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BAPTISTS. 



The following table shows the number of 

 Baptist churches and members in other Amer- 

 ican countries : 



The annual meeting of the American Bap- 

 tist Publication Society was held at Saratoga 

 Springs, New York, May 29th. The receipts of 

 the Society in its business and missionary de- 

 partments for the year had been $335,413, or 

 $30,803 more than those of the previous year. 

 Subscriptions had been secured sufficient to 

 provide for the payment of the entire debt of 

 the Society, about $25,000, of which $19,420 



had been paid in. The publications included 

 57,500 copies of new works, 101,925 copies of 

 works already on the catalogue, and 106,000 

 copies of tracts. The number of publications on 

 the catalogue was now 1,158. The meeting re- 

 solved that particular attention should be paid 

 to the colored men who should emigrate from 

 the Southern to the Northern States. It also 

 decided to confer with the Southern Baptist 

 Convention with reference to publishing cate- 

 chisms as nearly as possible identical. 



The forty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 American .Baptist Home Mission Society was 

 held at Saratoga Springs, New York, May 

 29th. The receipts of the Society for the year 

 had been $217,093, and the expenditures $175,- 

 209. The debt had been reduced from $45,- 

 433 to $30,597. The Society had employed, 

 including teachers, 246 missionaries, or 24 

 more than in the previous year, who had or- 

 ganized 42 schools, and reported 1,172 bap- 

 tisms and 19,923 children in Sunday-schools. 

 Nine preaching missionaries had been em- 

 ployed among the Indian tribes in the Indian 

 Territory. Schools were taught among the 

 freedmen in the Indian Territory under a con- 

 tract between the Government and the Socie- 

 ty. The chief work of the Society among the 

 freedmen had been in maintaining the eight 

 schools for teachers and preachers, viz. : Way- 

 land Seminary, Washington, D. 0. ; Richmond 

 Institute, Richmond, Va. ; Shaw University, 

 Raleigh, N. C. ; Benedict Institute, Columbia, 

 8. C. ; Augusta Institute, Augusta, Ga. ; Le- 

 land University, New Orleans, La. ; Natchez 

 Seminary, Natchez, Miss. ; Nashville Institute, 

 Nashville, Tenn. ; which together returned 46 

 teachers and 726 young men and 315 young 

 women in all 1,041 as pupils. A school had 

 also been established by the colored people 

 themselves at Selma, Ala., to which designated 

 funds were sent through the Society. The 

 school at Augusta, Ga., was to be removed to 

 Atlanta, Ga. 



The Women? s Baptist Home Mission Society 

 had employed 14 missionaries, of whom 11 had 

 labored among the freedmen, one among the 

 Scandinavians of the Northwestern States, and 

 two among the Indians in the Indian Territory. 



The sixty -fifth annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Baptist Missionary Union was held at Sar- 

 atoga Springs, New York, May 27th. The re- 

 ceipts of the Union for the year had been $252,- 

 677, of which $17,247 were in the shape of 

 additions to the invested funds. The sum 

 applicable to the payment of current expenses 

 was $235,430. Of the receipts, $46,450 were 

 contributed through three women's societies, 

 $357 from India, $4,242 from Burmah, $1,- 

 228 from Assam, and $836 from China. 

 The Rangoon Baptist College had 111 pupils. 

 A new building for this institution, called 

 "Ruggles Hall," was dedicated on the 13th 

 of February, 1879. The theological seminary 

 at Rangoon was in its twentieth year, but had 

 suffered severely from sickness, the 49 pupils 



