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manent fund of the Union, leaving $225,723.97 

 as the sum applicable to the payment of the 

 current expenses of the year ; the expenditures 

 had been $242,949.31. Including the deficit 

 of $30,136.17, which was reported in the ac- 

 counts at the end of the previous year, the 

 balance against the society was $47,361.51. 

 The following is a summary of the condition 

 of the missions, as presented by the executive 

 committee : 



ASIATIC MISSIONS. 



The Year-Book also gives tables for Europe, 

 Asia, Africa, and Australasia, of which the fol- 

 lowing are the footings : 



port at the time the Tear-BooTc was made up, 

 the number of members assigned to them was 

 taken from the reports of previous years. The 

 tables of Sunday-schools and benevolent con- 

 tributions in the United States is as follows : 

 Number of Sunday-schools, 10,015 ; of officers 

 and teachers in the same, 93,553; of Sun- 

 day-school scholars, 750,367 ; amount of be- 

 nevolent contributions, $4,698,352.94. The list 

 of Baptist educational institutions in the Unit- 

 ed States includes, theological institutions, 

 with 40 instructors, 425 students for the min- 

 istry, property valued at $1,511,900, and en- 

 dowment funds of $1,019,415; 38 colleges 

 and universities, with 282 instructors, 4,007 stu- 

 dents, $8,178,781 of property, and $3,460,927 

 of endowment funds ; and 42 academies, semi- 

 naries, institutes, and "female colleges," with 

 241 instructors, 3,854 students, $2,145,000 of 

 property, and $209,000 of endowment funds. 

 The total number of students for the minis- 

 try in all of these institutions was 1,477. The 

 list of periodicals contains the names of one 

 quarterly, 32 weekly, 5 semi-monthly, and 12 

 monthly publications. 



The 63d annual meeting of the American 

 Baptist Missionary Union was held at Prov- 

 idence, R. L, May 22d. The Rev. Dr. Baruas 

 Sears, President of the Union, was prevented 

 by ill health from attending the meeting, and 

 the Rev. Dr. Robinson, President of Brown 

 University, was chosen to preside in his place. 

 The report stated that the gross amount paid 

 into the treasury for the year had been $238,- 

 777.15 ; of which, by the stipulation of the 

 givers, $13,053.18 had been added to the per- 



Eight missionaries had been sent out during 

 the year six to stations in Burmah, and two 

 to Japan and four young women were under 

 appointment. 



A paper by the Rev. Dr. Murdoch, discuss- 

 ing the question, " Shall we decrease our Mis- 

 sion-work ? " presented the fact as an embar- 

 rassing difficulty, that the funds of the Union 

 had steadily fallen short of the expenditures 

 during the last eleven years, while the religious 

 work among the heathen had advanced, and 

 the need of larger resources to meet growing 

 demands had greatly increased. This paper 

 was referred to a special committee, who re- 

 ported that the existing debt should be paid, 

 not by a general contraction of operations, or 

 by declining to open the proposed new mission, 

 but "by more universal and larger giving." 

 The sum of $11,975 having been already sub- 

 scribed toward the payment of the year's de- 

 ficit of $17,000, a collection was taken to ob- 

 tain the rest of this sum, which resulted in 

 raising the amount of subscriptions to $30,000. 



The 6th annual meeting of the Woman's 

 Baptist Missionary Society of the East was held 

 in Boston, April 17th and 18th. Mrs. Gardner 

 Colby presided. The treasurer reported that 

 the receipts of the society had been $35,925 

 $1,395 more than the receipts for the previous 

 year and the expenditures $34,397. The con- 

 tingent fund, consisting of legacies and memo- 

 rial gifts, amounted to $2,418, the interest on 

 which was applied to the work of the society. 

 A considerable number of circles had been 

 formed during the year, and the society had now 



