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of Canada, to appoint committees of confer- 

 ence on the best method of uniting Baptist 

 Bible- work in America. The object of the 

 committee was specified to be to submit a plan 

 for the readjustment of the Baptist Bible- work, 

 covering both translation and circulation, and 

 to designate the methods by which it can be 

 done efficiently and to the satisfaction of the 

 denomination as a whole. 



The total receipts of the American Baptist 

 Missionary Union for the year had been $352,- 

 787, of which sum $157,989 were from dona- 

 tions, $54,462 from legacies, and $59,102 from 

 the Women's Societies. The total expendi- 

 tures had been $353,183, leaving a balance 

 against the treasury of $396. The report on 

 Bible-work recorded the progress that had 

 been made in the publication or translation of 

 the Bible in the Karen, Garos, Shan, Japanese, 

 Teloogoo, and German languages. The follow- 

 ing is a summary of the condition of the sev- 

 eral missions of the Union : 



Of the native preachers, 190 (126 in Burmah, 

 9 in Assam, 46 in India, 7 Chinese, and 2 in 

 Japan) were ordained, and 473 (362 in Burmah, 

 28 in Assam, 48 in India, 27 Chinese, and 8 in 

 Japan) were unordained. 



A resolution was adopted accepting the in- 

 vitation which had been made by the Publica- 

 tion Society to appoint a committee to confer 

 with similar committees of other Baptist socie- 

 ties in reference to a readjustment of their 

 Bible-work. 



The American Baptist Historical Society re- 

 ported its year's receipts to have been $224, 

 and its expenditures $157. 



The regular receipts of the American and 

 Foreign Bible Society for the year preceding 

 its last anniversary were $11.028, and its ex- 

 penditures $7,007. The society had, further- 

 more, received the sum of $2,000 in bonds and 

 413 acres of land in Illinois. 



The receipts of the Woman's Baptist Foreign 

 Missionary Society were returned at $56,132, 

 and its expenditures at $55,819. Thirty-eight 



missionaries and 49 Bible-women had been 

 employed during the year,- and aid had been 

 given to 84 schools, in which were reported 

 2,170 pupils and 175 baptisms. The Woman's 

 Foreign Missionary Society of the West had re- 

 ceived and expended $23,578. Two additional 

 missionaries had been sent out. 



SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. The South- 

 ern Baptist Convention met at Greenville, S. C., 

 May 10th. The Rev. P. H. Hell, D. D., of Geor- 

 gia, was chosen president. The Home-Mission 

 Board had received $28,370 ; adding to this the 

 funds reported by the several State Home-Mis- 

 sion Boards as having been received and expend- 

 ed by them, the total sum of $94,273 was shown 

 to have been contributed by the Southern Bap- 

 tist churches for the purposes of this work. 

 The operations of the board were conducted at 

 various points in the Southern States otherwise 

 not provided with Baptist churches, among the 

 Indians, and among the Chinese in California. 

 The buildings of the Levering Manual Labor 

 School, in the Creek Nation, had been com- 

 pleted, furnished, and paid for during the year. 

 The cost of the school had been $10,340, and 

 it had an assured annual income of $8,400. It 

 was attended by 120 pupils. Four mission- 

 aries had been employed among the Chinese in 

 San Francisco, California, and had the charge 

 of schools for Chinese boys. The Foreign Mis- 

 sion Board had received $49,041, or $5,000 

 more than during the previous year, with which 

 all its expenses had been paid, and it was now 

 out of debt. Its missions were hi Italy, China, 

 Africa (the Yoruba country), Brazil, and Mex- 

 ico, and included in all 34 stations, at which 

 61 missionaries and native assistants were em- 

 ployed. The whole number of native mem- 

 bers was 740, of whom 126 had been baptized 

 during the year. Eight new missionaries had 

 been sent out, and six candidates had applied 

 for appointments. The English language was 

 beginning to be taught in the Chinese mission- 

 schools. The heathen converts were contribut- 

 ing nearly a dollar each for benevolent pur- 

 poses, and the women in the African missions 

 were sustaining a native missionary. 



BAPTIST AUTUMNAL CONFERENCE. A Bap- 

 tist Autumnal Conference, on the plan of the 

 autumnal conferences held by the English Bap- 

 tist and Congregational bodies, was held in 

 Brooklyn, K Y., "November 14th, 15th, and 

 16th. It was the first meeting of the kind at- 

 tempted by Baptists in the United States, and 

 was called as an experiment. The Rev. George 

 Dana Boardman, D. D., of Philadelphia, pre- 

 sided. Papers were read and discussed on 

 " Skeptical Drifts in Modern Thought " (Rev. 

 L. Moss, D. D., and Rev. E. H. Johnson, D. D.) ; 

 " The Economics of Foreign Missionary Ef- 

 fort " (Rev. George E. Merrill and President A. 

 H. Strong, D. D.) ; u The Church and the Chil- 

 dren " (Rev. A. J. Sage, D. D., Rev. John 

 Humpstone, Professor A. E. Waffle, and others) ; 

 " The Labor Question " (A. J. Fox) ; " Chari- 

 ties " (Rev. J. M. Gregory, LL. D., and Hon. 



