

BAP1 



National -Colon*) Baptist ConTention 



Nti.nal -vnii imi met in Bo*- 



. - - : I- r. T!.- II |fd '. I '' -'> 



. T. ;- :--! thai UK H tl ll fi.lMI 



>nd llUuit *l..'.00 had 



boto apirprin- .< licurvs do 



. lud the work of tii. 



which U carried on inde|-ndmtly. It wa* shown 

 that dun ntf the past seventeen rears the negro 

 IUi4UU of AmeriSTbave raiml $a.54 

 oao missions. The report of the lion 

 -c 



after which op|K,rtunity i- -iven f,,r voluntary ad- 

 dresses. The -ulijecis di-. -u ,<! at the ' 



-chonb ami pablioatiooa, 



wi.il.- little had beoaooM in tin- way "f church 

 ion. The coovoniion further considered the 



btMfl '." f< im Pco- 



i :i magazine. 



\uunir Peoples I'nlon. i 



[.list Yonni: People's 



1 nite.l State- aii-1 Canada) was 



held nt Chattanooga. Tenn.. .Inly !' to 1*. Mr. 



.1. 1 1. Chapman i Tin- annual report of the 



owed that the union wa- ori;ani/.ed in 



nil >f - .-except Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, 



-:H-ipj'i. ami the Territory of 



!io\v.-d an impr 



financial condition. r had 



been $00.834. and the de'icit had l..-.-n reduced 

 -.' to 11,788, Tin- number of cxamina- 

 MI the Christian culture OOOTSi I, I 

 showed an increase r the previou- 



rancement for union with tin- B.ipti-t Youni: 



People's Dnion Auxiliary to the Snulhurn BaptiM 



i ina.le through committees in March. 



had been formally ratified, and was in HTcct 



during the re-ent neeting, In p lace of the divi- 



sion of the Win:; People's Baptist 1'nion of Amer- 



-incuts. known respectively as 



. ' . -Id. Blue, and (in, -n. 



- determined that the a^irre^ation of socict ics 



within the Dominion of Canada .-hould ! 



nated the Baptist Young People's 1'nion of Can- 



ada; that within the territory tributary to the 



1 M vent ion a's the Union South : 



that within the remaining States east of the Mi i- 



nver as the I'nion North ; and that within the 



A-M of t| M . Mi.-i^ii ri- 



\Vest. l"he principal features ,,f the con- 

 n consisted of the addresses which were ile- 

 lire red, among the subjects of which wen: "The 

 nception l'.r-.n, not Proxy." l.y the 

 Dr. Carter II-lm .lones; "Divine (Jwnershiji 

 Hum Uhip," by the Hev. Dr. D. D. 



Laurin: "Klucation the Structural Idea." ly the 

 Denomination our Con- 



; \. Dr. -f. \v. \. Stewart : - The 

 Ideal Hone and it- Permanent Influence." |, v the 



\V. \V. Week-'. "The St .- W;ird-lli| of SeJ 



R0T. Dr. B. A.fire.-ne: "The Si. -war-Nhii. of 



Cult-ire." ,y the |{.-v. Dr. c. S. (Janlner : and " The 



." the annual adlress of the 



presi|. ii'. c.iuf.-nMicea of worker-, department 



rallies, and other special meetings were held. The 







The Baptist CoBfree*. The fifte.-ntii naskM) 



of the Baptist Congress was held in Chicago. III.. 



The Rer. A. A. K.-ndrick. D. D.. (f 



.reasis a volun- 



tary nKftuiK ministers and laymen, 



without authority or formal representative Char- 

 acter. the pur|wfte of which is defined to I 



te a healthful sentiment ai 

 through free and coarteons discussion of .-urn tit 

 questions DT suitable jH-r-u-n-." The pn.^ra 

 of th d in- 



clude a list of - vrhi' h pa ad by 



persons assigned to that function, which are h 

 case followed by remarks from appointed speakers, 



I Hi;- of the Apo>tles 



jiial Authority \\iih those of Chri-t '." " h 

 Bapti-m a Prere<|ui-iie to the L-nl'- Supp. 



.M Denominational Belief- impose Limita- 



i: . . i ...;.-; (i ,i- Govern 

 meiitandthe Oppressed of Oti The 



P-\cl. and "The Pou 



-- 111 the Life of t he Bell' 



in (.,,,,1 ll.hain an<l Ireland. -The 



- a - the liiiinl 



the Bapti-t churches in Great Britain and h 



(including aliout :',(HI el, 

 which i -I -nade fron 



turns) -j.'.i-Ji churches, 860,1 U members, i.;'"-'. paa- 

 tor,4.*:ix lo.-al ' 





 Mm lay sel ..... N. and in. 1 1:; bajMtismsdaringtht 



Of these. l.",(H> clmrche- n 



in Ki i -.ichurchc- \\ith HH.T'.M nn-ml" 



Wale-. 10S churche- with 



land, "js rlmrclies with 'J.ls; meinlMi- in Ireland. 



1 churches with :?:{? nieml.ers in the Channel I- 



laml-. and 1 church with ','1 nieinlier- in the I 



Man. The li^im - in each department are in ad- 



vance of lho-e ,,f the preceding Near, the 



prominent increase beinj; that of membership 



i.l |.". The anioiini i during t In- 



upon new liuildin^s was 



than duriiii: the pnvidii- year : wh 



upon chapel improvement-, and l'i;:;.:;j(l for the re- 



moval of delit on chapel property. A con-ideralilv 



increa-e i> .-hown in the last item. The lar^e num- 



IMT of local preachers is mentioned a- an int 



ini; feature in the slat i-t ics. \\iih the except ion 



of a few who are fully CIILML'' d a- n.i--i-.nai . 



the-e local jtreachei-- arc men \\ ho -up- 



j.ort themsclve- and their families liy secular 

 pat ions and aid their pa-tors Ity preach in.i; n Sun- 

 and at other times at out station-, receiving 

 no' pay for th-e services. While many of Un- 

 churches have no local | 

 of them have from 1 to -jo each. Two ivpo- 



-.'" : one, 80: one, 44; and the Metro- 

 politaa Tabernacle in London return- i:;" 



on Baptist authors and hi-tory from 1-VJ7 to I^'MI. 



the liev. Dr. .lo-i-ph Anu'u-. is pnl>li-hed in the 

 M,|<. It ^ives the name- of lietween ^(M) and 



500 Enirli-h l'.apli-t authors, with -oine particulars 



DOO 



many <.f them. and the numlier of DOOkf lul- 

 li-hed l>y each, with date-; of pulilicat im. Aliraham 

 Booth and Andrew Full. .ited in it with 



ik- each: .John (iill. D. D.. with -H : and .lohn 

 Brine..!. Kyland. D. D.. Dan Taylor, and W. Win-to,, 

 with :>0 ea.'h. 



The Bapti-t Tnionofir n ami Ireland 



met in its annual meeting April 96. Then.: 

 of the President, th- 



MM to t!.. ti-t IK. me mi- 



which was celeliraied in connection with the 



:. The report of the council -I 



an ii :.ti-t churche^ c'.nnected with 



the union. r.lJ." mcml.crs 24'J teacher-. anl 

 pupils in Sunday school-, and lS,!f0 in < 

 diture on new linildiiiLT^ and improvements, while 

 lillildiliL' d.1.1- had l.ecn reduced or removed to 

 the extent of ' a-MJU-t D t he 



prerl rd of Introduction had 



made 70 recommendation- of mini-ier- to chi.- 

 without patton, A Mihi-'-Tia! Iieco^nitjon Com- 

 mitt- n formed, in accordance witli pro- 



: at the pn-viou- annual meeting. 

 The r the .0 vral Kxpen-e fund had 



the Church Kxten-ion fund, which 

 now amounted to C!.-r.i1. l"J.nno. An increased 

 activity in church extension was remarked in some 



