BAPTISTS. 



May 21st. The report showed the total re- 

 ceipts for the year from all sources to have 

 been $246,593.44, and the expenditures $245,- 

 733.09. Three hundred and thirty-seven mis- 

 sionaries bad been supported in the Northern 

 Department, of whom one hundred and sixty- 

 seven had labored west of the Mississippi 

 River, and thirty-two on or beyond the Rocky 

 Mountains. They returned 2,117 persons 

 baptized, and 25,538 in the Sunday-schools. 

 The number of missionaries supported in the 

 Southern States and Mexico was one hundred 

 and three; forty-one churches had been or- 

 ganized in this part of the field, 2,977 persons 

 baptized, and between 700 and 800 freedmen 

 and students were under instruction. 



The anniversary of the American Baptitt 

 Bible and Publication Society was held at Al- 

 bany, May 22J. The entire receipts of the 

 -ty in all departments for the year ending 

 March 1, 1873, were $403,823.82, or $17,454.- 

 87 larger than the receipts for any previous 

 year. Of this amount, $324,201.36 were re- 

 ceived in the business department, being $11,- 

 203.58 less than were received the previous 

 year in the same department; while $79,770.- 

 46 were received in the missionary depart- 

 ment, being $28,658.45 more than the receipts 

 of the previous year. Twenty thousand dol- 

 lars of the amount of the receipts reported 

 had been contributed especially for the Bible 

 and Sunday-school work in Italy. The publi- 

 cations of the Society for the year included 

 "> t U>23 copies of books and tracts, six periodi- 

 cals, a series of Bible-lessons, and the Amer- 

 ican Baptist Tear-Book. The effort to unite 

 tliH Society with the American and Foreign 

 Bible Society having failed, a request was 

 nted from the Executive Board of the 

 latter Society that this one resume its former 

 name of the "American Baptist Publication 

 Society." An amendment to the constitution 

 to <ri ve effect to the desired change was adopted. 



The annual meeting of the American Bap- 

 tist IT'wtoriral Society was held at Albany, 

 May 23d. The report showed the receipts for 

 the year to have been $477, and the expendi- 

 tures $367. The number of additions to the 

 library during the year was : of books, 221 ; 

 of pamphlets, 1,226 ; of manuscripts (chiefly 

 historical), 83. Autograph letters of eminent 

 Baptists, likenesses, and yiews of Baptist public 

 buildings, had been procured. The library con- 

 tained, at the time the report was made, more 

 thtin 6,000 volumes, many of which were rare. 



The second annual report of the two Wom- 

 n' Baptist Missionary Societies shows the 

 receipts of the Eastern Society (office at Bos- 

 ton), for the year ending with March, 1H73, to 

 have been $22,629, and those of the Western 

 Society (office at Chicago), for the same time, 

 to have been $7,368. The Eastern Society 

 supports nine women missionaries, one native 

 preacher, and four t Bible- women, and helps 

 support 15 schools, in which are more than 

 500 scholars. The Western Society supports 



six women missionaries and four Bible-women, 

 and helps support five schools. 



The twenty-fourth anniversary of the Amer- 

 ican Bible Union was held in New York, 

 October 1st. The object of this Society is 

 to effect new translations of the Bible. The 

 Books of Joshua (revised by Dr. Bliss) and 

 Judges (revised by Drs. Hackett and Bliss) had 

 been printed during the year, and were report- 

 ed ready for circulation. The Book of Isaiah 

 (revised by Dr. Conant) was in press. Forty- 

 nine thousand one hundred and sixty-seven 

 bound copies of the sacred Scriptures had 

 been given to churches, Sunday-schools, be- 

 nevolent organizations, and individuals, during 

 the year. Six hundred copies of Spanish Script- 

 ures had been given away for circulation in 

 Mexico, and one hundred copies for circula- 

 tion in the city of New York. Copies of the 

 Scriptures had also been distributed in the 

 Italian, German, and Welsh languages. Dr. 

 Conant, under whose supervision a large part 

 of the work of revision is done, is also one 

 of the members of the American Committee 

 who are cooperating in the work of revision 

 which is going on under the direction of the 

 English Convocation of Canterbury. The re- 

 ceipts of the Union for the year were $C3,- 

 707.51, and its expenditures $65,481.41. 



The eighteenth meeting of the Southern 

 Baptist Convention was held at Mobile, Ala., 

 beginning May 8th. The Rev. J. P. Boyce, 

 D. D., of South Carolina, was elected presi- 

 dent. The Board of Foreign Mi*sion re- 

 ported that their gross receipts for the year 

 had been $51,023.82, of which 22,263 were 

 for the chapel in Rome. The amount of 

 $3,834.49 had been contributed to the latter 

 sum from the Northern States, and $1,240.20 

 from England and Scotland. The entire receipts 

 were more than double the average receipts 

 of the preceding six years. It was remarked 

 with regret that, contrary to the understand- 

 ing expressed at the preceding meeting of 

 the convention, the extraordinary interest 

 taken in the chapel at Rome had diverted at- 

 tention and contributions from the general 

 fund. The effort to buy a house at Rome 

 had not, as yet, succeeded. The Rev. Dr. G. 

 B. Taylor had been appointed missionary to 

 Italy, and was expecting to sail at an early 

 day. The Board had already stations at Rome, 

 Civita Vecchia, Bari, . Bologna, Modena, 

 Carpe, and La Tour, with 277 members. The 

 direct receipts of the Board of Domestic Mis- 

 tions for the year closing with the time of the 

 meeting of the convention were $27,199.20. 

 Considerable sums had also been employed 

 nnder the direction of the different associa- 

 tions in what was styled " State work." These 

 sums and the balance from the previous year 

 added to the direct receipts reported by the 

 Board, made the whole amount, subject to use 

 during the year in the work of homo mis- 

 sions, $46,784.35. The work of the Board had 

 been prosecuted to the extent of its financial 



