The Portland daily press., 1895-05-29
BAPTIST ANNIVERSARIES.
Opening Meetins of the Convention at sar
atoga.

Saratoga, May 2S-This morning in
the Baptist convention, the report of the
young peoples department was present
secretary of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union. She said that special effort to
enlist the young people in the work of
the union was quite recent. The effort
is by the use of two forms of conven-
lent box to secure systematic beneficence.
The youngspeople contributed last year
$14, $50, gain of S., $780, exclusive of
much that has gone through church
treasures as well as the &c. 373 received
from Rev. A. j. Gordyn memorial fund.
The Sunday schools have contributed
S11, 345, a gain of 50, 203. The total
amount from both young people and Sun
81, 346.
Rev. Augustus H. Strong, ID, pro-
fessor of theology in the Rochester Theo-
logical Seminary, delivered his annual
and flnal address as president OF the mis-
ent serves three years and the presidency
of Prof. Strong has covered that period
Following the address of resident
Strong the 61st annual report of the exc
| cutlve committee was presented. The
Ehome department. has met the years ap-
| 6tIlu IGullC6u Ulle QSDU Dy UlG
| amount of $13, 639. 0S. The total amount
of income realized from other sources is
| $577, S42. !
. Expectation of warm debate upon the
| report of the Committee ..on the Relation
of the Baptist Woman's Societies to the
American Baptist Missionary Union, in
duced special interest in the reading of
it by the Rev. Wallace r. Butterick of
Albany, N. Y, chairman of the commit
| session. 1t reviewed all the action taken
on this subject up to date. 1t commend
ed the work of the several Baptist
Women's Societies for Home and Foreign
Missions.
Their combined annual receipts said the
| report approach $3.50, 900. They support
lib laborers on the foreign field in addi-
| tion to native Bible women and teachers !;
| they have prepared and published miss
ionary literature of great and permanent
| value; they have educated whole genera
| tion of our children and youth in foreign
missions; they have interested the women
! of our churches in Christian missions by
| establishing women's circles, by associa-
tional and district meetings, and by the
maintain the "Home'' for the children
of missionaries at Newton Centre, Mass. :,
and a similar Home" in Chicago, also
| a home for missionary candidates at New
ton Centre; they have constantly appro-
| priated considerable sums of money for
the support of Missionary Union work
not regularly assigned to them and over
fiscal year ending in April 1894 one Of these
societies paid the large sum of $50, 866. 90
for distinctively Missionary Union work
and a similar distinctive work has de-
veloped and trained a large number of
Intelligent and consecrated women who
are IN every way prepared to take their
places with men in the management and
adminlstratlon OF our educational and
missionary affairs. The distinctive work
of the Woman's Societies should be con
tinued and in every way encouraged in
both the home and foreign departments.
! The report recommended that a fair nor.
tion OF women be elected to membership
in the Board OF Managers of the Mission
ary Union, that missionary committee
composed OF men and women be formed
in every Baptist church, that new com.
mittee be formed by the Missionary Union
and the executive Boards of the Women's
| Socletles, TO consider the question of the
election OF women to the executive com.
mlttee OF the Union, said committee tc
report at the next annual meeting. The
| significance OF these recommendations is
greater IMAM appears on the surface The
ictlon proposed is pioneer action on the
part OF a missionary society in this coun-
try. IL is equivalent to a proposition tc
elect women to membership in the Ameri-
can Board and in it's Prudential Commit
zee. UP to date women have not been man
ayers and officials of such societies in this
country, although action similar to that
mere proposed has been taken in England.
LII means the admission of women to pass
upon all questions of administration III
the home and foreign department. of the
Missionary Union. The new woman is
at hand in missionary organizations anG