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Eaton, D. D., Louisville, Ky. ; Rev. C. D. W. 

 Bridgman, D. D., New York ; Rev. E. T. Tom- 

 linson, Elizabeth, N. J. ; Rev. W. D. McKinney ; 

 Rev. W. F. Elsden. "Municipal Government," 

 Rev. F. J. Bellamy, Boston ; Col. A. S. Bacon, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Rev. Leighton Williams, New 

 York. " International and Independent Systems 

 of Sunday School Lessons," Rev. Warren Ran- 

 dolph, D. D., Newport, R. I. ; Rev. E. A. Woods, 

 D. D., Cleveland, Ohio ; Rev. E. M. Poteat, New 

 Haven, Samuel Colgate, Hon. Francis Way- 

 land, Rev. F. J. Bellamy, Rev. George Bullen, 

 D. D., Rev. A. S. Hobart, D. D., Rev. C. H. Spal- 

 ding, Rev. W. G. Fennell, Rev. J. H. Mason. 

 " Race Problem of the South," Prof. J. C. Long, 

 D. D., Chester, Pa. ; Rev. H. L. Wayland, D. D., 

 Philadelphia; Rev. Daniel Wilshere, of the Ba- 

 hama Islands ; Rev. 0. B. Strayer, Rev. George 

 A. Jackson, Rev. J. T. Dickinson, Rev. E. W. 

 Hunt. " Enlarged Church Work in Cities," Rev. 

 A. G. Lawson, D. D., Boston ; Rev. Russell H. 

 Conwell, Philadelphia; Rev. John Humpstone, 

 D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Rev. S. W. Duncan, D. D. ; 

 Principal Walter Scott; Rev. W. C. Bitting; Rev. 

 Kittredge Wheeler. " Divine Immanence in Re- 

 cent Theology," Rev. A. H. Strong, D. D., Roches- 

 ter, N. Y. : Rev. P. S. Moxom, Boston ; Rev. E. 

 H. Johnson, D. D. ; Rev. Norman Fox, D. D. ; Rev. 

 P. A. Nordell, D. D. ; Rev. A. C. Wheaton. 



II. Seventh-Day Baptists. The Seventh- 

 Day Baptist General Conference met at Salem, 

 W. Va., Aug. 20. Mr. H. D. Babcock pre- 

 sided. The treasurer of the Memorial fund re- 

 ported that its income for the year had been 

 $4,828, and the expenditures on its account 

 $5,371, and that the total amount to its credit 

 was $116,919. The treasurers of different insti- 

 tutions had received of notes paid direct to them, 

 also counted as part of the Memorial fund, $14,- 

 422; and the fund was further entitled to the 

 proceeds of certain estates, the value of which 

 was not yet estimated. The committee in charge 

 of that subject reported concerning correspond- 

 ence with persons interested in the Sabbath, 

 thirteen of whom were previously unknown to 

 them. The Committee on Denominational His- 

 tory reported that a department of historical and 

 biographical articles had been maintained in the 

 denominational newspaper, and that persons in 

 a few of the older societies were hunting up ma- 

 terials for descriptions of their past movements. 

 The conference commended the course of Mr. 

 R. M. King, of Tennessee, who having been 

 prosecuted for violation of the Sunday laws of 

 that State, had taken his case to the courts of 

 the United States. Resolutions were passed de- 

 nouncing the "Chinese Exclusion Act of 1888, 

 demanding its repeal, and advising negotiation 

 with the Chinese Government concerning the 

 treatment of its people in the United States; 

 condemning the opium trade with China; and 

 declaring it the duty of every Christian to labor 

 by all proper means for the removal of intemper- 

 ance. The desire was expressed in several reso- 

 lutions for a closer unity of the various organi- 

 zations of the denomination engaged in Chris- 

 tian work : for their recognition of a common 

 head ; and for greater system and uniformity in 

 the courses of study of the denominational edu- 

 cational institutions. For these objects and for 

 the adjustment of other questions of denomina- 

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tional interest which could not be adequately 

 considered during the short time of the session 

 of the conference, a council of delegates repre- 

 senting the General Conference, the churches, 

 and the several societies was appointed to meet 

 in Chicago in October to consider the present 

 condition of the church, including its plans and 

 methods of work their efficiency and their de- 

 fects and the growing demands of the denomi- 

 national work. This council at its meeting de- 

 cided to recommend plans for the unification and 

 merging of the General Conference and the Mis- 

 sion, Tract, and Educational societies, now inde- 

 pendent of one another, so that the General Con- 

 ference shall include delegates from the societies 

 and shall in turn be represented on their boards. 

 It also determined upon an elevation of the stand- 

 ard of scholarship in the colleges at Alfred, N. Y., 

 Milton, Wis., Albion, Wis., and Salem, W. Va., 

 and the appointment of a committee of the Edu- 

 cation Society to supervise the collegiate work. 



The Sabbath-School Board had reports from 

 79 Sabbath schools, in which were enrolled 997 

 teachers and officers and 5,568 pupils, and which 

 had contributed for the purposes of the schools 

 and for benevolent enterprises the sum of $2,230. 



The receipts of the Missionary Society for the 

 year ending Aug. 1, 1890, were $21,211. The 

 amount of the Permanent fund was $6,257; and 

 a Ministerial Education fund was returned of 

 $2,207. From the mission at Shanghai, China, 

 were reported 6 foreign workers, 3 native 

 preachers, one church having 30 members, 

 two additions during the year, 8 pupils in 

 the boys' and girls' schools, and 3,137 patients 

 treated in the dispensary. The society aids in 

 sustaining churches or stations at Haarlem, Am- 

 sterdam, and Rotterdam, Holland: and it has 

 assisted in supporting a missionary to the Jews 

 in Germany and Austria. The '-'Mill Yard" 

 Church, in London, with fifteen members and 

 fourteen adherents, is partly supported from the 

 income of an estate which was left it a long time 

 ago. The "right of this church to enjoy the pro- 

 ceeds of the sale of the old Mill Yard property 

 has been contested at law on the ground that the 

 Seventh-Day Baptist cause was dead or dying. 

 The court has decided that a new chapel may be 

 built with the funds, but it must be for the joint 

 use of both Seventh-Day and Sunday keeping 

 Baptists. There are other Seventh-Day Baptists 

 in different parts of England. The Missionary 

 Society also has the care of a number of efficient 

 domestic missions in the United States. 



The treasurer of the Seventh -Day Baptist 

 Education Society reported the amount of the 

 endowment funds under his care as $42,313. 

 The receipts and expenditures on account of in- 

 terest were balanced at $1,653, and $150 had 

 been added on account of the principal. Re- 

 ports were made of the condition of the educa- 

 tional institutions Salem Academy and College, 

 West Virginia: Albion Academy, Wisconsin; 

 Milton College, Wisconsin; and Alfred Univer- 

 sity, New York. These institutions returned al- 

 together 730 students. Of them, Salem College 

 was opened as Salem Academy in 1889, but it 

 was soon found necessary to offer a full college 

 course of study, and the name of the institution 

 was changed to Salem College. 



The receipts of the Seventh-Day Baptist Tract 



