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Beware of Substitutes and Be Sure the word " HORSFORD'S" is printed on the label. →THE÷BAPTIST HOME÷MISSION: MONTHLY VOL. XI. MAY, 1889 No. 5. EDITORIAL✨ The total receipts of the American Baptist Home Mission Society for the year ending March, 1889, were $375,254.93. The contributions were $262,519.19, including $31.880,66 of conditional and permanent trust funds. Of this amount, $22,918.96 was for Church Edifice work and $46,673.49 for schools and school property, which left for general purposes, $161,046 08. The legacies have been $46,687.72. The year's expenditures were $19,820.86 in excess of receipts. This deficiency was met by the application thereto from the unexpended balance of the Coburn fund, so that the new year begins without a debt. What shall the Executive Board do? New applications from missionary fields in the West are being made every month; leading brethren in the West present powerful arguments for the enlargement of appropriations in that quarter; but with receipts from usual sources $20,000 less than its obligations for the year, how can enlargement be made? The simple truth is that we need $50,000 more than we are now expending for the work of Western missions alone. The Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Home Mission Society will be held in Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass, beginning Friday morning, May 17th, and closing Saturday noon, the 18th. A very interesting programme is provided. Special opportunity will be given for general discussion, as there will be no formal reports from "standing committees" this year. Among those who are expected to speak at Boston, in the meetings of the Home Mission Society, are Pres. Galusha Anderson, of Ohio; Dr. T. J. Morgan, Rhode Island; Dr. L. M. S. Haynes, New York; Dr. Geo. M. Stone, Connecticut; Dr. D. C. Eddy, New York; Rev. L. C. Barnes, Massachu setts; Rev. J. Q. A. Henry, Colorado; Rev. Dwight Spencer, Montana; Mrs. A. J. Steelman, City of Mexico; Rev. Frank Barnett, Utah. Subscribers to the MONTHLY are informed that hereafter, as a rule, receipts in the usual form will not be sent upon payment of subscriptions, but the change of date on the subscriber's address printed on the cover will be in stead of the receipt. This saves time, labor and expense. If however, any persons, especially those who get up clubs, desire formal receipts, they will be sent whenever requested. Rev. Wm. Howe, D.D., of Massachusetts, gives the Society $2,000 as a permanent fund, the income of which is to be applied to the support, in part, of four or five girls, selected by the Principals of Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. Surely the Spirit of the Lord is moving upon the hearts of his people to do well and liberal things for those most in need of help. Will not others do likewise? Already the income of one million dollars is at the disposal of another organization, for the aid of colored students in its Southern schools. And yet, the denomination which sustains that Society has barely 10,000 colored people in its churches in the South. Is it not time for American Baptists to awake to their duty in this direction? without it in either our mission circle or our homes." The MONTHLY is full of value and interest to all who desire to make true our watchword, "North America for Christ," and you, reader, can greatly help forward this great end and aim by helping to increase its circulation. NOTES OF A SOUTHERN TOUR. BY THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. pleted in this number by special references to places, persons and schools visited. Our objective point was New Orleans, and the one thing of special interest in New Orleans was These notes, begun last month, will be com LELAND UNIVERSITY. About nineteen years ago, Deacon Holbrook Chamberlain, of Brooklyn, N. Y., in co operation with the Home Mission Society, proceeded to establish an institution of learning for the colored people, and called it Leland University in honor of the maiden name of his wife, a descendant of the famous Elder John Leland. To this he gave liberally while living, and bequeathed to it the bulk of his estate. For years the Home Mission Society supported the teachers, but the Institution is now self-sustaining, having an endowment fund of about $96,000. The Institution was incorporated at the first, Dr. J. B. Simmons being one of the incorporators. As the Corresponding Secretary of the Society is President of the Board of Trustees, his presence at an important meeting of the Board was necessary. The Board consists of twelve men, six residing Rev. Dwight Spencer, who has been repreat the North and six at or near New Orleans, senting the Society in Missouri the past few four of the latter being colored men. The Inmonths, rejoices in the growing interest of Mis-stitution has two large, fine brick buildings, one souri brethren in our vast western work. An evidence of this is shown in the gift, last month, by one devoted brother; of $5,300 to the Society. This is very cheering. Is it not the bright beginning of larger offerings from many in Missouri? Mrs. W. T. Hilling, who is president of the the Ladies' Society at Tremont, Ill., voices the sentiments of many of our good sisters when she says: "We are very much pleased with the MONTHLY, and could not well do for young men, the other for young women, and has spacious grounds fronting on St. Charles Avenue, the finest in the city. These buildings have been filled nearly to their full capacity. Under the Presidency of Rev. E. C. Mitchell, who is highly esteemed by all the people, white and black alike, the Institution is taking higher rank and making better progress than ever before. That a great future lies before it there can be no reasonable doubt. Some of its former students are pastors of strong churches in the city, while many others occupy positions of influence elsewhere. |