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Show LARGE SUM FOR j PRESBYTERIANS New York. April 20 Total receipts! of $2,287,076 for the fiscal year end-Ing end-Ing March 31 1916 are shown In thel statement of the board of foreign mis- , eions of the Presbyterian church in ' : the United States of America Issur-d I today This amount exceeded the re- ceipts of any other year In the board's! history with the exception of tne year 1911-1912, the statement says An increase of $115,816 for the fiscal yeHr ending March 31, 1014, is shown. These fiscal receipts have enabled the board to pay in full all oblica-tions oblica-tions assumed for the year 19141916 and to close the yar with a surplus of $30, (ton applicable on an old deficit def-icit of L"t'.iino, on which the board has received in addition 15 1 60 ono civ-en civ-en 3pecificallv for the reduction of the deficit Of the receipts noted the I six women s boards contributed (593,- I 847 |