BAPTISTS. 



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of the bank, in order that the tax-officers may 

 assess the deposits. 



BAPTISTS. The " American Baptist Year- 

 Book" gives a summary of the regular Bap- 

 tist churches of the world, of which the fol- 

 lowing are the totals for the several continents : 



The whole number of Baptists in the United 

 States, including all the branches of the Bap- 

 tist family, may be represented, according to 

 the most complete accessible statistics, as fol- 

 lows: 



I. REGULAR BAPTISTS IN THE UNITED STATES. 

 The statistics of the regular Baptist churches 

 in the United States, as given by the "Amer- 

 ican Baptist Year-Book " for 1881, will be found 

 in the table at the head of the next column. 



The number of additions during the year by 

 baptism were 102,724; number of Sunday- 

 schools, 13,492, with 116,355 officers and 

 teachers, and 926,979 scholars. Total amount 

 of benevolent contributions, $4,389,752. 



The " Year-Book " gives lists of seven theo- 

 logical institutions, with 37 instructors and 430 

 students for the ministry ; thirty-one colleges 

 and universities, with 280 instructors and 4,609 

 students ; forty-eight academies, seminaries, 

 institutes, and female colleges, with 350 in- 

 structors and 5,522 students in the United 

 States; and sixty-eight weekly, semi-monthly, 

 monthly, and quarterly periodicals in the Unit- 

 ed States and Canada. 



The anniversaries of the Northern Baptist 

 societies of the United States were held at In- 

 dianapolis, Indiana, beginning with the meet- 

 ing of the American Baptist Publication So- 

 ciety, May 19th. The receipts of this society 

 for the year had been $326,820 in the busi- 

 ness department and $94,317 in the mission- 

 ary department, making a total of $421,137, 

 and showing an increase in both departments 

 of $71,573 over the receipts of the previous 

 year. Fifty-seven new publications had been 

 issued during the year, making the present 

 number of publications on the society's cata- 



logue 1,326. Arrangements were in progress 

 for the preparation of a series of commenta- 

 ries on the New Testament under the super- 

 vision of Professor Alvah Hovey, D. D., of 

 Newton Theological Seminary. In the mis- 

 sionary department, thirty-seven colporteurs 

 and thirty-two State Sunday-school mission- 

 aries had been at work in forty-three States 

 and Territories. Increased attention had been 

 paid to the circulation of the Scriptures, of 

 which 13,481 copies had been given away and 

 many thousand copies sold. The German 

 Baptist Publication House employed, with the 

 aid of the National Bible Society of Scotland, 

 twenty-two colporteurs, and had circulated 

 37,000 Bibles and Testaments, besides large 

 quantities of tracts and other publications in 

 Germany. A Sunday-school Institute was held 

 in connection with the anniversary of the so- 

 ciety, at which efforts were resolved upon for 

 establishing Sunday-schools among the colored 

 people of the Baptist churches. 



The forty- ninth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Baptist Home Mission Society was held 

 May 24th. The total amount of the receipts 

 for the year had been $235,032, or $69,580 

 more than had been received in the previous 



