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and 2,953 communicants; and a decrease of 43 

 licentiates. The benevolent institutions of this 

 Church are a Foreign Missionary Society, a Home 

 Missionary Society, an Educational Society, a 

 Systematic Beneficence Society, an Antislavery 

 Society, and a Sabbath-School Union. There 

 are also a branch Mission Society in the State 

 of New York and a Western Home Mission 

 Committee. The printing establishment at 

 Dover, New Hampshire, publishes a weekly 

 religious paper, a Quarterly Review, and a 

 Sabbath-school paper. Another weekly paper 

 is published at Chicago. The educational in- 

 stitutions are a Biblical School at New Hamp- 

 ton, New Hampshire, three colleges, and ten 

 seminaries and academies. The Free-Will Bap- 

 tist Foreign Mission Society supports a mission 

 at Orissa, in India. 



III. The statistics of other denominations that 

 practise immersion are as follows : 



The one hundred and ninety-seventh an- 

 niversary of the "Rhode Island and Massa- 

 chusetts General Six-Principle Baptist Asso- 

 ciation of the Ancient Order of the Six 

 Principles of the Doctrines of Christ and the 

 Apostles " met this year at Kingston, Rhode 

 Island. Massachusetts holds an ancient place 

 in the above extended title by virtue of two 

 churches in Bristol County, of sixty-five mem- 

 bers, one organized in 1693, and the other 

 in 1725. The church in North Kingston, where 

 this small body of the Baptist family assem- 

 bled for its present annual meeting, begins 

 its history in 1665, when the shores of the bay 

 were an unbroken wilderness, and the pale-faces 

 lived by the good- will of the Narragan setts. The 

 " six principles " from which this sect takes its 

 name are found in Hebrews vi. 1, 2, and com- 

 prise its articles of faith or creed repentance, 

 faith, baptism, laying on of hands, resurrection, 

 and a general judgment. The fourth " principle " 

 has the same place as the third, and all per- 

 sons received into the church have the imposi- 

 tion of hands, similar to confirmation of the 

 Episcopalians. This sect is fast decreasing, and 

 has little representation out of Rhode Island. 



IV. GEEAT BKITAEST. The largest bodies of 

 Baptists in Great Britain are the "Particular" 

 or " Calvinistic Baptists," corresponding to the 

 regular Baptists in the United States; the 

 " General Baptists," who lean toward the Uni- 

 tarians, and the "New Connection of General 

 Baptists," who are Arminians. At the session 



* The Baptist Almanac Vobtained from two prominent 

 ministers of this denominatida the statistics for 1866. The 

 statements, however, differ essentially, the one giving the 

 total membership as 25,000, the other as 40,000. We have 

 taken the average of these figures as most likely to be correct. 



of the (Particular) Baptist Union of England in. 

 April, 1866, 2,023 churches reported 209,773 

 members, showing an increase from the year 

 before of 130 churches and 4,973 members. 

 But 400 small churches are still unreported. 

 Fifty-six new chapels were erected during the 

 year, with sittings for about 25,000 persons, and 

 25 new churches were originated. The Baptist 

 Handbook for 1867 gives the names of about 

 1,994 pastors in England and Wales, of whom 

 386 are without a pastoral charge, 19 in Ire- 

 land, and 92 in Holland ; but many of these are 

 engaged .in secular business. There are 11 col- 

 leges, 18 tutors, and 262 students. During the 

 year there had been 103 settlements, and 19 

 ministers had died ; 39 new chapels had been 

 erected, and 29 enlarged. 



The following statistics of other Baptists in 

 Great Britain are given by the census of 1851 : 



V. CONTINENT OF EUROPE. According to 

 the last annual report of the American Baptist 

 Missionary Union, the statistics of Baptists on 

 the Continent of Europe were as follows: 



The receipts of the Baptist Missionary Society 

 in 1867 were 30,104 8*. Id., somewhat in ad- 

 vance of those of last year. They have been 

 exceeded by the expenditures, which have been 

 increased chiefly because of the advance of the 

 prices of living in India, The society publishes 

 three periodicals, two monthly and one quar- 

 terly. The mission stations, etc., are as follows : 

 India, 4 stations, 9 English missionaries and 

 assistants, 8 natives; Bengal, 07 stations, 18 

 English, 98 natives ; Northern India, 14 sta- 

 tions, 11 English, 61 natives; Southern India, 

 2 stations; China, 3 stations, 2 English, 6 na- 

 tives; Ceylon, 57 stations and sub-stations, 3 

 English, 17 assistants; West Indies, 6 missions, 

 2 missionaries, 6 assistants; Bahamas, 42 sta- 

 tions, 2 missionaries, 71 assistants; Hayti, 26 

 stations, 2 missionaries, 7 assistants and Bible 



