tary, Oscar E. Boyd. Office, Presbyterian House. No. 156 Fifth-ave., New-York. Woman's Executive Committee-President, Mrs. Darwin R. James; corresponding secretary, Mrs. F. H. Pierson; treasurer, Miss S. F. Lincoln. BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONSPresident, John D. Wells, D. D., Brook lyn, N. Y.; corresponding secretaries, Frank F. Ellinwood, D. D., John Gillespie, D. D., A. J. Brown, D. D., and Robert E. Speer; recording secretary, Benjamin Labaree, D. D.; secretary emeritus, John C. Lowrie, D. D.; treasurer, William Dulles, jr. Office, Presbyterian House, No. 156 Fifth-ave., New-York. Field secretary, Rev. Thomas Marshall, 48 McCor mick Block, Chicago. BOARD OF EDUCATION-President, George D. Baker, D. D.; corresponding secretary, Edward B. Hodge, D. D.; treasurer, Jacob Wilson. Office Publication House, 1,334 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia, Penn. D., BOARD OF PUBLICATION AND SABPATH-SCHOOL WORK-President, the Hon. Robert N. Willson, Philadelphia; secretary, Elijah R. Craven, D. LL. D.; superintendent of Sabbath-school and missionary work, James A. Worden, D. D.; editorial superintendent, James R. Miller, D. D.; business superintendent, John H. Scribner; manufacturer, Henry F. Scheetz; treasurer, Rev. Charles T. McMullin; recording clerk, Willard M. Rice, D. D. Publication House, 1,334 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia. BOARD OF CHURCH ERECTION.— President, David Magie, D. D., Paterson, N. J.; corresponding secretary, Erskine N. White, D. D.; recording secretary David R. Frazer, D. D., Newark, N. J.; treasurer, Adam Campbell. Office, Presbyterian House, No. 156 Fifth-ave., NewYork. BOARD OF MINISTERIAL RELIEFPresident, George Junkin, LL. D., Philadelphia; recording secretary and treasurer, Rev. W. W. Heberton. Office, Publication House, 1,334 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia. BOARD OF FREEDMEN-President, Henry T. McClelland, D. D.; corresponding secretary, Edward P. Cowan, D. D.; recording secretary, Samuel J. Fisher, D. D. D. D.; treasurer, John J. Beacom, Office. 516 Market-st.. Pittsburg, Penn. BOARD OF AID FOR COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES-President, Herrick Johnson, D. D., LL. D., Chicago, Ill.; corresponding secretary, Edward C. Ray, D.D.; treasurer, Charles M. Charnley, P. O. Box 294, Chicago; clerk, J. G. K. McClure, D. D. Office, 23 Montauk Block, 115 Monroe-st.. Chicago. SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE-Rufus S. Green, D. D., Elmira, N. Y.; secretary, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, New-York. PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON TEMPERANCE-Chairman, John J. Beacom, D. D., Pittsburg; corresponding secretary, Rev. John F. Hill, Room 813, Penn Building, Pittsburg, Penn.; treasurer, James Allison, D. D., Box 1,024, Pittsburg, Penn. "CHURCH AT HOME AND ABROAD" -Editor, Henry A. Nelson, D. D.; asso PRINCIPAL BAPTIST OFFICERS. AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION.-Rooms, 2A ton. Beacon-st., BosPresident, Henry F. Colby, D. D.; recording secretary, H. S. Burrage, D. D.; honorary secretary, J. N. Murdock, D. D., LL. D.; corresponding secretaries, Henry C. Mabie, D. D.; S. W. Duncan, D. D.; treasurer, E. P. Coleman; auditors, D. C. Linscott, Sidney A. Wilbur. AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY.-1,420 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia. President, Samuel A Crozier; secretary, Adoniram J. Rowland, D. D.; treasurer, Colonel Charles H. Banes; field secretary, R. G. Seymour, D. D. Branch houses and managersNew-York, 149 Fifth-ave., T. E. Schutz; Boston, 256 Washington-st., G. Springer; Chicago, 177 Wabash-ave., Rev. F. G. Thearle; St. Louis, 1,109 Olive-st., L. E. Kline; Atlanta, Ga., 92 Whitehallst., F. J. Paxon; Dallas, Texas, 345 Mainst., M. P. Moody. H. AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY.-No. 111 Fifth-ave., New-York. President, H. K. Porter; treasurer, J. Greenwood Snelling; auditors, Joseph Brokaw and C. B. Canfield: corresponding secretary, T. J. Morgan, D. D.; recording secretary, A. S. Hobart, D. D.; field secretary, H. L. Morehouse, D. D. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. -President, Jonathan Haralson, LL. D., Montgomery, Ala; secretaries, Lansing Burrows, D. D., Augusta, Ga., and Oliver Fuller Gregory, D. D., Baltimore; treasurer, George W. Norton, Louisville; auditor, W. P. Harvey, D. D., Louisville. Foreign Mission Board-Mission rooms, Richmond, Va. President, Professor C. H. Winston. Richmond; corresponding secretary, R. J. Willingham, D. D., Richmond, Va.; treasurer, J. C. Williams: recording secretary, A. B. Clarke, all at Richmond. Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Ga. President, J. B. Hawthorne, D. D.; corresponding secretary, I. T. Tichenor, D. D.; treasurer, W. Dunson: recording secretary, A. C. Briscoe; auditor, B. F. Abbott, all at Atlanta, Sunday-school Board-Offices, Nashville, Tenn. President, T. M. Frost, D. D.. Nashville; corresponding secretary, T. P. Bell, D. D.; recording secretary, S. W. Meek: treasurer, M. B. Pilcher; auditor, R. Eastman, all at Nashville. AMERICAN BAPTIST EDUCATION SOCIETY.-No. 111 Fifth-ave., NewYork City. President, J. P. Greene, D. D., Missouri; recording secretary, E. M Potent, D. D., Connecticut corresponding secretary, Rev. Dr. H. L. Morehouse, New-York; treasurer, Edward V. Carey, Montclair, N. J.; auditor, W. N. Isaacs, New-York. BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE'S UNION OF AMERICA.-President, John H. Chapman, Chicago; 'general secretary, F. L. Wilkins, D. D., Chicago; recording secretary, H. W. Reed, Waukegan, Ill.; treasurer, Frank Moody, Milwaukee, Wis. Next annual meeting, Brooklyn, N. Y., July, 1897. WOMAN'S BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-Rooms, 2A Beaconst., Boston. President, Miss Sarah C. Durfee; clerk, Mrs. G. W. Dean; corresponding secretaries, Mrs. H. G. Stafford, Foreign Dept.; Mrs. N. M. Waterbury, Home Dept.; treasurer, Miss Mary E. Clarke; auditor, Charles H. Chandler. WOMAN'S BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE WEST.Rooms, 122 Wabash-ave., Chicago. President, Mrs. L. Everingham; recording secretary, Mrs. E. W. Brayman; corresponding secretaries, Mrs. A. M. Bacon and Mrs. S. C. White; treasurer, Miss Mary W. Ranney; auditors, F. A. Smith and E. A. Beach. WOMEN'S BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY.-Rooms, 2,411 Indianaave.. Chicago. President, Mrs. J. N. Crouse; corresponding secretary, Miss M. G. Burdette; recording secretary, Mrs. W. E. Walsey; treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Barber. WOMEN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY.- Fooms, Tremont Temple, Boston. President, Mrs. Alice B. Coleman; corresponding secretary, Mrs. M. C. Reynolds; treasurer, Miss Gertrude L. Davis. WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.Rooms, 9 W. Lexington-st., Baltimore. President, Miss Fannie E. Heck, Raleigh, N. C.: corresponding secretary, Miss Annie W. Armstrong; recording secretary, Mrs. F. M. Ellis; treasurer, Mrs. M. E. Oliver. THE GERMAN BAPTIST CONFER Gell, ENCES.-General Conference-Moderator, Rev. J. C. Grimmell, Cleveland; clerk, Rev. J. Merkel, Milwaukee; treasurer, J. A. Schulte, Philadelphia. Eastern Conference-Moderator, Rev. L. Kaiser, Rochester; clerk, Rev. H. WV. Rochester. Central Conference-Moderator, Rev. S. Friedrich, Cleveland; clerk, Rev. A. Vogel, Peoria, Ill. Northwestern Conference-Moderator, Rev. J. H. Moehlmann, Racine, Wis.; clerk, Rev. R. J. Hack, St. Paul. Southwestern Conference-Moderator, Rev. A. Franschel, Beatrice, Neb.; clerk. Rev. J. H. Pastoret, Lorraine. Kan. Texas Conference-Moderator, Rev. J. Petereit, Waco, Tex.; clerk, Rev. H. C. Gleiss, Houston, Tex. NEW-ENGLAND BAPTIST MISSIONARY CONVENTION.-President, J. Horatlo Carter. D. D.. Boston; corresponding secretary, Rev. William T. Dixon, Brooklyn; treasurer, Rev. R. D. Wynn, NewYork. THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION OF THE U. S. (Colored).-President, E. C. Morris, D. D., Helena, Ark.; recording secretary, W. H. Steward, Louisville, Ky.; statistical secretary, the Rev. S. N. Vass, Atlanta, Ga; treasurer, the Rev. R. De Baptiste, Chicago, Ill. AMERICAN BAPTIST HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-Office and Library, 1,420 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia. President. James Buchanan; secretary, Rev. B. MacMackin; treasurer and librarian, Henry E. Lincoln. BAPTIST CONGRESS.-President, E. Benjamin Andrews, Providence, R. I.; recording secretary, Rev. Leighton Williams, New-York; corresponding secretary and treasurer, T. A. K. Gessier, D. D., New-York. General Committee-J. B. Thomas, D. D., chairman; Rev. Walter Rauschenbusch, secretary. Boston, CONGREGATIONAL OFFICERS. Next Triennial National Council of Congregational Churches, Portland, Ore. Hon. Nelson Dingley, moderator; Henry A. Hazen, Auburndale, Mass., secretary. AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS.-Headquarters, No. 1 Somerset-st., Mass. New-York office, No. 121 Bible House. President, Richard S. Storrs, D. D., LL. D.; secretaries, Judson Smith, D. D.; Charles H. Daniels, D. D.; James L. Barton, D. D.; assistant treasurer, Frank H. Wiggin; editorial secretary, E. E. Strong, D. D.; district secretaries, Charles C. Creegan, D. D., and A. N. Hitchcock. Ph. D. Total receipts for year ending August 31, 1896, $743, 104.59; disburse ments, $742,601.96. It supports 572 misIn more than 1,100 populous centres a force of 3,679 laborers, foreign and native, is preaching the gospel in twenty-six different languages and conducting a great evangelistic and educational enterprise. sionaries. CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-Bible House, New-York. President, Major-General O. O. Howard; treasurer, William B. Howland; secretaries, J. B. Clark, D. D.; William Kincaid, D. D.; Washington Choate, D. D.. secretary Women's Department, Mrs. H. S. Caswell. AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.-Bible House, New-York. President, M. E. Gates, LL. D.; treasurer, H. W. Hubbard; corresponding secretary, C. J. Ryder, D. D.; secretary of Women's Bureau, Miss D. E. Emerson; district secretary, Rev. George H. Gutterson, Boston. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.-59 Bible House, NewYork. Chairman, William H. Ward, D. D.; treasurer, H. O. Pinneo; secretary, L. H. Cobb, D. D.; field secretaries, Rev. George A. Hood, Rev. C. H. Taintor, Chicago; Rev. H. H. Wickoff, San Francisco. CONGREGATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY.-Congregational House, Boston. President, William H. Wilcox, D. D.; vice-president, J. Brand, D. D.; treasurer, E. A. Studley; secretary, J. A. Hamilton, D. D.; Western secretary, G. M. Herrick, Chicago. LISHING CONGREGATIONAL S. S. AND PUBSOCIETY. — Congregational House, Boston. President, Samuel B. Capen; secretary, George M. Boynton, D. D.; field secretary, William A. Duncan, Ph. D.; editor, M. C. Hazard, Ph. D.: treasurer, E. Lawrence Barnard. NATIONAL COUNCIL'S MINISTERIAL RELIEF FUND.-No. 135 Wall-st., New-Haven, Conn. Committee Chairman, Henry A. Stimson, D. D., New-York City; secretary, Rev. N. H. Whittlesey, D. D.; treasurer, Rev. S. B. Forbes, NewHaven; Francis J. Lamb, W. A. Mahony, G. H. Wells, D. D.. Elijah Horr, D. D., W. E. Hale, E. H. Baker, Edward Whitin. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.-Bible House, New-York. President, E. L. Fancher, LL D.; secretaries, E. W. Gman, D. D., Alexander McLean, D. D., Albert S. Hunt, D. D.; treasurer, William Foulke; general agent, C. T. Roe. AMERICAN CONGREGATIONAL ton. AS SOCIATION.-Congregational House, BosPresident, Samuel Johnson; corresponding secretary, Rev. Morton Dexter; treasurer, Augustus S. Lovett. ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY OF THE UNITED STATES. APOSTOLIC DELEGATION. Monsignor Martinelli, Apostolic Delegate, 201 I-st., Washington, D. C. Rt. Rev. Donatus Sbaretti, Auditor of Delegation, Washington, D. C. Rev. F. Z. Rooker, D. D., Secretary of Delegation, Washington, D. C. ARCHBISHOPS. Boston........... Chicago.. Cons. Baltimore.........J. Gibbons, Card....1868 Boston.. BISHOPS. J. Harkins......1887 A. Van de Vyver...1889 B. J. McQuaid.....1868 Thomas Grace.....1894 St. Augustine. . John Moore........1877 St. Joseph, Mo.... M. F. Burke.......1887 Sioux Falls. ......1895 Springfield, Mass..T. D. Beaven.......1892 Archbishop of Siunia-Thos. L. Grace, 1859, St. Paul, Minn. Archbishop of Tomi -J. B. Salpointe, 1869, Tucson, Ariz. Bishop of Ajasso-John J. Keane, Washington, D. C. Bishop of AntoniaIgnatius Mrak, Sutton Bay .......1888 P. O., Mich. Albany, N. Y......T. M. A. Burke....1894 Cheyenne. Cleveland. ...I. F. Horstmann...1892 Columbus, Ohio... J. A. Watterson....1880 Concordia. Vacant. Covington, Ky.....C. P. Maes.. Dallas, Texas..... E. J. Dunne. Davenport, Iowa..H. Cosgrove Denver.. Detroit.. ........ Duluth....................... Erie. Fort Wayne. Galveston. Grand Rapids... .1885 .1893 ...1894 Nicholas Matz.....1887 Green Bay, Wis... S. G. Messmer.....1892 Harrisburg. Thomas McGovern..1888 Vicariate Apostolic-T. Meerschaert, Pottawotomie Nation, Ind. Ter. and Oklahoma; Peter Verdaquer, Brownsville, Tex.; Hugh Cummiskey, Cheyenne; P. Bourgade, Arizona; Leo Haid, North Carolina, 1888; G. F. Ropert, 1892, Hawaiian Islands. Arch Abbot-Leander Schnerr, St. Vincent's Abbey. Beatty, Penn. Mitred Abbots-Frowenus Conrad, Benedictine. Conception, Mo.; Alexis Edelbrock, N. Y. City; Maria Eduard, Gethsemane, Ky.; Bernard Locknikar, Collegeville, Minn.; Fintan Mundwiler, St. Meinrad, Ind.; Hilary Pfraengle, Newark, N. J.; Innocent Wolf, Atchison, Kan.; Leo Haid, Belmont, N. C.; B. Menges, Cullman, Ala.; Ignatius Conrad, Spiderville, Ark.; John N. Jaeger, Chicago, Ill. Prefecture Apostolic of Alaska-P. Tosi, S. J. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. The Young Men's Christian Association was organized in London in 1844 by George Williams, a junior clerk in a large drygoods house. The first association in America was established at Montreal in 1851; the first in the United States at Boston a few months later. The aggregate membership of the 1,448 American associations is 263,298, and the net value of their property is $16,655,014; 670 have libraries, aggregating 479,563 voumes. The following are the officers of the committees: AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE Headquarters, 40 East Twentythird-st., New-York. Chairman, Lucien C. Warner; treasurer, F. B. Schenck; general secretary, Richard C. Morse. CENTRAL INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE.-Headquarters, No. 2 Place du Port, Geneva, Switzerland. Chairman Edouard Barde; treasurer, Henry Fatio; is general secretaries, Charles Fermaud and Christian Phildius. The committee composed of members representing America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. NEW-YORK STATE COMMITTEE.Headquarters, No. 40 East Twenty-thirdst., New-York. Chairman, Edmund P. Platt; treasurer, Harris H. Hayden; State secretaries, F. S. Goodman, George A. Hall. The total membership in New-York State is 42.789, of whom 8,943 are railroad men, 2,015 college men, 832 French and German young men, and 3,793 in the boys' department. NEW-YORK CITY ASSOCIATION.Headquarters, No. 40 East Twenty-thirdst., New-York. President, Cleveland H. Dodge; treasurer, M. Taylor Pyne; general secretary, R. R. McBurney. York next, with 4,142; Ohio, 3,027; IIlinois, 2,638; Indiana, 1,850; Iowa, 1,770; Massachusetts, 1,378; Kansas, 1,331; Michigan, 1,232; Missouri, 1,225; New-Jersey, 1,168, etc. The United States has a total of 36,172 societies. The denominations represented in the United States (the letters "Y P" indicating Young People's societies and "J" Junior societies) is as follows: Presbyterians, 5,464 Y. P.; 2,509 J. Congregationalists, 4,109 Y. P.; 2,077 J. Disciples and Christian, 2,941 Y. P.; 1,087 J. Baptist, 2,679 Y. P.; 927 J.,Methodist Protestant, 975 Y. P.; 302 J. Methodist Episcopal, 959 Y. P.; 431 J. Lutheran, 854 Y. P.; 268 J. Cumberland Presbyterian, 805 Y. P.; 268 J. statistics are: Mothers' societies, 47; intermediate societies, 114; senior, 21; floating societies, 84. The next convention will be held in San Francisco, Cal., in July, 1897. THEOSOPHICAL Other SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Headqquarters, No. 144 Madison-ave., New-York City. Officers elected April, 1896-President, Ernest T. Hargrove; vice-president and treasurer, E. A. Neresheimer; Executive Committee-Dr. J. D. Buck, Claude Falls Wright, H. T. Patterson, Dr. A. H. Buckman, Dr. T. A. Andèrson. Branches in the United States, 1,080. The principal aim and object of this society is to form a nucleus of universal brotherhood, without any distinctions whatever. The subsidiary objects are the study of ancient and modern religions, philosophies and sciences, and the demonstration of the importance of such study, and the investigation of the unexplained laws of nature and the psychical powers latent in man. 159 HOW TO LEARN THE DATE OF The name Easter, like the names of the day of the week, is a survival from the old Teutonic mythology. It is derived from Eostre, or Ostara, the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring, in whose honor the ancients held a festival every year. Easter is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after March 21, and if the full moon falls on Sunday, March 21, Easter will be on the following Sunday, March 28. GRAND ARMY OF THE CROSS. The American League of the Grand Army of the Cross was founded by William P. Hall on March 25, 1896. The organization does not intend to antagonize any sect, church or religious organization, but its objects are to promote a revival of the spirit, work and general evangelistic enterprise of primitive Christianity. YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHRISTIAN UNION. An organization of the United Brethren in Christ, organized June 5, 1890. It is a union of all forms of young people's societies within the Church, uniting them for the purpose of denominational direction. There are 1,770 societies, of which 86 are junior societies. The total membership is 70,554. A mission church has been built in Los Angeles, Cal., to which over $6,000 has been paid. The principal officers are: President, Professor J. P. Landis, D. D., Ph. D., Dayton, Ohio; corresponding secretary. Rev. H. F. Shupe, Dayton, Ohio; recording secretary, Miss Lizzie Sheets, Vermillion, Ill.; treasurer, L. W. Barnard, Dayton, Ohio. "The Young People's Watchword" is the organ of the Union. Next biennial convention in 1898. METHODIST EPISCOPAL OFFICERS. 1872 Thomas Bowraan....July ..... ....... 15, 1817(Baltimore 1872 Randolph S. Foster.. Feb. 22, 1820 Ohio 1872 Stephen M. Merrill.. Sept. 16, 1825 Ohio 1872 Edward G. Andrews. Aug. 7, 1825 Oneida 1880 Henry W. Warren... Jan. 4, 1831 New-England... 1880 Cyrus D. Foss....... Jan. 17, 1834 New-York 1880 John F. Hurst. Aug. 17, 1834 Newark 1884 William X. Ninde... June 21, 1832 Black River. 1884 John M. Walden... Feb. 11, 1831 Cincinnati 1884 Willard F. Mallalieu Dec. 11, 1828 New-England.. 1884 Charles H. Fowler.. Aug. 11, 1837 Rock River... 1888 John H. Vincent. Feb. 23, 1832 New-Jersey..... 1888 James N. FitzGerald July 27, 1837 Newark 1888 Isaac W. Joyce..... Oct. 11, 1836 N. W. Ind.. 1888 John P. Newman. Sept. 1, 1826 Oneida 1888 Daniel A. Goodsell. Nov. 5. 1840 N. Y. East. 1884 William Taylor*.... May 1888 James M. Thoburn. Mar. 1806 Charles C. McCabe..Oct. 1806 Earl Cranston.. June 1896 Joseth C. Hartzell...June 2, 1821 Baltimore 7, 1836 Pittsburg 1839 St. Louis, Mo. 1857 Philadelphia, Penn. |