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BAPTISTS. 



Whole number of Sunday-schools, 14,473, 

 with 120,678 officers and teachers, and 1,006,- 

 412 scholars ; number of additions by baptism 

 during 1881, 81,570. Total amount of benev- 

 olent contributions, so far as reported, $4,600,- 

 910. Number of theological institutions, 8, 

 with 41 instructors, 447 students for the min- 

 istry, $1,925,803 of property, and (in five in- 

 stitutions) $1,320,649 of endowment funds; 

 number of colleges and universities, 33, with 

 295 instructors, 4,690 students (of whom 784 

 were young women and 557 were studying for 

 the ministry), $8,085,950 of property, and $3,- 

 698,619 of endowment funds ; number of acad- 

 emies, seminaries, institutes, and female col- 

 leges, 53, with 390 instructors, 6,201 students 

 (of whom 3,676 were young women, and 445 

 were studying for the ministry), $2,500,780 of 

 property, and (sixteen institutions) $416,286 

 of endowment funds. 



The statistics show an increase during the 

 year of 25 associations, 313 churches, and 

 39,695 members, with a decrease of 82 or- 

 dained ministers and 21,154 baptisms. 



The " Year-Book " gives the following gen- 

 eral statistics of the Regular Baptists in all 

 countries for 1881 : 



Total number of baptisms reported for the 

 year, 118,927. 



NORTHERN BAPTIST BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES. 

 The anniversaries of the Northern Baptist 

 Societies in the United States were held in the 

 city of New York, beginning May 24th with 

 the meeting of the American Baptist Home 

 Mission Society. As this meeting marked the 

 completion of the fiftieth year of the society's 

 existence, the regular proceedings were sup- 

 plemented by special jubilee services. The 

 general receipts of the society for the year had 

 been $359,306, or $124,273 more than the re- 

 ceipts of the previous year, which had been 

 the largest recorded to that time in the history 

 of the organization. A debt of $29,955, which 

 stood against the society at the beginning of 

 the year, had been fully paid; and there now 

 stood a balance in the treasury, available for 

 the coming year's operations, of $7,512. Sev- 

 enty-five churches had been organized, 1,460 

 churches and out-stations supplied, and 1,675 

 members received by baptism, during the year. 

 The mission churches returned a total mem- 

 bership of 21,131 and 819 Sunday-schools, with 

 38,575 attendants, and had contributed to 

 benevolent funds the total sum of $14,375. 

 During the fifty years of its existence, the so- 



ciety had issued 9,102 commissions to mission- 

 aries and teachers, through whose agency 2,838 

 churches had been organized and 87,056 per- 

 sons had been baptized. Twelve educational 

 institutions among the colored people in the 

 South, or two more than were reported in the 

 previous year, were receiving assistance from 

 the treasury of the society. The new institu- 

 tions were " Bishop Baptist College," at Mar- 

 shall, Texas, and the "Kentucky Normal and 

 Theological Institute," at Louisville, Ky. In 

 all of these schools, 79 teachers were employed, 

 and 2,151 pupils, 400 of whom were preparing 

 to preach, were enrolled. The sum of $39,964 

 had been paid for teachers' salaries, and the 

 students had paid in $22,331 for tuition, board, 

 and room-rent. Dr. J. M. Gregory had been 

 appointed superintendent of the society's edu- 

 cational work " among the colored people, the 

 Indians, and others to whom it may be ex- 

 tended." Twelve missionaries, nine of whom 

 were natives, were under appointment in the 

 Indian Territory, and reported 896 members 

 of the church and 1,148 persons in Sunday- 

 schools. The Indian University at Tahlequah 

 was attended by 69 students, four of whom 

 were preparing for the ministry. Eecom- 

 mendations were made concerning the en- 

 largement and more thorough equipment of 

 this school, and for the sending of missionaries 

 as soon as practicable among the Indians of 

 Alaska. The Chinese mission at Portland, 

 Oregon, with 50 members, had contributed 

 $85 to the jubilee fund of the society. The 

 missionary work in Mexico, resumed a year 

 before, was carried on by the Mexican Mission- 

 ary Society in co-operation with this body. A 

 general missionary was supported in this work, 

 and another missionary had been commis- 

 sioned. The 8 churches returned 156 mem- 

 bers. Forty-six missionaries were employed 

 in co-operation with the Eastern and Western 

 German Baptist Conferences, among the Ger- 

 man population. The missionary work among 

 the Scandinavian settlers had resulted in the 

 building up of about 120 churches, with 6,500 

 communicants. A Scandinavian department 

 was connected with the Theological Seminary 

 at Chicago. 



The American Baptist Publication Society 

 had received during the year $345,632 in the 

 business department, and $107,784 in the mis- 

 sionary department. It had issued twenty- 

 nine new publications and 308,000 copies of all 

 publications; had expended $3,517 in grants 

 of Bibles and Testaments ; and had employed 

 81 missionary colporteurs and 35 Sunday- 

 school missionaries, through whose agency 13 

 churches had been constituted, 422 Sunday- 

 schools organized, and 433 persons baptized. 

 A resolution was adopted, requesting the 

 Boards of the American Baptist Publication 

 Society, the American Baptist Missionary 

 Union, the American and Foreign Bible So- 

 ciety, the Southern Baptist Convention, and 

 the three Baptist Conventions of the Dominion 



