The foreign missionary activities of the United States and Canada in 1901-02 were represented by 556 missionaries, assisted by 355!) native laborers, earrying on missions in 102 foreign sta tions, with 525 churches organized. and an enrollment of 53,694 communieants, of whom 5623 had been added during the previous year. Statistics for the London Nissionary Society, through which the outreaching work of the English Congregational churches is maintained, show that during 1900-01 it employed 4$S mis sionaries, assisted by 5S11 native laborers, in 97 stations. and ministering to 56.059 communi cants, of whom about 7000 were received dur ing the year then closing.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. The student who wishes to Bibliography. The student who wishes to investigate the .history of Congregationalism thoroughly will look for guidance to the bibli ography of 7250 titles of publications relating to Congregationalism issued between 1546 and 1S79, which was given by Rev. Dr. E. N. Dexter as an appendix to his Congregationalism, of the Last Three Hundred Years (New York, 1880). So closely is Congregationalism interwoven with the origins of New England that any good his tory of New England gives much regarding its spread and workings. General sketches of Ameri can Congregationalism are those of Rev. Dr. A. E. Dunning, Congregationalists in America (New York, 1894) ; and Prof. Williston Walker, A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States (New York, 1894). The eharae teristies of Congregational religious life are treated by Rev. Dr. George Leon Walker, Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England (Boston. 1897). The reader specially interested in the beginnings of Congregationalism will be aided by the work of Rev. Dr. Dexter, above cited; also, John A. Goodwin, The Pilgrim Re
public (Boston, 1888) ; Rev. Dr. -John Brown, The Pilgrim Fathers of New England (London and New York, 18951 ; Prof. Edward Arber, The Story of the Pilgrim, Fathers (London, 1897) : Rev. Dr. Fred. J. Powieke. Henry Bor row, Separatist (London, 1900). The doctrinal peculiarities of American Congregationalism have been compactly sketched by Prof. George N. Boardman, A History of New England The ology (New York, 1899 ) .
No adequate brief history of English Congre gationalism has been written, but the five vol umes of Rey. Dr. John Waddington, tional History (London, 1869-78, new ed., 1880), treat the story at much length to the date last mentioned. Contemporary English Congregation alism is well discussed by Rev. Dr. A. II. Brad ford, The Pilgrim in Old England. (New York, 1893 ) . The story of Scotch Congregationalism is well and briefly told by Rev. James Ross, A History of Congregational Independency in. Scot land (Glasgow, 1900).
The main documents relating to the polity and beliefs of Congregationalism are collected by Prof. Williston Walker, The Creeds and Plat forms of Congregationalism (New York. 1893). Brief manuals of its usages are those of Rev. Dr. H. N. Dexter, A Handbook of Congrega tionalism (Boston, 1880); and of a Committee of the 'National Council,' entitled The Council .11annal for a Congregational Church (Boston, 1896). A good sketch of the chief representative body of American Congregationalism and of the occasional conventions that preceded it, is that of Rev. E. Lyman Hood. Ph.D.. The _National Conn ell of the Congregational Churches of the United States (Roston, 1901). English and American Congregational statistics are given in the Year Books annually published on either side of the At lantic.