22d street, New York City. President. S. H. Woodrow, D. D.; treasurer, W. E. Lougee; general secretary, Herbert C. Herring, D. D.; associate secretary, Rev. Herman F. Swartz. American Missionary Association.-Charities Building, New York City. President, Dr. Cyrus Northrup; treasurer, H. W. Hubbard; honorable secretary and editor, Dr. A. F. Beard; corresponding secretaries, Dr. C. J. Ryder and Dr. H. Faul Douglass; recording secretary, Dr. Asher Anderson, Boston; secretary Woman's Bureau, Miss D. E. Emerson; district secretaries, Dr. Lucius O. Baird, Chicago; Rev. George H. Gutterson, Boston, and Rev. G. W. Hinman, San Francisco, Cal. Congregational Church Building Society.-Charities Building, New York City. President, Dr. L. C. Warner; treasurer, Charles E. Hope; secretary, Dr. C. H. Richards; field secretaries, Rev. W. W. Newell, Chicago, and Rev. H. H. Wikoff, San Francisco. Congregational Education Society.-Congregational House, Boston. President, Rev. William R. Campbell, D. D.; treasurer, S. F. Wilkins; secretary, Rev. Edward S. Tead; western field secretary, Rev. Theodore Clifton, D. D., Chicagc, No. 19 S. La Salle street, Chicago. Boston. Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society.-Congregational House, President, Rev. Frederick H. Page, Waltham, Mass.; secretary missionary and extension department, Rev. William Ewing, D. D.; editor of general publications and educational secretary. Rev. B. S. Winchester, D. D.; business manager, Luther H. Cary; treasurer, Henry T. Richardson; district secretareis, Rev. Robert W. Gammon, Chicago. Ill.; Rev. Milton S. Littlefield, Brooklyn, N. Y.; educational secretaries: for the Southwest, Rev. J. P. O'Brien, Kansas City, Mo.; for the Pacific Coast, Rev. Miles B. Fisher, San Francisco, Cal. National Council of Congregational Churches.--Congregational House, Boston. Moderator, Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, D. D.; secretary, Rev. Asher Anderson, D. D.; treasurer, Rev. Joel S. Ives, Hartford, Conn. National Council's Ministerial Relief Fund.-Fourth avenue and 22d street, New York City. Trustees: President, Dr. Henry A. Stimson; secretary, Dr. William A. Rice; treasurer, Rev. B. H. Fancher, 287 Fourth avenue, New York City. American Congregational Association.-Congregational House, Boston. President, Arthur S. Johnson; corresponding secretary, Thomas Todd, Jr.; treasurer, Augustus S. Lovett; librarian. Rev. William H. Cobb, D. D. Congregational Board of Pastoral Supply.-No. 610 Congregational House, Boston. Chairman of directors, Rev. Arthur J. Covell; secretary, Dr. Chas. B. Rice. Deaths in France during 1911 were 776,983 and births 742,114, the latter figure being the lowest ever recorded. |