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TW mripu from Mitt had Mm fB,7W. 

 tpinst $07,00? in IHM.WH! from other sources 

 tlMOa The ram of $6.766 had -n tram- 

 SISdl torn the pmflU of ib* publishing do- 



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 issionary depart mmL The 

 ved for fable work hn 



received for missionary 

 r-three new psjntteations 

 which atUSD had been 

 missionaries and workers 

 been employed, in connection with whose 



SSlf"'^^^!^ ' toLy*fiS 

 Aay iBAnnii aided by cif i-* of t he Scriptures, 

 books, etc. and M ministers aid.-d in Brants 

 .raries. Three chapel cars had been 

 in nytrrtfrft alone lines of railroad, visiting 

 destiuTu places, with the result ,,f many con- 

 fl I ft I' III A resolution was unanimously adopt- 

 ed protestiiig agatost the arrest at .d pun'ishm-nt 

 of prrsons who, having oonscietc 



UM seventh day as a day for religions rest and 

 on the first day of the week con- 

 gaged in labor which in no wise 

 as a violation of the 

 rights of religion* 1 1 \ -.': -ir was 



directed with the American Bible S-.-i.-ty r 

 sperting the circulation ..f the Scriptures in lan- 

 i other than Knglish. that its co-operation 



may be secured for publishing -'""i distributing 

 the versions made by Baptist missionaries and 

 approved by Baptist missionary societies. 



Mlssieaary I aloa.-The eightieth annual 

 mssting of the American Baptist Missionary 

 Union was bald at Saratoga Springs, N. T., be- 

 ginning May 27. The society had begun the 

 vear with a debt of $206^96, in view of which 

 it hail bean obliged to reduce its appropriations 

 by 109.000. On this basis it had m 

 year* appropriation* and reduced the debt by 

 the amount ..f *i::.<tt'.. Th- total income of 

 the society had been $661.255. The appropria- 

 tion had amounted to $564800, and $88.416 had 

 been added to the permanent fund and bond ac- 

 count A noteworthv feature of the work abroad 

 was the increase of the number of self -*upport- 

 ing churches in heathen lands from 377 to 458, 

 and of self-supporting schools f .869. 



Other items of increase were: Missionaries, 8 ; 

 native preachers, 88: churches, 41 ; church 

 bars, TO; pupil, in Sunday schools, 



Connected with 



to "nominally rim*. 



" lands were 1,167 preachers; with missions 

 the heathen. 1.058; making in all 2,280; 

 churches to the former missions, 866 



ter, 787; making a tul of 1 r.-Vt. 



in the lat- 

 Th- baptisms 



during the year numbered 11 7!<1 1 

 membership to the churches wa 



was 190.998, and 



ler of pupil- in Sunday schools 92.826. 

 of contributions spent on the I 

 MjBl An amended constitution for th- 

 Union was adopted, among the features of which 

 an* th* mjuirrracni that at least one fifth of th- 

 board of managers shall be women, and the con- 

 stitution of the presidents of th- worn 

 missionary societies savojleib members of th- 

 board of managers. An application on In-half 

 of the minion of the Rev. A. Ben niirl to tho 

 n Jerusalem to be taken under the care of 

 the Onion was referred to the ) 

 mittee. A committee on self-support on foreign 



. .Mimni'mlini: steps t<> 

 Th- tru- anil, tin- r-|...rt -aid. l 



the planting of native church--* that \\iii l>- 

 self-supporliii); and r-pr<..lu ( i i\, . in\<. 

 motlificaiion of the rx<-osi\- ami s-n: iiii-ntal 

 hirli many f-. 1 \\ith r--ar.l toth-hanl-- 

 ships that the Datives must undergo. l'i 

 tkmata giving shonid be urged: to, al-<.. nati\r 



rhun-lu-s should be plain in ar-hit-ctun' and 

 hruplv const rurtrd ; th- n.n^n-piti..n rath-r 

 than tne missionary should make thr rhoj.-.- ,,f 

 the pastor, and the" prai-tic- in -"iii- church-s 

 of pending money to Mijiport native |.iai-h-t^ 

 .should IM- di^-onrapMl. Some form of indnsirial 

 education also .should he maintained in conn-c- 

 ;h th- mis-ion. A resolution was adopt- 

 ed favoring the formation of home-mission so- 

 cieties in all missions, so that lessons of self- 

 support may be taught t> the converts. 



nih-r So.-i-tics.-Thc total receipts of the 



I'.aptist M'liKiiti ar had been 



LI, of whirh Mr. John I>. Rockefeller had 



(ontriliuted $10,001. Payments of $16,280 had 



13 colleges which had collected alto- 



p-t her $76.007 of endowment pledges ; making a 



total addition to th-ir endowment funds of 



Th- Woman's Ilapti-t 1! 



ciety, Chicago, had had in it-* employ during 

 the whole or part of the year 114 missionaries, 

 at 82 stations, among native .\m-ri<ans Ku- 

 ropean populations, Jews, Indian-, n-irr < -. < ln- 

 nese. Mormons, and Mexicans. It and it- aux- 

 iliaries co-operate with the . \m-rican I'.apn-t 

 Home Mi-sion S(x-iety and with State and Ter- 

 ritorial conventions on the front ir in the sup- 

 port of certain teachers and I.CII-I'K iai i--. for 

 which it had contributed $5,062 during t li 

 At the thirteenth annual commencement of its 

 training school, June 20,1804, 1'J American. 1 

 Swedish. :* (ii-nnan. and 1 Icelandic pupils were 

 graduated ; all but 2 of whom entered the mis- 

 sion service in some form. A movement has 

 made considerable progress for the estanlM.- 

 m-nt of a training school for colored women. 

 The total receipts of the society for the year 

 were $64,120, and the disbursements sfO'J . 



Th- work of the Woman's Baptist II >m 

 sion Society, centered at Boston, Mass., is chi-fly 

 educational. Sixty teachers were under appoint- 

 m-nt in IHJM. f or whose work $27,000 hai' 



led. Th-ir fi-ld embraced Alaska, China. 

 o, th- Indians of the United States, etc. 



'I'h- tw-nty-foiirth annual meeting of the 



Woman'* I'.aptist Foreign Missionary Society of 



*t was held at Fort Wayne,*Ind.. April 



18. The financial report snowed a de- 



fi-i-n. v for the year on general account of 



$9,530, the receipts having been $1 



; -rid it ures $52,808. The receipts for the 

 Home f,,r Missionaries' Children were $l."Hi, 

 and the -xjwnses $1,669, but a d-fici-ncy was 

 averted by the aid of a cash balance from the 

 previous year. The society had 47 missionaries 

 m the field, with 2 under appointment, 110 

 BibI- women, and 37 schools, with 2.050 pupils 

 and loo n .v icrs. Muring the year 4 



new missionaries were sent out and 2 returned 

 to their fields, and 110 baptisms were report -d. 

 Ten candidates were under appointment or in 

 preparation. 



