tion (for its work on the Rand), £367; the S.P.C.K., £193; the Oxford Mission at Calcutta, 160; the Cambridge Mission at Delhi, 122; the Cowley-Wantage Mission at Poona, £88; the Archbishops' Mission to the Assyrian Christians, £59. It will be seen that the great missionfields of Heathendom have not been neglected. The large amount for the C.M.S. practically means gifts to Asia and Africa; so does a large part of the offerings to the S.P.G.; Africa profits by gifts to the U.M.C.A., and India by those to the C.E.Z.M.S. and the Universities' and other Missions above-mentioned. The S.A.M.S. stands, of course, for South America.

The offerings to these Societies, however, are not all really additional to their ordinary funds. A great many contributions, for instance, to the C.M.S., including more than one gift of £1,000, are known to have been intended for it before, and to have been kept back in order to be included in the Thank-offering. Some regular offertories which would have been given in 1907 were confessedly deferred till 1908 and then sent to the Pan-Anglican Treasurers, ear-marked for the Society. The same remarks apply to the S.P.G. and other Societies. The result, of course, is the same to these Foreign Mission Societies; but it is feared that some Home Missions have suffered by the diversion of gifts to the Thank-offering, and in their case the result is a real loss. However, we may fairly believe that these cases are not numerous, and that the great bulk of the offering has been a real addition to the Church's

resources.

When all the money lying in the various banks had been properly transferred into the name of the Treasurer of the Pan-Anglican Congress, it was felt by Mr. King and the Committee that Trustees should be appointed to hold that part of it which was not appropriated and for immediate distribution. Accordingly, Lord Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice of England, and Sir Lewis Dibdin, Dean of the Arches, accepted this responsibility in conjunction with Mr. King himself. Part of the fund has since been invested in various securities, and part is still on deposit at banks allowing reasonable interest.

It had been decided from the first that the Thankoffering Fund-so far as it was not ear-marked-should not be allocated by the Pan-Anglican Committee, but held for the Lambeth Conference of Bishops, which should appoint a special Thank-offering Committee for the purpose of allocating the fund. The Lambeth Conference accord

ingly appointed a Committee of thirty-three persons, viz. the two English Archbishops and six English Diocesan Bishops; an Archbishop of the Church of Ireland; the Primus of the Scottish Church; the Episcopal Secretaries of the S.P.G. and C.M.S.; the Prolocutors of the Lower Houses of Convocation; the Chairmen of the two Houses of Laymen; the three Trustees of the Fund; the Presiding Bishop of the American Church; the Primates or Metropolitans of Eastern Canada, South Africa, Australia, the West Indies, India; the senior Bishops in China, Japan, and Equatorial Africa; and five other unofficial persons. Reckoned in another way, there are eleven English Bishops; eleven Bishops of Scotland, Ireland, the Colonies, the Mission Fields, and the United States; and eleven other persons, viz., two Deans, seven laymen, and two ladies. The Rev. A. B. Mynors, Secretary of the PanAnglican Committee, consented to act as Secretary.

The Thank-offering Committee.

The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY (Chairman).

The ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.

The ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN.

The ARCHBISHOP of Sydney (Primate of Australia).
The ARCHBISHOP OF THE WEST INDIES.

The BISHOP OF CALCUTTA (Metropolitan of India).
The BISHOP OF MISSOURI (Presiding Bishop, U.S.A.).
The ARCHBISHOP OF TORONTO (Primate of Canada).
The PRIMUS Of Scottish EpiISCOPAL CHURCH.

The BISHOP OF PRETORIA (representing Province of South Africa).

The BISHOP OF LONDON.

The BISHOP of Durham.

The BISHOP OF Winchester.

The BISHOP OF BATH AND Wells.

The BISHOP OF SOUTHWARK.

The BISHOP OF ST. ALBANS.

BISHOP TUCKER (Uganda), representing Equatorial Africa.

BISHOP MCKIM (Tokyo), representing Japan.

BISHOP SCOTT (N. China), representing China.

BISHOP MONTGOMERY (Secretary S.P.G.).

BISHOP INGRAM (Secretary C.M.S.).

The DEAN OF WINDSOR (as Prolocutor of Canterbury).
The BISHOP OF BEVERLEY (as Prolocutor of York).

The DEAN OF WESTMINSTER.

The MARQUIS OF SALISBURY (Chairman of Canterbury House of

Laymen).

VISCOUNT CROSS (Chairman of York House of Laymen).

LORD ALVERSTONE (Lord Chief Justice), Trustee.

SIR LEWIS DIBDIN (Dean of The Arches), Trustee.
MR. G. A. KING, Treasurer and Trustee.

The RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN H. KENNAWAY, BART., M.P.
MR. EUGENE STOCK, D.C.L.

MRS. CREIGHTON.

The HON. MRS. T. F. FREMANTLE.

The Thank-offering Committee met four times in July and August, and gave preliminary consideration to the principles on which the distribution of the Fund should be carried out, and to the claims put forward by Bishops, Societies, &c., in various parts of the world. On August 11, the following Memorandum appeared in The Times, reporting progress up to date, and making the important announcement that, for reasons given, the Fund would be kept open up to the end of the year :

PRIMATE'S MEMORANDUM

The committee of thirty-three members to whom was assigned the task of allocating the Thank-offering presented in St. Paul's Cathedral at the close of the Pan-Anglican Congress has held such meetings as were practicable during the sessions of the Lambeth Conference. The difficulties have been great, but the presence in England of Bishops from all parts of the world afforded an opportunity too important to be neglected. The committee comprises leading representatives of India, Canada, Australasia, the West Indies, South Africa, and the Mission Fields of the Far East; it also includes certain leading English laymen (Lord Salisbury, Lord Cross, Lord Alverstone, Sir Lewis Dibdin, Sir John Kennaway, and others) and two ladies.

The duty assigned to us has proved to be a very difficult one, and it is clear that further inquiry, both general and statistical, is necessary before a final allocation of specific sums can be satisfactorily made. On the other hand, the public, and especially those who have contributed to the Fund, are entitled to know what is being done, and the committee has, therefore, requested me to make public a short statement of the general lines upon which the allocation should, in its judgement, be based. We hope after the vacation weeks are over to set forth our proposals with more definiteness and detail. It has been from the first decided and made known that all money contributed in the British Isles would be spent in or on behalf of work carried on outside our own shores, and not for home purposes.

The total sum contributed is about £345,000. Of this amount about £125,000 has been already allotted to specific objects by the donors. We bear such individual allotment in mind as a factor in considering how to dispose of the remainder, amounting to about £220,000.

The Pan-Anglican Congress and the Lambeth Conference have alike made it clear to us that the primary need at the present juncture is the better education and equipment of men and women on whom devolves the main burden of work either in Colonial or Missionary fields. The need is widely various in character. The Colonies urgently require aid. For example, it is impossible for immigrants to make adequate provision at once in a newly populated region. North-West Canada has a paramount claim because the need is paramount. South Africa and parts of Australasia are justified in their weighty appeal for aid, both clerical and educational. In Japan a concrete and well-considered scheme is set forth by the six Bishops, English and American, who are working there. They need, and they can use, a Theological College of the first order, well manned and thoroughly equipped. In China a welcome is offered to Western education; we are assured by the representatives, both of England and of America, who are there at work, that large sums might in this direction be most advantageously spent forthwith. From India and Ceylon come two special calls. The first is for Christian Colleges or Hostels. One notable scheme is already before us. The second is for the better training of Indian teachers, who can evangelize the village populations which are now waiting and asking for such instruction, especially in the Telugu country. Africa-West, East, and Central-has a special claim of its own in face of the rival endeavour of Christianity and Islam to absorb the pagan population. We do not forget the needs of South America, of Western Asia, and of the Islands of the Southern Seas.

On these needs, educational and other, we could usefully spend a much larger sum than the total that is now at our disposal, and we desire that this fact should be known before we proceed, even in outline, to specific allocation. We have been led to believe that there may be many donors who have withheld their gifts until they should know better the destination which would be suggested for them. If such should now come forward it would greatly facilitate the more detailed and particular task which lies before us a month or two hence. Our treasurer (Mr. G. A. King, Penn Road House, Croydon) has been instructed to keep the Fund open till the close of the present year.

With one matter of imperative urgency we have felt justified in dealing without delay. The disaster caused by the earthquake in Jamaica was faced with a courage and a resoluteness which evoked universal praise, but the necessity proved to be more grave than could be met by even such efforts as these. We have definitely allocated £15,000 towards the sum required for replacing the Church buildings and other property then destroyed.

I ought to add that proposals are under our consideration for providing a Fund which can be utilized towards the expenses of such "Missions of Help" as may from time to time be sent to our

Colonies and Mission Fields in a manner similar to what was done in South Africa a few years ago.

Such in outline is the course which we propose to follow, and we think that it ought to be now before the public.

Lambeth Palace, Aug. 10, 1908.

RANDALL CANTUAR.

With this statement the account of the Thank-offering to appear in this volume has necessarily to be closed.

THE FINANCES OF THE CONGRESS

The final balance-sheet of the Pan-Anglican Congress was not quite ready when this volume went to press, but Messrs. J. Dix Lewis, Caesar & Co., the accountants who have audited the Treasurer's accounts, have kindly furnished the following provisional statement :

It is therefore clear that there is in any case a considerable surplus. The guarantors will, of course, not be called upon.