class to have individual practice-a room similar to those furnished in the large cities of the North for cooking-schools. We wish to have our scientific course give a knowledge of God at work in nature that will broaden the outlook and give intelligent explanations of natural phenomena; to accomplish this, we must have a chemical laboratory and a philosophical room wherein simple and practical experiments may be performed. We wish to have our normal graduates trained as thoroughly as any in the land; to accomplish this, we must have another large building, with more recitation rooms, so that many girls may be putting their theory into practice in small classes, under the eye of their instructors. We wish to have our nurses trained for surgical as well as ordinary nursing; to accomplish this, we must have a small hospital, which is greatly needed in Atlanta, as physicians will testify. We wish to give those who go out from us as missionaries a more systematic course of inductive Bible study, and of methods of Sunday-school and house-tohouse missionary work; to do this, we must have a larger teaching force and a longer time of instruction, adding this time after graduation in the normal and scientific 31, when six young men were graduated. The salutatory was given by J. W. Jones, of Ebony, Va. The president introduced as the orator of the evening, Rev. T. H. Pritchard, D. D., of Wilmington, N. C., who delivered the address before the graduating class The speaker vividly portrayed the dangers and perils which beset young men just launching out into life, especially young medical practitioners, and in closing held up for their imitation the model Physician. The address was earnest and powerful and could not fail to make a deep and lasting impression upon the young men who were about to enter upon the trying duties and requirements of their chosen profession. Next upon the programme was the valedictory address by G. J. Bowens, of Wilmington, N. C. This was followed by the conferring of Degrees in Medicine, which was admirably done by Rev. J. W. Carter, D.D., of Raleigh, in an impromptu speech in in which every utterance was a nugget of gold, he exhorted the graduates first to be men and then by their industry to keep abreast of their profession and of the times. The prizes were presented by R. H. Lewis, M.D., one of the Medical Faculty. He expressed his confidence that the young men who had earned these prizes by their brains, would also exhibit the same skill and ability in their professional life. The President then remarked that he felt the occasion would not be complete without a few words from Hon. Elijah Shaw, of Wales, Mass. This desire was heartily seconded by the entire audience. Mr. Shaw in responding, contrasted his first visit to Raleigh with the present occasion and rejoiced that he had been able to aid in bringing about such results. He touchingly alluded to his long-time friend, the late Deacon Jacob Estey, of Brattleboro, Vt., who also was one of the earliest friends and benefactors of the University. Forty-eight students have been in attendance in the Medical Department during the present session; seventeen of this number received their preliminary training at Shaw University, and the other thirty-one have come from twenty-two different institutions of learning, including one student from the West Indies and two from the West Coast of Africa. WOMEN'S SOCIETIES. WOMEN'S BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY. 2411 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Ill. President-MRS. J. N. CROUSE, 2231 Prairie Ave., Chicago, Ill. Corresponding Secretary-Miss M. G. BURDETTE, 2411 Indiana Ave., Chicago, Ill. Recording Secretary-MRS. H. THANE MILLER, Cincinnati, Ohio. Treasurer-MRS. A. H. BARBER, 2411 Indiana Ave., Chicago, Ill. THE FOURTEENTH YEAR. We are not able at the time our copy for the May number of the HOME MISSION MONTHLY must go to New York to speak in detail of the fourteenth year, but rejoice to state that it has been a good year, and that we close our books not only without debt but with a balance in our treasury. To God be the glory! He alone hath caused us to prosper. The Fourteenth annual meeting of the Society will be held at Cincinnati, May 18th and 19th. BOARD NOTES. The Board meeting held March 16th convened at the usual hour, the chairman presiding. After Scripture reading and prayer, Mrs. Lawrence spoke of the decease of Mrs. C. R. Huntington, a member of the Board for nine years, both faithful and efficient in performing all duties laid upon her, and as one who exemplified in her lite a spirit of love for the Master whom she served, and for His work, which was her chief joy. A committee to draft resolutions was appointed, after which Mrs. Crouse led in prayer. It was decided that a letter expressing the sympathy of the Board be written Miss Thyng, whose aged mother passed from earth but a short time previous. Discretionary power was given the editor to enlarge Tidings from time to time as the necessity might require. Miss Peterson, finding herself able to continue in service until the vacation season, wrote asking that she might be allowed to do so. Miss Garland reported a missionary concert held in the Rev. Mr. Brawley's church at Petersburg, Va., at which fifty dollars for Home Mission work were raised. At the Board meeting held April 6th the order of exercises was somewhat changed. Before the reports of committees, the Christian experience of two of the students of the Training School was listened to. It is no uncommon occurrence to see the eyes of all present wet with tears as these disciples called of God to labor for Him tell of their struggle first to consent to walk in the path of His leading, and then to provide themselves with the means for the necessary preparation. A beautiful letter was read from Miss Thyng, in which she told many things concerning the Christian experience of her departed mother, and of her great love for and interest in the Women's Baptist Home Mission Society. Never in the history of the Board has death come so frequently into the homes of its members. Mr. Norman T. Gassette died April 26th, after an illness of only a few days. A letter of sympathy can but faintly express to Mr. Gassette our personal sorrow in the loss of so able a counsellor as Mr. Gassette had ever been. The committee appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the anniversary meetings reported concerning the order of exercises. The Committee on Organization reported twenty-two new auxiliaries, eleven of which were mission bands, formed during March. The Training School Committee presented the names of several applicants for membership in the Training School, and recommended the acceptance of three for the next year. Miss Yuill desired to be released from active service for a few weeks in order to have some time to further prepare for her work. A letter was read from Dr. Hartwell, in which he presented the resignation of Mrs. Tong Kit Ching, whose health does not permit her to do the work required. One of Miss Moore's conversational letters was read, in which she referred to Miss Jackson's ill health and need of rest. Miss Moore is visiting the missionaries in Richmond. In a letter from Mrs. Hill, of Oregon, a welcome was expressed as awaiting Miss Voss, who has been appointed to work in that State. Mrs. Kennard spoke of her recent visit in Philadelphia and of the helpfulness of the services of Misses Peck and Dysart in that city. MRS. C. V. L. PETERS. The readers of the MONTHLY will probably recall a letter written by Miss Anna M. Barkley, which was published in the February number of the maga. zine, and will be interested in some extracts from her annual report for the year closing March 31, 1891, which we here give: THE WORK IN MEMPHIS, TENN., has been encouraging during the past year. We can be grateful for progress and strength for the many duties. THE WOMEN OF MEMPHIS have been wonderful helpers in the mission work. Their work has been done with order and system, thereby increasing the interest in Bible study and missions in their churches, going out among those who needed help, and doing other practical work. THE MISSION AND NURSE TRAINING CLASS, now in its second year, is another power for good. Self-sacrificing and patient, in sunshine or storm, the members continue to gather into the Industrial and Temperance schools the many neglected children who swarm the streets, trying to train the little hands and hearts for good things, and lead them to shun the evil. Nearly every week finds two sisters of this class at the City Hospital, going from bed to bed, giving kind and cheering words, flowers, or papers to wile away the long and weary hours for some, reading or praying with others, and taking messages to friends in the city. The murderers and thieves in the city prison, the drunkards and vagrants of the chain gang, the criminal women and young children on the rock pile, receive attention. When we hear of these sisters who have their own home cares, going to a sick and destitute family, scrubbing the floor for them, or bringing home their washing, or staying with them night after night in sickness, then we know their hearts are sincere, for their actions reflect the image of Him who went about doing good. The best white doctors of Memphis still continue to give instruction to these sisters. At the Howe Institute where I spend three hours daily, the children have been studying the life of Christ. Many of them can give the entire outline of His life. We are rejoiced to see our young people growing up true and pure, and with willing hearts, working for the Lord. Very many of them are an honor to their race. A. M. BARKLEY. WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY. 14 TREMONT TEMPLE, BOSTON, MASS. Honorary President-MRS. THOMAS NICKERSON, Newton Centre, Mass. President-MISS ALICE B. MERRIAM, 177 West Brookline St., Boston, Mass. Vice-President-MRS. ANNA SARGENT HUNT, Augusta, Me. Corresponding Secretary-MRS. M. C. REYNOLDS, 21 Fayette St., Cambridgeport, Mass. Treasurer-MISS ALICE E STEDMAN, 14 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. As the first Thursday in April had been designated as Fast Day, the meeting of the Board of Directors for the month of April was held on Wednesday, the Ist. It was a time of thanksgiving and encouragement, and therefore may be fittingly reported in the HOME MISSION MONTHLY, that the spirit of praise and of faith may be stimulated in the hearts of our workers. The report of the Treasurer for the month of March showed that our fellow-laborers in the churches had remembered that the closing weeks of the fiscal year had come, and had generously sent in their gifts. The financial report for the year could not be given in detail, but the Treasurer stated that the receipts had been $43,000. This was an amount far beyond the anticipations of the Board, and larger by far than the receipts of any previous year. We could but feel that the Lord had dealt bountifully with us, and that to Him was due our heartfelt praise. We believe that the Lord of the harvest, who knows the ripeness of the field, has himself provided the means whereby we may enter in and reap. The work has been greatly enlarged in many direc tions during the past year, and we now take courage anew and look forward to a still greater increase in the coming year. It is the earnest desire of the Board of Directors that they may have grace and wisdom in dispensing the consecrated gifts intrusted to them. Three urgent appeals, presenting new opportunities, were laid before the Board at the meeting in April. The first was from Rev. Mr. Westrup, of Monterey, Mex., and called our attention to the opportunity just now presented for establishing a work of Christian education in Monterey. It was felt that this gave more than usual promise because of the wise supervision and counsel which would be given by Mr. Westrup, and it was voted that we enter this field as soon as possible. New doors seem to be opening before us in this land of darkness and superstition, and it behooves us to be ready to enter in. A second appeal led us to the work among the col ored people and to Beaver Dam, N. C., where Miss Elsie Waugh, a graduate of Spelman Seminary, is doing a good work on behalf of her people. Miss Waugh is paid from the public school funds for a school term of three months; but this is a scanty provision for the intellectual needs of the children. Both children and parents have responded so heartily to Miss Waugh's efforts, and have so eagerly begged her not to leave them at the end of three months, that she has remained with them, though with no assured provision for herself. The work thus begun gives promise of stability and much fruitfulness in bringing mental and spiritual food to these hungry souls. The Board of Directors were asked to adopt Miss Waugh as a teacher next September and to provide her salary for five months, thus insuring a school year of eight months. This it was unanimously voted to do. The third appeal was on behalf of the Chinese in Denver, Colo., and came from Mrs. Tupper, the wife of the pastor of the First Church in that city. Mrs. Tupper has organized a Chinese Sunday-school in connection with the First Church, but in gathering in the boys and in first giving them the Gospel feels deeply the need of a Chinese helper-one who, knowing the love of Christ, can speak to his countrymen in their own language. It is Mrs. Tupper's plan to secure such a helper through Rev. Mr. Hartwell, of San Francisco, if the necessary means for his support for six months could be provided by the Board. This need is immediate. Mrs. Tupper writes: "Our school grows larger all the time. On Sunday and Monday last two large rooms were so full I could scarcely walk through. When I gave the Bible reading on Naaman, it made my heart ache to see the numerous faces looking at me and understanding nothing I said, and no interpreter to tell them. I am besieged on all sides to know if we are to have a missionary. One boy seems as though he could not wait to hear, he is so anxious." At the end of six months Mrs. Tupper hopes that so much interest will be aroused that the work will become self-supporting. To this appeal also it was our joy and privilege to send an affirmative answer. If this article reaches the eyes of some who have sent us their gifts during the fiscal year now ended, and especially during its closing months, we would fain ask if the record of these three appeals and their answers is not an abundant reward? What would have been our feeling had negative answers been necessary because of an overdrawn treasury? But now let us rejoice in the assurance of the Master's joy that these His needy ones will learn of Him. Let us also encourage ourselves by the assurance that we shall some day hear His voice saying: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me." The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of this Society will be held in the First Baptist Church, Cambridgeport, Mass., on Wednesday and Thursday, May 6th and 7th, beginning at 2 P. M. Wednesday. a brief historical sketch of Texas, it deals chiefly with the history of the Baptist denomination in the State, giving interesting accounts of the first Baptist preachers, churches, Sunday-schools, associations, etc. The purpose is to bring the history down to the present time. Thus there will be gathered rich stores of information for the coming historian of the Baptists in America. If similar work could be done by a competent hand for many other States, it would be a valuable contribution to our denominational literature. The Magazine is published bi-monthly, at $2.50 per year. NEW YORK CHARITIES DIRECTORY, 16mo., cloth; 400 pp; Price, $1.00. The Charity Organization Society, 21 University Place, New York. Though late in calling attention to this work, we gladly now notice it. This is the fourth volume, that for this year. It is a carefully "classified and descriptive directory of the charitable and benevolent societies and institutions of the City of New York," as well as a correct list of all the churches of the city and their charitable activities, and other information of great value. It will be found of much service to those interested in any way in the charitable work of this great city. Sent by mail on receipt of price. Baptisms. "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit -MATTHEW 28:19. Missionaries administering the ordinance of baptism to five or more converts. QUARTER ENDING APRIL 1, 1891. NAME. James F. Moody, Geo. E. Good, G. W. Donnel, Peter Grant, J. J. Crosby, Loren T. Bush, John W. Dunjee, The Society has for its home object chapel building, and last year pledged $300 for that purpose, of Joseph H. Beaven, which $242.32 was raised for chapel building in the Black Hills, South Dakota. The Society appreciates its relation with the American Baptist Home Mission Society. The Society is one body for both home and foreign work. MRS. E. F. SAMPLE, Secretary. Book Notices. The Texas Historical and Biographical Magazine, Vol. I., No. 1. has been received. Rev. J. B. Link, LL.D., of Austin, Texas, is editor. While it contains Nels Erikson, Benj. J. George, J. R. Rairden, Jacob Olsen, R. P. Evans, J. A. H. Johnson, Perry G. Shanklin, J. W. Luke, Moses B. Critchett, Gust. Lundquist, Iver Larsen, J. M. Whitehead, F. L. Walker, Edward S. Sundt, Granger W. Smith, Albert J. Dahlstrom, John Morton Riddle, George E. Burdick, A. G. Holm, Ralph W. Lowe, W. E. Powell, C. W. Finwall, W. E. Hopkins, Garden City & Dodge City, Kan., 16 Swedes in Ashland, Wis., Dist. Missionary for Southeastern WaKeeney and Hill City, Kan., Milwaukee and vicinity, Wis., Swedes in Galesburg, Ill., in Northeastern Minnesota, Colored People in West Va., Bethel (Swede) Ch., Duluth, Minn., Pipestone, Minn., 15 The following re-appointments were made: Rev. E. R. Roberts, Colored People in S. C. " 5 21 7 General Missionary for West Va., 15 Norwegians and Danes in St. Paul, Minn., Park Rapids, Minn., W. A. Wilkerson, Colored People in Florida. Ole Larson, Scandinavians in Grand Forks and vicinity. Newton C. Fetter, Northside Ch., Spokane Falls, Washa Francis E. Scofield, Marshfield, Ore. G. W. Donnel, Oakland, Ore. Victor A.' Henry, National City, Cal. Tong Tsin Cheung, Chinese Baptist Church, San Fran cisco, Cal. W. E. Roscoe, St. Paul, Kadiak Island, Alaska. E. H. E. Jameson, District Secretary for Ohio and Michi gan. Frank Barnett, General Missionary for Utah and Southern Idaho. Ministerial and Church Record. "The word of God grew and multiplied."-Acts 12:24. 26 7 ORDINATIONS. Vancouver, Wash., 6 St. Cloud, Minn., St. Paul, Minn., 6 Swedes in McKeesport, Pa., 20 Swedes in Osage City, Kan., 12 H. K. Miller, Henry H. Turner, Colby, Kan., 8 D. D. Turner, Wm. P. Gibbons R. H. Hodson, Maurice Penfield Fikes C. E. Harbour, A. J. Burns, G. W, Townsend, |