BAPTISTS. 



iinday-school work to be applied to the 



liquidation <>t' debts, and all other available 



funds to he applied lor the same purpose as fast 



nt. It was estimated tlmt it would 



require $75,000 to be raised during the year to 



:i tlio work of the board and pay its debts. 



rustees of the Southern Baptist Theologi- 



minary were seeking to raise the sum of 

 $75,000 for the support of the seminary pend- 

 ing the completion of its endowment and its 

 removal to its permanent seat at Louisville, 



Forty thousand dollars had already been 

 pledged to this purpose. Upon the presenta- 

 tion of the case to the convention, $20,000 

 more were contributed. 



The Eastern Conference of German Baptist 



he and ministers met at Tavistock, 

 Ontario, September 10th. Reports from the 

 churches reported the whole number. of their 

 members to be 3,792. Four hundred and sev- 

 enty-eight baptisms had been made. The 

 Western Conference met at Green Garden, 

 Hill County, 111., September 10th. The sev- 

 eral churches reported a total membership of 

 8,493 souls, with 468 Sunday-schools and 8,192 

 scholars. The total amount of money raised 

 for the expenses of the churches and for benev- 

 olent causes and other enterprises was $40,051. 

 Tin.- Sunday-schools had also contributed the 

 sum of $2,285. The dividing line between the 

 two conferences corresponds with the eastern 

 boundary-line of the State of Ohio. The Ger- 

 man Baptist Union Association, or "Bundes 

 O inference," is composed of messengers of all 

 the churches included in the Eastern and West- 

 ern conferences, and meets every three years. 

 Its fourth meeting was held in Chicago, 111., 

 September 16th to 28d. Delegates were pres- 

 ent from Canada West, and the States of Con- 

 necticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In- 

 diana, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, 

 ami Minnesota. The Rev. G. Schulte, of New 

 York, was elected moderator; Prof. A. Rau- 

 schenbusch spoke in behalf of the German 

 department of Rochester Theological Semi- 

 nary. Twenty-two young men had received 

 instruction in this department, and a large 

 number were expected the next year. The 

 receipts of the German Baptist Publication 

 Society for the year ending January 1, 1874, 

 were reported to have been $19,978.15. It 

 was publishing three periodicals : the Sendbote, 

 weekly, with 4,800 subscribers; a child's paper, 

 with 8,500 subscribers; and the Sunday-school 

 Lessons, with two thousand subscribers. This 

 society is established at Cleveland, Ohio. It 

 was organized in 1865. From its beginning to 

 the 1st of January, 1874, it had published 79,- 

 500 copies of sixty-eight distinct works. 



The Baptist Convention of Nova Scotia, New 

 Brutiswick, and Prince Edward Island, held its 

 twenty-ninth annual meeting at St. John, N. B., 

 beginning August 22d. Judge M. Culley was 

 chosen president. The statistical reports fur- 

 nished by the minutes of the associations gave 

 the following results: 



The net increase for the year had been near- 

 ly eight per cent., a higher rate than had been 

 attained in any year since the formation of the 

 convention. The number of baptisms also ex- 

 ceeded that of any previous year. Twelve 

 ministers had been ordained during the year. 

 The educational interest of the convention is 

 confined chiefly to Acadia College. The en- 

 dowment fund of this institution amounted to 

 $43,357.22 paid and invested, and $21,854.25 

 of notes. The college had thirty-seven stu- 

 dents. The following resolutions were recom- 

 mended by the Committee on Education, and 

 were unanimously adopted by the convention : 



Resolved, That the convention tender its hearty 

 congratulations to the friends of free education in 

 New Brunswick, on the success which lias crowned 

 their zealous and united efforts, whereby the de- 

 signs of the advocates of sectarian education at the 

 public expense have been defeated. 



Resolved, That in view of the avowed determina- 

 tion of certain organs of ultramontane opinions, in 

 defiance of the will of the people, to effect the over- 

 throw of the non-sectarian school systems of the 

 maritime provinces, as well as in view of the alleged 

 fact that in some parts of Nova Scotia the school law 

 of that province is openly disobeyed, a committee be 

 appointed, to watch the proceedings of the oppo- 

 nents of free education, and to take such steps as 

 may tend to the exposure and removal of abuses. 



A meeting in the interest of foreign missions 

 was held August 25th. The total receipts for 

 the mission funds for the year were reported 

 by the treasurer to have been $7,771.27. The 

 societies had three missionaries at Bangkok, 

 Siam, two at Rangoon, and three at Tavoy, 

 Burmah. 



The anniversary of the Nova Scotia, Baptist 

 Home Missionary Union was held at Parrs- 

 borough, July 10th and llth. The total re- 

 ceipts for the year were reported by the gen- 

 eral agent to have been $6,251.22, and the 

 payments $5,292.27. Fifty-six missionaries 

 had been employed for longer or shorter pe- 

 riods during the year. Application was made 

 from the association of Prince Edward Island 

 to be received into the Union Home Missionary 

 work. 



The annual meeting of the Baptist Home 

 Missionary Contention East, of Canada, was 

 held in Montreal in September. The jurisdic- 

 tion of the convention extends from Belleville 

 to Quebec. It comprises twenty-six churches. 

 The treasurer submitted a report showing his 

 annual expenditures since 1870 to have been 



