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ministers, 3,286,030 members. In Brazil, 8 

 churches, 8 ministers, and 312 members. In 

 Europe, 3,871 churches, 3,081 ministers, and 

 408,742 members, of which 2,802 churches, 2,974 

 ministers, 320,163 members are in Great Britain 

 and Ireland, 20,990 members in Germany, and 

 33,521 members in Sweden. In Asia, 696 churches, 

 470 ministers, and 79,468 members. In Africa, 47 

 churches, 74 ministers, and 2,958 members. In 

 Australasia, 192 churches, 124 ministers, and 

 15.568 members. Total for all countries, 40,631 

 churches, 27,101 ministers, and 3.793,078 mem- 

 bers, showing an increase from the previoiis 

 year's reports of 941 churches, 1,755 ministers, 

 and 91,696 members. The whole number of bap- 

 tisms returned in 1890 was 155,494. 



The educational institutions in the United 

 States comprise 7 theological institutions, with 

 57 instructors and 657 pupils ; 34 universities 

 and colleges, with 422 instructors and 6,537 

 pupils ; 38 seminaries for female instruction ex- 

 clusively, with 405 instructors and 4,886 pupils ; 

 45 seminaries and academies for young men and 

 for persons of both sexes, with 281 instructors 

 and 5,578 pupils; and 26 institutions for the 

 colored race and Indians, with 198 instructors 

 and 4,780 pupils. Of the 16.895 pupils in the 

 universities and colleges, seminaries and acade- 

 mies, and freedmen's and Indians' schools, 1,575 

 were preparing for the ministry, making with the 

 students in the theological seminaries, 2,232 per- 

 sons studying with that end in view. 



The Baptist African Missionary Convention 

 of the Western States and Territories reported in 

 1890 a year's receipt of $418, and was supporting 

 two missionaries on the Congo river in Africa, 

 while two more were on the way there ; and 

 the Women's Convention in Kansas co-operates 

 with it in the support of another missionary. 

 The Baptist Foreign Missionary Convention of 

 the United States (colored) has, since its organ- 

 ization in 1880, collected about $25,000 ; sent out 

 11 missionaries, who have labored at 3 stations 

 and 5 out-stations, and received 300 converts. 

 Its receipts for 1890 were $4,135. 

 . The American National Baptist Convention 

 (colored) reports 17 State conventions, 12 schools 

 owned and managed by the Home Mission So- 

 ciety, and 44 owned and managed by colored 

 Baptists themselves. 



Home Mission Society. The fifty-ninth an- 

 nual meeting of the American Baptist Home 

 Mission Society was held in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 beginning May 20. The Hon. C. W. Kingsley 

 presided. The receipts for the year, including 

 conditional and trust funds, but not including 

 church-edifice loans repaid, had been $405,153. 

 Of this sum, $15,341 had been contributed 

 through the woman's societies of Boston, Con- 

 necticut, Michigan, and Chicago. The expendi- 

 tures, not including loans to churches, had been 

 $408,497. The society's labors had been conduct- 

 ed in 49 States and Territories, and in Ontario, 

 Manitoba, British Columbia, Alaska, and six 

 States of Mexico, and had engaged the services 

 of 948 missionaries. Of these, 209 had labored 

 among foreign populations, 286 among the col- 

 ored people, Indians, and Mexicans, and 443 

 among Americans. One hundred and five new 

 mission stations had been taken up, 38 of them 

 among foreign populations. The society aided 



in the maintenance of 26 established schools for 

 the colored people, Indians, and Mexicans ; 8 day 

 schools for the Chinese in California, 2 in Oregon, 

 and 1 in Montana; and 2 schools in Utah, 2 in 

 the Indian Territory, and 3 in Mexico. The mis- 

 sionaries represented 13 nationalities or peoples, 

 viz., Americans, Germans, French, Swedes, Danes, 

 Norwegians, Indians, negroes, Chinese, Mexicans, 

 Bohemians, Poles, and Finns. Other items of 

 the work are : Churches and out-stations supplied, 

 1,828 ; members received by baptism, 4,523 ; 

 churches organized, 199; total church member- 

 ship, 41,735 ; Sunday schools under the care of 

 missionaries, 948 ; attendance on Sunday schools, 

 64,191 ; benevolent contributions reported, $43,- 

 627. During the fifty-nine years of the society's 

 existence 117,103 persons had been baptized and 

 4,226 churches organized by its agents. In twelve 

 years the increase of missionaries to the colored 

 people had been twofold and of teachers more 

 than fourfold ; of missionaries to the Chinese, 

 twofold ; to the Indians, twofold ; to the Mexi- 

 cans, from none to 15 ; to the French, threefold ; 

 to the Germans, about twofold ; to the Scandina- 

 vians, nearly fivefold ; and to the American pop- 

 ulation, nearly twofold. In the church-service 

 department, 88 churches had been aided by gifts 

 or loans, or both, to the amount of $42,499. The 

 Loan fund amounted to $118,874. The receipts 

 for the year on its account had been $6,200. The 

 receipts for the Benevolent fund had been $22,- 

 639. 



Publication Society. The annual meeting 

 of the American Baptist Publication Society was 

 held in Cincinnati, May 22. The Rev. Thomas 

 Armitage, D.D., presided. The society had re- 

 ceived in its three departments, $647,884. The 

 sales in the book department had amounted to 

 $529,596, or $25,943 more than in the previous 

 year; the receipts of the missionary department 

 had been $95,493, or $30.000 less than in the pre- 

 vious year ; and the Bible department, $22,729. 

 There had been contributed from the book depart- 

 ment to the missionary department, $128,437, of 

 which $46,880 were in cash, and the remainder in 

 books and tracts. The missionary work of the 

 society was represented by 122 missionaries, who 

 returned 44 churches constituted, 500 Sunday 

 schools organized, and 317 pastors, ministers, and 

 students aided with grants for their libraries. An 

 unfavorable report was made of the condition of 

 the mission which had been begun in Armenia 

 eight years before, the results of which had not 

 been successful and the prospects of which were 

 not encouraging : and the meeting resolved that, 

 after reasonable notice to the present agents on 

 the field, the society should discontinue appro- 

 priations to it. There had been much difference 

 of opinion among Baptists as to the expediency 

 of sustaining this mission, which was working in 

 fields already occupied by the American Board, 

 with embarrassment to some of that society's 

 churches. 



Missionary Union. The seventy - seventh 

 annual meeting of the American Baptist Mis- 

 sionary Union was held in Cincinnati, May 25. 

 The Rev. G. W. Northrop, D. D., presided. The 

 total receipts of the treasurer from all sources 

 for all purposes had been $492,275, of which 

 $121,690 had been contributed by the two Wom- 

 an's Foreign Missionary Societies ; the expend- 



