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WILSON'S MAGNETO-CONSERVATIVE GARMENTS NEW YORK AND LONDON ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Single Copies, 50 Cents per Year. Clubs of Twenty, 40 Cents per Copy. Clubs of Forty and over, 1832. The American Baptist Home Mission Socięty. 1895. The General Missionary Organization of American Baptists for the Evangelization PRESIDENT.-H. K. PORTER, ESQ., Penn. (E. M. VAN DUZEE, Esq., Minn. AUDITORS.- CHARLES B. CANFIELD, Esq., N. Y. E. T. HISCOX, D.D. In charge of Church Edifice Work, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF MISSIONS. Rocky Mountain Division.-Ok., I. T., Wy., Ida., The French in N. E.-Rev. J. N. Williams, 22 Arch St., The Germans.-Rev. G. A. Schulte, 320 Jersey City Heights. N. J. Webster St., The Indians.-Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Rev. J. GENERAL MISSIONARIES. W. Virginia.-Rev. W. E. Powell, 916 Swan St., Parkersburg. South Dakota.-Rev. T. M. Shanafelt, D.D., Huron. Kansas. Rev. E. B. Meredith, Topeka. Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Rev. L. J. Dyke, Montana and S. Idaho.-Rev. L. G. Clark, Helena. Colorado and New Mexico.-Rev. Geo. P.Wright, Denver. Oregon.-Rev. Gilman Parker, 162 Second St., Portland. . SECRETARY OF BOARD. ALEX. TURNBULL, 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. 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. 3. Rev. E. H. E. 4. Lake District.-Mich. and Ohio. 5. Wabash District.-Ind. and South Ill.-Rev. Dwight 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.-Iowa, Nebr. and Ks., Okla., Ind. Ter.- Rev. N. B. Rairden Omaha, Neb. GENERAL MISSIONARIES (Colored). 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. Merg@n, 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'G, 111 Fifth Ave., New York City. This is the Annual Report Number. Keep able the Society to hold the important it for reference. The annual meetings of the Home Mission Society, held at Saratoga Springs, New York, May 30th and 31st, 1895, a full account of which appears in this number, were among the most interesting the writer has ever enjoyed. The sessions were well attended by attentive and deeply interested audiences. The temper was hopeful, earnest, and spiritual. The papers and addresses were of a high order, and all who participated in the meetings seemed to be deeply impressed with the importance, urgency, and promise of the Society's great work. When it was announced from the platform that the debt of the Society had been practically liquidated by large legacies received from the estates of our late friends and brethren, Cook, Stearns, and Sampson, there was great rejoicing and fervent expressions of gratitude to the Giver of every good gift. After a very careful consideration of the receipts and expenditures during the last three years, a re-examination of the work now in progress by the Society, the manifest calls of God for renewed energy and aggressiveness, the Executive Board recently voted unanimously to continue the work of the Society for the next year substantially as it is at present in progress. It did not feel at liberty to retrench at any point, or to call a halt of its advancing forces. Will the churches support the Society in this aggressive work? Will they, by liberal gifts, en ground already gained, and to push its victorious columns into regions still beyond? One of the most significant things at the anniversaries was the suggestion that the Home Mission Society should ask, and expect, from the churches an annual contribution to its treasury for the prosecution of its manifold missionary, educational, and church extension work, of a sum of money equal to, at least, fifty cents per member of the white churches of the North. This would give it an annual income of nearly $450,000, independent of money received. from Permanent Funds. This is a small sum to ask for; shall it not be given? It was unanimously voted by a large and enthusiastic meeting of the Home Mission Society, at Saratoga, that the meetings should be held next year in the White Temple, at Portland, Ore., provided suitable railroad and other arrangements can be perfected. If this plan is carried out, the anniversaries of 1896 should take rank among the most memorable meetings the Society has ever held. It was manifestly the conviction of the overwhelming majority of those who attended the anniversaries at Saratoga that there ought to be a closer bond of union between the older societies and the women's missionary organizations, and important steps were taken looking to the consummation of this important object. |