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penditures $3,764. The invested funds amounted 

 to about $4.000. 



Southern Baptist Convention. The South- 

 ern Baptist Convention met in its forty-eighth 

 annual session at Atlanta, Ga., May 6. The 

 Hon. Jonathan Haralson was re-elected president. 

 The report of the Board of Home Missions 

 showed that its total receipts had been $227,281, 

 of which $84,871 were receipts from the States 

 and miscellaneous receipts; $68,683 raised by 

 co-operative bodies and expended in joint mis- 

 sion work ; and $64,065 for houses of worship in 

 mission fields. Three hundred and sixty-five 

 missionaries had been employed, serving 1,324 

 churches and stations. They returned as the 

 results of their year's labors 5,274 baptisms, 342 

 Sunday schools organized, with 17,185 teachers 

 and pupils, 179 churches constituted, and 80 

 houses of worship built. During the past ten 

 years 2,692 missionaries had been employed, 2,- 

 290 churches constituted, 2,117 Sunday schools 

 organized, 630 houses of worship built, 67,166 

 members added to the churches, and $1,320,000 

 raised and expended. Forty of the missionaries 

 had been laboring during the year among the 

 Indians and in Oklahoma. The missions among 

 the Indians were becoming year by year more 

 assimilated with those among the whites, and 

 the necessity of preaching in the native lan- 

 guages was diminishing. The work of evangeli- 

 zation was accomplished, and the demand for 

 Christian development and education had arisen. 

 The mission in Cuba was acquiring a stronger 

 hold, to which the purchase of a valuable prop- 

 erty for a church in the heart of the city of 

 Havana, and the establishment of a high school 

 for girls, had contributed much. The work 

 among the colored people had not increased so 

 rapidly as was desired. 



The receipts of the Foreign Mission Board had 

 been $114,325. The Women's Missionary Socie- 

 ties had raised $25,040. Twenty-one new mis- 

 sionaries had gone out during the year. The 

 missions were in China, where 130 baptisms were 

 returned ; West Africa, 31 baptisms ; Italy, 40 

 baptisms; Brazil, 80 baptisms ; Japan, 16 bap- 

 tisms ; and Mexico, 127 baptisms. The mission 

 in Japan was a new one. The Sunday School 

 Board presented its first report, and represented 

 the results of the year's work as encouraging. 

 Preparations were making for the publication of 

 several books and periodicals. Returns were 

 presented from 8,862 Sunday schools in a con- 

 stituency of 1,129,942 members, with 52,513 

 teachers and officers and 440,262 pupils. 



The committee on the celebration of the one 

 hundredth anniversary of the establishment of 

 Baptist missions reported that the subject had 

 been brought before the district associations and 

 State conventions, and that special meetings had 

 been held. Missionary maps had been issued, 

 and much literature circulated. It had been 

 agreed to undertake to raise money to send 100 

 new missionaries to the foreign field. The com- 

 mittee recommended in addition that $250,000 

 be raised as a fund for building churches. Four 

 general centennial meetings were arranged for ; 

 one to be held in Atlanta, at once ; one in Louis- 

 ville, Ky., in October, 1892; one in Richmond, 

 Va., in March, 1893; and the last at the next 

 session of the convention. 



The Woman's Missionary Union, auxiliary to 

 the Southern Baptist Convention, received in 

 1890-'91 gifts of $15,229 for home and $23,761 

 for foreign missions. 



Societies of Colored Baptists. The Ameri- 

 can Baptist Missionary Convention of the West- 

 ern States and Territories sustains three mis- 

 sionaries on the foreign field, giving particular 

 attention to the Congo Free State. 



The Baptist Foreign Missionary Convention 

 of the United States returned its receipts in 

 1891 for missionary work at $2,900, and was sup- 

 porting two missionaries. 



The New England Baptist Missionary Con- 

 vention, organized in 1875, returned in 1891 an 

 income of $728, and had a widow's fund of $377. 

 Four missionary pastors had served at four sta- 

 tions, in which there had been 22 conversions 

 and 15 baptisms, and $521 had been contributed 

 in support of pastoral labor. Aid was given 

 by the society to a seminary that is located t 

 Lynchburg, Va. A woman's auxiliary society 

 was organized in 1891. 



German and Swedish Baptist Chnrches. 

 The tenth triennial General Conference of the 

 German Baptists in America met in Chicago, 

 111., and transacted business of a routine charac- 

 ter. This body represents five conferences, with 

 1,700 members and 200 pastors. It has an acad- 

 emy and a theological seminary in Rochester, 

 N. Y., a publication house in Cleveland, Ohio. 

 and an orphan's home and an old people's home 

 in Louisville, Ky. 



The General Conference of Swedish Baptists 

 met in Oakland, Neb., late in September. Prepara- 

 tions were made for the extension of missionary 

 work among Swedish settlers in Texas, Mani- 

 toba, Wyoming, Dakota, and Idaho; the Divin- 

 ity School at Morgan Park, 111., where the Swed- 

 ish preachers are taught, was requested to admit 

 no student who is wholly without experience in 

 the field ; and the Education Society was asked 

 to help brethren who are well known, have ex- 

 perience in evangelical work, and are efficient. 

 The Swedish churches returned in 1890, 12,172 

 members of the church, 781 teachers and 6,689 

 pupils in Sunday schools, 129 meeting houses, 

 with church property valued at $392,500, and 

 contributed for all purposes $158,115. 



Young People's Union. The Baptist Young 

 People's Union of America was organized at a 

 Convention held in Chicago. 111., in July, 1891, 

 which was attended by 1,621 delegates repre- 

 senting 28 States, the District of Columbia, and 

 Canada. Its resolutions affirmed the distinctive 

 principles of the Baptists, and attachment to the 

 American Sabbath. 



Baptist Congress. -The tenth annual Bap- 

 tist Congress met in Philadelphia, Pa., May 18. 

 Col. Charles H. Banes presided. Prearranged 

 topics were discussed by appointed speakers as 

 follow: "The Christian Year: How far is its 

 Recognition advisable?" by President H. G. 

 Weston, of Crozer Theological Seminary, the 

 Rev. W. H. P. Faunce. and the Rev. R. S. Mac- 

 Arthur, D. D. ; " Is a Union of the Various Bap- 

 tist Bodies feasible?" by the Rev. B. B. Tyler, 

 D. D., of the Disciples of Christ, Rev. A. H. 

 Lewis, D. D., of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church, 

 Prof. J. A. Howe, D. D., of the Free- Will Bap- 

 tist Church, and Prof. W. H. Whitsitt, D. D., of 



