several hundred copies of the Scriptures have been sold and given to those desirous of possessing them, while effective tracts prepared by some of our missionaries have been extensively distributed. WOMEN'S HOME MISSION SOCIETIES. The Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society (Boston), in its general work, sustains a very close relation to this Society, both in the appointment of teachers and the payment of their salaries, as well as in reports of service rendered. They have provided for the salaries of thirty-eight teachers, and have passed through the Society's treasury during the year $11,206.91. The Woman's Home Mission Union of Connecticut has sent $743.50 for designated objects, chiefly for the support of teachers. The Woman's Baptist Home Mission Society of Michigan has co-operated, in the support of missionaries in the West, in Mexico, and in the South, sending for these purposes $1,290. The Women's Baptist Home Mission Society (Chicago) has sent directly to our treasury $1,087.44, mainly for specified objects, and largely for the new church in the City of Mexico. Other contributions have been made to objects related to the Society's work: to the treasuries of co-operating State Conventions, $1,887.65; to their missionary teachers who labor in connection with the Society's schools, $2,441.64; to other objects, mainly to aid students in our schools, $448.73. These sums aggregate $5,812.46. There is manifest among the women of our churches not only an increased interest in the work of the Society, but also, in many instances, a strong desire for closer co-operation in this work. HALF A MILLION ANNUALLY FOR HOME MISSIONS. The proportions of the Society's work are truly gigantic. The opposing forces of ignorance, error, and evil are gigantic. To hold what we have and to achieve what we should is a gigantic undertaking. No other missionary organization on this continent embraces in its scope of operations a threefold work-Missionary, Church Edifice, Educational-like that of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. A full half a million dollars are urgently needed every year for these purposes. The Baptist denomination is a giant-in size. But to boast of size without evidence of corresponding Christian achievement is but to beget for us contempt. In missions, the little Moravian band puts to blush many a denomination boastful of its bigness. Dormant potency is as useless as impotence. With all honor to a few who have come with liberal offerings to the help of the Lord against the mighty, it remains sadly true that, after all that has been said and done to arouse the denomination in respect to its duty to these vast, promising, pleading, Home Mission fields, it is hardly half awake. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars as the contribution of more than 700,000 Baptists to whom the Society chiefly looks for its resources certainly is not a gigantic benevolent effort. The Society needs $100,000 for Church Edifice Work, $100,000 for Educational Work, and $300,000 for missions in general on this continent, this year and every year. The constituency of the Society are abundantly able to give this without feeling it, without any sacrifice whatever. For this the Society pleads. It asks for fifty per cent. increase from churches now contributing and for an increase of fifty per cent. in the number of contributors. Thankful to God for the progress of the past few years; recognizing that the work is His, not ours, except as His servants; to Him we commit anew all these great interests for the ensuing year, pleading that the day of His power may speedily come when His people shall be made willing to so honor the Lord with their substance and the first fruits of their increase that the half million needed shall be cheerfully offered annually for the conquest of this continent for Christ. By order of the Board, HENRY L. MOREHOUSE, E. T. HISCOX, Chairman. Schools. BENEDICT INSTITUTE. At Benedict Institute, Columbia, S. C., "Founder's Day" was observed March 16th, when the regular exercises of the school were suspended, and a special programme appropriate to the occasion was carried out. Dr. Brawley, of the Baptist Tribune (which, bythe-way, is an excellent paper), has an appreciative editorial concerning Mrs. B. A. Benedict and her great work for the colored people. It is such a fitting tribute from a well-known representative of the colored people, that we give it entire. Let the chaplet be put on the brow of the worthy benefactor while living. Let others learn from this also how they may honor God, and build for themselves imperishable monuments in the hearts of a grateful people. "MRS. B. A. BENEDICT." "Whoever aids in giving to a man mental and moral development, and lifts him into manly independence, is his true friend and benefactor; and whoever, in the desire to perpetuate the life and virtues of a loved one, erects a monument out of cultured and consecrated human hearts, does not only that which will perpetuate his memory, but also renders mankind a service of the highest and noblest character. Such was the act and such the purpose of Mrs. B. A. Benedict in founding Benedict Institute. Designed primarily as a memorial of her husband, she founded the school in 1872. Since then, until now, she has tenderly watched its growth and prosperity with the solicitude of a parent, and has added gifts from time to time until, with the gifts of others, the colored Baptists of South Carolina have an institution which could not be replaced with $60,000. Fifteen years have passed away since the doors of the Institute were thrown open and students invited to enter. Through all these years Mrs. Benedict has been spared until she has been permitted to see some of the fruits of her generous investments. On Wednesday of last week she completed her 77th year, and when the students assembled for services in commemoration of Founder's Day, could she have been permitted to look in upon the bright faces and happy hearts-faces beaming with intelligence, and hearts happy because they have been redeemed-she would have felt amply rewarded for her consideration and kindness shown to her less fortunate brethren. But such is the perennial character of a good act that its influence never stops-it never dies. The students now at Benedict Institute are but one small detachment of the whole number who, within its walls, have received impressions for good which will last them through life, and which they in turn will make upon others. Hundreds have come to this place of learning unconverted, and have gone away happy Christians. Many came with perverted views of a glass, darkly," and returned to their homes and churches elevated in moral tone, developed in Christian character and prepared to teach others even as they themselves had been taught. And since these results have been attained in the few short years of the past, when the institution is but yet in its childhood, what may we not expect in the years to come, when the school shall have put on the vigor of manhood? No mortal can foretell. In behalf of the 100,000 colored Baptists of South Carolina we send our heartiest congratulations to Mrs. Benedict upon the completion of her 77th year, and join with her many friends throughout the land in the prayer that for some years to come she may still be spared to be with us to behold.the further development of her work, before she shall be called hence to receive her reward from Him whom she clothed and sheltered and fed in the persons of His poor and untutored brethren and sisters." Ministerial and Church Record. "The word of God grew and multiplied."-Acts 12:24. NAME. Russell S. Sargent, W. J. Thompson, M. A. C. Bennett, M. F. S. Henton, Sherburne, N. Y., Cuba, N. Y., Himrods, N. Y., West Salem, Pa., Bethany, W. Va., Grass Lick, W. Va., Alder Branch, Tenn., Yellow Creek, Ga., Double Heads, Ga., Philadelphia, Ga., Cross Roads, Ga., Summerville, Ga., Greenville, Ala., Amozion, La., Mt. Olive, Tex., Hunt County, Tex., Apr 17. May 8. Mar. 25. Apr. 23. May 15. Apr. 22. Hunt County, Tex., Thompson's Creek, Tex., Apr. 7. Washington Township, O., May 12. Leota, Kan., Millard, Kan., Galt, Dakota, Los Angeles, Cal., Swedish Baptist Church, May 3. May 8. May 16. May June 5. May 15. " Jan. Jan. 27. Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. 16. James Randall, Jared Jackson White, John M. Taggart, 42 71 Streetsboro, O., 70 Kaneville, Ill., Commerce, Mich., 65 Lawrence, Mich., 87 Detroit, Mich., Colorado Springs, Colo. May 17. Home Mission Appointments IN JUNE. The following new appointments were made: Rev. W. J. Simmons, D.D., District Secretary for the Colored People, in the Southern States. Rev. R. J. Hack, Germans in Tonawanda, N. Y. Peter Rech, Germans in Erie, Pa. D. M. Pierce, Colored People in S. C. Louis Wiesle, Germans in Coal City, Ill. August Johnson, Swedes in Evanston, Ill. Geo. W. Read, Chadron, Neb. W. H. Mueller, Germans in Big Stone City, Dak. Jacob Staub, Germans in Warner, Dak. C. R. Upton, Grand Forks, Dak. Donald McGregor, Hillsdale and vicinity, Mont. T. S. Leonard, Dillon, Mont. Harvey Linsley, Las Animas, Colo. I. D. Fleming, Central Colony, Cal. W. G. Miller, Roseburg and Looking Glass, Oreg. Louis Glaeser, Germans in San Francisco, Cal. The following re-appointments were made: Rev. William Ritzmann, Germans in Bridgeport, Conn. R. Machholz, Germans in Milwaukee, Wis. "P. Jentoft, Danes in Cedar Falls, Iowa. "C. Carlsen, Danes in Atlantic and Harlan, Iowa. Claas Regier, Germans in Lincoln Co., Kan. D. A. Homfeld, Germans in Lyon's Creek, Kan. George Burgdorff, Germans in Ellinwood, Kan. "O. F. Zeckser, Germans in Mill Creek, Kan. "B. Eisele, Germans in Hillsboro, Kan. "A. W. Snider, Columbus, Neb. Alphonzo Lewis, Zion (Colored) Church, Omaha, Neb. J. R. Deckard, Mandan, Dakota. A. F. Brauns, Germans in Carrington, Dakota. B. Matzke, Germans in Spring Creek, Dakota. William Achterberg, Germans in Madison, Dakota. E. B. Porter, Loveland, Colo. A. J. Sturtevant, Vallego, Cal. John Croeni, Germans in Bethany, Oreg. "Frank Barnett, Ogden, Utah. Knut Nelson, Scandinavians in Tacoma, Wash., and along the Puget Sound. J. B. Hartwell, D.D., Superintendent of Chinese Missions Samuel Becker, Germans in Logan and Zurich, Ontario. Rev. F.A. Petereit, Germans in Manitoba and North West Territory. "J. A. Wirth, Afognack, Alaska. H. Woodsmall, Colored People in the Southwest. Miss Nellie E. Hartwell, Chinese Mission School, San Francisco, The following teachers were appointed: At Richmond Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va.-Rev. Chas. H. Corey, D.D., Pres.; Prof. J. Endom Jones; Prof. D. N. Vassar. At Hartshorn Memorial College, Richmond, Va.-Rev. L. B. Tefft, Pres.; Miss Carrie V. Dyer; Miss Lillian M. Van Cleef. At Benedict Institute, Columbia, S. C.-Rev. C. E. Becker, Pres.; Mrs. M. C. Becker; Mrs. J. R. Armstrong; Rev. G. F. Genung; Mrs. G. F. Genung. At Atlanta Baptst Seminary, Atlanta, Ga.-Rev. S. Graves, D. D., Pres.; Prof. W. E. Holmes. At Jackson College, Jackson, Miss.-Rev. Charles Ayer, Pres. Mrs. Charles Ayer; Miss Emily C. Ayer. At Bishop Baptist College, Marshall, Texas.-Rev. S. W. Culver, Pres.; Mrs. S. W. Culver; Miss Rose Fowler; Prof. F. D. Shaver; Mrs. M. A. C. Shaver. At Indian University, Muscogee, Ind. Ter.-Prof. A. C. Bacone, Pres.; Rev. David Crosby; Mrs. David Crosby; Miss Alida Baker. At Cherokee Academy, Tahlequah, Ind. Ter.-Rev. Alex. A. McLeod; Miss Lillis A. Newton. At State University, Louisville, Ky.-C. F. Sneed; Miss Lucy At Florida Institute, Live Oak, Fla. -Mrs. E. O. Daniels. At Wayland Seminary, Washington, D. C.-Rev. G. M. P. At Santa Rosa, Mexico.- Manuel Lopez. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. |