For information as to the condition of the organized Missions and aided Parishes, I respectfully refer to the reports respectively made to the Bishop by the Clergymen in charge; and for the details of the Apportionments and Appropriations, to my report, as Treasurer, filed with the Secretary and Treasurer of the Society.

The annual report of the General Missionary, the Rev. Theodore M. Peck, is here briefly summarized:

His work was distributed between Putnam, Woodstock, Colchester, Groton, Black Hall and South Lyme.

At Putnam, with the aid of lay-readers, services were held twice on every Sunday except February 7th; the expense being shared between the Mission and the Woman's Auxiliary of Christ Church Parish, Norwich. Services were also held on all the great Festivals and Fasts and on Wednesday evenings in Lent. There has been a celebration of the Holy Communion on the first Sunday of every month and on the great Festivals. The attendance has been larger and steadier the past year than had been usual. At Easter the largest number of communicants at one time were present. The offerings for the Rectory Fund were $25.42, and for Missions at home and abroad, $8.60. More than the Apportionment was contributed for Diocesan Missions. All current expenses were paid, and the indebtedness on the parsonage was reduced $200, the note for $350, as reported last year, having been reduced to $150. The Mission is in a sound and prosperous condition. There have been two baptisms; a class of eight is preparing for confirmation; there are about thirty-eight communicants; there have been four marriages and five burials.

Services were maintained with more or less regularity in the Congregational Chapel at Woodstock on the afternoon of the first Sunday in each month. There was a good attendance during the summer, but during the winter it fell off, ranging from four to twelve. At the date of the report, (May 4th,) the services had been intermitted, as the new Minister objected to our using the Chapel. The services may be resumed in the summer.

Calvary Parish, Colchester, has had services twice on every Sunday, with a celebration of the Holy Communion on the fourth Sunday of the month. The town and Parish have continued to die by inches, and the outlook is more hopeless than last year. Nevertheless, the few people have been wonderfully courageous and faithful. At the annual meeting only $16.00 of current expenses remained unpaid. The steps at the entrance of the Church have been renewed. The collections during Lent for general missions amounted to over $15.00. The Rev. J. H. Fitzgerald, of Hebron, officiated at Colchester in the afternoon of Easter Day. The offerings at this service, $8.50, were contributed for Diocesan Missions, a little more than the balance due of the Parish's Apportionment. The services during the year were maintained by the aid of students from the Divinity School, and of Mr. George R. Lester, a layman of Hartford. It was a labor of love on the part of Mr. Lester, and he deserves praise. The General Missionary attended three funerals at Colchester. This Parish, though feeble in numbers and resources, is exerting an influence for good; and the people who remain are holding together in hope that events in the future will be more favorable for the town and Parish.

Faithful and successful work has been done at Groton by Mr. Paul Hoffman, of the Berkeley Divinity School. The attendance has constantly grown. The services are reverent and beautiful. The Sunday School has been built up, and the Mission Guilds have done good work. The Holy Communion is celebrated on the third Sunday in each month. There have been nine baptisms, five persons confirmed, and one marriage. A number of persons who had been drawn away from the Church during a Baptist revival, have been restored to her communion. The finances are in good order. The Chapel has been ornamented by the introduction of altar and vesper lights and altar vestments; and a preacher's desk, a litany-desk and a hymn-board have been put in use. The parsonage was put in repair and leased to one of the Church families, which supplies a charming home for the lay-reader and the General Missionary during their visits. Altogether the outlook for the Mission is very promising.

At Black Hall the good work characteristic of this Mission goes on unabated. Mr. Bartlett maintains an afternoon service every Sunday, and there is a celebration of the Holy Communion on the second Sunday in each month. A vigorous Sunday School of about fifty scholars is sustained by the people, aided by two of Mr. Bartlett's assistants at his school. The various Guilds are diligent. The attendance is very good during the fall, winter and spring, increasing notably in summer from families staying during that season at the shore resorts near by and in Lyme. The offerings go to the Archdeaconry. There were five baptisms, and there will be a class of five for confirmation at the next visitation. On Easter-Day a credence shelf and brass altar cross were placed in the Chapel, in memory of the late Mrs. Bartlett.

Services were continued at South Lyme in the afternoon of the second Sunday in each month in the school-house, except on two or three occasions when weather and sickness prevented. The attendance is very good, and the services very quiet and reverent. Incited by our work, services are held here every Sunday by some neighboring Minister, and a Sunday School is carried on by the people themselves. Three persons have been baptized, and will be confirmed at the first opportunity. There are now six or eight communicants at South Lyme, who come into Black Hall for the Communion.

During the summer the General Missionary spent two weeks driving about, visiting in the unoccupied towns, mainly in New London County. As a result of one such tour previously, two persons in North Westchester are preparing for confirmation.

In the prosecution of his work the General Missionary has driven 591 miles and travelled 3,331 miles by rail.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

WM. M. STARK, Secretary.

APPENDIX H.

Church Scholarship Society.

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, WATERBURY, June 9, 1897.

The annual meeting was held at this time and place, the Rev. STORRS O. SEYMOUR, President of the Convention, in the chair.

The Board of Education reported as follows:

This honored Society is celebrating its seventieth birthday at this meeting of the Board of Education. The Society had its beginning June 14, 1827; and no year has passed in all the three score and ten during which there has not been held one or more meetings to take counsel for the good of the Society. For the benefit of those who have more recently come into touch with our Diocesan life, and who annually answer the command of the Convention with a canonical offering for the Society's work, a few facts regarding its early life and history will not be amiss. According to the unbroken records of the Society, its place of birth was the residence of Samuel H. Huntington, Esq., in the city of Hartford, June 14, 1827. There, a Committee consisting of the Rev. George W. Doane, James M. Goodwin, Esq., and S. H. Huntington, Esq., were appointed to solicit funds and print the Constitution. The Constitution in its amended form was reported in 1835, and is virtually unchanged to-day. The Society began and has ever continued on the broad basis of assisting for the work of Ministry of this Church, by loans, worthy young men, whose scholarship was such as to guarantee a measure of success in their vocation.

The first Secretary of the Society was Mr. Huntington. He was followed in regular succession by Horatio Potter, N. S. Wheaton, George Burgess (ten years), Arthur Cleveland Coxe, P. S. Chauncey, Thomas M. Clark, E. A Washburn, R. M. Abercrombie, James M. Goodwin and others. Among those also who were warmly identified with the life of the Society for the first forty years, and who were regularly present at its councils, we read the following names: Bishop Brownell, Rev. Messrs. Harry Croswell, Alonzo Potter, Jackson Kemper, Frederick Holcomb, George Burgess, Silas Totten, W. C. Doane, John Williams, Thomas M. Clark; and also Messrs. Peter Stuyvesant, Edward Tuckerman, Haynes Lord, Dudley Buck and Zephaniah Preston. I recall their honored names to bear witness to the fact that the Church Scholarship Society has from the earliest hours of its life been the recipient of the counsels of the best sons of the Church, a fact which is sufficient testimony of the dignity and importance of its work.

Of the present members of the Board of Education, our honored Bishop Williams was elected in 1849, though he has not served continuously since that time. The Rev. Dr. Pynchon was elected in 1866, and his name appears for thirty-one years without an omission. Mr. Samuel Taylor has served continuously for twenty-four years.

During the past year the work of the Society has been very successful in spite of the financial depression. Twenty-four students have been assisted with loans, of whom sixteen were at Trinity College, and eight at the Berkeley Divinity School. In one or two instances it has been only through the agency of this Society that valuable young men have been permitted to pursue their course of study.

It is our duty to remind the Church that "Scholarship" is the watchword of this Society; and, true to its name, it has within the past year numbered among its beneficiaries those who have attained the highest rank at our Diocesan institutions.

It will be seen that $805.07 have been contributed by fifty Parishes and Missions within the Diocese. This is the largest sum reported from this source for seven or eight years. But in justice and with regret must it also be said, that this large sum is due to the generosity of the Church in one section.

There has been a very encouraging increase in the amount of repayment of loans during the year. From this source alone the Treasurer received $857.00. He should receive near $3,000.00. It is interesting to note in passing, that among the repayments of this year was one for a note given more than forty-five years ago, the faithful beneficiary finding himself now for the first time able to meet his obligation.

A complete inventory of the notes of the Society has been made during the past year, and a separate ledger account opened for each beneficiary. This work has brought out the important fact that at this date the assets of the Society in the matter of outstanding notes is more than $41,000.00. Many of these notes are long overdue, and others will not be due for five or more years to come. A systematic effort is now being made to collect each note as it falls due. Letters are constantly being received by the Treasurer from beneficiaries, testifying to the great value of this Society as a means of assisting worthy men along the right lines, maintaining their independence while removing obstacles from their pathway. These facts should make their appeal to every Churchman in the Diocese, made acquainted with this work by the Canons here enacted.

At the beginning of this report we made use of the familiar phrase, “three score years and ten." Let it not, however, be supposed that this is the burial service of the Church Scholarship Society. We have not lived seventy years to perish, although two-thirds of all the Parishes in the Diocese fail of their duty, and refuse to help us live. We do not even propose that the rest of our days shall be full of sorrow as we approach four score, nor that we shall be quickly gone. This is God's work. It was conceived in faith, and in faith it shall be wrought out even to the end.

On behalf of the Board of Education,

CORNELIUS G. BRISTOL, Secretary.

On motion of the Rev. James H. George, the report was accepted.

The Treasurer presented his account.

The Rev. Wm. H. Lewis moved the election of the following as members