PAM. N. AMEI!, w ti AT It Is : Has Done : Is Doing : Aims To Do. ILLUSTRATED WITH DIAGRAMS. OFFICERS. PRESIDENT.— Hon. E. NELSON BLAKE, Mass. virp PRF«5TnwiMT«? /H. K. PORTER. Esq.. Penn. VICE-PRESIDENTS. y^jj DUZEE, Esq., Minn, TREASURER.— J. GREENWOOD SNELLING, Esq.,N. Y. (JOSEPH BROKAW, Esq., N. Y. AUUllUKb. I Hon. J. L. HOWARD, Conn. COR. SECRETARY.— HENRY L. MOREHOUSE, D.D.. N. Y. REC. SECRETARY.— A. S. HOBART, D.D., N. Y. MANAGERS. FIRST CLASS, Expiring in 1892. D. C. EDDY, D.D Brooklyn, N. Y. W. C. P. RHOADES, D.D Brooklyn, N. Y. N. E. WOOD, D.D Brooklyn, N. Y. Hon. F. WAYLAND New Haven, Conn. J. ASHTON GREENE, Esq Brooklyn, N. Y. SECOND CLASS, Expiring in 1893. E. T. HISCOX, D.D Mt Vernon, N. Y. E. LATHROP, D.D New York. W. D. BANCKER, Esq Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. W. H. P. FAUNCE New York. A.J. ROBINSON, Esq New York. THIRD CLASS, Expiring in 1894. W. H. PARMLY, D.D Jersey City, N.J. R. B. KELSAY. D.D Brooklyn. N. Y. WM. PHELPS, Esq New York. W. A. CAULDWELL, Esq New York. STEPHEN H. BURR, Esq New York. Chairman of the Executive Board, - - - E. T. HISCOX, D.D. Assistant Corresponding Secretary, - - D. W. PERKINS, Esq. Recording Secretary of Board, - - - GEO A. SCHULTE,Jr. ROOMS OF THE SOCIETY : Temple Court Building, No. 7 Beekman Street, NEW YORK CITY. I. WHAT IT IS. Its Object: " To promote the preaching of the Gospel in North America." It is a national Society, its work extend- ing over the whole country and into Canada and Mexico. Its constituency is in every State and Territory of the Union. Its Field : Ten millions of people in the Western States and Territories ; ten millions of European immigrants ; seven millions of col- ored people ; a third of a million of Indians ; a hundred thousand Chinese ; and the twelve millions of Mexico. It is really three Societies in one. 1. It is a great missionary organization. 2. It is the principal organization of the American Baptists for Church Edifice work. 3. It is the organization of American Bap- tists for the education of preachers and teachers for the colored people and the In- dians. The Society is composed of Annual Dele- gates and Life Members. Any Baptist church in union with the denomination may appoint a delegate for an annual contribution of ten dollars, and an additional delegate for each additional thirty dollars. Fifty dollars is requisite to constitute a member for life. Its business is conducted by an Executive Board of eighteen persons, residing in and near New York City, whose meetmgs are on the second Monday of each month. The financial year of the Society ends April 1st. The Annual Meeting occurs in May. I I M I I I I l(M I I I I lOjOd 900 to I M 1^, I I I I I I I l(M (0 (0 I I ilOOO i sk6 800 700 600 500 DIAGRAM OF THE MISSIONARY FORCE OF The American Baptist Home IVlission Soeiety, SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1832. THE FIRST YEAR, 50 j THE FIFTY-NINTH, 948. II. BEGINNINGS. The Society was organized April, 1832. The first year fifty missionaries were appointed. The first missionary to the Pacific Coast was in 1845 ; the first worl< among the Germans in 1846 ; Norwegians, 1848 ; French in Canada, 1849, i'^ ^he United States, 1853 ; Swedes, 1853 ; Danes, 1856 ; Chinese, 1869 ; other nation- alities, chiefly since 1880. The great work for the colored people was begun in 1862. In 1865 the Indian work was transferred to the Society by the Missionary Union. The first missionary to Mexico in 1870. The Church Edifice work was undertaken on a small scale in 1854; the special effort for a large Loan Fund in 1866. The Gift Fund was was established in 1881. III. WHAT IT HAS DONE, The Society has issued 14,834 commis- sions to missionaries and teachers, who have labored 528,169 weeks, or over 1 0,000 years, and who have reported 117,103 persons baptized, and 4,226 churches organized. It has assisted 1 , 1 76 churches in erecting houses of worship. In many Western States nearly every Baptist church was organized and fos- tered by the Society through its pioneer, gen- eral, and local missionaries. It has built up a vast educational work for the colored people and the Indians. It is estimated that 40,000 pupils have been in these schools. For many years the average attend- ance of students for the ministry has been 5 about 400. In the last eight years over 2,000 students have professed conversion ; in twenty- eight years probably not less than 5,000. Several have gone as missionaries to Africa. School property and endowments worth more than a million have been secured. Among the foreign populations there are 15,500 German Baptists, 17,000 Scandina- vian Baptists, and many among the French and other nationalities. The Chinese mis- sion work is well established, with valuable mission property in San Francisco. In the City of Mexico we have excellent mission property and a printing establishment, and substantial progress has been made in several States of the Republic. In the Indian Terri- tory there are about 7,000 Baptists, more than half of whom are Indians. The Society's receipts in fifty-nine years have been a little more than eight million dol- lars, over half of which has been given since 1880. IV. WHAT IT IS DOING. The Society's Worl< last year extended over 49 States and Territories ; also in three of the Canadian Provinces, and in six States of the Mexican Republic. Whole number of labor- ers, 948 ; additions to mission churches, 8,904 ; 4,523 by baptism. Churches organized, 199; churches and out-stations supplied, 1,828. Laborers in the New England States, 27 ; in the Middle and Central States, 50 ; in the South- ern States, 186 ; in the Western States and Ter- ritories, 654 ; in Mexico, 21 ; elsewhere, 10. Among foreign populations, 209 ; among the 7 colored people, Indians and Mexi- cans, 286 ; among Americans, 443. The missionaries represent 1 3 na- tionalitiesorpeo- ples, viz.: Ameri- cans, Germans, French, Swedes, Danes, Norwegi- ans, Bohemians, Poles, Finns, Ne- groes, Indians, Chinese and Mex- icans. Its repre- sentatives meet European immi- grants at New York City, and the Asiatic at San Francisco. The Society aids in the support of 26 established schools for the colored people, the Indians and the Mexicans, besides eight day or night schools for the Chinese. Pupils enrolled, 6,165 ; conversions, 343 ; students for the ministry, 425. In connection with Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C, there are law and medical schools. Industrial education is given in most of the schools. Z98i In Church Edifice work, 88 churches 8 were aided in the erection of houses of wor- sliip in tliirty States and Territories. Ameri- can churclies, 66 ; German, 3 ; Scandinavian, 2 ; Welsh, i ; Indian, 4; Colored, 12. Amount of gifts, $27,424.43 ; of loans, $15,075. This aid stimulated local benevolence and secured to the denommation property valued at $215,000. Receipts for the year for all purposes, $405,153.40, of which the contributions were $271,929.95 ; legacies, $57,472.08 ; from Church Edifice loans and invested funds, $35,386.91 ; from the schools, $34,527.87 ; miscellaneous, $5,836.60. V. ITS AIM. It aims to give the Gospel to the destitute— "to every man in his own tongue " ; to elevate the colored people and the Indians by means of Christian education ; to shelter homeless churches ; to take North America for Christ. Hence, its pioneer missionaries, to make dis- ciples, to organize churches and Sunday- schools, and its missionary pastors, each, in many cases, having several preaching stations ; to develop self supporting and missionary churches ; to establish the work by securing houses through grants from its Church Edifice Loan and Gift Funds. Hence, also, its mis- sionary teachers, its large number of costly and commodious school buildings for the thronging thousands, that qualified preachers and teachers may be provided for the needy millions. Hence, too, the new feature of mis- sionary training schools, to tit a larger number of both sexes for better service for their own people. 9 High and holy is the aim ; imperfect is the performance for lack of means. The Society aims, therefore, to awaken greater interest in this urgent work. Its sixtieth anniversary will occur in 1892, when also the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America will be celebrated. Shall not American Baptists celebrate these events by larger offerings and greater efforts for the evangelization of this continent, and so enable the Society to attain its aim for the coming year : 1,000 Missionaries, lOO Church Edi- fices, and $500,000! For this the Society earnestly asks indi- viduals and churches to increase their offer- ings at least ten per cent, over last year. Form of a bequest to the Society : "I give and bequeath to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, formed in New York in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of for the general purposes of said Society." 10 SUPERINTENDENTS . 1. Of Western Missions: Rev. Wm. M. Haigh, D.D., 122 Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111.; Rev. H. C. Woods, D,D., Lincoln, Neb. 2. Of Educational Work: Rev. M. Mac- Vicar, LL.D., Temple Court, N. Y. City. 3. Of Chinese Missions: Rev. J. B. Hart- well, D.D., San Francisco, Cal. The Baptist Home Mission Monthly. — Terms : Single subscriptions, 50 cents per year ; clubs of ten, $4.50 ; of twenty, $8.00 ; of thirty, $10.50. Your subscription is solicited. District Secretary for Southeru New Jer- sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and District of Co- lumbia : Rev. B. B. PAI.MER, D. D., 1420 Chest- nut Street, Philadelphia, Peun. [Note. — This leaflet, prepared by the Corresponding Secretary and published by the Society, is for gratuitous distribution in quantities desired by pastors and others. Send orders to the District Secretary for your State where it is practicable ; in other cases, write to the Rooms in New York City. ] II