containing very able papers and many interesting illustrations. This is supplied to subscribers for 50 cents a year, which is less than it costs to make it. It publishes an Annual Report, containing a full account of the year's work, which it sends to life members and contributors, pastors, and others, who are especially interested in its work. It publishes and sends out hundreds of thousands of pages, in the form of small leaflets, which can be had for the asking.

65. Who are the Superintendents of Missions?

Ans. It has a Superintendent of its French work in New England, Rev. J. N. Williams, D.D., Providence, R. I.; a Superintendent of its German work, Rev. George A. Schulte, New York; a General Superintendent for the Mississippi Division, Rev. W. M. Haigh, D.D., Chicago, and a Superintendent of the Rocky Mountain Division, Rev. H. C. Woods, D.D., Colorado Springs, Colo. In addition to these, the District Secretaries for the Red River and Missouri Districts are also Superintendents of Missions, and there is for nearly every State and Territory, North and South, a local or State Superintendent.

66. Why is the Home Society worthy of support?

Ans. For many reasons, among which may be stated the following:

1. In caring for the intellectual and spiritual welfare of the Negroes, the Indians, the Chinese, and other foreign populations, it is doing a work of philanthropy among the poor and the lowly.

2. In assisting to lay the foundation of society upon á religious basis in the Western States and Territories, in seeking to unify the various foreign nationalities who are thronging our country, in preparing the Negroes of the South for the discharge of their civil duties, it is doing a patriotic work of the highest kind. Its inspiration is the desire to serve God and our country.

3. The educational work carried on in its vast system of schools affects not only the Negroes of the South who come immediately under their influence, but they exert a powerful influence upon the whole educational system of the Southern States; thus the work of the Home Mission Society is, in a pre-eminent sense, a work of civilization.

4. In supporting missionaries whose great work it is to preach the glorious Gospel of the Blessed God, it is fulfilling the great

Commission and hastening the coming of the universal reign of Jesus Christ. Its work is evangelistic.

5. Indirectly and incidentally, but no less. powerfully, the Society aids in giving unity, force, and effectiveness to the great body of American Baptist churches, assisting them in exerting their legitimate influence upon the development of our national life. It does denominational work.

6. During the sixty-two years of its existence, the Society has enjoyed the confidence, respect, and co-operation of the most intelligent, zealous, and religious men and women among the Northern Baptists. It has had at all times the support of the great denominational papers, and the assistance of the ablest writers and speakers of the denomination. Its financial credit has always been good, its engagements promptly met, and its business management good.

7. There is no way in which money can be given by which it will accomplish more for humanity, the country and the Church, than if contributed to the Home Mission Society. It pays good dividends.

8. The vigorous prosecution of the work of Home Missions in America is one of the best ways of infusing life, energy, and healthful piety into the local churches; the life of the church is its missionary work.

9. The future strength of the Baptist denomination in the United States depends, in no small degree, upon the missionary work of the immediate future. Missions planted now, and properly cared for, are certain to develop into strong churches. This is the seed-time of the churches; if they would reap a bountiful harvest, they must not neglect the sowing.

10. Foreign missionary work is absolutely dependent upon the vigor, strength and growth of the denomination in our own country; to neglect this, is to endanger the very existence of the Foreign Missionary enterprise.

II. The evangelistic work done by the Home Mission Society among the foreign people in America reacts powerfully upon the various nations represented by these people; its work among the French in New England is strongly felt both in Canada and in France; its work among the Chinese is felt in China; its work among the Germans and Scan:inavians has borne large fruit in Ger many and Scandinavia.

12. The evangelizing of America is just now the most urgent call of the Christian Church. The triumph of evangelical Christianity within the United States will ensure to the world, within another century, the magnificent spectacle of a Christian nation of possibly 500,000,000 people, profoundly influencing the spiritual life of the world.

13. The Baptists of this country, emphasizing and illustrating as they do the great doctrine of soul liberty, have at the present time, while the masses of people in this country are easily reached, a vantage-ground such as is possessed by no other denomination. This is a golden opportunity. To neglect it is criminal. To improve it is both a duty and a privilege. The American Baptist Home Mission Society is one of the great agencies for the accomplishment of this mighty work.

14. The American Baptist Home Mission Society is, and always has been, the Pioneer Missionary Society of Baptists for North America, through its exploring missionarics, District Missionaries, local missionaries -swiftly following the new settler to miningcamp, broad prairie, fertile valley, in rising railroad towns, among people of many tongues, nationalities, races, and conditions; organizing Sunday-schools and churches, building houses of worship, scattering religious literature, and doing all that is possible for the establishment of truth and righteousness.

67. What can I do to help the Society? 1. You can pray for God's blessing upon ts work and workers.

2. You can talk to your friends about it, and circulate its literature.

3. You can share in its great work by contributing money to its treasury. Fifty cents will pay for THE HOME MISSION MONTHLY for one year; five dollars will buy a communion set for a mission church; fifty dollars will support a student; one hundred dollars will provide an organ; three hundred dollars will secure the erection of a chapel; one thousand dollars will create a scholarship; ten thousand dollars will found a library; twenty thousand dollars will establish a professorship; forty thousand dollars will erect a good building; one hundred thousand dollars will endow a college; one million dollars will put our schools beyond peril. Any sum will help forward the work, and be gratefully received.

The above is a picture lately taken of Capt. G. W. Schroder. He is now in his 74th year, but seems to be as hale and hearty as ever. November 3d was the 50th anniversary of his baptism, which was commemorated in an impressive manner in the Swedish Baptist Church of this city, when addresses were made by the guest of honor and by Rev. O. Hedeen, of Brooklyn; by Rev. S. Swenson, of Philadelphia; and by the pastor of the church. With the exception of John Asplund, who labored exclu.

sively among English speaking peoples in the last century, Capt. Schroder is the first Swede who joined a Baptist church, and he is pre-eminently the first man who tried to disseminate Baptist doctrine in Sweden. His embracing of those doctrines led, four years later, to the organization of the first Baptist Church in Sweden, and eight years later, or in 1852, to the organization of the church in Rock Island, Ill., which is the first Swedish Baptist Church in this country. From these two churches, which still exist, have, we may say, in a certain sense, sprung about 550 churches and 37,000 members in Sweden, and 270 churches and 17,000 members in the United States. An unknown number, which is not insignificant, has also joined American churches and Baptist churches of other nationalities, and nearly 10,000 have entered into the joy of their Lord.

Capt. Schroder was born April 9, 1821, at the station of the Swedish navy in the vicinity of Gothenburg. In his boyhood he was early connected with the navy until he, at the age of 16, received permission to go to sea in merchant vessels, which he continued for nearly thirty years, during which time he sailed under the flags of three different nations. In 1844, at the age of 23, he was converted in New Orleans, and a few months later he came to New York and was baptized by Rev. Ira R. Steward and united with the Mariners' Temple, where he was a member for twenty-nine years. The following year he visited Sweden, when he formed the acquaintance of O. F. Nilson and led him to investigate the Scriptures on baptism: he afterward became the first Baptist minister in Sweden and was later banished for preaching the gospel. At the age of 25 he became captain of a Chilian ship sailing from Valparaiso, and at the age of 29 he married his pastor's youngest daughter, Miss Mary Steward. She was mostly with her husband at sea, so that out of seventeen times that he doubled the stormy Cape Horn she was with him thirteen times. In 1861 they settled in Gothenburg and went into business until 1863. During this time Mr. Schroder was the prime mover in the organization of the church of that city, and he also built a house where he furnished a hall in the second story for the church to hold its meetings free of charge, where it continued to meet for seventeen years, when it became too small, so it had to move to other

quarters. For this act of benevolence he was called to answer before the authorities and he was fined 100 Swedish crowns and expenses. During the trial, however, he gave the authorities so much bother that from that day they were only too glad to let the Baptists worship God undisturbed in that city.

He continued his membership with the Mariners' Temple until 1873, when he removed to Highland Park, Ill., where he was a member until 1877, when he took his letter to the Metropolitan Temple, San Francisco, where he then resided. After a few months he again removed his letter to the First Baptist Church of that city. Here he remained until 1881, when he, on the 7th of February, took his letter with six others and organized a new church in another part of San Francisco, now called the Hamilton Square Baptist Church. Three years later he moved with his family to Gothenburg, where he for the first time united with the church there which he had done so much for in former years. Here he remained for ten years and took a most prominent part in promoting temperance and religious liberty in Sweden. Here also his faithful wife died, leaving him and two daughters to mourn her loss. He returned to this country in 1891 and is now a member of the Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where he resides at present.

There has been nothing narrow or mean about Capt. Schroder. While being strictly orthodox and a consistent church member, he has been a staunch supporter of every good work that has come in his way irrespective of what nationality or denomination it might concern. While in this country he has always been a member of American churches, and in his frequent visits to Germany during the early days he took part with the struggling brethren there, and according to the sainted Mr. Onken, he gave the first donation to the Baptist Chapel in Hamburg; and when the Baptists, the Methodists and Lutherans were in turn persecuted by the State Church in his native land, his energetic and sometimes solitary protests were heard through the length and breadth of the land, and he had not a little to do with the defining of the position which the Baptists have taken in repudiating the infamous "Dissenter law," which position, we trust, they will hold until every man

woman and child in Sweden shall enjoy absolute religious liberty.

A. P. EKMAN,

Indian Territory.

Dear Brother:-At the late meeting of the Cherokee Baptist Association the following resolution was passed, with instructions to have it forwarded to you:

Resolved, That the Cherokee Baptist Association, mindful of the past generous assistance received from the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and appreciating that brotherly love and Christian helpfulness that has given us the venerable and consecrated Dr. J. S. Murrow to be our general missionary and so bring to our assistance the benefit of his vast experience in Indian work and his deep and earnest fidelity to our cause, we do hereby renew the past expressions of our thankfulness to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and express to it our determination to unite with it in every effort to advance the cause of our mutual Lord and Master, and further to do what is in our power to help ourselves, that the strength of the society may be the further reached out to our Indian brothers in the West.

Resolved, That the clerk be instructed to forward a copy of this resolution to the cor responding secretary of the society in New York. MOSES RIDGE, Moderator.

WALTER P. KING, Clerk. LONG PRAIRIE CHURCH, Going Snake District, I. T.

Weed, New Mexico.

By a special donation for this purpose, the American Baptist Home Mission Society has been enabled to provide a number of frontier Sunday-schools with a library. Here is a report from one of them:

WEED, N. M., Oct. 26, 1894. REV. H. C. WOODS, Colorado Springs.

Dear Bro.:-Bro. Stamp and I have made a selection, consisting of twenty Bibles, eighteen song-books, and a great number of other valuable books for our library at Weed. The Publication Society gave us the benefit of their reduction in prices, and sent a great many more books than we ordered. Inasmuch as they had done this, Bro. A. Green said that we ought to divide with the brethren at Lower Penasco for their school,

which we did.

Those brethren appreciated the books greatly. Their school is twenty miles east of Weed.

We all greatly appreciate the nice lot of books at Weed. One boy was bragging about having the life of "Billy the Kid' and the James Bros. to read, but now he reads these books. The entire school seem to be reading the books closely, which is bound to result in great good. And now permit me to tender to you and the Home Board our most hearty and heartfelt thanks for your kind and beneficent gift.

The Lord is still prospering His work out here. We had two baptisms at our fifth Sunday meeting at Lower Penasco in September. One was a Mexican lady, who said that "she had been a Catholic all of her life, but she now wanted to join the church of Jesus Christ, whom she loved."

Hoping that you may be spared many days yet, and be permitted to visit us in the future, is the prayer of your brother in Christ, S. Y. JACKSON.

New Jersey-Germans.

Dear Bro.:-With this report I close up my labor here, faithfully and cheerfully done since ten years and six months.

At my coming there was nothing here but two members of Christ. Now we have a live church of fifty-six members, well drilled and organized to do the Master's work, a neat house of worship, a good, roomy parsonage, horse-sheds, stable and vacant lot. A successor is already here, Bro. E. Baum, a young single man full of ambition, pious and studious, well liked by members and friends. I fully hope he will do his best for the promotion of this church. He will soon have an ingathering, as some precious souls are almost persuaded. I thank you heartily for your support, which has been a great help to insure success, and trust you will give a helping hand to this church and its young pastor for a year or two longer, until they will be strong enough for self-support with the help of God

May divine blessing rest upon all your efforts to the coming of His Kingdom and the salvation of mankind through Jesus Christ.

Sincerely yours in the Redeemer,

CHAS. A. SCHLIPF, Missionary.

Oklahoma Territory-Sac and Fox

Agency.

Dear Bro. :-I herewith submit my second quarterly report and the mission work in this agency. The Indians are still holding back to their old way of worship. I have made earnest efforts to persuade them to accept Jesus and His religion, the Saviour of us all, and after making these efforts my Indian friends would say to me: "Go and teach our children the Word of God. We have given up our children to be educated, as you have repeatedly advised us to do. Now our children are nearly all at school. We have accepted your advice. Now take care of then and teach them the Word of God." These are the words my Indian friends say to me when talking and making earnest efforts to win them to Christ to be Christians. So I am making every effort to make our Sunday-schools to be a success in bringing these young people to Christ. Of course, it takes time to labor for these young people to bring them to Christ. Patience is needed. I am glad to say many of our white brothers and sisters now take an interest in our meetings, and we have organized a Sunday-school for white children, our meetings growing very encouraging to me. This is all. Your missionary, WM. HURR.

A Christmas Gift.

Dear Brother Morgan:-As you know, I came upon this needy mission-field at "Old Baptist Mission," I. T., on first Sunday in March last. I began at once to gather together the poor and few Baptists for aggres sive work, but one great difficulty confronted me in the very outset, and that was a house for my family. I could not rent one except at a very inconvenient distance from my field, thereby necessitating the expenditure of much of my precious time in tedious journeys to and from my family. I determined to put my trust in God and in that "grace of giving " abounding in all lovers of missions and undertake to supply this great want to the Society and its missionaries. Well, to make a long story of hardships and even of sickness while tenting short, I will now say we are thanking God that we have a four-room parsonage ready to deed to the Society as soon as we can get $18 more from some kind lovers of missions. We hope to get this for ceiling of two rooms in time to deed the house finished and paid for as our Christmas gift to the Society. We crave an interest in the prayers of God's people everywhere. Yours fraternally,

N. O. SOWERS, Missionary.

Outrage-City of Mexico.

MEXICO, Dec. 3, 1894.

Dear Bro.:-Last night our mission on Santa Maria street was forcibly entered by burglars and the pulpit Bible, all the lamps, and the cabinet organ stolen. Our loss is about $200 in Mexican money. This, of course, will not be charged against the Society, as friends in the United States will probably come to our help, but we will be crippled for a while. The door of the mission was of heavy matched lumber, strongly locked and barred. The thieves pried the boards off one by one, smashed the lock, wrenched the bar from its fastenings, and carried off the articles mentioned. But they cannot quench the light of the Gospel. We had preached in that room only a few hours previous to a large congregation, and had witnessed the Spirit's power. We shall not lose heart. God is with us.

Marlow, I. T.

Dear Bro.:-My time having expired on the 1st with American Baptist Home Mission Society, I herewith hand you report, and will add that our prospects in this field are encouraging notwithstanding the fact times are very hard. Crop failure last year and the low price of produce this fall; necessary debts having to be incurred by our people in the early part of the year to enable them to make crops; these debts having to be paid with 4-cent cotton, has made money matters extremely tight with our people, who were, to begin with, very poor financially, they being home-seekers from the States.

I came to this field in 1891, when there were but few people in this section and no churches for about 100 miles North and South-that is, from third line of Oklahoma to Red River. Now we have eight churches, with a membership of say 400 members; we have but three church buildings, to wit: