Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-06-07


BAPTIST STATE MrS>IoS BoAaD.-The thir-
| ty-sevent!l annual report of the Baptist State
Mission Board, made to the Baptist General
Assembly in session at Stanton, shows that
the State Missions are III Il prosperous coli
| dition.
| Twentv-Six missionaries were employed in
| Eastern and Northeastern Virginia. who
preached ,Sl5 sermons, baptized 3l3 con-
vcrts, aided pastors. i'll meetings i'll which
j23 persons profcSocd conversion, made .
| 1712 visits to families for religious ins!ruc-
ton and prayer, organized 10 new Sunday
! Schools and one church, and were engaged
in the erection of houses OF worship. Most
of the stations in this portion oi the State
are steadily progressing, and this is true cS-
| pecialy OF the stations IN :lnti-lnl>slOn local.
| tiles, where prcjudices arc disappearing be-
| fore the light of tho gospel. The Fal?mont
| church, in Franklin county, Will hereafter
sustain its own pastor. Organized i've years
ago amidst many acknowledgements. it has
steadily grown in numbers and strength
under the care Of missionary, brother I'hom-
as {. GJggin has erected II new house
of worship, which is regularly filed with Il
large congregation, and the church Is exert
ing u happy influence in the community.
| The stations at Charleston, Winchester, Man
| chester and Petersburg, will require the tos
! terine AID Of the Beard ii few years lon&cr,
when th"r will doubtless become not only
sclf-suppcrtin=, bat the dispensers of bIcs-
sings to tie pcrishng Of our own and ether
lands. Ia Eastern Virginia there are large
districts Of country yet needing the services
Of Baptist missionaries. Within the limits
of the recently organized Blue Ridge Assoc
ciatiOu. there IS w0ri. enough for FIVE: and
in some Of he oldest aud strongest Associa-
tons, numerous points have been brought
to notice requiring the presence ot mission
airy lab0rcrS In the Western Association.
embracing a large portion Of the Valley aud
all the Central West, twenty missionaries
were appointed, and great success has atcn-
ted their ministry during the past year.
They preached 2,43O sermons, baptized Gll
converts aided pastors in meetings in which
.2jS persons protested conversion, made >,
348 visits to families, and organized II new
churches and Is new Sunday ScIiuols
There are now before the Board apr!!ca-
tons for the appointment Of twenty-five mis-
sionarcs 10 that part of the State the GnStl-
ing year All of these and at least ten
others, should be commissioned Ut once.
Seventeen missionaries were appointed in
North Western Virginia, who preached >
UI5 sermons, baptized .245 converts, aided
pastors in meetings in which l9l persons
protested conversion, made ,1Gl visits to
families, organized new Sunday Schools,
and were engaged in the erection Of houses
of worship.
The missionaries preached $3.50 sermons,
baptized .202 converts, aided pastors in
meetings. in which 972 persons protested
conversion, made i, SSl visits to families for
religious instruction and prayer, organized
l. naw churches and }3 new Sunday Schools,
completed one new houSc Of worship, ard are
engaged in the erection of l. Others and
distributed 60 Bibles and Testamcnts, SO
volumes Of religious books and 1886 tracts
The receipts into the Treasury durin@ the
year were So, 1925, and the expenditures
were Sl5, lS0lS showing a balance due the
Treasury Of 1928.
Il will require So ,420 to pay existing La
bi!iti@S and 81 800 to rc.appoint those now
in service dating al their commissions in
June, making together $1,000. The State
missions earnestly entrcat the churches to
contribute nj least $40, 900 the next year for
the eyangelizAtion Of the State.