The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-01

Wifi3e sunday hool nuinbersSz officers and
Eachersand e5ascholafS totat. I02. Ninety
members Of tbs school havefbeen baptized
and United with the church during the year.
The Young Mems Missionary Society does
general eity-missioI work, and aids IN feed
isg and clothing the needy.
The Ladies' Md Society helps the needy
at home and contributes to foreign missions.
P1vE- STREET CHURCH, corner Pine aud
sprine streets, Rev: }. 3. Hutson pastor.
Present membership, 345; net increase during
the year, 30. ,
d The Sunday School has an average attend-
ance Of 900.
During the year the audience-room of this
church has been enlarged to accommodate its
increasing congregations, an admlrably-ar-
ranged baptistry has been constructed, ana
handsome organ purchased.
|! SIDNEY CHURCH, Rev. John VI. Butler pas
I tor. Present membership, 75; received du'
ring the year, q; net Increase, "a.
The Sunday School has increased from "a
(oflicers, teachers, aud scholars) lst OF
I january, 1878, to 1T 1st Of January, 1914
There have been nineteen professions of con-
version in the school during the year.
L1rGH.STREET CHURCH. Leigh corner Twen'
ty-ffth street, Church Hill, Rev. DR.. j. R
Garlick pastor. Present membership, 40
additions during the year, 81; dimtnution:
by death, removals, exclusions, &C., %; net
gain, So.
The Sunday School of this church mum.
be-s sd officers and teachers and $50 scholars
1.-THE largest monthly average attendance be-
ing 44G)-totaI, 504.
The church has an efficient Young Mems
Missionary Society and a Working LADIES
Aid Society.
FULTON CHURCH, Rev. Fl. G. Crews p''s'oi
Membership, Sc; net increase, 10. q, .. !,
The Sunday School numbers: OnhceiS anu
teachers. II: scholars, S9-total, loo'
v,,,pv ,r,ssroy. Venable street, Rev. Geo
II Williams missionary in charge. This i'll
toros+ Is fostered by the Baptist Sunday
500, 4 Ssociation, aud is in a most hopeful
ME sunday School numbers ID officers
,,d teachers and 80 scholars-total, ia.
They have in connection with the mission
n most efficient Ladies' Sewing Society, which
not only helps the destitute but teaches poor
girls to sew.
Their neat chapel has been finished and
dedicated during the year. The congrega-
tons are large, and it is hoped to organize q
church here at an early day. 4
GERMAN BAPTIST MIss1os.-Rev. John Blen-
ner has held service for the Germans every
Sunday afternoon in the side-chapel Of the
First Baptist church.
Besides this, the Young Mems Missionary
Societies of the several Baptist churches have
purchased IN eligible lot, and propose to
erect at an early day neat German chapel,
which they will put in charge of some suita-
BILE missionary.
THE BAPTIST SUSDAY-scHooL ASSOCIATION
J. 3. Winston president, y. d. Browne secre-
tary. S. S. Carter treasurer. This Associa-
ton is composed Of delegates from ali the
Baptist Sunday schools Of Richmond, and
meets on the afternoon of the second Sunday
in each month at some one of the churches.
II has an executive committee, c4eposed OF
one member from each Sunday school. At
its meetings, which are attended by large
crowds, various questions connected with the
Sunday school work are discussed, and COL
leclions are taken up for the main object of
the Association, which is to promote Sunday
school mission work. During the past year
the Association has built a very neat chapel
at the Veuable-Street mission and employed
an efficient missionary to take charge Of that
interest. They are now arranging to erect
chapel in another part of the city.
FOREIGN Mission BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN
BAPTIST CoNvESTIoN.-Rcv.D DR.. J. l.. Burrows
president. Rev. Dr.. Fl. 4. Topper correspond
ing secretary, Edwin Wortham treasurer,
DR.. w. II. Gwathmey recording secretary.
The misSion-rooms are nj 1l12 Main street.
The Board sustains missions in China, AT
RIGA, and Italy.
They have in China sixteen white mission
aries and twenty-one native assistants, i've
regularly-organized churches with an iggrt-
gate membership of 224 converted healhcn,
and number Of stations.
In Africa they have eight misSion-stations
In Italy they have eight missionaries and
seven churches with an aggregate member
ship of PIT. The Board raised during last
year S54, 905.47.
The Home and Foreign Journal, published
in this city, and edited by Rev. DR.. John G.
Long, is the organ Of this Board.
STATE Mission BoARD.-Rev. DR.. n. w. Will
son president, II. X. Ellyson, Esq, corre-
spending secretary. This Board of The Vir-
cinia Baptist General Association sustained
during the past year thirty-etght missionaries,
who labored in destitute parts of the State and
accomplished noble work. They reported
the following summary of labors performed
d. ring the year:
Churches and stations supplied, 159 SER
mons preached, 4.199 persons baptized, $40 /;
number of conversions in meetings held by
the missionaries with other pastors, 1,l61
number of visits for religious conversation
and prayer,4 ,965 number Of Sunday schools
al stations, 96 !; new Sunday schools organ
lied. 80; new churches organized, ID new
houses Of worship erected or In course OF
erection, 81.
The Board has instructions from the Gene
raj Association to raise 1926, 900 during the
current year and greatly enlarge its opera
tons.
SuspAY-ScHooL AND BIBLE BoARD.--Dr. w.
H. Gwathmey president, j. 8. Watkins CORE
sponding secretary, Rev. j. William Jones
general Superintendent. The objects Of this
Board are ga Sunday school in every Bar-
fist church and in every community in the
State; every school we'll supplied with cheap
and reliable books copy of the Word OF
God in the hands Of every person who can
read.n The attainment Of these objects is
sought BY the employment Of colporters
and the direct hbors OF the general superin:
tendent in Sunday-school conventions ana
and other Sunday-school meetings.
The Board made in their last report the
following exhibit Of the Baptist sunday
school work in the State: 1m-,i i.
Number of Sunday schools, 615; officers
and teachers, 5,027; scholars in the schools,
"a, 600; baptisms of scholars during the year
1900. ~ sa c+&3 .~' .yzs2y i
EDUCATION BoARp.-Rev. DR.. J. L. Bur
rows president. ]. TAYLOR Ellyson correspond.