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marmalade were exported to the amount of 

 5,040,000 crowns in 1900, and cattle of the same 

 value. Iron, copper, salt, manganese, and quick- 

 silver are mined. There are 628 miles of railroads. 

 The line, 105 miles in length, to Cattaro in south- 

 ern Dalmatia was opened in July, 1901. There 

 are 1,660 miles of telegraph-line, with 3,615 miles 

 of wire; the number of messages in 1900 was 

 447,648. The number of letters and postal cards 

 carried in the mails was 11,084,575. Young men 

 at the age of twenty are liable to be called into 



the army. There are 4 infantry regiments of Bos- 

 nian troops and 4 reserve battalions, the total 

 force being 6,7 1 1 men. The Austrian troops of oc- 

 cupation numbered 20,110 men in 1902. The pop- 

 ulation increases at a yearly rate of nearly 2 per 

 cent. The people complain of taxation, but the 

 tithe, which is the heaviest direct tax, has not 

 been materially increased since 1900, nor very 

 greatly since 1883. The revenue has increased 

 under Austro-Hungarian administration to more 

 than three times what it was in Turkish times. 



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JAPTISTS. Baptists in the United States. 



-The American Baptist Year-Book for 1902 

 _ives the following statistics of the regular Bap- 

 tist churches in the United States: Number of 

 associations, 1,691; of churches, 44,453; of minis- 

 ters, 30,561; of members, 4,269,063; of baptisms 

 during the year, 207,515; total amount of contri- 

 butions, $14,138,195; value of church property, 

 $89,389,992. These figures indicate an increase 

 for the year of 11 associations, 494 churches, 

 35,837 members, 10,280 baptisms, $347,895 in con- 

 tributions, and $1,243,600 in value of church 

 property. A slight gain is also shown in the 

 aggregate of contributions per capita and in- 

 crease of 2,011 Sunday-schools, 3,638 teachers, 

 and 48,649 pupils. 



The Baptists have in the United States 9 theo- 

 logical seminaries, with 74 teachers, 1,018 stu- 

 dents, real estate valued at $1,185,538, and $2,759,- 

 976 of endowments; 103 universities and colleges, 

 with 1,920 professors, 28,620 students, $17,984,798 

 of property, and $18,289,749 of endowments; and 

 91 academies, with 737 teachers, 12,967 students, 

 $4,023,022 of property, and $1,301,115 of endow- 

 ments. 



One hundred and seventeen newspapers and 

 periodicals are published in affiliation with Bap- 

 tist churches. 



The members of the Baptist churches in the 

 United States are thus classified according to sec- 

 tional and to racial affiliations: Northern Bap- 

 tists, 1,059,753; Southern white Baptists, 1,628,- 

 710; Southern negro Baptists, 1,580,600. Com- 

 pared with similar returns for 1901, these figures 

 show gains in one year of 3,766 Northern Bap- 

 tists, 21,339 Southern white Baptists, and 10,742 

 Southern negro Baptists. Allowances should, 

 however, be made for probable inaccuracies in 

 the count of the negro Baptists. 



American Baptist Publication Society. 

 The seventy-eighth annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Baptist Publication Society was held in St. 

 Paul, Minn., May 22 and 23. The receipts for 

 the year from sales in the publication department 

 had been $694,795. In the missionary depart- 

 ment $114,610 had been received from churches, 

 individuals, income from invested funds, and be- 

 quests, exceeding the receipts of the previous year 

 by $5,628 ; yet through the increase of missionary 

 work and the enlargement of beneficence an addi- 

 tional deficiency of $6,422 had been incurred, 

 making the total indebtedness $25,047. The re- 

 ceipts for Bible work had been $11,941. In addi- 

 tion to these amounts there had accrued to the 

 missionary department $10,300 in annuity funds, 

 and $40,000, a special gift, from an anonymous 

 donor. The whole amount received during the 

 year from all sources had been $939.981. More 

 of the books published by the society had been 

 sold during the past year than in any previous 

 year of its history. Among the publications of 



which special mention was made were the Ameri- 

 can Commentary on the New Testament, with a 

 corresponding work on the Old Testament in 

 course of preparation, and a series of Baptist 

 histories, handbooks, and biographies. Twenty- 

 seven new publications had been issued during 

 the year. 



American Baptist Home Mission Society. 

 The seventieth annual meeting of the American 

 Baptist Home Mission Society was held in St. 

 Paul, Minn., May 24 and 26. Although the year 

 had closed with a nominal debt of $13,629, it 

 was regarded as having been one of exceptional 

 prosperity. The total receipts had been $614,- 

 223, of which $4,212 had come from Sunday- 

 schools and $2,262 from Young People's Societies. 

 The receipts from legacies had been $78,348; 

 $8,150 had been added to the permanent fund and 

 $40,553 to the conditional fund, while $67,776 

 had been put into enlarged facilities for the 

 schools. The expenditure had been greater in 

 consequence of the enlargement of both educa- 

 tional and missionary work; of it $207,965 had 

 gone for missions and $110,229 for education. 

 Within the last five years 175 churches which 

 had been aided by the society had become self- 

 supporting. The church at Monterey, Mexico, 

 was approaching that point, and the church at 

 Santiago, Cuba, had voluntarily assumed a part 

 of the support of its pastor. Twelve hundred 

 and seventy-eight missionary laborers and teach- 

 ers had been supported wholly or in part by the 

 society, viz., 45 in the New England States, 75 

 in the Middle and Central States, 229 in the 

 Southern States, 878 in the Western States and 

 Territories, 10 in Canada, 20 in Mexico, 1 in 

 Alaska, 6 in Cuba, and 9 in Porto Rico. Three 

 hundred and two missionai'ies and 13 teachers 

 had labored among the foreign populations 

 (French, Scandinavian, and German), 58 mission- 

 aries and 210 teachers among the colored people, 

 24 missionaries, and 30 teachers among the In- 

 dians, 15 missionaries and 12 teachers among the 

 Mexicans, 5 missionaries and 1 teacher among 

 the Cubans, 7 missionaries and 2 teachers among 

 the Porto Ricans, 4 teachers among the Mor- 

 mons, and 595 missionaries among Americans. 

 The society aided in the maintenance of 33 schools 

 established for the colored people, the Indians, 

 and the Mexicans; besides 7 day-schools for the 

 Chinese, 1 day-school in Utah, 2 in New Mexico, 

 1 in Cuba, and 2 in Porto Rico: in all. 46 

 schools. Steady progress had taken place in the 

 general character of the work done in the schools 

 receiving the support of the society. Special em- 

 phasis had been placed upon industrial training 

 at several of the schools, and it was believed that 

 superior work in this line was being done. Eighty 

 churches had been aided during the year by gift 

 or loan, or both. The amount of money in the 

 gift fund available for the erection of meeting- 



