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The Baptists are next in number to the Methodists. The Northern
Baptist Board, having its seat in Boston, has in Liberia one
mission, two out-stations, one boarding school, and two day
schools, with about twenty scholars each, one native preacher, and
four native assistants. The whole mission is in the hands of
converted natives. The Southern Board operates more extensively.
More than a year since, the Rev. John Day, its principal agent
there, reported to the Rev. R.R. Gurley, United States Commissioner
to Liberia, as follows:
"In our schools are taught, say, 330 children, 92 of whom are
natives. To more than 10,000 natives, the Word of Life is statedly
preached; and in every settlement in these colonies, we have a
church, to whom the means of grace are administered; and in every
village we have an interesting Sunday school, where natives as well
as colonists are taught the truths of God's word. Say, in our
Sunday schools, are taught 400 colonists, and 200 natives.... We
have this year baptized 18 natives and 7 colonists, besides what
have been baptized by Messrs. Murray and Drayton, from whom I have
had no report.
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