BAPTISTS. 



ceived from a similar congress, which had been 

 formed seven years previous to the Baptist Con- 

 gress. The subjects of The Consolidation of the 

 National Baptist Societies, Modern Evangelism, 

 or Proper Substitutes for the Old-Fashioned Re- 

 vival, The Function of Penalty in the Christian 

 Religion, The Ethics of Gambling, Cosmopolitan- 

 ism versus Patriotism, and The Keswick Move- 

 ment for the Deepening of the Spiritual Life, 

 were discussed in papers prepared for the occa- 

 sion, and in addresses by appointed and volun- 

 teer speakers. 



Summary of Mission Work. A History of 

 American Baptist Missions, by Edmund F. Mer- 

 riam, published by the American Baptist Publica- 

 tion Society, besides accounts of the distinctly 

 foreign Baptist missionary societies (American 

 Baptist Missionary Union and the Foreign Board 

 of the Southern Baptist Convention), gives sum- 

 maries of the missions of the American Baptist 

 Home Mission Society in Cuba and Porto Rico, 

 of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Bap- 

 tist Convention in Cuba, and of the aid given to 

 missions in various foreign countries by the 

 American Baptist Publication Society. The ex- 

 tent of all the American regular Baptist mission 

 work outside of the United States is represented 

 by the numbers 585 missionaries, 4,868 native 

 workers, 2,088 churches, and 217,100 members. 

 The whole amount contributed by American Bap- 

 tists for missions is given in the book as $1,953,- 

 078, of which $736,112 are for foreign missions 

 and $1,216,966 for home missions. 



Canadian Baptist Conventions. The Bap- 

 tist Convention of Ontario and Quebec met at 

 Brantford, Ontario, Oct. 15, Mr. A. McNee, of 

 Windsor, presiding. The report on foreign mis- 

 sions gave an account of the condition of that 

 work in India, where there were 28 missionaries, 

 D ordained and 70 unordained preachers, 79 teach- 

 ers, 8 colporteurs, and 36 native churches with 

 4,176 members, 352 of whom had been added by 

 baptism during the year; and Bolivia, where 2 

 new missionaries had been added to the staff and 

 there were a self-supporting school and a college 

 at La Paz with 100 students. The native churches 

 in India had contributed about $1,270 to the sup- 

 port of the Gospel. Three schools of a higher 

 grade were maintained in the same field. The re- 

 ceipts of the board for the year had been $30,713, 

 and the expenditures $36,195, leaving a deficiency 

 of $5,482. The Committee on Manitoba, the 

 Northwest, and British Columbia reported con- 

 cerning the growth of the Church in those terri- 

 tories, where there were now 100 organizations, 

 7,000 members, and $200,000 worth of church 

 property, and the average contribution was from 

 $12 to $19 per member. Fourteen new churches 

 had been erected during the year in Manitoba 

 and the Northwest, and several in British Colum- 

 bia, and the new college building at Brandon had 

 been opened. The committee's receipts had been 

 $6,507, with an expenditure of about the same 

 amount, and including $75 to Scandinavian and 

 $38 to Indian work. The Ladies' Indian Com- 

 mittee had received $1,094. The Church Edifice 

 Board reported an income of $1,544 and an ex- 

 penditure of $1,034. Loans had been made to 

 4 churches. The income of the Home Mission 

 Board had been $23,549, and its expenditures $28,- 

 007, leaving a deficit of $4,458. One hundred and 

 twenty-three pastors and 40 students had been 

 employed, serving 350 churches and mission sta- 

 tions, 2 churches had been organized, 3 church 

 buildings erected, about 500 converts baptized, 

 and 4 churches declared for self-support. The 

 Superannuation Board reported 21 annuitants on 



its list, 9 of whom were ministers. Its receipts 

 had been $2,801, and its disbursements $2,065. 

 Reports were made of the condition, as to finances 

 and students, of McMaster University and Wood- 

 stock and Moulton Colleges, all of which returned 

 a total enrolment of 482 students, (>:} of whom 

 were studying for the ministry. The Grande 

 Ligne Mission (to the French Roman Catholic 

 population) returned 140 pupils at Feller Insti- 

 tute, 16 of whom had been baptized during the 

 year, and 48 persons baptized in the churches. 

 The total income of the mission had been $15,004, 

 of which $2,203 had been contributed from the 

 United States, while the expenses had been $17,- 

 417. The sum of $24,062 had been further received 

 for the Building and Endowment fund. The 

 Publication Board had received $14,629 from sales, 

 and returned practically no liabilities. The report 

 on the state of religion showed that the present 

 membership of the churches was 42,975; that there 

 had been 572 baptisms during the year, and that 

 the contributions of the churches had been $326,- 

 747 for home objects and $68,360 for work abroad. 

 The Sunday-schools returned 36,961 pupils, with 

 an average attendance of 25,529 and 4,491 teach- 

 ers, 1,192 pupils joined the church during the year, 

 and the total amount of $22,758 raised, of which 

 $5,149 were for the various missions. 



Convention of the Maritime Provinces. 

 The Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces 

 met at Moncton, New Brunswick, in October. The 

 reports from the churches showed that the number 

 of baptisms in Nova Scotia had been 150 less than 

 in the previous year, while two of the three asso- 

 ciations in New Brunswick returned a gain of 

 50; but in more than half of the churches there 

 had been no additions by baptism. A loss of more 

 than 1,000 members appeared in 5 of the 7 asso- 

 ciations from which statistics had come to hand. 

 The receipts for home and foreign missions con- 

 sisted of $10,271 contributed through the Wom- 

 an's Society and $12,850 from other sources. 

 The schools at Wolfville had had a prosperous 

 year. The question of union of the Baptists and 

 Free Baptists was discussed with much interest, 

 and the convention resolved to invite the Free 

 Baptist brethren to unite with it in foreign mis- 

 sion work. 



The Baptists of New Brunswick, while united 

 with those of the other maritime provinces in for- 

 eign missionary and educational work, have spe- 

 cial interests, confined to their own province, in 

 home missions, Sunday-schools, and the Ministers' 

 Annuity Association, of which home missions are 

 looked after by the New Brunswick Association, 

 while the other causes are under the care of a spe- 

 cial provincial convention, the meeting of which 

 for 1901 was held at Hartland. 



Baptists in Great Britain and Ireland. The 

 statistics compiled from the returns of the 

 churches, published in the Baptist Handbook for 

 1901, give, as the principal numerical items 

 of the Baptists in the British Isles: Number of 

 churches, 2,739; of chapels, 3,918; of chapel seats, 

 1,323,251; of members, 365,678; of teachers in 

 Sunday-schools, 51,825; of pupils in Sunday- 

 schools, 528,131; of local preachers, 5,564; of pas- 

 tors in charge, 1,992. These numbers show in- 

 creases for the year of 35 churches, 48 chapels, 12,- 

 835 chapel seats, 12,420 members, 879 teachers and 

 8,743 pupils in Sunday-schools, 329 local preach- 

 ers, and 33 pastors in charge. New chapels pro- 

 viding seats for 13,400 persons had been erected at 

 a cost of 109,888, and 53,693 had been spent in 

 improvements to buildings and the erection of 

 new schools, class rooms, etc. Although the spe- 

 cial efforts made in behalf of the Twentieth Cen- 



