BAPTISTS. 



Baptist Quarterly, the National Baptist Home Missionary Society Receipts, $25,- 



(weekly), and the Young Reaper (monthly), the 994.75 ; missionaries, 108 ; number of persons 



total number of publications, now on the baptized, 1,918, of whom 611 were colored ; 



society's catalogue, amounts to 982. The sermons preached, 7,369 ; visits made, 12,467. 



American Baptist Historical Society received Indian Missions Receipts, $452.83. Sunday- 



durin"- the year an addition of 294 volumes school Board Contributions, $2,521.98. Pub- 



for its library. The receipts of the American lications, 2,000 000 pages. 



Baptist Home Missionary Society were $6,237 II. "FEEE-WILL BAPTISTS," "LIBEEAL BAP- 



less than for the preceding year, amounting to TISTS," AND "GENEEAL BAPTISTS," m AMEE- 



$135736. The society sustained 331 mission- IOA. According to the Free -Witt Baptist 



aries,' 30 of whom devoted themselves to the Register for 1869, the statistics of this denomi- 



education of colored preachers. A magnifi- nation in 1868 were as follows : 



cent donation of 25,000 acres of land on the . 



Osage River, in Kansas, was received from the -BBS ^s 



Ottawa Indians, to establish a university. A YEARLY MEETINGS. |.s -3 -|| 



delegation from the Colored Baptist Conven- II I ^J 



tion, at Nashville, reported that that body 



represented a hundred thousand colored Bap- SfcwSrn) ! ! ! ! '. ! ! ! '. '. ! : ! '. ! ! 4 1 59 



tists. The American Baptist Missionary Union Maine (Central) .!!!'.".". ....'..'.. 5 Wo 90 6,136 



supports twelve missions. In Asia there are Penobscot 9 112 85 3,748 



18 Stations and 400 OUt-stations ; in the Euro- Rhode Island and Massachusetts. 3 43 44 4^997 



pean missions, 1,328 stations and out-stations. Holland Purchase 6 38 38 



The total number of American missionaries in gj Jquehanna "". ."!".""."! I! ""! 5 I? 29 



the Asiatic missions is 93; of active helpers, New York and Pennsylvania!!!! 4 40 30 1,043 



about 400. The number of members con- St. Lawrence 2 15 15 636 



nected with the missions is 43, 775 ; the num- central New York. .' "! I.*"! .*!'." 5 42 35 8,016 



ber of churches, 568; the number of bap- Pennsylvania 5 18 19 



tisms in Asia and Europe, 4,200. The Ameri- ggj (Northern) . anm ; !!!!!!!:' 4 is 15 



can Baptist Free Mission Society, which is now Ohio !.*.".' !.'."! .'.*!."."! 2 9 13 712 



in the twenty-sixth year of its existence, ex- M aron iV Ohic> 3 18 17 ^992 



pressed, at its anniversary, continued devotion Indiana !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 10 7 317 



to the antislavery principles of its organiza- Northern Indiana 4 24 19 615 



tion, which it considers not yet wholly beyond st^Joleph'B Vaii5y'. !!!!!!!!!!!!' 5 20 21 



the need of support, and opposed to all the Illinois 9 56 65 2,504 



ends and objects of colonization of the blacks Wisconsin 8 62 62 2,604 



1 / i j_1 1 ' 1 > *JlJl JU)\\ it Q /*') Oil 1.1 /iO 



in Africa, asserting their equal right with the Iowa (Northern) 4 27 22 



whites to choose the United States as their Canada West 3 



residence. The Bunion of the society with the Quarteri^' Meetings '' noV "c6n- ' 



consolidated Missionary Convention (of col- nected 9 46 36 



ored Baptists) which met at Nashville, Tenn., in Churches not connected ^ 6_ 5_ 147 



August, 1867, is regarded as accomplished, so Total 150 1,279 1,161 61,244 



far as harmony of action is concerned, though 



an organic union has not yet been effected. A Showing an increase of 2 quarterly meet- 

 correspondence has been carried on with the ings, 2 churches, 27 ministers, and 2,033 mem- 

 American Baptist Missionary Union, which bers. There are also 87 "licensed preachers." 

 has as yet not produced a definite result, The societies, etc., of the Free- Will Baptist 

 though both parties seem willing to enter the Church, are the printing establishments at Do- 

 union. The receipts of the society for the ver, N. H., and Chicago, a theological school 

 year were $19,005.72. Besides the missionaries at New Hampton, N. H., a Foreign Mission 

 in the Southern States, the society supports Society, a Home Mission Society, an Educa- 

 missionaries in Burmah and Japan. tion Society, a Female Systematic Beneficence 

 The Southern Baptist Convention met at Society, a Sabbath-school Union, a Temperance 

 Baltimore on the 7th of May, and was attended Society, the Western Home Mission Committee, 

 by about two hundred delegates. A delega- the New York State Mission Society, and the 

 tion from the American Home Missionary So- Commission for the Promotion of Education in 

 ciety, with which the convention has not been the South. 



in correspondence for many years, was warmly The Free-Will Baptists have four- colleges : 



welcomed. It v/as resolved to remove the Sun- Bates College, at Lewiston, Me. ; Hillsdale 



day-school Board to Memphis. Thirty churches College, at Hillsdale, Mich. ; West Virginia 



have been constituted among the freedmen by College, at Flemington, W. Va. ; and Kidge- 



the missionaries, twenty-four meeting-houses ville College, at Ridgeville, Ind. They have 



have been commenced, and ten finished. The thirteen male and female seminaries and acad- 



Board of Foreign Missions of this convention emies. 



sustains missions in China and Africa. The The twentieth Triennial Session of the Gen- 



followmg are the statistics of the other South- eral Conference of Free-Will Baptists met at 



-era Baptist Societies, as reported in 1868 : Buffalo, on the 7th of October. About seventy 



