8 



_* poplls; the 81 cadral, eminaries, 

 faHttoUt; and female college 244 tMebera, 

 1,657 male and 2,W female pupil*. 



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 1,711 



.47 

 7.430 



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 8J.177 



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11.881 ' l.Sfi&.tS 



Tlie Amtrtran Baptut Year- Boole for 1873 

 pr* the following general summary of Bap- 

 tiiU In the world : 



The anniversaries of the Northern Bui 

 societies in the United States for Ib73 were 

 held at Albany, X. Y., from the 19th t(. the 

 23d of May. The meetings of the Amu 

 Jlaptut JJiuioiutry Union .were held May 

 19th and 20th. Tlio income for the year from 

 all source* was reported tc. Imve been $816,- 

 100.70, or about $6,000 more tlmn tlie inooOM 

 of any previous year. Tlio tv. Woman's 

 Societies, tin- Kastcrn and the We 

 contributed toward the support of women 

 laboring in foreign countries the enm of * 

 166.84. Including the sum of $18,768.07 up- 

 plied to the payment of the debt of the previous 

 year, the schedule of appropriations of the 

 Union had reached $258,170.84. The accounts 

 thus still showed a balance agaiot the Union 

 of $42,069.84. An amendment to the consti- 

 tution, the design of which was to make the 

 annual meeting a delcpated body instead of a 

 mass iiR-i'tint: of all the members who should 

 choose to attend, hml been proposed at a pre- 

 vious meeting, and laid over for the considera- 

 tion of this one. It was acted upon unfavor- 

 ably by the Board of Manafrtrp, who passed a 

 resolution that they did "not consider it ex- 

 pedient at present to make any change in the 

 terms of membership of tin- l"i< n.'' A : 

 lution of sympathy with tlie undertaking by 

 the Southern Baptist Convention of a mi 

 in Rome was adopted. 



The Board of Councillors of the American 

 Daptitt Educational Commiuion nut at Al- 

 bany, May 20th. The Executive Committee, in 

 their report, presented two questions as de- 

 manding consideration and action: 1. AVhrtlur 

 the time had arrived for entering upon the 

 work of aiding in the fomidin;.' of institution* 

 of higher learning in States MM! r. pins re- 

 quiring exterior aid; 2. Whether it would bo 

 expedient to make the approaching national 

 centennial anniversary the occasion- of n simul- 

 taneous movement in all the States for the 

 endowment of institutions of learning? The 

 report of the committee was adopted, and its 

 MigsrestioiiH were approved by tlie Hoard of 

 Councillors. In their r. solutions on the points 

 ntfd. the Councillors pledged themselves 

 lain the Executive Committee in their 

 -"to collect and appropriate funds for 

 nourishing and sustaining, during periods of 

 (per'ud exigency, unendowed or inadequately 

 endowed institutions for higher learning in 

 States requiring exterior aid," according 

 the judgment of the committee such special 

 exigencies may require. The Hoard also ap- 

 proved the suggestion of the Executive Com- 

 mittee to have the approaching national ccn- 

 tenninl anniversary celebrated by a simultane- 

 ous movement in all the States and Ten i' 

 for the endowment of Baptist institutions of 

 l'-.-irninr. and invoked tin cooperation of nil 

 tli churches, societies, and other Baptist 

 In Klii-" in this movement. 



The anniversary of the American Jlaptitt 

 Home Mittionary Society was held at Albany, 



