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BAPTISTS. 



BELGIUM. 



1 pastor, 200 members ; West Indies, 152 

 churches, 94 pastors, 23,070 members; Aus- 

 tralasia (tables very incomplete), 6,710 mem- 

 bers ; Denmark, 17 churches, 123 preaching 

 stations, 1,869 members, 300 Sunday-scholars ; 

 Germany (the Baptist Union of Germany in- 

 cludes churches in Germany, Denmark, Hol- 

 land, Poland, Russia, and Turkey), 110 church- 

 es, 1,263 preaching stations, 22,259 members, 

 6,000 Sunday-scholars; France, 25 churches; 

 Finland, 3 churches ; Greece, 1 church ; Hol- 

 land, 19 churches; Italy, 24 churches; Nor- 

 way, 18 churches ; Poland, 4 churches ; Russia, 

 6 churches ; Spain, 6 churches, 244 members ; 

 Switzerland, 9 churches; Turkey, 1 church, with 

 6 preaching stations; Sweden, 234 churches, 

 10,490 members, 16,183 children in the Sun- 

 day-schools, 2,115 in the day-schools, 12 mis- 

 sion unions, 4 local missionary societies, a the- 

 ological school, building-fund, and poor-fund. 



The annual meeting of the Baptist Union of 

 Great Britain and Ireland was held in Lou- 

 don, April 23d. The Rev. John Turland Brown 

 was installed as the president for the year. 

 The report of the secretary began with a re- 

 cital of the part which the Union had taken 

 during the year with reference to several 

 public matters. A memorial was adopted for 

 presentation to the House of Lords, protest- 

 ing against the Government's "Burials Bill," 

 which, it was asserted, did not even touch the 

 question of the grievances of the Non-conform- 

 ists, their demand being for perfect equality 

 with Episcopalians in the national church- 

 yards. A resolution respecting the Eastern 

 Question was adopted, to the effect that it was 

 the duty of the Government to further the self- 

 government of the Turkish provinces which 

 had suffered, and to secure British interests in 

 some other way than by upholding the Otto- 

 man Empire. 



The autumnal meetings of the Union were 

 held at Newport, Monmouthshire, during the 

 first week in October. A statement was pre- 

 sented in behalf of the Missionary Society, ask- 

 ing for increased contributions to prevent a 

 deficiency in the accounts, and stating that 

 eight or ten missionaries were wanted, to be 

 sent to India at once. 



The Baptist Union of Scotland met at Dun- 

 dee, April 10th. The proceedings of the meet- 

 ing consisted mainly in the reading of papers, 

 in one of which, on " Our Denominational 

 Work," by the Rev. John McClellan, of Edin- 

 burgh, the separate existence of the denomina- 

 tion, as distinguished from the Presbyterian 

 churches, was defended, as not only justifiable, 

 but imperatively demanded. 



The 108th annual meeting of the New Con- 

 nection of General Baptists was held at Leices- 

 ter, beginning June 25th. The Rev. Charles 

 Clarke-was chosen president. The number of 

 churches reported as connected with the Asso- 

 ciation was 175, as against 170 in 1876; and 

 the number of members 23,747. as against 23,- 

 453 in 1876. The churches in India returned 



894 members, which would swell the total for 

 1877 to 24,631. The number of pastors con- 

 nected with the home ministry was 103, while 

 65 churches were without pastors. The num- 

 ber of local preachers or evangelists reported 

 was 344, and of Sunday-school teachers, 4,275. 

 Twelve students were pursuing their studies 

 at Chilwell College, and the number of applica- 

 tions for admission to the institution exceeded 

 the vacancies. 



BAYLEY, JAMES ROOSEVELT, an American 

 archbishop, grandson of Richard Bayley, M.D., 

 born in New York, August 23, 1814, and died 

 in Newark, N. J., October 3, 1877. He grad- 

 uated at Washington (now Trinity) College, 

 Hartford, and was for some time tutor there. 

 He studied theology with Dr. Samuel Farmer 

 Jarvis, of Middletown, Conn., was ordained a 

 minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 

 and preached at Harlem, N. Y., and afterward 

 at Hagerstown, Md. He then joined the Ro- 

 man Catholic Church, prepared himself for the 

 priesthood at St. Sulpice, in Paris, and was 

 ordained in New York, March 2, 1842, by 

 Bishop Hughes. He was appointed Professor 

 of Belles Lettres at St. John's College, Ford- 

 ham, of which he was president in 1845-'46, 

 and from 1846 to 1853 was secretary to Arch- 

 bishop Hughes. On October 30, 1853, he was 

 consecrated first bishop of Newark, N. J., 

 which under his administration became one 

 of the most prosperous dioceses in the United 

 States. He founded Seton Hall College, and 

 numerous schools, academies, convents, and 

 churches. On July 30, 1872, he was appoint- 

 ed Archbishop of Baltimore. He published a 

 " Sketch of the History of the Catholic Church 

 on the Island of New York " (New York, 1858 ; 

 revised ed., 1869) ; " Memoirs of Simon Gabriel 

 Brnt6, First Bishop of Vincennes " (1860) ; and 

 "Pastorals for the People." 



BELGIUM, a kingdom of Europe. Leopold 

 II., King of the Belgians, was born April 9, 

 1835 ; son of King Leopold I., former Duke of 

 Saxe-Coburg ; ascended the throne at the death 

 of his father, December 10, 1865 ; was married 

 August 22, 1853, to Marie Henriette, daughter 

 of the late Archduke Joseph of Austria, born 

 August 23, 1836. Offspring of this union are 

 three daughters. Heir-apparent to the throne 

 is the brother of the King, Philip, Count of 

 Flanders, born March 24, 1827, lieutenant- 

 general in the service of Belgium ; married, 

 April 26, 1867, to Princess Marie of Hohen- 

 zollern-Sigmaringen, born November 17, 1845 ; 

 offspring of the union is a son, Baldwin, born 

 July 3, 1869. 



The area of the kingdom is 11,378 square 

 miles; population, according to the last census, 

 taken in 1866, 4,737,833 ; according to an offi- 

 cial calculation of December, 1875, 5,403,006. 

 Of this population 54 per cent, belong to the 

 Flemish and 44 to the Walloon -French nation- 

 ality. The following table exliibits the popu- 

 lation of each province of the kingdom on 

 December 81, 1875, as well as the number ot 



