Colleges, but the sums contributed during the year toward the Endowment Funds of the several Colleges, but not any interest resultingfrom sums already invested.

UNITED STATES.-Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.-Under Congregational Support is included the sum raised for Sustentation Fund. Under Publication and Education are included the contributions for the Publication Board, the aiding of Students, and the sums contributed for aiding new Colleges Freedmen are counted in with Foreign Missions, while a sum of £177,017 contributed for "Miscellaneous objects is included in the total, though not in any of the separate items.

United Presbyterian.-To the total a sum of about £10,250, regarded as "General Contributions," should be added to exhibit the full gifts of the Church for the year.

Cumberland Presbyterian.-To this total a sum of about £1500, contributed for "Charity," requires to be added to show the gifts for the year.

AUSTRALIA.- -New South Wales Church.-Of the money contributed for Congregational Purposes, etc., £850 is the interest of Endowments belonging to individual congregations. There is a Capital Fund of £6345 for the benefit of Aged and Infirm Ministers, which is not reported. There is also a Capital Fund of £4640 for the benefit of ministers, widows, and orphans, which is not reported. The Church possesses also a Church and Manse Loan Fund, amounting to over £6000, portions of which are lent out to new congregations for ten years, without interest.

South Australian Church.-This Church possesses a Capital Fund of £2000 for the benefit of Aged and Infirm Ministers, which is not reported.

Tasmanian Church.-This Church reports under Congregational Purposes and includes in its income for the year an, Endowment Fund of £7800, but it is not stated whether this sum is a capital fund or simply the interest of some unmentioned amount.

Victorian Church." Congregational Purposes" includes a sum of £736, the interest of a capital sum of £2000, which forms a "General Sustentation Fund." The Church reports £548 for Aged and Infirm Ministers, which sum is the interest of an invested capital of £16,000. For Widows and Orphans it reports an income of £612, but this is the interest of a sum of £26,000 invested for this object.

NEW ZEALAND.-Otago and Southland Church. This Church possesses a Capital Fund of nearly £5000 for the benefit of Aged and Infirm Ministers, and also one of more than £6000 for Widows and Orphans, neither of which appear in the Return printed. The amount of £6710 reported for Church ard Manse Fund represents real estate owned by the Church.

II. THEIR CREEDS.

Churches that adhere to the

I. Gallican Confession (Confession of Rochelle), 1559.

Faith, 1872.)

National Reformed Church of France.

II. Belgic Confession, 1561.

Walloon Church.

Missionary Christian Church, Belgium.

III. Heidelberg Catechism, 1563.

Reformed Church in the United States.

IV. Second Helvetic Confession, 1566.

V. Canons of Dort, 1619.

VI. Westminster Standards, 1647.

1. Westminster Confession.

Synod of the Church of Scotland in England.
Established Church of Scotland.

Free Church of Scotland.

Presbytery of Natal.

Presbyterian Church of Tasmania.

Presbyterian Free Church of Tasmania.

Presbytery of Ceylon.

Presbyterian Church in Canada.

(Declaration of

Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Canada in connection with the

Church of Scotland.

Synod of the Church of Scotland in Nova Scotia, etc.

2. Westminster Confession, "as containing the system of Doctrine
taught in the Holy Scriptures," and altered in Chapters 20, 23,
and 31. (Powers of the Magistrate.)

Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
Presbyterian Church in the United States.

3. Westminster Confession and Catechisms, Larger and Shorter.

Free Evangelical Church of Germany.

Presbyterian Church of England.

Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Synod of Reformed Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Synod of the Eastern Reformed Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Synod of the Secession Church in Ireland.

United Presbyterian Church, Scotland (Declaratory Act).

Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

Synod of the United Original Secession Church of Scotland.

General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in N. America.
Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the U.S. of N. America.
Reformed Presbyterian Presbytery of Philadelphia.

Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia.

4. Westminster Confession and Catechisms, Larger and Shorter-
Confession, altered in 1799, in Chaps. 20, 23, 31.
United Presbyterian Church of North America.

Associate Church of North America.

Associate Reformed Synod of the South, United States.

VII. Waldensian Confession, 1655.

Waldensian Church.

X. Belgic Confession, Hiedelberg Confession, and Canons of Dort.
National Church of the Netherlands.

Christian Reformed Church of the Netherlands.

Dutch Reformed Church, doleerende.

Old Reformed Church of Bentheim and East Friesland.
Reformed Church in America.

Christian Reformed Church in America.

Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (Cape Colony).

Transvaal.

Orange Free State.
Natal.

Mission Church in South Africa.

Christian Reformed Church in South Africa.

XI. Confession of Faith of the Calvinistic Methodists in Wales, 1823.
Calvinistic Methodist Church in Wales.

XII. Confession of the Free Evangelical Church of the Canton de Vaud, 1847. (See Proceedings, Philadelphia, pp. 1083.)

XIII. Confession of the Union of the Evangelical Churches of France, 1849. (See Proceedings, Philadelphia, pp. 1072.)

XIV. Confession of the Free Christian Church in Italy, 1870.

Proceedings, Edinburgh, pp. 301.)

(See

XV. Confession of the Spanish Christian Church, 1872. (See Proceedings, Philadelphia, pp. 1121.)

XVI. Confession of the Free Church of Neuchâtel, 1874. (See Proceedings, Philadelphia, pp. 1084.)

XVII. Confession of the National Church of the Canton de Vaud, 1874. (See Proceedings, Philadelphia, pp. 1083.)

XVIII. Confession and Catechism of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, United States, 1883.

Coloured Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

XIX. Evangelical Syriac Church Confession, consisting of 27 Articles and of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, 1862.

I I I. THEIR WORK S.

1.-EDUCATIONAL.

(4) LITERARY AND COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTIONS.

(For Men and Women.)

EUROPEAN CONTINENT.

1 In addition to these Colleges and the various Theological Seminaries, the Hungarian Church supports seventeen Gymnasia, each having eight classes. This the Church is required to do, as other denominations do the same. The maintenance of these Gymnasia costs about 360,000 florins annually, and forms a heavy drain on the resources of the Church.

c

The Students of this Institution enjoy, along with those of El Azher-the great Moslem University of Cairo-the privilege of being exempted from military service.