BAPTISTS. 



If 



..unbcr of colleges was 20, of theological 



la and seminaries I I. 

 Rev. Thomas M. Westrup, of Monterey, 

 ., \V!KI accepted in ls7o an appointment 



tin.- Baptist Missionary Union, fnrnishi-d 



';<>n<il Baptist o( Philadelphia a list 



u!' 1'role-tant ('liiirclics in Mexico, which hold 



substantially in harmony with the Bap- 



no:nina!ion. Tliis li>t embraces tlio fol- 

 lowing churches: .Monterey, established Jan- 



-I (18G4); Cadorita (1867); Ebanos 



i; Montomorelos (18G9) ; Durango 



I); Santa Rosa (1869); Jerez (1809). 



\noiher was established at Guadalupe, in the 



of Zaeatecas, but the members have all 



. od. Rev. James Hickey was the pioneer 

 in this work. He died in December, 1806, at 



iisvillo, Texas. "We enjoy," says Mr. 



up, "full religious liberty, and the pro- 



:i of tlio laws. All the members are 

 Mexicans, with rare exceptions." 



The Triennial Conference of the Baptist 

 Missions on the Continent of Europe was held 

 in Hamburg, on July Oth and the following 

 seven days. About one hundred and thirty 

 pastors and missionaries attended the Confer- 

 eii'V, from all parts of Germany, Holstein, 



\vi^r, Denmark, Sweden (although not in 

 the Union), Holland, Switzerland, France, Po- 

 land, Russia, Courland, and Turkey. The sta- 

 tistics of the churches in the Mission had been 

 collected and* printed, and were distributed 

 among the brethren. From these it appears 

 that there are now in the Mission 101 district 

 churches, 1,256 preaching-stations, and 18,218 

 members. In a letter to the Baptist Union 

 of England, Rev. Mr. Oncken, the pioneer of 

 the Baptist Church in Continental Europe, 

 stated that, as the result of the mission, 50,000 

 persons were baptized, and 100 churches 

 formed. "The persecutions," Mr. Oncken 

 added, '' from which we have had to suffer for 

 more than a quarter of a century, have ceased, 

 so that we can not only freely preach the Gos- 

 pel throughout our fatherland, but a wide door 

 is open to us throughout the Continent of Eu- 

 rope. The most interesting and promising 

 connections are opening in Austria, Hungary, 

 Poland, Russia, the Danubian Principalities, 

 and even in Turkey, where wo have, by the 

 blessing of God, been able to form two church- 

 es. Russia, however, has of late become the 

 most promising field of labor." Mr. Oncken 

 spent, in 1870, several weeks in Southern Rus- 

 sia among both Russian and German colonists, 

 and everywhere met a favorable reception. 

 Forty Germans were baptized, and two new 

 churches formed, numbering three hundred 

 baptized believers. Twenty-eight Russians 

 were baptized in Alt Dantzic ; they have fra- 

 ternal relations with the German brethren, but 

 are formed into a separate church. 



The first Baptist church in Spain was organ- 

 ized at Madrid on August 10th, by Professor 

 Knapp, a missionary of the American Baptist 

 Missionary Uuion. The new congregation 



numbered at its beginning thirty-three 



i!l of whom had been bapti/ed within tip; 

 two weeks preceding. A second church grew 

 lit of a company of Plymouth brethren in Mud- 

 rid who wished to bo embodied as a regular 

 l!.ip;i-t rhuivli. In September the two church- 

 > inmili.-ivd ninety-five members. 



II. FI:KI;- \\II.L BAPTISTS. The Free -Will 

 Il'l'tint Iteyister for 1871 gives the following 

 statistics of this denomination : 



The " OLD SCHOOL " BAPTISTS, a small de- 

 nomination of Christians, who are opposed to 

 missions, Sunday-schools, and any class of 

 agencies which is not distinctly mentioned in 

 the Scriptures, have a periodical, called tho 

 Siyns of the Times, published at Middletown, 

 N. Y., on the 1st and 15th of every month, and 

 edited by Elder G. L. Bebee. The Delaware 

 River Association has 422 members, and tho 

 Warwick Association 213. 



The Rhode Island and Massachusetts Gen- 

 eral Six PRINCIPLE BAPTIST Association held 

 its two hundredth anniversary, in the First 

 Baptist Church in Richmond, October 7th-9th. 

 Rev. Gilbert Tillinghast was Moderator. Tho 

 few churches which still adhere to this associ- 

 ation reported gains for the year. 



Tho General Conference of the SEVENTH- 

 DAY BAPTISTS was held in Little Genesee, N. Y. 

 The new constitution was reported as rejected 

 by a majority of the congregations. 



* Showing an increase of 11 churchcc, 35 ministers, and 

 218 members. 



