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civil authorities. During the discussion of the 

 budget, which occupied the greater part of the 

 session, the religious questions were frequently 

 brought up and discussed, particularly when the 

 items for the Ministry of Public Worship were 

 before the House. Count Czaky took the earli- 

 est opportunity to defend the Government pro- 

 gramme, and made it clear that the ministry 

 would stand or fall with the obligatory civil 

 marriage bill. As far as the Representantentafel 

 was concerned, no doubt was felt as to the pas- 

 sage of such a bill, but the difficulty was with 

 the Magnatentafel. That body consists mostly 



of the Hungarian nobility, who adhere firmly 

 to the Catholic faith, and who for that reason 

 refused to make any concessions whatever. It 

 even went so far as to pass a vote of want of con- 

 fidence in the ministry on the Church question, 

 May 10, 1893. The clergy held a meeting at 

 which resolutions were presented and adopted 

 strongly protesting against what they considered 

 the Government's politico-religious programme, 

 and especially against obligatory civil marriage ; 

 and in the early autumn the Pope addressed an 

 encyclical on the subject to the Hungarian bish- 

 ops and clergy. 



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BAPTISTS. The summaries of the statistics 

 of the regular Baptist churches in the United 

 States, as given in the "American Baptist Year- 

 book " for 1893, are as follow : Number of asso- 

 ciations, 1,458 ; of ordained ministers, 24,798 ; of 

 churches, 36,793 ; of members, 3,383,160 : of Sun- 

 day schools, 19,930, with 143,607 officers and 

 teachers and 1,390,601 pupils ; of additions dur- 

 ing the year by baptism, 166,322. Amount of 

 contributions : For missions, $1,207,244 ; for 

 education, $236,776; for salaries and expenses, 

 $9,999,860 ; miscellaneous, $2,463,538. Value of 

 church property, $71,080,945. 



In British America are returned 810 churches, 

 585 ministers, 80,768 members, and 4,464 bap- 

 tisms during the year ; in Mexico, 49 churches, 

 25 ministers, 1,672 members, and 182 baptisms ; 

 in the West Indies and Central America, 201 

 churches, 76 ministers, 44,200 members, and 

 3.135 baptisms ; total for North America, 37,853 

 churches, 25,504 ministers, 3,509,800 members, 

 and 174,103 baptisms ; in South America (Brazil), 

 10 churches, 10 ministers, 419 members, and 90 

 baptisms ; in Europe (including the United 

 Kingdom, Austria- Hungary. Denmark, Finland, 

 France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, Rou- 

 mania and Bulgaria, Russia and Poland, Spain, 

 Sweden, and Switzerland), 3,704 churches, 2,584 

 ministers, 422,066 members, and 23,254 baptisms ; 

 in Asia (Assam, Burmah, Ceylon, China, India, 

 Japan, Orissa, and Palestine), 801 churches, 504 

 ministers, 97,672 members, and 11,999 baptisms ; 

 in Africa, 50 churches, 89 ministers, 3,357 mem- 

 bers, and 570 baptisms ; in Australasia, 199 

 churches, 129 ministers, 16,670 members, and 

 1,330 baptisms; total for all countries, 42,617 

 churches, 28,820 ministers, 4,049,984 members, 

 and 211,346 baptisms. 



Of the baptisms in the United States during 

 1892, Georgia reports the largest number, 20,176. 

 After it follow Texas, 17,226; Alabama, 13,001; 

 Virginia, 2,210 : South Carolina, North Caro- 

 lina, Tennessee, New York, etc., the baptisms in 

 the South considerably outnumbering those in 

 the North. In the amount of money contrib- 

 uted by the denomination the total, exclud- 

 ing the gifts of Messrs. Rockefeller and Colgate 

 to Chicago and Colgate Universities, amounting 

 to $13,907,418 New York leads with $1,713,- 

 761. Next come Massachusetts, with $1,067,876 ; 

 Pennsylvania, with $962,125 ; Illinois, with $660,- 

 117; New Jersey, with $550,716; Missouri, with 

 $494,477; Ohio, Virginia, Texas, Michigan, Ken- 



tucky, etc. The general average per capita was 

 $4 for the whole country. 



In absolute number of members, Georgia leads 

 with 344,158, and after it follow Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky, Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, Ten- 

 nessee, Missouri, New York, etc., in order. ' 



Educational Institutions in the United 

 States. Seven Baptist theological institutions 

 in the United States return 58 instructors and 

 818 pupils preparing for the ministry ; 35 uni- 

 versities and colleges, 602 instructors, and 8,542 

 pupils, 1,072 of whom were preparing for the 

 ministry ; 36 institutions for young women, 397 

 instructors, and 4,573 pupils ; 51 institutions for 

 young men and young women, 365 instructors, 

 and 7,379 pupils, 314 of whom were preparing 

 for the ministry ; 24 institutions for the colored 

 race and Indians, 235 instructors, and 5,240 pu- 

 pils, of whom 247 were preparing for the minis- 

 try. Aggregate statistics of 153 Baptist educa- 

 tional institutions: Number of instructors, 1,657; 

 of pupils, 26,552 ; preparing for the ministry, 

 2,451 ; value of grounds and buildings, $13,493,- 

 355; amount of endowments, $16,782,820; value 

 of libraries and apparatus, $1,485,047; amount 

 of gifts made in 1892, $4,844,053; number of 

 volumes in libraries, 725,776 ; total value of 

 property, $31,761,222. 



Baptist Education Society. The fifth an- 

 nual meeting of the Baptist Education Society 

 was held, in connection with the meeting of the 

 Southern Baptist Convention, at Nashville, Tenn., 

 May 11. The treasurer reported that his receipts 

 for the year had been $75,319, all of which had 

 been paid out to the institutions for which the 

 different contributions were designed. The sec- 

 retary's I'eport made special mention of the grati- 

 tude and sympathy the society had received from 

 various parts of the country. The co-operation 

 of the pastors and people of the South had been 

 specially remarkable, and the most fruitful re- 

 sults have been realized in that region. The in- 

 stitutions aided had been carefully selected, as 

 likely to be most widely and permanently use- 

 ful, and the funds had been used for endowment 

 only. Of 67 Baptist schools and colleges in the 

 South, only 11 had practically any endowment. 

 American Baptists had now $32,000.000 safely 

 secured in college property. In the four years 

 of its existence $336,516 had been given to col- 

 leges and academies through this society, exclu- 

 sive of the gifts to the University of Chicago, 

 securing to those institutions $1,618.816; and 



