a.  China Mission:  allowances of the English
Missionaries; Rents; Repairs; Sick Leave;
Expenses of Itinerancies; Native Agency;
Education, and the Press (as detailed in the
last Annual Report) 10,103 7 3
b.  India Missions:  Bengal and North India; the
Madras Presidency; and Travancore 35,386 13 11
c.  Madagascar Mission 6,686 4 4
d.  South Africa Mission 9,872 1 6
e.  West India Mission 9,225 10 9
f.  Mission in the South Seas 13,454 19 2
g.  Education of Missionary Students 2,109 10 1
h.  Retired Missionaries; Widows and Orphans 3,398 8 0
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total foreign expenditure 90,236 15 3

2.  Home expenditure.

a.  Expenses of Administration 1,913 16 10
b.  Expenses in Raising Funds 3,477 12 4
c.  Periodical Literature 1,539 1 1
d.  General Home Expenses 794 19 8
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total home expenditure 7,725 9 11
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Total expended in 1868 97,962 5 2
3.  Investments 9,017 0 0 4.  Balance in hand, May 1, 1869 1,868 10 8
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108,847 15 10
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This statement shows that the greater ordinary income secured during the past year is needed every year, to maintain the Society at its present strength.  Even with revised establishments working at a reduced cost, the Directors still require 75,000 pounds a-year to meet the various items of general expenditure for which they have directly to provide.  But that is precisely the amount which the revived interest and the earnest exertions of deputations and collectors have brought into their hands; and no margin is left at their command to cover any extraordinary expense which may arise.  Nowhere, therefore, may our friends relax their efforts or diminish their recent gifts.  Givers, collectors, ministers who plead, are still invited to uphold the hands of the Society, and to urge its claims.  And if we look to extension, that extension which comes naturally to a prosperous field:  still more to that extension for which the field untouched cries mightily day by day:  how shall this enlargement of our operations be secured but by still augmented resources, by still higher consecration, still greater liberality, and more earnest prayer?