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Dear Friends,

People, as a rule, are not fond of repetitions, though

there

are exceptions. Do yon love me,

then, don't you oftener say so?
repetitions

child once asked her mother. Certainly,

mamma? a my dear, I do.

Here we have

Why,

a case in which
unpleasant.

of

a certain kind are not

And we would

fain

hope that you, dear

friends, will be glad to hear us once

more repeating
difficulties

to

you one word

the

word Progress.
and
it

Yes, notwithstanding ever-increasing

the imperfection of our work,
to vouchsafe both

has pleased the Lord

to you and to us the great joy of some sheaves to his storehouse. We have had 834 catechumens under instruction. These are, for the most part, men and women of all ages, often people with grey hair, and these by no means the least in-

gathering

in

teresting

quite

the contrary.

Five liiindred and ninety-five have been received, who would have increased our membership by that amount had it not been for the losses necessarily caused by deaths and removals. One hundred and seven have left the visible Church
for the invisible
to
;

and, so far as

it

is

possible for

man
to

judge, these are so

to

many

friends that

you have made

welcome you

the everlasting habitations (Luke

XVI, 9).

for abroad

Three hundred and forty-eight luive left, whether or for towns in Italy where we have no
off

churches; and twenty- tive have been cut

exercise of Scriptural discipline.

in

the

Seven hundred and

enrolled on our
years,
lists;

five
if

catechumens

are already

and

matters go on as in former

which we have reastjn to expect, we will have nearly a thousand persons in our Rible classes, learning to trust, love and serve God. Ask Him to give us grace to discharge this duty, which is at once so delightful
and so Rut
difficult, in
it

such a

way

as to secui-e his approval.

is

not to speculate

about the future that

we

write this Report, but to inform you of what been doing, as you have a right
to

we have know. And as we

have i)egnn with

of the Report

statistics,

we

will complete this part

by adding the following: An average of 7500 persons (in round numbers) have attended our Lord's Day services. These we count our
regular hearers.
others

these

From sixty to sixty-five thousand we class as occasional worshippers; but among we do not reckon the thousands of people to whom
have endeato

our pastors, evangelists, and colporteurs

voured

speak in behalf of the Truth, as they journey

through the country. These figures we do not present

that

to

you

in the spirit

moved David
feel

to

number

the people. God

knows that

we

our own

feebleness too deeply to entertain even

the thought of glorying in such an enumeration as the

above. Let

if glory there be redound to cometh down every good and every perfect gift, without Whom we can do nothing. We have quoted these statistics merely to give you some idea of what is being done with your bounty, and to what extent

all

the glory

Him from

Whom

God has heard your

prayers. Besides,

was

it

not under

Divine direction that Luke mentions the number of those

converted by Peter's sei-mon^

Three thousand three

Iiiiiidred

and thirty-two

pupils have attended our day and evening schools, a hirger number than last year, although we have had to close certain schools, our means not permitting us, in most of the large towns, to compete with the municipal
establishments.

thirty-four are
not virgin

Three thousand, four hundred and in our Sunday Morning Schools, afforyet
contains
tiehl which, if fewer thorns and stones

ding the teachers and supeiintendents a

soil,

than that on which our preachers sow the good seed.

Finally,

seventy thousand five hundred and sixty. 2820)

one francs (about

work

of the Church,

have been contributed for the which amounts to a contribution of

fourteen francs and thirty-eight centimes (say 12 shillings) a member. This is not an immense sum, we well

know; but if the fact is kept in view that fifteen thousand and seventy three francs have been disbursed
in relief of the poor,

who

naturally ought to be deducted

it

from the

list

of contributors,

will

be seen that the

small.

proportion of gifts per

of insisting on the duty of contributing for the Church's needs and for the

no opportunity,

member is not so you may well believe,

;

We

neglect

advancement
to ask our

of God's Kingdom and we do not hesitate members even to make sacrifices, and not
little

content themselves with giving a

of their superfluity.

We

have never said to our brethren, It is enough, bring no more offerings ; but to you, dear friends, we must say that, considering the deplorable financial condiwill

tion of Italy, the contributions of the

Mission Churches

members of our compare favourably with those

to

of other Christians.

Two

years ago

we asked you
which our

accompany
labour
is

us on a

tour of inspection round the churches and stations of the

five districts into
field of

divided.

This year
special

we
in

propose to follow a different plan, with a

view.

end

We

might easily

cull

from the

our workers many illustrations of the faith and perseverance of our converts, which would prove that for them the change has been a radical one, a true
letters of

conversion; but this would require both time and space,

which we would fain utilise in another way. Thus Our work is daily acquiring larger dimensions, and,
our

own

resources not increasing in proportion,

we

are

obliged to look to our friends in other Churches for the

increased

support

necessary to preserve

the

balance

between our income and our expenses. But instead of an increase, we are obliged to report a diminution, of which
our
deticit, last July, of

twelve thousand two hundred

is,

and seventy-eight francs

proof.

alas! only too

manifest

How
and

has this decrease come about? The friends

us,

who

have helped
gifts

from the very

first,

by their prayers
their

have remained true,

but

number has

and those who have changed this world for a better have not always been replaced by others. The secretaries of our committees in London,
sensibly diminished,

Edinburgh and elsewhere agree in reporting that the raising of funds becomes yearly more difficult. Now, why
is

this? Is there less faith, less zeal, less religious life?

We
we
It

would not venture

to

answer such a grave question;

remove.

prefer to deal with one cause which admits of no

doubt, and which

is

we

desire, as far as possible, to

believed by a good

many
is

people that to evangelise

anion^-

Roman
so.

Catholics

work of supererog-ation,
not

not to say quite needless.

And

it is

who

think

doctor of theology,

terian church, said to one of us

to interest

High Churchmen member of a Presbywho was endeavouring

him in our work: Frankly, I have no great sympathy with a work which consists in transforming
good Catholics into bad Protestants. You will surely
grant, dear
friends,

that

it

is

sufficiently discouraging

to be judged in such a

way

as this after so

many years

of work.

Presbyterian, a D.D., professing to believe

that the Waldensian

chililren in

Church employs the

elite of

her

transforming good Catholics into bad Prois

testants! It

too

much!

No; a thousand times no! The object

is

we have
what
it

in
all

view
that
is.

very

different.

Let
is

it

be understood once for

the Romish Church

not

known

for

truly

And our Church fathers, the work

in the face of a

is

carrying on the work begun by our

it is

of testifying the truth as

in Jesus,

system which conceals this truth from

the people; of announcing the good news to those are ignorant of

it;

who

and of bearing to our fellow-citizens

the only means of escape from that condition of moral

abjectness and slavery which lays one
of another.

man

at the feet

But we may be charged with partiality. It may be said that the martyr-blood which flows in our veins prevents our being just toward the Church which butchered our fathers in thousands. Well, let the members of this Church speak for themselves. Let us hear Professor Wilhelm Bunkoffer explaining the motives which forced him to abandon Romanism: During the cruel struggle which lasted for long years, I came to understand that, to accept the Romish Church as it is to-day, one must part company completely with the New Testament, and with the ecclesiastical history of the early centuries. The Romish Church, penetrated by the spirit of Vaticanism, silences more and more
in

the pulpit the voice of Christ. ... In

its

public acts

of devotion the cerimonial so entirely destroys the spiritual essence that, for example, the Indulgence granted to devotees of the

Via Cruets

[Way

of the Cross]

is

refused

if,

on kneeling

down and

rising again, they fail

to observe certain

prescribed rites! These very Indul-

gences have assumed frightful proportions for a cultivated

Catholic who, believing in God, the Father and Creator

a
.

of

tlie

universe,

and

in

Jesus

Clii'ist

the

Redeemer,
. .

observes this degradation of the doctrines of grace.

The great sin of 1870 bears in itself its own just punishment, which will yet destroy the Church. Absoluiism engenders slavery, infallibility begets falsehood. The
.

fixed idea of the Vatican

is

that

it is

impossible to quit

the Romish Church otherwise than by committing sin

false idea,

which springs from another no less false, that the Holy Spirit is the exclusive monopoly of the Papal Church. As for me, I declare before God that the step which I have just taken in quitting it is the result of
a struggle equally long and painful.
I

It

has been said that

It is

took this step with the view of getting married.

false.

Rut

atHrm with indignation

priests

this fact, that the

basest moral degradation does not separate the most in-

famous of the
possible in

from their Church, while the purest

of one's superiors.
for

and most conscientious marriage renders priesthood imthe

1

eyes

And Bishop
a complete

Hefele says:
delusion.
I

lived
I

many years

in

was seiving the Catholic Church when I was serving only the caricature which Jesuitism has made of it. It was in Rome itself 1 learnt that there
thought
it

matters only about the

is

name
is

of
in

Christianity;

the

substance

lost,

it

remains only

appearance.

Yes, dear friends, Bishop Hefele

right.

of Christianity has disappeared in

The substance Romanism as it is

duty of every

to-day, and hence

we

believe

it

to be the

sincere disciple of Christ to labour for its return.

tions like the above

Quotamight be multiplied by the hundred, but are these not enough of themselves to demonstrate
the necessity for the

work we
t<)

are carrying on?

Things have come

Catholics of Italy,

such a pass that even the

Roman

who, unfortunately, interest themselves

but

little

in religion, are b.'ginning to

is

draw the

contrast
in

between what
its

and what ought to be the Church

representatives.

most highly-placed

The Rassegna

Seitimanale (Wpekhi Revimo)

this paragraph,

(^f

the 10th October has

majority of

which deserve.^ attention; The great the Lombard clergy are at heart Italian
but since Cardinal Ferrari
suited to be a tribune
is

and

patriotic;

an irrecon-

cileable,

more

than a pastor of

souls, all the

well-disposed clergy must

bow

the head;

and woe

to hini

who would

dare to show that he does

not approve of the extravagant action of his chief

action
is

which not only has nothing

quite contrary to
its

to do with
spirit.

religion, but

whole

Such utterances are beginning

quarters:
let

to be

heard

in

various

us

listen to

one more. The Gazzetta del

of

Popolo

of

Bari,

in

its

issue

13th

October

1897,

speaking of the so-called religious fetes with which the

Romish Church thinks to satisfy the religious needs of members, exclaims: Here we are these three weeks past in the midst of noisy fetes. First we had the Addolorata (Our Lady of Sorrows); then the holy Saints Medici; last Sunday the Rosary of St Francis; and next Sunday we shall have that of St Dominic. Each lasts four days, and each confraternity seeks to outvie the
its
'

'

others

in

pomp and

cost.

This relic of paganism begins

to disgust people of

good sense, and one might well wish

on this folly and turn

that Rudini would put a curb

the

money to purposes more useful to the people and more accordant with modern civilisation. Our friends may accept our assurance that our aim
not to change the external form of worship merely,

is

or to

make war

against the

Romish hierarchy. What

signify to us popes, cardinals,

We

and all the papal displays? never speak of these matters. If the Roman Church
preserving
these things,
it.

only became Christian, while

we would

not

lift
is

up our

little

finger against

Rut,

alas! superstition

apparently increasing every year,

is

while the knowledge of the God of the Gospel

ever

becoming

less.

The pretended miracles

of the sixteenth

10

centurj' are nothing in comparison with those

which from

time to time are pahned

off

on the credulous inhabitants of

the Peninsula. The Trilmna of

Rome

(October 10th, 1897)

relates the following: Yesterday the populalion of Giu-

lianova crowded into the church of St Anthony, crying

out:
'

miracle!
of

'

In a niche of that
its

church an image

of

Mary

Sorrows held on

knees a sheet, on which

was placed

Christ's dead body. Yesterday

morning sposts

as of blood

were observed on the sheet. Whence could they have come but from the right side of the body? So the crowd declared again and again. The gendarmes
interfered, and to prevent the bigots from crushing each

other to death the niche was sealed up.

at the end of the nineteenth century! It

And
is

yet

we

are

incredible!

The Bible is Church forbids

still

the

book which of

all

others the
all

to the people,

notwithstanding

the

attempts that have been made to deny this and to impose

on the Christians of Britain and America. The Italian

Bible Society has printed an edition of the Martini version

(Archbishop of Florence), so as to be able to offer

those

it

to

who would have nothing

former
also.

to do

with the translation

of a colporteur,

of Diodati. But as soon as the priests found this out they

])rohibited the

One word
Quero,

only a few days ago, speaks volumes

on

this sul)ject:

priest in Mottola, Signor

Professor in the

seminary of C, was sitting on the coach beside me. Finding that the book I had in my hand was a New Testament, he exclaimed:
'

Where

are you carrying that

infernal machine?

'

The Romish Church has made no change

better in
has
it

for

tlie

its

doctrines as seen in the light of Scri])ture;

in respect to its

changed
it

sentiments regarding those

whom
but

calls heretics?

We

answer No.
in

It plays at

Republic in France and at Lihorty

the United States

it

where

it

believes itself strong

enough

remains the

same

as ever,

and the stake would be rekindled wherever

11

had the power. We could cite many facts in proof of this. One or two of the most recent may suffice. Last July several hundred persons were grouped around a priest, who harangued them from a chair. What did he say, this minister of Christ, to the audience hanging
it

on his
on

lips?

Did he

call

them

to repentance, to faith, to

the Saviour? No; he discoursed about the Protestants,

whom

he heaped

all

the injurious epithets and the

most atrocious calumnies his vocabulary contained, and

this in order to stir

up this poor ignorant people against

the one single evangelical family in the town

that of
suffi-

the colporteur.

And when he thought he had

ciently roused their fanaticism, he shouted out the

Ammazziamoli

kill

word them, exterminate them! And

rushed
to the

the infatuaded people, echoing the cry,

house,

where they found only the mother and her two

notice

daughters. Having received

from a kindly

soul,

they had time to barricade the doors and windows. Otherwise their blood would have been shed. Whilst
stones

were being showered against the

in

building, a friend

ran and told one of the colporteur's brothers,

at

who was
creature

work

the neigh})Ourhood.

He

at once applied for

help to the chief of the police, but that

worthy

(a

of the priests) took out his watch, looked at

Office hours are over;

it,

and said:

come tomorrow!

The young man

then in despair hurried to the marshal of the gendarmes,

who
be a

happily for the honour of Italy, proved himself to

man with

a heart.

Accompanied by two

soldiers,

he ran

to be besieged

house and succeeded in calming

the fury of the multitude.

He

also arrested the priestly

author of the disturbance, and brought him to the police

As we write these lines the legal process against him is going on. This occurred at Ragusa, a Sicilian town of some 40,000 inhabitants.
office.

Z.

One instance more. On was in the cemetery

the 29th October the evangehst

of Gioia del Colle, conducting

12

the

funeral

of

a
to

woman.

good

many

people stood

around, curious

hear the reading of God's word. Sudthe

denly a violent blow on the neck of the evangelist

nearly felled him to

ground, another on the side

took

away

his breath,

Bible out of his hand, that

and a third almost knocked the it might be torn in pieces.

priests

Here again

it

was the

who had

incited

some
is

of

the people to commit the assault, and the case

now

being investigated by the authorities. Europe was last

year deeply and justly stirred by the massacre of missionaries in China. If

it
it

has not been shocked by similar

is

massacres in Italy
to the

owing

to Divine protection

and

laws of the land, which are as liberal and tolerant

all

towards

religions as they could possibly be.

Permit us to give the following extract from the letter of one of our brethren, describing what he had to suffer

when he was almost me with

I

the only Protestant in his native

town. Troo[)s of children, led by

my own

brothers, chased

stones through the streets to the office in which

;

was employed me; and when I

rudely, crying:
fellow,
'

my
fell

fellow-clerks heaped insults upon

utterly exhausted (for
I

down
to

often

did not taste food for twenty-four hours) they beat

me

Get

work, then, you excommunicated

fool!
'
.

and don't play the

My
open

familj^

burnt

my bed Many a
food,

and
night

books, and banished

I

me from

the house.

had

to pass in the
cold.

air,

without

and shivering with

infinite

And

yet the Lord sustained

I

mo

so marvellously that amidst

my sufferings

had secret

joy and

sweetness of comfort.

Half of that

family are
It
is

now

evangelical, and persecution has ceased.

but just to say that such barbarities could not take

place in the north of Italy, but j)riestly ojjposition to the

work
it

of evangelisation is none the less strong, though employs other measures. For example, the inexorable dilemma too often impales on its terrible horns every

one

who

is

dependent on another for food for himself

13

and his family,

starve!

Forsake

the evanp^elical meetings or

Space does not allow us to enter into fuller details to prove our case, which we therefore condense into these

few words.
(1) (2)

Italy needs to be evangelised to-day as

much

as in the apostolic age, because:

God's word
the

is

forbidden to the people;

as the

God who so loved the world is as unknown unknown God was to the Athenians. The God
still

who
(3)

is

believed in

is

one

who

is

but an object of

dread
Jesus Christ
in his mother's
said:

arms or a
all

is

either the bambino

the baby

crucitix. Jesus Christ,

who

Come unto me,

is

ye

who

labour and are heavy

laden,
(4)

quite

unknown;
sole religion of the masses,

the grossest and most degrading superstition tends

to

become more and more the

while scepticism and

materialism dominate those

who

think, or think they think;

(5)
it is

hopeless to expect any remedy for this from

it;
it.

the Church which has produced

(6)

the Gospel alone can provide

Will not Christians

pelled to

who

love their Saviour feel im-

do

something for a nation which has been

its

stretching out

arms toward them these thirty years?

Can men

any feeling behold a nation going to moral ruin without showing their sympathy by more than words? We would even address ourselves to those of
of

the most liberal dogmatic views,

who

regard the

Roman

Church as a beloved sister in the Christian family; and we would say to them The Romanist is your brother, is he not? Well, then, would you do nothing for your brother? If you saw a poor man, who was dying of thirst, trying to quench it with muddy water, would you not offer him a glass of pure water? Certainly you would. Evon so, lend a helping hand to this Italian Roman
:

14

Catholic brother, whose spiritual hunger and thirst are

cruelly mocked; do something for one

who

vainly seeks

at the feet of his fellow-man the i)eace

which God alone

it,

can give! The nation

No,
it is

is

not ready for

you

sa}''.

not, as nation:

we have
and
this

already said at
is

what nation ever was? But, as the outset, a much larger number
believed are well
disposed,

of souls than

generally

number

increases daily. If a miracle of Divine

remove the prejudices with which calumny has tilled the })eople's hearts and minds, men and women would be seen by the thousand pressing around the Word of God. During the course of the year our Evangelists have had many opportunities of verifying the fact that the Gospel is heard with pleasure by a great number of persons, up till the moment when some one hints that this Gospel is not the true one, and that whoever reads or listens to it is in danger of excommunication. Not long since an Italian general, who had in his service a Waldensian maid, saw in her hands a copy
grace would but
of the Silent Comforter a selection of Bible passages,

printed on large sheets in big type.

Being confined to

bed for several weeks, he had this hung up on the wall

where he could
lets

easily read

it.

Again, an old priest,

who

part of his house to a colporteur, occasionally attends

is

family worship, and

are being sung.
let us

moved

to tears

while the

hymns

We
11th

might give other similar cases; but

quote an

extract from the letter of one of our

pastors, dated

November
I

1897:

telegram to Syracuse, where one of our church

bers had just died,
to hold the friends

Summoned by memI

found

tiie

death-chamber too small

together.

had the coffin brought down to the courtyard, where I was quickly surrounded by about 400 people, the windows
of the neighbours

who had come

profound silence

and then

to

filled with listeners. A upon them when 1 began to pray, speak about Christ and the Christian hope,

being also

fell

15

with

all

the energy that

it

pleas^ed the

Lord

to

grant

me. At the close, \yarni shakes of the hand and hearty

more

words from many of the audience proved to me once that prejudice disappears when brought into contact with the truth.

The final evidence that God's work he has entrusted to our

canon, G. C.

blessing rests on
feeble

the
will

hands

we

give from no less an authority than a

Roman

Catholic

C, who raises a veritable cry of alarm in the Camj)ana del Maitino of the 5th November. We translate literally: At Riesi we are on the eve of a great religious catastrophe; only a few years and Catholicism here will be but a memory, an echo lost in the Vivas of Protestantism, which daily gains will end by overwhelming us. Yes, Proteground, and
' '

stantism will finish by tearing

down our

flag

and burying

us in the tomb of a shameful oblivion.

children attend the Waldensian schools,

More than 700 and more tlian

20 young

women

are studying under the Committee of

the same name, in order to obtain a certificate of com-

petency to teach heresy. Soon they will open a church,

and they even speak of founding a Waldensian

hospital...
!

We have good cause to weep

bring a charge against

and shudder, with horror

After this introduction, the worthy canon proceeds to

Protestantism, from

which we
be, since
its
it

beg our readers'

stantism
is

leave to

make one

extract: Prote-

is

not a religion, and never

can

diametrically opposed to the

Gospel and

Divine

But no one can deny that it is a powerful the hands of Freemasonry for the un-Catholicising of Italy, and drawing our people into the
precepts.

weapon

in

fetid pit of

Babylon.

And

it

is

also

true that without

able to

money Protestantism would never be

This

make any

impression, even on the ranks of outcasts and libertines!

may

suffice as a

specimen of the prose of the best

suppoi-ters of the Vatican.

16

We
many

thank you from

the

bottom of our hearts for

given us during
these
in
to count on

the aid you

have

generously
still

years. Permit us

your help

the future.
beneticence,
all

Many noble and holy causes appeal to your and we would not be so selfish as to demand
God
so clearly

for ourselves. But since

means that

His kingdom should come in Italy also, allow us to ask

once more for your co-operation

will.

in

giving effect to His

to

Speak

to

your friends and acquaintances, and

to tlie Master.

every one whose heart beats true

if

Ah,

the Evangelical Church would only meet the so-called

Peter's pence with the pence of Paul, the battle would

assume very different proportions, and the Riesi canon's

cry of alarm would soon find more than one echo among
his brethren.

Lord,

Thy kingdom come!

The Members of Committee

Comm. Matteo Prochet

Pastors
:

D. D., Pt^esidejit.

Giovanni Pons, Cav. Paolo Longo, Giuseppe QuATTRiNi, Giovanni Luzzi, Arturo Muston, Cav. LiBORio Coppola, Civil Engineer.

17

Subscrii)tions and donations will be thankfully recei-

ved by:

Forbes Moncrieff Esq.

Col.

15 Hill St.
-

Edinburgh
S.

M. Frobisher

118 Pall Mall

-

London

W.

Ch. VV.

Hand

156 Fifth Ave.

iXew-York.
direct to Italy

Any
can do

person wishing to send

it

money

most easily by a cheque on any bank of Europe

or America endorsed to Comni. Matteo Prochet

D.D.

107 Via Nazionale, Rome.

Italy.

Form
I

of bequest.
Church
of Italy

bequeath

to the

Waldensian

for

her work of Evangelisation the sum of

The signature

of the

Moderator for the time being to

be held as sufficient for the receipt.

Contributions and Collections

AMERICA.
Mrs.
M.lle
W'""

Jay

Schieffeliii,

N.Y., for a day Doll. 125 -- Lit. 681 25

. .

C Mc

Diannid, Canada

N. Y., for a day Frs 625 Mrs. E. F Shepard, " L.st. 25.10.2 Miss Emily M. Wheeler 25 Miss Marshall Mr Frank Leeds, California, for GroLte Doll. 5
..

5 50

669 60
6 6 60

673

26 5U
691 45

Rev. Stuart Dodge, N.

Presl).

Y., for a

day
,

Frs.
Doll.

646 85
21

Church. Wyoming, O. 2d. Presb. Church, Cincinnati, O. Bellefontaine P. Church. Pa.

.

10

114 57 109 41

20 15

43
10

233 49
54 30

Sab. School, Pa.

Central P. Church, Erie, Pa.

12 67
15

68 79
81 45

Miss Jane Buchanan, Pittsburg, Pa. Westminster P. Church, Buffalo, N. Y.

<<

13 68

7i 28 66 30 87 96

Union meeting, Mereer, Pa. Grove CAty P. Church, Grove Park P. Church, Erie, Pa.
.

12 21
16 20
19 50

City, Pa.
.

G. Taylor Esq.,
5tli

New York

25
18

105 88

..

135 75
98 93
97 74

U. P. Church, Allegheny, Pa. U.

18 22

1st

P Church, East
P.

Liverpool, O.

Church, N.-Y. City U. P. Church, Braddock, Pa. P. Church, Tyrone, Pa. 2th U. P. Church, New Wilmington, Pa. Broadway 'I'abernacle Church, N. Y. Collected by Mrs. Robert Laidlaw, Cin.
. .
.
.

Mount VVasliington

50

271 50

17 52
3 22

95 23
17 48

16 50
125

L.st. cinnati. O. Mrs. Sinclair, Philadelphia, Pa. fora day Frs.

.

3
61-3

75

89 59

662 50 79 20
673 35

-.

20

Per Rev. Dr. Carson, Xeniii, O.: Doll 2(1 U. P. Church, l.st and 3d U. P. Churches, Per Rev. Patterson, 6st U. P. Church,
.

2^ 33

136 55
57 50

10 67

Pittsburg, Pa.

125
125

673 83

Per Rev. Patterson,

Pittsburg,

1st

U. P. Church,

. .

Pa Mrs. Dorman, New- York.,

Miss C.
sation
P. Stokes, N.-Y., For

673 82
13i

>>

25
15

EvangeliL.st.

Work

in

Sicily

394 80

Stone Presb. Churcli, Cleveland,

O
Doll.

For two Sundays: Rev. H. C. Haydn D.

F. C. Keitli Esq. L. B. Hall Esq.
.

10
5

5
5
1

Mrs. L.

C. Austin
.

Anonymous Mrs Flora Mather Miss Weaver Mrs Julia A. Stone

E. C. Higbee E.sq.
'1st

125
1

53 90 26 95

26 95 26 95 5 39 673 80
5 39

P.

R. F.

Sunday School Smith Esq.

.

25 25
20

107 82

134 75 134 75 269 60

50

Stone Presb Church, Cleveland, O.

For Schools:
Mrs. Flora Mather
1st Presb.

100
.

Sunday School

25

539

134 75

2d U. P. Church, Allegheny, Pa.

38 58
Frs.

205 70

Mrs.

W.

E.

Dodge

(senior),

Y. for

a day
10th Presb. Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
for a Sunday, per

643 75 644 53

678 50 679 30
657 50

Frank Hippie Esq

(junior), N. Y., for

Mrs.

W.
E.

E.

Dodge

a day

625 -Esq., N. Y., for a

))

W.

Dodge

day

625

..

657 50
2.52

2d Presb. Ch., Cincinnati, Ohio, per Mrs. Murphy e Mrs. Bradford Miss Arbuckle. Allegheny, Pa., for a day Doll 1st United Presb. Church, Allegheny Pa., per Rev. J. W. Robinson D. D.,
for a

239 70
125

15

676 30

Sunday
Pliilad. Pa.
.

>

101 89

))

552 20
10

Miss Tickell Wylio Memorial Chui-ch,

Frs

95 42

.)

100 55

21

frienH, Cleveland, O.
E.s([.,

L.st.

5.1.10
225.1U.'>

135 20

From W. UuUes
Rev. Dp

for tlieol. prof.

.

5987 35

Doll. Lowrie, Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs Clark, Newark, N .1., for a day L.st. Ombues de Lavalle, for Rvangelizza.

10

25

53 50

656 75
52 20
8 10

zione
))

for Bollettiiio

University Place Presb. Ch., New-York,

for a

Sunday
Pa,
for a

Doll.

133 10
125

710 40 072 50
295 35 535
75

1st Presb. Ch., Philadelphia,

Sunday
Miss N. N. per G. C. Maugcri, for harmonium (Modica) Calvin Wells Es(| Allegheny, Pa. Miss Skinner, per Rev. Thomas Hall,
,

....
.

55
100
10

Chicago,

III

D'r. L. D. Mason, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Margaret L. Shepard N. Y. for a

50

267

Frs- (>30 day Mrs. W. Jay Schieffelin, N. Y., for a day DoU. 125 Doll. 125 East Liberty Church, Pittsburg, Pa. 5 D. L. Pierson Esq. 15 \Ve.st Church, Buffalo, N. Y.

655 85 660 25

L.it.

670
80

26 80

Geo. P.

Morgan
hv G.

Esq.

25

134

Cdlleiiteil

C. M.iii-eri
11.

^^'est p.

Rev. Allen
lem, N.

C, Holxjken, N. J. Do II. Brown, CamJ.

. .
.

20
1

Vormilv Chapel, X. Y.

West
Mrs.
kers

23 P.

W.

M.

Wm. Washburn
C. B.

....
Quillet,

C,

N. Y.

Youn-

Rsq. N.Y.

Honrv Truman Esq.

Knevals Esq. Mrs. F. W. M.

Some
N.

Irienils in 13tli P. C.

Cash

7th Presb. Church., N. Y. J. C. H., Younkers. Rev. Henry B. BairdD.D.,

Younkers
Mr. L. C. Conn.

MissC. R., Stamford, Conn. Cash M. W. H., Bridgeport,

W. ....

StamfonI,

Conn Cash E. S., Bridgeport, Conn W. B. Hlnks Esq., Bridgeport, Conn. F. A. Ferris

Esq., South

Norwalk, Conn.

W.

G. Leland Esq.. South

09
Miss Margaret Trusdell, Sing Sing, N. Y. Stanton Caily Esq., Sing
. .

Doll.

Sing, N. Y.

10

small Boy, Sing Sing, N. Y R>v. A. S. Freeman D.D., Harvestraw, N.Y. E. P. Piatt Esq. Pouglikeeusie, N. Y.
. .

1(1

Isao Brayton Esq., Poughkoei)sio, N. Y. Wni. AdrianceEsq. Pouglikeepsie, N. Y. Henry L. Young Esq., Y. Poug .keepsie,
. . . .

Cash, Newburgh, N. Y. H. A. M., Catskill, Rev. Win. W. Schomp, Athens, N. Y. Mrs. Mary J.* Harrington,
. .

5 10 5
r,

Jewott, N. Y.

50

Miss Bertha M. Hampton, L.

Mrs.
E.

Fulller,
I.
.

W.
.

D.

Windham,
Mrs. Geo.
L.
Spa., N. Y.

Roljertson, L. I.
.
.

Ball,

Saratoga
. .

20
5
1

Esq., Saratoga Spa., N. Y. Saratoga Spa., N. Y. Cash, William F. Whitaken, Albany, N. Y. .las. \i. Kelly Esq., AHmny. N. Y
.

W.James

50

A friend IstCongr. Chun-h,

Albany, N. Y:
.

2 30

H. T.
N.

Ludlow

I'^sq.

Tro>',

Y
Tri.y, N. Y.

Cash,

frionil

L. Buttiin Esq. Cohijos E. P. Piatt Esq., Poug keepsie, N. Y.

.

10
3

10 2

50 70

friend,

Cash,

Pough. .

keopsie, N. Y.

Rev. Wm. B. .:. Hill D.D. ;Poug keepsie, N. Y. Rev. S. A. Wikert D. D.

.

Poug

keepsie, N. Y.
.

Mrs. M. E. Jewett, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Esq. John C. Adrian. ;e Poug keepsie, N. Y.

.

Chas.

Handenburgh Esq.
1

keepsie, N. Y. Mrs. S. L. Stebbins, Poug keepsie, N. Y. Italian Mission, Orange N.

. . .

Poug

J., Poughkeopsie. N. Y. Rev. D. J. Mc. Millan D.D.

New
Y
I.

York

A. Mc. Intyre Esq., N. Y.

First U. P. Chur.rh, Rev. T. W. Anderson D. D.

N.

Mrs. Mrs. Mrs.

J.

Haward Tate N.Y.

0. Panderpoel DonaM, Staten

.
.

Ml! Island

Miss Olive Lcland N. Y.

23
X.

Y
Ch., NcwS.^ntl.iiiil,
-^^

I)"ll.

(Hi

I'roslj.

Mrs. Haldane J. Paton

....))
. . . . .

DnII.

N.
4tli

15 30

W. R
Arch.

Ave.

Prpsb.

N. Y. City
Ilillsiiie

...
Cliur.'li,

Mc

Intyre
.

Cash
15 12

Cliur.'li,

Oran.^e,

X.

meeting of Prosb. Clnir-lies.Newhur;^, N.Y^ Memorial Presb. Cliurcli,

Union

25

H.

J.

Johnston
.

friend Jos. Rodger J(jhn Millen

" "

5 2

Friend
13 G5

Newark, N.

J.

J.

Irving. R. Fislier Esq.,X.Y. Miss'lIellenGoul'l, Hart Esq., Newark, N. J. Pier.son D. D., Rev. A. T.

25 125

St. Paul's Church, for one da>', Montreal St. Andrew's Church
.

125

13 51

Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. T. M. Niven D. D., n.il)l)s Ferry, N. Y.

. .

Miss Marv
ileipliia.

S. Otto, Phila.

Pa. M. R. Jesup Esq., N. Y. J. M. Ninger Esq. Englewood P. Cli., N. J. Mrs. Wm. Lamhert, N. Y. Berltbr.l P. Ch. Brooklyn, F. S. Davenport Esq.
. .

...

for one day, Montreal Miss Orkney The Misses Dow Mrs. Filgate I>ailv Hickson M. Mc Dougal
.

25
50 lb 10
5 2 5 5

50 25
11

A
A

friend

13 30 5 12 50

S. H.

Ewing

friend

George

.... .... W.
Blaiklock

10
1

6 25 15

Some

U.P.

C. E. ot0.xt'or.lP.Ch._
.
.

Philailelpliia, Pa.

fri('nds from Cres;5ent St. Ch. , Montreal friend, for one day

Wallint'oril Presh.
J.

Mavlan, Pa. P. Lloy<l Esq.

...
Church,
. .

20 23
10

Rob'^rt Mackay A. C. Clark

18 125 50 10
51

10

Knox
N.

Memorial

Church,

Y
. . . . .

Rev. H. K. Denlinger, CaMwell, N. J. H. E. Rid-lioh Esq. Ruseville Presb. Ch., Ne

Toronto Knox Church, Rob. H. \\'arilen Bloor Street Church William Mac Laren
.

15 16 50

G. C. R.

wark, N. J. Presb. Church of Albany,

. . .

N.

Y
.

John Harvie John L. Blaikie George T. Fergusson A. Muirhcad M. Languiuir

.

Eilwanl R. Bellings Esq.

4th U. P. Churc phia, Pa
,

8 hd

Wm.
A
Dr.

Gregg D. D.
. .

Philadel

friend

30 25

RoseviUe Ave. Chur -h, Newark, N. J. Jewett Presb. Church, Je.

Bartedo John Aitken

S. T.

Gordon
1

wett, N. Y.

5 10

Irieml

"
7912 19

L.it.

A. Br dshaw Rev. W. G. Wallace W. Barclay Mc Murich W. A. Charlton S. Crane

.

Collected by sig. U. Bulla

Jas.
:

CANADA
Stanley St. Ch., Montreal Doll.

Knox Church
Chalmers Church
G. Hague Fred. O. Hopkins Mrs. Reford Mrs. A. F. Gauit Father Chinif|uy D.D.
Prof. J. L. X friend

14
11 5

50

Crane Miss Grace Logie T. W. Gibson John Young, Toronto Rev. T. Fenwick n John L. Forster
.

2
1

25

friend

_
10
1
1

Rob. Kilgour R. W. Spence

Frank H. Mason
Mrs. Neil Currie

2
1

Morin
in

Herm. Gibson A. S. Crombie

S.

Collected

Ersltine
5 5 2 2 2
3

W.

Blake

10
9

Church, Montreal

Cash

J.

Macdonald

Rev. Alex. Sanson Rev. Louis H. Jordan .Mrs Homer Dixon

Lady
at

A. B. Eraser Mrs. R. I.an.'wil

Casli
.

Colle(;tion

.'

ting in

prayer meeErskim Ch., To-

ronto

....

4 75

24
Collection at prayer meetintr in

CooUes
from

ronto
frienri

AnA drew's Ch., Toronto

Old
St.
.

....
Cli.,
. . .

ToDoll.

Friends of Wentworth Ch., Hamilton Ont. St. Paul's Ch. prayer meeHamilton Ont. ting Mrs. Watson n Dr. & Mrs. Malloch Mrs. F. Malloch Alex. Mc Lagan
s>

9 45
7

M. L.

n Mrs. J. A. Mullia R. S. Wallace n David Kidd Friends in Mc. Nab Chur(;h Hamilton Ont. Mrs. Henderson
.

D. Macdonald D. Lavroch
J. J. Y. Oshorne Mrs. G. Hunter W. A. James
.

Ch.

Graham
Morrison

J. J.

C. Ferrie

Phie Mrs. Stewart Mrs. Mc Questen

D.

Mc

D. Mac.i^illivary

frienil

Alex. Leith Mrs. Ferrie A. Ewing Ferrie Mrs. M. Scott Mrs. Alex. Ewing A. W. Leit ;h William Murra\' D. H. Fletcher D. D. Friends in Central Presli. Church, Hamilton Ont: E. Hol)son Geo. H. Gillespie
. . .

Wm.

Lees

Mrs. Findlay Dr. H. Husliand Mrs. J. S. Hendrie Mrs. E. M. Eastwood Dixon Bros. Geo. Rutheford W. E. Sandford Hamilton Ont: Wm. Smith Mrs. Burns
.

2
1

UNITED STATES.
Miss M.
S. Davies, Detroit, Mii:;h.

Miss J. H. Muir Mrs. W. K. Muir Mrs. Wricfdrd Helen M. Russell

5 h 2

10

AUSTRIA.
Per Mrs. Pons-Karrer

DENMARK.
Per Cosmus de Bornemana

FRANCE.
Collected by Cav. P.

Longo

.... ....
Wan

GERMANY
Waldensiaii Committee of Stuttgart, per O. for Evangelizzazione
for Grotte

....

Chiesa for Chiesa

for

di di

Lugano
San

for scuole di

Como Remo
Sell

Frauenverein Bonn per Miss Colmar Bible Society

))

M.

50

Collected by Cav. P. Longo, Alsace

by

sig.

P. Calvino

Mrs. Frank, Altona

Waldensian Committee of Barmen per Mr. Klein Per Gustav Adolf Verein: Centralvorstand
H. Verein, Anlialt H. Verein, Halle
P. Verein,

... ... ...

.

liildensheim

H. Verein, Liibeck

H. Verein, Ansbacli H. Verein, Aurich

H. Verein, Dusseldorf
F.

Verein,

Hamburg

H. Verein, Kiel
F. Verein,

...
.
.

Darmstadt

Mrs. Julius De Neufville, Fran'fort Mrs. A. Lee, Altona

. .

Frs.

Countess A. Waldersee, Altona

Elberfeld Bible Society

Klein Schlatter for Grotte

2&

ENGLAND
Waldeiisian Coimiiiltee of London

per

(]ol.

Frobislier
for Sliiavi

L.st.

1500

L.it.

39898

A Lodge, London,

d'Abruzzo H. Rohson Esq., London, for a day A. T. Denny Esq., London Mrs Gadsley, for S. Gei-mano Chisone Miss Ebdell Hall, for scuole di Napoli
.

300

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Miss Laughain, Miss Dawes, for publication Society Per Morgan & Scott for Sicily
.

for Cliurcli Grotte

for relief fund

Miss Austin, ti-acts for the soldiers Per Col. Frobislier, for Bordighera The Misses Cobb, Blackheath Sefton Park Cong., per John Leggat Esq. J. T. Morton Esq., London, for Revere St John's Wood Cong., per John Leggft Esq Cheltenham Cong., per John Leggat Esq.

Thomas Matheson Esq. Upper Norwood per John Leggat Whalley Range
Per Col. Frobisher: For St Margaret's schools: The Misses Dawson Miss Marples
.

...
Esq.

Mrs Rodgers For Bordighera Houldsworth J. Esq., for Infirmary. S. Gerinano Chisone Miss Nielson,for colportaggio nelle Valli)) Mr. & Mrs. Greer, London N. N. London, for BoUettino Islington Presb. Cong., London, per John Leggat Esq James Boyd Esq., London Miss Browne, London, for BoUettino Presb. Church of England, per John Leggat Esq Greenwich Presb. Cong., per John Leg gat Esq
.
. .
.

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Lady Stewart, London, per Miss Foth

j'ingliuin
L.St.

Alex. Guthrie Esq., Liverpool, for a day

Fielden Tliorp

Rs([.,
.

York:

For scuole
V

in Sicilia di

Napoli

...
.
.

Wisely, London, Kensington Cong., per John Leggat Esq. Miss Marston, per A. J. Arnold Esq. Interests on Senhouse Legacy Samuel Smith Esq. M. P. Hugh Matheson Esq., for a day John Cory Esq., Cardiff, per O Golia

Captain e Mrs.

Mauro

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HOLLAND.
Eleves tie M.Ue M. Bivoire Comite Wallon par M. L. Bresson Collects par Mr. le chev. Paul Longo Mr. P. S. Van der Staal, Gouda, par Mr.
L.it.

P.

Mr.

le

Dr. Gertli

Van Wijk, La Haye

SCOTLAND.
Waldensian Mission Aid Society Lord Overtoun, Glasgow Free St. Matliews,
.
.

L.st
.

U. P. Cliurcli of Scotland

Ford Esq., Edinl)urgl), for a day J. Ford Esq., John Cowan, Esq., Miss J. Cowan, John Usher Esq., Broughton Place U. P. Ch., for Messina Per Miss Handyside, Edinburgh, for
Favale: Mrs. Haldane Miss Brown
C. L,

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Wood Esq Per A. T. Niven Esq.: Church of Scotland, grant

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for 189G

1897
friends 1896

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some

interests

specially contri-

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27 45

interests less tax

1897

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379

Sooth

Bible

Society, per Bev.

James

G. Gray D. D Claremont U. P. Ch., Glasgow Free College Church, Glasgow, per B. H. Bobertson Esq.
. .

1616 30

112

2967 35

8.19 8

239

Glasgow Continental Bost Esq

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