The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-01

Association Is good; but the managers need
more money to carry out their plans 81 slse.
f,iiiiess. Over 100 persons q day have Wig
tied thesrooms, and abonts1 zoo vUEdmes per
month have been loaned the members. The
lectures have been largely attended.
Colored Young Mems, Christian Association.
This association has been quite active In
holding prayer and open-air meetings the
past year.
The association meets every Thursday
evening at the Third-Street African Metho-
dist Episcopal church. 1t numbers about
$50 members. Officers: Samuel E. Rich
ardsan, president; William, II. Davis, vice
president; Upshur Taylor, recording sec
rotary: William III. Munday, corresponding
secretary. There are six associations in the
State, with an aggregate membership OF 400.
BAPTIST. fff
AS some OF the most important general
boards of this denomination are located in
this city, we present below list Of their
officers and synopsis Of their work
Foreign Mission Board Of the Southern Bap-
list Convention.
Rev. DR.. J. L. NJ. Curry, president; Rev.
DR.. IL. A. Topper, corresponding secre-
tarv: John c. Williams, Esq, treasurer;
DR.. w. II. Gwathmey, recording secretary.
The mission-rooms arc at II II Main street.
The Board sustains missions In China, Afri-
ca, and Italy. According to their last off.
cial report there were in these fields cigh.
teen foreign missionaries, twenty-seven ma.
tive assistants and pastors, twenty churches
and out-stations, some six hundred and
fifty converts. six schools, with an average
attendance Of one hundred and five pupils,
and one school Of seventv-five to one hun.
dred persons, to whom religious addresses
are weekly delivered; one dispcnsary,
where over three thousand patients were
treated. The contributions Of the Baptist
churches OF the South to support this work
during their last fiscal year were something
over $4,000. 49,. ge.y .H.iet
State Mission Board.
Rev. j. X. Garlick, d. D.. president
Rev. j. b. Jeter, ID. D., yice-prcsident; Ii
X. Ellyson, corresponding secretary; James
T. Gatewood, recording secretary.
This Board Of the Virginia Baptist Genera
Association sustained during the past year Al
missionaries, who labored in destitute parts
OF the State. They reported the following
summary Of labors performed during TIT
year: Number Of preaching stations, 159
number Of sermons preached, 1889; num-
Der Of persons baptized, 500; number Of
conversions in connection with the labor;
OF the missionaries Of persons baptized by
other pastors, 1,4S0; Sunday schools at sta
tions, 80; new Sunday schools organized
10; new churches constituted, o; houses o.
worship being erected, II; houses Of wor.
ship completed during the year, 3.
Baptist Education Board.
Rev. DR.. w. E. Hatcher, president; j
Taylor Ellyson, corresponding secretary
No. 1l12 Main street. The object Of thi:
Board is to aid young men studying for the
ministry at Richmond College or the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary. 1t is q
State organization, and only undertakes tt
aid students who come properly endorsed
by the Virginia churches. During its past
career the Board has aided three hundred
and fourteen ministerial students, many oil
whom have been among the most useful
pastors and most consecrated missionaries
Of the demonstration. During the past year
it has had under its charge and aided thirty
five ministerial students, and is endeayoring
to carry out the instructions OF the General
Association to aid every suitable young man
who applies. ..,.. ..... ...s-3cv
Baptist Sunday-School Association. ~
J. B. Winston, president; j. Booten Hill,
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
composed OF one member from each Sunday
school. At its meetlngs-which. are at
tended by, large cfowds-vaPious questions
connected with the Sunday-school work are
discussed, and collections are taken up fol-
the main object OF the association, which is
to promote Sunday-School mission work.
During the past year all the schools con.
nected with the association have enjoyed a
reasonable degree OF prosperity, and the
mission interests under its care have been
attended with gratifying success. {
Woman's Missionary Society.
This is an organization composed Of the
ladies OF the Baptist churches OF Richmond,
and was organized in April, 1872, for the
purpose Of supporting Miss Edmonia Moon
Us missionary to China. The funds of the
Society are collected by means OF "mte D.
boxes deposited in the families, and it is un'
destood that these contributions are not to
interfere in the least with collections fol
other benevolent objects. The contribu'
tons for the year amounted to S741.0S. The
officers OF the Society are: Mrs. J. 3. Jeter,
president; Mrs. Edwin Workman, CORE.
spending secretary Mrs. II. Theodore Ell
Tyson, recording secretary Mrs. j. Temple,
treasurer. -
First Church, -. r.,
Corner Broad and Twelfth streets. Rev.
E. ". Warren, d. d., pastor, northeast
corner Clay and Tenth streets. Present
membership, SIS; additions during the
year, As; diminutions, 35; net increase, 10.
SUNDAY SCHooL.-,R. Fl. Bosher superin-
tendent; 60 officers, 525 scholars; total,
$50. Baptized during the year, 10; contrl-
buttons, 500.
of which Mr.. D. S. Mccarthy is president,
r. S. Bosher corresponding secretary, and
R. L. Woodward recording secretary, has,
during the year, paid the salary of Rev.
Mr.. Williams, missionary in Southwestern
Virginia under the State Board, and for a
portion Of the year OF Rev. S. G. Clopton,
who labored in Augusta county, Va. The
Society has also aided in paying the salary
of the pastor Of the Venable-Street church,
and has also donated to the Sunday-School
Association its interest tWo-thirds) in the
lot designed for the German mission. The
Society also aids in the work OF foreign and
domestic missions, the Sunday school, &c.
Its membership is 10, and its last years
contributions about $500. ...-
The Dorcas Society, composed Of IS ladies
of the church, has aided during the year in
the clothing of IS poor children Of the Sum-
day school, and has expended for this pur-
pose $3.50, and in aid Of the Yenable-Street
church $500 In addition to this these
ladies have contributed to mission and other
benevolent objects S739.40-making an ag--
eregate Of 81, 224.40. ,...,...,-,r...,
The Female Missionary Society Of this