III. SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST CHURCH.-The Committee on Statistics of the General Conference of this Church reported in September, 1878, that two churches had been added during the year, making the whole present number of churches 90. Of these churches, 59, or one less than two thirds of the whole, had reported 7,446 members. Presuming the remaining 31 churches to have a proportionate number of members, the total membership of the denomination would be about 11,000. The reports of the contributions of the churches, so far as they were sent to the committee, showed an average of $2.40 per member in the total contributions, and an average of 25 cents per member for denominational work, this head including the tract and missionary enterprises. The Committee on Sabbath-Schools reported that the number of such schools was 88, being larger than ever before, but the number of scholars had decreased three per cent.

The Seventh-Day Baptist General Conference met for its sixty-fifth annual session at Brookfield, New York, September 24th. A. B. Prentice was President. A committee which had been appointed by a previous General Conference to present for consideration a denominational exposition of faith made a report embracing eleven articles of belief, viz.: in God; Christ; the Holy Spirit; the Holy Scriptures; Man (affirming his twofold nature, his fall, and the necessity of regeneration); Heirship and Eternal Life; Repentance, Faith, and Baptism; the Lord's Supper; the Sabbath (the seventh day); the Resurrection of the Dead and the Eternal Judgment; and the Resurrection body of the Saints. The report was or dered to be printed and to lie on the table for one year, and the committee was continued. An order of procedure at the sessions of the Conference was adopted, which provides for the previous selection of a list of subjects for discussion, and the appointment for each subject of some person to introduce the discussion in an address or essay, after the reading of which a limited time shall be allowed for general discussion in five-minute speeches. The Conference recommended to young men who contemplate entering the ministry that they endeavor to prepare themselves for that work by a classical education and a full course of theological training; and advised them to study in the schools of the denomination. A policy of engaging the pastors of such churches "as could serve the cause advantageously" to labor in the mission-fields for a month or more at a time, was recommended. The Hon. Horatio Gates Jones, of the State Senate of Pennsylvania, communicated to the Conference the latest results of his efforts to obtain a relaxation of the Sunday laws of that State in favor of those who keep the seventh day as the Sabbath. The bill introduced by him for that purpose had on the 13th of May, 1879, secured a majority of the votes of the members of the Senate present and voting, but had failed to

pass for the want of a majority of the whole Senate as required by the Constitution. "From this statement," he said, "you may well suppose that I am not disheartened, for each year has brought fresh accessions to the ranks of those who believe in the great principle of the rights of conscience."

The anniversary meetings of the Educational, Missionary, and Tract Societies were held in connection with the meeting of the General Conference. The Missionary Society sustained home missions at different points in the United States, and a mission at Shanghai, China, which was at present without a missionary superintendent. At Shanghai the Society owned a city chapel to which dwellings were attached, a cottage in the country, and a lot in the missionary burial-ground. The missionary work was in the hands of two or three native preachers or Bible-readers; the Church had eighteen or twenty members, while about the same number of members had died.

IV. THE BRETHREN, OR TUNKERS.-The Annual Council of the Tunkers, or Brethren, met at Broadney, Virginia, June 3d. The sum of $800 being needed for the mission in Denmark during the coming year, a contribution of two dollars was requested from each church. The Council of 1877 had decided that the double mode, viz., that in which one person washes and another wipes the feet of the brother or sister participating in the ceremony, was the proper method of administering the ordinance of feetwashing. A petition was presented asking for a grant of liberty to use the single mode, or that in which the same person washes and wipes. The question was deferred till the next year. The question whether a member who has withdrawn from the Masonic order may or may not answer recognitions from members of the order, was answered in the negative. On the question whether a minority ought to be permitted to prevent a church from establishing a Sundayschool-the customary way of deciding matters in the Brotherhood being by unanimous consent-the Council agreed to ask minorities to yield. Newspapers had been established within the denomination which had indulged in free criticism of some of its peculiar usages. The Council determined that the editors of the papers should be called upon to make acknowledgments of their offenses; that certain elders who were named should be required to give satisfaction for publishing schismatic articles; and that a committee should be appointed to see that the editors of church papers admit no articles assailing the doctrines or principles or practices of the Brotherhood. A request that the wearing of hats by the sisters should not be made a bar to membership was denied. An order was adopted that each brother attending the meetings of the Council should pay one dollar, while payment was left optional with the sisters; and that free board should be given only to brethren and sisters and their special friends.

V. BAPTISTS IN CANADA.-The twenty-first annual meeting of the Canada Baptist Convention East was held at Montreal, beginning October 1st. D. Bentley presided. The principal business related to the adoption of a union with the Convention West. A plan for the organization of a Baptist Union of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, which had been proposed by the Western Convention, was sanctioned, "subject to such modifications as on further deliberation may be deemed necessary without affecting the main principles of union suggested." To facilitate the formation of the proposed union, it was suggested that committees be appointed by the two Conventions to represent them in considering what modifications should be made, by whose joint action both Conventions should consider themselves bound. In accordance with this action, a committee was appointed by the Convention to represent it. The Canadian Baptists, and the Baptists of the maritime provinces coöperating with them, sustain a mission among the Telugus in India, in which thirteen missionaries including wives and a female teacher are employed. The mission embraces three stations, and returned for 1879 467 "baptized believers."

VI. BAPTISTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The following is a summary of the statistics of the Baptist Churches in Great Britain and Ireland, as they are given in the "Baptist Hand-Book" for 1879: Number of churches, 2,587; of chapels, 3,451; of sittings, 1,028,833; of members, 276,348; of Sunday-school teachers, 40,216; of Sunday-school scholars, 399,317; of pastors, 1,879; of Evangelists, 2,652. Sixty-three new chapels and 28 new schoolrooms were erected during the year ending September 30, 1878. The number of members in the different parts of the United Kingdom was, according to the tables in the "Hand-Book": In England, 199,820; in Wales, 66,043; in Scotland, 9,234; in Ireland, 1,251. The Baptists in other countries of Europe returned 452 churches and 367 pastors, and members as follows: Austria, 81; Denmark, 2,114; Finland, 400; France (part of whom were in churches aided by the American Baptist Missionary Union), 784; Germany, 15,287; the Netherlands, 465; Italy, 400; Sweden, 15,000; Norway, 615; Poland, 1,747; Russia, 3,686; Spain, 244; Switzerland, 403; Turkey, 159; total, about 40,000. In Africa (Cape Colony, Port Natal, West Africa, and St. Helena), there were 32 churches, 17 pastors or missionaries, and 1,147 members; in the Australasian Colonies, 127 churches, 87 pastors, and 7,700 members; in Asia, 514 churches, 213 pastors or missionaries, and 34,006 members. The estimate for the whole world is 28,505 churches, 17,683 pastors or missionaries, and 2,473,088 members. These numbers are made up in part, particularly where churches in foreign lands are concerned, from the reports of two or three years previous to the current year. The real present number of Baptists is not

less than 100,000 more than the number given above.

The annual meeting of the Baptist Union of England and Ireland was held in London, April 28th. The Rev. George Gould presided. The report of the Secretary showed that 20,000 new sittings had been added to the chapel accommodation during the year, and £145,000 had been spent upon the increase of chapel accommodation and schoolrooms. A resolution was adopted condemning the foreign policy and the expenditure of the Government. The expenditures of the Society for British and Irish Home Missions had been £5,571. Three new stations had been opened in England; operations had been extended in some directions and contracted in none. Satisfactory progress had been made in Ireland. The receipts of the Bible Translation Society had been £2,244,105. The report gave accounts of the publication and sale of editions of the Bible and New Testament, or of parts of the same, in the Sanskrit, Bengali, Mussulman Bengali, and Hindi languages, the languages of Orissa, Ceylon, and Japan, and one of the languages of Africa. The anniversary of the Baptist Missionary Society was held in London, May 1st. The Earl of Northbrook presided. The total receipts of the Society had been £46,092. Favorable reports were made of the condition of the missions in India, where two hundred persons had been baptized; in Ceylon, in China, where the missionaries had been largely occupied in distributing relief to the sufferers by the famine; in Brittany, where the missionaries enjoyed greater freedom; in Africa, where a mission to the Congo had been finally resolved upon; in Norway, where the "Union of the Norwegian Baptists" had undertaken the general management of the mission; in Italy; and in Jamaica. The mission in Trinidad had suffered from the loss of many of its members by death. Four missionaries were on their way to the Congo mission in Africa, and would be reënforced by some native helpers from the Cameroons mission. The missions of the Society in India, Ceylon, China, Brittany, Norway, Italy, Africa, the West Indies, and Jamaica were under the care of 88 European missionaries, with 39 native missionaries and 186 evangelists, and returned members as follows: India, 3,653; Ceylon, 653; China, 108; Brittany, 53; Norway, 645; Italy, 133; Africa, 137; West India islands, 4,215; Jamaica, 21,984; total, 31,581. Number of teachers, 147; of day scholars, 4,269; of Sunday scholars, 4,114. The expenditures of the Zenana mission in India had been £3,019. The mission employed. about 23 European lady visitors and 42 native teachers and Bible women, who were laboring in Calcutta, Baraset, Delhi, Benares, Allahabad, Soorie, Barisaul, Monghyr, and Patona. Nearly 700 women were receiving religious instruction in the Zenanas, and 13 girls' schools, containing about 400 children, were taught by the agents.

The autumnal meeting of the Union was held at Glasgow, beginning October 7th. The fourth report of the annuity fund showed that the total value of its securities in the hands of the Treasurer was £73,882, and that more than £37,000 had been received in redemption of promises amounting to £58,000. Sixty-eight ministers, widows, and children were receiving annuities. The British and Irish Mission reported that new stations had been opened in England and Ireland, and that 611 members had been added in the two kingdoms. The labors of the special evangelists had been suc cessful, but more men were wanted. Ten missionaries had been accepted, and eight sent out during the year to the foreign stations, in pursuance of a resolution which had been adopted in the previous year to raise funds to send out twenty additional missionaries. Mr. Watkins, of Bristol, who had made a gift in the previous year for the African mission, had offered to contribute £700, half the sum required, to send out twelve additional missionaries, if the rest were raised. The required amount was obtained. Discussions were held during the meeting on the subjects of the use and disuse of confessions of faith, the attitude of the Union in relation to religious opinion and belief, politics and the pulpit, and the relations of the Union to other denominations. A resolution was passed declaring that the present condition of the country demanded the serious consideration of the Christian community; expressing the judgment of the assembly that the policy of the Government "has been the cause of needless wars, has involved the nation in grave financial difficulties, and has failed to ameliorate by domestic legislation the social and moral evils under which the country suffers"; and advising the members of the Union to active and united efforts to return members of Parliament pledged to oppose that policy.

GENERAL BAPTISTS.-The one hundred and tenth annual meeting of the General Baptist Association was held at Halifax, beginning June 19th. The statistical reports showed that the Association included 179 churches, to which three new ones would be added, the whole containing 24,003 members. The income of the Home Mission Society had been £1,705, the largest amount ever reported in one year. The income for foreign missions had been £8,872, £86 more than that of the previous year. Three additions had been made to the European missionary staff during the year, and a new chapel had been opened in connection with the mission at Rome. During the last twenty years the number of mission churches had increased threefold. Chilnell College had ten students, and had suffered a financial deficiency of £598. Resolutions were passed in favor of the bill for closing the public-houses on Sunday; counseling opposition to the war spirit, and expressing a hope for the termination of the Zooloo war; urging

on the House of Commons not to pass any enactment which would enable particular religious views to be inculcated at the expense of the state; and denouncing the Government Valuation Bill as a measure which, by allowing exemptions in the ratable value of clerical incomes proportioned to the salaries of curates, would virtually give additional endowments to the Anglican Church.

The annual meetings of the Baptist Union and Home Mission of Scotland were held in Edinburgh in October. The report of the Secretary showed that the number of Baptist members connected with the Union in Scotland was 8,862, or 513 more than the number reported in 1878. One hundred and forty stations were kept up in the home mission department, in connection with which 28 missionaries had been employed and 214 members had been added during the year.

V. GERMAN BAPTIST UNION.-The German Baptist Union embraces churches in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, and Africa. The triennial Conference was held at Hamburg in July, at which 125 delegates were present. The statistical reports showed that an increase of 919 members had taken place during the year, the gains being 76 in Germany, 63 in Austria, 42 in Denmark, 25 in Holland, 56 in Switzerland, 40 in Poland, and 687 in Russia, while there appeared a decrease of 30 in Africa and of 44 in Turkey. The business transacted related to the publishing house, which is hereafter to be under the supervision of Dr. P. W. Bickel, representing the American Baptist Publication Society; to the education of ministers, for which it was resolved to establish and endow a theological seminary; and to the promotion of Sunday-schools.

BARRY, General WILLIAM FARQUHAR, & military officer, born in New York, August 8, 1818, died at Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, July 18th. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point on September 1, 1834, and graduated on July 1, 1838, with the rank of brevet second lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery. On July 7th of the same year he was appointed second lieutenant, and on the 12th of July was transferred to the Second Artillery. He served first at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., and next at Buffalo, N. Y., during the Canada border disturbances of 1838-'39. After doing garrison duty at a number of different stations, he went with the army to Mexico, remaining there from 1846 to 1848. He was in the battle of Tampico, and served in MajorGeneral Patterson's division, and also as aidede-camp to Major-General Worth. From 1849 to 1851 he was stationed at Fort McHenry, and was made a captain in the Second Artillery on July 1, 1852. He served in the war against the Seminoles in Florida in 1852-'53, and was in garrison at Baton Rouge, La., in 1855. He did frontier duty at Fort Washington, I. T., in 1855, and at Fort Snelling,