BAPTISTS. 



BARRY, WILLIAM F. 



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The autumnal meeting of the Union was 

 held at Glasgow, beginning October 7th. The 

 fourth report of the annuity fund showed that 

 the total value of its securities in the hands of 

 the Treasurer was 73,882, and that more than 

 37,000 had been received in redemption of 

 promises amounting to 58,000. Sixty-eight 

 ministers, widows, and children were receiv- 

 ing annuities. The British and Irish Mission 

 reported that new stations had been opened 

 in England and Ireland, and that 611 members 

 had been added in the two kingdoms. The 

 labors of the special evangelists had been suc- 

 cessful, but more men were wanted. Ten mis- 

 sionaries had been accepted, and eight sent 

 out during the year to the foreign stations, in 

 pursuance of a resolution which had been 

 adopted in the previous year to raise funds to 

 send out twenty additional missionaries. Mr. 

 Watkins, of Bristol, who had made a gift in 

 the previous year for the African mission, had 

 offered to contribute 700, half the sum re- 

 quired, to send out twelve additional mission- 

 aries, if the rest were raised. The required 

 amount was obtained. Discussions were held 

 during the meeting on the subjects of the uso 

 and disuse of confessions of faith, the attitude 

 of the Union in relation to religious opinion 

 and belief, politics and the pulpit, and the re- 

 lations of the Union to other denominations. 

 A resolution was passed declaring that the 

 present condition of the country demanded 

 the serious consideration of the Christian com- 

 munity; expressing the judgment of the as- 

 sembly that the policy of the Government 

 " has been the cause of needless wars, has in- 

 volved the nation in grave financial difficulties, 

 and has failed to ameliorate by domestic legis- 

 lation the social and moral evils under which 

 the country suffers " ; and advising the mem- 

 bers of the Union to active and united efforts 

 to return members of Parliament pledged to 

 oppose that policy. 



( ir.NKi: u. BAPTISTS. The one hundred and 

 tenth annual meeting of the General Baptist 

 Association was held at Halifax, beginning 

 June 19th. The statistical reports showed 

 that the Association included 179 churches, 

 to which three new ones would be added, the 

 whole containing 24,003 members. The in- 

 come of the Home Mission Society had been 

 1,705, the largest amount ever reported in 

 one year. The income for foreign missions 

 had been 8,872, 86 more than that of the 

 previous year. Three additions had been 

 made to the European missionary staff during 

 the year, and a new chapel had been opened in 

 connection with the mission at Rome. Dur- 

 ing the last twenty years the number of mis- 

 sion churches had increased threefold. Ohil- 

 nell College had ten students, and had suffered 

 a financial deficiency of 598. Resolutions 

 were passed in favor of the bill for closing the 

 public-houses on Sunday ; counseling opposi- 

 tion to the war spirit, and expressing a hope 

 for the termination of the Zooloo war ; urging 



on the House of Commons not to pass any 

 enactment which would enable particular re- 

 ligious views to be inculcated at the expense 

 of the state ; and denouncing the Government 

 Valuation Bill as a measure which, by allow- 

 ing exemptions in the ratable value of clerical 

 incomes proportioned to the salaries of curates, 

 would virtually give additional endowments 

 to the Anglican Church. 



The annual meetings of the Baptist Union 

 and Home Mission of Scotland were held in 

 Edinburgh in October. The report of the 

 Secretary showed that the number of Baptist 

 members connected with the Union in Scot- 

 land was 8,862, or 513 more than the number 

 reported in 1878. One hundred and forty 

 stations were kept up in the home mission 

 department, in connection with which 28 mis- 

 sionaries had been employed and 214 members 

 had been added during the year. 



V. GERMAN BAPTIST UNIOX. The German 

 Baptist Union embraces churches in Germany, 

 Austria, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Po- 

 land, Russia, and Africa. The triennial Con- 

 ference was held at Hamburg in July, at which 

 125 delegates were present. The statistical re- 

 ports showed that an increase of 919 members 

 had taken place during the year, the gains be- 

 ing 76 in Germany, 63 in Austria, 42 in Den- 

 mark, 25 in Holland, 56 in Switzerland, 40 in 

 Poland, and 687 in Russia, while there ap- 

 peared a decrease of 30 in Africa and of 44 in 

 Turkey. The business transacted related to 

 the publishing house, which is hereafter to be 

 under the supervision of Dr. P. W. Bickel, 

 representing the American Baptist Publication 

 Society ; to the education of ministers, for 

 which it was resolved to establish and endow 

 a theological seminary ; and to the promotion 

 of Sunday-schools. 



BARRY, General WILLIAM FARQTTHAR, a 

 military officer, born in New York, August 8, 

 1818, died at Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, 

 July 18th. He entered the United States Mili- 

 tary Academy at West Point on September 1, 

 1834, and graduated on July 1, 1838, with the 

 rank of brevet second lieutenant in the Fourth 

 Artillery. On July 7th of the same year he 

 was appointed second lieutenant, and on the 

 12th of July was transferred to the Second 

 Artillery. He served first at Carlisle Barracks, 

 Pa., and next at Buffalo, N. Y., during the 

 Canada border disturbances of 1838-'39. Af- 

 ter doing garrison duty at a number of differ- 

 ent stations, he went with the army to Mexico, 

 remaining there from 1846 to 1848. He was 

 in the battle of Tampico, and served in Major- 

 General Patterson's division, and also as aide- 

 de-camp to Major-General Worth. From 1849 

 to 1851 he was stationed at Fort McHenry, 

 and was made a captain in the Second Ar- 

 tillery on July 1, 1852. He served in the war 

 against the Seminoles in Florida in 1852-'53, 

 and was in garrison at Baton Rouge, La., in 

 1855. He did frontier duty at Fort Wash- 

 ington, I. T., in 1855, and at Fort Sn oiling, 



