Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-10
THE BAPTIST ANNIVERSARIES.
Over Three ThOusam0 Delegates Exs
pected at the Gathering Here Next
Week.

Next Tuesday what are known as the Baptist
Anniversaries will convene at this city, viz: The
American Baptist Missionary Union, organized
1914; the American Baptist Publication Society,
organized 1924; the American Baptist Home Mis-
sion society, organized 1882. over 1900 delegates,
clerical and lay, will be In attendance, with head
quarters at the Calvary Baptist church The Oh
)ect OF this vast gathering Is TO consult and legs-
late concerning those matters which the whole
Baptist host have In common. IL Is well known
that the structure OF this denomination Is congre-
gational that is, each church 10 body OF baptized
believers entirely independent, acknowledging no
earth. =
The anniversaries, therefore, are a general as.
churches choose to send them, to take into con-
sideration three questions:
l. Where shall we send missionaries and how
shall they be supported?
2. The Bible, Sunday school literature, tracts,
renglous books, and denominational literature
must be printed. How shall these be ctrculateds
and es The SoSrse people the
Indians demand spiritual instruction and comfort;
new churches have to be constructed. How shall
TO show the extent OF the work OF these societies
ana the eject OF this voluntary system, the Mis-
Sonary Union collected and disbursed last year
SosV.ooS on the foreign Held Their Work Is prose
cuted largely In Southeastern Asia, in Burmah,
Assam, China, and Japan. There are stations also
AZ AIiCa ana In parts OF Europe.
Inc Puollcat1on Society expended in Its WORK
iast year $4,000. In one year 350 900 copies Oh
Ine scriptures are printed and given away. All the
SUNDAY -school papers, lesson helps, and Q great
Seai OF the library matter are prepared IN the huge
building owned by the society In Philadelphia
Inc home Mission Society expended last veal
$o52,3l4. III missionaries are everywhere through
OUT the land, working especially In those places
Mhere seli-sustaining churches are impracticabie
Inere Is also church edifice department. collect
Ing FUNDS TO help in the erection OF new houses OF
worship. The educational field is a most promis-
Ing one, including work among the freedmen and
the Indians
In these gatherings there Is no distinction made
between the clerical and the lay delegates, as tG
junction or voting. The three presiding Officers
are Hon. George A. Pilsbury, Minneapolis Mimi.
samuel A. Grocer, Upland, Pa, and Samuel Col
gate, Orange, n. j. The work laid out each veal
Is managed by three secretaries, Rev. j. N. Muir
DOCK, D., Rev. b. Grifnth, DID,, and Rev. d. L
M0rehouse, DID.
IL Is Well known that many OF the colored people
are Bapt1Sts, and therefore the responsibility Of
tnstructing the race is deeply felt by this demon
1natlon. For the purpose OF supplying them with
properly qualified teachers and preachers, twenty
schools and colleges are supported throughout the
South and West for colored and Indian youths o.
both sexes These schools employ thousand
instructors and help, have eighteen thousand
pupils, and hold property to the amount o.
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