Ogden Vogt, Woman's Board Pres., Mrs. Darwin R. James; sec., Mrs. Ella A Boole; treas, Miss S. F. Lincoln. Office, 156 Fifth avenue, New York. Board of Foreign Missions.-Pres., Rev. Dr. George Alexander, New-York cor. secs., Dr. Frank F. Ellinwood, LL. D., Robert E. Speer, Dr. Arthur J. Brown and Dr. A. Woodruff Halsey; asst. secs. home department, Central Section, the Rev. Charles E. Bradt, Ph. D.; East Section, David McConaughy; educational secretary, T. H. P. Sailer, Ph. D.; treas., Dwight H. Day. Office, 156 Fifth avenue, New York. Woman's Foreign Board-Pres., Mrs. Henry N. Beers; treas, Miss Henrietta W Hubbard. Board of Education.-Pres, Dr. James M. Crowell, Philadelphia; cor. sec., treas., Jacob Wilson. Office, No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work.-Pres., the Hon. Robert N. Willson, Philadelphia; sec. emeritus, Dr. Elijah R. Craven, LL D.; sec., Dr. Alexander Henry; treas., Frank M. Braselmann; supt. of Sabbath school training, Dr. James A. Worden; editorial supt., Dr. James R. Miller; business supt., John H. Scribner; manufacturer Henry F. Scheetz. Office, No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia. Board of Church Erection.-Pres., Dr. David Magie, Paterson, N. J.; cor. sec., Dr. Erskine N. White; treas, Adam Campbell. Office, No. 156 Fifth avenue, New York. Board of Ministerial Rellef.-Pres., A. Charles Barclay, Philadelphia; cor. sec., Dr. Benjamin L. Agnew, LL. D.; treas., Rev. W. W. Heberton. Office, No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia. Board of Missions for Freedmen.-Pres, Dr. Samuel J. Fisher, Pittsburg, Penn.; cor, sec. and treas., Dr. Edward P. Cowan, Pittsburg, Penn..; field sec, Dr. Henry T. McClelland. Office, No. 102 South Sixth street, Pittsburg. College Board. Pres. emeritus, Herrick Johnson, LL. D., Chicago; pres., Dr. Robert Mackenzie, New York; sec., Dr. James Stuart Dickson; office sec. and asst. treas., Dr. Edward C. Ray, New York. Office, No. 156 Fifth avenue, New York. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence.-Chairman, Dr. David G. Wylie, No. 10 West 96th street, New York; sec. Dr. William H. Hubbard, LL D., Auburn, N. Y.; treas., John Sinclair, No. 1 Broadway, New York. Permanent Committee on Temperance.-Chairman and treas., William C. Lilley, P. O. Box 316, Pittsburg; cor. sec., Dr. John F. Hill, Conestoga Building, Pittsburg. Permanent Committee on Christian Work Among Seamen and Soldiers.Chairman, the Rev. Henry F. Lee, Philadelphia, Penn.; vice-chairman, the Rev. John H. Edwards, D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.; treasurer, Henry P. Ford, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia. Office, No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia, "Assembly Herald" Managing Committee.-Chairman, Dr. A. Woodruff Halsey, Dr. John Dixon and William H. Scott Office of publication, No. 1328 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Presbyterian Historical Society.-Pres., Dr. Henry C. McCook, Sc. D., Philadelphia; cor. sec., Dr. Samuel T. Lowrie, Philadelphia; rec. sec., Dr. James Price, Philadelphia; librarian, Dr. Louis F. Benson, Philadelphia; treas., De B. K. Ludwig, Ph. D., Philadelphia; library and museum, No. 1319 Walnut street, Philadelphia. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (SOUTH). The general officers of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the I'nited States (South) are: Stated clerk and treas., W. A. Alexander, D. D., Clarksville, Tenn.; permanent clerk, Rev. Thos. H. Law, D. D., Spartanburg, S. C.; secs. of Foreign Missions, Rev. S. H. Chester, D. D., Rev. James O. Reaves, Nashville, Tenn.; secs. of Home Missions, Rev. S. L. Morris, D. D., Rev. Homer McMillan, Atlanta, Ga.; sec. of Ministerial Education and Relief Rev. H. H. Sweets, Louisville, Ky.; sec. of Publication and Sunday School Work, R. E. Magill, Esq., Richmond, Va.; Bec. of Colored Evangelization, Rev. J. G. Snedecor, LL. D., Tuscaloosa, Ala. gen. supt. of Sunday schools, A. L. Phillips, D. D., Richmond, Va.; moderator of General Assembly, Hon. Allen G. Hall, Nashville, Tenn.; pres. Board of Trustees, Ceneral Assembly, Dr. E. Nye Hutchinson, Charlotte, N. C. on. The next General Assembly meets in Birmingham, Ala., May 16, 1997. PRINCIPAL BAPTIST OFFICERS. American Baptist Missionary Union.-Rooms, Ford Memorial Building, BosPres., W. W. Keen, M. D., LL. D.; rec. sec., W. D. Chamberlin; home sces., Henry C. Mabie, D. D., Rev. F. P. Haggard; foreign sec., Thomas E. Barbour, D. D.; treas., Charles W. Perkins. American Baptist Publication Society.-No. 1,630 Chestnut st., Philadelphia. res., Samuel A. Crozer; gen'l sec., Adoniram J. Rowland, D. D.; miss, and Bible sec., G. Seymour, D. D.; rec. sec., J. G. Walker, D. D.; treas., Harry S. Hopper. Branch houses-New York, No. 132 East Twenty-third st.; Boston, No. 250 Washngton st.; Chicago, No. 177 Wabash ave; St. Louis, No. 1,407 Olive st.; Atlanta, Sa., No. 37 South Pryor st.; Dallas, Tex., No. 279 Elm st. American Baptist Home Mission Society. No. 312 Fourth ave., New York. res., W. S. Shallenberger; treas., Frank T. Moulton; cor. sec., Henry L. Morehouse, . D.; field sec., E. E. Chivers, D. D. Southern Baptist Convention.-Pres., E. W. Stephens, Columbia, Mo.; secs., anging Burrows, D. D., Nashville, Tenn., and Oliver Fuller Gregory, D. D., Haunton, Va; treas., George W. Norton, Louisville. Foreign Mission Board— Mission rooms, Richmond, Va. Pres., J. B. Hutson; cor. sec., R. J. Willingham, D. D.; treas., J. C. Williams. Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Ga.-Pres., W. W. Landrum, D. D.; cor. sec., B. D. Gray, D. D.; treas., W. Danson. Sunday School Board-Offices, Nashville, Tenn. Pres., E. E. Folk, D. D., Nashville; cor. sec. and treas, J. M. Frost, D. D. American Baptist Education Society.-No. 111 Fifth-ave., New-York. Pres., Baptist Young People's Union of America. Pres., John H. Chapman, Chicago; rec. sec., H. W. Reed, Ph. D., Rock Island, Ill.; treas, H. B. Osgood, Chicago, Ill. Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society-Rooms, Tremont Temple, Boston. Pres., Miss Sarah C. Durfee; clerk, Mrs. Ida Hunreman; cor. sec., Mrs. H. G. Stafford, foreign dept.; treas., Miss Alice E. Stedman. -; cor. sec., H. L. Morehouse, D. D., New York. Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West.-Rooms, 1,318 Masonic Temple, Chicago. Pres., Mrs. John E. Scott; foreign sec., Miss Blanche G. Loveridge; home sec., Miss Carrie E. Perrine; treas., Mrs. M. E. Kline. Women's Baptist Home Mission Society-Rooms, No. 2,41 Indiana ave., Chicago. Pres., Mrs. J. N. Crouse; cor. sec., Miss M. G. Burdette; treas., Mrs. A. H. Barber. Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society.-Rooms, Tremont Temple, Boston. Pres., Mrs. Alice B. Coleman; cor. sec., Mrs. M. C. Reynolds; treas., Miss Gertrude L. Davis. Woman's Missionary Union.-Rooms, No. 9 West Lexington st., Baltimore.Pres., Mrs. C. A. Stakely, Montgomery, Ala.; treas, Mrs. William C. Lowndes. The German Baptist Conferences. General Conference-Moderator, Professor L. Kaiser, Rochester; clerks, Rev. J. H. Merkel, Cleveland, Ohio, and Rev. H. W. Geil, Rochester, N. Y.; cor. sec., Rev. G. A. Schulte, West Hoboken, N. J.; treas, J. A. Schulte, Philadelphia Atlantic Conference-Moderator, Rev. A. P. Mihm, Brooklyn, N. Y.; clerk, Rev. Wm. Kuhn, Philadelphia. Eastern Conference-Moderator, Rev. C. A. Daniel, Rochester, N. Y.; clerk, Rev. F. P. Kruse, Hanover, Ont. Central Conference-Moderator, Rev. F. A. Licht, Cincinnati; clerk, Rev. H. Von Berge, Cleveland. Northwestern Conference Moderator, Rev. S. A. Kose, Milwaukee, Wis.; clerk, Rev. J. F. Olthoff, Avon, S. D. Southwestern Conference-Moderator, Rev. R. Stracke, Lorraine, Kan.; clerk, Rev. R. A. Schmidt, Muscatine, Iowa. Texas Conference-Moderator, Rev. Theo. Schaible, Waco, Tex.; clerk, Rev. F. Jerger, DalPacific Conference-Moderator, Rev. J. Kratt, Portland, Ore.; clerk, Rev. G. Eichler, Tacoma, Wash. Northern Conference-Moderátor, Rev. W. Shemke, Manitoba; clerk, Rev. A. Baettig, Alberta. las, Tex. The National Baptist Convention of the United States (Colored). Pres., E. C. Morris, D. D., Helena, Ark.; rec. sec., W. L. Cansler, Nashville, Tenn.; treas., Rev. J. H. A. Cyrus, Port Royal, Va. American Baptist Historical Society.-Office and library, No. 1,630- Chestflut st., Philadelphia. Pres., B. L. Whitman, D. D., LL.D.; sec., Rev. B. MacMackin; cor. sec., Rev. A. L. Vail; treas., Arthur Malcolm, Baptist Congress.-Pres., Professor A. H. Bickmore, New York City; sec., T. A. K. Gessler, D. D., Landing, N. J.; treas., W. C. Bitting, D. D., St. Louis, Mo.. The German Baptist Publication Society.-Nos. 957-959 Payne ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Editor of "Sendbote," Rev. Gottlob Fetzer, Cleveland, Ohio; manager, Carl Bickel, Cleveland, Ohio. CONGREGATIONAL OFFICERS. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions-Headquarters, Congregational House, Boston. New-York Office, Charities Building, Fourth-ave, and Twenty-second-st. Pres., Samuel B. Capen, LL. D.; secs., Dr. Judson Smith, Dr. Cornelius H. Patton and Dr. James L. Barton; treas., Frank H. Wiggin; editorial sec., Dr. E. E. Strong; asst. sec., Harry W. Hicks; district secs., Dr. Charles C. Creegan, Charities Building, New-York; Dr. A. N. Hitchcock, No. 153 La Salle-st.. Chicago, and the Rev. H. Melville Tenney, Y. M. C. A. Building, San Francisco. New-York. Congregational Home Missionary Society.-Fourth-ave. and Twenty-second-st., Pres., Dr. Charles S. Mills; treas., William B. Howland; editorial sec.. Dr. J. B. Clark; acting gen. sec., Dr. Washington Choate; asso. sec., Don O. Shelton; field sec., the Rev. William G. Puddefoot, South Framingham, Mass. American Missionary Association.-Charities Building, New-York. Pres., Dr. Amory H. Bradford; treas, H. W. Hubbard; hon. sec. and ed., Dr. A. F. Beard; cor. secs, Dr. James W. Cooper and Dr. C. J. Ryder; rec. sec., Dr. Asher Anderson, Boston; sec. Woman's Bureau, Miss D. E Emerson; district secs., Dr. William L Tenney, Chicago, and the Rev. George H. Gutterson, Boston. Congregational Church Building Society.-Charities Building, New-York. Pres., Dr. L. C. Warner; treas., Charles E. Hope; sec., Dr. C. H. Richards; field secs., the Rev. George A. Hood, Boston; the Rev. W. W. Newell, Chicago, and the Rev. H. H. Wikoff, San Francisco. Congregational Education Society.-Congregational House, Boston. Pres., the Rev. William R. Campbell; treas.. S. F. Wilkins: sec., the Rev. Edward S. Tead; western field sec., Dr. Theodore Clifton, Chicago, No. 153 La Salle-st. Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society. Congregational House, Boston. Pres., Dr. Willard Scott; sec., Dr. Frank K Sanders; missionary sec., Dr. George M. Boynton; editor, M. C. Hazard, Ph. D.; bus. manager, Luther H. Car registrar, the Rev. Joel S. Ives, Hartford, Conn. National Council of Congregational Churches.Congregational House, Boston, Gladden; sec., Dr. Asher Moderator, Dr. Washington Anderson; treas., the Rev. Samuel B. Forbes, Hartford, Conn. National Council's Ministerial Relief. Fund.- Fourth-ave. and 22d-st., NewYork City. Trustees-Pres., Dr. Henry A. Stimson; sec., Dr. William A. Rice; treas., the Rev. Samuel B. Forbes, Hartford, Conn. American Congregational Association.--Congregational House, Boston.- Pres., William O. Blaney; cor. sec., the Rev. Joshua Colt; treas., Augustus S. Lovett; librarian, Dr. Wm. H. Cobb. ton. Congregational Board of Pastoral Supply.- No. 610 Congregational House, BosChairman of directors, Dr. William H. Allbright; sec., Dr. Chas. B. Rice, LUTHERAN CHURCH COUNCIL. The General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America is as follows: Pres., the Rev. Theodore E. Schmauk, D. D., Lebanon, Penn.; English rec. sec., the Rev. William K. Frich, D. D., Milwaukee, Wis.; German rec, sec., the Rev. Gottlieb C. Berkemeier, D. D., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Swedish rec. sec., the Rev. L Holmes, D. D., L. H. D., Portland, Conn.; English cor. sec., -; German cor. sec., the Rev. Christian G. Fischer, No. 34 Port-st., Elizabeth, N. J.; Swedish cor. sec., the Rev. A. W. Stark, De Kalb, Ill.; treas., William H. Staake, No. 133 South Twelfth-st., Philadelphia. Board of English Home Missions. -, pres., -; Rev. Geo. W. Sandt, D. D., sec., Philadelphia; E. Aug. Miller, treas., No. 502. Walnut-st., Philadelphia; Rev. J. C. Kunzmann, D. D., supt., Greensburg, Penn. Board of German Home Missions.-Rev. C. J. Kraeling, pres, 132 Henry-st., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rev. Fr. Helter, sec., Jersey City, N. J.; Martin Wulff, No. 253 East Seventieth-st., New-York, treas. Board of Swedish Home Missions.--Rev. E. Norelius, D. D., pres., Vasa, Minn.; Professor. C. W. Foss., Ph.D., treas, Rock Island, Ill.; Rev. J. G. Dahlberg, sec., Rock Island, Ill. Board of Foreign Missions.-Rev. Dr. H. E. Jacobs, pres., Mt. Airy, Penn.; Jas. M. Snyder, English sec., Philadelphia; Conrad Itter, German sec., Philadelphia; Rev. Dr. William Ashmead Schaeffer, cor. sec., Philadelphia; Ph. S. Zieber, Esq., treas., No. 518 Washsington-st., Reading, Pa. Board of Porto Rico Missions.-Rev. Dr. D. H. Geissinger, pres., Pittsburg, Penn.; Rev. Dr. J. L. Smith, sec., Pittsburg, Penn.; Thomas H. Lane, treas., No. 304 Wood-st., Pittsburg, Penn. Board of Publication-Rev. Dr. Wm. Ashmead Schaeffer, pres., Philadelphia; Rev. S. A. Ziegenfuss, D. D., sec., Philadelphia; Professor S. P. Sadtler, Ph.D., LL. D., treas., Chestnut and Tenth-sts., Philadelphia; Charles B. Opp, manager, No. 1,522 Arch-st., Philadelphia. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY. The headquarters of the United Society of Christian Endeavor are at Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. Officers: Pres., Dr. Francis E. Clark; gen. sec., Von Ogden Vogt; treas., William Shaw. Organized at Portland, Me., Feb. 2, 1881 Motto: For Christ and the Church." On Oct. 1, 1906, there were 67,756 societies in the world. 44.612 of which are in the United States, with 4,065,360 members. Pennsylvania led with 6,162 societies; then New York, with 4,549; Ohio, 4,151; Illinois, 3,571: Indiana, 2,137; Iowa, 1,846; Michigan, 1,530; California, 1,291; Kansas, 1,367; Massachusetts, 1,494; Missouri, 1,727; New Jersey, 1,459. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS. The Young Men's Christian Association was organized in Londen in 1844 by George Williams, a junior clerk in a large drygoods house. The first association in America Pas established at Montreal in 1851; the first in the United States at Boston later in the same year. The North American work is conducted under the following general departments: Office, Field, City and Town, County Work, Railroad, Student, Army and Navy, Colored and Indian and sub-departments of Religious and Bible study, Educational, Physical, Social and Boys' Work. The aggregate membership of the 1,868 North American associations is 405,789, and the net value of their property is $36,891,361; 555 have libraries, aggregating 589,744 volumes. The following are the officers of the committees: American International Committee.-Headquarters, No. 3 West Twenty-ninth street, New York, Chairman, Lucien C. Warner; treas., F. B. Schenck; general sec., Richard C. Morse. No. 3 Rue General Dufour, Geneva, World's Committee.-Headquarters, Switzerland. Chairman, R. Sarasin-Warnery; treas., Paul De Gouttes; gen. secs., Charles Fermaud and Christian Phildius. The committee is composed of members representing America, Africa, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Ceylon, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan, Italy, Netherlands, Norway. Oceanica, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. New York State Committee-Headquarters, No. 215 West Twenty-third street, New York. Chairman, Edmund P. Platt; treas., Samuel Woolverton, state sec., J. W. Cook. The total membership in New York State is 54.288, of whom 11,428 are railroad men. 3,390 students and 8,754 are in the boys' department. New York City Association. --Headquarters, No. 215 West Twenty-third street, Pres., William Fellowes Morgan; treas, Samuel Sloan, je; gen. sec., Henry M. Orne. ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY OF THE UNITED STATES. Apostolic Delegation. His Excellency the Most Rev. Diomede Falconio (Archbishop of Larissa), Apostolic See. Baltimore. Boston............... Archbishops. Consecrated. See. Secretary of Consecrated J. Gibbons, Card...1868 New York....... J. M. Farley.......1895 J. J. Williams......1866 Portland.. Alexander Christie.. 1898 W. H. O'Connell, Philadelphia...... Patrick J. Ryan....1872 Coadjutor .1901 St. Louis......... J. N. Glennon......1896 Chicago......... J. Edward Quigley..1897 St. Paul.......... John Ireland........1875 Cincinanti........ Henry Moeller......1304 San Francisco.....P. W. Riordan......1883 Dubuque.......... John J. Keane......1878 San Francisco.... George Montgomery, Milwaukee........ S. G. Messmer.....1892 New Orleans......James H. Blenk....1899 Santa Fe......... Peter Bourgade.....1885 Bishops. Chicago.. Coadjutor 1894 1899 Edward P. Allen...1897 aux. 1892 ...1891 1897 1906 1887 Albany, N. T... T. M. A. Burke....1892) Los Angeles....... Thomas J. Conaty..1901 Detroit. J. E. Fitzmaurice..1898 Sacramento. ....... .1902 .1897 .1887 Vicariates-Apostolic-Peter Verdaguer, Brownsville, Tex.; Leo Haid, North Caro lina, 1888; Libert Hubert Boeynaema, 1903, Hawaiian Islands. Arch Abbots-Leander Schnerr, St. Vincent's Abbey, Beatty, Penn.; Andrew Hintenach, Canon City, Col. Mitred Abbots-Frowenus Conrad, Benedictine, Conception, Mo.; Alexis Edelbrock, New York City; Edmund M. Obrecht, Gethsemane, Ky.; Peter Engel, Collegeville, Minn.; Right Rev. Athanasius Schmitt, St. Meinrad's, Ind.; Hilary Pfraengle Newark, N. J.; Innocent Wolf, Atchison, Kan.; Leo Haid, Belmont, N. C.; Bernard Menges, Cullman, Ala.; Ignatius Conrad, Spielerville, Ark.; N. Jaeger, Chicago, Ill.; Paul Schauble, Covington, La.; Thomas Mienhofer, Mt. Angel, Ore. Vincent Wehrle, Devils Lake, N. D. Prefecture-Apostolic of Alaska-J. B. René, S. J. Philippines-Manila, Archbishop G. Harty, 1903; Jaro, F. Z. Rooker, 1908; Cebu, T. Hendrick, 1903; Nueva Segovia, D. Daugherty, 1903; Neuva Caceres, G. Barin, 1905. |