BAPTISTS. 



87 



xt Southern I!apti>t 



file Society (es- 



I. The receipts of the treasury 



. including a balance on hand 



iineiiccmciit of tlu- year, amount to 



. Tin- appropriations to India were 



l"\\-: r>iirmc-e ami Karen Scriptures, 



s."ioo ; Teloogoo, $500; 



I ie Cliien, $000; Ningpo, $500; also 



ina by other channels. Issued from 



.luring tin- year, 21,988 copies' 



which number 5,863 were sold 



at full or minced prices. 



!'xi/>tiat Free Mission Society 



I in 18i;5). The twenty-fourth an- 



i' the American Baptist Free Mission 



held ;.t I 'laintield, New Jersey, May 



, . Receipts for the year, $21,318.97; 



ditnres, $is.:;:>7.o7; balance, $2,961.90. 



The hoard has minions in Japan, Rangoon, and 



in, Kurniah, and the South. Number of 



iiiong the freedmen in the Southern 



i, twenty-five. 



6. American Baptist Historical Society (es- 

 tablished in 1843). Added, during the past 

 "lumes; cash receipts, $368.21. The 

 library now comprises 3,040 volumes, and 13,300 

 pamphlets, 455 likenesses, 87 views of Baptist 

 d 328 historical manuscripts. The 

 object is to found a library containing whatever 

 - to the history of God's people in all ages, 

 illy of the. Baptists: and every thing 

 ;i or translated by Baptists in any lan- 

 liies and likenesses of eminent 

 Baptist persons; Baptist periodicals, reports, 

 minutes, etc. 



There were published, in 1867, in the United 

 . 30 Baptist periodicals (24 weekly, 10 

 monthly, -J quarterly), and 3 weekly periodicals 

 in tin Hritish Provinces. 

 The colored Baptists in the Southern States 

 :/cd a number of associations, which 

 connection with the societies in the 

 Northern States. The American Baptist Home 

 iety sustained, in 18G7, in the South- 

 ern States lit'iy ordained ministers. Ninety- 

 colored Baptist churches were aided by 

 eiety. The work of educating ministers 

 for this people has been prosecuted. Schools 

 -en Mistainedat Washington, Alexandria, 

 1 >per, Fredericksburg, Williamsburg, Rich- 

 Port -mouth, Raleigh, New Orleans, 

 Murfreesboro', Nashville, Albany, and Ashland. 

 lion has been given to more than three 

 hundred colored preachers and persons having 

 ministry in view. Among the colored 



the 



fifty-nine teachers have been employed 



hers of day-schools, who have had under 

 :uitiou ;. l:;ii pupils. The appropriations 

 in the education of freedmen for the year 

 amount to s:;',>.'.i25.11. 



The Southern P.aptist Convention met at 

 'his on May nth. Two hundred deh . 



nt from thirteen States, including 

 Q 1'' 'olumbia, The Foreign Mission 



reported the expenditures, amount' 

 s-J-J,uii(l, during the | 

 mi ions in China and Africa. Tlr 

 Hoard, located in Marion, Alabai;.. 

 leeted and distributed $44,000. It nuplo;.- 

 124 homo missionaries and 10 Indian 

 sionaries among the Indian tribes. The 

 Hoard of Indian Missions reported but little 

 progress during the past year, owing to a mea- 

 greness of funds. Six missions only had been 

 kept in the field. The receipts during the year 

 amounted to $6,740; the dLsbursome: 

 $6,639. It was resolved to hold future con- 

 ventions annually. The convention also adopted 

 a report in favor of contributing to the moral 

 and religious improvement of the colored peo- 

 ple, by the establishment of Sunday-schools, 

 missions, and day-schools, and to accept tilt- 

 cooperation of the Northern Baptist Home Mis- 

 sionary Society. They also invited the colored 

 Baptist churches to cooperate with them in sus- 

 taining missionaries and colonists fitted to mis- 

 sionary work in Africa. 



U. FREE- WILL BAPTISTS isr AMERICA. Ac- 

 cording to the Free - Will Baptist Register for 

 1868, the statistics of this denomination, in 1867, 

 were as follows: 



The number of quarterly meetings is 148. 

 The statistics show an increase of 1 quarterly 

 meeting, 12 churches, 24 ordained preac-hers, 



