MINISTERS

Dates from the earliest times of the Colony. Annual business meeting in the court-room of the Supreme Judicial Court in Boston, at 5 P. M., on the last Wednesday in May. Sermon at 11 A. M., on the day following, at the South Congregational Church in Boston. At this service a collection is taken, which, with the income of the Convention fund, is distributed to the widows and daughters of deceased Congregational ministers.

Every minister of a Congregational Church in Massachusetts (whether Trinitarian or Unitarian) is ex-officio a member of the Convention.

There is a reporting committee of twenty-five, selected by counties throughout the State, by which recommendations are made to a central committee of seven, which decides on all applications for aid.

PERMANENT OFFICERS.-Rev. Benjamin F. Hamilton, Boston (Roxbury), scribe, and Rev. Henry F. Jenks, Canton, treasurer; to either of whom applications for aid may be addressed.

MASSACHUSETTS CONGREGATIONAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY

Incorporated in 1786. Organized to hold the funds of the Convention. Composed of fifteen clergymen and fifteen laymen, elected from both branches of the Congregational body. Aids the widows and orphans of deceased Congregational clergymen who have died while holding the pastoral office in Massachusetts.

Alexander S. Wheeler, Boston, president; Rev. Henry F. Jenks, Canton, secretary; Grenville H. Norcross, Boston, treasurer; Rev. Henry F. Jenks, Rev. Alexander McKenzie, Rev. James DeNormandie, committee on appropriations.

Applications for aid should be made to Rev. Henry F. Jenks, Canton, Mass.