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days by the Rev. Mr. Merwin and the Rev. Baxter Dickinson; and was closed with prayer by Dr. McAuley.

The following additions to permanent funds, of which the interest only can be expended, have been inade within the year past, viz.

To the Permanent Fund:
Gain on bank stock seld,
To the Permanent Fund for sup-
port of Officers:
From an individual,

4 20

42 50

The annual sermon before the Board was preached on Wednesday evening in the Brick Presbyterian church. At the same time three other missionary sermons were preached in other parts of the city, by request of the Prudential Committee-by Dr. McAuley, in the Reformed Dutch church Interest, in part, on this fund, 1,062 46-3,003 81

in Market-street, by Dr. Skinner, in the Bleeker-street Presbyterian church, and by Rev. Mr. Beman, in the Laight-street Presbyterian church.'

A public meeting was held in the Chatham-street chapel on Thursday evening, at which extracts were read from the Annual Report, and addresses made by the Rev. Eli Smith from the Mediterranean mission, the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, and Dr. Beecher. Collection $236.

On Friday, at four P. M., the members of the Board united with many of their brethren in the celebration of the Lord's supper, in the Murray-street church. The ministers who presided on the occasion were Drs. McAuley, De Witt, Hillyer, and Beecher, and the Rev. Mr. Mortimer of the United Brethren. The elders of the Murray-street church were assisted in the distribution of the elements by elders and deacons from among the members of the Board.

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*When it is considered, that no less than fifteen

preachers of the gospel, and tico printers, are under commission to go forth among the heathen within no long time, and most of them to distant fields, it will be seen that this balance will soon be consumed. The necessary expenses of the existing system for the next year, including the sending forth of these missionaries, are estimated at 140,000 dollars A much larger sum might be very usefully expended in extending and improving the schooling sys tem in the missions generally.

For profits of the Missionary
Herald, received during the
year,

1,937 15

Committees appointed.

Drs. McMurray and Spring and Mr. Lord were appointed a committee of arrangements relative to public services connected with the session.

Dr. Porter, Mr. Strong, and Dr. Cox were appointed a committee to report & Isuitable notice of the death of the late Corresponding Secretary, Dr. Cornelius, to be entered on the records of the Board.

A communication being made to the Board by a committee appointed by the General Synod of the Reformed Ďutch Church to confer with a similar committee appointed by the Board on the subject of foreign missions, Drs. Miller and Edwards, Judge Platt, Mr. Lewis, and Mr. Anderson were appointed a committee for such purpose.

Drs. Miller, McAuley, Woods, Cox, and Fay, Gen. Van Rensselaer, and Mr. Hill were appointed a committee to consider and report in what manner that part of the executive business of the Board, which relates to the department of correspondence, can be best performed, and to nominate the necessary officers for that department.

Drs. Woods, Alexander, Cuyler, Allen, and Edwards, Judge Howell, and Mr. Tap pan, were appointed a committee to consider the subject of electing additional members of the Board and of the Prudential Committee, and to nominate suitable persons, should they report in favor of making such

additions.

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New York, to Gen. Van Rensselaer, Rev. |
Mr. Mason, and Mr. Day.

Judge Platt, Mr. Frelinghuysen, and Dr.|| McAuley were appointed a committee to examine the revised Laws and Regulations of the Board, reported by the Prudential Committee pursuant to directions given at the last annual meeting.

Resolved, That it be recommended to the Prudential Committee to consider the expediency of introducing into the Missionary Herald such abstracts of missionary intelligence, and such interesting hints, or topics for discussion, as may suitably be communicated to the churches at their concert for prayer on the first Monday in every A report made by the Prudential Com- month; and of causing the work, if possimittee in reference to the salaries of mis-ble, to be so early distributed, that each sionaries, was referred to Judge Platt, Mr. Strong, Dr. Allen, Mr. Lewis, and Mr. Lord.

number of it may be thus communicated during the month for which it is issued.

Resolved, That it be recommended to the members and patrons of the Board to aid in the establishment of suitable libraries at our various missionary stations, by such donation of books as may conveniently be spared, from time to time, from their pri

vate collections.

The committee to whom was referred that part of the Report of the Prudential Committee, which relates to the missions the northwestern part of the United west of the Mississippi, and the missions in

The Recording Secretary was appointed a committee to present the thanks of the Board to Dr. Allen for his sermon, and to request a copy to be placed in the hands of the Prudential Committee for publication; and also to present the thanks of the Board to Dr. McAuley, Mr. Beman, and Dr. Skinner, for their sermons preached in behalf of the missionary cause, and to request a copy of each to be placed in the hands of the Prudential Committee for pubMr. Lewis, Dr. Edwards, and Dr. Wood-States, reported, as matter for special gratibridge were appointed a committee to examine a correspondence, which has taken place, in the course of the past year, between the Prudential Committee and the President of the United States, relating to the public treatment of the missionaries of this Board among the Cherokees, and report thereon.

lication.

Rev. Mr. Patten, Dr. McMurray, Rev. Cyrus Mason, Mr. Tappan, and Mr. Lord were appointed a committee to report during the present session upon the expediency of having a meeting in behalf of foreign missions in the city of New York, during the week of religious anniversaries.

The Hon. Samuel Hubbard, John Tappan, Esq., and Messrs. John C. Proctor, Daniel Noyes, and John Sullivan were appointed a committee to consider and recommend to the Prudential Committee the amount of salary, which each of the officers at the Missionary Rooms shall be authorised to receive during the year.

Dr. Wisner, Mr. Lord, and Rev. Mr. Dickinson were appointed a committee to report a time and place for the next Annual Meeting of the Board, with instructions to nominate a preacher for the same and his substitute.

tude, that among the moral improvements in the Indian tribes, it appears to be a setwhich have followed the revivals of religion tled and uniform principle, that total abstinence from the use and traffic in intoxicat

ing liquors is a necessary part of the Chris

tian character and conduct.

The committees on the missions in India, southeastern Asia, the Mediterranean, the Sandwich Islands, the Indians east and Indians, and the Indians in the state of west of the Mississippi, the northwestern New York, recommended the acceptance of the Report, with only slight amend

ments.

The Report as a whole was approved, and ordered to be printed, in the usual manner, by the Prudential Committee.

Laws and Regulations of the Board.The Prudential Committee reported a code of laws and regulations, agreeably to instructions given them a year ago. The special committee, to whom these laws and regulations were then referred, subsequently made the following report.

The committee, to whom was referred the code of laws and regulations for the use of the Board and its officers, recommend, that the same, with the exception of a single article, be accepted and approved. This

Reports of Committees and Proceedings report was adopted, and the recommenda.

thereon.

Annual Report.-The Report of the Prudential Committee was read on Wednesday. The different parts of it were then placed in the hands of committees, as above stated.

tion complied with by the Board,

Notice of Dr. Cornelius.-The committee appointed to report a suitable notice of the late Corresponding Secretary, reported the following, which was adopted; viz.

While the American Board remains, and its history is read by future generations, the The committee on the home proceedings Secretaries, who have conducted its corresof the Board proposed certain amendments, pondence by their wisdom and untiring which were adopted, and the two follow-zeal and successful labors, will never be ing resolutions, which were also adopted; forgotten. The names of Worcester and Evarts are precious in our memories. 48

viz.

VOL. XXVIII.

Rarely, if ever, has the Board been called to experience deeper sorrow, than by the mysterious providence of God in the sudden death of Dr. Cornelius. We had mourned over the venerable Worcester, and scarcely had we wiped away the tears occasioned by the death of the able and distinguished Evarts, when the wound was laid open and made to bleed afresh in the unexpected removal of Cornelius. These men need no eulogium or praises of ours, no monument of marble to tell of their excellence. They are engraved on our hearts, never to be obliterated till we die. To say less than that they were men of comprehensive minds, and rare spirits, and eminently qualified for a high and wide sphere of action, would be saying too little. Public opinion renders commendation from us, if ever called for, on the present occasion un

necessary. In the death of Dr. Cornelius we have a perfect comment on the words, "My ways are not your ways, nor my thoughts your thoughts." One year ago, this beloved man was with us. Many eyes were upon him as the very person to fill the place, for which he was decined eminently fitted. Our expectations were raised, and we almost realised the successful results of his operations. But God saw otherwise. He had another place for him, concealed from mortal vision, of more elevated action. And it is for us to be still; it is as it should be, The church, and every missionary and every friend of Zion, sympathised in our grief. Not for his sake do we sorrow. We would not bring him back; we would not break him off from the song of the ransomed, which, we think, he is raising in the upper kingdom to the glory of God. God has grieved us, but it is for our profit, that we might partake more largely of his holiness. Cornelius yet speaks. The Savior speaks, "Work while it is day." Let no moment be lost, no effort withheld, no zeal abated, no enterprise for Christ and the conversion of the world fail by any thing left undone within the compass of our individual and united power, knowing that though weak in ourselves, yet through Christ strengthening us, we can do all things,

Election of members.-The committee on the expediency of adding to the number of corporate members reported, and the following persons were elected; viz. Rev. ENOCH POND, Professor in the Theological Seminary in Bangor, Me.; Rev. NATHAN LORD, D. D., President of Dartmouth College, N. H.; SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG, Esq., Rev. RUFUS ANDERSON, Mr. DAVID GREENE, and Mr. CHARLES STODDARD, of Boston, Mass.; Rev. NOAH PORTER, D. D., of Connecticut; Rev. CORNELIUS C. CUYLER, D. D., ZECHARIAH LEWIS, Esq., and ORRIN DAY, Esq., of the state of New York; Rev. JOHN MCDOWELL, D. D., and the Hon. PETER D. VROOM, of NewJersey, Rev. GEORGE A. BAXTER, D. D.,

|| Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, Virginia; and Rev. JAMES HOGE, D. D., of Ohio.

JAMES FARISH, Esq.. of Bombay, India, was elected a corresponding member of the Board.

Officers for the year.-The committee appointed to consider and report in what manner that part of the executive business of the Board can best be performed, which belongs to the department of correspondence, and also to nominate the necessary officers for that department, reported;―that they unanimously recommend to the Board the choice of three Secretaries, and the election of the Rev. Benjamin B. Wisner, D. D., Rev. Rufus Anderson, and Mr. David Greene, as Secretaries of the Board.

The following persons were elected officers of the Board for the year ensuing:JOHN COTTON SMITH, LL. D., President; STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER, LL. D., Vice President;

Rev. CALVIN CHAPIN, D. D., Recording
Secretary;

Hon. WILLIAM REED,
Rev. LEONARD WOODS, D. D.

SAMUEL HUBBARD, LL. D.
Rev. WARREN FAY, D. D.
Rev. BENJAMIN B. WISNER, D. D.
SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG, Esq.
Mr. CHARLES STODDARD,
Rev. BENJAMIN B. WISNER,
Rev. RUFUS ANDERSON, and
Mr. DAVID GREENE,
HENRY HILL, Esq. Treasurer;
JOHN TAPPAN, Esq., and

B, Esq. }

Committee;

Prudential

Secretaries for Correspondence;

Auditors.

Joint committee of conference respecting Dutch Church-The committee of confer the missionary operations of the Reformed ence, appointed by the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, having considered the important subject referred to them, beg leave to report as follows:

The selection of missionaries, and the particular direction of missions, are, by the laws and regulations of the Board, made the specific duty of the Prudential Committee. That Committee has made it an inva riable rule hitherto, to give appointments as missionaries to all suitable preachers of the gospel belonging to the Reformed Dutch, the Presbyterian, the Associate Reformed, and the Congregational churches, who have expressed to them a willingness to devote their lives to missionary la bors among the heathen. Acting on this rule, every reasonable facility will be furnished to ministers and candidates in these several denominations, for becoming missionaries in heathen lands. The joint com mittee see no way in which it is possible for the Synod to render it easier for the missionary candidates in their church to avail themselves of the experience and patronage of the Board of Missions. The

joint committee would recommend, as the Missions among the southwestern Indian most convenient and effectual method of tribes, and the imprisoned missionaries.securing the object which the Synod has in The committee on the correspondence beview, that the friends of missions in the tween the Prudential Committee and the Reformed Dutch Church, whether acting executive of the United States respecting as individuals, or in voluntary or ecclesias- the imprisoned missionaries in Georgia retical associations, exercise, if they please, ported, which report was re-committed, and their right of appropriating their contribu- | Mr. David Greene was added to the comtions to the support of missionaries from mittee. their own church, and such others as they approve. In this way they make their election of missionaries, as really as if they nominated them in the first instance, and the Prudential Committee move onward without embarrassment.

This committee subsequently reported the following resolutions:

Resolved, That the Board approve the memorial and proceedings of the Prudential Committee in relation to these subjects.

Resolved, That the Board approve the measures adopted, under the sanction of the Prudential Committee, by the Rev. Samuel A. Worcester and Doct. Elizur Butler, missionaries of the Board, now confined in the penitentiary of the state of Georgia, for bringing their case before the Supreme Court of the United States; and that the Board express their satisfaction in view of the decision of that high tribunal, and also that the Prudential Committee be instruct

The joint committee are informed that the Prudential Committee intend inviting Mr. Abeel to visit this country, partly with a view to his performing an agency in the denomination to which he belongs. It is understood also, that if Mr. Abeel should on his return find young men in the Reformed Dutch Church, possessing the requisite qualifications for missionaries, and willing to accompany him to the East, the Prudential Committee will gladly give themed to adopt such other measures as they

an appointment, and send them forth as missionaries of the Board. Nor will there be any objection to their forming a new and distinct mission, with an ecclesiastical organization and public worship according to their own views and wishes, as has invariably been the case with the missionaries under the superintendence of the Board. And should the friends of missions in that church prefer appropriating their contributions to this, or any other mission, or object within the proper scope of the Board, and should it be practicable to expend those contributions wisely upon that mission or object, there can be no objection to such appropriations, and the wishes of the donors will be sacredly regarded. Should there be any excess in the receipts from the Reformed Dutch Church above the proper expenses of the missionaries from that church, the balance will of course go for the general objects of the Board. Should it at any time be expedient to increase the number of missionaries in the missions commenced by missionaries from the Reformed Dutch Church, and should suitable men in this church offer their services, and prefer going to those missions, they would have the preference of others.

These views, if sanctioned by the Board, place it within the power of the friends of missions in the Reformed Dutch Church to employ the Board and its Committee as their almoners and agents in conducting missions among the heathen; and, at the same time, have the satisfaction of supporting missionaries from their own church. The ecclesiastical relations and responsibilities of missionaries are not at all affected by their coming under the direction of the Board.

This report was accepted and unanimously adopted.

may think expedient for protecting the persons and rights of these missionaries.

Resolved, That the Board express their continued confidence in the missionaries named in the preceding resolutions, and their fraternal sympathy with them in the painful separation from Christian privileges, their families, and their missionary labors, and in the protracted and illegal imprison ment, to which these servants of Christ have been subjected for more than a year; and that the Board commend them and their bereaved families to the prayers of the friends of missions throughout the country.

It was also moved and ordered, that the Prudential Committee prepare and publish at such time as they shall deem the most expedient, a concise statement of facts respecting the missions established by the Board among the southwestern tribes of Indians, in conformity to the resolution on that subject which was adopted at the last Annual Meeting, and with which circumstances have hitherto prevented a compliance.

mittee to whom was referred the report of On salaries of missionaries.-The com

the Prudential Committee in reference to the salaries of missionaries, reported that, upon consideration of this difficult subject, and feeling great respect for the wisdom and long experience of the Prudential Committee, the committee recommend that the arrangement reported by the Prudential Committee in respect to the Bombay mission, be approved, as a useful and important experiment. The report was accepted. Other Proceedings.

Grants from the American Bible Society were acknowledged in the following resolutions:

this institution to the liberal charities of the community. They also cordially approve of the determination of the Prudential Committee to send out, by divine permission, an associate for Mr. Poor in the in

Resolved, That this Board acknowledges || would respectfully and earnestly commend with lively sensibility the donations of five thousand dollars for printing and circulating the Holy Scriptures and parts thereof, in the Mahratta language, by the mission at Bombay, and five thousand dollars for the like object in the language of the Sand-struction of the seminary. wich Islands, voted by the Board of Managers of the American Bible Society in the month of November last.

Encouragements of the past year.-Resolved, That the Board notice with gratitude to God the strong and cheering inter

dividuals in different parts of the country feel in the prosperity of the missions under the superintendence of the Board; who have, by their prompt and liberal pecuniary contributions, enabled the Prudential Com

missionaries than usual, with the means of exerting a Christian influence among the heathen, and so have greatly encouraged the Board, its officers, agents, and missionaries in their work.

Resolved, That the Prudential Commit-est, which auxiliaries, associations, and intee be instructed to communicate the above resolution to the Managers of the American Bible Society, together with such information as the Committee possess relative to the progress which has been made in printing the Scriptures, under the encourage-mittee to send forth a greater number of ment derived from the timely and liberal grants above mentioned;-a reference to the period within which the expenditures for these objects will render it desirable to receive the sums granted, or portions thereof; -a notice of the existing facilities and calls for further expenditure for like objects, in connection with the missions of this Board in the course of the ensuing year;-and an expression of the fervent desire and hope entertained by this Board, that the National Bible Society may be enabled, in connection with its other foreign operations, to supply the growing demands for the Holy Scriptures at all our missionary stations.

Acknowledgment of grants from the American Tract Society. Resolved, That the thanks of the Board be presented to the American Tract Society, for the liberal donation of two thousand six hundred dollars

for the printing and distribution of religious tracts in connection with the missions of the Board in Bombay, Ceylon, southeastern Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Sandwich Islands; and that the Prudential Committee be instructed to make a respectful application and statement to the Executive Committee of that Society, with a view to obtaining further aid in the great department of Christian charity, which belongs appropriately to that institution.

High School at the Sandwich Islands.Resolved, That the Board have heard with

much satisfaction of the establishment of a

High School at the Sandwich Islands, for accelerating the progress of education and religious knowledge among the islanders, and that it be recommended to the Prudential Committee to foster the infant seminary with great care, and to take all proper opportunities for introducing it to the favorable regard and patronage of the Christian community.

Missionary Seminary in Ceylon.--Resolved, That the Board regard with great interest the missionary seminary at Batticotta, in Ceylon, believing it to be a very important means of diffusing a knowledge of Christianity among the people in Ceylon, and the southern part of peninsular India speaking the Tamul language; and they

General Agents for particular districts of country.-Resolved, that the Board approve of the appointment of General Agents to co-operate with the friends of missions in particular districts, and with its executive officers, in measures for promoting a missionary spirit, and that it be considered the duty of members of the Board to encourage and assist these agents in the several fields

of their labor.

The Prudential Committee encouraged to prosecute their labors without fear.-Resolved, That the Board cordially approve of the disposition of the Prudential Committee to search out and obtain precise and accurate information concerning the unevangelized portions of the earth, and to send forth all the suitable missionaries to the heathen, who can be procured; and the Board would encourage the Committee to go forward in this work without fear, trusting in the power and grace of Christ, who has commanded that the gospel be publishwith his servants who engage in the per ed to every creature, and promised to be formance of this duty with humble confi

dence in him.

Auxiliaries in New York and Philadel phia.-Resolved, That the Prudential Committee be instructed to confer with the Auxiliary Society of New York and Brooklyn, on the subject of holding a public meeting in behalf of foreign missions in the city of New York during the week of the religious anniversaries in May; and also with the Auxiliary Society in Philadelphia on the subject of holding a similar meeting in that city during the week of religious anniversaries there in the same month.

A resolution was introduced relating to persons desirous of being connected with missionary stations under the direction of the Board, and yet able and willing to support themselves, and was referred to the Prudential Committee, to report at the next meeting of the Board.

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