which this Association has wrought.

We commend the wisdom and the foresight of this Association in the
planting of these institutions of learning in favorable positions,
its judicious economy in their management and its great skill in
steadily advancing their scope and capability with insufficient
resources and equipment. Upon these foundations the work should be
carried on, and large and permanent universities should be reared;
and we commend these to the Christian people for increased annual
gifts and larger permanent endowments that the great undertaking fail
not.

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REPORT ON CHURCH WORK.

BY REV. DAVID GREGG, D.D., CHAIRMAN.

The report of your Executive Committee on church work submitted for
our review is very brief. There is a statement or two and a few
figures. It puts things in the very best light, and uses figures in
the most telling way. Its very brevity should act as a call to the
churches for more means, and more men, and more prayer, and more
enterprise. If the churches had done more there would have been more
to tabulate.

The report reads: Four new churches organized; 972 added to Christian
fellowship; 2 church edifices built; 1 church edifice enlarged; 2
parsonages built; a one-year-old church the centre of four
Sunday-schools filled with scholars who never before attended