sociation

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FINANCIAL.

_The Figures Improving._

The receipts of the Association for the eight months to May 31, 1889,
are: from donations, $134,993.37; from estates, $26,530.09; income,
$6,479.21; tuition, $26,084.21; U.S. Gov't, $9,540.87, total,
$203,627.75. Expenditures for the eight months, $229,422.82. Debtor
balance, $25,795.07.

The debtor balance reported in the last MISSIONARY for the seven months
ending April 30th, was $28,328.14. The showing, therefore, is favorable,
and we appeal to our friends to make their contributions so generous
that at the end of the fiscal year we may report entire freedom from
debt.

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CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA.

At the recent meeting of the American Home Missionary Society, held in
Saratoga (June 6th), the question of the future relations of the newly
formed Congregational Conference of Georgia to that Society, and to the
earlier Congregational Association of that State, was fully discussed,
and resulted in the following action:

In the full conviction that these churches are in accord with the
principles of Congregationalism, and with the principles of this
Society, and with those held by the Congregational churches which
it represents:

_Resolved._ That we heartily welcome them to fellowship with us
in the Gospel. We commend them to the fraternal sympathy and
prayers of all our people, and we request the officers of the
society to extend to them such financial aid as they may need as
promptly as the state of its treasury will allow.

_Resolved._ That this Society rejoices to learn that an effort is
making to unite the Georgia Congregational Conference and the
Georgia Congregational Association on principles of equal
recognition and fellowship of all the churches of each body, and
trust that such a union will be accomplished.

We are in full and hearty agreement with the general spirit of these
utterances. In the hope that the churches of the Georgia Conference are
in accord with the principles of Congregationalism, which do not
discriminate against men because of caste or color, we are prepared to
welcome them heartily. That Conference has already published its
Articles of Faith and of Church Government, and these have assured us of
its adherence to the general principles of the Congregational faith and