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is 40 malos and 36 females. Xative preachers 

 and assistants, exclusive of those in Europe, 

 not far from 500; in Europe, 160; total, 660. 

 The number of churches is 660 ; of baptisms, 

 2,500. The whole number of members is 35,000. 

 The meeting unanimously adopted the fol- 

 lowing resolutions on the state of the country: 



Eetolxed, That we regard the rebellion inaugurated 

 by the Southern States for the purpose of destroying 

 the Union which our fathers founded, and establish- 

 ing a slaveholders' confederacy, as utterly causeless 

 and inexcusable a crime against civilization, hu- 

 manity, freedom, and God, unparalleled in all centu- 

 ries. 



That we tender to the President and the national 

 authorities the assurance of our confidence and of 

 our sympathy with their efforts to maintain the in- 

 tegrity of the republic ; of our prayers for their suc- 

 cess ; of our readiness to sustain them by the sacri- 

 fices of property and life, and of our hearty assent 

 to the policy of conquering disunion by uprooting 

 slavery, its cause. 



That we rejoice in the interest and cooperation 

 manifested by the Government with respect to the 

 establishment of schools and Christian institutions 

 throughout the recovered portions of the Southern 

 land, as an evidence of its practical recognition of 

 the Gospel of Christ as the only sure basis, and the 

 best safeguard of national peace and prosperity, and 

 that we offer it our most cordial thanks for the'facili- 

 ties afforded to our own kindred organizations in the 

 prosecution of this momentous work. 



That however prolonged may be the conflict, and 

 however great the cost which we may be required to 

 par, our trust in the final triumph of liberty and 

 righteousness is unshaken, and amid victory and de- 

 feat alike, we rest in the conviction that a merciful 

 though chastening Providence will bring forth from 

 the carnage and woe of this civil war a brighter, 

 grander future for our country and the world. 



Hon. A. Hubbell, Hon. J. R. Doolittle, U. S. 

 Senator from Wisconsin, and M. B. Anderson, 

 LL. D., were appointed a committee to convey 

 the resolutions to the President of the United 

 States. Hon. Ira Harris, U. S. Senator from 

 Xew York, was elected President of the Union 

 for the ensuing year. It was also resolved to 

 raise a special jubilee fund of $50,000 for the 

 reenforcement of missions. $15,000 were sub- 

 scribed on the spot. 



At the 40th anniversary of the American 

 Baptist Publication Society, which was held on 

 May 23d, the receipts of the year were stated 

 to be $108,587.60 ; expenditures, $106,728.35 ; 

 balance in treasury, $1,859.25. 



Twenty-six new publications have been stere- 

 otyped and added to the list during the year. 

 Of these, including the Annual Report and 

 Almanac, 361,000 copies have been printed. 



The new editions of former publications 

 have been of books, 107,000 copies ; of tracts, 

 60,000 copies; making the issues of the year, 

 new and old,. amount to 528,000 copies, con- 

 taining 25,528,500 actual, or 29,136,375 18mo 

 pages. 



The Society's catalogue numbers at the pres- 

 ent time 786 publications. Of these, 404 are 

 bound volumes; 94 are in paper covers, and 

 280 are tracts. Of the tracts 11 are in the 

 Swedish language, 7 in French, 10 in German, 

 and 230 in English, of which 28 are for children. 



Thirty-eight missionary colporteurs have 

 been employed during the year, of whom 3 

 labored among the freedmen of Louisiana, 

 Xorth and South Carolina, and 14 in Sweden. 



The American Baptist Home Mission held its 

 32d meeting on May 19th, and reported its re- 

 ceipts as $72,904; expenditures, $55,504. Tho 

 Society employs 135 missionaries, none of 

 whom preach in foreign languages. 



A French Regular Baptist Missionary Society 

 was established in 1863, to labor among the 

 French in Canada and the United States, by 

 means of pastors, evangelists, the press, and 

 the training of young men for the missionary 

 work. 



The receipts of the American and Foreign 

 Bible Society, whose 27th meeting was held 

 on May 21st, were $30,719 ; expenditures, $27,- 

 668 ; volumes issued, 28,778 ; total since 1837, 

 1,888,836. 



The 21st anniversary of the American Bap- 

 tist Free Mission Society was held at Perry, 

 X. y., May 20th, 1864. The receipts for the 

 year were $22,905 ; the expenditures, $19,320. 



The Society unanimously adopted a resolu- 

 tion 



That in view of the vast and preeminent claims of 

 the Home Missionary work in the present great crisis 

 of the country, the receipts of the society should be 

 $150,000 the current year, and that the pastors and 

 churches throughout "the land be requested to do 

 their part promptly and cheerfully in raising this 

 amount. 



The Secretary of War, at the beginning of 

 the year, gave full and formal authority to the 

 American Baptist Home Mission Society to take 

 possession of every abandoned Baptist meet- 

 ing-house within the limits of the insurrec- 

 tionary districts, and of every other Baptist 

 church edifice in the hands of the rebels. 

 From Southern sources it was ascertained that 

 Richmond College, Wake Forrest College, N. 

 C., the Furman Institute, S. C., the Mercer 

 College, Ga., have all been suspended, and that 

 the Female College at Richmond is closed. Of 

 the Lutheran Baptist papers, the "Religious 

 Herald," of Richmond, the "Biblical Recorder," 

 at Raleigh, K C., and the "Southern Baptist," 

 Charleston, S. C., were still in existence, 

 though, owing to the scarcity of paper, on a 

 half sheet. 



The Southern Baptist Convention held its 

 last biennial session at Augusta, Ga., in May, 

 1863. For the means to support its mission- 

 aries in China and Africa, it is mainly depend- 

 ent upon Maryland and Kentucky. By per- 

 mission of the Post-Office and War Depart- 

 ments, the correspondence and remittances of 

 the Convention pass through Northern chan- 

 nels. 



The " Tunker " denomination of Baptist? 

 lost one of their most prominent men, Elder 

 John Kline, of Rockingham, Va. The Rock- 

 ingham " Register " remarks on this event : 



The Rev. John Kline, of Linville's Creek, in this 

 county, an aged Tunker preacher of considerable 



