HOUSE PROPERTY AND INVESTMENT COMPANY (LIMITED), 92, CANNON STREET, LONDON, E.C.

Capital One Million, in 40,000 fully paid-up Shares of £25.

For the PURCHASE and SALE of PRODUCTIVE and PROGRESSIVE HOUSE PROPERTY, and IMPROVING the DWELLINGS of the WORKING CLASSES on the Self-supporting Principle.

DIRECTORS.

Chairman, WILLIAM SUTTON GLOVER, Esq., 4, Queen Street Place, E.C., and Casino House, Dulwich Hill.

HENRY ASTE, Esq., 6, Trinity Square. Tower
Hill, and Castle Hill Lodge, Upper Norwood
(Chairman of the London Corn Exchange).

WILLIAM MACDONALD BASDEN, Esq., 15, Great
St. Helen's, and Lloyd's.

JAMES CLARKE, Esq., Beech Hanger, Caterham,
Surrey, and 13. Fleet Street, E.C. (Editor and
Proprietor of the Christian World).

FOUNTAIN JOHN HARTLEY, Esq., Upper Clap

ton (Hon. Secretary of the London Sunday
School Union).

ROBERT PARKER TAYLOR, Esq., Adelaide Place,
London Bridge, late Deputy Governor of the
Honourable Irish Society, and Chairman of
the Lambeth Baths and Washhouses Company.
EDWARD BEAN UNDERHILL, Esq., LL.D.,
Hampstead (Hon. Secretary of the Baptist
Missionary Society).

THOMAS WHITE, Esq., Deputy, 12, Dowgate
Hill, Cannon Street, E.C., Conservator of the
River Thames (Deputy Chairman of the Police
Committee).

SOLICITORS.

Messrs. HENRY GOVER & SON, 3, Adelaide Place, London Bridge, E.C.
AUDITORS.

JOHN THOMAS BEDFORD, Esq., 12, King Street.
Snow Hill, and Mecklenburgh Square (late
Chairman of the Epping Forest Committee),
Conservator of the River Thames.

Capital paid up, £659,622.

Dividends amounting to £208,225 have been paid to shareholders.

Reserve Fund, £32,921.

The remaining 1,338 shares of the seventh issue in course of allotment, at £6 per share premium. Four per cent. debentures issued for three, five, seven, or ten years.

Forty-five of the tenants of the company availing themselves of the peculiar facilities afforded, have become owners of their own dwellings.

CHARLES KEMP DYER, Esq., J.P., St. Albans,
Herts, and Lloyd's.

WILLIAM POTTER OLNEY, Esq., 9, the Paragon,
New Kent Road.

BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY

OFFICE-4, QUEEN STREET PLACE, LONDON, E.C.

DIRECTORS.

WILLIAM MACDONALD BASDEN, Esq., Great
St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street, City, and
Lloyd's.

GEORGE THOMAS DALE, Esq., Bayswater.
WILLIAM SUTTON GOVER, Esq., Casino House,
Herne Hill, and 4, Queen Street Place, City.
JOHN MIDDLETON HARE, Esq., Stoke Newington

FOUNTAIN JOHN HARTLEY, Esq., Upper Clap-
ton (Hon. Sec., Sunday School Union).
WILLIAM GEORGE LEMON, Esq., Barrister-at-
Law, Lincoln's Inn.

WILLIAM SMITH, Esq., Upper Norwood.
EDWARD BEAN UNDERHILL, Esq., LL.D. Hamp-
stead (Hon. Sec. Baptist Misionary Society)."

AUDITORS.

ALFRED HENRY BAYNES, Esq., Wandsworth Common (Sec. Baptist Missionary Society.)
JAMES CLARKE, Esq., Fleet Street, City (Proprietor and Editor Christian World.)
WILLIAM POTTER OLNEY, Esq., The Paragon, New Kent Road, S.E.

SOLICITORS.

Messrs. HENRY GOVER & SON, 3, Adelaide Place, London Bridge, City.

NEW BUSINESS.

2,097 Policies issued for

New Premium Income

TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT, MAY, 1884.

ACCUMULATED FUND.
Laid by in the year

£65,507

£938,609

Claims and Bonuses paid under the Company's Policies, £800,808. Average Reversionary Bonus for 27 years, about 14 per cent. per Annum.

Mutual Entrants in 1884 participate in the Eleventh Division of Profits.

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THE

General Baptist Magazine.

JUNE, 1884.

General Baptists;*

But the

ALSO called Arminian, Free-Will, and Free Baptists. I. Origin. Traces of churches of the G. B. type are found in the reign of Henry VIII. at Eyethorne, Kent; and Bocking, or Braintree, in Essex. organized life of the G. B.'s dates from 1611 (that of the Particular or Calvinistic Baptists from 1633), and becomes a distinct historical and continuous force under the leadership of John Smyth, Thomas Helwys, John Morton, Leonard Busher, Henry Denne, and Dr. Du Veil.

II. Their doctrinal basis embraced (1) the universality of redemption; hence the name of "General." (2) The obligation of baptism on all believers in Christ. (3) The essentially spiritual character of the church. (4) The principle of absolute religious liberty; along with other doctrines common to the Reformed Faith of the opening years of the seventeenth century. Prof. Masson, in his Life of Milton, Vol. III., states that the G. B.'s were the first to pronounce with energy and distinctness in favour of the great modern idea of absolute liberty of conscience. (Cf. Busher's book quoted at end.)

III. Their Organization embraced (1) " Assemblies" for the transaction of business common to the welfare of all the churches—not annual at first, but as occasion required. (2) "Messengers," or "Apostles," who visited the churches to "stir them up," and were also sent out to preach, not only in different parts of England, but also to Ireland, and even to Virginia and South Carolina (MS. Proceedings of G. B. Assembly, Vol. II., p. 32). (3) "Elders," or pastors of churches. (4) "Deacons," or helps in government. The churches were not fixed to any one building, but consisted of members scattered over wide areas, meeting in several buildings, and sometimes having two or three "elders." The Discipline was most rigid, and extended to speech and dress. In this and other matters they were closely akin to the early Friends or Quakers.

* An Article from the Religious Encyclopædia. Based on the Real-Encyklopädie of Herzog Plitt, and Hauck, Edited by Dr. Schaff. 3 Vols. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. GENERAL BAPTIST MAGAZINE, JUNE, 1884.-VOL. LXXXVI.-N.S. No. 6.