BAPTISTS. 



H. Lewis was chosen moderator. The trustees 

 of the Seventh-Day Baptist memorial fund re- 

 ported that the fund now amounted to $67,- 

 529.33. The receipts to the fund for the year 

 had been $3,441.81. The executive board of 

 the Sabbath-school department reported that 

 there were now in their statistical tables the 

 names of 73 schools, 893 officers and teachers, 

 and 4,957 scholars. Numerous Sabbath-school 

 institutes and normal classes for instruction 

 had been held in the several associations. A 

 committee who were appointed by the previ- 

 ous General Conference to prepare an exposi- 

 tion of the doctrines and usages of the denom- 

 ination offered two reports. The^najority re- 

 port recommended the reaffirmation of the old 

 expose, so amended as to embody in it the 

 amendments made at different times. The mi- 

 nority report recommended that the expose be 

 thoroughly revised, so as better to express the 

 views of the denomination as now held. Both 

 reports were recommitted, and the majority 

 and minority of the committee were requested 

 each to prepare a form of the expose in accord- 

 ance with their respective recommendations. 

 A committee which had been appointed by 

 the previous General Conference to address 

 a memorial to Congress concerning the pro- 

 posed so-called religious amendments to the 

 Constitution of the United States, reported 

 that they had addressed letters of inquiry to 

 the committee having the subject in charge ; 

 that three members of the committee had re- 

 plied that it would be best to move in the mat- 

 ter when the amendments were pressed by 

 their friends; that no efforts to press the 

 amendments had been made since the last ses- 

 sion of the Conference ; and that therefore no 

 occasion had arisen for the committee to take 

 further action. The canvass of the votes of 

 the churches upon the new constitution for the 

 General Conference submitted to them showed 

 that 37 churches had voted in favor of it, and 

 14 against it. The constitution, having re- 

 ceived the requisite majority of two-thirds of 

 the churches, represented, was declared adopt- 

 ed and in operation. The Committee on De- 

 nominational History reported that no books 

 or papers, or other contributions or items of 

 interest, had come into their charge during the 

 year. The committee appointed to raise money 

 for young men preparing for the ministry, 

 reported that they had received $242.79 and 

 had expended $158.26 upon seven young men. 

 Essays, appointed by the previous General 

 Conference, were read upon " The Scriptural 

 Idea of the Denomination and its Relation to 

 Individual Churches," by L. 0. Rogers, and 

 " The Scriptural Doctrine of the Future State 

 of the Dead," by T. R. Williams. 



IV. BAPTISTS IN NOVA SOOTIA, NEW BETTNS- 

 WICK, AND PEINOE EDWAED ISLAND. The fol- 

 lowing are the statistics of the Baptist churches 

 in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince 

 Edward Island, as derived from the Associa- 

 tion minutes for 1875 : 



The Convention of Baptists in Nova Scotia, 

 New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, 

 in 1874 decided to establish a mission among 

 the Karens in Siam, and sent out ten mission- 

 aries to open the work there. After spending 

 some time in examining their proposed field 

 of labor, these missionaries reported to the 

 Board of the Convention that the Karen pop- 

 ulation in the district assigned to them was so 

 sparse as to render it doubtful if any effective 

 work could be accomplished there, and asked 

 instructions regarding the course which they 

 should pursue. A special meeting of the con- 

 vention was held in May to consider this sub- 

 ject. An invitation was received at this meet- 

 ing from the Baptists of Ontario and Quebec, 

 to cooperate with them in their mission among 

 the Teloogoos of Cocanada, India. This invi- 

 tation was accepted, and the missionaries sent 

 out to Siam were advised to enter Cocanada 

 at once. 



The thirtieth annual meeting of the Baptist 

 Convention of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 

 and, Prince Edward Island was held at Hills- 

 burg, Nova Scotia, beginning August 21st. 

 T. H. Rand, D. (i. L., was chosen president. A 

 dispatch was received from the missionaries 

 of the convention who had been transferred 

 from Siam to Cocanada, stating that they had 

 reached their new field of labor, and were 

 "joyfully working" there. A resolution was 

 offered declaring an organic union of all the 

 Baptists of the Dominion in foreign mission 

 work to be desirable, but it was afterward 

 withdrawn because it was thought that the 

 time had not yet come for passing such a res- 

 olution. A committee was appointed to con- 

 sider the subject of extending the objects of 

 the convention so as to embrace a union for 

 home missions as well as for foreign missions. 



Y. BAPTISTS IN GEEAT BEITAIN. The Bap- 

 tist Union in Great Britain and Ireland met 

 for its regular annual session in London, April 

 26th. The Rev. Alexander Maclaren, of Man- 

 chester, was chosen president for the ensuing 

 year. An income of 10,582 in the number of 

 members was reported, a larger accession than 

 had been recorded in ten years. Sixty-three 

 young ministers had been added to the ranks 

 of the pastorate. Twenty-five new churches 

 had been originated, and thirty-eight new 



