The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-06-01
IN America Growing Steadily
Each Your.
BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIEiY
celebrates tts AnnIvorsary-IntcrcSt.
Ing Statistics showing tho rro4ccu.
ton OF tho Observation-Disclosures
of tho Various Foreign Populations
OF This cnuntry-iscooipts aud Dis.
bursemcnts.

""'' ''o'u "S'uhtlou uuUI to-day, whom
ihey worc followed aud supplemented
by homo missions. Tho six.v.,hirl an.
nual report Of tho executive board Of
tho American Bap..s. Homo Missionary
Society was presented for tho year ond.
ing March 81, 1895. Tho work Of tho
society embraces;
Tho prosecution OF western missions,
ovanGcliration OF tho various foreign
populations OF this country. missionary
work atnouc tho North American In
dinns, missionary work in tho republic
OF Mexico, educational work ior tho no.
grocs and erection OF moctin. houses.
lhG headquarters arc In Now York City.
Tho total receipts OF tho year been
S505,6lO 90; tho total expenditures,
Si55,o2i 50. In New England tho con.
tributionS have been moro than 5000
more thnl for any year for some years
past.
Tho rccoipts for tho Now York dis.
trict are: From New York, S74,075 Il;
and from Northern Now Jersey, SI3.573.
il, making u grand total OF $S7,6i9 o..
Tho total receipts for tho Pennsylvania
district, exclusive OF contributions to
tho Womon's Society and from tho
German churches, are S30,0liS0 This
is SO,SS2 IS Increase OF last year. Thosum
oil sd $50 IS has boon received from Ohio
aud Michigan. In Indiana there has
been gain OF slxty.four contributing
churches and thirty.iivc Sunday schools.
III Illinois there has been n gain OF
forty.two churches. eighteen Sunday
schools and twenty.one Baptist Young
Peoples Unions. with total OF s., Ash.
So.
In Minnesota, North and South Da.
kota. comprising tho Rcd River district,
faithful work has been done, SO
churches having already been estab.
!ished in tho two latter states, but in
Minnesota there are l2O towns OF over
1000 Inhabitants each without Baptist
church. In tive states and territories
there have been 2224 missionaries under
appointment, but some OF them have
been compelled 10 leave their fields OF
labor because the churches could not
possibly raise their proportion OF the
salaries.
The whole number OF laborers, mis-
sionarIes and teachers supported who'll.
y or in part has been 100. They have
been distributed rs follows: In the New
England states, IL; in tho middle and
central states, 50; in tho southern states,
2Ol; IN the western states and terri
tories, including 1G in Indian territory,
III in the Canadian Dominion, I; in
Mexico. IS. French missionaries have
wrought in S states; Scandinavian mis-
slonarles in 2S states: German mission
aries in 10 states, Manitoba and British
Columbia; colorcd missionaries in nino-
teen states and territories. Among tho
foreign population there have been 247
labVrers; among the colored people, Is /;
the Indians. n; the Mexicans, Il, and
among Americans, 5l2.
The society aida in tho maintenance
OF 81 established school. for the colored
people, the Indians and tho Mexicans.
There are 10 day schools for the Chi
nese, aud ether day schools.
The ratio OF Baptist. 10 tho noPula-
ton OF many cities is much less than the
ratio IN their respective states. This is
attributable in part TO the proportion
a,ely larger foreign element in the
cities. among whom there Is very
small Baptist constituency. The largest
is in Providence, 4. l., where Bapiists
are to .. CI,lca in which Bsptists
are less than 10 100 are: New York,
to l25; Milwaukee, to 10; Chicago.
to l25: ST. Louis. to l2j; San Fran
cisco. l to 270.
The number OF Baptis. city mission
organizations in tiitv-onc cities OF the
northern and western states, each with
a population OF over $4,000, is 80. Their
yearly receipts Counting out certain
sums that arc no, to be regarded as 4
missionary oGeringsl ara about $4,000,
hall OF which is in the four cities OF Bos-
ton, New York, Brooklyn and Philadel.
phia. Within the last three years about
ninety missions. including Sunday
schools. have been established, and
about l75 are now supported.
There ara ovor one hundred !udivid.
ual church mission enterprises in these
cities. Thirteen city mission societies
have twenly.one missions TO foreign
populations. institutional church work
Is attempted By Two city mission gocie-
ties, and to n very limited oxtcnt. gon-
orally, by about twenty-sin churches.
The upper peninsula OF Michigan and
Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oklahoma,
Indian Territory, New Mexico and Ari'
iona present an urgent missionary field.
Tho work among the foreign population
is growing in interest in all tho states,
The Rocky Mountain division includes
thirteen states and territories besides
British Columbia. The Bapti4ts ara
represented in this division by 300
churches and 50, 900 members, aud there
have been 25G missionaries in charge OF
about 500 fields.
Eight general missionaries have
drect churre Of tho mission work in ten
states and territories.
Mission work in Utah has been OK
penBive but il has been broadly and
permanently influential and just now
tho Mormon young people arc eager to
hear doctrinai preaching.
One hundred new missionaries should
be- sont to Washington, Oregon and
California. Tho emancipation oil min.
ing camps. particularly in Idaho, Orc.
gnn, Upper California, Arizona and
Mexico, ID urgently required. .
Tho receipts from Wisconsin arc the
largest ever raised in anglo year in
the history Of Baptist missionary work
In Wisconsin. Tho results OF tho mis-.
sionary work arc also tho largest ever
reported for sing!e ycar.
In Iowa thorc arc i3G baptist churches,
with membership OF 33,62S, and 2i,-
$50 pupils in Baptist Sunday schools.
Eichly.ayc OF these churches nro pastor
less. Tho entire number OF additions
Ln,iuy the wear have boon 5,0J2-3, l37