Proceedings of other Societies. Most of our benevolent societies held their anniversaries, as usual, in the month of May. The meetings in New York were mostly during the week commencing May 5th, and those in Boston during the week commencing May 26th. Brief statistical summaries of the receipts, expenditures and operations of the different societies have been published in the Herald from year to year, and are again given below, as they may at least be convenient for purposes of reference. Full reports of the meetings have been extensively published in the religious and other papers, and have been read with interest by many who are watching, from year to year, the progress of the various efforts making to bring our sin-ruined world under the saving influence of the truth. It is cheering to notice an increase in the receipts of most of the societies, but far more cheering would it be if that increase were more nearly adequate to the demands which the providence of God seems making for advancing effort. at 10 o'clock, A. M., and continuing three days. From the Annual Report it appears that the receipts of the year ending March 31, 1850, were $104,837 20, and the expenditures $101,447 23; leaving a balance in favor of the treasury of $3,389 97, and reducing the debt to $21,501 09. female assistants have been appointed, and one Since the last Report, seven preachers and four preacher and two female assistants have been removed by death. The missions of this Board are in Asia, Africa and Europe. The number of these missions is 17; of stations and out-stations, 329; of missionaries, 56;-of whom 52 are preachers; of female assistant missionaries, 57; with 214 number of laborers is 320. The number of churches native preachers and other assistants. The whole is 151, with 12,290 members; and of schools, 102, with 2,648 pupils. The additions to the churches on profession of faith during the year are more than 1,236. AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The Society has had in its service the last year. 1,032 ministers of the gospel, in 27 different States and Territories-in the New England States, 301; the Middle States, 288; the Southern States, 15; the Western States and Territories, 488. Of these, 677 have been pastors or PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MIS-stated supplies of single congregations; and 321 SIONS. During the year the Society has lost, by death, its venerable President, Dr. Miller; one of the Vice Presidents, one of the members, and four missionaries. The receipts and expenditures exhibit a gratifying state of things in the financial affairs of the Board; the whole income of the year amounting to $126,075, while the expenses have been g124,838, leaving the Treasury unembarrassed with debt. have occupied larger fields. The number of congregations supplied, in whole or in part, is 1,575; and the aggregate of ministerial service performed, is equal to 812 years. Resources -Balance, April 1, 1849, $3,849 00. The receipts of twelve months following, $157,160 78. Liabilities -There was due to the missionaries, at the date of the last Report. $10.044 60. There has since become due, $147,347 26; making the total of liabilities, $157,391 86. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. The number of new Auxiliaries formed is 64; most of them in the Western States and Territories. Twenty-two persons have been sent forth as The receipts of the year exceed those last remissionaries and assistant missionaries during ported, by $11,234 87; thirteen more missionathe year, nine of whom were ordained ministers ries have been in commission; sixty-five more of the gospel. Missions to the Indians of our congregations have been blessed with a preached country are planted among ten different tribes gospel; and 1,109 more have been added to the The general condition of these missions is en-churches on profession of their faith. couraging, with an urgent call for more laymen as teachers and assistants. In the African missions of the Board, the most important event of the year has been the sending forth of two ministers with their wives, to form a new mission on the western coast, near the equator. The three missions in India have about 60 American and native laborers (beside assistants who are not converts); of whom 24 are ministers of the gospel. In the schools, 1.230 scholars are under The number of Bibles and Testaments issued Christian instruction. There are churches at in the same time, 633,395. These books have eight of the stations, embracing 200 communi-been distributed in every State and Territory of cants. The mission in Siam consists of five per- the Union; in the West Indies, in Spanish and sons. The church has thus far but one native Portuguese America, in Canada and New Brunsmember. In China, 22 persons are connected with the Canton and Ningpo missions, twelve of whom are ordained ministers and one is a physieian. The Board is also conducting missionary operations in Papal Europe, and among the Jews in the United States. AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION. The Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Missionary Union, was held in Buffalo, commencing May 14, The receipts of the year, from all sources, have been $284,614 84; about one-third as donations. wick, in hospitals and prisons; among seamen, boatmen and immigrants; among Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Romanists, white men, red men and colored men; indeed among all who were in need and could be reached A New Testament, with Spanish and English in parallel columns, has been prepared; also the book of Genesis in Grebo for West Africa, and the book of Acts for an Indian tribe in South America. Besides the grants of books from the Deposi tory, moneys have been sent for making the same in France, Turkey, Syria, Persia, at Bombay, Madras, Ceylon and Lodiana in India; also in China, in South Africa, and the Sandwich Islands. The whole amount of these payments is $17,900; and there is still voted, but not yet paid, nearly the same amount. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. any The Society has circulated during the year, 939,602 volumes, 7,897,792 publications, 280, 697,500 pages; exceeding the circulation of previous year by 46,288,200 pages. Total, since the formation of the Society, 5,681,123 volumes, 111.989,195 publications, 2,507,102,789 pages AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. Receipts, $167,652 07 Balance from last year. 84.362 25, and stock of books on hand, The receipts of the year were, in donations, $105,894 80; for sales, $202.371 92; balance in the Treasury last year, $157 06; total, $308,423 78. Expenditures for paper, printing, binding, engraving, translating, copy-right, preparing Christian Almanac, and articles for American hundred and three of these laborers have been Sunday School Missionary Colporteurs.—One Messenger, $172,275 25; for presses and ma- employed for various periods of time in twentychinery, $7,070; for colportage, $66.274 19; five different States and Territories. They have remitted to foreign and pagan lands, $15,000; established 1.238 new schools, and have visited refunded to building account, $7,676 81; other and revived 2,345 other schools, altogether emexpenditures, as per items in the Treasurer's re-bracing 20,137 teachers and 157,628 scholars. port, $40,017 30; total, $308,313 55; balance in the Treasury, $110 23. There was due, April 1, for printing paper, on notes payable within six months, $41,133 26. Colportage.-Including 131 students from 29 different colleges or seminaries for their vacations, and 57 for the foreign immigrant population, 508 colporteurs have been employed for the whole or part of the year. Fifty colporteurs, not included among these, have also performed more or less labor during the year. The whole number in commission, April 1, was 324. AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN They have distributed by sale and donation, nearly $28,400 worth of religious books for children and youth. Donations of books, tracts, &c. have been made, to the value of $16,608 86. The Society has been compelled to deny many urgent applications from various parts of the country for missionary labor and donations of books to poor schools, for want of means to supply them. during the year is $132,872 87. AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION The receipts for the year ending April 1, were $26,443, exclusive of a balance in the treasury at the commencement of the year of $3,926. Of the receipts $25,261 were contributed directly to the treasury, being an increase of $4.324, or nearly 20 per cent. over the receipts of the same character during the preceding year. The number of agents and missionaries who have labored during the past year under the commission of the Society is 118, in 17 different States, at 338 different stations, and their aggregate terms of labor are equal to that of one man for 81 years. This Society has been formed within the year, by a union of the American Protestant Society, the Foreign Evangelical Society and the Christian Alliance. In the United States the Society has various missions among the French, Spanish, German, Irish, Portuguese and Italians. In foreign lands it sustains an excellent missionary at Stockholm in Sweden, has sent $500 to Russia to employ colporteurs, and remitted some $60 or $80 to a seminary in Hungary. An American Irish Committee has been organized in Dublin, through which the Society has begun to act in Ireland with much encouragement. The sum of $1,500 has been sent. France has shared much The missionaries report the baptism, during the of the Society's attention During the year past year, of 949 persons, the organization of 33 1849, twenty-seven laborers, many of them or-churches, and the ordination of 30 ministers. dained ministers, were sustained in that field, all of them Frenchmen or Swiss. The Society is operating in Italy, has two excellent agents at work there, and has repeatedly sent aid to the Waldenses. Thirteen houses of worship have been completed or commenced by churches under the care of the Society; and those churches have contributed during the year about $16,000 towards the support of the ministry among themselves, besides The receipts of the Society the past year ex-$2,732 to other objects of Christian benevolence. ceeded $45,000, without including the Portuguese fund; with that fund they exceeded $52,000. The expenditures were about the same. The number of its missionaries, at home and abroad, was not much short of seventy. AMERICAN SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY. The receipts of the Society for the year ending May 1st were $23,497, being an increase of $4,915 over those of the preceding year; and the expenditures $23.206. A careful review of the past twelve months sustains the following positions 1. Seamen are rapidly rising in the scale of social and moral improvement. Since its formation, 1,432 missionaries and agents have received its commission, and they have baptized 18,279 persons, organized 706 churches, ordained 342 ministers, and performed collectively 1,231 years of labor. AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY. The annual report represents the general interests of the Society as advancing. The available funds for the year have been $32,754 40, and the disbursements, $30,181 53. The whole number of young men aided during the year is 436. In the classical course, 207; in the theological course, 229. Number aided at the West, 92. Fifty-nine have finished their studies, during the year, and entered the ministry. An encour-vious year, and it would have been much more aging advance has been made in this department. The new applicants have been 114, eleven more than last year. MASS. SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY. The business of the Depository has amounted to $21,056. This is $2,000 advance on the pre but for the reduction of the prices of many of the books. The donations have been $4,676. This sum has been appropriated to the supply of libraries to destitute schools in the West, through Home Missionaries. The schools report, the past year, 1,370 hopeful conversions-in some particular schools large numbers, one as high as 75. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Recent Entelligence. SANDWICH ISLANDS.-Mr. Baldwin, writing from Lahaina, January 28th, says: of Hindostan, and that they are still offered in many districts. "The truth is, but little, comparatively, is yet known of the abominations of heathenism, even in India. While the remedy is in the hands of Christians, will they not employ it to save those who are thus drawn unto death." We have had no revival the past year, and we cannot report one for any part of the Islands; but still, so far as my field is concerned, I would hope there has not been a diminution of interest in religion Seven were added to the church at MOSUL.-A letter from Mr. Marsh announces our last communion. Others stand as candidates. his arrival at Mosul on the 29th of March, “in Our congregation is not greatly diminished, notwithstanding the many deaths, and there appears health and great comfort, with a heart full of unto be a liberal spirit in contributing for the sup-speakable joy." He is obviously deeply inteport of the pastor, for completing their house of rested in the work for which he has gone to Meworship, and for other objects. sopotamia. His letter will appear in the next number of the Herald. Fifteen of our church have been, the last year, to California, to dig gold. Most of them have given a share of what they obtained to the Lord One, who found he had cleared four hundred dollars, gave fifty dollars to the American Board, which I reported to our secular agents, to consti tute me a life member of the Board. Not one who went to California, is known to have dishonored his profession there. It was a kind of first experiment of our church members in a foreign land; and we were not a little gratified at numerous testimonials, that they had stood aloof from gambling, drinking, Sabbath breaking, and other evil practices that would meet them in every part of California. Our schools are flourishing. We have lately held an examination of them, and connected with it a juvenile temperance celebration and feast, at which seven hundred children, mostly of Lahaina, were present. Mr. Clark, under date, Honolulu, March 15, says: "The California movement has greatly increased the expense of living here, especially at this station. Irish potatoes are only eight dollars per barrel, and many other things in proportion Labor of all kinds is very high." Other letters from the Islands speak of the same state of things, and express the hope that it may serve to stimulate the natives to more activity and enterpise in the cultivation of the soil. MADRAS.-Mr. Winslow, in a letter dated April 13, gives information of still further success attending the government efforts to suppress the Khond sacrifices. The Christian Advocate, printed at Calcutta, says, "Not less than three hundred and forty-six victims have been rescued this year." Mr. Winslow also gives some extracts from an article in the " Dnyanodaya," in which the writer, a native, states that human sacrifices have been offered in almost every part ERZEROOM.-Mr. Peabody, under date April 27, says: "We are happy to say that, of late, there seems to be more interest here than there has been for some time past. Several youths, natives of Arabkir, have recently begun to attend our meetings on the Sabbath, and have thrice visited me, at my house, for the express purpose of religious conversation." GREECE. Dr. King says, in a letter dated April 18th: "I continue to have opportunities for doing good among the Italian refugees, hundreds of whom have received from me the Scriptures in the language they understand." CHOCTAWS.-A letter has been received from Mr. Wright, dated Wheelock, May 10, in which he says: "Although there is less evidence of the special influences of the Holy Spirit in this neighborhood than there was a year ago, some are expected to unite with the Wheelock church at the next communion season." Home Proceedings. MEETINGS IN BEHALF OF THE BOARD. A MEETING in behalf of the American Board was held at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, on Friday, May 10th, at 10 o'clock, A. M, Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, President of the Board, in the chair. Prayer was offered by Rev Dr. Hamner of Baltimore, and a hymn sung by the congregation, Professor Hastings, leader. The President then delivered a brief address on the 10 00 7 00 -19 33 Gardner, Cong. ch. 30 00 175 00-229 70 Belfast, N. ch. m. c. 5.50; Bluehill, cong, ch. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Cheshire co. Aux. So. W. Lamson, Tr. 14.50 value of the gospel as the means of spreading and The Norfolk County Foreign Missionary Society, auxiliary to the American Board, held its anniversary at West Medway, Tuesday, June 11, Rev. Elisha Fiske, President, in the chair. Addresses were delivered on the occasion, by Rev. Dr. Pomroy, one of the Secretaries of the Board, and by Rev. David T. Stoddard, of the Nestorian mission. The meeting was well attended, and a lively interest in the cause of missions was manifested by those who were present. Walpole, 1st cong. ch. wh. and prev. Bethlehem, A. W. 743 90 31 50 775 40 76 00--95 50 Hillsboro' co. Aux. So. J. A. Wheat, Tr. Merrimack co. Aux. So. G. Hutchins, Tr. 6 00 Rockingham co. Conf. of chs. J. Boardman, Tr. 1.00 5.00 25 00 30 00 Caledonia co. Conf. of chs. E. Jewett, Tr. Georgia, Cong. ch. s. s. Sheldon, Cong, ch. and so. Orange co. Aux. So. Orleans co. Aux. So. H. Hastings, Tr. Craftsbury, Cong. ch. and so. do. 4. 00 364 25 1.00 365 25 125 00 490 25 150 00 12.00 16 00 20 00--52 00 10.00 2.00--12 00 4 00 14.00 30 00 Pawlet, Coll. 38,48; m. c. 15,85; Wallingford, m. c. W. Rutland, Mr. G. Windham co. Aux. So. F. Tyler, Tr. E. Westminster, Ch. and so. m. c. Westminster, West, So. of morals 28 93 15.00 54 33 8.35 134 10 00-117 95 243 96 6 94 50 16 27 65 00-337 67 North Weymouth, Mr. Emery's so. 104,12; m. c. 13,49; Quincy, Cong. ch. and so. mem. of la. evan. so. S. Weymouth, Old ch. and so. m. c. Pilgrim Aux. So. J. Robbins, Tr. Pembroke, Miss M. C. Ford, (of wh. for Taunton and vic. Aux. So. 58 00--96 00 Boxford, 1st par. coll. 50; Cambridge, Dr. Albro's so. 139,23; m. c. 69,62; la. miss. gew. so. 30; Cambridgeport, 1st evan cong. ch. and so. wh. cons. A. C. SMITH an H. M. 100 Chelsea, Winnisimmet ch. and so. m. c. 58; Chilmark, T. A. 2; J. A. 1; E. Cambridge, evan. cong. ch. and so. 9,65; Lowell, John st. ch. 100; Methuen, cong. ch. and so. gent. la. and m. c. (of wh. for E. H. Thaxter, Ceylon, 20,) to cons. JOHN L. DAVIDSON an H. M. 134.53; Newton Corner, Sarah A. Eaton, dec'd, for books for hea. chil. 3; N. Haverhill, Ms. and Plaistow, N. H. united cong. so. 23,45; Wilmington, cong. ch. 94,94; m. c. 12; fem. miss. asso 27.50; s. s. 3,82; Woburn, 1st ch. and so. A. W. M. 5; Legacies. Milford, Rev. David Long, by C. B. Long, Ex'r, 437,5; Phillipston, Mrs. Nancy B. Taft, by J. Goulding, Ex'r, 110,37; CONNECTICUT. 5,854 56 863 74 6,718 30 547 87 7,266 17 Fairfield co. East, Aux. So. Rev. J. S. Whittlesey, Tr. 23 00 |