The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-01
BAPTIST.

BAPTIST.
It so happens that several Of the most inn
portant General Boards Of this denomina-
ton are located in Richmond.
FOREIGN MISSION BOARD OF TIE SOUTHERN
BAPTIST CoSvENTIoN.-Rev. DR.. j. l.. NJ.
Curry, president; Rev. DR.. II. A. Topper,
corresponding secretary; Edwin Wortbam.
| treasurer Dr.. w. Fl. Gwathney, recording
secretary.
The mission-rooms are at 1112 Main street.
| The Board sustains missions in China, AT.
| rica, aud Italy. They have in China fourteen
| white missionaries and twenty native assist
| ants, five regularly organized churches with
| an aggregate membership OF 307 converted
heather, and number of stations. In At
RIGA they have eight misSion-stations. In
| Italy they have seven missionaries and seven
churches, with an aggregate membership OF
277. The Board raised during last year over
So, 900, and proposes to increase this amount
considerably during the current year. They
| have recently appointed two more mission
aries TO Africa (Rev. w. j. David, of Mis-
sissippi, and Rev. W. w. Colley, very ir-
| telligent coored man, who has been edu-
| Gated at DR.. Corey's Institute, in this city,,
who are TO sail for their distant field OF labor
on the 9th of this month. The Board has
also appointed as missionary to China Mrs.
Lewellyn, Of Texas, an accomplished and
| wealthy lady, who proposes to pay her own
expenses While working for her benighted
sisters in China.
The Foreign Mission Journal, published
| in this city, is the organ of the Board, and
has large and increasing circulation.
STATE MISSION BoARD.-Rcv. DR.. n. W.
Wilson, president; FL. b. Ellyson, Esq.
corresponding secretary. This Board of the
Virginia Baptist General Association suS-
tanned during the past year ttty-two mis-
sionares, who laDored in destitute parts of
the State and accomplished noble work.
They reported the following summary of
| laborS performed during the year Number
Of preaching stations, 1893; number OF SER
mons preached, 1882; number of persons
| baptized, GIL; number Of conversions IN
connection with the labors of the mission
aries of persons baptized by other pastors,
l,OS3; Sunday schools at stations, 1929; new
Sunday schools orgauiZ d, 10; new churches
constituted, 10; houses of worship being
erected, 81; houses Of worship completed
during the year. 6.
| Notwithstanding "the panic" and the de-
mands of other objects of benevolence this
Board has collected during the past year
Sl3.257 80 The labors of this Board are
confined to Virginia, the denomination doing
It's general domestic mission work through
| the Board OF the Southern Baptist Conven-
ton, located at Marion, Ala.
SUNDAY-SCHooL AND BIBLE BoARD.-Rev.
C. H. R.iland, president; j. Is. Winston,
Esq, corresponding secretary. This Board
Iabors to promote the general interests of
thr0Dph
State organizing new schools and seeking
TO render the old ones more efficient-and
has proven most Yalua ole auxiliary to the
other work of the denomination.
EDUCATION BoARD.-J. Taylor Ellyson,
corresponding secretary, No. 1112 Main
street. The object OF this Board is to aid
Young men studying for the ministry at
Richmond College or the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary. 1t IS State organi.
cation, and only undertakes to aid students
who come properly endorsed by the Viz
ginia churches. During Its past career the
Board has aided 3l4 ministerial students,
many of whom have been among the most
useful pastors and most consecrated mis-
sonares of the denomination. During the
past year it has had under its charge ana
aided forty ministerial students, and is en-.
deayoring to carry out the INSTRUCTIONS OF
the General Association to aid every suita-
bic young man who applies.
THE BAPTIST SUHDAY-SCHooL ASSOCIATION.
J. B. Winston, president; y. d. Browne,
secretary; S. S. Carter, treasurer. This AS
ISOLATION Is composed of delegates from all
the Baptist Sunday schools OF Richmond,
and meets on the afternoon Of the second
Sunday in each month at some one OF the
churches. 1t has an executive committee,
comDosed of one member from each sun.
day school. At its meetings, which are at
tended by large crowds, various questions
connected with the Sunday school work are
discussed, and collections are taken up Tor
the main object OF the Association, when is
TO promote SundaY-school mission WORK.
During the past year the Association nus
finished paying for the beautiful chapel
which they built at Venable-Street mission,
sustained u eunday-scboOl On west Clay
street. purchased lot on which they pro-
nose to erect in the early spring neat chapei
for the CIay.Street mission, and done other
efficient work in carrying out their general
objects.
WomAN's MISSION SoCIETY.-This is an or
ganization composed OF the ladies' OF the
Baptist churches OF Richmond, and was OF.
gauized in April, 1872, for toe purpose OF
Supporting Miss sEdmonia Moon as mis-
sionary to China. The funds OF the Society
are collected BY means OF " mlte"-Do8es DC,
posted In the families, and 1t is UNDERSTOOD
that these contributions are not 10 lnteritfe
in the least with collections for other BE-
neyolent objects. The contributions Tor Inc
year ending April. 3, 1873, annotated TO
s9o1.94, and for the year ending April .,