BAPTISTS. 



65 



Oct. to Oct. 



1853-1854 

 1854-1855, 

 1855-1856, 



1856-1857, 

 1857-1858. 

 1858-1859. 



1860-1861. 

 1861-1862. 



1863-1864. 

 1864-1865. 

 1865-1866. 

 1866-1867. 

 1867-1868. 



Exchanges. 



$5,750,455,987 



6,362,912,098 



6,906,213,328 



8,333,226,718 



4,756,664,386 



6,448,005,956 



7,231,143,056 



5,915,742,758 



6,871,443,591 



14,867,597,848 



24,097,196,655 



26,032,384,341 



28,717,146,914 1,066,135,106 

 28,675,159,472 1,144,963,4511 

 28,484,288,636 1,125,455,236 



Cash balances Average daily A v. daily 

 paid. exchanges. balance. 



$297,411,493 



334,714,489 

 365,313,901 

 314,238,910 



415,530,331 



885,719,204 

 1,035,765,107 



$19,104,504 

 17,412,052 

 22,278,107 

 26,968,371 

 15,393,735 

 20,867,333 

 23,401,757 



22,237,681 

 48,428,657 

 77,984,455 



940,565 

 1,079,724 

 1,182,245 

 1,016,954 

 1,177,943 

 1,232,017 

 1,151,087 

 1,344,758 

 2,207,252 

 2,866,405 



84,796,040 3,373,827 



93,541,195 3,472,752 



93,101,167 3,717,413 



92,182,163 3,642,249 



TJie Philadelphia Clearing-house. Aggregate Opera- 

 tions from March 22, 1858, to January, 1869. 



To 

 Jan'y. 



1859. 

 1860. 

 1861. 

 1862. 

 1863. 

 1864. 

 1865. 

 1866. 

 1867. 



Exchanges. 



$663,707,303 



1,026,715,542 



1,099,817,007 



771,071,475 



1,285,910,685 

 2,037,729,220 

 1,908,500,018 

 1,765,682,747 

 1,641,019,118 

 1,740,641,117 



$142,906,477,940 $1,245,556,388 



Cash balances 

 paid. 



$44,773,131 

 64,213,066 

 72,395,749 



82,874,087 



148.180,902 

 160,897,767 

 156,401,271 



Av. daily 

 exchanges. 



$2,742,592 

 3,322,704 

 3,559,278 

 2,511,656 

 3,125,191 



6,594,592 

 6,257,377 

 5,732,736 

 5,327,984 

 5,651,464 



Av. daily 

 balances. 



$185,012 



207,809 

 234,290 



387,522 

 479,549 

 527,533 

 507,796 



536,654 



BAPTISTS. The collective name of those 

 Christian denominations which reject the va- 

 lidity of infant baptism, and hold that the 

 ordinance of baptism can be administered only 

 to those who have made a personal profession 

 of faith in Christ. The Baptist churches also, 

 in general, maintain that the entire immersion 

 of the body is the only scriptural mode of 

 baptism ; yet the Mennonites, who are gener- 

 ally regarded as Baptists, use sprinkling. 

 The most -numerous organization of Baptists 

 are the Kegular Baptists in the United States, 

 who number over 1,000,000 members. The 

 Free- Will Baptists are Armenians in theology 

 and open communionists, while the Eegular 

 Baptists are Calvinists and close communion- 

 ists. The "Liberal Baptists" and "General 

 Baptists " in the United States generally agree 

 with the Free- Will Baptists. The Disciples of 

 Christ reject all creeds and confessions of 

 faith as of human origin, and believe that the 

 effect of baptism is the remission of sins. The 

 "Church of God" believes feet-washing to be, 

 in addition to Baptism and the Lord's Supper, a 

 positive ordinance of perpetual standing in the 

 Church. The "Particular Baptists" in England 

 are Calvanists, and divided on the subject of 

 strict communion. The "General Baptists" lean 

 toward the Unitarians, while the "New Con- 

 nection of General Baptists" are Armenians. 

 The Baptist churches on the continent of Eu- 

 rope, in Asia, Africa, and Australia, are chiefly 

 branches of the Regular Baptists in the United 

 States, and of the Particular Baptists of England. 



I. REGULAR BAPTISTS IN AMEEICA. The sta- 

 tistics of regular Baptists in the United States, 

 and British possessions of North America, as 

 reported in 1868, were as follows : 

 VOL. vm. 5 A 



These Provinces report 444 ministers and 

 2,036 baptisms. 



The anniversaries of the (Northern) Baptist 

 Societies were held in May, in New York. 

 The receipts of the Publication Society, in 

 both the Missionary and Business Departments, 

 were $234,412, an increase of $34,685 over 

 the preceding year. It was resolved to estab- 

 lish branch houses in New York and St. Louis. 

 The society, during the year, issued 59 new 

 publications and sold in all 46,970 volumes. 

 The papers published by the society are the 



