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and teachers, and 1,118,129 pupils; number of 

 additions by baptism during the year, 111,932 ; 

 benevolent contributions, $6,996,105. 



Of literary institutions, 6 theological insti- 

 tutions return 47 instructors and 496 students ; 

 33 colleges and universities, 303 instructors 

 and 4,867 students ; and 60 academies, institu- 

 tions, seminaries, and female colleges, 417 in- 

 structors and 7,551 students. 



Including the West Indies, the churches in 

 North America return 1,220 associations, 28,- 

 833 churches, 17,928 ministers, 2,574,084 mem- 

 bers; baptisms during the year, 113,667. 



The Baptists are represented in South Amer- 

 ica by 8 churches, 4 ministers, 228 members, 

 and 5 baptisms, in Brazil. 



The " Year-Book " gives for Europe, 67 as- 

 sociations, 3,191 churches, 2,290 ministers, and 

 346,918 members, with 7,541 baptisms; for 

 Asia (Assam, Burmah, Ceylon, China, India, 

 Japan, and Palestine), 5 associations, 754 

 churches, 279 ministers, and 61,493 members, 

 with 4,100 baptisms; for Africa, 3 associa- 

 tions, 85 churches, 31 ministers, and 6,627 mem- 

 bers, with 5 baptisms; for Australasia, 6 as- 

 sociations, 136 churches, 88 ministers, and 11,- 

 039 members ; total for the world, 1,299 asso- 

 ciations, 33,007 churches, 20,620 ministers, and 

 3,000,389 members, with 125,688 baptisms. 



The sixtieth anniversary of the American 

 Baptist Publication Society was held in Detroit, 

 Mich., May 21, 22, and 25. The receipts of the 

 society for the year had been : In the business 

 department, $428,295 ; in the missionary de- 

 partment, $131,881 ; and in the Bible depart- 

 ment, $22,780; making a total of $582,957. 

 Thirty-four new publications had been issued 

 and three new periodicals printed during the 

 year. In the missionary department $13,379 

 worth of literature had been given away, and 

 was represented in 813 libraries, which had 

 been granted. One hundred and seventy-eight 

 missionaries had been in service, thirty-one of 

 whom were colored, 1,220 persons had been 

 baptized, 46 churches constituted, and 597 Sun- 

 day-schools organized. The society was repre- 

 sented by agencies in Germany and Sweden, 

 and had begun a mission in Constantinople. 

 Grants of Bibles and Testaments, in the author- 

 ized version, the American Bible Union ver- 

 sion, and the Anglo-American revised version, 

 and in several foreign languages, had been made 

 to the value of $15,526. 



The fifty-second annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Baptist Home Mission Society was held 

 in Detroit, Mich., May 26. The treasurer re- 

 ported that his total receipts for the year had 

 been $401,692, or $117,748 more than those of 

 the previous year, and $42,385 more than those 

 of the jubilee year. The indebtedness of the 

 society was $54,330. Six hundred and forty- 

 four missionaries and teachers had been em- 

 ployed, of whom 117 had been engaged in 

 labors among the foreign populations of the 

 country, 170 among the colored people, In- 

 dians, and Mexicans, and 357 among Americans. 



The missionaries had supplied 1,599 churches 

 and out-stations, connected with which were 

 26,962 members, and 46,129 persons in Sunday- 

 schools, and reported the organization of 145 

 churches and 2,849 baptisms. The work of the 

 society among foreign populations had been 

 carried on chiefly among the Germans, the 

 Scandinavians, the French (in New England 

 and at St. Anne, 111.), and the Chinese in San 

 Francisco. The condition of all the German 

 and Scandinavian Baptist churches in the 

 United States, the greater portion of which are 

 self-supporting, is presented as follows in the 

 report of the society : 



German: 138 churches, with 150 mission 

 stations supplied by them, 130 pastors, 11,000 

 members, and 196 Sunday-schools, with 1,655 

 teachers and 12,262 pupils, 41 students for the 

 ministry. The German Baptists of Canada, 12 

 churches and 837 communicants, co-operate 

 with the society, and receive aid from it. 



Scandinavian: Swedish, 108 churches, 48 

 pastors entirely devoted to the work of the 

 ministry, 5,705 church-members, 57 houses of 

 worship, and 72 Sunday-schools, with 382 

 teachers and 2,786 pupils. Norwegian and 

 Danish : 29 churches, 35 ministers, and 1,500 

 members. Nine missionaries were employed 

 among the French, and reported more than 60 

 baptisms in New England. A Scandinavian 

 department is established in the Theological 

 Seminary at Chicago, and a French department 

 in the seminary at Newton, Mass. Nineteen 

 missionaries were employed among the Indians, 

 including four teachers in the Indian Univer- 

 sity. This institution returned 126 students. 

 The missions in Mexico were conducted in the 

 State of Nuevo Leon, in the city of Mexico, 

 and on the border, at El Paso, Texas, and re- 

 turned about 300 members. The school at 

 Monterey was attended by 127 pupils. The 

 schools among the freedmen now number 15. 

 Two schools for girls had been added during 

 the year, viz., Hartshorn Memorial College, at 

 Richmond, Va., and Spelman Seminary, at At- 

 lanta. Ga. The seminary at Natchez, Miss., had 

 been removed to Jackson. The whole number 

 of pupils in the 15 schools was 2,828. 



The seventieth annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Baptist Missionary Union was held in De- 

 troit, May 23d. The Executive Committee 

 reported that the receipts for the year had 

 been $342,443, and the expenditures $350,896. 

 The reports from the mission-fields showed 

 that there were in the Asiatic missions (Bur- 

 mah, Assam, the Telugus in India, China, 

 Bangkok, Siam, the Bassas in Africa, and Ja- 

 pan) 182 ordained and 630 unordained preach- 

 ers, 586 churches, and 33,649 members; and 

 in the European missions (Sweden, Germany, 

 France, Spain, and Greece), 870 preachers, 

 541 churches, and 58,473 members; in all, 

 1,682 missionaries, 1,127 churches, and 112,122 

 members. Baptisms during the year, 4,679 in 

 the Asiatic and 7,037 in the European missions. 



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