BAPTISTS. 



bers a year. The society co-operates with the 

 colored Baptist conventions of most of the South- 

 ern States in the support of general State mis- 

 sionaries and of missionary pastors. Seventeen 

 missionaries 7 white and 10 Indian were em- 

 ployed among the Indians in the Indian Terri- 

 tory, and a missionary to the uncivilized Indians 

 was supported by the Territorial Convention. 

 Several baptisms of Chinese converts were re- 

 ported in California and Oregon. Twenty-three 

 missionaries and teachers, all but 3 of whom 

 were native Mexicans, were employed in Mexico. 

 They returned 14 churches, 379 members, and 

 76 baptisms. There were several stations at 

 which churches had not been organized, and 

 stated services at a number of towns. Most of 

 the churches were organized into an association. 

 In its church edifice department the society had 

 aided 87 churches by gifts and loans. This de- 

 partment had a loan fund of $119,720, to which 

 the receipts for the year had been $6,058 ; and 

 had received for its benevolent fund $34,662. 

 The schools sustained by the society consist of 

 20 colleges, seminaries, and day schools for col- 

 ored people, with 166 teachers, 64 of them col- 

 ored, and 2,379 pupils; 4 schools for Indians, 

 with 18 teachers and 334 pupils ; 6 Chinese 

 mission schools ; and 2 schools in Mexico, with 

 2 teachers and 110 pupils; in all, 32 schools, 

 with (exclusive of the Chinese mission schools), 

 186 teachers and 2,823 pupils. 



The meeting approved and adopted the reso- 

 lutions of the Southern Baptist Convention rec- 

 ommending the appointment of a commission of 

 scholars of different denominations to consider 

 and seek to determine what is the teaching of 

 the Bible on leading points of difference of doc- 

 trine and polity between the denominations ; ap- 

 proved the objects of the National League for 

 the Protection of American Institutions, which 

 is endeavoring to secure the insertion of an 

 amendment to the Constitution of the United 

 States forbidding the appropriation of money by 

 any State to the support or aid of any institu- 

 tion, society, or undertaking which is wholly or 

 in part under sectarian or ecclesiastical control ; 

 and adopted a petition to Congress forbidding 

 Sunday work in the mail and military service 

 of the nation and in interstate commerce. 



American Baptist Education Society. The 

 American Baptist Education Society was formed 

 in 1888 for the promotion of Christian education 

 under Baptist auspices in North America. The 

 second annual meeting was held in Chicago, May 

 27. The Hon. G. A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, 

 Minn., presided. The ordinary receipts of the 

 treasurer for the year had been $6.583, applicable 

 to expenses. Special appropriations had been 

 definitely made to several institutions of $51,400, 

 conditioned on the raising of certain supple- 

 mentary amounts by the friends of those institu- 

 tions, rising in the aggregate to $300,000 ; adding 

 the similar appropriations for the preceding year, 

 the amounts were swelled, for the two years, to 

 $83,400 and $520,000. Further than these, $112,- 

 390 had been raised toward a fund of one million 

 dollars for which Mr. John D. Rockefeller had 

 offered $600,000 on condition of the churches 

 contributing $400,000 for the establishment of 

 the University of Chicago. A charter had been 

 obtained for the society from the Legislature of 



the State of New York. It was intended to 

 pursue the policy of discouraging the undue 

 multiplication of institutions attempting col- 

 legiate instruction, arid in -general to foster but 

 one college in a State. In the New England 

 States the policy of the Executive Board was to 

 strengthen, and if possible to multiply, the sec- 

 ondary schools and academies. 



American Baptist Missionary Union. The 

 seventy-sixth annual meeting of the American 

 Baptist Missionary Union was held in Chicago. 

 111., May 23. The Rev. G. W. Northrup, 1). I)., 

 presided. The treasurer reported that the year's 

 receipts for current expenses had been $440,788, 

 while the whole amount of the appropriations 

 had been $440,556. Thirty-three new mission- 

 aries had been put into the field, and 35 were 

 about to go out. Three new foreign stations 

 had been established. The missionaries report- 

 ed 11,061 baptisms, of which 5,539 were in the 

 heathen and 5,522 in the European missions. 

 The reports of the work in the field showed that 

 there were in the missions to the heathen in 

 Burmah and the neighboring states, India, 

 China, Japan, and the Congo 64 stations, 1,382 

 out-stations, and 331 missionaries (195 of whom 

 were women), with 68,270 members ; in the Euro- 

 pean missions, 917 preachers, 707 churches, and 

 70,003 members; in all the missions, 331 mis- 

 sionaries (including laymen), 1,736 preachers, 

 1,361 churches, and 138,293 members. An in- 

 crease was shown from the previous year of 52 

 missionaries, 45 churches, and 3,980* members. 

 There were in Burinah 372 self-supporting in- 

 dependent churches and 262 self-supporting 

 schools in the villages, etc., taught by natives. 

 A committee was appointed to consider the sub- 

 ject of arranging with the English and other Bap- 

 tist foreign missionary societies for a centennial 

 celebration in 1892 or 1893 of the beginning of 

 the mission of William Carey, which was also the 

 beginning of Baptist missionary enterprise. 



Woman's Missionary Societies. The annual 

 meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary 

 Society. Boston, was held in Portland, Me., 

 April 15. Its receipts for the year were re- 

 turned at $99,007 and its expenditures at $99,170. 

 Eight thousand dollars of the surplus had been 

 invested. The society employed 48 missiona- 

 ries and 62 Bible women in the foreign field, and 

 had 8 missionaries under appointment. 



The receipts of the Woman's Baptist Mis- 

 sionary Society of the West were returned at its 

 annual meeting in April as having been $34,674 

 and its expenditures in the foreign department 

 as $34,588. The addition of the home expendi- 

 tures caused a deficit in the treasury of $5,406. 

 Special mention was made in the report of the 

 success of work against intemperance and ad- 

 vance of Bible study among the Paku Karens of 

 Toungoo, Burmah ; of evidences of progress at 

 Henzada, Burmah ; Norogong, Assam ; Ongole, 

 India; and in the Congo mission at Palabella, 

 while additional force was needed at other sta- 

 tions in Burmah and China. The society em- 

 ployed in 1889 30 missionary workers in Bur- 

 mah, India, China, Japan, and Africa, all of 

 whom are included in the lists of the American 

 Baptist Missionary Union. 



The Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, 

 Chicago, received in the year 1888-'89, $39,774; 



