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BAPTISTS. 



churches of that city. The design is to have 

 this embrace all local organizations in aid of 

 ministerial students, and thus secure concert 

 of action. 



According to tables of statistics published in 

 the National Baptist, the Baptists have 27 col- 

 leges, universities, and theological seminaries, 

 with 141 instructors, 1,406 students, and 124,666 

 volumes in their libraries. The value of the 

 property of these institutions is $2,583,000, and 

 of their endowments $2,213,483. The Bap- 

 tists have seven schools for freedmen in the 

 South, as follows : the Wayland Seminary, at 

 Washington; Colver Institute, Eichmond, 

 Virginia ; Shaw Collegiate Institute, Baleigh, 

 North Carolina; Benedict Institute, Colum- 

 bia, South Carolina; Augusta Institute, Au- 

 gusta, Georgia; Leland University, New Or- 

 leans, Louisiana; Nashville Institute, Nash- 

 ville, Tennessee. The property of these schools 

 is valued at more than $100,000, and is all clear 

 of debt. 



The American Baptist Free Missionary So- 

 ciety held its twenty-eighth annual meeting at 

 Sampton, New Jersey, October llth. The 

 condition of the missions had undergone but 

 little change since the last meeting. The 

 financial condition of the society had im- 

 proved. The Kentucky schools were discon- 

 tinued on the withdrawal of Government aid 

 and the closing of the Freedmen's Bureau. 

 The Burinan mission was reported self-sus- 

 taining ; the Bassein mission had been trans- 

 ferred to the American Baptist Missionary 

 Union. The mission to Japan is continued, 

 and promises well. A plan for union with 

 the consolidated convention (colored) has 

 been under consideration for some time. At 

 the present meeting of the society, the ques- 

 tion of forming the union or of continuing the 

 society was referred to the board, with power 

 to perfect such arrangements for the future, 

 not inconsistent with the principles of the 

 society, as they might deem expedient. 



The Southern Baptist Convention met at St. 

 Louis, Missouri, May 4th. Delegates attend- 

 ed from Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, 

 Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Mis- 

 souri, Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, Lou- 

 isiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, "West Virginia, 

 and China. There were also a large number 

 of visiting delegates from several of the North- 

 ern States. The report of the Board of For- 

 eign Missions indicated a more increased inter- 

 est and progress in the work than had been 

 expected, in consideration of the still compara- 

 tively unsettled condition of business and in- 

 dustry. Several new missionaries had been 

 sent out during the year, and the working 

 force in the mission-fields had been strength- 

 ened by the ordination of native ministers. 

 Altogether, the working-force in the foreign 

 field was more than doubled during the year. 

 The missions especially named as having ad- 

 vanced were those at Shantung, Shanghai, and 

 Canton, China ; the African mission, and that 



of Borne, where the Rev. Dr. Cote was sta- 

 tioned early after the occupation of the city 

 by the Italian Government. Dr. Cote has 

 planned an extensive work with evangelists 

 and colporteurs through the entire length of 

 the Italian peninsula. A mission is conduct- 

 ed in France under the direction of this board. 

 The receipts for the fiscal year were $27,254.51 ; 

 the expenditures were $24,295.84. The Board 

 of Home and Domestic Missions reported op- 

 erations among the Indians, the German and 

 Chinese population employed on the railroads, 

 among the colored people, and with the white 

 population. One hundred and thirty-four mis- 

 sionaries are employed by the board ; one hun- 

 dred and fifty are employed by the boards of 

 the State conventions ; and seventeen are sup- 

 ported by district associations. The expendi- 

 tures of the General Board in this work were 

 $27,000 ; of the State conventions, $41,744.35 ; 

 of the district associations, $5,000. The Sun- 

 day-school Board publish a monthly and a 

 semi-monthly paper. Their receipts were 

 $19,186.98. The office of the Board of For- 

 eign Missions is in Richmond, Virginia ; that 

 of the Board of Domestic Missions is at Ma- 

 rion, Alabama ; and that of the Sunday-school 

 Board is at Memphis, Tennessee. Much atten- 

 tion was given in the discussions of the con- 

 vention to the subjects of the education of the 

 freedmen and of the Chinese laborers. The 

 following is an exhibit of the receipts of the 

 three boards for the year ending in 1871, as 

 compared with those of the previous year : 



The following is a tabular statement of the 

 contributions from each State to the three 

 boards, with the increase, or decrease, as 

 compared with the sums reported at the ses- 

 sion of the convention in 1870 : 



The third General Conference of the Ger- 

 man Baptists (regular), in the United States, 

 was held in New York, commencing October 

 5th. The business of the body had reference 

 to the German Baptist Publication Society, the 

 German branch of the Rochester Theological 



