BAPTISTS. 



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men's fund tho sum of $21,386.21, and $40,000 

 appropriated for tho bone-fit of tho class for 

 whieh tin- fund is iiitemli-d. Twenty-five white 

 and trn colored, with sixty-two assistant mis- 

 fioii'irii'-:. are laboring among the freedmen under 

 tin-direction of the Soci. ty. The Society adopt- 

 ed a resolution instructing the Executive Board 

 to continue their work among the freedmen 

 using every facility in their power, and to give 

 such religious instruction to colored preachers 

 ns ini^ht lie deemed consistent with discretion. 



4. American and Foreign Bible Society. 

 The receipts of tho treasury from all sources, 

 including small balance on hand at the com- 

 mencement of the year, amount to $40,896.40. 

 Books printed from their own stereotype plates, 

 by direct purchase, and by donations to the So- 

 ciety from other sources, full and parts of Scrip- 

 tures, 21,286. Books issued from the deposi- 

 tory, 26,379; gratuitously, for the army, navy, 

 for freedmen, to poor churches, Sunday-schools, 

 State prisons, etc., 22,165 copies. The com- 

 mittee to whom was referred the question of 

 union with the American Baptist Publication 

 Society, reported that they found difficulties in 

 the way, and referred the subject back to the 

 Board, with a recommendation for a general 

 conference. After considerable discussion, the 

 subject was indefinitely postponed. The com- 

 mittee of five, to whom was referred tho ques- 

 tion of uniting with tho Bible Union, reported 

 that it was both desirable and practicable, and 

 such a union should take place ; but on taking 

 a vote, the proposed resolution in favor of a 

 union of the two societies was defeated. 



5. American Baptist Free Mission Society 

 (established in 1843). The twenty-second an- 

 niversary of this Society was held at Chicago, 

 111., May 30, 31, 1866. Receipts for the year, 

 $26,042.30; expenditures, $25,212.21 ; balance, 

 $831.09. The Board has flourishing missions 

 in Japan, Rangoon, and Bassein, Burmah. 

 Number of laborers among the freedmen in the 

 Southern States, twenty-nine. 



6. The American Baptist Historical Society 

 (established in 1853), had added during the last 

 year 620 volumes ; cask receipts, $399.45. The 

 library now comprises 2,590 volumes, and 

 11,000. pamphlet 1 *, besides 100 volumes of por- 

 traits, views of Baptist edifices, and historical 

 manuscripts. 



7. The French Regular Baptist' Missionary 

 Society (established in 1863) labors among tho 

 French in Canada and tho United States, by 

 means of pastors, evangelists, the press, and tho 

 training of young men for the missionary work, 

 and it now sustains two missionaries. 



Tho Southern Baptist Convention met in 

 May, at Russcllville, Ky. It was tho general 

 opinion of this body that there should be no 

 fusion between the societies of the Northern 

 and the Southern Baptists ; but that the Foreign 

 and the Domestic Mission Boards of the South- 

 ern Baptist Convention should continue their ex- 

 .stence as heretofore. At the beginning of the 

 war tho Foreign Board had about thirty-five mis- 



sionaries in the field. This number WM great- 

 ly reduced in consequence of tbo difficulty of 

 transmitting funds during the war, but tho work 

 was not abandoned, and it was resolved by the 

 convention to continue it with new zeal. The 

 Domestic Mission Board, located in Marion, 

 Ala., kept in the field through the war more 

 than one hundred missionaries, and now they 

 propose, with new vigor, to prosecute their 

 work. 



The colored Baptist churches in the South- 

 ern States organized a number of separate 

 associations, which put themselves in commu- 

 nication with the Northern societies. Colored 

 churches of nearly all tho States were repre- 

 sented at tho annual meeting of the " Amer- 

 ican Baptist (African) Missionary Convention," 

 which in August met in Richmond. The con- 

 vention thanked the Northern societies for the 

 aid given them, and earnestly asked the con- 

 tinuance of then* cooperation in the future. 



A convention of the Baptists and " Disciples " 

 (Campbellites) of Virginia met at Richmond, 

 on April 24th, and continued in session until 

 the 27th, for the purpose of discussing the fea- 

 sibility of a union. Its meetings were strictly 

 private. At the close of the convention it was 

 resolved, at least for the present, not to pub- 

 lish its minutes; but Dr. W. F. Broaddus 

 and Elder J. W. Goss were requested to pre- 

 pare and publish, over their own signatures, a 

 brief address to the Baptists and Disciples of 

 Virginia, setting forth the results of the con- 

 ference. Most of tho Baptist papers were de- 

 cidedly opposed to the holding of the con- 

 ference, and after tho publication of the ad- 

 dress by the committee, the opinion generally 

 prevailed that no result could for the present 

 l>e expected. 



II. FREE-WIIX BAPTISTS. This denomination 

 has a Biblical school at New Hampton, N. II. ; 

 colleges at Hillsdale, Mich., Lewston, Maine 

 ("Bates College"), and "Wasioga, Minnesota 

 (''Northwestern College"). The "Free-will 

 Baptist Printing Establishment," at Dover, 

 N. II., publishes a Quarterly JReview, the 

 Morning Star (weekly), and the Myrtle (Sab- 

 bath-school paper, semi-monthly). In Nova 

 Scotia, where the Free-will Baptists have been 

 for many years divided into two branches, the 

 two bodies, namely, the "Free Christian Bap- 

 tist General Conference," and the "Free-will 

 Baptist Quarterly Meeting," met on November 

 29th, at Barrington in convention, for the pur- 

 pose of consolidation, and successfully accom- 

 plished their object. The united body will be 

 called the "Free-will Baptist Conference of 

 Nova Scotia." 



According to the Free-Will Baptist Register 

 for 1867 (Dover, N. II.), tho statistics of this 

 denomination were, in 1866, as shown in the 

 following table. It will be seen there was an 

 increase over the preceding year of twelve 

 churches, fourteen licentiates, and two thou- 

 sand one hundred and eighty-two communi- 

 cants : 



