during the season of Lent. There is evidence of growing interest in our Church teaching, with good attendance at the services. Our list of Communicants has been reduced by deaths and removals.

The offerings of the Sunday School were $44.73, and expenses $44.55.

St. Luke's Church, Newtown. Admitted 1835. The Rev. Edward Ritchie, Rector. Henry W. Wieland, Rector's Warden; William Barnsley, Accounting Warden.

Baptisms, adult 1, infants 8, total 9; confirmed, male 1, female 2, total 3; communicants, present number 56; marriage 1; burials 7; public services, on Sundays 148, on other days 180, total 328; Holy Communion 120; children catechised frequently; Sunday Schools and Bible Classes, officers and teachers II, scholars 90, total membership 101; other Parish agencies, Parish Guild (6 Chapters), St. Luke's Social Guild; Church 1, sittings 200; Parish and School building 1; Parsonage 1; Cemetery 1; salary of Rector, per annum, $800, of which from Sustentation Fund $350; extra Sunday services, free to all, 52.

Receipts.-Pew rents $464.06; offerings for all Parish purposes $370.27; offerings for purposes outside the Parish $52.50; donations $60.94; investments $180; other sources $85; Sunday School $38.15; other societies $48.01; total $1298.93.

Expenditures. Parochial: Current expenses (see*, p. 171) $858.72; payment of debts $137; support of Sunday Schools $52.42; miscellaneous $54.41; total Parochial $1102.55.-Diocesan: Episcopal and Convention Fund $16.38; Missions, Diocesan $20; Episcopal Hospital $16; Christmas Fund (seet, p. 171) $4: Bishop's Charity Fund $7; Colored work $6; Advent offering $3; Dolington Mission $60; total Diocesan $132.38.-General: Missions, Domestic $4. Jews $5.50; Christian or Theological Education $25; Sunday School for Domestic Missions $18; total General [or Extra-Diocesan] $52.50. Total for all objects, $1287.43. Boxes sent, 2; estimated value, $35.

Financial Condition.-Aggregate value of property of the Parish, real and personal, $9000: encumbrances, on Church

edifice, none; on other buildings and lands $300; other indebtedness, none.

Other Information.-Services have been held alternate Sundays through the year at Dolington by the Rector of St. Luke's, Newtown.

Trinity Church, Centreville (now Buckingham). Admitted 1840. Under the care of the Convocation of Germantown.

Confirmed, female 3; communicants, added, new 3, by transfer 2, present number 29; burial 1; public services, on Sundays 55, on other days 3, total 58; Holy Communion 12; Sunday Schools and Bible Classes, officers and teachers 8, scholars 75, total membership 83; other Parish agencies, Girls' Friendly Society, Trinity Guild; Church 1, sittings 125; Parsonage 1 Cemetery 1; total number of free sittings, all.

Receipts. Offerings for all purposes $164.61; donations $61; rent of Parsonage, $80; Sunday School $45.50; other societies $27; total $378.11.

Expenditures.-Parochial: Current expenses (see*, p. 171) $187.47; improvements $100.06; support of Sunday Schools $36.12; total Parochial $323.65.-Diocesan: Episcopal and Convention Fund $2.42; Missions, Diocesan $8; Episcopal Hospital $5.18; Christmas Fund (seef, p. 171) $11; total Diocesan $26.60.-General: Missions, Foreign $9.53, Domestic $9.53; Cuban Sufferers $8.80; total General [or Extra-Diocesan] $27.86. Total for all objects, $378.11.

Financial Condition.-Aggregate value of property of the Parish, real and personal, $4000; no indebtedness.

St. Paul's Church, Doylestown. Admitted 1847. The Rev. Edward M. Jefferys. B. D., Rector. Mr. William P. McCoy, Lay-reader; Hon. Harman Yerkes, Rector's Warden; Mr. Lewis P. Worthington, Accounting Warden.

Baptisms, adults 4, infants 8, total 12; confirmed, male 5, female 6, total 11; communicants, added, new 11, by transfer 9. died 1, removed 4, present number 146; marriages 2; burials 5: public services, on Sundays 140, on other days 51, total 191; Holy Communion 64; children catechised, times 36; Sunday

Schools and Bible Classes, officers and teachers 23, scholars 164, total membership 187; other Parish agencies, St. Paul's Guild (8 Chapters), St. Andrew's Guild for Young Men, the Choir Guild, Branch of Woman's Auxiliary; Church 1, sittings 325; Parsonage I; salary of Rector, per annum, $1200, of which from Convocation or Sustentation Fund, none; arrears of salary, none; total number of free sittings 50.

Receipts. Pew rents $1118; offerings for all Parish purposes $749.70; offerings for purposes outside the Parish $60.05; Sunday School $189.94; other societies $408.28; total $2525.97.

Expenditures.-Parochial: Current expenses (see*, p. 171) $1519.75; improvements $30.68; payment of debts $267; support of Sunday Schools $94.44; Boys' Club $58; miscellaneous $247.51; total Parochial $2217.38.-Diocesan: Episcopal and Convention Fund $28.06; Sustentation Fund $10.57; Missions. Diocesan $48; Episcopal Hospital $21.42; total Diocesan $108.05.-General: Missions $55.07. Total for all objects, $2380.50. Boxes sent, 2; estimated value, $75.

Financial Condition.-Aggregate value of property of the Parish, real and personal, $12,000; encumbrances, none.

Other Information.-An English Alabaster Font was presented to the Parish by the Sunday School.

A stated meeting of the Convocation of Germantown was held in the Parish Church October 12, 1897.

Christ Church, Eddington. Admitted 1884. The Rev. George Abbott Hunt, Rector. Henry B. Pancoast, Rector's Warden; Herbert K. Adams, Accounting Warden.

Baptisms, adult 1, infants 9, total 10; confirmed, male 3. female 2, total 5; communicants, added, new 8, died 2, removed 5. present number 81; marriages 2; burials 8; public services, on Sundays 150, on other days 105, total 255; Holy Communion 60;children catechised nearly every Sunday; Sunday School, officers and teachers 7, scholars 48, total membership 55; other Parish agencies, Parish Guild, St. Martha's Guild, St. Agnes' Guild. Men's Club, Altar Guild, Chancel Chapter, Brotherhood of St. Andrew, Embroidery Chapter, Visiting Chapter, Missionary Chapter; Church 1, sittings 125; Chapel building 1, sittings 125; Parsonage 1; salary of Rector, per annum, $1000; total

number of free sittings 25; extra Sunday services, free to all, every evening (Sunday).

Receipts.-Pew rents $325; offerings for all Parish purposes $967.42; other sources $335.80; Sunday School $84.49: total $1712.71.

Expenditures.-Parochial: Current expenses (see*, p. 171) $1302.35; for the Poor $21.44; total Parochial $1323.79.-Diocesan: Episcopal and Convention Fund $24.30; Sustentation Fund $9.15: Missions, Diocesan $30, Deaf $1.11; Episcopal Hospital $8.80; Christmas Fund (seet, p. 171) $6.11; total Diocesan $79.47.-General: Missions, Foreign $23.15, Domestic $11.42, Jews $4: total General [or Extra-Diocesan] $38.57. Total for all objects, $1441.83. Boxes sent, 4; estimated value, $100.

Financial Condition.-Aggregate value of property of the Parish, real and personal, $15,000.

Other Information.-Rectory, Parish building and stable were painted during the year at a cost of about $150.

All Saints' Memorial Chapel, Fallsington. The Rev. William White Bronson, Priest-in charge.

Public services 112; Holy Communion, celebrated 60 times; sermons or addresses 76; baptisms 2; marriages 3: burials 5; communicants, present number 74; Sunday School teachers 9, scholars 90, total 99.

Other Information.-The Bishop has appointed the fourth Sunday after Trinity (July 3) for his visitation of the Chapel.

A branch of "the Girls' Friendly Society" has recently been established. The roll of its members would be materially increased were it not that many cannot attend, as they would wish to, by reason of their living at a distance.

A few deaths and frequent removals serve to keep the number of communicants at about one and the same figure, from year to year.

St. John's Church, New London. Admitted 1793. The Rev. Frank P. Clark, Kelton, Chester Co., Pa., Minister-in-charge. Thomas M. Charlton, Jennersville, Pa., Senior Warden; Samuel B. Shoch, Kelton, Pa., Accounting Warden.

Communicants, present number 34; public services, on Sundays 20, on other days 8, total 28; Holy Communion 6:

Sunday Schools and Bible Classes, officers and teachers 7, scholars 36, total membership 44; other Parish agency, Woman's Auxiliary; Church 1, sittings 150; Parish and School building 1; Cemetery 1; salary of Rector, per annum, $500, of which from Convocation $300; arrears of salary, none; total number of free sittings, all.

Receipts. Offerings for all Parish purposes $114.76; offerings for purposes outside the Parish $8.19; donations $5.98; other sources $43.63; Sunday School $6.84; Woman's Auxiliary $3; total $182.40.

Expenditures.-Parochial: Current expenses (see*, p. 171) $96.03; support of Sunday Schools $5.28; Sunday School, a table for Parish building, 78c; Sunday School, for prayer books and hymnals for Church $2.39; Sunday School, for Parsonage $4.31; total Parochial $108.79.-Diocesan: Episcopal and Convention Fund $2.90; Missions, Diocesan $13, Deaf $1.52, Seamen's, a box, contents cost $10; expenses of delegate to meeting of Woman's Auxiliary at West Chester 98c; total Diocesan $28.40.-General: Missions, Jew $1.57. Total for all objects, $138.76. Box sent, 1; estimated value, $10.

Financial Condition.-Aggregate value of property of the Parish, real and personal, $6000.

Other Information.-The Minister in charge was appointed January 1, 1898, though he conducted occasional services in November and December, 1897. Statistics given as to public services, etc., are only from January 1, 1898. But there were also public services held between May 9 and December 19, 1897, to the number of twenty-three in all, by different clergy of the Diocese.

The box sent by the Woman's Auxiliary to the Seamen's Mission was of the value of $10, and contained sewing bags for sailors, which were fully equipped with needles, thread, scissors, etc., besides a Prayer-Book and Hymnal, or Testament, in each.

The Sunday School is open only from May to October of each year, as attendance is difficult, owing to bad roads, during the winter months. This accounts for no report of Sunday School work by the Missionary in charge; but the faithful laity, under the superintendence of the Rector's Warden (fifty years in that office), kept the School open last summer as usual.