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had been contributed by churches, Sunday- 

 schools, and individuals; $27,383 were in the 

 shape of individual contributions to conditional 

 and permanent trust funds; $46,296 were de- 

 rived from legacies ; $19,002 from investments 

 and interest on church-edifice loans; $19,086 

 from students' fees; and $13,688 from wom- 

 en's home mission societies. The expenditures 

 had been $280,523; the debt had increased 

 from $117,988 to $123,428; missionary opera- 

 tions had been conducted in 45 States and Ter- 

 ritories, and in Ontario, Manitoba, British Co- 

 lumbia, and two States of the Mexican Repub- 

 lic. The whole number of laborers supported, 

 in whole or in part, was 676, of whom 153 had ' 

 labored among the foreign population, 193 (in- 

 cluding teachers) among the colored people, 

 Indians, and Mexicans, and 326 among Ameri- 

 cans. These missionaries had supplied 1,512 

 churches and out-stations, received 3,296 mem- 

 bers by baptism, and organized 140 churches ; 

 and they reported 28,181 church-members, 699 

 Sunday-schools, with 45,432 attendants, and 

 benevolent contributions of $27,092. The so- 

 ciety had aided in the maintenance of 17 es- 

 tablished schools for the colored people, Indi- 

 ans, and Mexicans, in addition to a day-school 

 for the Chinese and two schools in Utah, the 

 means for the support of which came from the 

 New England Woman's Home Mission Society. 

 Of the schools for colored people, Mexicans, 

 and Indians, 11 were incorporated institutions 

 and 6 unincorporated. In them 108 teachers 

 h:ul instructed 3,326 pupils, of whom 376 had 

 been in the ministry or were preparing to 

 preach, and 1,102 were studying with a view 

 to teaching. Fifteen schools for the colored 

 people returned 1,479 young men and 1,651 

 young women as pupils. The Indian Univer- 

 sity, near Muskogee, returned four teachers 

 and seventy pupils, representing six nations or 

 tribes in the Indian Territory. An elementary 

 school was also taught among the Cherokeesat 

 Tahlequah. A medical school was conducted 

 in connection with Shaw University, at Raleigh, 

 N. 0. Industrial education was given in many 

 of the institutions, six of which had been aided 

 from the John F. Slater fund. Monthly papers 

 were published at eight of the institutions, and 

 two papers were published in connection with 

 the mission in Mexico. In the church-edifice 

 department the society had aided 23 churches 

 by gifts, 36 by loans, and 3 by gifts and loans. 

 These churches provided sittings for 18,415 

 persons. The whole amount of money thus 

 disposed of was $26,172, and the property se- 

 cured by its aid was valued at $180,690. A 

 special report was made by a committee which 

 had been appointed to examine into the sub- 

 ject concerning the loss which the society had 

 suffered through the financial failure of the 

 agent to whom the investment of its funds had 

 'M . n intrusted, the whole amount of which, 

 rl-i<sifiod under eight headings, was given at 

 $131,521. The committee advised that the 

 amount of those losses be made good by the 



society to the funds upon which they fell as 

 soon as possible. The whole matter of the ad- 

 justment of the settlement of the losses was 

 referred to the Executive Board. A resolution 

 was adopted asking the enactment by Congress 

 of provisions "for opening at once the path- 

 way into citizenship, self-supporting industry, 

 and civilization before every Indian in the land, 

 so that all may be permitted to accept the du- 

 ties and receive the protection of United States 

 citizenship at the earliest practicable date." 



Missionary Union. The seventy-second annual 

 meeting of the American Baptist Missionary 

 Union was held in Asbury Park, N. J., May 

 25th. The Rev. Edward Judson, D. D., pre- 

 sided. The receipts of the society for the year 

 had been $384,996, of which $81,679 had been 

 contributed through the women's societies. 

 The year had been closed free of <lebt. The 

 missions of the Union are in Asia (including 

 Burmah, India, China, and Japan), Africa, and 

 Europe. The xisiattc missions, which are clas- 

 sified as the Burrnan, Karen, Shan, Kachin, 

 Assamese, Garo, Naga, Telugu, Chinese, and 

 Japan missions, with the African missions, re- 

 turned 785 preachers, of whom 193 were or- 

 dained and 592 unordained, 611 churches, and 

 56,440 members, with 3,450 persons baptized 

 during the year. The European missions, in 

 Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, and Greece, 

 returned 946 preachers, 609 churches, and 61,892 

 members, with 5,544 baptized during the year. 

 In all there were 1,731 preachers, 1,220 church- 

 es, and 118,332 members, with 8,994 persons 

 baptized. Owing to the recent disturbances in 

 Burmah, the statistics from the missions in 

 that country were very imperfect. The Asiat- 

 ic and African missions further returned 14-3 

 Sunday-schools, with 5,513 pupils, and 802 lit- 

 erary schools, of which 278 were self-support- 

 ing, with 16,648 pupils. 



Southern Baptist Convention. The Southern 

 Baptist Convention met in Montgomery, Ala., 

 May 7. The Rev. P. H. Mell, D. D., of 

 Georgia, was chosen president. The Home 

 Mission Board reported that its receipts for 

 the year had been $94,824. It had employed 

 255 missionaries and supplied 649 churches and 

 stations, with 326 Sunday-schools attended by 

 12,531 teachers and pupils. Seventy churches 

 had been constituted, 49 meeting-houses built, 

 and 3,812 persons baptized. The board rec- 

 ommended earnest and vigorous missionary 

 work among the colored people, and desired 

 $10,000 for the continuance of it and for aiding 

 young colored ministers in securing education. 

 For the first time in the history of the conven- 

 tion more than twenty colored preachers were 

 enrolled among its missionaries. A number of 

 Cubans, converts of the board's mission at 

 Key West, Fla., had gone back to Havana and 

 established there a church and Sunday-school. 

 This enterprise was put under the care of the 

 Home Mission Board as the Cuban mission. 

 The Levering Manual Labor School, in the In- 

 dian Territory, was in a flourishing condition. 





