BAPTISTS. 



able. But the great work of bis life was the 

 colossal statue of Arminius, or Hermann, the 

 Deliverer of Germany, on the Grotenburg, near 

 Detmold. It was begun as early as 1835, but 

 suspended in 1841, in consequence of the ex- 

 haustion of his funds. In spite of frequent 

 and bitter disappointment, Bandel never lost 

 the hope of completing a work which he looked 

 on as the first national monument of the great 

 battle in the Teutoburg Forest. After sacrific- 

 ing his entire private property in the prosecu- 

 tion of his labors, he saw at length, in 1871, 

 his work nearly finished. Then the Imperial 

 Government of Germany made an appropria- 

 tion of 10,000 thalers for its entire completion, 

 and on August 17, 1875, the statue was un- 

 veiled in the presence of the German Emperor, 

 a number of German princes, and a vast con- 

 course of people from all parts of the empire. 

 Simultaneously with the unveiling of the statue 

 on the Grotenburg, enthusiastic meetings in 

 commemoration of the event which this statue 

 was to celebrate took place in all the large 

 cities of Germany. Even in foreign countries, 

 as in the United States, the German popula- 

 tion took part in the celebration by sending tel- 

 egrams to the Emperor and Bandel, and by ap- 

 propriate addresses. The whole statue weighs 

 76,570 kilogrammes (one kilogramme = 2.20 

 Ibs.), of which 10,588 kilogrammes are copper, 

 63,076 wrought-iron, and 2,906 cast-iron. The 

 height of the statue is 17.3 metres up to the top 

 of the helmet, 19 metres to the end of the ex- 

 tended right hand, and 26 metres to the end of 

 the uplifted sword. The entire monument, 

 therefore, inclusive of the foundation, 31.4 me- 

 tres high, will attain the extraordinary height of 

 57.4 metres, or 183 feet. (For a full account 

 of the statue, and the ceremony of unveiling it, 

 see ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1875, page 355.) 

 Among the other works of Bandel, the follow- 

 ing are particularly noteworthy : " Amor and 

 Psyche," " Venus," and the monument on the 

 grave of Herr von Langer, the Director of the 

 Royal Art Academy in Munich. Bandel was 

 peculiarly noted for his works in marble, in the 

 artistic finish of which he is ranked by critics 

 among the best sculptors of modern times. In 

 1846 he published, with Massmann, "Der Ex- 

 sterstein in Westfalen." 



BAPTISTS. I. REGULAR BAPTISTS IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. In the following table is giv- 

 en a summary of the statistics of the Bap- 

 tist churches in the United States for 1875, 

 as they appeared in the American Baptist 

 Year-Boole for 1876 (published in January, 

 1876). The decrease from the previous year 

 which is apparent in some of the items is 

 explained by the fact that the anti-mission 

 Baptists, included in the tables of the pre- 

 vious years, were omitted in the present 

 one. They number 41,454 members. Had 

 they been included, the table would have 

 shown an increase of 95.583 members. The 

 number of additions by baptism during the 

 year was 32,515 : 



The annual meeting of the American Bap- 

 tist Publication Society was held at Buffalo, 

 N. Y., May 25th. The report stated that the 

 total receipts of the society for the year end- 

 ing March 1, 1876, had been $564,064.05. 

 Of this, $73,699.42 were received in the 

 Benevolent Department, leaving $490,364.63 

 as the amount received in the Business De- 

 partment. Of the latter sum, $180,203.57 

 had been given specifically for the publication 

 building, leaving the actual ordinary business 

 receipts of the year, $310,161.06. The new 

 building for the publication-house in Phila- 

 delphia had been finished, at a total cost for 

 ground, building, and furniture, of $258,586.68, 

 all of which was either paid or provided for, 

 and was formally opened February 29, 1876. 

 Eighteen new publications had been added to 

 the list of the society, of which 57,300 copies 

 had been printed. The total number of publi- 

 cations on the catalogue of the society, March 

 1, 1876, was 1,174. The Missionary Depart- 

 ment of the society had continued the Bible 

 and Sunday-school work at Rome, Italy, and 

 had sustained a general Sunday-school secre- 

 tary and State Sunday-school missionaries and 

 colporteurs in different States and Territories. 



