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VOLUME LXXXIY.
MISSIONARY.
American Board of Com
missioners for Foreign
Missions.
SIXT/E rlt AN SITE HURL
A Memorable Gathering.
'THE TOILS OF THE MR IN REVIEW.
The American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions commenced its six-
tieth annual session in the Third Pres
byterian Church, Sixth avenue, yester
day afternoon at three o'clock. This
body is composed of about two hundred
active members, who constitute the
!corporate body, and only have the power
to vote and finally decide upon its delib
erations. Connected with it are some
thousands of honorary members, whd
have the privilege of taking pFtrt in all
the deliberations except voting. The
Board is supported by the Presbyterian
and Congregationalist churches, about
five thousand in number, throughout
America, who thus unite in prosecuting
the work of foreign missions. The first
meetings sixty years ago were held in
private parlors, and from this small be
ginning the interest in the Board has in--
creased until, now, the largest audience
- rooms in the country are sometimes not
sufficient to contain those who . desire to
be in attendance.-
The sixtieth session opened yesterday,
and promises to be one of the largest and
most interesting of — any in the'previous
history of the Beard. A large number of
delegates have already arrived, and
every train coming into the city is in
creasing the number.
THE ORGANIZATION.
At the. appointed hour the meeting was
called to order by Rev. Mark Hopkins,
D.D., LL.D., President of Williams Col
lege.
The, following officers of the Board will,
-officiate at the present meeting:
President,Mark Hopkins, D.D. LL D.
• Vice President—Hon. Wm. E. Dodge.
.Prudential Committee—Charles Stod
.
dard, Esq.; • Nehemiah Adams, D. D.;
Augustus C. Thompson,D.D.; Walter S.
Griffith, Esq.; Hon. A.lohens Hardy,
Hon. Limn , Child, Rev. Albert Barnes,
Robert R. Booth, D.D:: Abner Kingman,
Esq.; James M. Gordon, Esq.; Rufus
Anderson, D. D. LL.D.; Ezra Farns
worth, Esq.
Corresponding Secretaries—Rev. Selah
F. Treat, George Wood, D.D., Nathaniel
0. Clark, D.D.
Bieordtng Secretary—Rev. John D.
Means.
Treasurer—Langdon S. Ward, Esq.
Auditors—Joseph S. Ropes, Esq., and
Thomas H. Russell, 'Esq.
The exercises were opened with a
fervent and impressive prayer by Rev.
Dr.-Spring, of New York.
• Rev. Wm. M. Cheever, of Terre Haute,
Indiana, wasappointed assistant. Re
cording Secretary.
The minutes of the last annual session
- were read 'and approved.
THES OkE DEPAIiT3LENT.
Rev. Dr. S. P. Treat, Chairman of the
Committe on Rome Department next
read the following report:
13.0.11 E DEPARTMENT.
OBITUARY NOTICE.%
.
Four Corporate Members of the Board,
a smaller number than usual, have been
removed by death since the last annual
meetinz, to wit:-William W. Chester,
Esq.,electecLin 1838; Silas Aiken, D. 13.,
electd in 18. V: Swau L. Pomroy, D. D.,
elected in 1843; William Ropes, Esq.,
elected in 1852.
MISSIONARIES SENT FORTH.
It is.with devout thankfainess that the
Prudential Committee announce the
sending forth of larger reinforcements to
the various mission, fields within the
past year, than have gone abroad in any
one year since 1858. The following
names have been enrolled for the first
time, among those whom the Board will
be happy to recognize henceforth as its
"fellow workers unto the Kingdom of
God" to wit; Rev. Henry P. Page, Mrs.
Mary A. Page, Rev. Riggs, Mrs. Sarah
H. Riggs, Miss 'Ursula E. Clark, Miss
Mavis S. Bluts,lidiss Della Griswold, Miss
Minnie C. Beach. of the Western
Turkey Mission, Rev. Henry Mar.
den, and Mrs. Mary L. Marden, of
the Central Turkey Mission: Mrs. Helen
P. Barnum,- Rev:Theodore L. Pottd, Mrs.
-Julia H. Pond, Geo. C. Reynolds, M. D.;
and Mrs. Mattis W. .Reynidds, of the
Eastern Turkey Mission; Mrs. Harriet
E. Jessup, Miss Eliza D. Everett, and
Rev. James S. Dennis, of the Syria Mis
sion; Rev. Spencer R. Wells • and Mrs.
Mary Wells, of the Mahratta. Mission;
Henry K. Palmer, M. D., Mrs. Flora D.
Palmer and •• bliss Carrie ' Hartley,
of the Madura Mission; Rev. William
E. Deßiemer, Mrs. E mily ,Deßiemer,
Miss Maggie Webster, of, the Ceylon
Mission; Miss Adella M. Payson, of the
Fuh-Chau Mission; Rev. Chester Hol
comb, Mr; Oliver C. Holcomb, Rev.
Joseph S. Whiting. Mrs. Body E. Whit-
I
ing Rev. Dsvellp Z. Sheilleld,!Mrs . Ella
W.Sheflield, Rev.; Daniel McCoy, Mrs.
AXnerical4.,,McCoy, Mr. Gilbert F. Hol
comb, Miiia Wiry A.. Thompson, of the
North .Chii*'.fitleslon: Miss. Julia . A.
Lafroinbatics:Of the. Dakota
- Two brethren, who were formerly sta
tioned Id tlie Tamil' field. but subs°.
quentlY returned to the United States,
and were released from-their connection
with the Board, have enlisted in its ser
vice a secondlime. For reasons bearing
• upon the question of health, hoWever, it
bas seemed advisable to assign them to
new fields. Hence -Rev. George Ford
and Mrs. Ann J. Ford-have taken charge.
of a station among the Senecas, and Rev.
Milan H. Hitchcock 'and 'Mrs. Lucy H.
Hitchcock have joined the •Western Tur
key mission. " •
• It will be uotleedlitat all our, missions_
in Asia, except the one - 1n Persia, have
received reinforcements during the year;
that the whole number embraced in the
foregoing list is forty.two, twelve of
whom were ordained before their em.
bark atiom
The following persons, have returned
to the fields heretofore ()Coupled by them,
after a residence In the' United States,
longer or shorter, to wittiMrs. Martha J.
Riggs, Henry S. West, M. D., and Mrs.
Lottie M. West, of the We4tern Turkey
Mission, Miss Myra A. Proctor, of the
Central - Turkey Mission, Henry H. Jes
sup, D. D., of the Lyna Mission, Rev.
Henry M. Bridgman and Mrs. Laura B.
Bridgutan,.of the Zulu Mission.
AGENCIES.
The committee are happy to say that
all the District Secretaries who were
mentioned in the annual report last year,
are still in the sertlce of the Board. As
they are laboring at their respective
posts with fidelity and success, and espe
cially as their apitude for their work is
expected to increase from year to year,
any changewould be undesirable. The
number of districts, and the distribution
of slates among the districts, remain the
same as it wat last year,•as the following
table will show: -
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont,
Rev. Wm, Gorham, of Maine.
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode
Island, Rev. John P. Skeele, Hartford
Conn.
New York City, Long Island, Eastern
New York and New Tersey,,tbis district
is in' charge of Rev. George W. Wood,
Bible House, Astor Place, New York
City.
Central and Western New York, in
cluding- St. Lawrence, Lewis, Oneida,
Otsego and 'Delaware counties as an East
ern boundary Hap. Charles P. Bush,
Rochester, N.,Y.
Pennsylvania, West Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland and District of Columbia, Rev.
John McLeod, Philadelphia. 1
Ohio, Indiana and Southern Illinois,
Rev. Wm. M. Cheever, Terre Haute, In;
diana.
Michigan, Northern Illinois, Wiscon
sin, Minnesota, lowa, Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska, Rev. S. •J.
,litnphrey,
Chicago.
It gives the Committee great pleasure
to acknowledge the value of the services
rendered in this department by our re
turned Missionaries. Some. indeed, are
able to do but little in this line of things;
and t it should be ad axiom in Missions,
that a brother who comes to this country
, for the benefit of his health, should be
allowed to regain it as speedily as posfi
ble, in order that he may resume with
the least practicable delay. his work
among the heathen. But if he is able to
interest the churches in the subject of
Missions by personal appeals, without
retarding his recovery, it is eminently
proper, as well as desirable, that they
should do go; and the Committee always
favor arrangements entered• into with
this intent.
THE • MISSIONARY HERALD
The enlarged circulation of the Herald"
deserves a.lormal announcernept. The
average monthly edition durimphe past
year has been about thirty thousand.
This result the Committee ascribe as well
to the endeavors, Which hare been put
forth to effect a wider distribution of
this periodical, as to the various improve
ments which have been made therein.
It would be pleasant to add that this
publication has reached the point of self
support; but the number of those who
are entitled to receive It gratuitously is
so large that it is impossible to make
such an affirmation at the present time.
Still, a review of the receipts of the
Herald for the past few years show that
the income from subscriptions in 1865-6
was 82,658.88; from subscriptions and ad
vertisements, in 18644, 812,417.37; from
the same sources, 1857 8, 815.114.22; from
the same sources,. in 1868 9, $17,640.57.
co OPERATING SOCIETIES
The Treasurer has remitted to different
missions of the Board, iu aid or the work
which they are doing through the agency
of the press, the following sums received
from other societies,, to wit: From. the
American Bible Society $6.700: from the
American • Tract Society at New York
$2,400.
EFFORTS FOR THE ELEVATION OF WO
EMI
•The two organizations which have
been formed, oneat the East and the
other at the West, in the hope of accom
plishing more for the -female sex in our
various mission fields, has achieved a
success which the most sanguine could
scarcely have looked for. The elder
Board of Missions has received $11,540 25;
the Woman,s Board of Missions for the
Interior has _received 13,339.25, the total
being /14,933.5 Q, and contrary to the
fears which many expressed a few
months ago. the amount which has been
diverted from the contributions which
are wont' to flow directly into our treas
ury is found to be comparatively insig
nificant. f. • •
It is the purpose of these societies to
assume the entire cost of the work which
trily be done, especially to ameliorate the
condition of woman in our mission fields.
The influence of a plea so comprehensive
and so noble cannot fail to be of inestim
able value, if 4successfully executed, to
all who shall become co-workers therein.
FINANCiAL 'HISTORY OF THE YEAR.
The committee have experienced, in
the matter of inc r ome, a two-fold disap
pointment. As strenuous endeavors were
required to secure a favorable close of
the previous year, and as the constitu.
enoy of the Board is clearly averse to all
special efforts, except in occasional in
stances, it was hoped that the church
would begin at an early day to
enlarge their contributions. At the end
of the first third of the year, how
ever, it was found that the receipts
instead of being greater, were 630,000
less than those or the correspond
ing portion of 1867-8. Two months later
the difference was 1183,000, showing an
average.monthly lessor $5,51:10. This was
the first disappointment.
`Tna problem, 'therefore, at the end of
the first six months was simply this:
31 With'sn expenditure, on the one hand,
which promises to excel that of the pre
vious year, and with a loss in the re
ceipts, en the, other - band, of g 33,000, al
ready accrued, how shall we escape an,
adverse balance which may prove an
4 mb:tires:lntent . hereafter?" The Com
mittee have stated their objections to
special appeals In past years.; They re
gard-them; at' the best, as a necessary
evil. But a heavily burdened treasury
has becoale a still greater one.
The policy adopted in this unexpected
emergency has, been to request the
churches, acting with and through the
Board, to make their contributions equal
to those.of the preoedlnglotrp and a few
IN .. M I Tr iII W . WiI I UMi'‘ : IIIMITOM I NMEWo e
Individuals of acknowledged ability and
benevolence have been privately in
formed of. the financial prospect, but no
urgency has been employed.
It is with pacullar satisfaction that the
Committee now speak of their second
disappointment. During the last six
months of 'the war, from March Ist to
September Ist, they could not avoid seri
ous anprehensions In regard to the ulti
mate balance. On the 25th of August,
the amount required to prevent any, in
debtedness was supposed to be $80,000;
and there were certain reasons for anti
cipating a much smaller sum. But
through the Divine blessing upon the
efforts which had been made, the receipts
from that time oth'ard • were unexpect
ly large, so that the balance against the
treasury, when the books were closed,
was found to be less than $B,OOO.
To the pastors and others who have
been fellow laborers in working out the
problem which has just been mentioned,
the Committee desire to tender thelr-cor
dial thanks. To Him, especially, who
has all hearts in his hand, and turneth
them whitbersoever he will, they would
ascribe thanksgiving and praise for the
deliverance which he has so manifestly
wrought!
RECEIPT/3 AND EXPENDITURES.
The entire income of the year may be
stated as follows: From donations,
$424,457,96; from legacies, $93,562; from
other sources', $7,194,73, making a total of
1525,2105 The expenditures of the y ear
have amounted to 5531,661,32. As,
therefore, the year commenced with a
balance of 5520,96 in the treasury, it
closed with a balance of 85,925.41 against
the treasury. That the debt is no larger,
has been owing, in part, to the refusal of
the Committee to disburse all the money
which was appropriated in October last.
They deemed it wiser to contract the ex
penditures within certain limits than to
end the year with a considerable detielt.
LEGACIES.
It will be noticed that this source of in
come has Men unusually productive.
The midis received last year were nearly
$20,000 below those which have gone into
the treasury this year. Indeed, never
before in the history of our organization
has this item been so large, and it is
wonky of mention that Mr. Daniel W.
Hall, a generous friend of Missions, re
siding in Washington, in the District of
Columbia, placed 18,000 in the hands of
the Treasurer many years ago,
and di
rected that. the amount should become
the property of the Board after the death
of himself or his wife, the right of call
ing for the interest thereon, in the mean
time being reserved. The survivor of
the two has departed this life within the
year; his gift, therefore, with another
sum of $12,812.P2 left to the Treasurer by
his will, has became available for meet
ing the dlsbursuients of the year. Ad:
ding the 58,000 to the amount of legacies
heretofore mentioned, as being a virtual
legacy, we have a total of 5101,56;26.
These figures furnish the explanation
of the fortunate. issue of our financial
trials. The offerings of the living are
$38,802,81 below the donations of 1887 8;
and so the Great Missionary, foreseeing
this result, has been pleased to induce
those patrons of the Board, whom he
was about to summon to a higher ser
vice, in that dispositiob of their prop
erty which should close forever their
earthly stewardihip, to remember the,
heathen. And lo their thoughtfulness
has taken us safely through the vicissi
tudes of another twelve months. It is
the L'ard's doing, and it la marvellous In
our eyes.
At the conclusion of the reading of
this report, the audience united in
singing the twenty-dfth hymn, commenc
ing
‘Otorlons thpige of Thee are spoken
After which Dr. Treat made a brief and
pertinent address in review of the work
of the Home Department.
The reading of the report was followed
by the singing of the sixteenth selection,
commencing IL
••Arm of the 1 orlfcwske awake !'•
GENERAL SURVEYS.
Rev. Dr. W. B. Hooker, of Massachu
setts, next led the audience in prayer.
GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WORK
Rev. N. G. Clark, D. D., of Boston,
Foreign Secretary, and Rev. George
Wood, of New York, thou read the re
port of the General Survey of the Mis
sions, in which it appeared that the past
year has been one of sustalded general
interest and of preparation for the
future; with enough of trial and
embarrassment at certain points to
mark the church militant, and to lead to
a new sense of dependence upon the Di
vine blessing, and with enough of sue.
cess to cheer the heart and to prompt to
new and greater efforts to secure the
tinal victory, Touching reference is
made to the deaths of the venerable Rev.
iDr. King, representative in Greece, Mrs.
Saunders, at Ceylon, and Mrs. Riggs,
who devoted so many years of rare sac
rificing devotion to the soclaLand relig
ious welfare of the /ndtantribes of the
Northwest. Seven • ordaltie/,d missiona
ries have ceased to be connected with the
Board: Nine missionaries-and three sin
gle ladies have come home for rest and
recovery of health, moat of whom ex
pect to return to the missionary work.
Seven missionaries who were at home,
. last year have returned to their missions,
_and forty-three new laborers have en
tered upon the work, including thirteen
ordained missionaries, two mission
ary physicians, - one lay assistant and
eleven single ladies.
They were distributed as follows: to
Western Turke3o, 10; Central Turkey; 2;
E tstern Turkey, 5. Syria, 4; Mahratta
mission. 2: Madura, 3; Ceylon, 3; Foe=
chow, 1; North China, 10; Seneca In
dians, 2; Dakota 'lndians, 1. Alter de
ducting from the list the names of those
now at home who are not expected to re
tarn, and of one of the ladies recently
'married, there remain 852 male and fe
male missionaries connected with the,
Board, of whom 145 are ordained mis
sionaries, 7 miesioary physicians, and 44
Unmarried females,—a net gain in ail of
20 laboreri as-compared with last year.,
The success of.the Woman's Board of
Missions is spoken of as highly enbout
aging.
AFRICA.
The mission in Africa, in 4a -- boon, froth
a debilitating m ,climate, the vi Without
the virtues of European traders, and the
intrigues of - Romanists, is lookedupcin
as the forldrn hope of the missionary
service. Neither has the Zulu mission
bscaned its trials, but great numbers are
beooming intellectually familiar. with
the truths of the gospel, waiting now for
t h e limy Spirit toquicken theca into life.
The work of Dr. King in Oreeco has
b een taken up by his pupils and with
them has passed under the Care of the
American and Foreign Christian Union.
Time only can reveal the influence of
Jonas King in preparing the way for the
establishment of purer faith in that clas
sic land.
ARMENIA.
The three Armenian missions embrace
a territory more than half as large as that
portion of the United States east of the
Mississippi river. It includes a portion
of European Turkey on the west, the
whole of Asia Minor, and extends to Per
sia on the east, and Syria and Arabia on
the south. The evangelization of this
region has been left almost exclusively
to the American Board. Sixty-five
churches have been gathered—now un
der the care of 41 native pastors, wholly
or in part supported by their own people.
To these churches three hundred new
members were added on profession of
their faith the past year, making an ag
gregate membership of about three thou
sand.
The average attendance upon public
worship is about 11,000; at Sabbath
School 8,000; at the missionary schools
and seminaries 6,000. - The contributions
to various Christian objects during the
year amounted to 815,000 in gold, or an
Average of five dellars to each church
member. The sleepless vigilance of the
government and the consequent timidity
of inquirers have stood in the way of
much effort In behalf of the Moslem pop
ulation. More vigorous efforts are mak
ing to press the claims of the Gospel
upon the. Bulgarians. •
sYfIL
There has f never been a brighter day in
the history of the Syria mission than the
present. The Bible is printed in various
attraclive editions; the power of priestly
tyranny is in a great degree broken;
towns and villages long sealed are now
open and asking for missionary labor;
baptisms have begun to take place a mong
the Druzes; even the Mohammedans are
sending their children to schoola; sever
al Christian churches bare been organ
ized, and the mission has now set apart
three of its members to the work of
training a native ministry; while in the
department of higher education, the col
lege and female seminary in Beirut will
accomplish all that Syria will need for
many years to came.
=9
Dr. Perkins has seen a great work ac
complished, as the result of missionary
toll, since he first entered that field.
From
. 85 centres, and to congregations
averaging nearly 2,400 the,past year, the
gospel is now proclaimed by more than
a hundred native helpers, of whom fifty
seven are licensed preachers. More than
nine hupdred persons have professed
their faith in Christ; of whom seven hun
dred and twenty-two are now connected
with the evangelical communion. The
Seminaries
_have educated hundreds of
youth, whose influence is seen in the gen
eral social and tnoral elevation °Utile
people. More than a thousand pupils
are to be found in the common schools;
the press is a power in the land, from
which half a million pages (552,40(i) were
thrown off the past year.
INDIA.. I
The twenty-three nature chnrcnes in
the Mahratta mission give pleasing evi
dence of increased devotion to the cause
of Christ, and are disposed to accept
greater responsibility for the evangeli
zation of their countrymen. Some of
the native pastors and helpers evince a
spirit of true, self-sacrificing consecra
tion. As the result-in part, doubtless, a
larger number of accessions to the
churches are reported than for several
years berme. Opportunities for labor
aro multiplying among the women, till
sow an application comes to the Worn
man's Board of Missions for aid in the
support of ten native Bible women. At
Ceylon heathenism dies hard, but it is
dying and going away before the march
of christianity.
MIMI
• Eleven new laborers have gone out to
China during the year, and six more ex
pect to follow in a few month*. Thus the
pledge at the annual meeting -of the
Board at Buffa'o is in part fulfilled. It
is proposed to establish two new stations
In North Carolina. and one in the South.
The good work is prospering, and with
the moral support of Christian nations,
the way seems open for the free diffusion
of the gospel in the empire.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
There aro now fifty-six churches con
nected with the Hawaiian Evangelical
Association, In which have been enrolled,
from the first, 67,600 members. A recent
careful revision of church records gives
the present membership as 12,497; a re•
duction on teat year's !Seta of nearly 5;-
000, notwithstanding the additions of the
year. The reduction, now taken note of,
has been going on for several years, and
marks in part the great decline of the
Hawaiian population of the Hands.
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS;
The Committee rejoice in the endeav
ors of the present Administration to
place the Department of Indian Affairs
upon a better footing. It is with pecu
liar satisfaction that they have seen the
readiness with which disinterested and
benevolent gentlemen have consented to
visit different tribes of Indians, in order
to the preservation of peace between the
stronger and the weaker races, as-also to
the introduction of civilization among the
latter. It is to be regretted, however, that
no Commissioners have been sent as yet
to the Dakota. They aro a numerous
tribe; and white some of the bands, the .
Santees especially, are anxious to abide
in relations of amity with the United
Statestiovernment, there are others, fer
away from all Christain influences, most
of them, indeed, having never heard the
gospel, whose friendly disposition is by
no means certain, There are questions
of policy, moreover, which have an im
portant bearing upon the public
treasury, as also upon the progressive
advancement of this'people.
'Among•the Dikotas in whose =behalf
ur missionaries are laboring, the year
has been.one of prosperity Fi ft y-seven
persons have professed their faith in the
Saviour for the first time, and the whole
number of communicants is sin hundred
itud eighteen. The missionaries are as-
Meted in their work by four native pas
tors, and four native licentiates. :A nett/
station has been commenced at the
Yankton Agency, by Mr. J.. P.
William
son;in order he may reach a large
body of Indians who have neveo before
,had a resident missionary among them.
Our brethren are desirous of commenc
ing operations at other points; and it is
presumed that they will do so at an
early day. The need is urgent. The
Dagotas are supposed to exceed 80,000,
four fifths of whom have never heard
the gospel.
Among the Senecas there has been a
degree of inter, s: in advancing the king
dom of Christ; which might, perhaps, be
Called a revival, and a few have joined
the church by profes , !iiig their faith in
the Saviour. In other respects, espe
cially among the rattaraugus Indians,
there has been gratifying progress. Rev.
George Ford, formerly of the Madura
mission, has consented to take charge of
Lower Cattaraugus.. He entered his new
field last spring.
coNcussloN
Do our churches realize the greatness
of the work, and the solemn responsi
bilities of the hour? New centres of in
fluence have been taken, new churches
organized, new pastors ordained; a larger
number of native youth of both sexes are
in training for Christian work, more and
more of the native churches are becom
ing independent of our aid, and assum
ing their proper responsibility for the
support, of the gospel and its dif
fusion abroad; and, more than all,
the good work everywhere accomplished
—a work no figures canmeasureris to be
found in the vast preparation of the pop
ular mind for the reception of the truth:
despair of the received faiths, the con-.
viction that the truth is with us, and
must prevail, the undermining and
sapping of the very foundations of error
and superstition. Never before were
there such motives for consecration to
the work of Christ, for earnest and well
directed efforts to complete the work
begun, and never before such occasion
for earnest and. prevailing prayer on the
part of all who look for the triumph of
the kingdom 'of Christ in the earth.
OZ'cERAL SUMSiAHT .
Miasione. •
OEM
Station-
eiMMM
VlB dt&tiQtla
Ordained Mini&mete (8 being
Ytiyalclan: 145
Phyal•lans nat ordained .„ .... 7
nth r Male Assist ants 5
Female Assisi ants • 195
Whole n umber of laborers sent
urn this ....... —351
Native eavtors 106
Native Preachers and Cate•
ehist•
Echo,l Texche a
. , .
• ither native helpers 'l-'4-931 .
Whole nukubes of laborers eon,
fleeted with the 3.llssslons • -- 1,333
Tat Press.
ragea printed, as fa u rt ported 15,957,041
The Churches
Chw'ebee, Oneludidg all at the Hawaiian
lelands.) .
I'M
Church Members, (do. d 0..) a., far. as re
ported 2 0, %&3
Added during the year, (do. d 0..) 1.6(5
Educational Department.
Training and Theological Schools ' ..... 16
tither Boarding solluels 19
Free Soho° s. (omitting those at bawa lan Is
lands.) 478
Faiths In I tee conoola, (omitting
those at M. 1..) - 13 479
Fuptia in Free Training and The-
ari,gleal Senouls ,
Papas in Free Weil - dine Vehoote.. - US
: W4oie niunt!er of Pup115....„...1e:0..-.:----.16,491
AFPOINTIEUNT OF OM kLITTEFAL
The President then announced the fol
lowing Committees:
• Comntittee of Arrangements.—Rev. F.
A. Noble, Rev. Dr. Gee: W. Wood, Rev.
A. S. Fiske,-Rev. S. J. Humphrey. Rev.
E. W. Esseck.
Committee to 'nominate Committees.—
Rev. Dr. T. W. Andrews, Hon. H. P.
Haven, Rev. Dr. C. P. Bush.
Basiness Committee.—Hon. Wm. Hale,
Dr. George E. Adams, Rev. P. R. Hind,
Wm. H. Jessup, Esq., J. N. Stickney,
Eq.
The Committee of Arrangements were
requested to meet in tuePastor's study
this morning at eight o'clock, and the
Busintss Committee on the platform at
835 o'clock.
CONDITION OF TEE TREASURY.
Mr. Langdon S. Ward, of Boston,
Mass., now read the Treasurer's Report
for the year ending August 31, 1869, as
follows:
Receipts and Expenditures of the A. B. C.
F. M. for the Year Endsng Augusi 31,
1869.
IMPEIrriITIIRES.
C6dt of Ariatione.
Zulu 311,9f0n ' $`3,615 91
..stmouldinslon '=.48140
31lbslon to Grtree .1,412 :0
•r %V+ stern Txrkey... 03.618'63
Central Turkey.... 27,1166 64
11 LasternlLrEey.... 45,6611 26
'Trim :9,19161
Nest"rtan Sitsmlou 21.701 02
3laeratta 33 700 10
SS 9:6 63
Pl=
CeljOll
V.,CL10W...
KISUMMI
's,adwlTl:i 1104wla
Micenned.a ' ' 12,790 03
North American 1n
1iZ,719
Oj lb via . ...... . : 1 24 al
Ceuta& ..... 2,768 7S-9,042 97
" $45-1,1115 56
COST OF AGENCIES.
Wares of District becretsriee and
their traveling expenses and those
of athaleaaries visiting the Lhurehes,
aud all other xpeases 15,151 13
COST OT PCDLICATIONS. •
31)661°a:try Bern' d, ,
trclu3lng Imitate&
gditorand ben- •
ern. Agent.). 1 2 5. 1 30
Less amennt recalv
-4.4 rer annierlber.,
111.600 47; and far •
A. treett..etu..nts,
6 5 ./ 60 . 16,664 66-3,478 44
Al; utlier tuLl.eatlona 3 3.094
COST OF ADMINISTRATION.
Department Correa- •
ponder ce dt5,575 07
Trea.surer's Depart- -
men 8,1 - at al -
Now York City 6,65 03
Mltoellaneons
Items, including
. fuel, gras.• tuna
" titre, rp.irs and
CAM of Id estonall
House.
stationary. coP•
. ink and pawing.
library, miniver
- earl , meeting at
Dorton, tramline ,
eNttentes, Honor.
wry Members' Cer
ti
ec.ates, revenue
etanipt, etc........ 2,183 91
Total Expenditures....
1133=
Donations received within , he year, as
acknowledged imthe Mission ar y Her-
5124,457 Se
Legacies reosived withinAne sitar. aS
ackowledged. Ls the Missionary Her-
Interest on General rermaneotif bag
letereo from the Ashler"' tenet:
it, 4 nts tit . Bctabay .....
.. Lahatne •
•• hbangtel .....
. , 65:4,214 85
Balance In l'reatury . , Sept. Ist, 1368.... fao
$5:5,73391
Balance for wblch the Board is In debt.. 5,! .5 41
The report was accepted and approved.
The chairman then announced that
a prayer meeting would be held in the
First Presbyterian church this morning
at 8% o'clock , continuing fifty minutes.
Visitors were requested to hand in their
names to the Reception Committee, in
the pastor's study, as soon as possible, in
order that places might be assigned
them.
Adjourned until 7 o'clock.
One of the largest audiences ever as
sembled within its walls, crowded the
church last evening, the occasion being
the delivery of theannual sers)•?!: by the
Rev. John Todd, D. D.. of Plttsfleld Mas
sachusetts.
The exercises were opened with a vol•
nntary by the choir, Prof. Rohbnck pre
siding at the organ, after which Rev. Dr.
Canfield, of Syracuse, New York, read
the opening hymn, commencing
.Jesus shall relisawberiErertv son
Dues his successive journeys run."
which was sung by the audience and
choir.
Rev. Albert Barnes, of Philadelphia,
followed with prayer.
The exercises were then continued by
the singing of the 26th Hymn:
"Oh where are k Inge and empires - 10m
Of old that went and came."
ANNUAL SERMON.
The Riv.'Dr. Todd then delivered the
annnal sermon, which occupied about an
hour, and was listened to with marked
attention by the large audience. The
Reverend <gentleman took for his text
Malachi 1: 11.
"For from the rising of the sun until the going
down of the arum my name shall be arras among
tne Gentiles: Lod m every Oise,. it.eens- alien be
cffered unto my name,
and a pure offering; r
my nain. ,hali be great among the heathen, saittt
the Lord of lloate.•'
In a few introductory remarks the
speaker touched upon the past trials and
difficulties cf the.,. Church, through
which she had come up victorious, bat
tling generations of men and all super
stitions, and ever holding out the lamp
of light to aide and direct humanity,
and then skid the present barthe 'propo
gating of the Church, and propheey is its
support in its work.
Re then reviewed at length the early
history of the Church, the patriarchal
period —whenthe great work was simply
to keep alive the organization. This was
the seed time, or germ of its existence,
and all the trials and toils of the pa
triarchs were directed to prevent the cm
struction of the charge under their care.
The next was the Levitical period,—the
period of the priesthood. The work then
was to submit. It was a time of trial of
discipline and suffering, but from .these
came the greatest-good.-- The church was
eventually strengthened, by these suf
ferings. purified, and firmly established.
The third period, the prophetic, came
next, when idolatry' di ew her chains
closer, and error waged a fiercer battle to
subdue the rising truth.
During this period the church was
compelled to throw of the last fetter oil'
dotage, to come out. boldly.and.be stapes
. ated from. the world, and to develop
those principles of religtoue' indiv,dnali
ty which thereafter made her conquerer.
-The prophets developed the spirituality
of the law, and. thus the prophetical was
a great advance on the Levitical period.
The prophets had a wider field than the
priesthood, and were as the Ministers of
to-day the teachers of the world. '
The prophetical period passed away
with the rising of the star of Bethlehem,
which was the signal for the swaddling
clothes of the infant .to be exchanged for
the drapery of, manhood. Rites and
types passed away, and the Christian
dispensation arose in the Church." -
Under this, three eras were observa
ble. The first embraced the first three
centuries,mhen the states of the-Church
was settled, and with it what was truth
and what was error. The second era
was that of the Church and State. The
powers of the world • now crouched at
her feet, and she who at Brat walked
amid trial, and fire and blood and
great tribulation, now walked arrayed
in silks, and queen of the world. To
accomplish this, however, many changes
were undergone, - and then came the re
coil—the reformation which rocked
Europe. From this era the Church
emerged into the age of propoga-
Lion through which she Is _ now
passing. The ptopogation of religions
truth is the great work of the Church
to-day, and the question, is whether she
will accept the responsibility and duti
fully go forward In the spirit of the in
junction, to "preach the Gospel to every
creature." The work alone can be ac
complished with faith and love. Human
ignorance has in vain endeavored to em
ploy other agencies, but ail have failed.
The speaker continued at some length
to consider the special work of the
Church of the present day—to spread the
Gospel everywhere—and concluded with
an earnest and impressive exhortation
to greater diligence and renewed conse
cration in the work.
11 559 21
19.187 SI
EtMBI
Rev. Dr. Adams, of New York, next
led the audience in "ptayer, after which
the 25th hymn was sung,•and the asset*.
blage dispersed. .
The Committee of Arrangements have
received letters from over twolhundred
members of the Board announcing their
intention to b. present, besides whom
upwards of eight hundred visitors from
abroad will be in attendance, including
the following missionaries: Rev. E. Bur
gess and wife, from India; Rey. H. Blod
gett, China; Mrs. Sarah 0: Adams,Znins,
Africa; Rev. W. P. Barker, - India; Rev,
H. Bingham, first missionary to Sand.
with Islands, fifty years ago; Rev. Al
bert Bushnell and wife, Gaboon, Africa-
Mrs. S. N. Byingtou, Choctaw Indians;
Rev. J. T. Crosette, Fa Chow,China;
Mrs. Josephine L. Coifing. ldarashl
Turkey; Mrs. Lydia 11. Dodd, Tur,
key; Mrs. Susan' H. Morgan, Turkey-
Rev. E. P. Hastings anti wife, Jaffa;
Ceylon; Mrs Laura W. Lord. Madura
Mission, Ceylon; Rev. C. F. Muzzy,
India: Rev. Wm. Potter, twenty-five
years a Missionary; Mrs. S. J. Rhea and
Miss Mary . S. Rice, Nestorian Mission,
Rey. James Quick, Jaffa Ceylon; Rev.
H. A Wilder and wife
' Zulu Mission,
South Africa; Rev. 0. T. White and wife,
Madura, South India; Rev. 0. P. Allen
and wife, Harpot, Eastern Turkey.
11 845 40
MEM
4581,661 M
93.5 C W.
5,974 44
150 1 0
- 583 77
56 67
394 83
The following is the programme for
to day's exercises: . ' •
Morning Prayer-meeting at 83i O'clock.
in the. First Presbyterian Church, on.
Wood street, between Fifth and Sixth
avenue.
Sessions of the' Board in the Third.
Church, at 9:30 A. M. 2:30 P. st. Papers,
Discussions, Reports, Addresses. - By
Secretaries, Members, Committees, Mis
sionaries and others.
Evening meeting also in the First
PresbYterian Church. Addresiee
liyered. "
BM
$531,661 M
NUMBER, 231.
Evening Session.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
TO-DAY'S PBOOAAX E.