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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt:...is true that the Legacies stand very high; but on the other hand the Benefactions stand very low; and these two sources of income together are little above the average of the preceding five years. The Associations stand higher than ever before; but after adjusting certain items for more exact comparison, they may be taken as having sent up almost precisely the same amount as last year, which, it will be recollected, was an advance of 50007. on the preceding year. Remembering the warnings which have been given to the Committee as to the probable result of agricultural distress and the dulness of trade, they feel bound to express thankfulness for the testimony afforded by this side of the account to the earnest efforts of the Society's friends. But the Expenditure advances. Including that of the Extension Fund, which must in process of time fall on the General Fund, the total now is more than 18,0007. higher than it was two years ago. The greater part of the increase is in the Persia, Punjab, China, Japan, North-West America, and North Pacific Missions. Africa, which is sometimes supposed to be drawing so heavily on the Society's resources, draws considerably less than it did five or six years ago. But is the increased expenditure a matter for regret? It is in part the measure of the blessing vouchsafed to the Society's older work, and in part the measure of the newer work which the Providence of God has called on the Society to undertake by means of the Extension Fund. But it is by no means the measnre of that development of the existing Missions which the Committee have authorized and expected. Indeed, high as it appears, it is considerably less than had been estimated, owing to the supply of men not having been sufficient to fill up all...