BAPTISTS. 



exhibited in their refraining from sending Depu- 

 ties to the Parliament at Buda-Pesth. Suddenly 

 they changed their tactics, and in Mav, 1892, sent 

 to Vienna a deputation, consisting of 237 mem- 

 bers, for the purpose of putting their grievances 



before the Emperor. The Emperor, as might 

 have been expected, refused to receive them, But 

 from the Anti-Semites and Particularists of the 

 Municipal Council of Vienna they received dem- 

 onstrations of sympathy. 



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BAPTISTS. I. Regular Baptists in the 

 United States. According to the statistical ta- 

 bles published in the "American Baptist Year 

 Book " for 1892, the Baptist churches in the 

 United States include 35,890 churches, 23,800 

 ministers, and 3,269,806 members, and reported 

 160,247 baptisms during the year; and in all 

 North America including also Canada and the 

 Maritime Provinces, Mexico, Cuba, Hayti, Ja- 

 maica, and other West Indian islands there are 

 36,956 churches, 24,241 ministers, 3,393,118 mem- 

 bers, and 167,459 baptisms during the year. The 

 tables further show in Europe including Great 

 Britain, etc., Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Fin- 

 land, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, 

 Roumania and Bulgaria, Russia and Poland, 

 Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland 3,870 churches, 

 3,041 ministers, 414,321 members, and 6,587 bap- 

 tisms ; in Asia, 740 churches, 488 ministers, 85,- 

 950 members, and 8,951 baptisms ; in Africa, 42 

 churches, 81 ministers, 2,860 members, and 28 

 baptisms ; and in Australia, 193 churches, 131 

 ministers, 16,050 members, and 711 baptisms. In 

 all, 41,808 churches, 27,933 ministers, 3.903,881 

 members, and 183,819 baptisms showing an in- 

 crease from the previous year's enumeration of 

 1.177 churches, 832 ministers, 110,803 members, 

 and 27,325 baptisms. The churches in Asia and 

 Africa are mainly fruits of missionary work. 



The 7 Baptist theological institutions in the 

 United States had in 1891 61 instructors and 

 776 students preparing for the ministry; the 36 

 universities and colleges. 487 instructors and 

 8,186 students, 889 of whom were preparing for 

 the ministry ; the 38 institutions for the instruc- 

 tion of young women, 422 instructors and 4,834 

 pupils; the 51 institutions for the education of 

 young men and of young men and young 

 women, 294 instructors and 6,298 pupils, 370 of 

 whom were preparing for the ministry; and the 

 25 institutions for the colored race and Indians, 

 219 instructors and 5,193 pupils, 372 of whom 

 were preparing for the ministry. In all, there 

 were 157 institutions, with 813 men and 670 

 women as instructors, 25,287 pupils, 2,407 of 

 whom were preparing for the ministry ; having 

 grounds and buildings valued at $i 1,419,379, 

 endowment funds, so far as reported, of $14,- 

 159,140, and libraries and apparatus at $1,147,- 

 696; amount of gifts received in 1891, $2,547,- 

 557 ; number of volumes in libraries, 903,181. 



American Baptist Missionary Union. 

 The seventy-eighth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Baptist Missionary Union was held in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., May 19 and 20. The Rev. G. W. 

 Northrop, D. D., presided. The Treasurer's re- 

 port showed that the receipts for the year had 

 been $569,173, indicating an increase of $96,999. 

 It was regarded as a sign of healthy activity 

 that the expenses of the society had increased by 



""1,417 in the last three years, and had more 



than doubled in the last nine years. The two 

 Women's Missionary Societies had contributed 

 $118,191 to the funds of the society. Four hun- 

 dred and seventeen missionaries and 947 native 

 preachers had been under appointment during 

 the year, while 1,083 preachers were engaged in 

 European countries. Connected with the mis- 

 sions were 1,439 churches, with 163,881 mem- 

 bers, of whom 83,597 were in heathen lands ; 

 and 18,549 persons, of whom 10,971 were from 

 among the heathen, had been baptized. Thirty- 

 nine missionaries and 207 preachers had been 

 added to the force. Seventy-three stations and 

 900 out-stations are occupied in heathen lands. 

 The pupils in Sunday schools numbered 78,187, 

 and those in other schools 22,284, all of both 

 classes in heathen lands. The year had been 

 one of more than usual prosperity in nearly all 

 the missions. Among the events especially re- 

 ferred to in the report were the revival in the 

 Telugu missions in India, which had resulted 

 in 7.905 accessions ; the progress of the work 

 in France, and the conversion of more than 

 60 persons at Bolengi station, near Equatorville, 

 in the Upper Congo Valley. The work of Bible 

 translation, printing, and distribution had been 

 carried on as rapidly as possible. A new and 

 cheaper edition of Judson's translation of the 

 Bible into the Burmese language had been print- 

 ed from photo-engraved plates of a reduced size. 

 Efforts were making on the Congo for the 

 translation of the Scriptures. The missions 

 had been extended in the unoccupied fields of 

 upper Burmah, closer to the Naga Hills. The 

 Ongole Mission High School (Telugu) had been 

 raised to a second-grade college, according to the 

 standards of the Government of India. Two 

 special funds of $50,000 each had been raised in 

 this country, one for the enlargement of this 

 mission, and the other for the endowment of the 

 high school. 



The meeting declared by resolution that while 

 fully recognizing the right of the United States 

 to restrict immigration, and especially the right 

 and duty to raise the requirements of citizen- 

 ship, it protested against the recent Chinese ex- 

 clusion legislation as unjust and oppressive : as 

 discriminating inequitably and cruelly against 

 an industrious class ; as violating our treaty 

 obligations ; and as threatening to imperil mis- 

 sionary work and workers in China. 



Publication Society. At the annual meet- 

 ing of the American Baptist Publication Society 

 Mr. Samuel Croser presided. The total receipts 

 of all the departments had been $673,481, of 

 which $21,412 had been in the Bible department 

 and $118,415 in the missionary department. 

 The Scriptures 27,064 copies had been distrib- 

 uted in many languages, and to every part of the 

 United States, as well as in Cuba, Mexico, Cana- 

 da, and South America. The final revision of 



