The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-27
ANNUAL REPORT
OF BAPTIST ASS n
Total Membership is 1861
---Hawley Church is
Largest.
CONTRIBUTIONS REACH RE
MARKABLE SUM OF 1854
PER CAPITA.

According to the annual report of
the Wayne Baptist Association, just
issued, the membership of that de-
nomination for the past year shows
decrease of nineteen in Wayne
county, due largely to removals.
The total membership of that &C.
clesiastical body, as shown in the
statistical table appended to the
printed minutes of the Forty-second
annual county convention, which was
held in the South Clinton Baptist
church, August %, 23, "a, 1911, is
1861, as compared with 1882 last
year. Twenty-three baptisms and
thirteen accessions by letter are re-
ported as over against loss of thir-
ty by letter, ten by erasure and seven
teen by death
The officers of the association are: :
Moderator, Rev. Geo. S. Wendell,
Honesdale; clerk and corresponding
secretary, George p. Ross, Homes
dale; treasurer, John H. Penwarden,
Honesdale; trustees, A H. Curtis, w.
H. Bidwell, Geo. p Ross, 1914; j.
H. Penwarden, James Lloyd, w. j.
Lloyd, 1912; e. X. Curtis, w. C.
Knapp, Alfred Bonell, 1913; Bible
School convention, e. Quintin, presi-
dent; Orwille Beckwith, vice-presi-
dent; Rev. H. j. Baker, secretary; j.
H. Penwarden, treasurer.
The trustees of keystone Academy,
Factoryville, include Rev. James
Rainey, Aldenville, 1912; w. G.
Knapp, Hawley, 1913; Rev. c. F.
Smalley, Hawley, 1914. OF the mis-
sion societies, Rev. G. S. Wendell is
vice-president of the State Mission
society; Rev. C. F. Smalley, vice.
president of the education society;
Rev. H. MaoEwen, associational Sec
retary of the missionary union; JOS
| Quintin, Ariel, associational secretary
of the Home Mission society.
The officers of the Woman's mis-
s1onary societies are-Mrs. James
Rainey, Aldenville, president; Mrs
Joseph Quintin, Ariel, vice-president
Mrs. w, e. Rude, Waymart r. D. No
|, secretary; Mrs. w. Myron Norton
! Waymart R. D., treasurer Mrs. Jas
Rainey, director of the Woman s
Home Mission society; Miss Effie
Knapp, Aldenville, associational Sec
retary Foreign Mission society; Miss
Anna Wagner, Hawley, Junior secre-
tary.
Seven clergymen ministering to
nine congregations are included in
the membership of the Association
Following are their names, and the
J charges which they serve: Rev. E
H. MacEwen, Jones Lake; Rev. R. d
Minch, Damascus, Ashland; Rev
Warren p. Norton, licentiate, Way.
mart; Rev. James Rainey, Aldenville
Clinton; Rev. Charles F. Smalley
Hawley; Rev. George S. Wendell
Honesdale, Berlin, Dyberry; Rev. C
White, Dyberry.
The church at Hawley, with 6
membership of 1874, is the largest il
the association. The Clinton church
reports 124 and the Honesdalt
church, 112 members. The churcl
at Damascus, numbering fourteen
members is the smallest in the dis
trict.
These eighteen congregations con
tributed last year for all purpose!
$6,945,65 or an average of 1854 pei
capita, remarkable showing. Tht
total value of the church property il
the association is $4,000, and par
sonages owned by the various socie
ties represent an aggregate value O
$1,000.
The Sunday schools report
membership OF 1850, with an eX
pense budget of $69596.
The forty-third annual meetinl
will be held with the Honesdalt
church, the fourth Wednesday il
August, 1912.
The annual report of the Associa
ton is an excellent one as the Bap
lists of Wayne county are face to face
with the problem of the country
] gh1 tpDl /, L, u
continually from the exodus of its
younger members to the larger cit
les.