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1832. The American Baptist Home Mission Socięły. 1895

The General Missionary Organization of American Baptists for the Evangelization
of North America.

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PRESIDENT.-H. K. PORTER, Esq., Penn.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.-

(E. M. VAN DUZEE, Esq., Minn.
STEPHEN GREENE, Esq., Mass.

TREAS.-J. GREENWOOD SNELLING, Esq., N. Y.

JOSEPH BROKAW, ESQ., N. Y.
AUDITORS.- CHARLES B. CANFIELD, Esq., N. Y.
COR. SECRETARY.-REV. THOMAS J. MORGAN, LL.D., N. Y.
ASSISTANT COR. SEC.-REV. ALEX. TURNBULL, N. J.
FIELD SECRETARY.-H. L. MOREHOUSE, D.D., N. Y.
REC. SECRETARY.-A. S. HOBART, D.D., N. Y.
CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE board.

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GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF MISSIONS.
Mississippi Division.-Ill., Wis., Minn., N. D., S. D.,
Ks., Neb. and Iowa.-Rev. W. M. Haigh, D.D., 177
Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

Rocky Mountain Division.-Ok., I. T., Wy., Ida.,
Mont., Ore., Wash., Col., N. Mex., Ariz., Utah,
Cal. Rev. H. C. Woods, D.D., Colorado Springs, Col.
Superintendent Missouri River District.-Rev. N.
B. Rairden, Y. M. C. A. B'ld'g, Omaha, Neb.
Superintendent Red River District.-Rev. O. A.
Williams, D.D, Minneapolis, Minn.

The French in N. E.-Rev. J. N. Williams, 615 Broad St.,
Providence, R. I.

The Germans.-Rev. G. A. Schulte, 320% Webster Ave.,
Jersey City Heights. N. J.

The Chinese.-Dea. H. F. Norris, 11011⁄2 Clay St., San
Francisco, Cal.

The Indians.-Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Rev. J.
S. Murrow, Atoka, I. T.

GENERAL MISSIONARIES.

W. Virginia.-Rev. W. E. Powell, 916 Swan St., Parkersburg.
Wisconsin.-Rev. D. E. Halteman, D.D., Delavan.
Minnesota.-Rev. E. R. Pope, Minneapolis.
Iowa.-Rev. E. P. Bartlett, Des Moines.

North Dakota.- Rev. W. L. Van Horn, Fargo.

South Dakota.-Rev. T. M. Shanafelt, D.D., Huron.
Nebraska. Rev. A. W. Clark, Omaha.

Kansas. Rev. E. B. Meredith, Topeka,

Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Rev. L. J. Dyke,
Lawrence, KS

Montana and S. Idaho.-Rev. L. G. Clark, Helena.
Wyoming.-

Colorado and New Mexico.-Rev. Geo. P.Wright, Denver.
Washington.-Rev. D. D. Proper, 1211 Washington St.,
Seattle.

Oregon.-Rev. Gilman Parker, 162 Second St., Portland.
Northern California.-Rev. W. H. Latourette, Oakland.
S. Cal. and Arizona -Rev. W. W. Tinker, Los Angeles.
City of Mexico.-Rev. W. H. Sloan, Calle Norte 10, Num.
515, City of Mexico.

Northern Mexico.-Rev. Thomas M. Westrup, Monterey.

SECRETARY OF BOARD.
PARKER C. PALMER.

D. W. PERKINS, Esq.
M. MACVICAR, LL.D., N. Y.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES.

1. N. E. District.-Me., N. H., Vt., Mass., R. I., Ct.Rev. F. T. Hazlewood, D.D., 2A Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

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2. N. Y. District.-N. Y. and Northern N J.- Rev. Halsey Moore, D D., 111 Fifth Ave., New York City. Philadelphia District.-Southern N. J., Pa., Del. and D. C.-E. B. Palmer, D.D., 1420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

4. Lake District.-Mich. and Ohio. Rev. E. H. E. Jameson, D.D., 106 Smith Ave., Detroit, Mich.

5. Wabash District.-Ind. and South Ill.-Rev. Dwight Spencer, Lock Box 106, Indianapolis, Ind.

6. Chicago District.-N. Ill. and Wis.-Rev. W. M. Haigh, D.D., 177 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.

7. Red River District.-Minn., N. D. and S. D.-Rev. O. A. Williams, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn.

8. Missouri River District.-lowa, Nebr. and Ks., Okla., Ind. Ter.- Rev. N. B. Rairden Omaha, Neb.

GENERAL MISSIONARIES (Colored).

Alabama.

Arkansas. Rev. J. H. Hoke, Little Rock.
Florida.-Rev. W. A. Wilkerson, Flemington.
Kentucky. Rev. P. H. Kennedy, Henderson.
Louisiana.-Rev. H. B. N. Brown, Alexandria,
Missouri.-Rev. H. N. Bouey, Springfield.

North Carolina.-Rev. A. B. Vincent, Raleigh.
South Carolina.-Rev. E. R. Roberts, Florence.
Tennessee.-Rev. W. H. C. Stokes, Covington.
Texas. Rev. F. G. Davis, Dallas.

LEGACIES.

Form of Bequest to the Society.-"I give and bequeath to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, ormed in New York in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of....... .......for the general purposes of said Society."

Be very careful to comply with the requirements of the law in making your will,

A BETTER WAY. The Society will receive your money now, giving a bond for the payment to you of an annuity during life, if you so desire it.

Communications relating to the work and general affairs of the Society, should be addressed to Rev. T. J. Mergan, Corresponding Secretary.

In the transmission of funds, all Checks, Drafts and Post Office Orders should be made payable to the order of the "American Baptist Home Mission Society,” and addressed to J. G. Snelling, Treasurer. Contributions may also be sent to the several District Secretaries.

Headquarters of the Society: CONSTABLE B'LD', 111 Fifth Ave., New York City.

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We are very much pleased with our new rooms, where we find abundance of sunshine and light, plenty of fresh air, more commodious offices, and much improved facilities for the transaction of the large and steadily growing business of the office. We have had the pleasure of welcoming a large number of our friends, and we hope the number of visitors will steadily increase. Come and see us, and you shall have a cordial welcome. Remember

the place-Rooms 507-10, Constable Building, 111 Fifth Avenue, corner of Eighteenth Street, New York City.

FINANCIAL.

As most of the readers of the MONTHLY know, the Home Mission Society entered upon the fiscal year, April 1st, 1894, with a debt of a little over $101,000. We passed through one of the most trying periods of our recent history, and, some months ago, we were apprehensive that we should close the year with a grievious addition to our burden of debt. We are happy, however, to say that by rigid economy, some retrenchment in our work, and the liberal responses of our friends, we have closed the year with an addition to our debt of only about $7,000, making the total indebted ness at the present time about $108,000. We are not without hope that this debt will be very materially reduced at an early day, so that we look forward with hopefulness to the work of the immediate future. To one and all, who have "lent a hand" during the year just passed, we extend our cordial thanks.

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The anniversary of the Home Mission Society will be held at Saratoga Springs Thursday and Friday, May 30th and 31st. Special pains have been taken to provide an interesting programme for the occasion. We hope that very many friends of the Society will come up to that great occasion, and share in its pleasures and its opportunities. We can hardly exaggerate the importance of such meetings. The Society makes a printed statement of its important work during the year past, spreading before its friends all the facts connected therewith. It wishes them to know everything that the officers at the rooms know about the work. It offers an opportunity for, and invites the most searching examination into its methods of operation, and the most unsparing criticism of its work which any honest inquirer sees fit to make. The officers are greatly helped by the suggestions, counsel and criticisms that come to them on such occasions. Friends of Home Missions have an opportunity of becoming acquainted with each other, of catching something of the inspiration that comes from mingling with a large body of intelligent, godly people interested in a great cause. The denomination is helped by such an array of earnest workers, pastors and members, men and women, young and old, who present a solid front, representing in its solidarity the great denomination that stands behind the work of the Society. We believe that there would result a widely increased interest in Home Missions, larger benevolence, broader plans and greater efficiency in work all along the line, if these

meetings could be attended by larger multitudes of our people. Come, brethren, and we will do you good, and you will do us good.

BAPTIST HEADQUARTERS. New York City, by reason of its population, wealth and commercial relations, is the metropolis of America. Its influence upon the nation is widespread and profound. It touches our national life politically, commercially, financially, educationally, artistically, and in other ways; the nation cannot escape its influence. It would not be true to say that whatever New York is the nation is; but it is true that the character of New York, whatever it may be, whether good or evil, has a forceful influence in determining the character of the nation; whatever affects New York affects the nation. This is true religiously, as well as politically.

The Baptists of New York City ought to be a strong, aggressive, influential body of people; indeed, they are such at present, but their strength and influence are not as great as the exigencies of the city demand, nor as their relation to the denomination at large makes desirable. Any increase in the efficiency and influence of the Baptists in the city of New York would make itself felt throughout the denomination and the United States. It has long been felt by those who are most competent to judge, that the Baptists of the United States have lost a great opportunity in not seizing upon New York City as a centre for educational work.

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It would be a great gain to the denomination in the city directly, and to the denomination in the country at large indirectly, if there could be erected which imposing, commodious structure which would answer for BAPTIST HEADQUARTERS, affording accommodations for the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the New York Baptist City Mission Society, the Baptist Ministers' Meeting, the Examiner, the American Baptist Publication Society, the American Baptist Missionary Union, and other Baptist interests, național and

local, which could be brought together in such a building. The building itself, known as "The Baptist Building," would be an impressive object lesson, symbolizing by its strength, solidity and imposing character the great denomination which it would serve. By bringing the various Baptist interests into close touch with each other, it would give to each of them a sense of its vital relationship with the denomination as a whole, take away that feeling of isolation which attends them in their separation, and give to the entire body a new esprit de corps. It would afford facilities for the administration of the various interests alluded to which are not now enjoyed; it would attract the attention of Baptist visitors to New York and bring them into more vital touch and closer sympathy with their brethren in the city; it would serve to put the denomination more nearly into line with the Presbyterians, Methodists, and Episcopalians, who already have such denominational headquarters. It would quicken in the minds of Baptists generally a feeling of self-respect, and infuse into them new courage and hope; it would serve to kindle anew the spirit of consecration of wealth to denominational uses, and would undoubtedly be a wise investment of money.

It seems to us that a mere statement of the advantages that would accrue from the erection of such a building is sufficient to awaken the attention of thoughtful, farseeing, liberal-minded Baptists, and to enlist their sympathies and their contributions for an object so important and so worthy.

We wish to ask the especial attention of young people everywhere to our Home Mission Catechism, which has been prepared particularly for them. It contains very full information regarding the work of the Society, put in simple language, easily understood; it also has many illustrations which serve to explain the work and to These little books awaken interest in it. are printed for gratuitous distribution, and can be had in any number on application to the rooms. Send for them.

As we close the work of the year, it is very gratifying to note the contributions that have come to our treasury from the Young People's Societies connected with the denomination. We take this occasion to extend to not only the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor and the Baptist Young People's Union, but to all other Young People's Societies, our special and grateful acknowledgment of their interest in the work committed to the Society. We are working for young people; we have thousands of boys and girls and young men and young women in our various schools; we have tens of thousands of young people in our Sunday-schools, cared for by our missionaries, and we think it very fitting that the young people in the older States, who hive for so long enjoyed superior educational and religious advantages, should join hands with us in furnishing to other young people in the West and the South opportunities for obtaining an education and the privileges of religious worship.

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GENEROUS GIVING.

The widow's mites received the Master's commendation, and it is often true that the poor who cast in all their living, by giving a few pennies, make greater sacrifices than the rich who, out of their abundance, give their thousands. The virtue of giving is not measured by the amount given. A gift, however small, which means sacrifice and self-denial and which is accompanied with prayer and a generous spirit, is acceptable to the Master and receives His reward.

One of the greatest and most desirable reforms in our benevolent and missionary

work will be brought about when there is devised some plan of systematic giving that will enlist all of our people, rich and poor, young and old, alike. It is astonishing what stupendous results might be achieved if even a very insignificant contribution could be received from every Baptist in the land. It is everyway desirable that we the number of should steadily incre se small givers, until giving for religious objects comes to be universal. Toward this end there should be constant striving, and we should not be satisfied until it is reached.

Meantime, much is to be said in behalf of generous giving-of large contributions, of princely benefactions, such as only the rich. can bestow. The work carried on by the American Baptist Home Mission Society is continental in its extent, magnificent in its proportions, incalculable in its results, and costly in its outlay. To prosecute its missionary enterprises on any such scale as the exigencies of the times require, to build meeting-houses throughout the West for homeless churches, to carry on its great educational work for the millions of Negroes of the South, calls for the expenditure of millions of dollars. These enterprises cannot be carried on by penny contributions; they demand the large gifts. As we look back over the financial history of the Society, we are impressed with the constantly recurring fact that its work has been made possible by the munificence of large givers, without which its magnificent record never could have been made.

The work of the Society is no exception in respect to its costliness. Other great missionary societies spend even larger sums than we expend. The cost of maintaining our home churches exceeds many times the amount that we spend for home missions. The amount that we spend for foreign missions annually is much larger than the Home Mission Society uses in its current work of evangelizing America. Were we to compare the amount spent by the Society for Home Missions with the amount spent by our people for food, or clothing, or travel,

or even for articles of luxury, we should be surprised at the smallness of the amount that we give for missionary work.

When we reflect on the enormous amount of money which intemperate people waste. upon poisonous liquors, which enfeeble and destroy, we are startled at its contrast with the amount of money spent by Christian people for missions.

The work done by The American Baptist Home Mission Society in its three departments of preaching the Gospel, building meeting-houses and maintaining schools of learning, is a work for the uplifting of humanity, the regeneration of society, the strengthening of the foundations of the Republic, and for the enlargement of the Kingdom of Christ. It is a work not for time, but for eternity; it is an imperishable work. It calls for large sums of money; and we believe that if its full significance were clearly apprehended by the rich, there would fall into its treasury, year by year, in increasing numbers, those benefactions, running from $5,000 up to a million dollars, which would enable it more fully to grapple with the problems that confront it, and to meet the full measure of the magnificent opportunities which are opening to it.

FOUNDATION LAYING.

Everybody knows the importance of strong foundations for any enduring superstructure. The various schools planted by the Home Mission Society for the education of the millions of the Negroes of the South are designed to be permanent: to abide through the centuries. They will be such if they rest on secure financial foundations; but to ensure their permanency and growth they need ample endowments. FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS could be placed today, in the form of endowments, so as to ensure the stability, efficiency, and growth. of the various institutions under its care. This seems to be a large sum, and yet many single institutions in the North have a larger sum as a working capital. Five millions of dollars, divided equitably among all the schools maintained by the Home

Mission Society, would not give to any one of them an adequate endowment; it would still leave them in need of further financial aid, but it would put them beyond peril, fill their friends with hope and courage, give to them a new impulse and prove a great stimulus toward further contributions.

We hope that some who read these words will consider them personal, and will respond to this appeal, either by large contributions toward the endowment of some one or more of these schools in the South, or by making provision for it in their wills. Can you make any better use of your money than this? Think it over. Select the school that you wish to aid. Make yourself acquainted with its history, its present status, its possibilities, its opportunities, its necessities. You cannot fail to become interested in the school and impressed with the opportunity it offers you of making good use of the money which God has entrusted to you as His steward.

CORRECTION.

In the article on Utah, by Dr. Morehouse, on page 109 of the April number, the expression "States of Zion" should read" Stakes of Zion," as it was in the original copy.

CONTINENTAL CURRENCY FOR

SALE.

A friend has put into our hands, to be sold for the benefit of Shaw University, some Continental currency: One $50 bill, and one $45 bill, of 1779; one $40 bill, one $8 bill, one $7 bill, and one $5 bill, of 1778; three $7 bills, two $6 bills, two $3 bills, and three $2 bills, of 1776; one $3 bill, one $2 bill, and two $1 bills, of 1775; one $2 bill of 1777; two 2-3 bills, one 1⁄2 bill, of 1776, and one 1-6 bill, of 1776; 2 shillings and 4 pence, 1766, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Any one wishing to purchase this money, which is guaranteed to be genuine, may send an offer for all, or any part of it, to these Rooms.

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