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flic New Testament by Drs. Westmi. Ilovev, and 

 :u>. had I teen published. The total -airs 

 of the year in the publicat ion depart ment 

 amounted to $55:5.050. One hundred and 

 twenty-four new pulilications had lx?en issued, 

 and :;"), 10: ;.')()() copies of liooks, tracts, pam- 

 phlets, and periodicals had been printed. The 

 chapel car " Kvatigel " had been successfully 

 u-ed on tlie Pacific coast and cast of the Rocky 

 Mountains. Ten Baptist churches and 9 Sunday 

 schools had been organized in Oregon and Wash- 

 ington ; 00 towns had been visited; and 5(X per- 

 sons had professed conversion. One hundred 

 and thirty-eight colporteurs had been employed, 

 under whose labors 695 persons had been bap- 

 ti/.ed, 58 churches constituted, and 370 Sunday- 

 schools organized. 



Home Mission Society. The total receipts 

 for the year of the American Baptist Home Mis- 

 sion Society were reported at its annual meet- 

 ing in Philadelphia, Pa., May 27, the Hon. 

 E. N. Blake presiding, to have been $500,890 ; 

 the expenditures had been $448,038, of which 

 s -i 1 1. -107 had been for missionaries' salaries and 

 $82,084 for teachers' salaries. The society had 

 supported, in whole or in part. 1,053 laborers, in 

 4! States and Territories, Ontario, Manitoba, 

 Northwest Territory, British Columbia, Alaska, 

 and six States of Mexico. About 75 churches 

 had become self-supporting, 80 more had asked 

 for smaller appropriations than in the previous 

 year, and 145 new stations had been taken up ; 

 221 of the missionaries had been laboring among 

 the foreign population, 326 missionaries and 

 teachers among the colored people, Indians, and 

 Mexicans, and 505 among Americans. The mis- 

 sionaries represented 14 nationalities or peoples. 

 The society aided in the maintenance of 27 es- 

 tablished schools for the colored people, the 

 Indians, and the Mexicans ; 9 day schools for 

 the Chinese in California, 3 in Oregon, and 1 in 

 Montana; be>ides which 2 day schools were 

 maintained in Utah, 2 in the Indian Territory, 

 and 3 in Mexico. One hundred and fifty-seven 

 teachers were employed and 4,716 students were 

 enrolled in the schools for the colored people ; 4 

 teachers and 247 pupils in Mexico; and 19 

 teachers and 392 students in the Indian schools. 

 Wichita Mission School had been added to the 

 number in the Indian Territory, making 5 in all 

 there. The number of students for the minis- 

 try was 412. Manual training had became a 

 prominent feature in most of the schools. The 

 training schools for nurses at Spelman Seminary 

 was regarded with much favor. One hundred 

 and twenty-one churches had been aided by gifts 

 and loans during the year. A resolution was 

 adopted insisting, "as American Christians and 

 s Baptists," upon the entire separation' of 

 Church and state, and "steadily and sturdily 

 protesting against any such subtle assault upon 

 our public-school BTStem as that known as the 

 Farihault and Still'water plan" (a plan under 

 which the priests of the Roman Catholic Church 

 are permitted to give religious instruction after 

 school hours in the school rooms hired from 

 them). 



Education Society. The annual meeting of 

 the American Baptist Kducation Society was 

 held in Philadelphia, Pa., May 28. Dr. S. W. 

 Duncan presided. The Executive Board reported 



that more than $4,000,000 had been presented to 

 Baptist institutions of learning during the last 

 twelvemonths. The gifts had been distributed 

 substantially as follows: 



To 11 institutions for the colored people and the 



Indians $40.000 



To 6 institutions for women 100,040 



To 20 academies and (secondary school* 400,000 



To 5 theological seminaries 200.000 



To 29 colleges and universities. 8,500,OCO 



To 71 institutions an aggregate of. $4,290,000 



The sum includes $1,000.000 contributed to 

 Colgate University and more than a million con- 

 tributed to the University of Chicago. Since 

 the active work of this society began in 1889. 

 the aggregate of Baptist educational property in 

 the United States has increased from about $19,- 

 500.000 to $29,000,000: and the number of stu- 

 dents in Baptist institutions from about 17,000 

 to more than 25,000. 



Women's Missionary Societies. The Wom- 

 an's Baptist Home Mission Society received dur- 

 ing the year, for its general work, $44,431, and 

 ret urned a balance of $4,628. The receipts for the 

 current expenses of the training school had been 

 ^ '!.:;:>]. The deficit on the training-school 

 building fund had been reduced to $3,466. 

 While not auxiliary to the American Baptist 

 Home Mission Society, a plan of co-operation 

 \\as in force in some of its branches, which had 

 contributed some $5,508 to the fund of that so- 

 ciety. The training school had made greater 

 progress than at any time during the eleven 

 years of its history. The society employed 84 

 missionaries, under whose labors 85 Sunday 

 schools had been organized, 1,629 young people's 

 meetings conducted, 1,621 ' women's meetings 

 attended, and 19 temperance societies organized. 



At the twenty-first annual meeting of the 

 Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of 

 the West, held at Racine, Wis., April 12, the 

 receipts for the year were returned at $44,605, and 

 the expenditures at $49,290. Forty-one mission- 

 aries had been in the service of the society during 

 the year, and it had work for 13 more. Thirty 

 schools were returned from the mission fields, 

 with 82 native teachers and 2,234 pupils. Fifty- 

 three Bible women had been employed, and 49 

 other Christian women were under training for 

 work. Ninety-two baptisms were returned. 



The receipts of the Woman's Baptist Foreign 

 Missionary Society, according to reports made at 

 its twenty-first annual meeting in Boston. Ma>-.. 

 April 20, had been $97,611 : the expenditures 

 had been $97,953, of which $88,476 were applied 

 to foreign fields in Burmah, Assam, the Telugu 

 country, China, Japan, Africa, and Europe. 

 Among the papers read at the meeting was one 

 on " What a Century of Christianity has done for 

 Woman." The society undertook to raise $200,- 

 000 during the ensuing year, half of the sum to 

 be used as a special offering. 



American Baptist Historical Society. 

 The library of the American Baptist Historical 

 Society was increased during the year ending 

 with April, 1892, by the addition of 236 bound 

 volumes and 6,000 pamphlets. It now contains 

 7,477 bound volumes and thousands of minutes, 

 college catalogues, translations, works of mis- 

 sionaries, manuscripts, photographs, etc. The 

 receipts for the year were $3,500, and the ex- 



