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meetings of the three societies were held in 

 Kansas City, Mo., October 19 to 23. 



American Christian Missionary Society. The Rev. 

 Isaac Errett presided over the meeting of the 

 American Christian Missionary Society. The 

 report of the Executive Board showed that 

 thirty-two missionaries had been laboring un- 

 der its direction in Arkansas, Alabama, Ari- 

 zona, Colorado, California, Florida, Dakota, 

 the Indian Territory, Kansas, Massachusetts, 

 Mississippi, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Caro- 

 lina, Wisconsin, and Washington Territory. 

 They returned, as the result of their efforts, 

 19 churches organized and 1,549 additions. 

 The work of this board was supplemented by 

 that of State organizations in 36 States, em- 

 ploying 181 missionary agents, who returned 

 62 churches organized; 3,770 converts bap- 

 tized; 2,618 other additions; and $97,368 of 

 contributions for home missions. The finan- 

 cial statement of the General Board showed 

 that the amount of the contributions was 

 steadily increasing. Since the organization of 

 the society and the State associations more 

 than $1,500,000 had been collected and ex- 

 pended for carrying out their objects. 



Foreign Christian Missionary Society. Gen. F. 

 M. Drake, of Iowa, was President of the For- 

 eign Christian Missionary Society. Its receipts 

 had been $64,556. It had 43 missionaries em- 

 ployed at 24 stations in France, Denmark, 

 Turkey, England, India, China, and Japan, and 

 returned 537 conversions during the year. 



Woman's Board. The Christian Woman's 

 Board returned 539 auxiliary organizations, 

 117 of which had been formed during the year, 

 and an income greater than had been received 

 in any previous year. It has charge of the 

 children's organizations in the Sunday-schools, 

 which, beginning with the gift of $754 in 1881, 

 when they were first formed, have increased 

 their contributions at an average rate of about 

 $1,000 a year, till, in 1886, they amounted to 

 $6,035. These offerings are devoted princi- 

 pally to assisting in the support of the missions 

 in India, China, and Japan. 



Report on Union with Free-Will Baptists. Prog- 

 ress was made at the meetings in the confer- 

 ences for union with the Free-Will Baptists, in 

 furtherance of which a committee had been 

 appointed at the preceding meeting of the 

 General Convention. The committee report- 

 ed, saying that, in all overtures for union with 

 other bodies, it was assumed that the Word of 

 God would be accepted as the only and all- 

 sufficient rule of faith and practice, and that 

 all utterances would be conformed to this 

 standard of doctrine and worship. Granting 

 this as a basis, union was not only desirable, 

 but an imperative duty. All intercourse should 

 be had with this ob;'ect in view, and adjust- 

 ments of relations between Free-Will Baptists 

 and Disciples in the same localities could be 

 made without sacrificing principles, so as "to 

 insure harmonious action and unity of worship, 

 and thus secure immediate co-operative union 

 VOL. xxvi. 19 A 



and ultimate organic union." The report then 

 considered what applications of names would 

 be proper; what should be the conditions and 

 forms of the admission of members; advocat- 

 ed a weekly communion ; advised the union of 

 the members in each locality in supporting a 

 good and capable man as preacher, recognizing 

 his standing in the Christian ministry, regard- 

 less of past affiliations, who would prudently 

 regard the points of adjustment and the Script- 

 ural standard of doctrine. As to co-operation, 

 the report continued, " Let the several congre- 

 gations exercise their liberty in sending mes- 

 sengers to associational or conventional meet- 

 ings of the two bodies as now constituted, and 

 contribute to the enterprise of either or both 

 bodies at the pleasure of individual contribu- 

 tors." These propositions had been submitted to 

 the Free-Will Baptist General Conference in the 

 previous week, and had been, according to the 

 committee's account, favorably received by the 

 members of the same, and responded to by the 

 appointment of fraternal delegates to attend 

 the next General Christian Missionary Con- 

 vention. The committee was continued. 



DRUGS, NEW. Acetophenone (called also, for 

 sake of brevity, hypnone) is found to be a very 

 powerful producer of sleep, in doses of one to 

 three grains, for adults, best given with gly- 

 cerin and in gelatin-capsules. It is prefera- 

 ble to chloral or paraldehyde in cases of alco- 

 holism. Hypnone is best prepared by distill- 

 ing a mixture of benzoates and acetates of 

 calcium, or by the action of zinc methyl on 

 benzoyl chloride. It forms large, crystalline 

 laminae, melting at 57'2 Fahr. ; has a sp. g. of 

 1-032 at 60 Fahr., and by oxidation is con- 

 verted into carbonic and benzoic acids. Fur- 

 ther trials do not substantiate its claims as a 

 sleep-producer, and its creosote-like flavor is 

 often ;m objection to its use. 



Antifebrin is a new derivative of aniline, the 

 scientific name being acetanilide, or phenyla- 

 cetamide (NHCeFUCsHsO.) Its value con- 

 sists in its power of reducing fever, it be- 

 ing estimated as four times as great as that 

 of antipyrin. It is made by heating aniline 

 and glacial acetic acid for forty-eight hours in a 

 flask provided with an upright condenser, then 

 distilling, when acetanilide is obtained in an 

 impure state, and then purified by crystalli- 

 zation from benzol or boiling water. It is a 

 white, crystalline powder, without odor, and 

 has a burning taste; melts at 101 (or 112) 

 C., soluble in 189 parts cold water at 42'8 

 Fahr., and more soluble in alcohol or ether; 

 not precipitated from the former by addition 

 of water; soluble in benzin, benzol, and essen- 

 tial oils ; neutral ; not affected by alkalies, 

 unless they are very concentrated, nor by sul- 

 phuric or hydrochloric acids. It forms no 

 salts. Its dose is five to thirty grains per diem, 

 and its effects are apparent in about an hour; 

 highest in four hours. It rapidly lowers the 

 temperature in fever, and abates or stops the 

 pain in acute rheumatism. A dose which is 



