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one in principle, and should be more closely 

 identitK-<l. The members of the Church of 

 Ood were, however, tenacious in regard to 

 the name of their denomination. Fraternal 

 ings were exchanged with the American 

 ;:in Conference, which was in session at 

 the same time at Stanfordville, N. Y., and a 

 ittco was appointed to confer with a 

 committee of thiit body as to the propriety 

 and means of uniting the two bodies into one 

 1-1*11 tVrence. The fact was observed that the 

 Free-will Baptists had no representative at the 

 iiu-cting of the Evangelical Alliance held in 

 New York, in October, 1878. That such an 

 ion might not aguin occur, a resolution 

 \vus passed directing "the consummation of 

 UK- ordinary denominational relationship" be- 

 tween the Conference and the Evangelical 

 Alliance, and the Rev. G. T. Day was appoint- 

 ed a delegate to attend the next session of the 

 Alliance; delegates were also received from the 

 General Missionary Convention of the Disci- 

 pk-d of Christ, and from other religious bodies. 

 Resolutions were passed pledging the denom- 

 ination to the principle of total abstinence 

 from the use, manufacture, and sale of intoxi- 

 _ liquors, favoring the policy of prohibi- 

 tory laws and the support of friends of temper- 

 ance for office, and expressing sympathy with 

 tin.- efforts of the women in behalf of temper- 

 ance. 



The report of the Sunday-School Union to 

 the General Conference showed its work to 

 have been conducted with great vigor. De- 

 tailed reports were given from 887 out of 

 1,504 churches, representing 56 out of 161 quar- 

 terly meetings, which showed the number of 

 scholars in schools connected with reporting 

 churches to be 29,950, and the number of 

 teachers 2,646. The report of the treasurer 

 of the Education Society, made at its annual 

 meeting held during the session of the General 

 Conference, showed his receipts for the year 

 to have been $7,703.62, and his expenditures 

 $6,752.29. The total receipts of the Printing 

 Establishment at Dover, N. H., for the preced- 

 ing three years, were reported to the Gen- 

 eral Conference to have been $187,065.42. 

 The assets of the establishment were valued 

 at $74,032.72, and its liabilities were re- 

 ported to be $3,489.26. The receipts of the 

 Home Mission Society for the year were re- 

 ported at the annual meeting, held October 

 9th, to have been $9,110.82, and its expendi- 

 tures $8,290.81. The permanent fund amount- 

 ed to $4,594.97. The liabilities of the society 

 were $7,336.30, and its assets $6,261.80, leav- 

 ing a balance against it of $1,074.50. More 

 than 2,800 members had been added to the 

 Church through the agency of the society in 

 the South, during the preceding year. 



The report of the Foreign Missionary Soci- 

 ety, made at the anniversary held during the 

 meeting of the General Conference, showed 

 the balance in the treasury, August 80, 1878, 

 to have been $4,201.33 ; that the receipts dur- 



ing the year had been $14,968.65, and the ex- 

 penditures $16,055.24, and that a balance re- 

 mained in the treasury, August 80, 1874. of 

 $8,112.74. The year's receipts for the Bible 

 and Tract cause had been $89.27, and the ex- 

 penditures $35.27. One hundred dollars had 

 been added to the permanent fund, and that 

 fund now amounted to $7,808.02. The society 

 had the charge of five missionary churches, 

 with 371 members and 643 Sunday-school 

 scholars. Two quarterly meetings had been 

 formed in India (those of Balason and Midna- 

 pore), and they had united in a yearly meet- 

 ing known as the Orissa Yearly Meeting. Five 

 male and eight female missionaries, three or- 

 dained and three licensed preachers, twelve 

 native lay preachers, and several girls employed 

 as teachers, were engaged in the work of the 

 at society. A printing-office was in operation 

 at Midnapore. 



The General Conference of the Free Baptist* 

 in New Brunswick met October 12th. The 

 number of churches was reported to be 138, of 

 which 43 had regular pastoral oversight ; the 

 number of ordained ministers was 41, of whom 

 only 28 were regularly engaged with churches. 

 Five hundred and thirty-three additions by 

 baptism had been made during the year. 



The Free Baptist Conference in Nova Scotia 

 numbers thirty churches, fourteen ordained 

 ministers, of whom thirteen are reported as in 

 active service, and 3,000 communicants. One 

 hundred and fifty persons were added to the 

 churches by baptism in the last ecclesiastical 

 year. 



III. SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS. At the meet- 

 ing of the General Conference of this body, 

 September 23d, the clerk reported that there 

 were 83 churches on the roll, from 62 of 

 which reports had been received. Including 

 the statistics of the other churches as given in 

 the minutes of the year before, the whole num- 

 ber of members in the denomination appeared 

 to be 8,237. The net increase of membership 

 reported during the year was 298. Contribu- 

 tions of $3,217.10 to benevolent enterprises 

 were reported from thirty churches. 



The receipts of the Seventh-Day Baptist 

 Educational Society were reported at its an- 

 niversary, September 25th, to have been 

 $1,755. The policy of organizing and con- 

 ducting schools on a denominational basis was 

 insisted upon. 



The receipts of the Setenth-Day Baptist 

 Tract Society, for the three years ending with 

 its anniversary in 1874, were $9,577.44, and its 

 expenditures $7,257.80, leaving a balance in its 

 treasury of $2,319.64. 



The receipts of the Seventh-Day Baptist 

 Missionary Society were reported at its anni- 

 versary, September 24th, to have been $4,030.- 

 99. A balance of $811.48 over the expendi- 

 tures was carried to a new account. The re- 

 ceipts of the society for the meeting-house 

 fund had been $32.53, and those for the special 

 fund $3,349.28. The foreign mission of the 



