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operation throughout the country, namely, the 



its, the associations and the local 



he*. The recommendations that had been 



made to these bodit- . d. Mullet in- con- 



cerning - ; -'"'' '" 1 



-uents containing Tarions papers in regard to 



phaar* of the work. The one distinctive work of 



Ue year. M dewriU-d in the addict of the 1 



the initiatory steps in openta 



Slate board* had boon formed. The mim- 

 work now wan 



to each association : in every State a commission 



. chureh: in ex cry church the 



adoption of some thoughtful plan of gmng. the 



holding of * monthly service in recognition of the 



M'S represent d m the denomi- 



.n\ life, an I the ap|Miintment of a church coiu- 



miavtcn. which by the use of literature and jK-ixmal 



in every mcmlH-r c. 



entiou-. habitual fidelity in the discharge of the 

 obligations of < icwardship: the use of a 



M of annual report by church, associa- 

 tion, and State thus to unify and promote intelli- 

 ut of the work, lu-port was made 

 of tli e(.o|ieration with the offer made by 



Mr. John I>. li'ockcfcllrr. to secure payment of the 

 debts of the Missionary Union and the II. -me Mis- 

 sionary Society, that the whole amount so far ob- 



Uoman's Home Mission Society. The twen- 

 tieth annual meeting of the Woman's Mapti-t Home 

 Mission S-ciety was held in Pittsburg. Pa.. May 

 17. Mr-. -< presided. The total amount 



of money in the treasury during the year hail 

 $66.156. The disbursement*, including $5,000 pi:id 

 deficit and reinvested, had been $60,478, and 

 $878 were on hand at the close of the year, 'f he 

 deficit thus appeared to be about $3,700, but as 

 $8,000 of this sum was an emergency fund, the r. -al 

 deficit was $1.700. The training school had gradu- 

 ated 21 students, of whom 15 wen- American-. '' 

 , 1 Dane, and 2 Herman-. The number of 

 missionaries employed during the year had !" n 

 -.tme as during the previous year. 1:50. Tin- 

 work was ng 11 classes of people in 

 ; >;ar. -. m :{'. States and Territories, and 



at 85 stations. Free conCannoas wex held during 



the in 'he literature of the society, meth- 



ods and services for collecting money, the training 

 of girls to take interest in foreign and homo mi- 

 sions, and the same among children. 



Woman . Missionary Societies. The 



twentr-^ixth annual meeting of t'he Maptist \Vom- 



Koreign Missi- wa- held in 



Washingt- Apri'l 20 to -J'J. The general 



had l>een $80,488, and theex- 



iptl for the Home for 



rhildr.-n of Miwionaries and of Ha-, jt m ,. House 



hal in both cases been in excess of the expendi- 



idred and twen'y missionaries had 



shared the gifts of the society, tti of whom w. 



tirely stin(inrted by it. 11.126 putiils wep enrolled 

 > school*, 167 Bible women had been engaged 

 in their -j-n-ml work, and 7i:{ baptisms were rc- 

 portad v letafled repon ..-.. n ,.f ii,.- 

 school and other work in Bormah. among Kura- 

 fans, the Karen*. ar**. i 



and in India. The deficit in the general cum nt 

 accounts of the s^-iety having | M -eii reduced to 

 $8J500. a plan wa.* prepared and adopted for 



ns or further reducing it. without changing 

 hedule for the coming year. 



The t went y-sixthanniiH f the Wo man's 



Baptist Foreign Mierionar >f the West was 



held in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 21 and 22. The en- 



tire general receipts for the year had been $56,810, 



and ' r the Home f,,p Missioi 



Children $1.H06. The invested fund- amounted to 

 $11.25(i. The work of the society in the f. 



u field liurmah. A am. T. 'lugiilaiul. China, 

 and .lajwin wa- .ted by -10 mi>Hona: 



assistant. :; under appointment. 11 -,-i...,,ix. -j.n: 

 pupii . -IT l-apti-ms during tli. 



le \\omeii. I Milde schools; and. in the medi- 

 cal department. (' hospitals. :! di-|.en-;uiex, ;, help- 

 n patient-. un<l M.iW, out patients. The 

 whole amount appro; es was 



i In- appropriation- to the foreign Held 

 and the home cxpendit uivs had all lieen cut down, 

 and the States had lieen asked to ji\ their appor- 



tioiin. -uch li.mir. s a- could i.e reaohed. 



l-'oiir candidates for appointment n- mi !.;. 



had lieen accepted, three of whom : ly in 



the field. A Correspondence scho,,; 



for mi ion fields, opened in jss:!. had s.'i students 



enrolled (i during the past year M of whom had 



l>een graduated from one or more of i; 



and of thc-e "24 had gone to the foreign field and 1 



as a mi-s ionar\ among the ChincM- in California. 



The Home lor Missionaries' Children at Morgan 



Park. 111., was full, and in need of a building. 



Historical Society. The An,. laptfft 



Hi-torical Society having lost all its collections in 

 the burning of the American Baptist Publical ion 

 House in I-Yliruan. is'.M}. the annual meeting. May 

 'JO. was devoted most largely ! Qfl of syni- 



jiathy and the presentation of its aims and i 



file president. the Kev. I>r. Lemuel Moss, defined the 

 ObjCCt of the soeietV as being to collect and Jir- 



all books, manu-cripts, ami documents relatii 

 Mapti-t hi-tory. e\er\ thing written b\ I'.apti-t- 

 favor of Maptists, or in opposition to Mapt ists. and 

 pichi' ud mementoes. It wits to have 



room- in the new fireproof building of the Publica- 

 tion Ntciety in Philadelphia, and needed $25,000. 

 Addresses were made by representatives of tli' 

 cral I'.apti-t social ies holding their anniversary meet- 

 ings at Pittslmrg expressive of the Interest which 

 their respective bodies had in the work of thissociety. 

 A committee appointed in the previous year to en- 

 courage the study of Maptist hi-tory reported that 

 it had secured the promise of historical papers to 

 be published during the en-iiini: year, to be written 

 bv I>r. U.S. Murraire. l>r. Nonniin l'-\. hr. I'.. I'.. 

 Hulbert.and Dr. A. II. Newman. The publication 

 would be continued quarterly. Partial promises 

 had been received from other Mapli-: 

 Subscribers were invited to support the enterprise 

 by the contribution of $1 a year, in return for 

 which they would receive the publications of the 

 society. 



southern Uajitisl ruinenlion. T! . S-'itheni 



Mai-list Convention met in its liftv-ee,,nd -. 



at Wilmington. N. ( '.. May 7. Mr. .Jonathan Haral- 



son was unanimoti-ly elected president, 'flic Home 



d that the year had been one 



f the severest financial stress it had ever passed 

 through. It had begun with an indebtedness of 

 $8.000 and an obligation to pay $5.7<i toward the 

 purchase of a \l\\^- of Worship in New Orleans. 

 maki indebtedness of $13.?'"). Tin total 



amount of $180,596 had > Ml indcbt- 



\cept X4..")()0 due on 



the New Orleans Ibu-.- of \Vorship.and th> 

 ha<l closed with a balance of $'J - ,'M in the treasury. 

 'fhree hundred and seventy-two mis-ionaries had 

 '"J^ churches and stations. 



who returned 4.7W baptisms during the year. 1M! 

 chur !uted. 57 houses of worship built 



and 12!) improved, with an expenditure of $.Y: 

 and 313 Sunda\ r-ani/ed. conner-teil with 



which were 10,725 teachers and pupils. Nineteen 



