LOVE TO THE C II U H * JAM 19 1905 SERMON, DELIVERED AT BANG OR', JUNE 28, I BEFORE THE MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY, FORTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY. BY REV. CALEB HOBART, PASTOR OFIHE SECOND CHURCH IN NORTH YARMOUTH -\8 PORTLAND: PRINTED AT THE MIRROR OFFICE. 1848. \ I, (i v E To T II '■• C H r R C u SERMON DELIVERED AT BANGOR, JUNE 28, 1848, 1:1 hire the MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY FORTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY BY REV. CALEB HOBART, PAST OB OFTHE SECOND CHURCH IN NORTH TAR MOUTH PORTLAND: PRINTED AT THE MIRROR OFFICE. 1848. SERMON. Psalm cxxxvii : 5, 6. — If I forget thee, Jerusalem, LET MY RIGHT HAND FORGET HER CUNNING. IF I DO NOT REMEMBER THEE, LET MY TONGUE CLEAVE TO THE ROOF OF MY MOUTH ; IF I PREFER NOT JERUSALEM ALOYE MY CHIEF JOY. The Psalm from which these words are cited is one of the most tender and pathetic portions of Scripture. It contains the undissemhled language of a heart full of grief on the recollec- tion of the choicest privileges now lost, the dearest hopes now blasted. We can hardly conceive the sensations of a pious Jew thus destitute and afflicted. He is torn by a cruel arm from Jerusalem, bereft of the many comforts, which that be- loved spot afforded, and made the sport of profane and impious men. The feelings of such an one are most justly described in the Psalm, which embraces my text : — " By the rivers of Baby- lon there we sat down ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For, there they that carried us away captive, re- quired of us a song, and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion." The enemy not only spoiled them of what little they possessed ; he upbraid- ed them in their distress. He urged them to be merry. But, every feeling of their heart revolted at such a desecration. u How shall Ave sing the [^Lord's song" — exclaim they — "in a strange land ?" And now the forlorn Jew, dwelling with mourn- ful satisfaction on the happiness of privileges once enjoyed, and cherishing an unshaken and undiminished attachment to Jerusa- 4 LOVE TO THE CHURCH. lem, breaks out in the impassioned language of my text : " If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cun- ning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." Jerusalem was the appointed place of their solemnities, " whither the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord." There they celebrated their sacred feasts, and observed the pub- lic ordinances of their religion. On that consecrated spot they were favored with the clearest manifestations of their covenant God. There they communed with Him and with one another ; and thence was derived an influence to quicken and animate all their tribes, to sustain and bless their entire community. It was not then, without reason, that the pious Jew loved Je- rusalem ; and his attachment to it was very strong ; it was paramount. It rose to an eminence above his highest joy. He solemnly imprecates evil upon himself should lie suffer his affec- tion to die or decline. " Let my right hand forget her cunning :" let it no more perform its office. u Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth:" let me be forever disabled, cither to sing- er play on an instrument, if I desecrate the sacred songs of Zion, or if I even forget Jerusalem. Nothing shall extinguish my love for her. Neither the afflictions nor the allurements of this land of my captivity shall cool the ardor of my love for Je- rusalem. My heart is there, and nothing shall turn it in another direction. Jerusalem in this connection — agreeably to a frequent accep- tation of the term in Scripture — may be considered as denoting the church. The passage before us, then, obviously contains the sentiment, that good men love the church. The text is not a solitary instance to this effect. The' Psalm- ist often expresses the same deep interest in the church of God, and the Scriptures are full of examples of the same character. How strong was the affection, how intense the concern, which Moses manifested on this subject ! He even prayed God to LOVE TO THE CHURCH. ° I bt his own name from his book rather than refuse his interpos- ing mercy to his people. The aged Eli was not disturbed when informed of the defeat of the armies of Israel, and of the death even of his two sons llophni and Phinehas : but when told that " the ark of God was taken;' the shock was too much, and he -• fell backward and gave up the ghost," Nchemiah, when he heard of the desolation that had spread over the helovcd city, and the great affliction in which Ids brethren were involved, " sat down and wept and mourned certain days and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven." When interrogated why his countenance was sad, he replied, " Why should not my coun- tenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepul- chres lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire ?" In the time of Jeremiah the church was greatly afflicted. Her depressed condition made the prophet weep, and in the extremi- ty of his grief exclaim, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep, day and night, for the slain of the dan-liter of my people !" And it was this render and paramount love for the church of God, that swayed the Apostles and primitive Christians. It glowed in the breast of Paul, and animated all his labors. And there have always been those of a kindred spirit. The welfare of Zion has lain near their heart, Whether in the time of her affliction or in the day of her prosperity, they have preferred her above their chief joy ! And it is fit it should be so. It is the spirit of Christ, who " loved his church, and gave himself for it, an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet smelling savor." There are many and sufficient reasons, which inspire and jus- t'n'v this love to the church. Some of these it is proposed *to make the basis of present remark. And First. The church challenges the love of good men as a trophy of divine grace, and as a medium of illustrating the per- fections and manifesting the glory of God. The consecrated community of professed believers can, nei- ther as a body nor as individuals, lay claim to perfection of (.) LOVE TO THE CHURCH. character. The truly sanctified are within her pale and they bear the image of the heavenly, — are partakers of a divine na- ture ; but they are compassed with infirmities. There is ' another law in their members warring against the law of their mind, and bringing them into captivity to the law of sin.' And then — it is a fact to be lamented — ' : they are not all Israel, who are of Is- rael." " The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea and gathered of every kind." It has always been the reproach of true religion and the grief of its real friends, that the unworthy have found a place within the com- munity of God's people, and that the character of his own chil- dren has been defaced by so many spots. " Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure ; the Lord knoweth them that are his." Much as there is of alloy within the church of God, there is real virtue there. Redeemed sinners, trophies of divine grace, are within that inclosure. The subjects of a spir- itual birth, the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty are there. The image of Christ isvreally though imperfectly re- flected by them. And moral excellence, as thus portrayed, commands the love of good men. "Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him." They therefore love the church, which embodies those, who sustain this character. It makes an appeal, which they cannot resist. It possesses a power of attraction to which their hearts sponta- neously yield. They regard it as embracing the excellent of the earth, in whom is all their delight. And it is believed that nearly all the truly pious are to be found there. That there are some, who shrink from the respon- sibilities of a Christian profession, who, in the main, are govern- ed by the principles of the gospel, we have no reason to doubt. But the number of such is comparatively few. Love to God will incline men to keep his sayings, and to have respect to all his commandments. The subjects of divine grace are within the pale of the church, and it is thus as exhibiting the graces of the Spirit, that she secures the love of every pious heart. LOVE TO THE CHURCH. i The church also is a medium for illustrating the perfections and manifesting the glory of God. The display of his own perfections is the great end -which Je- hovah has ever kept in view, in all the works of his hands, and in all the events of his Providence. lie created all things, and for his glory they are and were created. They declare his glo- ry, and show forth his praise. But God has chosen the medium of his church, above all other methods, to make known the per- fections of his character. It is the church of redeemed sinners, which is to he " to the praise of the glory of his grace." " And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the myste- ry," — the divine plan of operation — " which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ ; to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God." Here is an aspect of the divine character, that the universe had never before beheld. Lost sinners are pardoned and saved — and still the law and govern- ment of God are maintained and honored. Here is a practical exemplification of the love and mercy of the Deity. The attri- butes of his character are here brought out and exposed to view as they might never otherwise have been. And while the de- velopments of this plan of mercy add new zest to the bliss of heaven, they give joy to every pious heart. And the church, which is the constituted medium of this display, will, therefore, command the love of all who regard the glory of God. Hon- ored thus in the arrangements of Infinite Wisdom the Christian loves her. Another Reason for this attachment is the important and happy influence which the church exerts, and which she is des- tined to exert upon the world. The church of Christ is the salt of the earth, arresting moral putrefaction, and imparting a conservative and renovating ele- ment. The civil community is not a little indebted to this source. The privileges and ordinances associated with the 8 LOVE TO THE CHURCH. church are productive of more peace and prosperity to society, than all other means combined. They impose a strong restraint upon the passions of men, even where they are attended with no saving results. Under their shadow knowledge and intelli- gence are more generally diffused, and — what is of special inter- est to us as citizens of a free republic — in the absence of the institutions of religion, that virtue which is essential to self gov- ernment, cannot be maintained. There is nothing which men expend, for which they receive,, even in a temporal view, so ample a remuneration as what they expend to sustain the worship and ordinances of God's house. In neglect of these, they suffer loss and betray a mistaken poli- cy. The children of Judah, in the time of the prophet Haggai, grew remiss in relation to this subject. They turned their at- tention to the building and ornamenting of houses for them- selves, and seemed content, that the house of the Lord should lie waste. For this stupidity and negligence the land was smit- ten with barrenness. ' The heaven over them was stayed from dew, and the earth was stayed from her fruit.' Hence the Lord called upon them to consider their ways, to look at the state of their affairs, and they might see at once that their con- duct was as impolitic as it was wicked. By their remissness in relation to the ordinances of religion, they suffered in their tem- poral interests. " Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but ye have not enough ; ye drink, but ye are not filled Avitk drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put into a bag with holes." Thus the delinquency of the people, of whom the prophet here complains, in neglecting to sustain the house of the Lord, incur- red the divine displeasure and impoverished them. And such is always the fruit attendant on such neglect. It is a withhold- ing more than is meet. Annihilate the influence that is diffused in any place by the privileges of the gospel, and the value of property declines, the morals of the people deteriorate, and ev- LOVE TO THE CHURCH. 9 Cry thing that is lovely and of good report withers and dies. No fact is more obvious, in all the history of the past, than that men are too depraved to live without the gospel. To dispense with this is suicidal. It is expensive of property and morals, and all the most valued interests of society. The influence, then, that goes forth from the church of Christ, is attended with no little temporal good. " It has the promise of the life that now is." But the salvation of the soul is the great and paramount in- terest, and the appointed means of this are committed to the custody of the church. She is " the pillar and ground of the truth." She is, and always has been, the constituted medium and dispenser of good influences to the world. When in ancient times a revelation was to be given, holy men were inspired and made the organs of communicating it. When the gospel was to be diffused among the nations of the earth, Apostles were com- missioned to go forth and publish it. And what is done in these latter days for the evangelization of the world, and its redemp- tion from error and sin, is principally done through the instru- mentality of the church of God. Other associations and instru- mentalities may be subsidiary to the same great object as that for which the church was constituted, but they are human in then* origin, and may be temporary in their influence and ef- fects. But the church of God is destined to survive all the changes and revolutions of time. She shall never die. The promise is sure, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. "The gates of hell shall never prevail against her." She has been of- ten and violently assailed. The sword of persecution has not seldom caused her blood to flow ; false brethren have stabbed her at the vitals, and her own manifold faults have sometimes almost wrought her ruin. And every form of opposition, which the united malice of the world and the powers of darkness could devise, has been arrayed against her. Yet, still she lives. Like the burning bush, she is not consumed ; like the rock in mid- ocean, lashed by its raging billows, she stands, a monument of Jehovah's love, — the object of his special care. And she is des- 10 LOVE TO THE CHURCH. tinecl to live, till through her instrumentality the "kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of Christ" — till the church militant is embraced in the church triumphant. She is yet to achieve many signal victories, and to gather within her pale a 'great multitude which no man can number, out of every kindred and people and nation.' Freed from all alloy, and clothed in virgin purity, ' without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing,' she will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of heaven. It is not, then, without reason, that the Christian has set his affection to the church of God. Her delinquencies and defects, indeed, cannot be too deeply mourned. They oppose the great- est hinderance to the conversion of the world. Still, what com- munity on earth will compare with the church of God, in moral excellence of character and beneficial influence upon the world at large ? If we cannot find the fast and ardent friends of ed- ucation and intellectual improvement, the promoters of sound morality and good order in society ; if we cannot find philan- thropy, a sympathy for the oppressed, and whatever tends or alms to meliorate the condition of our race ; if we cannot find these lovely traits of character and these fruits of benevolence in the church of God, we can find them no where. And the day approaches, when the church will still more clearly reflect the image of her Great Head, and exert a wider and more ben- eficial influence upon the world. Awaking from an indolent re- pose, and escaping from every sinful alliance, she is destined to become an 'eternal excellency, the joy of many generations.' Her members are to become "kings and priests unto God, and reign with Christ forever." Well then may the Christian love the church of God. Well may he prefer her above his chief joy. His most precious interests are identified with hers. In connec- tion with her ordinances and institutions his soul has been warm- ed into spiritual life, and enjoyed an earnest of heaven. And under the same blessed tuition, he is daily becoming meet to ob- tain that world. His anxieties and his joys are with the church of Christ. In circumstances of deep depression, as well as in LOVE TO TIIE CHURCH. 11 the day of her prosperity, his sympathies are with her. His best friends, his chosen companions, are within her community, and from her he would never be separated. With the ardent Moabitess, he would peremptorily say: "Entreat me not to ■ thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." From this brief illustration of the sentiment of the text, I remark, I. If the church of God prefers so just and strong a claim upon our love, — if she actually and deservedly occupies so high a place in the affections of every Christian, then wo ought, to the extent of our ability, to sustain her and extend her privi- leges. Our love for Zion, if it be intelligent and worthy of the name, will not evaporate in mere emotion. With the prophet we shall be constrained to say, " For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace ; and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the right- eousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burnetii." Such are always the promptings of that love, which is the fulfilling of the law. It aims at nothing, it will be satisfied with nothing less. Divine grace is diffusive. Light is given to be dispensed. All the imagery of Scripture graphically describes religion as progressive in its nature, and aggressive in its movements. It was not the design of heaven, that the church with her privileges should be confined to a lim- ited portion of our race. The field is the world, and it all be- longs to Christ. A strong hand of support should be rendered to every feeble branch of Zion. In imitation of the apostle, in another though different case, we should, " in so laboring sup- port the weak." And the obligation has been paitially recog- nized. There have been those in every age, who have minister- ed to the necessities of the church, — aided in bearing her bur- dens, and so fulfilled the law of Christ. And such has been the benevolent office of the Society, whose forty -first anniversary 12 LOVE TO THE CHURCH. in the good providence of God we now celebrate. For the peri- od already named, this Association has held on its way, planting churches in all the different sections of the State, and strength- ening the feeble, so that comparatively few within our borders are not indebted to its fostering care. The obligation, then, which it is the design of these remarks to enforce, has not been unheeded. But, further aid is required. Many of these church- es, fathers and brethren, which have hitherto been watered by your charities, still look to you for help. Some of them are struggling for life, and making an effort to retain the privileges of the gospel, of which many of us may be little aware ; and which, did the same spirit of sacrifice obtain throughout our churches, every pecuniary liability of your Society would be fully met, and its resources greatly increased. There are those who would be made glad and profited, could they share more largely in your aid, and the munificence of the Christian public. They are oppressed, and need a more ample assistance. " And there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed." The desert and the solitary place are still at our door. Fresh open- ings in the forest demand our labors. For, there sometimes the child of God, like the captive Jew in exile from Christian privi- leges, weeps when he remembers Zion ; and there the anxious parent mourns the untoward influences to which his offspring are exposed. We are then debtors to the church of God, and to those who are destitute of her peculiar privileges. And an on- ward movement in the liquidation of this debt, or in prosecution of this work of mercy, is the only one that comports with the spirit of the age in which we live, the nature of the enterprize in which we are engaged, and above all, the weighty responsi- bilities which press upon us. The field which is more especially under the supervision of the Maine Missionary Society, and on which we are more immediately called to expend our labors, is a most important one ; and I rejoice in the fact, that it is our ex- clusive privilege to cultivate it. We need no foreign aid in this labor of love. The benefaction would be diverted from others LOVE TO TIIE CHURCH. 13 whose necessities are equally urgent as our own, or whose wants are still more imperious. And then it would subtract so much from our own blessedness of giving ; it would take away some- what from the gratification of our own benevolent disposition. And let the friends of Zion feel the pressure of obligation that rests upon them, and devise liberal things, and the Society will have no occasion to impose any undesirable restriction upon its expenditures, but may occupy without embarrassment, every opening field, meet every call of Providence, and promptly and with a strong hand sustain all its faithful missionaries. And let us cherish the hope, that the day is not far distant when, from the well cultivated fields within our own prescribed domain, we will turn our eye to the far South and West, and there help support the church of God, and lift up a standard for the people. And when we look over our country in its wide extent, and mark the sins which have obtained ascendancy, the prevalence of error in all its varied forms, and the many perils to which we are exposed, our obligations and responsibilities assume a vast importance. What idolatry of wealth, what rabid worldliness, what scenes of unblushing iniquity, do the eyes of Infinite Purity behold ! And the yoke of slavery, with strange incongruity, still pressing upon its vassals in this land of free institutions ! And the alarm of war and the deadly strife have scarcely ceased from among us, even at this period of the nineteenth century. Moreover, how multiplied and powerful are the foreign influen- ces, which are coming in and operating to lay waste the heritage of God in this our beloved land ! The duty, then, we now urge — and especially so far as it relates to our own land — is second in importance to none other. If the church of Christ is not sus- 1 tained, and if gospel truth and privileges as emanating from her are not effectual to save us, our country's last hope will have expired ; nor do we unduly magnify the importance of our land when we say, that in such a reverse of our hopes, a dark cloud will have come over the prospect of the world's conversion. For 14 LOVE TO THE CHURCH. so far as instrumentality is concerned, we believe the American church is destined to exert a commanding influence in achieving that long predicted event. Her own vineyard, then, must be diligently kept ; the pulse at her heart must beat strong and vigorous, or she will send forth no refreshing influence abroad. Those streams of benevolence which have already begun to flow, and with increasing dimensions are making verdant the arid heath in pagan lands, would quickly be dried up. Those lamps of salvation, which have been lighted, and which now illumine the dark places of the earth, would at once be extinguished. Our field of benevolent labor is one, and to suffer any depart- ment of it to languish, whether that in proximity, or that which is remote, is mistaken and suicidal policy. There is a recipro- cal influence. A faithful discharge of our duty in one part of the great field allotted us to cultivate, prepares the way for cor- respondent efforts and a more bountiful harvest in the other. Let the Society now assembled fulfil its duty in its own appro- priate sphere, and its influence will be felt for good in China, in the isles of the sea, and to the ends of the earth. In the order of nature, and what is more, in the order of apostolic example, the field in our immediate connection has the first and strongest claim upon us. And if this is not occupied and rightly improv- ed, we shall be held accountable. But, the church of God we must sustain, — her privileges we must impart to the destitute ; and the only scriptural measure of procedure in this great work is to make our efforts commensurate with our ability ; it is "to do what we can." II. Oar subject suggests the importance and necessity of a deep and paramount interest in the welfare of the church, in or- der that we may most successfully labor for her enlargement. The captive Jews felt a tender and absorbing interest in the city of their national solemnities. That beloved spot was imbed- ded in their affections ; and though now in banishment from its peculiar privileges, their hearts were there, and they could truly aver, that they preferred it above their chief joy. Nor was LOVE TO THE CHURCH. 15 their attachment a transient emotion, or evanescent impression, that might rise or vanish as circumstances were favorable or adverse- In prosperity and adversity, their commanding ob- ject of affection was one and the same. And under the influ- ence of such a spirit they were prepared, as occasion called, to sustain and defend that object. And such should be the posture of our minds in relation to the church of Christ. It is not pas- sion or impulse, but deep-seated, intelligent principle, that is needed to meet the exigences of the church at the present day. The sacrifices and efforts, that arc demanded will otherwise be withheld. It is fixed and earnest principle, that has inspired men, and nerved their arm, and urged them on to great achieve- ments in things pertaining to this world. This principle has of- ten been so strong and all-pervading, that the subjects of it have been prepared to brave any perils, and to seal the testimony of their attachment to the cause they have espoused with their blood. And we need thus to identify ourselves, and all we hold dear, with the church of Christ. With our own hearts thus im- bued with the spirit of the gospel, we are prepared to put forth effort to best advantage for the good of others. This is the gauge and foundation of relative usefulness. Hence the wisdom of the Psalmist's prayer, where he supplicates : — " God be merciful un- to us and bless us ; and cause his face to shine upon us ; that thy way may may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations." Here is the true source of enlarged benevolence i and missionary activity. If the friends of Zion can come to feel as they ought themselves, the greatest obstacle to the progress of truth and holiness will be removed. The word of the Lord will have free course and be glorified : God's way will be known upon earth, his saving health among all nations. The tide of be- nevolent feeling in our own soids will not rise or send forth its / refreshing influences above its own wonted level ; and the more elevated this, the more widely will it be diffused over the broad ! field of Christian benevolence. What is most of all things need- ' ed, is a larger measure of the Spirit of Him who, though rich, 16 LOVE TO TIIE CHURCH. for our sakes became poor, — a deeper, an all-pervading spirit of piety, — an entire consecration of soul to Christ and the welfare of the church. This is the great exigency of the Christian world. For this the whole creation groaneth and travaileth to- gether in pain until now. Let this delinquency be met, and the church would quickly enlarge her borders ; the conversion of the world would advance apace. The necessary funds would be promptly afforded. The lib- eral disbursement of these would be matter of serious calcula- tion. Impassioned appeals would be superseded, and every call of charity would meet a ready response. Every one would lay by him in store as God had prospered him, and rejoice in an op- portunity to exercise his benevolence. The treasury of the Lord would be full to overflowing. As it was in the work of the sanc- tuary in the time of Moses, the free offerings of the people were so abundant, that they were requested to desist from bringing any more. And if the welfare of the church lies near our heart, if we prefer her above our chief joy, we shall feel that no sacri- fice is too great to aid in her enlargement. The silver and the gold will be viewed as sustaining no assignable relation to the importance of such an object ; and the true dignity of property will be understood to consist in consecrating it to the service of Christ. And under the influence of such a spirit we should be prepared for any Avork which the good of the church might de- mand. Our efforts in her behalf would be the legitimate result of the power of the truth. It was so with the prophets and the apostles. They believed and therefore spake. Their hearts were full of their subject, and out of the abundance of the heart they gave utterance to their feelings. And the principle which is here involved has always obtained, and must ever produce the same effects. It is a deep interest in the kingdom of Christ, an engrossing desire for the welfare of the church, that impels her friends to labor most effectually for her advancement. It is when we feel most sensibly the power of the truth ourselves, that we are best prepared to go forth and proclaim that truth to love to mi: cmmcH. i 1 others. Extinguish or abate tins sympathy, and the right arm of our strength is palsied. In such condition our influence and our efforts would tell but feebly on the interests of Zion. Let ours, then, be the prayer of the once trembling disciples, " Lord increase our faith." And among all other interests, which gath- er around our hearts and gain our affections, let love for the church of God have the ascendency. Let us prefer her above our chief joy. And moved by such incentive, our efforts for the enlargement of Zion and the extension of the gospel of the king- dom will be effective. God, even our own God, will bless us. The resources and means of our Missionary Society will be aug- mented to the full supply of the urgent necessities of its broad field of operation. And in connection with our instrumentality, many a child of God who, in exile from Christian privileges, has wept when he remembered Zion, shall break forth into joy and sing, " How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of good; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth." And many a wandering sinner shall be induced to return to the Great Shepherd and Bishop of souls. May this Society go on with renewed energy in its work of mercy, and may all its pat- rons afford it a strong hand of support. In the day of final ac- count the Great Head of the church will appreciate and recog- nize such labors, imperfect and humble though they be, to your infinite advantage. He will graciously say to all those, who, from the good treasure of a good heart, have contributed to the furtherance of this cause : "I was an hungered and ye gave me meat ; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink ; I was a stranger, and ye took me in ; I was naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me ; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. For inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me." Finally. The subject which we have considered suggests the inquiry, — What is our personal relation to the church of Christ, and to the cause which looks to her enlargement ? 8 LOVE TO THE CHURCH. We have seen that the church embodies the sanctified from among men ; that she is the great medium of illustrating the perfections of God ; and that she exerts, and is destined to ex- ert, an important and happy influence upon the world. And on these accounts she commands the love of all good men. In their estimation her ordinances and privileges are precious, and the cause which aims at her advancement receives their hearty co- operation. It is, then, an important inquiry with which we have each a deep personal concern, — "What is our relation to the church of Christ ? Are our sympathies, and hopes, and joys with her ? Is her enlargement the object of our warm desire, our earnest prayer and liberal contribution ? Then may ours be the consoling assurance, that we are the children of the Highest, and that our names are written in the Lamb's book of life. On the contrary : Is our chief interest separate and apart from the church of Christ ? Have we no heart to mourn when Zion mourns, or to exult in her prosperity ? And in view of her depressions and exigencies, can we restrain prayer before God, and withhold the aid she craves ? With the apostle we would inquire, " Despise ye the church of God ? " Let such under- stand, that they are " aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." And let them be entreated to cast in their lot with the church of Christ, and become her fast and ardent friends. For they, and they only shall prosper who love her. " We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord hath said, I will give it you : come thou with us, and we will do thee good ; for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel/* RETORT OF TUE TRUSTEES OF THE MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY, AT Til EI R FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING: IN BANGOR, JUNE 2S, 1848. This Society has been in operation forty-one years. Great changes have been witnessed during this period ; — changes in the institution itself; in its field of labor; and in the condition of the world. In the commencement of its efforts, this Society embraced less than forty members ; it now numbers its thou- sands. Then, there were about seventy congregational churches in the State, now, there are more than two hundred, the greater portion of which have been planted or nurtured by this instru- mentality, from the free-will offerings of the Christian commu- nity. At that time, its operations were restricted to a very lim- ited section of our territory ; now, it has a broad theatre of action, extending from the Piscataqua to the north eastern boun- dary, and from the sea-coast to the western limit, including from thirty to forty thousand square miles. At that time, too, there were comparatively few facilities to expedite labor. It cost much fatigue, and consumed much time, to reach a distant field of operation, even in our own country ; much more abroad in the earth ; now, the most distant points of the world are brought together. Time and space are almost aimihilated ; and what is done, is done quickly. But the object more especially of the present meeting is, to trace the operations and results of the year now closing, and mutually to encourage each other's hearts and strengthen each other's hands, to give a new impulse to the cause, and secure to it an onward course in coming time. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MISSIONARIES. Rev. Gilman Bacheller, Jonesborough, 1 3-4 months. Mr. Bacheller is pastor of the church in Machias Port, but spends a portion of his time with the church at Joncsboro'. It is a feeble establishment, and will need continuance of aid. " A gradual increase in the number of hearers." Mr. A. J. Bates, Lincoln, 9 months. 20 REPORT OP THE TRUSTEES OF THE This is an important stand ; but as yet a feeble establishment. Mr. Bates writes : " We cannot report a revival of religion ; but there is much here to encourage one to labor, amid all his trials and misgivings. There has been a large increase of attendants on the preaching of the gospel, and a marked attention in the congregation. The church now numbers 28 members ; four having joined the last year ; 1 by profession and 3 by letter. A good degree of harmony prevails in the church ; and an increas- ing union between the churches of different denominations in the place." Rev. Mighill Blood, Matinicus and adjoining islands, 2 1-2 months v The services of Mr. Blood were very acceptable. There is no church, and few professors of religion ; but too many inhabit- ants to be left destitute of the stated ordinances of worship. Mr. George Bowman, Windsor and Fairfield, with their vicinities, 3 months. Mr. Bowman supplied at Windsor, Jefferson, Washington, Fairfield and Sebasticook. These are all feeble churches, and will need aid in settling the ministry. Rev. Samuel Bowker, Union, 3 1-2 months. Mr. William M. Boyd, Skowhegan, and South Solon, 1 1-2 months. Mr. Boyd is succeeded in his labors in this place by Rev. Alpha Morton. Rev. Isaac Carleton, Oxford, 4 months. This church has been weakened by deaths and removals, and will need continued aid to secure the stated ordinances of wor- ship. Mr. Carleton has been taken off from his labors a portion of the last year, by sickness, but has now so far recovered, as to resume his services. " Three added to the church by letter." Rev. B. G. Carpenter, Dexter, 4 1-2 months. Mr. Carpenter writes, under date of 4th inst : " Since my last report, God has granted us " a little reviving in our bond- age.' Our meetings, and the meetings of other denominations, have been marked by unusual order and stillness. The opera- tions of the Spirit, so far as we have shared in them, have been gentle and silent as the distilling dew : yet leaving the most dis- tinctive evidence of renewing poiver. About twenty, in the different evangelical societies, have been hopefully converted. The people of God generally have received a holy impulse, which has greatly encouraged them in their work. Seven indi- viduals have recently united with the congregational church, MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 21 and several others are expected to unite with us at our next communion." Rev. Elias Chapman, Newfield, 1 3-4 months. There have been no additions to the church during the year past, and the state of religion is low. Mr. Chapman states, however, in his Report : " There is no decrease of interest in sustaining the institutions of religion, but on the contrary, a feel- ing that we must keep up the form, and pray for the power. The ability of the people, it is hoped, is rather increasing ; and I think, with the blessing of God, they will in a few years be able to sustain the gospel themselves." Rev. Sumner Clark, Unity, 4 1-2 months. Mr. T. W. Clark, Phillips and vicinity, 5 months. Labors at this stand have proved very acceptable ; and efforts are being made, which, it is thought, will be successfid in open- ing the way for Mr. Clark to take the pastoral charge of the church in Phillips ; spending a portion of his time as a mission- ary in the surrounding region. Rev. Dana Clayes, Industry, Mercer and Starts, 12 mos. Mr. Clayes has supplied in the above places during the past year, sustained in part by the contributions of the people. No material changes, except in the provision for religious reading. The report of Mr. Clayes states : " There have been introduced into this field, during the year, 10 sets of the Christian Library, each containing 45 volumes, and circulating in 40 families ; 82 volumes of Commentaries on the Scriptures, chiefly Scott's ; 100 volumes of the Missionary Herald ; 400 volumes added to the Sabbath School libraries ; 7 additional subscribers to the Chris- tian Mirror ; a goodly number of the Dayspring ; together with a great quantity of small books and tracts for children and youth." Rev. Nathan Cobb, Dedham, 2 1-2 months. Mr. Cobb left this stand, in the early part of the missionary year, to act as a colporteur, in different parts of the State. Rev. Albert Cole, Winslow, 3 1-2 months. " No material changes in the year. Our congregation is as large as it has been, perhaps a little larger. One deceased, one dismissed, and two or three hopeful converts." Rev. J. H. Conant, Chesterville and Fayette, 4 months. Mr. Conant has spent six weeks of his mission within the lim- its of the Aroostook Conference. Rev. A. J. Copeland, Aroostook region, 1 month. Mr. Copeland had an appointment in the Aroostook, for the 22 REPORT OP THE TRUSTEES OF TIIE year ; but soon left that field for the West, and has been suc- ceeded in his field of labor, by Rev. Rufus W. Emerson. Rev. David Cushman, Bremen, 3 months. Mr. Cushman writes : " While we bless God, as the author of all our good, we should not forget our obligations to the Mis- sionary Society, by whose aid we have been raised up from our low estate, so as to be able to sustain ourselves in time to come." Mr. H. C. Daniels, Kennebunkport, 2 1-2 months. 'Rev. William Davenport, Strong and vicinity, 12 months. Mr. Davenport's mission extends on to August. His labors are three fourths of the time at Strong, and one fourth at Sa- lem. Present appearances are represented as giving promise of a permanent settlement of the ministry in these places. Rev. Timothy Davis, Litchfield, 1 3-4 months. " There are some indications of a better state of spiritual feel- ing in the church. Some are praying for a revival, with a good measure of confident expectation. The Sabbath School has been increased this spring, and a new library has been obtained." Rev. John Dodd, Turner, 2 1-2 months. This is the first year of Mr. Dodd's labors in Turner. They have witnessed some tokens for good. His report, under date of 16th ultimo, states : "The Society here are doing much more than usual this year. They raise one hundred dollars more for the support of the gospel, than they did the previous year ; and besides are building a parsonage house, which will cost them about eight hundred dollars. A little aid now, we hope, will place them on a footing where they will be able to stand alone. There has been a gradual increase in the congre- gation on the Sabbath. The religious interest also has gradu- ally increased ; and for the last two months our hearts have been gladdened from time to time with the hopeful conversion of souls. A general solemnity pervades the congregation, and quite a number are seriously impressed, who have not yet ob- tained hope. Some nine or ten give evidence of a change of heart. There seems at present to be no abatement of interest. There has been little excitement, and no unusual methods of op- eration adopted. It has pleased God to work by the ordinary means of grace." Rev. S. S. Drake, Exeter, 1 month. Mr. Drake had an appointment for the year, at Exeter and Levant, but after spending 4 Aveeks, at the former place, remov- ed and took charge of the first parish in Biddeford. Rev. Joshua Eaton, Aroostook region, 12 months. MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 2-3 Mr. Eaton has spent his year chiefly at Passadtimkeag, Bur- lington, Lee, Springfield and Carroll. This embraces three churches, and five places of worship. This field is in the cast part of Penobscot County, but within the limits of the Aroos- took Conference. Of the church in Lee, Springfield and Car- roll, Mr. Eaton writes : " We have the prospect of some additions soon, and there is increasing attendance upon public worship. But the means of supporting- the gospel in this region, if it is supported, must come chiefly from abroad. The door seems to open wider and still wider, inviting the laborer to enter the field and work." Rev. Manning Ellis, Brooksville, 1 3-4 months. Mr. _ Ellis has the charge of two churches in this town ; but they will need aid in sustaining the institutions of religion. Mr. R. W. Emerson, Aroostook County, 12 months. Mr. Emerson has occupied a wide field, in the eastern part of the county, in the vicinity of Houlton, embracing Hodgdon, Monticello, Portland and Bridgewater plantations, with an ex- tensive adjoining region. In the two first named places there are churches. Mr. Emerson writes, " Here truly the harvest is great, but the laborers are few. Society is hi a forming state, and efforts here at this critical period are of immense value. ^ They will tell upon the temporal and spiritual interests of coming generations." Rev. S. B. Fay, Dixfield, 3 months. Rev. Jonas Fisk, Lisbon, 3 1-2 months. This is one of the feebler churches, " Faint, yet pursuing." Rev. Ephraim Fobes, Patten, 2 months. Patten is among the feeble churches, and must have continu- ance of aid, if it is to live and prosper. Rev. John P. Foster, Sweden, 3 1-2 months. Mr. Foster has lately commenced his labors in this place, and was installed to the pastoral care of the church on the 9th instant. Mr. David Garland, Sweden, 4 months. Mr. Garland has removed from this stand. Rev. John H. Garman, Limington, 4 1-2 months. Mr. Garman's report states : " We have for some time past, thought we could see indications of the presence of God with us : but as yet the cloud has not given us much rain. As the general interest seems to continue, we still hope. Two have united with the church, one by profession and one by letter." Rev. Joshua S. Gay, Andover, 4 months. 24 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OP THE Mr. Gay was ordained as pastor of this church, in January last. His missionary year is not yet closed. Rev. David Gerry, Brownfield, Hiram and Denmark, 4 1-2 months. Rev. Stephen Gould, Poland, 3 1-2 months. The people here have applied for only half the amount of aid, for the coming year, that they have been in the habit of re- ceiving, in years past. This is a token for good. Would that many other churches might follow the example. Rev. E. Hale, Piscataquis county, 12 months. Mr. Hale has charge of the churches in the County, other- wise unsupplied ; and is sustained in part by their contributions. Mr. Ansel D. Harris, Dedham, 1 1-2 months. Mr. Harris, in his report, states : — " Though not enjoying a special revival of religion, the people here are well united, and manifest a good degree of interest in the preaching of the gos- pel and other means of grace. The Sabbath School is com- posed of old and young, embracing nearly the entire congre- gation, and is in a flourishing state." Rev. L. W. Harris, North Bridgton, 1 8-4 months. Rev. S. H. Hayes, Frankfort, 3 1-2 months. " On the first Sabbath in January, six united with the church ; five by profession and one by letter." Rev. Israel Hills, Dixmont and Plymouth, 3 months. Mr. Hills divides his time equally, between those two towns. His labors have been continued through the year. Rev. Morris Holman, 2d church, York, 3 months. " One added to the church. A parsonage being built, and the prospects somewhat brightening." Mr. Wm. L. Hyde, Levant, 1 month. Rev. Horatio Ilsley, Abbot and Monson, 3 1-2 months. Mr. Ilsley writes : — " In Monson, I am happy to be able to report that the word of the Lord has had free course and is glorified. During the latter part of the autumn, there were indi- cations of a return to a better state of things. On the first Sabbath in January, some few were awakened to a deep solic- itude, and led to inquire : " Men and brethren, what shall we do ?" The day following, which was the first Monday in the year, the church observed as a season of fasting and prayer. The Holy Spirit was manifestly present, exciting a general and absorbing interest. Confessions were made to God and each other ; and every heart was melted, and every eye suffused with tears. From that time the interest increased in the church and MAINE MISSIONARI BOCIETY. 25 among the impenitent. Inquiry meetings were instituted, which were the only extraordinary means used. Soon one and another began to entertain hope in Christ, and their sorrows were changed into songs of deliverance. As the result of the work thus far, twenty indulge hope that they have passed from death nnto life. These are all from among the youth, none being over twenty-one years of age. As the first-fruits of this work, fifteen were gathered into the church, on the first Sabbath of last month. "The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad." Mr. W. L. James, Turner, 1 month. Mr. James has removed from this stand, and has been suc- ceeded by Rev. Mr. Dodd. Rev. M. R. Keep, Fort Kent and vicinity, 12 months. Mr. Keep has a wide field in this region, and has cultivated it with great diligence, and with as much success as could be look- ed for, from one laborer hi a great waste territory. He designs making No. 11, Aroostook, his residence the coming year, op- erating there, and extensively in the vicinity. Rev. Daniel Kendrick, Hebron and West Minot, 2 months. Rev. Reuben Kimball, Kittery, 3 1-2 months. This is the first church organized in the State. It had be- come almost extinct ; but by aid from abroad, it has of late years revived, and its prospects at present are brightening. k ' Meetinghouse remodelled, and parsonage now building." Rev. Allen Lincoln, Gray, 5 months. Mr. H. S. Loring, Aurora and Amherst, 3 months. Rev. Amasa Loring, Shapleigh, 3 1-2 months. Mr. C. W. Matthews, Glenburne, 1 month. Mr. Josiaii Merrill, Washington, 1 month. Mr. Merrill has left this place, and has taken the pastoral charge of a church in the State of Vermont. Mr. John H. Merrill, Sedgwick, 6 months. A church has been organized at this place during the last year, under promising auspices. Rev. Stephen Merrill, Acton, 3 1-2 months. Mr. Merrill writes : " Though there has been no revival of religion, the year past has been a year of advance. Congrega- tion has increased. Monthly concert instituted, never before ob- served. Temperance Society formed, about 100 members. Parsonage built. One case of hopeful conversion, and one add- ed to the church by profession." Rev. Samuel H. Merrill, Old Town, 5 months. 4 26 REPORT OP THE TRUSTEES OP THE Mr. Merrill has been installed over this church during the year past. " Four added to the church ; three by profession, and one by letter. The number of constant worshippers is slowly but steadily increasing." Rev. J. G. Merrill, Fort Fairfield and vicinity, 12 months. Under date of 4th Novem. last, Mr. Merrill reports the la- bors of 5 months, giving some account of his course as a mis- sionary at the Aroostook. " I have exchanged my lodgings ev- ery night, except ten, during the five months ; have ridden 360 miles ; passed in pirogues, (log canoes,) 15 miles ; walked 670 miles ; made 550 family visits ; preached 85 times ; administer- ed baptism to 3 children ; administered the Lord's Supper twice ; given two temperance lectures ; visited and addressed 3 Sabbath schools, and 3 week-day schools ; attended 6 confer- ences ; and admitted two individuals to church-fellowship, one at No. 13 in the third range, and one at letter D in the first range. There is evidence of an increased and increasing desire for an enlightened and enlightening ministry. Individuals not a few, who three years since manifested an indifference on this subject, now freely express their conviction of its importance. There is evidence of increased prayerfulness in the church and others, in No. 13 of the 3d range. Several cases of hopeful conversion, in that region, have occurred within a few months past ; and the attention still continues." Rev. Enos Merrill, Mechanic Falls, 3 1-2 months. Rev. Alfred Morse, Lubec and Whiting, 2 1-2 months. Mr. Morse has left this stand, and is now supplying at Pem- broke and Cooper. Rev. Alpha Morton, Temple, Skowhegan and South Solon, 3 1-2 months. Mr. Morton supplied at Temple, the first half of the mission- ary year ; and since then has been laboring with the churches in Skowhegan and South Solon. Mr. Francis Muzzy, Dixfield, 1 1-2 months. Rev. Robert Page, Patten and vicinity, 3 months. Mr. Page, after Spending a few weeks of his mission in the neighborhood of Old Town, removed from the State, and took charge of a church in N. Hampshire. Rev. Wooster Parker, Foxcroft, 3 1-2 months. Mr. R. Parkinson, Cape Elizabeth, 2 1-2 months. Mr. J. Parsons, Washington, Jeiferson and Windsor, 3 mos. These are adjoining churches, and all few in numbers and MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 27 feeble in resources ; and must continue to receive aid from abroad, if they enjoy the stated means of grace. Rev. J. W. Pebt, Gardiner, G months. Rev. John Peeham, Madison and Anson, 3 1-2 months. Mr. Perham has, during his mission, been installed as pastor of the church in Madison. Rev. John A. Perry, Orono, 3 1-2 months Mr. Perry, in a communication under date of May 19, states : " Since my last report, God has been with us in very deed. 1 am happy in being able to state, that more than twenty cases of hopeful conversion have occurred in the little society with which I am laboring. As early as the month of January, appearances indicated that God was about to visit us in mercy ; and these appearances were not deceptive. The Spirit came down upon us in great power, entering our Sabbath school, and awakening many souls to the consideration " of the one thing needful." So far the converts appear well ; and seventeen have been examined for admission into the church. All the individuals that have indulged hope are members of the Sabbath school ; and all are between twelve and twenty years of age. So far, therefore, as the support of the gospel is concerned, this revival looks to the future. It is prospective ; and there is great encouragement, from the character and influence of these youth, that, at no very distant day, they will stand up in support and defence of the gospel. In view of what has been wrought among us, we are constrained to say : " Not unto us, Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy and thy truth's sake." Rev. William Pierce, Lyman, 2 1-4 months. Mr. H. Pratt, St. Albans, 1 month. Rev. Wm. W. RaxND, Standish, 3 1-2 months. Mr. Rand has left this church, and taken " an office in the Tract House, New York, as assistant to the Secretaries." He writes, under date of 13th June : — " Though I am not so happy as to be permitted to report any accessions to the church in Standish, yet the parish are in a better state now at the close of the missionary year, than at its commencement ; feeling stronger in numbers, influence, and general hopefulness. I cannot but feel that not a few of the congregation, during the year, have felt the power of the Divine Spirit, and that some are not far from the kingdom of God." Rev. Henry Richardson, Gilead, 2 months. Mr. Richardson supplies Gilead, and the adjoining church of Shelburne, in New Hampshire. 28 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE Rev. William T. Savage, Houlton, 6 months. Mr. Savage writes, under date of 29th of May last : " At the commencement of this missionary year, the church in this place was reaping the fruits of an interesting revival of religion, with which it was favored, the year preceding. Fourteen were added to the church. This accession is regarded as a monument erected to the praise of a faithful and covenant-keeping God ; and it has been a great support to our hands and our faith, hi the frequent removals from us which have since occurred. " Rev. John Sawyer, Penobscot County, 1 month. Rev. Jotham Sewall, Franklin County, 3 months. Rev. Wm. S. Sewall, Milo, Sebec and vicinity, 3 months. Rev. N. W. Sheldon, Vassalborough and Sidnev, 2 1-2 mos. Mr. C. B. Smith, Weld, 2 1-2 months. Rev. Francis P. Smith, Waldo Co., 1 month. Rev. Thomas Smith, Orrington, 2 1-2 months. " One hopeful convert in the Sabbath School ; and other members of the School manifest a seriousness which gives prom- ise of good." Rev. Joseph Smith, Wilton and Jay, 2 1-2 months. Rev. Samuel Souther, North Belfast, 5 months. Rev. John H. Stratton, Pittston, 3 1-2 months. Rev. Samuel Talbot, Alna, 3 1-2 months. No material changes here, except in the increasing self-denial and efforts of the people to sustain the gospel themselves, which is seen in their asking but half the amount of aid, appropriated the past year. Such a movement is a most encouraging feature in missionary operations. The gradual diminution of the sum appropriated, to any particular place looks like winding up the concern. The example is worth more than the money. Rev. Daniel D. Tappan, North Augusta, 1 month. Mr. Tappan spent only two weeks in this place, and then re- turned to Massachusetts. Rev. G. F. Tewksbury, Albany, 3 1-2 months. Mr. P. B. Thayer, Garland and Exeter, 4 months. Rev. R. B. Thurston, Waterville, 6 months. Rev. David Turner, New Vineyard and Kingfield, 2 mos. Rev. Sidney Turner, Bingham, Solon Village and vicinity, 4 months. Mr. Turner spends a portion of his time, in the region of the Forks of the Kennebec ; " a promising field for missionary la- bor." In Bingham, " prospects more encouraging than they were a year ago. Meetings very well attended." MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 29 . [saac Weston, Frankfort Mills, 2 months. There is no church in this place, and no meeting house ; but they have for some years been supplied with preaching one fourth of the time, by the pastor of the church in the principal village in the town. Mr. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT, Northfield. 2 1-2 months. Mr. Wheelwright is a stated supply at Whitneyville, spending with the church in that place three-fourths of his time, and the residue of his labors are at Northfield. Neither of these church- es have sufficient means to sustain the gospel, for the whole time. Rev. Henry White. Bradford and vicinity, 3 1-2 months. Mr. AN mite spends half his time at Bradford, where a small church is established, and the people, with some assistance from abroad, have succeeded in providing for themselves a house of worship. The other half of his time is devoted to the wastes in the region. " One added to the church during the year, mak- ing the number twenty." Rev. LrniER Wiswall, Jackson and Brooks, 2 1-2 months. This church, though embracing two towns has not sufficient strength to sustain its own ordinances of worship. A good dis- position has been manifested, to contribute according to their al olity. " Somewhat more attention to religion than usual. Two hopeful converts." GENERAL RESULTS. Though the year past cannot, by way of eminence, be de- nominated " a year of the right hand of the Most High ;"_ yet neither is it so barren of joyful incident, or presenting so bhght- ing an aspect, as the vear preceding it, or indeed several years preceding. In some few places in the wide range of missionary effort, the people have had occasion for devout gratitude to God, in seeing clouds of mercy overshadow them, and in witnessing the sprinklings of divine grace. These portions of the heritage are like Oases in the desert, the freshness and verdure height- ened by contrast with the barrenness of the surrounding regions. The hopeful converts reported are about 120, chiefly children and youth. The number of missionaries in the employment ol the Society, during the year past, (the whole of the time or a portion of 'the time,) is 94 ; a little advance upon the number ot the vear preceding, but more in the amount of labor; it being equal in the aggregate to thirty-six years ; one-tenth beyond that of the previous year. The number gathered into the fold ot Christ from the world, may be deemed small, and indeed is so, 30 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OP THE compared with the wide field that is cultivated, and the number of laborers that have entered into the harvest ; but the result, nevertheless, is in value, beyond all computation. And besides, the conversion of sinners, though a prominent object and of par- amount importance, is not the only good result of missionary la- bor. It gives a healthful influence and contributes salutary aid to every other laudable enterprise ; literary, moral, or religious. Let the preaching of the gospel be suspended, among the des- titute, and what would be the condition of Sabbath Schools and Bible Classes ? They would struggle and die. So far, there- fore, as a restraining and moulding influence from this source is concerned, the youth, the rising generation, who are the hope of the Church, would be left to their own waywardness. And what would become of the Temperance cause ? It would retro- grade. The tide of intoxication, which by strenuous efforts under the blessing of heaven, had been caused to ebb and recede, would set back again upon the community with redoubled vio- lence, desolating the fairest prospects. The cause of common education too, very much depends upon the stated and public instruction of the gospel. Withdraw this, and how rapid would be the descent to ignorance and barbarism ! And what would become of the feeble churches themselves ? Is it nothing to " strengthen the things that remain and are ready to die," and to feed with the bread of heaven, poor and famishing disciples, scattered up and down in the Lord's heritage ? Now, in the wastes of Zion, all these causes find, not their prosperity only, but their very life and being, in missionary operations. Should any then, having become " weary in well-doing," having been giving and giving till they are tired of it, despondingly inquire, " If there is no enlargement of the churches, ' what advantage ' is there ? The answer is obvious : " much every way" The single aggressive movement, made within a very few years past, upon the northern section of our state, a land so lately trod by the foot of the missionary, furnishes in its results an ample reward for all the labors and all the treasures, that have been bestowed, within the same time, upon the whole field, of which the Society has the supervision. Take the opinion of one who has occupied a post of observation, and has as ample means of forming a correct estimate, as any man in the region; who has had the pastoral care of the missionary church in Houlton, and is now leaving that stand for some other station in the Lord's vineyard. He writes, under date of 29th ult : " Before closing the last report of a mission which has extended to the term of MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 31 nearly five years, I cannot refrain from alluding to the change which, under the providence of God, I have been permitted to witness in this region, under the operations of the Missionary Society. Four years ago there were found in this section <>f the State, only two congregational churches ; that at Houlton 5 and the feeble establishment at Monticcllo. To the Christian eye abroad, nothing was visible besides these. Though dotted over with settlements and " openings," the vast forests around this place and those stretching off to the north and west of Monti- cello, remained, for all the purposes of Christian enterprize, much as they were the day after the creation. But now the case is changed. This region (larger in territory than the whole State of Connecticut,) has been faithfully explored. Sev- eral churches have been organized at important points. One at Fort Fairfield, near the mouth of the Aroostook river ; one at Salmon Brook, at a point higher up on the same river ; one at Letter F. on the Presque Isle ; and another in the town of Hodgdon. These churches, in connexion with the two previous- ly mentioned, and those at Patten, Lincoln and Springfield, have been organized into the Aroostook Conference, a body now in the enjoyment of a vigorous youth, and which exerts an extensive and most happy influence upon the churches and the wilderness at large. In fine, a decided advance has been made in the work of organizing for permanency the institutions of religion and learning ; in establishing churches, academies and primary schools. From these movements, the extensive region of north- ern Maine cannot fail to reap blessings in all coming time. " There is unquestionably an auspicious beginning. But it must be kept in mind that it is only a beginning. In order to carry out the design, to retain what is possessed and be reach- ing out on the right hand and on the left, will require not a con- tinuance of effort only, but an increase of men and means for many years to come. It is to be understood, that there have entered into the same field, many other christian denominations, (not to say, that some are unchristian ;) " and yet there is room." There are extended regions yet unoccupied. " Much land yet remains to be possessed." We have been in the habit of considering our field wide and large. And to all practical purposes to call forth our own efforts, it is so. But when com- pared with the area, over which the National Society, of which this is a branch, extends its supervision, it is narrow and small. That Institution operates through our whole land, " in the length of it and in the breadth of it." It employed, the past year, at 32 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE the expense of about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, one thousand and six missionaries, in twenty-seven states and ter- ritories. A little more than one-twelfth of these laborers have occupied the field within our own limits ; and look to us for remuneration. STATE OF THE TREASURY. The report of the officer of this department, just submitted to the meeting, gives as the amount of income for the fiscal year, ending on the 26th instant, $10,878 72. But this sum includes the contributions that were made at the last Annual Meeting ; all which w T ent to liquidate the claims of laborers of the year preceding ; so that the Trustees began the year empty handed. But they had strong faith in the liberality of the Christian public; and pledged the amount of $1,000 beyond the expenditures of the former year. Situated as they were, dependent upon the free-will offerings of the friends of the cause to redeem their pledges, they did not dare to do more ; and viewing the wide wastes around them, and hearing from every point of the compass, the Macedonian cry of their poor and des- titute brethren, " Come over and help us ;" they could not find it in their hearts to do less. The Treasurer has met successive claims during the year, reducing the liabilities of the Society to $4,129 20 ; and he has reported a balance in the treasury of disposable funds, of $477 03 ; leaving a deficit at the present time of only $8,651 57 ; somewhat more indeed, than an av- erage collection, at the annual meetings ; but a little extra lib- erality, in the present crisis, will effect an adjustment of the concern. We look forward to the time when the Christian church shall manifest the same largeness of heart in free-will offerings, as characterized God's ancient covenant people. When they were passing through the wilderness to their earthly Ca- naan, they were called upon for voluntary offerings, to erect a tabernacle for the Lord of hosts. " And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought bracelets, and ear-rings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold." And then there was another message. " The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the Lord commanded to make. So the people were restrained from bringing." PROSPECTIVE. The movement of the cause, if it lives and prospers, must be onward. This is emphatically the age of missions ; not in our MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. S3 own land only, but the world over. A voice from heaven, loud and fcrumpet-tongued, summons the sacramental hosts to "go forward." The way of the Lord is prepared. The time has come, when he is fulfilling his own word: "I will shake all nations." And he is shaking them effectually : some even to their foundations. And thus by the remarkable providences of God, new fields, wide and large fields, are " white to the har- vest." At such a time, especially, men should he "workers together with God," in building up his kin-idem. The prospect is fair and promising ; and indeed success has already begun. Not only the idols of the heathen arc cast " to the moles and to the bats," but systems of error, superstition and delusion, arc losing their hold upon the public mind. The false prophet, that had with the sword and the Koran, subdued a moiety of the world to his sway, has been arrested in his career ; and the beast that had drunk the blood of the saints, and made error or- thodox, by prisons, racks and thumb-screws, has received a " deadly wound that cannot be healed ; " and the way is opened for the introduction of a purer faith. Thus the two great here- sies that had resisted the truth, (papal despotism and Moham- medan imposture,) begin to feel the avenging hand of God upon them, and they cannot bear up under its pressure. " Rome BOWETH DOWN ; MECCA STOOPETH." But some, perhaps, may be ready to say : Suppose all this to be true, what has it to do with the building up of the wastes of Maine, the object of our assembling at this anniversary ? Sup- pose it to be true, " known and read of all men," that the crescent has begun to wane, and that the triple crown has begun to sit loosely upon the head of " the man of sin," and that the barri- ers they had thrown around them, strengthened by the length of ages, as guards against the entrance of divine truth, have in a great measure been broken down and swept away, so that "a wide door and effectual " is opened, for planting the standard of Christ and diffusing gospel light in distant and dark lands, what has all this to do with the building up of the wastes of Maine ? It has a great deal to do with it. It bears with peculiar force upon this very point. If we let our own vineyard go to waste, if feeble churches are left to grow feebler, and waste pla- ces to be grown over Avith thorns and thistles, there will be no disposition and no means to carry the gospel abroad. If we are dead ourselves, "twice dead and plucked up by the roots," who does not see, that we cannot even be gin to give life to the world? The special providence of God, then, at this time, in opening a 5 34 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ME. MISS. SOCIETY. wide field for cultivation in far off lands, makes its appeal to the conscience and the heart of every individual Christian here pres- ent, and to the whole body of Christians in our commonwealth, to awake to unwonted effort, and to render a ready and willing obedience to the command given by our Savior to his first disci- ples, and through them to Christians in all succeeding ages, till the work is accomplished : '"Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature," beginning at Maine. ANNUAL MEETING. The forty-first Annual Meeting of tho Maine Missionary Society was held in Hammond-street Church, Bangor, June 28, 1848. Rev. William T. Dwight, D. D., President, in the chair, •who opened the meeting with prayer and reading the Scriptures. The Annual Sermon was preached by Rev. Caleb ITobart, for which thanks were tendered to the preacher, and a copy requested for publication, through Rev. William Warren, com- mittee on behalf of the Society. The Treasurer's report was presented, accepted, and adopted. The Report of the Trustees, prepared by Dr. Gillctt, was read by Dr. Tappan, which on motion of Rev. R. Palmer, sus- tained by others, was accepted and ordered to bo printed for circulation. The mover, as did also Rev. Messrs. Gonsalves, C. M. Brown, J. G. Merrill, J. Tucker, S. Thurston and Dr. Pomroy, addressed the assembly. The following named gentle- men were elected officers for the ensuing year : — Rev. William T. Dwight, D. D., Portland, President. Rev. John W. Ellixgwood, Bath, Vice President. Rev. Eliphalet Gillett, D. D., Hallowell, Corresponding and Recording Secretary. "William Swan, Portland, Treasurer. Trustees. The President, ex off. and Rev. Messrs. E. Gil- lett, D. D., D. Thurston, B. Tappan, D. D., J. W. Ellingwood, E. Pond, D. D., S. L. Pomroy, J. W. Chickering, E. F. Cut- ter, David Shepley, and W. Swan, Esq. Auditors. Wm. C. Mitchell, and William D. Little, Esqs. A vote of thanks to Mr. Storer, for his long and faithful ser- vices as Treasurer, was passed, he having declined a re-election. The next Annual Meeting of the Society will be held with the Winter-street Church, Bath, (Rev. Mr. Fiske's) on the 4th Wednesday of June, 1849. First Preacher — Rev. E. Thurston. Second Preacher — Rev. J. J. Carruthers, D. D. Eh P3 O Ph P-5 P3 P P3 H t— ( o o CO P3 CD CO IQ O CD 1- M 03 «0 . msmS . . . S H £> ^ •a S t< 33 5 „ t- 1 rt Cj-Oro £- a a *" jo - -g 7 2 1 5 ^ g « g s t/j fH J2 fe ■ • •S .|P M » a B 1 - 7. 1 § 7 ■H 3 '- = ■"." 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Ms. a L. 31. 20 Acton — Dr Reuben Buck, dona, by Rev Asa Cununings, 4 — Fi male Benev Soc, to complete L. M. of Henry C. Lawrenee, by Rev Mr Tewksbnry, 10 Oont in cong Bociety, 4 3} Jacob 11. Lovejoy, in part to const his daughter, Ellen M. Lovejoy. a L. M. 10 Female Benev Assoc, by Miss Mary Ann Haskell. Treas, in pari t" i some one hereafter to be named a L. M. 10 Ephraim Flint, an 1848, by Aaron Cummings, 2 Aaron I'ummings, an 1848, 2 Same, dona, 3 5 Alna — Miss Laura Stebbins, an 1845, 1846, 1MT. 6 Daniel Carlton, in part to const Miss Jane D. Carlton a L. M. 6 Monthly Concert, coll in cong ch, 9 Church and society cont, 16 25 Paul Pearson, don, which consts his wife a L. M., by Rev Mr. Talbot, 20 Miss Mary Ann Nelson, an 1*47 and 1848, by same, 4 Alfred— A Friend, 3 Amherst and Aurora — Ladies Cent Soc, 25 50 B. Silsby, 1 D. Silsby, 1 S. Silsby. 1 C. 0. Fanning, 3 R. Silsby, 50 G. Silsby, 1 .Mrs Lois Silsby, 1 H. Silsby, 1 J. T. Cole, 1 T. Reed, 50 G. L. Cox, 1 II. Ii. Loring, 1 By Rev Dr Gillett. Ladies Cent Soc, by Rev Mr Loring, 4 50 Ant/ovcr, Mt. — Individuals, by Re's .1. S. C.av. 2 tnson Village -William Weston, 2 J. M. Wilder, 50 Dr. Palmer, by Rev .T. Perham, 1 25 No 1 1. bj Rev Mr Keep, 5 Atkinson — Com* ch and soc, by Rev. E. Hale, 30 61 Atht ns — Messrs Bisby and Paine, by Rev J. Perham. 3 50 Augusta — E. A. Xason, in part to const Julia Nason a L. M., 10 Marj E. Nason, a 1.. M., 20 St«'ph"n Peering, to roust bis son, J. P. Deering, a L. M., Dr Tappan, to const Emmons Tap- pan, of Hampden, a L. M., John Means, an 1847, L. M. Leland, an Thomas Little, an D. C. Stanwood, dona, Thomas W. Smith, an Levi Page, an L. Bacon, an S. Brooks, an Gentlemen, Ladies, Monthly Concert, 5 months, North Parish, Monthly Concert, Jan 1848, J. Means, Tr. by Rev Dr Gillett, Gentlemen, Ladies, Sabbath School. By Rev Dr Tappan. Samuel Redington, to const Alfred Redington and Samuel Miller Red- ington, of Augusta, L. 31., by Rev Dr Tappan, Auburn, — Cong church and society, Cyrus Packard, 8 * of the above to const in part a L. M. to be named, Benjamin Beale, an E. Packard, an Charles Briggs, an John Downing, an Rev Thomas G. Mitchell, Bangor — Central church and soc. by A. Drummond ; $ 10 of which by Prof. Shepard to const in part his son, Th Shepard, a L. M., Prof Shepard, to complete L. M. of his son, 10 Central ch. $5 of which to complete L. M. ofLennette Mayo, 24 36 Friend, by J. S. Wheelwright, Tr. &c. 1 First cong ch and soc, coll from gen- tlemen, • 177 61 do from ladies, i;< ; ,;;, Cont on the Sabbath. 28 63 Appropriated by Sabbath school from missionary collection, 20 8 20 "i' the above by James Crosby to const Mrs Mary A. Adams a L. 31. \ ! ' $ 20 from J. Fiske to const 31rs II. S. Fiske, of Northboro', 31s, a L. 31.; also $20 from W. H. Dow, to const his father, Levi Dow. of Water- 20 20 2 2 2 5 2 2 2 2 49 <;.-, is 45 o7 9 50 18 8 1150 5 50 63 38 MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ville, a L. M Hammond gt church and society, 108 ] Mrs Nathaniel Harlow, by J. S. Wheel- wright, Mrs Hillings, by same, 1st parish Sab school, by Wm San- ford, Sec, to const some one hereafter to be named a L. M., Hammond street church, James Crosby, dona, Baldwin — Cong ch, by Rev Mr Garman, Bath — Female Missionary Society of the Central cong ch and soc, which const Mrs Gershom Hyde, of Bath, a L. M., and $ 7 50 in part to const Mrs Stetson a L. M., Levi Houghton, dona, Mrs Dorcas Leland, dona, 20 85 04 30 150 '50 14 17 50 Charles Clapp, Jr., dona, which const his daughter, Sarah J. Clapp, a L. M., by Rev Dr Cummings, 20 William M. Rogers, which const Mrs Clarissa Heed a L. M., by llev Dr Cum- mings, 20 Winter st Benev Soc, by Rev John 0. Fiske, 200 ■which const Misses Emily A. Ells- worth, Almira H. Gove, Sarah A. Page, Sarah A. S. Allen, all of Bath ; Miss Ellen S. Tallman, of Woolwich ; Miss Mary S. Arnold, of Monmouth ; Mrs Emeline Cushman, of Newcastle ; Mr Augustus Arnold, Mr Henry W. Field, and Mr Grenville J. Mitchell, of Bath, L. M. Cent Society, Mrs Henry Hyde, Tr, by Rev Mr Ellingwood, Female Cent Soc, Mrs E. H. Hyde, Tr, by Rev J. W. Ellingwood, Rev J. W. Ellingwood, dona, $ 40 of which to constitute Rev Profs Pond and Smith, of the Theological Seminary at Bangor, L. M. Belfast— First church and soc, $ 20 of which from J. S. Kimball, to const his wife, Mrs Isabella G. Kimball, a L. M. ; also $20 from individuals to const Rev Ebeuezer Price, of West Boscawen, N. II., first pastor of the church in Belfast, a L. M., 128 74 Ladies Retrenchment Soc, Mrs M. E. Caldwell, Tr, by John S. Caldwell, 5 North ch and soc ; viz : from month' ly concert, 10 Mrs Mary F. Souther, an 1847, 2 Henry Davidson, do 2 Special subscription, 6 25 A member of the church, to const his sister, Miss Abigail Davidson, of Bel- fast, a L. M., by If. Davidson, Tr., 20 From Rev Mr Cutter's ch and soc, by E. Bearuan, thro' Rev Mr Souther, 22 75 Bethel — Female Cent Soc, by Rev Mr Frost, $2 of which to complete L. M. of Mrs Zeruiah Ellingwood, and resi- due towards L. M. of Peter Twitchell, 10 84 Cong ch and soc, by Rev Mr Frost, 10 Mrs F. C. Chapman, dona, by same, 2 50 Bingham — Cong ch and soc, in part to const Rev S. Turner a L. M., 13 Biddeford — Cong ch and soc towards constituting Ralph T. Jordan aL. M., by Rev S. S. Drake, 10 Ralph T. Jordan, dona, 2 Mrs Ralph T. Jordan, dona, 2 4 which completes L. M. of Ralph T. Jordan ; by Rev S. S. Drake. Second cong church and society, 2ft 12 First parish, 2 31 Bhiehill — Cong ch and soc, by Joseph P. Thomas, which const their pastor, Rev H. M.Stone, and his wife,Mrs Eliz- abeth Stone, L. M., 40 Coll in cong soc, bv Rev Mr Sewall, 35 50 Blnnehard— Coll for 1846, 6 25 Coll for 1847, by Chas Blanchard, 9 75 10 Cong ch and soc, by Rev E. Hale, 70 Bloomfield — Female Cent Soc, Mary S. AV. Hathaway, Tr, to complete her L. M., 6 7ft Various individuals, 15 93 Bridgton — Mrs Ruth Lewis, dona, by R. Lincoln, 1 Cont in Rev Mr Page's soc, by John Kilborn, 5 70 John Kilborn, donation, which const himself a L. M., Samuel Andrews, dona, Bri men — Church and people, by Rev D. Cushman, Win Daggett, dona, Brownville — Cong ch and soc, Female Missionary Society, Brooks — Two friends, each 50 c. Thomas Sawyer, by Rev L. Wiswell, Brooksville — Cong cli and soc, by Rev Mr Ellis, Bristol — Cont in cong soc, Dona from Rev. S. Gould, Wm Chamberlain, an 1848, Leonard Chamberlain, do -5 by Rev Dr Cummings. Brewer — First cong soc ; Rev N. Dole, an 1847, 2 Mrs Dole, an 1847, 2 Rev N. Dole, for C. F. Dole, an 1847, 2 Thomas Gragg, do 2 Deodat Bradshaw, do 2 Jeremiah Skinner, do 2 Mrs Hardy , do 2 Dr Johnson, do 2 Mrs Johnson, do 2 Charlotte Job ison, do 2 Sarah Rider, do 2 Robert Holyoke, do 2 Collection on Sabbath. 12 55 by E. F. Duren. Sabbath School Missionary Society, by C. A. Staekpole, 3 67 First church, 12 13 Brunswick — Miss S. Harding, an 1847, 2 John Rogers, dona, 2 Egbert Rowe, 2 B. Furbish, 3 Prof Packard, 3 Isaac Lincoln, 10 George F. Dunning, 5 Mrs N. McKeen Dunlap, 10 Sundry individuals, 26 by Rev Geo E. Adams. N. Springer, dona, bv same, 2 Prof A. S. Packard, by II. Packard, 5 Bnrksport—3. W. Hinks, an 1847, 2 Noah Sparhawk, an 1847, 2 Bliss Blodgett, in part of L. M. here- after to be named, 5 John N. Swazey, in part of L. M. hereafter to be named, 5 Miss C. C. Darling, in part of L. SI. hereafter to be named, 10 2(i 11 50 26 7 52 1 2 5 67 10 1 2 MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. :'.'.» Coll by ladies In cong boo, to const Samuel L. Poud ami Jothaiu Moulton I. M 40 Coll by pent iu cong soc, 4(5 Monthly Concert, by Bliss Blodgett, 10 Monthly Concert in cong soc, l>y Bliss !■•!■ Igett. Tr, 20 Buxton — Stephen Adams, an K!7. by Rev a Cummings, 2 Ladies, by Mrs Rachel Brown, per Eli v Asa Cummings, 7 31 Burlington — Cont, 4 i, Camden— Bequest of late Beacon Eben Start, shin, for his deceased son Wil- liam, ami ja.00 for himself, by Rev Mr Chapman, 200 Female Auxiliary Society, to const Mrs Sarah Chapman a L. M. 27 62 Cont in cong soc to const Kc>v Nathan- iel Chapman a L. M. 20 Jos. Jones an 1847, don 1 00, 3 00 Charles E. Porter, an 1S37, 2 Archibald Buchanan, dona, 2 Jesse Fay, dona, 1 Charles R. Porter, an 1848, by Rev Br Cummings, 2 Joseph Jones, dona, by Rev Asa Cum- mings, 2 Canandaigua — The annual donation of two little .Misses, iu letter post-mark- ed Biddeford, ' 2 Copt Elizabeth — Female Miss Soc in cong soc, by Miss Caroline F. Jordan, which (with $10 cont in Sept 1846, to const some one to be afterwards des- ignated a L. M.) cons; Mr. Royal Par- kinson of Cape Elizabeth a L. M. 10 Carroll — Cont in cong soc, by Rev. E. Page, 195 Castint — Trinitarian soc, collected at monthly concerts, by Samuel Adams, 13 Samuel Adams dona, which const his sister, Mrs. Lucy A. Benson of Cam- bridge, Mass. a L. M 20 Chesterville — Cont in cong ch to onst Mrs Jos. H. Conant, L. M. 20 Isaac French an 1847, 2 CornviUe — Cont in cong soc, by Rev O. W. Fargo, 5 Various individuals, by Rev J. Per- ham, 134 Cumberland — Ladies, 12 Gentlemen, 24 50 To be added to last cong coll, by Rev Mr. Blake, 1 Da mnriscolta— Cong ch and soc, $10 of which by James G. Houston, in part to const Mrs Sarah N. Nichols of Pitts- ton a L. M. and 4 00 for annuities of Thomas Woodward and Mrs Catha- rine Woodward, by Rev. Mr Seabury, 40 Deer Isle — Coll in cong soc, 13 Coll in Sabbath*school, 3 00 i.ni cent soc, Mrs H. P. Il.ickett, Tr, $20 of which to const Miss Sarah dough Adams a L. M. by Rev Mr Sewall, 24 DedAam— Church, by J. S. Wheel- wright, Tr. 9 22 Di xU / — Cong ch and soc, by Rev E. G. Carpenter, Ifj Bixfield— Cong ch and soc. by Rev Br. Gillett, 15 Dirmont— Horace Wilder, an 1847. 2 Mrs Botsey Butman, 2 25 On Cont in cong ch and soc. 7 12 Durham — Nathaniel Scales. 1 BarziUa Richards, 4 Mrs Eunice Richards, 1 BarziUa Richards, dona, 6 Thomas Scales, dona, 2 Cong Ch dona, by I'.cv J. Elliott, which constitutes Osgood Strout of Durham, a L. M. 20 East Madison — Joseph Jenkins. 2 Baniel Reed, 1 Betsey Blanchard, 50 William Flanders, 50 East Orrington — Cong eh and soc, $20 of which to const Ephrakn Goodale, Jr. L. M. and 5 towards L.M. of some one hereafter to be named, by J. L Wheelwright, John K Mayo and wife in part to const their daughter Lennette Mayo a L. M. 6 Ens/ 1, r ,,ok — Ladies, dona, by Rev. Dr. Cummings, 8 East Thomaston — Ladies' Sewing Cir- cle, which with $10 previously paid constitutes .Airs Samuel C. Fessenden a L. M. by Mrs H. C. Thomas, Tr and Sec. 10 From a friend, by Rev. Asa Cum- mings, 3 Second cong ch, Thomaston, by Rev S. C. Fessenden, 6 East Brewer — Church, to complete L. M. of Mrs Louisa It. Munsel, 8 L. R. Munsel, an 1846, 2 Edgecomb — Congch, collected by Rev E. Wells, by Eev S. S. Drake. ' 3 Joseph Sherman to const himself a L.M. 20 Eden — AYilliam Thurston, by Rev Mr Sewall, 2 Ellsworth — Gentlemen's sub, 44 Ladies sub, 17 84 Saving's Bank of a child, 56 Circle of Industry, 22 20 of which to const Mercy Hovey a L. M. by Rev S. Tenney, through Enos Woodward, Ladies Circle of Industry in part to const some one hereafter to be desig- nated a L.M. 10 Elliott — Cont in cong soc, by Rev A. Loring, 20 Fairfield— Mrs. Freeman, by Rev. G. Bowman, through Rev. Dr. Gillett, 2 Robert Atwood, dona, by Rev. E. Hale, 2 Barnabas Freeman, 5 Mrs B. Freeman, 3 Farmington— Julia, A. Stanley, donaiu part to const some ono a L. M. 2 Monthly Concert, 12 88 l-< male Auxiliary Miss Soc, Mrs E. F. Rogera, Tr, to const A. H. Abbott a I«. M. 20 90 Hiram Belcher, to complete L. M. of his wife Mrs Evelina Belcher, 5 Collection on the Sabbath, 26 25 Cong soc Monthly Concert, by Rev A. Cummings, 10 00 Falmouth — Female Domestic Miss. Soc, Mrs. Wilde, Tr. by Rev B. M Mitchell, 11 (55 First cong soc, by Rev Mr Dame, 1 86 Fort Fairfield— Rey J. G. Merrill, 1 54 Hiram Stevens, 1 40 MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY by r.ov. ,T. 0. Merrill, through Rev A. Cummings, Fo.rcroft and Dover — Cong eh and soe, 820 of which to const Key Elias Wells of Sandwich, Mass. a L. M. by Kev E. Hale, 20 50 Additional from coDg ch and soe. by Kev E. Hale, 50 Coll on Sabbath, by Rev H. Ilsley, 8 75 Frankfort — Cong ch and soe by Rev S. II. Hayes, 29 60 Frankfort Mills — From people, 45 Fryeburg — Henry C. Buswell, dona, 5 Mrs Eliza O. Buswell, dona, 5 both in part to const their son, Chas. II. Buswell, aL.M. Mrs Sarah Osgood, dona, by J. B. Os- good, 2 Jos. Colby, in part to const Simeon Walker, L. M. 10 Mary Ann Parker in part by her mother, 10 Joseph Colby, in part to const some person hereafter to be named, a L. M. by Rev Asa Cummings, 10 Freeport — Cong ch and soe ; Ladies' Cent Soe, Mrs. Bacon, Tr. 5 64 Other contributions, by hand of Rev. E. G. Parsons, 64 61 Gardiner — Cong ch and Soe, by Rev J. W. Peet, which const some one to be named a L. M. 20 Garland— Church, by J. S. Wheel- wright, Tr, &c. 10 13 Gilead — Cont in cong soe, 13 E. Howe, 2 Mrs Susannah Hight, by Rev. II. Richardson, 1 Gorham — Ladies sewing circle, by Mrs Jane G. Mead, Tr, which const Mary Ann Adams a L. M. 20 Collected at Monthly concerts in cong soe, by T. Robie, ' 30 54 Cont in cong soe. by T. Robie, 43 21 Miss Grata R. Fogg, (now deceased.) by Rev Mr Adams, through T. Robie, 5 Ladies' Sewing Circle, by Mrs J. G. Mead, Tr, 820 of which const Rev J. R. Adams a L. M. 30 Gray — Cong Soe, by Rev Allen Lincoln which const Mrs Julia A Lincoln and Robert Merrill, L. M. 40 Hattowell — Monthly concert, 5 mos, 51 24 Wm. Sticknev, to const Mrs Susan C. Moody, a L.M. 20 Mrs Sophia E. Bond, to const Sophia E. Marshal a L. M. 20 Andrew Masters, in part to const him- self a L. M. 10 Sabbath cont, 58 50 A. B. and P. Morton, 5 Simeon Page, 3 James Sherborn, an 1847, 2 E. G. Dole, 2 D. S. Stinson, 1 Donor, 26 Mrs Sophia E. Bond, to const Mrs Mary J. Morse a L. M. 20 Rufus K. Page, to const Mis3 Lucre- tia Bond Page a L. M. 20 Elias Bond, an 1847, 2 Widow's mite, avails of her own in- dustry, 2 Female Religious Soe, Mrs. Sophia E Bond, Tr, 16 Female Miss Assoc, Mrs W. Stiekney, Treas, 15 Mrs Abigail Page, in part to const Miss Aim F. Page a L. M. 2 by Rev Dr. Gillett. Mrs Charlotte Cheever, for the Aroos- took region, by Rev. Dr Gillett, 3 Mrs Sophia E. Bond, to const Mi-s Anna Lakeman of Hallowell, a L. M. by Rev Dr Gillett, 20 Female Friend of Missions, 1 a a u 2 Monthly Concert, by Rev Dr. Gillett, 62 42 Mrs Sophia E. Bond, to const Mr Pres- ident Polk a L. M. 20 by Rev E. Gillett. Rev E. Gillett. to const Hon Daniel Webster of Mass a L.M. 20 W. Sticknev, an 1847, by Dr Gillett, 2 Rev E. Gillett, to const W. II. Gur- ley of AVashington, (D. 0.) a L. M. 20 Monthly concert, B. Wales, Tr, by Rev Dr Gillett, 30 59 Mrs Sophia E. Bond, to const Mrs Mary S. Paire of Wiseassct, a L. M. by Rev Dr Gillett, 20 Harwich, Bis — Rev Cyrus Stone, to con- stitute his wife, Mrs Abigail K. Stone, a L. M., by Rev Dr Cummings, 20 Hampden — Female Cent Soe, by Alex- ander Drumniond, 11 39 Subscription in cong society, 54 75 Mrs R. S. Curtis, in part to constitute Mrs Rhoda Freeman of Fairfield, a L. M., 10 Church, addition to contribution in June, 10 Harrison — Collection in cong society, which constitutes P. Eastman, now of Saco, ali. M., 20 P. Eastman, dona, 5 Hebron — Moses Allen, an 1847, 2 Same, dona, 50 2 50 Hodgdon — N. Harrington, by Rev A. J. Copeland, 2 Industry — cont in cong ch and society, 4 75 Mrs R. Rogers, dona, 25 Mr Allen, dona, by Kev Mr Clayes, 1 Three individuals, by Rev D. Clayes, 7 Jonesboro* — Joseph Sweetser, to com- plete L. M. of his wife, Mrs Catharine Sweetser, and part of amount assess- ed, by County conf of churches, on church in Jonesboro', 5 KennebunJc — Union cong church and society, monthly concert, by Rev G. W. Cressey, 12 From a friend, by Wm B. Sewall, 10 Ki urn hunk Port — First church and soe, which completes L. M. of Jas Smith, by Rev I. Kimball, 12 75 Kittery — Cong church and society, by Rev R. Kimball, 10 Knox — Samuel Tilton, in part to const himself a L. M., 5 Mrs Abigail Tilton, to complete L. M. of herself, 10 Kohala, (Sandwich Islands.) — From the people in Kev Mr Bond's missionary district, " a thank offering " for tho timely aid which personal and Chris- tian friends in Maine have afforded them, in building a house of worship, by Rev Dr Cummings, 10 Lebanon — Cong church and society, 88 MAINE .MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 41 Lebanon Centre: Additional contribu- tions, bj nandofRe\ Joseph Loring, which, with $38 previous!] contrib- n'< d, con titutes Messrs Nathaniel Chamberlain and John Mood] . I.. M . -Members of cong church, by K. n s. 8. Drake, Lewii og church and so- ciety . bj E. Little, Ladies Sr\» ing Circle in Rev Mr Drum- mond's society, by K. Bradford, Oong church and Bociotj . Let — Nathaniel I.. Qerrish, dona, Joseph M. True. \ 11 Qerriah, by Rev R. Page, / ( lont in cong society, Female Benevolent, Society, Zach. B. Smith, an 1M7, Isaac Smith, do Smith Raker, Uo Smith, do Solomon livown, do Female .Missionary Society, Rei I. Davis, dona. by hand of Rev T. Davis. Lisbon — Cong church and si Limingtoti — Cong church and society, by W. Adams, Cong society . by Rev J. II. Carman, which, with other contributions by the same, during the year, constitutes seme one hereafter to be named a L. M. Collected in cong society, by Rev J. II. tiarman, From the same, by Rev J. H. G. ' — Simeon Barker, Lot Wiggin, Edmund Brickett, F. R. Swase', . Dr William Swasey, .lames Bradbury, Miss Eliza (jilpatrick, Cash, .1. A.Morrill, Ebenezer Adams, by hand of Rev C. Freeman. Cont in cong society, by Itev C. Free- man, through James Libbey, Lincoln — John Leighton and family, H. P. Lewis, S. Taylor, C. H. Chase, Thomas Lindsey, Mrs S. B. Lovejoy, William Barnes, Mrs H. T. Merrill, Rev Joshua Eaton, Mrs Eaton, by Rev J. Eaton. Lowell, Ms. — W. C. How, dona, Lyman — Collection in cong church and society, Female Benevolent Society, to const Mrs William Pierce a L. M. Madawaslca — J. Baker, by J. S. Wheel- wright, Tr, &c, Madison — Various individuals ; S 10 of which to complete L.M. of MrsLucil- la T. Perham, Madison Centre — Cong church and so- ciety, in part to const Rev S. Turner aL. M., Mattawamkeag — Mrs Hayncs, by Rev Mr Keep, Mechanic Falls — Coll in cong soc, by (3 7 13 22 86 3122 84 5 5 3 6 46 4 90 2 2 2 2 2 864 5 12 50 -n 815 4 4 4 3 2 2 1 75 2 1 6 61 20 2 2153 2 72 1 Rev EnOS Merrill. Monthly concert, bj '. orch and society, Ke\ Bnos Merrill and wife, :/ -Individuals, by Rov D. Clayes, Rev l> Clayes, dona, Milo—i&TB Priscilla Lee, an Individual-. Mi/',,,' Ms- Kev .1. Tucker, dona, Samuel Pool, an 1847, 11. Stetson, an A. Staple-, an D. Freeman, an Isaac Allen, an James Washburn, an Subscriptions and dona, by Rev Mr Jones, Miscellaneous — Balance of Legacy be- queathed by late Kev llenn Smith, of 10 5 4 25 6 50 1 50 32 81 14 17 16 62 17 06 11 10 Bingham, in Rev S. Turner, From ■■ Delia," in a letter from Fast, in pari to I -t her husband a I. .M . Penobscc 6 pen E ehm S. Wheelwright, Tr, Franklin conf of churches, annual meeting, .lime 16, Lincoln conf of churches, Oxford conf of churches, by Rev Mr Packard, i Hoi alter sermon, at an meeting in Portland, 17317 s 'Jo nf w hich from Samuel N. Beale, to cost himself a L. M., Aroostook conf of churches, meeting at Lincoln, June 17, by Rev Joshua Baton, Rentof real estate devised the Society by late Miss .1. Hodsdon of Windham, by John Eveleth, from Rev Henry A. Merrill, present tenant, From a friend, by Rev J. 0. Fiske, 2 First instalment of legacy bequeath- ed by late Lion William Richardson, of Bath, by F. L. Richardson, exec- utor, 1000 From a friend in Cumberland Co, 20 From RevH. Merrill, by Kev William Warren, land rent, Cont of Kennebec conf of churches, at Pittston, by Rev E. Gillett, Dividend on shares in Lewiston Falls Manufacturing Company, Third instalment of legacy bequeath- ed by late Charles Hunt, by Judge Pierce, executor, A Friend, in a letter, to Kev Dr Cum- mings, Cumberland conference of churches, at semi-annual meeting at Saccarap- jia, in January, by David Hayes, From a friend in Massachusetts, for Home Missions in Maine ; forty dol- lars of which to const JRcv Henry M. Stone and wife, of Bluehill, L. M., by John F. Scamman, of Saco, 100 Various individuals, by Rev Jotham Sewall, 6 50 Dividend at M. and T. Bank, 22 00 do at Casco Bank, 52 50 do at ('anal Bank. 39 In part of a legacy bequeathed by the late John Pearson, of Bangor, by his Executors, S. T. Pearson and others, 250 A friend, by Rev Dr Cummings, 1 Cont at Meeting of York conference 26 9 12 88 40 62 50 1 35 72 42 MAINE MISSIONAKY SOCIETY. of churches, June 7, by Rev Dr Cum- mings, Oxford conf of churches, coll at an- nual meeting, June 7th and 8th, 1848, by Rev C. Packard, Enclosed in a letter to the Secretary, post-mark, ' Lowell, Ms,' by Rev E. Gillett, Surplus of cont at communion sea- son, at meeting of General Confer- ence at Portland, by hand of Rev Mr Chickering, From " Carolo," in a letter dated at Bluehill, Aug 13, 1847, Dividends on stocks, viz: in M. and T. Bank, in Canal Bank, in Casco Bank, York County conf of churches, by Rev Mr Cressey, Somerset conf of churches, by hand of Rev Josiah Peet, Oxford County conf of churches, at meeting, Oct 1847, by Elisha Morse, Treas, Avails of land sold, devised the Soci- ety by Miss Julia llodgdou, of Wind- ham ; viz : cash payment, 550 AVashington County conference, by AV. A. Crocker, Treas, 100 $ 20 of which from the cong church at Eastport to constitute Mr Lewis A. Cazenove, of Alexandria, A*a., a L. M. $ 25 of which from the Female Mis- sionary and Education Society of Rev Amos Brown's parish, Machias, to const Mrs Sophia Brown, of Machias, a L. M. $30 of which from the Female Dom Missionary Society of the cong church at Calais. $ 20 of which from cong society, Ca- lais, to const Ann D. Barker a L. M. $10 from said cong society, Calais, in part to const Jacob Lord a L. M. Contribution of Cumberland County conf, by R. Bradford, Tr of Lewiston Falls church, Interest on money loaned, Monmouth — Eben Arnold, anl847, Nehemiah Pierce, do by Rev Asa Cummings. Monson — Mrs Theresa V. Davee towards her L. M. Coll in cong soc by Rev Mr Ilsley, 20 of which to const Dea William Ten- ney a L. M. Coll on Sabbath, Female Charitable Society, in part to const Mrs Polly Davidson a L. M., by Rev H. Ilsley, Mrs Theresa V. Davee, to complete her L. M., by John How, Mount Desert — South West Harbor, coll by John Carroll, by Rev C. M. Brown, Coll by Rev C. M. Brown, Coll in part by Rev Mr Sewall, Individuals in Pretty Marsh, by Rev Mr Brown, Newcastle — Damariscotta to const Miss Martha Sherman a L. M. Samuel Ford, an 1847, Washington Dodge, an 1847, Jos Perkins, dona. 20 20 87 10 20 22 39 52 50 20 18 72 27 73 2113 2 2 2G 96 7 25 10 17 40 47 20 08 2 77 Miss Harriet Perkins, dona, 2 Washington Dodge, an 184 1, by Rev Asa Cummings, 2 New Gloucester — Ladies Sewing Circle, by Miss A. C. M. Foxcroft, Tr, 30 Cong ch, by Sylvanus Cobb, 6 02 Female Missionary Soc, 20 of which const Rev N. A. Prince a L. M. 22 Cont in cong soc, 11 00 Female Missionary Soc, 18 New Limerick — People, by Rev A. J. Copeland, 2 50 Neto Vineyard — Cont in cong soc, 4 25 Neivjield — Cont in cong ch and soc, by Rev E. Chapman, 13 Samuel Adams, an 1847, 2 Neio Portland — Isaac Hopkins, dona, towards const Joseph Isaac Hopkins a L. M. 5 Newport — Mr Kelley, hy Rev R. Keep, 4 Ncioburyport — William Thurston, an. 1847, 2 Neiv Sharon — Jesse Fnller, dona, 4 No. 11, Aroostook— By Rev M. R. Keep, 9 87 North Bridgton — Cont in cong soc, by Rev Mr Gould, 15 70 Cont in cong ch and soc, by Rev L. W. Harris, through G. II. Shirley, 12 12 North Bangor — Cong ch, by J S. Wheel- wright, 8 North Marshfield, Ms.— Rev D. D. Tap- pan, dona, by Rev Dr Tappan, 2 North Waterford — Female Benevolent Soc, Mrs Ruth K. Green, Tr, which completes L. M. of Mrs Mary Jewett, 15 Norridgewock — Members of Sabbath School in cong soc, to const their su- perintendent, J. S. Abbott, a L. M. 20 Various individuals to const Rev John Dodd a L. M. 25 41 North Yarmouth Centre — Rev. C. Ho- bart, 10 Jacob Chase, 5 W. Hamilton, 2 S. Porter, 2 William R. Porter, 1 John G. Herrick. 2 William Hamilton, Jr, 1 Nehemiah Lufkin, 1 Jacob B. Lufkin, David Trickey, 1 50 Sylva Trickey, 2 Daniel O. Holt, 1 B. B. Porter, 1 S. fBacon, 1 A. Osgood, 3 J. Hayes, 2 W. Buxton, 2 R. Porter, 2 N. Lufkin, 50 J. Staples, 50 W. Lufkin, 50 J. Loring, 50 Sally P. Sweetsir, 50 Alice P. Sweetsir, 25 Persis E. Sweetsir, 25 Lucy L. Cushman, 1 L. Bacon, 2 Mary Cole, 1 Jason Hamilton, 25 John Hamilton, 75 L. Skillin, 1 J. Skillin, 1 50 Samuel S. Skillin, 25 Charles E. Hicks, 2 MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 13 Rufus A. Chase, 1 Barab Hamilton, 1 William Mitchell, 25 Edward Hayes, 25 William Sweetser, an 184", 2 Silvanus Sweetser, 60 A Friend, V Sweetser, 1 Eliza Titeomb, 25 Sarah ritcomb, 20 Worcester Titcomb, 60 Jaspei Marston, 1 Polly Marston, 25 William Marston, 25 Samuel 0. boring, 25 Josepb Hayes, 1 A Friend, 60 Lucy Barton, 2o SethS. Lufkin, 50 Eliza Lufkin, 1 M. .1. Marshall, 06 From funds of the church, 21 5i bv Rev C. Hobart. First Parish. D. P. 1 G. D. 25 P. H. Kimball, in part to const some one a L. M. 10 Paul Prince, 1 Samuel Ring, 60 Nathaniel Mitchell, 60 Daniel Lovell, '50 John Soule, 1 Mrs. Samuel Seabury, 3 Daniel Coffin, 1 Alfred Seabury, 1 Henry Seabury, 2o Matthias Allen, 3 Gad Hitchcock, 50 David Seabury, 10 Ezekiel Merrill, 3 Samuel B . Kenney, _ 1 Albion Seabury iu part to const him- self a L. M. 10 Joseph Chandler, to complete L. M of Albion Seabury, 10 From a Friend by hand of Miss Pene- lope Martin, to be expended in Aroos- took county, to const Miss Elizabeth Jenks of Williamsburg, a L. M. 20 Isaac Merrill, 60 Frances Seabury, 1 John W. Seabury, 50 John Seabury, 50 West Stubbs, 25 Franklin Gammon, 60 Reuben Prince in part to const Mrs D. D. Prince a L. M. 10 Jos. Drinkwater, 1 Tristram G. Mitchell, 3 Jos. Young, 25 Daniel Mitchell, 1 50 Jere Mitchell, 3 Ammi R. Mitchell, 50 Charles W. Mitchell, 25 Charles Moxey, 1 50 JonaP. Rowe, 50 Levi Whitcomb, 1 llleazer Burbank, 4 A. H. Burbank. Thomas J. Brown, 1 Hosea Newall, 50 Reuben Hayes, 25 Richmond Loring, Jr, Jere Mitchell, Jr, 1 B. Freeman, 1 Cash, , . _ „ Silvanus Rlanchard, to complete L. il of s. 0. Blanchard, George w Is, Rev 1). Sheplcy, Hosea l. Chase, ■|'h ,mas Chase, Jr., an $2, dona,$d Friend, T. G. Cleaves, Nicholas Grant, S \\ '. Mitchell, Thaxtei Prince, Edmund Cleaves, W. li. Ncubegin, a. ir. Weld, Levi T. Lincoln, Benjamin Seabury, ,i (i. Loring. i" complete L. M. 01 Dr. MoseB Rogers of Harwich, Mass. William Chandler, Samuel Sweetser, dona, " " an Female Cent Soc. 0. Gray, Tr, Newell See, M- Jenks, Tr, by Rev D. Shepley. First Parish, Joseph Mitchell, by Rev D. Shepley, , Second Parish, Daniel Staples, dona, Isaac S. Hayes, by Rev C. Hobart, First Parish cong coll (additional) 10 of which from F. A Pomroy, to com- plete L. M. of Mrs P. Pomroy, by Thomas Chase, Jr. Oldtown— Rev Robert Page, Mrs P. Page, Miss Abby M. Page, all towards L. M. of Miss Elba O. Church, by J. S. Wheelwright. Tr, Orouo— Cong ch by Rev J. A. Perry, in part to const some one hereafter to be named a L. M. Church, by J. S. Wheelwright, Tr., &c., Orland— Coll bv Bliss Blodgett, OHsfield— Church and soc, by Rev J. Hancock, Nathan Knight, an 1847, Ladies Asso, Mrs Sarah Knight, Tr, Individuals, by Nathan Knight, Tr, To be added to cont in cong, by John Hancock, Nathan Knight, an 1848, Oxford— Sundry subscriptions by Isaac Carlton, Sister in cong ch, in part to const a friend a L. M. by Rev A. Cummings, Parson sfit U— Samuel Garland, to const his daughter, Miss Mary Ann Garland a L. M.,by Rev Asa Cummings, Samuel Garland, dona, Paris— Levi Stowell, dona by Rev Asa Cummin us, Ansel Field, dona, by Jonas Hamilton Passadtmikeag— Cong ch and soc, by J. S. Wheelwright, Cont by same, Mr. Wm J. Patten— David Rogers, by Rev. Mr. Keep, Ch and soc, by Rev J. Eaton, W. J. , . Pembroke— From a friend of missions, by hand of W. W. Greene, Pittston— Ladies' sewing circle, by Kev 25 25 2 1 2 10 1 10 2 4510 20 50 29 20 2 2 2 25 482 7 20 14 50 5 08 2 260 3 168 2 5 75 10 20 5 1 6 6 86 2 60 2 29 50 50 44 MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. John H. Stratton, 10 Cont in cong soc, to balance, 10 Pittsburg, Pa.— Mrs E. F. Blake, to const Mrs Caroline Pierce a L. M., by- Rev Asa Cummings, 20 Pkipsburg— Cont in cong soc, by Rev Mr Loring, 13 38 Rev Mr Loring, 2 Poland— Cong ch and soc, by Rev Mr Gould, 5 Cont in First cong ch, by Rev Ste- phen Gould, 8 75 Pownal — Coll in cong soc, by John Noyes, 39 38 Portland — Second cong soc, by William Swan, $40 of which is to const Mrs W. W. Thomas and Joseph M. Ger- rish, L. M. 162 60 Jona Tucker, dona, 10 A donation to const Miss Pamela Mar- tin a L. M. by Rev Asa Cummings, 20 Godfrey Mark, an 184S, 2 3d Parish Sewing Circle, which com- pletes L. M. of Mrs Eben True, Port- land, 2 Elias Mountfort to const his wife Mrs Nancy Mountfort a L. M. 20 Miss Penelope Martin dona, 2 Juvenile sewing circle in 3d cong soc, by Elizabeth B. Dwight, 6 Prom a friend, by Miss Lois Clark, 5 Missionary sewing circle, by Miss Ce- lia M. Patten, Tr. 73 Mrs Bartels and others, by Samuel Thurston, 3 High St ch and soc, by hand of E. Oxnard, 345 56 $20 of which from an individual to const H. P. A. Smith, of Cherryfield, a L. M. and $10 from Mrs Harriet M. Smith iu part to const Mrs. Julia A. Stanley, of Farmington, a L. M. and §20 from "A Friend," to const Miss Jane Tinkham, of Portland, a L. M. Also $6 from E. F. Duren, to com- plete L. M. of his son, C. M. Duren. Gabriel Mark, an 1848, 2 Missy Sewing Circle, by Miss Celia M. Patten. Treas, 58 Female Miss'y society, Mrs Elizabeth Greeley, Treas, 23 80 3d cong soc, by C. Chase, 90 50 $20 of which const Miss Elizabeth Barrett, of Springfield, Vt. a L. 31. <±'2\\ from II. J. Libby, to const him- self a. L. M. $10 from J. B. Osgood for his own and his wife's an 1848, and dona $6 ; $10 from E. Gould to com- plete L. M. of Elizabeth M. Gould ; Sewing Circle, Mrs Deborah Russell Treas, which const Mrs Moses Merrill, Mrs E. C. Stevens, Mrs. H. J. Libby, and Miss Mary Lunt, all of Portland, L. M. 84 Portland Grant — Mrs David Foster, by Rev A. J. Copeland, 50 Prospect — Sub from Rev Joseph Free- ' mans soc, 17 Individuals in Rev J. Freeman's Par- ish, by Rev A. Cummings, 5 Richmond — Lady, thank-offering, by Rev Dr Gillett, 1 ITm Patten, 10 J Irs Patten, 5 S. F. Blair. 10 Saco — Benevolent Soc of first church and parish, by Seth Scamman, Treas, 32 Rev E. S. Dwight, dona, which const his mother, Mrs Clarissa Dwight of New Haven, Conn, a L. M , 20 From two friends, annual payment $2n each ; $20 of which const Mrs. Eliza Ferguson, of South Berwick, a L. M. 40 Joseph M. Hayes, annual payment, which const his wife, Caroline L. Hayes, a L. M. 20 Jona King, an 1848, by J. T. McCobb, 2 Benev Soc of 1st eh and soc, by Seth Scamman, $10 of which from S. Scam- man, to complete L. M. of Miss La- vinia Scamman, and $25 from a friend to const Rev Joshua S. Gay, of Biddeford, a L. M. 60 Philip Eastman and wife, 10 So n ford— Wm L. Emery, an 1847, 2 Samuel B. Emery, an 1847, 2 Samuel Lord, " 2 Cont in cong soc, 10 50 Individuals in cong soc, 12 50 $20 of the last two sums to constitute Obadiah Littlefield a L. M. by Rev Mr Goss. Coll in cong soc, by Rev. J. C. Goss, 10 Coll in cong soc, 11 WmS. Emery, an 1848, 2 by Rev J. C. Goss. Sangeri-ille — Ch and society, in part to const Rev Henry Sewall a L. M. by Rev E. Hale, 10 Cong ch and soc, to complete L. M. of Rev Henry Sewall, by same, 34 82 Scarborough — A Family Donation, by hand of Seth Storer, which const Frederick T. Storer a L. M, 20 First Parish, by John Fogg, 13 45 Searsport — Cong church and soc, $10 of which from Rev S. Thurston, to const in part his daughter Clara B. Thurs- ton a L. M. and $10 of which from Mrs Ann Black, in part to const her son, Joshua T. Black a L. M. 185 00 Mrs Ann Black, to complete L. M. of her son, Joshua T. Black, 10 Sedgwick — From Mrs. C. Thurston, dona, 1 Cong ch and soc, by Rev Mr Ellis, 14 33 Shecpscot— Rev D. Cushman, an 1847, 2 Individuals, by Rev D. Cushman, 7 50 Shapleigh — Rev Amasa Loring, 5 Coll in cong soc, 10 67 Female Benev Soc, 4 33 by Rev Amasa Loring, to const some one hereafter to be named, a L. M. Skowhegan — Various individuals, by Rev J^ Perham, 8 25 Springfield— Cont by Rev R. Page, 2 34 Francis A. Reed, 3 Mrs. Julia Reed, 150 R. S. Wright, by Rev R. Page, 2 00 Solon Village — Cong ch and soc, to complete L. M. of Rev Sidney Turner, 5 South Anson — Female Cent Soc, in part to const Mrs Marj r Leathead a L. M. 10 Individuals, by Rev. J. Perham, 4 75 Sout/i Bridgton — Widow Elizabeth In- galls, by Rev A. Cummings, 5 South Berwick — Monthly Concert, cong soc, 11 13 Two female members of the ch, 70 MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 45 friend, 17 by Rev. A Cummings. Monthly Concert in (Jong Soc, 17 Mrs Abigail Might, dona, 2 Three Female members of eong cU, by hand of Chas K. Norton, 100 John Plummer, to const Geo W. Rog- ers a 1/ M. 20 Four Female members of CODg ch, 2 by Chas K. Norton. South China — Mrs Elizabeth Starrett, by Rev.E. Giltett, 100 South Solon— D. Hobart, 2 I. Biotaaell, 2 Nathan Jewett, 60 Calvin Jewett, 1 William Panl, 25 Catharine Paul, 25 William II. Paul, 25 Edward Paul. 50 Asa Shepley, by Rev J. Peril am, 50 St. Albans— Mark Buswell, 1 Lemuel Merrill, 1 Eben Merrill, 2 Nathaniel Merrill. 1 Sarah Haines, by Rev J. Perham, 50 St. Francis — Coll by Rev Mr Keep, 7 75 Strong — Winthrop Norton, dona, 1 Benjamin Hunter, do 1 Ephraim Hartwell, do 1 B. D. Dyer, do 1 Reuben Dyer, do 50 Ebenezer Knights, do 50 by Rev William Davenport. Reuben Dyer, dona, in part to const Rev Joseph Freeman, Jr. of Prospect, a L. M.. by hand of 0. J. Dyer, Female Missionary Society, by Mrs D. M. May, Tr, in part to const Uev Wm Davenport a L. M., Standish — Late Mrs Mary Cram, dec*d by hand of Nehemiah Cram, Cong society, monthly concert, J. H. Philbrick, an 1847, by Rev Mr Rand, 2 Rev W. W. Rand, dona, 5 Starts— Arnold Hardy, 50 Lois Hardy, 25 Sarah Waugh, 50 James Yarnum, 1 Almira Yarnum, 1 Washington Waugh, 50 L. Greati hi. 1 Sir. ,<■ ,i — Cong church, by hand of Rev David Garland, 3 Cong church, dona, by Rev Joseph Garland, 5 Sumner — Cong church and society, by E. F. Dureu, 8 65 Temple — Female Aux Missionary Soci- ety. .Mrs C. Morton, Tr, 5 50 Cont in eong church and society, 4 75 Rev Alpha Morton, dona, 6 To complete L. M. of Mrs Charlotte Morton. Thomastoti — F'irst eong society, coll by Female Aux Missionary Society, by Mrs S. V. Woodhnll.Tr, 50 Topsham — Congregational aoi 14 50 Turner — Female Charitable Sue. Mrs P. M. Dresser, Tr. SO of which to com- plete L. M. of Mrs Henry Eddy, of Kennebunk Port, by Rev A Greeley, 11 75 Young Ladies' Missionary Society, by Miss Dolly Cary, 3 10 13 57 15 50 2 7' Lather Carj . dona, Silas Blake, to const himself a L. M. Cont in eong church and society, by hand of Jesse Follett, Union— Cong church and society, in part tn const some one to be named, a L. M., Unity — Cong church and society, by Rev Mr (Mark, Cong church, by Rev S. Clark, thro' Rev As.i Cummings. Josiah March, an 1848, 1!-. K. W. Murch. Vassalborough and Sidney — Cont and dona, from church and soc in those places, to const Rev Nathan \V. Shel- don a L M , Waidoborough — Cong church and soc, coll on the Sabbath, Female Missionary Society. James Hovey. to const himself a I. M Rev John Dodge, in part to const his wife. Ann L. Dodge, a L. M., Mrs James Hovey, Greenville Hovey, Myron Hovey, George Allen, Hiram Bliss, Joseph Morse, Family of R. C. Webb. MrsS. G. Elwell, anl847, Mrs s. t. Webb, do Mrs S. Bulfinch, do Mrs Samuel Morse, do Samuel M. Morse, do G. Allen, do James Cook. do John Bulfinch, do R. B. Webb, do Friend, By hand of Rev Mr Dodge. Henry J. Manning, Females of the Bay District, By Rev. John Dodge, through Rev Dr Gillett. Warren — From late Mrs Jane C. Star- rett, " as a last and dying testimony of respect for the Maine Missionary Society." by Rev Franklin Davis, David" Starrett, an 1847, by same, Washington — John McDowell, dona, Lucy McDowell, Sarah McDowell, William McDowell, Eliza McDowell, John McDowell. Jr., Harriet McDowell, Louisa McDowell, Moses Walcott, Mary Walcott, Calvin Starrett, Betsey Starrett, Robert E. Rider, William Rust, George Miller. Barbara Miller, John Humes, Jona Nev.all. By Rev Josiah Merrill Tile late Mrs Tallin Starrett, one of her last acts. h\ Calvin Starr«-tt, thro' Rev Dr Cummings, d— W. W. Greene, dona, in_' society, dona, by Rev John A Douglass, (32 12 23 29 20 12 50 20 10 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 130 1 27 10 30 46 MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Waterville — Monthly concert, by Rev K. Gill.'tt, < Monthly concert, by Rev E. Gillctt, 1 52 Wells — First cong church and society coll, by Kev James R. Gushing, 13 First parish cont, 9 Auxiliary Sewing Circle, 8 Weld — Cont on the Sabbath, 10 Female Assist Missionary Society, to- wards L. M. of Mrs N. Russell, 7 ; Williamsburg — Cont in Sabbath school, 2 82 Winlhrop — Semi-annual coll, in cong society, by Rev D. Thurston, 12 Winslow — Thomas Rice, dona, by Rev Dr Cummings, 10 Windham — 3Irs II. A. MerrilL, dona, by Rev W. Warren, 1 Rev Mr Warren, 13 Cong society, 27 29 John Eveleth, dona, 5 Wilton — Ladies' Missionary Society, to complete L. M. of J. Bradbury, 1150 Seth Rass, an 1847, 2 John Barker, an 1847, 2 Cong church and society, 10 90 Nancy H. Strickland, in part to const Charles A. Strickland a L. M. Jj Sylvester Strickland in part to const Mary Adeline Strickland a L. M. 2 Wiscasset — Cont in cong society, Ladies' Missionary Society, to const Rev Uriah Balkham a L. M., Patrick Lennox, an 1847, Woolwich — Monthly concert of prayer in cong society, from Mr Perkins, by Rev 0. J. Fisfce, A Friend, by Rev Asa Cummings, Worcester, Ms. — Rev Seth Sweetser, do- nation, by Kev A. Cummings, West Brooksi-ille — John Henry, dona, by David Wasson, through Rev A. Cummings, David Wasson, in part of his L. M., by Rev Mr Ellis, Westbrook — Second parish at Saccarap- pa Village, cont ; $ 20 of which is to const William Marrett a L. M., by David Hayes, West Falmouth — Female Missionary Society, Miss Betsey Merrill, Tr, do- nation, by Paul E. Merrill, Paul E.Merrill, an 1S48, York — First cong church, by Rev J. L. Ashby, 2d church and society, by Rev Mr Holinan, 29 15 32 S 11,209 69 Poetland, June 27, 1848. WOODBURY STORER, Treasurer M. M. Society. LIFE MEMBERS. inOSE WITH A STAB PREFIXED, DECEASED. •Abbott, Jacob, Farmington Abbott Kev Jacob, New York •Abbott Mrs Betsey, Farniiugton Abbott Miss Salueia, " Abbott Miss Clara Aim, " Abbott Mrs Hannah B. " Abbott Rev Samuel P., " Abbott Alexander H., " Abbott J. S., Norridgewock Abbott Mrs Eliza T., " Abbott Mrs l'hebe Ann, Temple Adams Kev Thomas, Ohio Adams Mrs Catharine L., Ohio Adams Kev George E.. Brunswick Adams Mrs Sarah A., " Adams Rev Darwin, Al?tead,N. H. Adams Rev C. S., Dartmouth, Mass *Adams Rev AVeston B., Lewiston *Adams Mrs Harriet E., " * Adams Miss Melinda C. " Adams Rev Jonathan, Deer Isle Adams HaDnah A., " Adams Miss Sarah, " Adams John Jr., Newfield Adams Samuel, Castine Adams Mrs Lucy S., " Adams Alfred S., " Adams Miss S. F., " Adams Samuel J., " Adams George M , " Adams Mrs Mary M., " Adams AA'illiam F., " Adams Rev Solomon, Boston, Mass Adams Mrs Adeline, " " Adams Isaac R., Farmington Adams John C, Bangor Adams Eliashib, '■ Adams Miss Mary A., Bangor Adams Rev Aaron C, West Bloomfield, N. J. Adams Rev John R., Gorham Adams Mrs Mary Ann, " Adams Mrs Abigail H., Chcrrvfield Adams Mrs Sarah B., AA'inslow Agry Miss Sarah H., Hallowell Akers AVilliam, Buxton Alden Augustus, Hallowell Allen Rev AVilliam D. D.. Northampton, Mass Allen Rev John AVheeloek, Wayland, Mass Allen Matthias, North Yarmouth Allen AVilliam Norridgewock Allen Rev Benjamin R., South Berwick Allen James, Bangor Allen Miss Sarah A. S., Bath Ailing Mrs Albert, Newark, N. J. Ambrose Mrs David, Newington, N. II. Anderson Stephen, Freeport Appleton Elisha AA\, Portland *Arnold Mrs Mary Jane. Bath Arnold Augustus, Bath Arnold Miss Mary S . Monmouth Ashby Rev John L., A'nrk Auld Mrs Elizabeth, Bonthbay Babcock Rev Elisha, Thetford, Vt. Babcock Mrs William, Bangor Bacon Rev Elisha, (Vntreville, Mass. Bacon, son of Rev E. B., " Bacon ileorge, Freeport Bacon Mrs George, " Bailey Lebbeus, Portland Bailey Mrs Sarah, Bath Baker Edward W., Portland Baker Azariah, Edgecomb Baker Rev John, Elliot Baker Mrs Sarah K., Elliot Baker Rev Silas, Kennebunkport Baker Mrs Eliza S., " Baker Mrs Ellen B., Hallowell Balkam Rev Uriah, Wlscasset Barker Mrs Phebe A., AVilton Barker Samuel F., Calais Barker Mrs Ann D., " Barker Simeon, Limerick Barnard Rev Pliny F., Richmond Baron E. W. Lebanon Baron Mary Lincoln, Hampden Barrell Mrs Huldah, Turner Barrett Amos, Union Barrett Miss Abby S., Portland Barrett Miss Elizabeth, Springfield, Vt ♦Barrows John S., Fryeburg Barrows John S., ' : Barrows Reuel, *Barrows Thomas P., " Barrows Miss Ann K., " Barrows Miss Ann A., " Barrows George B., " Bartlett Rev George, Buxton Bates Rev A. J., Lincoln Beale Samuel N., Portland Beckwith Rev George C. Boston, Mass Beckwith Mrs Martha AV\, " Beckwith Rev B. B. Belcher Hiram, Farmington Belcher Mrs Evelina, " *Belden Rev Jonathan, Hallowell Belden Mrs Martha, " Belden Miss Louisa, Belden Jonathan Hyde, " Beeman Edwin, Belfast Benson Mrs Lucy A.. Cambridge, Mass Bigelow, Rev Asahel, AA'alpole. Mass Bishop Rev Nelson, Windsor, Vt Bixby George, Athens Black Joseph T., Searsport Blake Mrs Sophia C, Otisfield Blake Mrs Mary G., Bath 48 LIFE MEMBERS. Blake Silas, Turner Blake Rev Joseph, Cumberland Blanchard Charles, Blanchard Blanchard Nathaniel, Portland Blanchard Silvanus, North Yarmouth Blanchard Dorcas, " Blanchard S. W., " Blanchard Paul G., Blanchard Silvanus C, " Blood Kev MighiU, Bueksport *Blood Mrs Mighill, " Blodgett Bliss, il Blodgetfc Henry,' " Blodgett Mrs Mary, " Bodwell Mortimer, Solon Bond Elias, Hallowell Bond Mrs Sophia E., " Bond Rev Elias Jr, Sandwich Islands Bond Mrs Ellen M., " Bond George Shepard " Bond Miss Thankful S . Hallowell Bourne Abraham L., Kennebunk Bovey John, Bath Bovey Mrs John " Bowman Mrs Sarah G., Bath Bowker Rev Samuel, Union Bowker Mrs Elizabeth E., " Bowker Mrs Abigail, Bethel Bradbury Mrs Sarah, New Gloucester Bradbury Joseph, Wilton Bradley John, Bradley Mrs John, Bradley John Jr, Bradley Samuel, Saco Bradley Rev Caleb, Gorham Breed Rev William J., Providence, R. I. Breed Mrs Mary S., " Brett Martin, South Paris *Bridge James, Augusta Bridge Mrs Emily, Winslow Brooks William A., Augusta Brooks Mrs Lnsanna, Augusta Brooks Mrs Clarissa, Portland Brown James, Danvers, Mass Brown Mrs Elizabeth, Andover, Mass Brown George A., Hampden Brown A. G., Brown Mrs Mary Ann, " Brown Samuel J. M., " Brown B. H., Brown Edward P., " Brown Rev Amos, Machias Browne Thomas, Portland Browne Mrs Ann, " Brown Mrs Sophia, Machias Brown Theodore S., Bangor Brown Mrs Sarah, " Brown William S., " Brown Charles Edward, Bangor Brown Dascomb, Brooks *Brown Robbins, Bethel *Brown Benjamin, Bangor Brown Rev Charles M., Mount Desert Brown Rev. John Crombie, St. Petersburg Russia „ Brown Asa, Buxton Buck John, Orland Buck Sarah T., " Buck John A., Bucksport Bucknam Ichabod, Hallowell Bulfinch John, Waldoboro' Bullard Rev Asa, Boston, Mass Bullard Mrs Asa, " Burbank Jedediah, Bethel Burbank Mrs Frances, " Bumliam Jonas, Augusta Burnham Mrs Jonas, li Burnham Seth, Kennebunkport Burr Rev Jonathan, Boston, Mass Buswell Henry C, Fryeburg Buswell .Mrs Elizabeth 0. , " Buswell Charles Henry, Fryeburg. *Byram Mrs Lucretia R., Portland Caldwell John S., Belfast Campbell Rev G. \V. Newbnry, Vt Campbell Rev Daniel, Orford, N. H. Campbell Mrs Lucy A., " Cammett Mrs William, Portland Carlton, Rev Isaac, Oxford Carlton Mrs Isaac, " Carlton Isaac, Bethel Carlton Mrs Daniel Jr, Alna Carlton William, Camden Carlton Edward. Waterford Carpenter Rev Eber, formerly of York Carpenter Rev E. G., Dexter Carpenter Mrs S. B., " Carruthers Kev James, Portland, 10 times *Carruthers Mrs Robina, " *Carruthers Miss Jane, " •Carruthers Miss Ellen, " Carruthers Rev John J., D. D., Portland Carter Mrs Elizabeth E., Bangor Cazenove Lewis A., Alexandria, Ya Chadbourne Miss Betsey, Portland *Chase Stephen Fryeburg Chase Mrs Sarah, North Yarmouth *Chapin Rev Perez, Pownal Chapin Mrs Sarah W., Pownal *Chapin Rev Horace B., Lewiston Falls Chapin Mrs Horace B., " Chamberlain Benjamin P., Salem, Mass Chamberlain Nathaniel, Lebanon Centre Chapman Rev Nathaniel, Camden, 2d time Chairman Mrs Sarah, " Chapman Rev Calvin, Westbrook Chapman Mrs Lucy B., " *Chandler Rev Samuel, Elliot *Chandler Enos, North Yarmouth Chandler Joseph Jr, " Chandler William, " Cheever Mrs Charlotte, Hallowell Cheever Mrs Elizabeth B., " Cheever Henry T., Chenery Mrs Luther, Wilton ChickeringRev John W., Portland, 2d thn* Chickering Mrs John W., " Chickering Miss Betsey, Athol, Mass Child James L.. Augusta Child Mrs Jane H., " Child Daniel C, " Child Ann Eliza, " Child James L. Jr. , " Child Hannah S., " Child Greenville H., " Child Rebecca Jane, " Child Robert Waiuwright, Augusta Christopher Mrs Lyclia, Calais Church Rev A. B., formerly of Calais Chute Mrs Mary, Portland Chute Rev A. P., Harrison Chute Mrs A. P., " Chute John, Naples Clark Rev AVilliam, Fryeburg Clark AYilliam B., " Clark Henry Kennebunkport Clark Mrs Susan Lord, " Clark Mrs Louisa N., Wells I Clarke Miss Lois, Portland j Clark Mrs Samuel, " LIFE MEMBERS. 49 Clark Freeman, Bath Claris Mra Freeman, Clark Misa Frances L., " Clark Mi" AgnesE.L. " Clark Gilman, Foxcroft Clark Rev Sumner I Clapp Mrs Jane T.. Bath i Mrs Rachel, Clapp Charles, " Clapp Charles, Jr., " clap-,. Miss Sarah J., " Clay Henry, Ashland, Ky Rev Dana, South Reading, Mass - Mrs Biddefbrd Miss Mary. " Cleaveland Prof Parker, Brunswick Codman George C, H r-ii>rook Codman William S., Camden a Mrs Lucretia, '• Colburn Rev Jonas, Colburn Mrs M. B. Cole Mrs Sarah J., Paco . il Rev Jonathan, East Windsor ell Jlrs Jonathan, " Coker Stephen, Alna •Cole Rei Albert, Bluehill Colby Joseph, Pryeburg Colbv Mrs Elizabeth, " Colby Mrs Ruth M., " Collins Miss Sally. New Gloucester Conant Rev Joseph H..Chesterville Conant Mrs Joseph H., " Coltou Mrs Abigail 8., Galesburg, Ill Condit Rev JonaB., Newark, N. J., 3 times Condit Mrs J. B., " 2d time Copeland A. J., Hodgdon Crane Mrs John C, Newark, N. J. Cressey Rev George AW, Kennebunk i In ssey Mrs Caroline M., '• Crie James, Portland Crocker Mrs Eliza L., Machias •Crosby Rev John, Castine Crosby Mrs Uannah, Bangor Crosby Timothy, " Crosby James, " Crosby Mrs James " ♦Crosby Charlotte C, " Crosby Sarah H., Crosby George A., " Crosby John L., Crosby Miss Olive, " Crosby James H., " Crosby Benjamin. Hampden Crossett, Rev R., Alstead. N. H. Crossett Mrs Dorothea, " *Cook Amos J., Eryeburg ('.ink MrsE.. " *Cook Francis, ATiscasset Cordis Samuel, Winthrop Cornish Rev Clark, *Cummings Dea Asa, Albany Cummings Rev Asa, Portland, 2d time Cummings Mrs Phebe, " Cummings Henry T. " Cummings Miss Hannah " Cushman Rev David, Newcastle, 2d time Cushman Mrs Emeline H., " Cushman Mrs Emeline, Newcastle Curtis Samuel, Mills Curtis Theodore, Freeport Curtis Ambrose " ♦Cutler Rev E. G., Belfast Cutler Miss Sarah, Hallowell Cutler Mrs Clara Ann, Farmington Cutter Levi, Portland 7 Cutter Rev Edward F., Belfasi Cutter Mrs Edward F., Cutter Mrs Asa II., Portland Cutter Miss Amelia, " Cutting John, Warren ham.' Kr\ Charles, Falmouth Dans Nathaniel, Boston, Mass Dana Airs Phebe W., ; ' Dana Charles B., Darling Henry J., Bncksport Darling Caroline C, Bucksport Darling Samuel, Calais Darling Miss Martha, Portland Davee Mrs Theresa v.. Monson porl Rev John a . Newburyport Davenport Miss Elizabeth, -: Davenport Rev William, Strong, 2d time Davidson Miss Abigail, Bell Daj Mis Eunice, Portland Has is RevTimothj . Litchfield Dai is Mrs Lucy, " Davis Mrs Louisa P., Portland Davis Rev Franklin. Warren Davis Mrs Susan A , Delano Miss M., Portland Deering Stephen. Augusta Deering Mrs Caroline, " Deering John P., " Dickinson John. Amherst, Mass Dickinson Mrs Martha, Bangor *Dike John, Beverly, Mass Dike Airs Priscilla M., Salem, Mass Dike John, Dillingham Cornelius, Freeport Dinsmore William W., Norridgewock Dodge Rev John, AValdoboro' Dodge Mrs Ann L., " Dodge Mrs Jane C, Illinois Dodd Rev John, Turner Dole Carlton, Augusta *Dole Ebenezer, Hallowell Dole Henry Lyman, " Dole Samuel Munson, " Dole Mrs Hannah, " Dole Ellen Bond, " Dole Rev Daniel, Sandwich Islands Dole Albert G., Alna Dole Mrs Catharine, Westbrook Dole Rev Nathan, Brewer Donnell Mrs Harriet, Bath Donnell William, Donnell Henrietta Hyde, " Dorrance James, Kennebunk Dorrance Oliver B., Boston. Mass Dorrance Mrs Jane, Doughty William P., Gray Douglass Rev John A., Waterford, 2d time iPuiiu'lass Mrs Lucy A., Douglass Rev Nathan, St Albans, 2d time Dow Levi, Waterville Dow Rev Moses, formerly of York Dow William H., Bangor Dow Mrs Delia L., " Dow Miss Alice E., " Downer Mrs Mary B., Portland Downes George, Calais Drake Rev Samuel S., Turner Drummond Alexander, Bangor Drummond Rev James, Lewiston Falls Dummer Airs M., Jacksonville, 111 *Dummer Mrs Sarah, Hallowell Duncan Rev A. G. *Dunlap David, Brunswick Dunlap Mrs Nancy McKeen, Brunswick Duren Freeman Hyde, Portland 5i •Hale lav Jonathan S.. Windham Bale John M., Ellsworth I [ale Mrs Sarah M.. " Halej Mrs Dorcas M., Hath Bale Aiiijah. South Paris Hamlin Hannibal, Boston Hamlin Mi*- Fanny, now Mrs Burnham, Wa terto\< n. Mass Hamlin Rei i'\ tus, Constantinople Hamlin Eleanor, Augusta ii. ock Elias, Odsl I l;irl\ Rev Jacob, Strong Harlow Nathaniel, Bangor ■Harlow Mrs Mary. " Harlow Charles W., " Harlow Sarah I'.. ,: II irlow Nath Henry, " HarloVi " Harlow Bradford, l: HarlOW Sarah G., " •Harrington, Enoch, Frecport Harrington Mrs Enoch, " Hartshorn Oliver S., Portland "1 W'm E , Harwood Mrs Charlotte, <: Harward Tl - Bath Harward Mrs Hannah Harward Miss Elizabeth P., " Harward Thomas P., " Haskell Wm B., New QloUCi Haskell Mrs 11. P.. C, Deer Isle Haskell Mrs Hannah, Albany Hasty Wm, Searboro' Hathaway, Rev G. W., Bloomfield Hathaway. Mrs Mary S. H'., ■• Rev .1. T.. New Sharon •II twos Mrs Temperance, " Hayes Joseph M.. Saco, 2d time Ha\ es Mrs Susan, " Hayes Miss Lucy L., " Hayes Mrs Caroline T., Saco Hayes David, Saccars Hayes Rev Stephen II.. Frankfort Hayes Mrs Elizabeth B., " Heath Solyman Belfast Herbert Mrs Charlotte, Ellsworth Herbert George, Hill Mrs Sarah G., Garnavillo, Iowa 'Hill Mark L., Phipsburg, Hill Mrs Abigail S.. " Hill Mrs Phebe C, Hanover, N. H. Hill Samuel, Buxton Hills Kev Israel, Dixmont, 2d time Hills James, Monson Hills Mrs Ann B., " Hinckley Mrs A. P., Natchez, Miss Hobart Rev Caleb, North Yarmouth Hobart Miss Sarah A., " Hobbs Huldah M., Camden Hodgdon Israel Parsonsfield Holman Rev Morris, York *Holt Rev Fifield, Bloomfield Holt Uriah, Norway Holcomb Jonas G., Augusta Hopkins Rev Samuel, Saco Hopkins Mrs S., " Hopkins Mrs Jane, Ellsworth Hopkins Rev E. S., Rumford Hopkins Mrs Louisa S., Williamstown, Mass. Houghton Levi, Bath Hovey William. Warren Hovey Mrs William, " Hovey James, Waldoboro' Hovey Mrs Eliza A., " Hovey Grenville, " Hovey Mercy. Ellsworth How John, Portland How Mrs Susan. " How John I'.. Lowell. Mass How Mis- Persia, Brookfield, Mass Hovj Mrs Elizabeth, Baco I lubbard Rev Anson, Andover Hubbs Mrs Harriet, Portland Hulin Kev George H. II nut Mrs Mary »'.. Gorham Hurd Kev Carlton, Fryeburg Hurd Mrs SophroniaE., " *Hurd Widow Elizabeth, " lln-.. Mrs Mary Jaue, Portland Huston J. (!., Bristol Huston Mrs EmelineM., " Hj de William. Portland Hyde John E., Paris Hyde Win Henry, ii j de Qershom, Hath !i\ de Mrs Qershom ;- ll\ de Henry A.. Hyde .Mrs Eliza H., '■ Hyde Mrs D. T., " Hyde Wva L., Theological Seminary lisle;; Rev Horatio. Monson Daley .Mrs Susan U., "j •Haley Mrs Lacy, Portland Iugraham Rev John II., Augusta Ingraham Mrs John II., " Ingraham Mrs Martha, Portland Irish Mrs Maria M., Gorham Jackson Rev Abraham, Walpole, N. H. Jackson Henry. Portland Jameson Rev Thomas. Gorham Jarvis Mrs John II.. Castino Jefferds William, Keunebunkport Jefferds Dr George P., " ♦Jenkins Rev Charles Portland Jenkins Miss Amelia L., New Haven Jenkins Jonathan L., " Jenks Miss Catharine B., North Yarmouth Jenks Miss Elizabeth, Williamsburg *Jewett Rev Henry C, Winslow Jewett Mrs Henry C, " Jewett Jeremiah, Alna Jewett Mrs Mary N., Waterford' Johnson William M., Andover, Mass Johnson Mrs Sarah J., " Johnson Mary Marble, " ♦Johnson Rev Samuel, Augusta Johnson Mrs Samuel, Brunswick Johnson Samuel W., " Johnson Thomas, B remen Johnson Mrs Ann, " Jones Rev Elijah, Minot Jones Mrs Bathsheba, '• Jones Simeon, Pownal Jordan Rev Wm V., " Jordan Mrs Catharine 0., " Jordan Mrs Jane W., Westbrook Jordan Ralph T., Biddeford Keeler Rev S. H., Calais, 2d time Keeler Mrs Mary " Keen Sarah A., Augusta ♦Kellogg Rev Elijah, Portland Kellogg Mrs Eunice, " Kendrick Rev Daniel, Lyman Keudrick, Mrs Sally, " Kendall George, Bath Kendall Rev R. S., Machias Kent Rev Cephas H., Kenney Samuel B., North Yarmouth Kidder Miss Elizabeth E., Kilborn Miss Hannah, Portland 52 LIFE MEMBERS. Kilborn John, Bridgton Kilborn Mrs Mary, Bridgton Kimball Phillip II. , Ipswich, Ms Kimball John S., Belfast Kimball Mrs Isabella O., " Kimball Rev Ivory, Elliot Kimball Mrs Ivory, " Kimball Rev Caleb, Biddeford Kimball Iddo, Thomaston Kimball Miss Lucy C, Bath Kimball Rev Reuben, Kittery Point Ladd John, Hallowell Ladd Mrs John, " Ladd ffm Franklin, " *Ladd Wm, Minot Lakeman Miss Anna, Hallowell Lambert Miss Sarah H., Bath Lane Rev Joseph Langworthy James, Belfast Lawton Rev C. J , Passadumkeag *Lee Samuel C, Calais Lawrence Henry C, Albany Leathead Mrs Mary, South Anson Leland Dorcas K., Saco Leland Jane M.. Bath Lemont Adam, " *Lewis .Mrs Mary, Portland Lewis Rev Wales, Weymouth, Mass *Lewis Mrs Wales, " Libbey Joseph, Portland Libbey Mrs Lucy J., " Libbev Harrison J., " Libbey Mrs H. J., " *Libbey Rev Daniel, Dixfield Libbey Mrs Margaret A., Portland Lincoln George Shepard, Hallowell Lincoln Royal, Portland Lincoln Mrs Betsey H., Bath Lincoln Miss Lucy H., " Lincoln Miss Sarah G., " Lincoln Rev Allen, Gray Lincoln Mrs Julia A., " Little Mrs Hannah, Danville Little Miss Sarah, " Little Rev Valentine, Lovell Little Miss Elizabeth, Hallowell Little John T., Castine Little Miss Frances " Littlefleld George, Freeport Littlefield Obadiah, Sanford Littlefleld Samuel B., Wells Littlefield Joseph B., Bangor *Loomis Rev Harvey, " Loper Rev S. A., late of Hampden Long Rev Joseph A. E., N. H. Lord Mrs Phebe, Kennebunkport Lord Daniel W., Boston, Mass Lord Mrs Lydia, " Lord Mrs E. L., Kennebunkport Lord Charles A. Lord Nathaniel, Bangor Lord Rev Nathan D. D., Hanover, N. H. Lord Rev Thomas N., Biddeford Loring Rev Asa T., Phipsburg Loring Jacob G., North Yarmouth Loring Mrs Desiah B., " Loring John, Norridgewock Loring Rev Levi, Mass Loring Rev Amasa, Shapleigh Loring Mrs L. Louisa " Loring Mrs Dolly T., Columbia Loring Rev Joseph, Lebanon Loring Mrs Susan S., " Lovejoy Rev Joseph C, Cambridgeport, Lovejoy, Mrs Sarah, Mass Lovejoy Mrs Mary T., Cambridgeport, Mass Lovejoy Miss Elizabeth, Alton, 111 Lovqjoy Miss Ellen Maria, Albany Lunt .Miss Mary, Portland Magoun David C, Bath Magoun Mrs Hannah C, " Magoun George F., " Magoun Edward H., " Maltby Rev John, Bangor Maltby Mrs Margaret M. G., " Mann Mrs, Boston Marsh Mrs Elizabeth, New Gloucester Marrett Mrs Dorcas, Standish *Marsh Thomas S.,Bath Marsh RevC, Roxbury, Mass. *Marsh Mrs Nancy W., " Marsh Miss Elizabeth P., ci Marshall Thomas, Bel fust Marshall Miss Sophia E., Hallowell, Martin Penelope, Portland Martin Miss Pamela, " Mason Benjamin F., Kennebunkport Mason Mrs Sarah L., " Masters Miss Caroline, Topsham Masters Mrs R., Hallowell Mather Rev Wm L., Concord, Mass Mather Mrs Amanda P., " *May Rev Wm., Strong May Mrs D. M., " Mayo Lennette, Orrington McKeen Rev Silas, Bradford, Vt. McKeen Mrs Hannah J., " McDonald John, Bangor McDonald Mrs Olive, " *McLellan Wm., Warren McLellan Mrs Wm. " *McLellan Bryce, Bloomfield *Mead Rev Asa, East Hartford, Ct. Mead Mrs Jane G., Gorham Mellen John P., Saco Merrill Rev Josiah G., Washington Merrill Rev Enos, Mechanic Falls Merrill Mrs Hannah A., " Merrill Rev Stephen, Acton Merrill Mrs Hannah A., " Merrill Richard, Freeport Merrill Rev Henry A., Windham Merrill Mrs Mehitable, Portland .Merrill Sarah H., " Merrill Mrs Moses, " Merrill Robert, Gray Merrill Mrs Huldah F., Portland Merrill Mrs Clarissa E., Auburn Miller Joseph K., Kennebunk Miller Deborah, Old Town Millett John, Kennebunkport *Miltimore Rev William, N. II. Mitchell Rev D. M., Portland Mitchell Mrs D. M., " Mitchell Sarah J., now Mrs Johnson, Andover Mitchell Miss LucretiaL., Andover, Mass. Mitchell Ammi R., Bath Mitchell Mrs Nancy T., " Mitchell Mrs Nancy M., " ^Mitchell Jacob, North Yarmouth Mitchell Mrs Jacob, " Mitchell Miss Elizabeth T., Bath Mitchell Miss Susan Ann, Bath Mitchell Miss Rachel E., Bradford, Me. Mitchell Miss Harriet N., Bath Mitchell Miss Lucretia " Mitchell Greenville J., " Mitchell Rev T. G., Auburn Montgomery Mrs Sarah T., Craigville, Orange Co., N. Y. i,i fl: members. o<; •Moseley Mrs Nancy, New Gloucester Mordough Rev John 11. Mordough Mis Adeline Morse Samuel, Waldoboro' Morse llev Stephen, Biddeford Morse Seth, South Paris Morse Elisha, " Morse Miranda, " Morse Miss Mary J., Haliowell Morse Mrs Rachel E . Morton Mrs Sarah \\\, Haliowell Morton Rev Alpha. Temple Morton Mrs Charlotte, Temple Moody Mrs Sarah. Haliowell Moody .Mrs Susan ('., " Moody Mrs Mary E., " Moody John, Lebanon Centre Moody Asaph, Kennebunkport Monlton Jotham, Bucksporl Mountfort Elias. Portland Mountfort Mrs Nancy, " Munsell Rev Joseph R., East Brewer Muusell Mrs Louisa 11., " Muzzy A. H.. Oxford Nasoo Edward A., Augusta Nason Mrs A. B., " Nason Margaret, ' ; Nason Edward A., l: Nason Mary E., " Nason Miss Julia, ' : Nason Bartholomew, Haliowell Nason Mrs " Nason Mrs Martha C, " Nelson Mrs Persia, Buckfield, 2d time Newell Mrs Esther M., Durham •Newell Rev Israel, " Newell Rev Daniel. New York Newell Mrs Sarah A., Kennebunk-port Newman Thomas W., Haliowell ♦Norton Winthrop B., Oxford Norton Charles E., South Berwick Norton Mrs Sarah, " *Nourse Rev Peter, Ellsworth *Nourse Miss Mary G., " Nye Mrs Hannah B., Freeport OiiphantRev D., Plaistow. N. II. Oliver James, Bath Orr Kev John, Alfred Osgood Mrs Abigail, Fryeburg Osgood Joshua B., Portland Osgood Mrs Joshua B., " ♦Osgood Miss Rebecca. Bath Packard Rev. H, D. D., formerly of Wiscasset Packard A. S., Prof Bowd. Col. Brunswick Packard Rev Charles, Norway Page Miss Clarissa P., Haliowell Page Benjamin, " Page Benjamin V., " Page Mrs Benjamin, " Page Simon, " Page Mrs Simon, " Page John 0., " Page Rufus K., " Page Mrs Martha H., Page Mrs Matilda K., " Page Miss Lucretia B., <: Page William R., " Page Miss Harriet, Page Francis II.. " Page Mi-- Isabella P., '■■ Page Miss Sarah, " Page Rev Caleb P., Bridgton *Page Mrs Sarah B., " Page Mrs Abigail Neal, Brunswick Page Jesse, M'arren Page Mrs Jesse. Warren Page Rev Robert, V H. Page Mrs Robert, Page Miss Able. M.. ■ Pare Samuel, Wiscasset Page Mrs Mary S., " Paine Samuel, Gorham Paine Zenas. Buxton Palmer Kev Ray, Bath Palmer Mrs Kay, " Park Kev Calvin E., Boxford, Ma>s Park Mrs Harriet 'I'., " 2d time Parker Kev Wooster, Foxcroft Parker Mrs Wealthy Ann, •• Parker K< \ Preeman. Vi i-ea.-set Parker Edmund, Amherst, N. II. Parker Miss ffiary II., " Parkhurst Mrs Mar i a L. Gorham Parkinson Royal, Cape Elizabeth Parsons Rev Eben G., Freeport Parsons Mrs Caroline M., " Parsons Miss Susan, Haliowell Patten Mrs Hannah T., Bath Patten Miss Statural, Bath Pal ii James T.j Patten Miss Paulina, " Patten Miss Ann A., " Patten George M.. Patten \\ iUiam, Richmond Patten Mrs Eliza S., " *Payson Kev Edward, D. P., Portland Payson Mrs Ann L., Payne Mrs Lucy, Charles town, Mass I'eabody .Mrs Mary I... Ellsworth in Paul, Alna Pearson Mrs Paul, " Pearson Jeremiah, " Pearson Mrs Sophia S.. Bangor, Pearson Miss Harriet S.. Pearl Kev Cyril, Gorham Peck Mrs Susan/Ellsworth Peckham Rev Samuel H. Peet Rev Josiah, Norridgewock Peet Mrs Sarah, " Peet Rev J. W., Gardiner Peet Mrs Louisa C, " Pennell Mrs Clement. Portland Pennell Mrs Charlotte, " Pennell Mrs Mary Susan, Gray Perham Rev John, Madison Pcrham Mrs LucillaT., " Perham Rosalvan C, " Perkins Mrs Elizabeth, Kennebunkport Perkins Miss Mary " Perry Rev John A., Orono Peters Rev Absalom, Williamstown, Mass Philbrook Mrs Elizabeth, Bath Phipps Mrs Susan T., Gorham l'iekard Mrs Hannah, Lewiston Falls Pierce Samuel. Durham Pierce Kev 'William, Lyman Pierce Mrs William, " Pierce Mrs Caroline, Harrison •Pike Daniel, Bangor Pinkerton Mrs Jane, Boscawen, N. H. Plummer John. South Berwick Pomeroy Kev Thad. Onandago Hollow, N. II. Pemeroy Mrs E. S. M. " Pomroy Rev Swan L .. D. D., Bangor Pomroy Mrs Ann Q., " Pomeroy Capt. F. A., North Yarmouth Pomeroy Mrs I'riscilla " Pond Samuel M., Bucksport Pond Rev Enoch, D. P., Theo. Sem., Bangor Poor Clarence 0.. Belfast 54 LIFE MEMBERS. Poland Miss Caroline C, Boston, Mass Polk Mrs., Washington, D. G. Powers Rev Philander 0., Broosa Powers Mrs P. 0., Price Ebenezer, West Boscawen, N. H. Prince Kzekiel, Eastport Prince John M., Chelsea. Mass Prince Capt Reuben, North Yarmouth Prince Mrs Hannah, Prince Kev N. A., New Gloucester *Quincy Marcus, Portland Band Rev W. W., Standish Rankin Rev Andrew, Concord, N. II. Redington Alfred, Augusta Redington Samuel Miller, " *Reed Isaac &., Waldoboro' Reed Mrs Clarissa, Bath Rice Thomas, Wiuslow Rice Mrs Thomas, " *Rice Rev Benjamin, " late of Buxton Rice Mrs Lucy, Rice Wm W., ;' Rice Charles Jenkins, '•■ Rice Miss Lucy Ann, " Rice Miss Marv Prances, Kentucky Rice Rev Wm Giltett, " RiellyMiss Margaret, Boston, Mass Ripley Rev Lincoln, AVaterford •Ripley Mrs Phebe. " Richardson Mrs, Pelham, N. H. Richardson Rev J. P., Otisfleld, 2d time Richardson Mrs Mary, " Richardson Eunice T., Gilead ♦Richardson Wm, Bath *Richardsou Mrs Wm Richardson John, Richardson Miss Harriet E. " Richardson William P., Bath Richardson Henry S., Richardson Mrs II. T., l! Richardson Frederick L., " Richardson John G., Richardson Mrs Maria, " Richardson George L., " Richardson Sarah B., Richardson Mary J., ' ! Richardson Amos, Pryeburg ♦Robie Thomas S , Gorham Robie Mrs Clarissa A., " Roberts Rev B., late of Perry Robinson Mrs Betsey, Bath Robinson Mrs Hannah H., Portland Rogers Rev Isaac, Farmington Rogers Mrs E. F., Rogers Benjamin T.,New York Rogers Mrs Hannah C, Bath Rogers Mrs Sarah, Rogers George W., South Berwick Rogers Moses, Harwich, Mass Rowe Mrs Prudence, New Gloucester *Russell Mrs Hannah, North Yarmouth Russell Mrs Deborah, Portland Russell Mrs Betsey, Bath Russell Mrs Nancy, Weld *Rumery James S-, Saco Sanford Thomas K., New York Sanford Miss Harriet, Hallowell Sanford Miss A. E., Boston, Mass Sawyer Rev John, Garland, 3d time Sawyer James, Saco Saunders Amos, Waterford *Scott Rev Jonathan, Minot Scales Nathaniel, Durham Scamman John F., Saco Scamman Seth, Scamman Miss S. N.,_ Saco Scamman Miss Lavir.ia, " Seldeu Calvin, Norridgewock Selden Mrs Harriet, " Seabury David, North Yarmouth Seabury Mary L., " Seabury Eliza L., Seabury Mrs Dorcas, " Seabury Albion, Seabury Rev Edwin, New Castle *Searle Rev Joseph, Harrison Searle Mrs Mary P., New York Seavey Miss Hannah B., Scarboro' Sewall Rev Jotham, Chesterville, 2d time *Sewall Mrs Jenny, Sewall Oliver, " "Sewall Henry, Augusta Sewall Mrs Elizabeth L., " , Sewall Rev Samuel, Sumner Sewall Lvnian, Sewall Matilda J., Winthrop Sewall Stephen, " Sewall Rev Jotham Jr., Bluehill Sewall Mrs Ann Sewall Miss Lucy, Kennebuuk Sewall Mrs Hannah, Wisconsin Sewall Rev Henry, Sangerville, 2d time Sewall Rev Wm S-, Brownviile Sewall Mrs Miriam P., " Sewall Rev David B., Robbinston Sikes Rev Oren, Bedford, Mass Sikes Mrs Julia K„ " Shepley Ether, Portland Shepley Rev David, North Yarmouth Shepley Mrs My ra N . , " Shepley Rev S. H., Shepley Mrs Pamelia " Shepley Mrs Betsey, Shelden Rev Nathan W., Yassalboro' Sheldon Mrs Ann D., Sheldon Rev Anson ♦Sheldon Mrs Susan, Rumford Shepard Rev George, Theo. Sem., Bangor ShepardMrs G., Shepard George H., Shepard Thomas, Sherman Joseph, Columbia, Tenn Sherman Mrs Narcissa B., " Sherman Joseph, Edgecomb Sherman Miss Martha, Newcastle Shirlev Edmund, Fryeburg Slade Mrs Hannah T. P., Boston, Mass Slade George P., Slade Augustus P., Smith Rev Thomas 0., Orrington, 2d time Smith Thomas, Litchfield Smith Rev Thomas M., New Bedford, Mass Smith Wm, Kennebunkport *Smith Rev Prof. John, Bangor ♦Smith Rev Amasa, Portland ♦Smith Isaac, Smith Mrs Harriet T., " Smith II. P. A., Cherryfield Smith Rev Daniel, Parsonsfield Smith Mrs Mary Jane, " Smith Rev Levi, late of Kennebunk-port Smith Mrs L. AY., " Smith James, Kennebunkport Smith Mrs Mary T., Bath Smith Miss Ann E., Hallowell Smith Rev Prof., Bangor Snell Mrs Jane C, Ellsworth Snipe Mrs Sarah, Arrowsic Soule Rev Charles, AVindham, 2d time Soule Mrs Charles, " LIFE MEMBERS. 55 Soule Moses, Freeport Soule Itufus, " Souther Samuel, Fryeburg Souther Mrs Mary, " Souther John W., " Souther Thomas, " Souther Miss Georgiana, Frycburir. Souther Rev Samuel Jr., Belfast Sparhawk Mrs Maria S., Bucksport Sprague Mrs Mary, Bath Sprague Peleg, Jr. " Sprague William B., " Sprague Nancy E., " Sprague Harriet E., " Sprague Mrs Sarah, Boston, Mass Sprowl Mrs Jane, Waldoboro 1 Starrett Rev David, Augusta Starrett Mrs Susan, " Starrett Calvin, Washington ♦Starrett George, " Starrett, James, Warren Stallard Thomas. Portland Stanley James, Farmington Stanley Mrs Julia A., " Stanwood Miss Susan, Augusta Stephenson Mrs Harriet S., Gorham Stevens William, Carroll Stevens Rev Joseph B., Jackson, Butts Co Ga Stevens Mrs Lydia, " " Stevens Mrs Thomas, Portland Stevens Mrs Lucy A., " ♦Stevens Jeremiah, Stevens Mrs Elizabeth, " Stevens Mrs E.C., " Stevens Mrs Lydia, New Gloucester Stevens Mrs Mary F., Bluehill ♦Steele Rev M. Machias ♦Steele Mrs Almira D., Portland Stewart Mrs Maria, " Stickney Rev Moses P., Eastport Stickney William, Hallowell Stickney Mrs Wm, " *Stickney Mrs D. L., " Stickney Paul, Stinson Rev Hermon, Gardiner Stinson Mrs Lucinda W., " Storer Woodbury, Portland Storer Mrs Mary B., " Storer Seth, Scarboro' Storer Rev Henry G., " Storer Frederick T., " Storer Bellamy, Cincinnati Stone Rev Samuel Stone Rev Thomas T., Salem, Mass Stone Israel, Kennebunkport Stone Mrs Miranda, " Stone Rev Cyrus, Mass Stone Mrs Abigail. Harwich Stone Rev H. M., Bluehill, 2d time Stone Mrs Eliza " Storrs Rev R. S., Braintree, Mass Strickland Rev M. W., Amherst, Me Strickland S., Wilton Strout Dea Osgood, Durham Swan Wm, Portland Swan Mrs Mary, " Swan Mrs Mary, Winslow Swazey Sewall B., Bucksport Sweetser Samuel, North Yarmouth Sweetser Wm, Sweetser Harriet J., " Sweetser Miss H. M., " Sweetser Capt Wm, " Sweetser Rev Seth Worcester, Mass Sweetser Mrs H. F., Sweetser Miss Frances W., " Sweetser David, Pownal Swi etsei Joseph, Jonesboro' Sweetser Mrs Catharine, " Sylvester Samuel. Bangor Sylvester Mrs Charlotte, u Sylvester Mrs Hannah, Deer Isle lalbol Re? Samuel, Alna ♦Talbot Mrs Samuel, " Talbot Peter. Waterville Tallinan Mis Eleanor, Bath Tallman Franklin B., " Tallman Miss A. M. McK., " Tallman Miss Ellen S., Woolwich Tappan Itev Benjamin, D. D., Augusta Tappan Mrs Benjamin, Tappan T. L., Wiuthrop *Tappan Dr E. S., Tappsin Miss Elizabeth T. T Tappan Miss Jane W., Tappan Miss Mary A., "Tappan Miss Catharine H., " Tappan MLss Hannah, " Tappari Rev Benjamin Jr, Hampden Tappan Mrs Betsey Q., Tappan Mrs Delia, Tappan Miss Ellen E., Tappan Henry L., Tappan Miss Elizabeth W., " Tappan Emmons, Tappan Ann W., Tappan Rev Daniel D , Marshfield, Mass Tappan Mrs M., Tappan Rev S. S., Tisbury, Mass Tappan Mrs E. L., " *Taylor John, Bath Tenney Rev Thomas, Oberlin Tenney Mrs Martha, " Tenney Rev Sewall, Ellsworth Tenney Mrs Sarah, " 2d time Tenney Wm, Monson Tewksbury Rev George F., Albany Tewksbury Mrs Sarah, Thomas Mrs W. W., Portland Thompson John, Mercer Thompson Edward, Pownal Thompson Mrs Sarah, Bath Thornton J. B., Saco Thornton Mrs E. 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Mass Tucker Mrs Esther, '• Tucker Mrs Deborah, Turner Turner John Newton, Boston, Mass Turner Miss Lydia, Otisfield Turner Mrs Mary, Bath Turner Kev Sidney, Bingham Turner Mrs Betsey " Tyler Rey Bennett, D. D., East AVindsor *Tupper Mrs Mary Ann Upham Prof. Thomas C, Brunswick Underwood Rev Joseph, New York Taill Rev Joseph, Somers, Conn Vaill Mrs Joseph, i; Vaughan Lewis, Warren Vinton Rev John A., New Sharon Wadlin Mrs Phcbe, Gorham AA'aite Joshua, Freeport AVaite Alfred, AVaite Mrs Joanna, " *AVales Rev Nathaniel, Belfast AA'alker Rev Joseph , South Paris Walker Mrs Eleanor, " * AValker James B., Westbrook Walker Oliver, Kennebunkport AA'alker Mrs Catharine P., Boston, Mass Walker Katey P., AValker Georgiana N., AValker Caroline S., " Walker Rev Mr., Bucksport Walker Mrs Eliza, Fryeburg AValker Mrs Catharine, " AA'alker Barnes, " AValker Simeon Colby, " AValker Asa, Bangor ♦AValker Mrs M., " AValker Rev Stephen D., Accomac Co., Va. 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