BAPTISTS. 



BAVARIA. 



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of the conference, a majority report had been 

 received from a committee appointed to con- 

 sider the subject, in favor of enforcing the rule 

 of close communion. At this session, the 

 minority of the same committee, who had not 

 been heard before, by permission presented a 

 report in favor of tolerating open communion. 

 The communication, and the whole subject of 

 communion, were then referred to a special 

 committee, with instructions to consider the 

 subject, prepare a discussion on both sides, and 

 publish the -same. Arrangements were made 

 for celebrating the bi-centennial anniversary 

 of the existence of the denomination in the 

 United States at the next General Conference, 

 which is to be held at Southampton, Illinois. 

 Papers are to be read on the history of the 

 denomination, its doctrines, its educational 

 and other interests, and other appropriate sub- 

 jects. A fund is to be raised on the basis of 

 average contributions of one dollar from each 

 member. There are several educational instir 

 tutions under the care of this denomination. 

 A small congregation of Seventh-day Baptists 

 has been built up at Shanghai, China. The 

 home-mission work is prosecuted in New Jer- 

 sey, West Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, 

 Kansas, and Nebraska. The Tract Society is 

 working with considerable energy in the dis- 

 semination of the Sabbath doctrines, and the 

 organization of churches. Its agents report 

 a considerable degree of success, the most 

 marked instances of which were exhibited in 

 Illinois, in the adhesion of eight Baptist minis- 

 ters to the views of this society, and the or- 

 ganization of several churches. The receipts 

 of this society were $3,487.26. It distributed 

 during the year 407,000 pages of tracts. It 

 has recently undertaken the establishment of 

 a publication-house, having already secured 

 subscriptions available for this purpose of 

 $11,000, which ^it ^will try to increase to 

 $15,000. The principal institution under the 

 care of the Educational Society is Alfred Uni- 

 versity, at Alfred, New York. It has a faculty 

 of 18 professors and teachers, and reported for 

 the academic year 1870-'71 408 pupils of both 

 sexes in all the classes, 99 being in the collegi- 

 ate department, and a year's expenditure of 

 $9,213.47. Milton College, Milton, Wisconsin, 

 reported 74 students in the collegiate depart- 

 ment, 163 in the preparatory, or academic 

 classes, and a year's expenditure of $4,613.89. 

 Albion Academy owns land and buildings 

 worth $50,000, and reports that the school 

 has grown beyond the expectations of the 

 trustees. 



At the General Conference of Seventh-day 

 Baptists, held in September, a representative 

 of the General Conference of the Seventh-day 

 Adventists gave an account of the missionary 

 operations of that denomination, explaining 

 that their plan of operations is to rely much 

 upon the membership of the churches to main- 

 tain regular religious services, while the or- 

 dained preachers are engaged mostly in the 



promulgation of their peculiar views, by 

 preaching in tent-meetings and outside of the 

 denomination proper. He estimated the num- 

 ber of church-members connected with that 

 people at between four and five thousand, and 

 thought there were some ten thousand persons 

 who might probably be described as holding 

 their views. 



IV. TUNKERS. The National Conference of 

 the branch of the German Baptists known as 

 " Tunkers " was held at Millersburg, Pa., on 

 the 30th of May. The " Tunkers " are under- 

 stood to collect no statistics, regarding them 

 as vanities. A writer in the Philadelphia 

 Press, who attended the meeting, ascertained 

 by inquiry that "the number of churches can- 

 not be much less than 500. There are cer- 

 tainly from 1,500 to 2,000 ministers and elders, 

 while the membership is about 100,000. There 

 are churches in nearly or quite all the Western 

 States even the newest, Kansas and Nebraska, 

 having churches and in some of the former 

 slave States, especially Tennessee, Missouri, 

 and North Carolina. West of the Eocky Moun- 

 tains, churches have been formed in California 

 and Oregon. The denomination is steadily ex- 

 tending itself in the West. Missionaries are 

 appointed to travel over new sections of the 

 country, and to organize churches wherever 

 proper." They publish several periodicals and 

 a few standard works. They call themselves 

 "German Baptists," and "Brethren." They 

 do not use the term " Tunkers " among them- 

 selves, but are said not to particularly object 

 to it. They keep the seventh day as the sab- 

 bath. 



V. GENERAL BAPTISTS (England). The in- 

 come of the General Baptist Missionary So- 

 ciety is reported 9,126 14s. $d. The society 

 employs six men as missionaries, seven women, 

 and sixteen native preachers, in India. 



BAVARIA, a kingdom in South Germany. 

 King, Ludwig II., born August 25, 1845 ; suc- 

 ceeded his father, Maximilian II., on March 

 10, 1864; heir-apparent, his brother Otto, born 

 April 27, 1848. Prime-Minister (1871), Count 

 von Hegnenberg-Dux ; Minister of Finances, 

 A. von Pfretzschner ; Minister of War, Lieuten- 

 ant-General S. Baron von Pranckh ; Minister 

 of Public Worship, J. von Lutz ; Minister of 

 the Interior and Minister of Justice, Dr. J. II. 

 Faustle ; Minister of Commerce, State Council- 

 lor von Schubert ; First President of the Cham- 

 ber of the Reichsraethe (First Chamber), Baron 

 T. Schenk von Stauffenberg ; Second President, 

 Baron von Schrenk; First President of the 

 Chamber of Deputies, Baron von Ow ; Second 

 President, Count von Seinsheim-Grunbach. 

 The area of Bavaria is 29,292 square miles ; 

 the population, according to the census of 1867, 

 was 4,824,421. The population of the largest 

 cities was as follows: Munich, 170,688: Nu- 

 remberg, 77,895; Augsburg, 50,067; Wurz- 

 burg, 42,185; Ratisbon, 30,357; Bamberg, 

 25,972; Furth, 22,496; Baireuth, 19,464. At 

 the close of the year 1870, the two Cham- 



