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ters, 130 baptisms, and 3,2 1 2 members: and for 

 Australasia, 6 associations, 159 churches, 113 

 ministers, and 15,527 members. Total, 1,352 

 associations, 36,186 churches, 27,368 ministers, 

 169,281 baptisms, and 3,313,026 members. 



Seven theological institutions in the United 

 States returned 48 instructors and 543 pupils ; 

 27 universities and colleges, 251 instructors, 

 and 3,660 pupils; 30 institutions for the educa- 

 tion of young women exclusively, 281 instruct- 

 ors and 2,899 pupils ; 43 seminaries and acade- 

 mies and institutions for both sexes, 258 in- 

 structors and 4,757 pupils; and 19 institutions 

 for the colored race and Indians, 154 instruct- 

 ors and 3,776 pupils. In all, 126 educational 

 institutions, 1,092 instructors, and 15,635 

 pupils. 



American Baptist Home Mission Society. The 

 fifty-third anniversary of the American Bap- 

 tist Home Mission Society was held in Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., May 30. Mr. Samuel Colgate 

 presided. The total receipts of the society for 

 the year had been $552,314, or $15,000 more 

 than the receipts of the previous year. Of 

 this sum $349,797 were returned as contribu- 

 tions from churches, Sunday-schools, and indi- 

 viduals; $158,257 from legacies; $17,599 as in- 

 come from church-edifice loans and invested 

 funds; and $19,987 from the schools of the 

 society. The Executive Board in making ap- 

 propriations had adhered to the rule of limit- 

 ing them to the average of annual receipts of 

 the three years preceding. The expenditures 

 had been $290,887, of which $130,666 had 

 been for ministers' salaries, $59,261 for teach- 

 ers' salaries, $41,443 for special educational 

 purposes, $29,296 in gifts tor church-edifice 

 work, and $31,855 for expenses of administra- 

 tion and agencies. In addition to these ex- 

 penditures, the indebtedness of the previous 

 year, $123,429, had been been paid off with 

 the results of special offerings. A settle- 

 ment had been effected with Mr. J. H. Deane, 

 a former treasurer of the society, whose failure 

 in business had involved the society in finan- 

 cial loss (see "Annual Cyclopaedia " for 1 886), by 

 which he was to pay 50 per cent, of the defi- 

 ciency in his accounts, or $66,000 in stated in- 

 stalments. The summary of the missionary 

 work showed that 678 laborers had been em- 

 ployed in the supply of 1,385 churches and 

 out-stations having a total church membership 

 of 28,398, with 673 Sunday-schools, returning 

 a total attendance of 44,740 persons ; also that 

 129 churches had been organized, and 3,300 

 members had been added by baptism. The 

 amount of benevolent contributions reported 

 from the mission churches was $28,539. Be- 

 sides the stations among American populations, 

 the society had assisted the German Baptist 

 Convention among the Germans of Ontario ; 

 had aided the Scandinavian churches, particu- 

 larly in Minnesota ; had labored among the 

 French in Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 

 Connecticut, and Illinois; and among the col- 

 ored people in various States of the South 



and North; had sustained 12 missionaries 

 to Indians in the Cherokee Nation, among the 

 Delawares, and to Sacs and Foxes of the 

 Indian Territory, and at the Pyramid Lake and 

 Walker river reservations ; had maintained 

 missions among the Chinese in California and 

 Oregon ; and had supported missions in Mex- 

 ico. In the church-edifice department, grants 

 had been made to 62 churches in the shape 

 of $10,818 in gifts and $13,325 in loans; 

 while receipts were acknowledged to the Loan 

 Fund of $7,051, and to the Benevolent Fund of 

 $78,645. The Loan Fund amounted to $122,047, 

 and was regarded as sufficiently large for all 

 demands that were likely to be made upon it. 

 The educational institutions of the society in- 

 cluded 11 incorporated and 6 unincorporated 

 institutions ; with mission day-schools, largely 

 supported by the Woman's American Baptist 

 Home Mission Society of Boston, in Salt Lake 

 City, the city of Mexico and Salinas, Apodaca, 

 and Santa Rosa, Mexico, and Tahlequah, in 

 the Indian Territory ; and mission night-schools 

 for the Chinese in Oakland, San Francisco, and 

 Fresno, Cal. Fifteen schools for the colored 

 people were supported wholly or in part by the 

 society, while Leland University, New Orleans, 

 with an endowment of nearly $100,000, had 

 become self-supporting. These schools had 

 employed 122 teachers, 23 of whom were col- 

 ored, and returned 2,807 pupils. Ministerial 

 training was provided for at several of these 

 schools, industrial education in many of them, 

 with appropriations from the " Slater Fund " 

 at seven, and medical education in the Leonard 

 Medical School, at Raleigh, N. C., and for 

 women at Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. 



American Baptist Publication Society. The sixty- 

 third anniversary of the American Baptist 

 Publication Society was held in Minneapolis, 

 Minn., May 25, 26, ' and 27. Mr. Edward 

 Goodman, of Illinois, vice-president, presided. 

 The total receipts and business of the society in 

 all of its departments for the year had been 

 $624,140. The business of the year had 

 amounted to $481,997. The Board of Mana- 

 gers reported that a defalcation by two of the 

 bookkeepers had caused a loss to the busi- 

 ness department computed at the date of the 

 meeting to amount to $24,156. One hundred 

 and ninety-four new works had been published, 

 of which 331,500 copies had been issued, and 

 737,300 copies of new additions of former 

 publications had been printed; while the 

 whole number of books, tracts, and periodicals 

 printed during the year was 26,751,300. The 

 gross receipts of the missionary department 

 had been $8,084 less than in the previous year. 

 The receipts for permanent investment funds 

 in this department had been $8,500. The 

 gross receipts in the Bible department had been 

 $15,972. Seventy-eight missionaries had been 

 employed, under whose labors 710 persons had 

 been baptized, 43 churches constituted, 311 

 sunday-schools organized, 501 institutes held 

 and addressed, and 1,822 Sunday-schools and 



