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Show BAPTIST MMMIONABY UNIOJC. Tha SevantT.StYsntti Analvamarf ef tha ' l iilon OlmarTatt Today. Cincinnati, May 25. The seventy-seventh seventy-seventh anniversary of the American Baptist Missionary Union was observed today. 'The president in his address ninriti a s'roug appeal for more earuestnps in sending the gospel to the pagan world. The committee on centennial cen-tennial celebration presented a series of resolutions, providing among other thiugs that the union observe the special celebration at Kettering, England, October, 1WH; that 100 more missionaries be sent out. and that $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 more be raised. The report of the committee on progress for the past year showed that tfoOO.OUO had been raised ami upwards to 15,000 converts baptized. bap-tized. The missionary churches now number 152,012. The committee on obituaries made an elaborate report on notable people at home and abroad which was adopted after receiving the report re-port on bible work. Recess was taken until 2:o0 o'clock this afternoon. |