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Show I It EN IS V I i: K I A M i h S I U X v J Au Kiieiiii'i;liii; Financial atul j Spiriltial ICepot 1. New York, 21. At the session f.f tlie Pr. r-byteriun Ccnoral Ass-.-mhly L day the forty ninth annual report ol the B hard of Fureign Mhsiom wr.s ' taken up. Tint repot t shows that fiO , board 'n field of labor includes the' American Indians. Chinese immi- grauL-t, China an I Japan, riiam, Af- i rica, Syri i, Persia and India, tbe lioman Catholic countries of our own coulin-iit, and o'lr Prote.itani brethren breth-ren in some KumpiMti countries. The rceipis ol tiie iioard irurti all BOtirces for toe yi-ar ending April 30th, have hi en ?rjl7,rbS ''J; cxpundilures $-315,- ',i;l.C2. Tim d.-ht on April 30lh was f'ltiodr.y.i. iSine.' the odtti ol April some iid litional gifts h-ivo been received in special payment of the debt, which reduced its amount on the 18th of May to the sum of $:!, 330.i3. A large number of conversions conver-sions and many additions to the churches of the various rjissions were reported. In India nearly 8,000 children and youths are taught by the missionaries of the Presbyterian board. Tiie total number of foreign missionaries mission-aries are American, I'M; native, Ri2. The lay te ichcrs, male an.l female, number lo0 American and -loS native. Tiie number of communicants at the missions is S,5G7. Tiie report of the standing committee on foreign mis-eione mis-eione recommended that the board be directed to discontinue the work among the English ppaaking Jews in the United Stairs, and devote any funds intended for this purpose to work iu tbe foreign mission tields; that Ihe board and general assembly speak to Hie children of Israel that they go forward in this wort of foreign missions, a:jd that in view ol the out pouring of the holy spirit during the laxt year an I ol the large increase in the contributions for foreign missions, tho board be adviiod against further retrenchment and to push forward the work of evangelizing tiie world, trusting trust-ing to Hod and tlie churches for its support. Tlie report also recom-! recom-! mended that tho board be directed to devote special attention to the work among Hie American Indians and to prepare a protest agaiust tbe proposed transfer of tbe care of the Indians to the war department as likely to inaugurate in-augurate an Indian policy of a cruel and unjust character. |