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for their work, making a grand total of $977,- 

 846. The Centennial Committee reported a still 

 further receipt of $32,500 on a bequest to the 

 union from an estate not yet settled, by which 

 the amount of the centennial offering was 

 swelled to $1,010,341. The general statistical 

 reports from the mission fields showed that 

 there were in the European missions 1,099 preach- 

 ers, 801 churches, 82,274 church members, and 

 67,059 pupils in Sunday schools; while 5,796 

 persons had been baptized there in 1892, and 

 $251,020 had been contributed by the mission 

 stations. In the heathen fields were 971 preach- 

 ers, 730 churches, with 87,455 members, 18,625 

 pupils in Sunday schools, and 7,060 persons had 

 been baptized, and $54,249 contributed. Fifty- 

 two missionaries, including those of the women's 

 societies, had gone to various stations in Asia 

 and Africa ; 38 new appointments had been 

 made ; 38 missionaries had returned home, 8 of 

 them permanently, and 3 had died. Dr. Jud- 

 son's Burman Bible had been issued, reduced in 

 size by the photo-engraving process, at one 

 fourth the cost of the regular edition, and the 

 new Sgau-Karen Bible had been published at 

 Rangoon. Recommendations were adopted that 

 the anniversary meetings be made so far as the 

 business of the'Union is concerned strictly dele- 

 gated or representative meetings ; that, instead 

 of uniformly having set reports by special com- 

 mittees of the work of the Union in the various 

 foreign fields, time be given to listening to ac- 

 counts by living missionaries home on furlough ; 

 and that a committee be appointed to consider 

 the question of the relation of schools and higher 

 education in general to the missionary opera- 

 tions, including the acceptance and use of Gov- 

 ernment grants-in-aid and Government inspec- 

 tion in the several missions where such grants 

 obtain. 



American Baptist Home Missionary So- 

 ciety. The meeting of the American Baptist 

 Home Missionary Society was held in Denver, 

 Col., May 29, Mr. H. K. Porter, one of the vice- 

 presidents, presiding. The receipts of the treas- 

 ury for the year had been $473,842, and the ex- 

 penditures $671,491. The work of the society 

 had been conducted in 50 States and Territories, 

 and in Manitoba, the Northwest Territory, 

 British Columbia, Alaska, and six Mexican 

 States. One thousand and eighty-two laborers 

 had been employed, of whom 245 had been work- 

 ing among the foreign population, 236 among 

 the colored people. 46 among Indians, 31 among 

 Mexicans, and 524 among Americans. Seventy 

 churches had become self-supporting, and 82 

 asked for reduced appropriations. One hundred 

 and nine new mission stations had been under- 

 taken ; 2,035 stations and out stations, having 

 49,364 members, had been supplied; 5,743 

 members had been received by baptism ; 136 

 churches had been organized; 1,177 Sunday 

 schools, having an aggregate attendance of 73,- 

 954 members, were under the care of the mis- 

 sionaries: and contributions of $13,257 to the 

 benevolent funds were reported. The society 

 aided in the maintenance of 34 established 

 schools for the colored people, Indians, and 

 Mexicans ; 17 day schools for the Chinese ; 4 

 day schools in Mexico; and 2 day schools in 

 Utah. 



Women's Missionary Societies. The total 

 receipts of the Woman's Baptist Home Mission 

 Society (Chicago) for the year ending with April, 

 1893, were $67,059, and the disbursements were 

 $63,335. Plans of co-operation had been effected 

 with the American Baptist Home Mission So- 

 ciety and the State and Territorial conventions, 

 under which $7,323 were paid to the agents of 

 the society. A missionary training school was 

 sustained at Chicago, and a missionary training 

 department in connection with Shaw University. 

 Ninety-five missionaries had been under appoint- 

 ment during the year in Colored People's, Chinese, 

 European Landing-Place, Frontier, Indian, Mexi- 

 can, and Mormon Missions. 



The Woman's Baptist Home Mission Society 

 (Boston) received in all for the year $38,099. 

 For the Kadiak Orphanage, the accounts of which 

 were kept separately, the receipts had been $3,- 

 709, which, added to the cash in hand, made the 

 total amount to its credit $7,888. The society 

 had $10,746 of invested funds. 



The total receipts of the Women's Foreign 

 Missionary Society (Boston) for the year 1892-'93 

 were $150,552, and its expenditures $116,066. 

 Of the balance left in the treasury, $34,000 had 

 been reserved to make good the special obliga- 

 tions of the centenary year, making the real 

 balance $486. 



Baptist Young People's Union of America. 

 The third annual meeting of the Baptist 

 Young People's Union of America was held in 

 Indianapolis, Ind., beginning July 13. About 

 2,500 delegates attended. The board of man- 

 agers reported that, as far as had been ascer- 

 tained, nearly 1,000 young people's societies had 

 been organized during the year, making the 

 whole present number about 4,500 ; there were 

 also 300 associational unions, 50 city unions, and 

 30 State and provincial unions. The plans for 

 the founding fund had been enlarged, to secure, 

 if possible, $50,000 instead of $25,000, the 

 amount first named ; the present amount of the 

 fund was $13,846. The educational plans, in- 

 volving examinations on scriptural and religious 

 topics, under the three heads of Bible Reading, 

 Study of the Life of Christ, and Conquest Mis- 

 sionary Observance, had been satisfactorily car- 

 ried out. These were collecti vely called the Chris- 

 tian Culture Course. A pastor's lecture course 

 was widely adopted. It included studies on the 

 preparation of the world for the spread of the 

 gospel ; theological education among the Jews ; 

 the influence of Judaism on Christianity; the 

 New Testament how it grew and when it was 

 completed; the teachings of Paul and their 

 effect on Christian thought in all ages ; and the 

 testimony of art and archaeology to Christianity. 

 One or two optional courses of study were con- 

 templated. Many junior societies had been or- 

 ganized. It was decided to give these societies 

 the name, Junior Baptist Union. 



Organizations of Colored Baptists. The 

 Baptist Foreign Missionary Convention of the 

 United States is the organization for foreign 

 mission work of colored Baptists. It sustains 

 two missionaries in Africa. Steps have been 

 taken for the organization of the women in the 

 collection of missionary funds. 



The Baptist African Missionary Convention of 

 the Western States and Territories sustains, with 



