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S E KMON. 
 
 Daniel 7 : 27. • 
 
 “ And the kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the 
 whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High.’’ 
 
 This is part of Daniel’s prediction concerning the 
 order of empire in tlie Christian ages. In a previous 
 vision, the prophet had seen the world, with all its 
 races, interests, institutions, and destinies made over to 
 Christ, the universal King. “ I saw in the night 
 visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man, came with 
 the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of 
 days, and they brought him near before him. And 
 there was given him dominion, and glory, and a king- 
 dom, that all people, nations, and languages, should 
 serve him : his dominion is an everlasting dominion, 
 which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which 
 shall not be destroyed.” 
 
 But, as this great empire, and every part of it, was 
 then in alien hands, Daniel was permitted to complete 
 the vision, and, by a second revelation, beheld the his- 
 toric transfer of races, and governments, and trades, and 
 destinies, to their appointed owner — the King of kings 
 and Lord of lords. These prophetic paragraphs, there- 
 fore, are a carefully prepared chart, revealing the course 
 
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 of empire, till it consummates aud ends in the universal 
 reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Power, and greatness, and government shall descend, 
 says the prophet, through successive administrations 
 and intermediate thrones — the Assyrian, the Roman, 
 the Papal, to the last era — and the closing stage, when 
 the saints of the Most High God shall take the king- 
 dom and superintend it in the name of their Lord. 
 
 And this is the topic upon which I propose to discourse 
 this evening: the empire of the world falling at length 
 into the hands of the saints. 
 
 I shall be obliged to ask attention, however, here on 
 the threshold, to several preliminary remarks, going to 
 fix the exact meaning of the truth, that the saints shall 
 one day possess and govern the world. Let me say 
 then : 
 
 1. That the doctrine of our text does not require us 
 to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is, at some future 
 time, to return in person to oijr world, and set up a 
 visible and theocratic empire upon all these continents. 
 If the Redeemer had no other way of administering his 
 earthly kingdom, than by a personal and visible reign, 
 the inference would be, not that he should come back, 
 at some fixed and far off period, and assume the empire, 
 but that he should have never departed. Now that he 
 has departed, and has supervised and extended his 
 kingdom for nineteen centuries, without the aid of any 
 local palace, or the need of any visible government, it 
 is too late for us to imagine that he can not go forward 
 as he has commenced, and reign in the future as he has 
 in the past — the King invisible, eternal, and divine. 
 'Hie kingdom of which we are to discourse this even- 
 ing, is a spiritual kingdom therefore; is an empire that 
 asks and needs no visible manifestation of its Lord, no 
 
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 earthly metropolis, or sceptre, or throne. And though 
 the reign of the saints is to be a wide-spread and uni- 
 versal rule, yet, I shall need to say : 
 
 2. That the Scriptures do not require us to teach, or 
 to believe, this doctrine even, in any absolute, extreme, 
 and unexceptionable sense. We should look in vain, I 
 suppose, for any text which, properly interpreted, assures 
 us that at some time before tin? final coming of Christ 
 his followers will literally hold all the offices, and own 
 all the property, and ply all the trades, and make all 
 the laws, and carry on all the affairs of the world, reduc- 
 ing the wicked to utter penury and subjection. I do 
 not so understand the language of prophecy ; or so 
 imagine when I anticipate the future. The meaning of 
 the Scriptures, if I do not altogether mistake their 
 sense, is, that the saints as persons, and their great 
 Christian maxims as principles, shall ultimately win 
 such an ascendency over all nations, interests, institu- 
 tions, and affairs, that this whole world shall become an 
 orderly aud well-governed Christian empire. If there 
 shall be impenitent men, as there may be, they shall 
 nevertheless, either of their own will, or by the con- 
 straint of others, submit to Christian usages, and acqui- 
 esce in just and salutary laws. If there shall be trades, 
 and offices, and property, that are not in Christian 
 hands, as there may be, they who hold them shall yet 
 be so under the power of dominant Christian influences, 
 that they shall obey as willing servants, though they do 
 not cooperate as loving sons. This, as I conceive, is thf 
 doctrine of those scriptures which tell us that the meek 
 shall inherit the earth, and the kingdom and dominion, 
 and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole 
 heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the 
 Most High. 
 
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 But it is obvious, considering the present state of the 
 world, in regard to its interests, possessions, and rights, 
 that sucli an acquisition and such control, on the part of 
 the saints, must be the result of an august assault, and the 
 achievement of a successful aggression. The people of 
 God must make actual conquest of all these estates, and 
 empires, and interests, if they are to obtain the govern- 
 ment, and reigu in the liame of their Master. We shall 
 need to inquire, then, and with a discriminating and 
 cautious care, 
 
 3. As to the way in which this great conquest is to 
 be achieved. 
 
 Are the saints of the Most High, after a series of 
 moral victories, wrought with peaceful weapons, and by 
 the aid of the all conquering Spirit of God, to change 
 their tactics and go forth, in coming times, with their 
 armies to dislodge the wicked, and settle as victors on 
 all the continents? The Scriptures every where discour- 
 age such conclusions. They that take the sword shall 
 perish by the sword. The weapons of our warfare are 
 mighty, but are not carnal ; are mighty because they 
 are not carnal. Moreover, we have read history to 
 little purpose if we have not seen that the only revolu- 
 tions which are permanent and deep, are those which 
 take place underneath the surface — penetrating and 
 reconstructing a nation’s thoughts. Accordingly, there 
 are in every community natural processes and lawful 
 methods by which to effect, first, a moral, and after it a 
 civil revolution. Who has not observed that there are 
 changes going forward continually, in every part of the 
 social organism, by which estates, and privileges, and 
 titles, and influence, and power, and supremacy, pass 
 from one possessor to another, from one people to 
 another ? 
 
It is a great law of nature, a law operating among 
 all the orders of the animate creation, that the superior 
 race shall win ultimate ascendency over the inferior. 
 Put two children, two men, two tribes together, and let 
 them associate, and interact, and adjust their relative 
 forces and positions, and no matter what titles, or what 
 opportunities you bequeath to the inferior, or what 
 stigmas and restraints you cast upon the stronger, as 
 time advances, the Saxon will conquer the Celt — the 
 weaker will submit to the mightier. When a clerk, or 
 apprentice, or servant, chances, as sometimes happens, 
 to be superior to his master — superior, I mean, not in 
 any brute and physical, but only in a moral and manly 
 sense — when the subordinate has more intelligence, and 
 more capacity, and more perseverance, and more self- 
 control, and more real dignity than his master — how 
 often have we seen the two change places at length — 
 and house, and fortune, and equipage, and business, and 
 titles, and reputation, all pass over from the imbecile 
 lord who encumbered and forsook, to the more worthy 
 servant who deserved and earned them ? No assault 
 was made upon the original owner — no single right of 
 his was infringed or invaded — but by a fixed law of 
 Providence, intelligence coping with ignorance, and 
 industry contending wdth idleness, and economy vying 
 with excess, and temperance contesting with indulg- 
 ence, and strength competing with weakness, the impe- 
 rial powers overcame the menial, and he who touched 
 the goal took the prize. Here, now, is a great, silent, 
 universal law of nature, which is in secret league with 
 all the saints on all the continents ; and which has but 
 to continue, and to operate, and it will in time transfer 
 the empire of the w r orld to them. The people of God 
 have no need to assail the nations ; they have no use 
 
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 for arms, and no license for invasion. They have only 
 to keep their Christian virtues, and exercise them, and 
 by this simple process they shall at length acquire a 
 kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness of the king- 
 dom under the whole heaven. 
 
 But there is another question touching the manner in 
 which the saints are to get possession. of this world, 
 which we shall need to consider before we can fully 
 comprehend the meaning of Scripture. The earth is 
 covered with a vast framework of social institutions, 
 whose present and special office it is to guard, and 
 administer, and conserve the temporal interests of na- 
 tions. Laws, courts, governments, arts, customs, trades, 
 these are not so much instruments of religion, as organs 
 of society. Here they are, a vast system of social insti- 
 tutions, the fabric of ages, the framework of history. 
 Will the saints of the Most High, as they advance and 
 take possession of the world, overturn this great edifice 
 of social order? Will they remove existing govern- 
 ments, offices, orders, and customs ? And will they set 
 up in their place the one great institution, the Church, 
 making all offices spiritual ? Or will they invent and 
 establish a new social constitution, suited to the times 
 in which they live? The Papist answers: The Church 
 is the one sufficient organization for the conduct and 
 government of all sublunary affairs. Plant the Church, 
 that is, the Romish Church, in any land, and there is no 
 more need of senates, or parliaments, or courts, or kings, 
 or presidents. With the Pope for sovereign, and his 
 cardinals for ministers of state ; with priestly nuncios 
 forjudges, and infuriate monks for executioners, society 
 may dispense with all other governments, and intrust 
 the affairs of time, as the destinies of the other state, to 
 the care of the one infallible Church. But the Scrip- 
 
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 tures hold no such language. According to the pattern 
 which they present, society, as she has many interests, 
 must equip herself also with many executive institutions 
 aud organs. And, since civil order is as indispensable 
 to social well-being, as spiritual thrift, the State is an 
 institution as truly divine as is the Church. 
 
 The one is Christ’s authoritative organization, for 
 the control and government of things spiritual. The 
 other is his twin organization, for the management and 
 direction of things temporal. And the moment either 
 of these bodies invades the other’s territory and under- 
 takes to regulate affairs in which it has no jurisdiction ; 
 the moment a Hildebrand ventures to dictate to states, 
 or a Henry aspires to be Head of the Church, that 
 moment the world is out of joint, and disorder and de- 
 basement must certainly ensue. If the saints are to 
 govern the world, therefore, we may be sure, that they 
 will use the Church for church purposes, and remit all 
 state matters to the charge of states. 
 
 They -will not repeat the mistakes, or renew the cru- 
 elties of former times. Instructed by history, they will 
 neither destroy kings, nor drive forth magistrates, nor 
 dissolve constitutions, nor disrupt laws, nor make war 
 upon science, nor do any thing else to reduce society to 
 chaos. No ! the saints are commissioned to improve 
 the world, not to damage it ; to build up good things, 
 not to demolish them ; to regenerate the nations, not to 
 destroy them. And they are to do all this as the 
 leaven does its transforming and resistless work ; by the 
 secret' infusion into all parts of the social organism, 
 of the spirit of their Master, the spirit of equity and 
 truth, and love. Let me remark, in reference to this 
 conquest of the nations for Christ, 
 
 4. That according to all Scriptural intimations, it will 
 
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 be a very gradual conquest. We mistake when we ima- 
 gine that the great revolutions which the Bible predicts, 
 or any other great revolutions, are to be accomplished 
 suddenly: so that either prophecy or history can deter- 
 mine the exact day on which they occur. The prophets 
 of the Bible foretell certain anticipated events, and de- 
 clare the order in which they -are appointed to arrive. 
 But the intervals which separate these events, they very 
 seldom measure or mention. Looking into the future, 
 through these prophetic symbols therefore, is like look- 
 ing over the tops of the mountains to the distant sky. 
 As we gaze we behold one summit behind another, and 
 behind the farthest the blue heavens. But how far it may 
 be from the first peak to the second, and how far from the 
 last to the firmament which is beyond, we can not deter- 
 mine or tell. If we were to trust to impressions merely, 
 we should say, the farthest mountain-top touches the 
 curtains of the west ; and whoever stands there can 
 reach with his right hand into the heavens. So when 
 we read the twenty-fourth of -Matthew, there is the 
 predicted destruction of Jerusalem, like a burning 
 mountain, blazing in the foreground, and seemingly 
 just beyond it, so near that there is no appreciable 
 interval, the white cloud, and the Son of Man coming 
 to judge the nations ! Prophecy foretells events and 
 their order; but leaves out the intervals. And it is in 
 these intervals, that the events are born. It Daniel’s 
 fourth beast, that had iron teeth, and devoured, and 
 brake in pieces, was, as seems probable, a symbol of the 
 Roman State ; and if the ten horses which sprang 1 from 
 this terrible image, represented, as there is good reason 
 to believe, the ten kingdoms into which Europe sepa- 
 rated at the dissolution of the great empire ; and if the 
 little horn that appeared among these, in which there 
 
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 were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking 
 great things, which made war with the saints, and pre- 
 vailed against them, typified, as the best commentators 
 suppose, the Papal power, then the next great event after 
 the destruction of the Papacy, is to be the transfer of 
 the world into the hands of the saints. But how long 
 it shall be before the Papacy is destroyed, and how 
 long after that it shall take the saints to get possession 
 of the nations, are questions which Revelation no where 
 answers. That Antichrist is to be brought down ; that 
 Babylon shall sooner or later fall ; that for this expected 
 overthrow all historic movements are making ready, 
 and all the nations of the world waiting; that the crash 
 of the falling hierarchy shall not only shake the earth, 
 but be heard even in heaven ; and that at the sound 
 thereof, the very angels shall exult, crying, Babylon, 
 that great city, which made the nations drink of her 
 wrath, is fallen — is fallen ; and that then the angel hav- 
 ing the everlasting gospel to preach shall fly swiftly 
 tluongh the midst of heaven, to every nation and kin- 
 dred and tongue and people, saying : Fear God, and 
 give glory to him ; so much we may firmly and fully 
 believe. That is, we may look forward with entire con- 
 fidence, and say : One more change — and then the time 
 will come for the saints to take possession of the world ! 
 We must say, of this predicted conquest and reign of 
 the saints, 
 
 5. That it is to be, and in a twofold sense, complete 
 and universal. 
 
 It will embrace all territory ; covering the continents, 
 going forth to the islands, possessing the seas. It will 
 include all races, it will embrace all arts, all sciences, 
 all trades, all interests, all governments, all usages, all 
 compacts, all relations. Taking possession of a country, 
 
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 a district, a race, on heathen or on Christian ground, 
 merely taking possession is only the commencement of 
 the great work which the saints have in hand. Having 
 got possession of the territory, they are then to revolu- 
 tionize and reconstruct, revolutionize and reconstruct 
 till they shall build up upon the new site a Christian 
 state, to be the habitation of righteousness, the city 
 of the Lord, the new earth. And this great after-work 
 of reconstruction is even of more consequence than 
 that of simple conquest. Better that all the armies of 
 invasion be recalled from their advance-posts, and the 
 heathen world left where it is, in the dominion of Satan 
 and the empire of darkness, than that in these Christian 
 lands, and on this recovered territory, the work of finish- 
 ing the kingdom whose foundations are only now laid, 
 should falter or fail or delay. But neither of these 
 great works must falter, and neither must fail aud 
 neither stand idle. The pioneers of the Church, all her 
 advance - guards and legions on the confines of the 
 heathen world, must assail the unoccupied territory, 
 adding new accessions continually to the domain of the 
 saints. Meantime they who dwell on the captured con- 
 tinents, are to build the kingdom for which alone the 
 territory was conquered. 
 
 With this understanding of what the Scriptures mean 
 by the dominion of the saints, let us for a little time 
 attend now to the evidence by which the doctrine in 
 hand is supported and enforced. 
 
 That the people of God will one day possess aud gov- 
 ern the world, might be conclusively argued, 
 
 1. From the known nature of their religion. 
 
 Take the religion of the New Testament, and give it 
 to any race or people under heaven, and let it remain 
 among them and do its work in them, and that people 
 
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 thus endowed, will ultimately possess and govern the 
 world. They may have no property at first, and no 
 rank, and no office, and no power. The world may he 
 entirely in the hands of other races; hut the people 
 who start in their career, having in their possession the 
 religion of Christ, will as certainly conquer, and own the 
 world at last, as they shall remain in it. The proof of 
 this proposition is found in the very nature of the 
 Christian religion. There are certain qualities of mind 
 and character whose legitimate office and privilege it is 
 to possess the world. The people who have and use 
 these qualities will, hy their aid, reach and hold the 
 world. There are other habits and traits, whose inevi- 
 table destiny and doom are to lose the world. The 
 people who harbor these qualities, must let go the 
 world and become bankrupt and dependent. Take the 
 case of property for an instance. We all know that 
 industry, economy, moderation, and health amass ; while 
 idleness, and intemperance, and luxury, and prodigality, 
 and disease waste it. Who, then, are the ultimate heirs 
 of the world’s wealth ? Why, they who have and who 
 shall continue to have the qualities which acquire and 
 preserve wealth. And who are these ? Not the pagans 
 of far off lands — for the life of the heathen is ever a life 
 of idleness, and unthrift, and loss. Not the wicked or 
 the worldly, in Christian lands — for though a single 
 generation of these may practice the industries, and 
 observe the moderation, which insure an estate, they 
 can never perpetuate these property-preserving habits. 
 Accordingly, if you select any country, or fix upon any 
 family in Christendom, and inquire into the history of 
 their fortunes for a few generations, you shall see that 
 while worldlings can accumulate they can not preserve. 
 The impenitent father may be industrious, and economi- 
 
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 cal, and wise ; his impenitent son may follow his exam- 
 ple, and retain, and even augment, his great patrimony. 
 But, by and by, abundance will begin to breed excess, 
 and the lusts of later generations will consume what the 
 labors of those who went before accumulated. Thus it 
 is, that all other orders and races of men are either not 
 acquiring, or acquiring only to lose again, this great 
 world-treasure — property. But the religion of the New 
 Testament not only implants the qualities which acquire 
 and retain wealth, it preserves them. Just so long as that 
 religion remains with a people, therefore, its fruits must 
 remain. Here, then, are the people into whose hands 
 the wealth of the world will one day come. Their 
 religion, as it makes them sons of God, makes them also 
 heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ- 
 The same is to be said of rank, and influence, and 
 authority. There are certain traits of mind and charac- 
 ter which are God Almighty’s special seal of nobility. 
 They who bear these insignia ave in fact, and sooner or 
 later they will be seen to be, the lords and princes of 
 the world. Integrity, intelligence, greatness of mind 
 and heart, the people to whom God gives these traits, 
 and among whom he perpetuates them, may be obscure 
 and unknown for a time ; but they shall one day rise 
 above .their fellows, as the stars outshine the insects, as 
 the oaks overshadow the brambles ! But where are 
 the people who have, and retain, and will continue to 
 have and retain, to the end of time, these superemiuent 
 and princely qualities ? We all know. They are the 
 saints of the most high God. Other men have noble 
 traits, and show themselves worthy of honor, and place, 
 and power. But, outside the Christian Church, there 
 is not a tribe, or clan, or family, in all the world, which 
 can preserve and transmit their nobleness, so as to secure 
 
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 to after-generations the power or the place of the 
 fathers. But the religion of the saints is an eternal 
 spring of greatness and virtue ; and they who retain 
 that religion, shall finally possess not the property of 
 the world alone, but its posts of power, and its places of 
 authority. Assaith our text : the kingdom, and domin- 
 ion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole 
 heaven, shall be given unto the people of the saints of 
 the Most High. 
 
 The same conclusion might be argued, 
 
 2. From the actual history of the Church, since it has 
 had a place among the nations. 
 
 When the Saviour left the world, his disciples, you 
 remember, were utterly indigent, and helpless, and 
 weak. Formerly, under the reign of Solomon for exam- 
 ple, the saints of God had power, and wealth, and 
 greatness. But might, and property, and fame, and 
 influence had departed with their departing virtues; 
 and it seemed that the followers of Messiah had sur- 
 rendered the world to receive and enjoy their Lord 
 alone. The ungodly had seized the wealth, had usurped 
 the governments, were plying the trades, were leading 
 the armies, were instructing the schools, were directing 
 the opinions, were determining the destinies of all the 
 nations. Impoverished and alone, the disciples of Christ 
 began their work ; and they and their successors have 
 carried it forward through the centuries to the present 
 time. Look forth, then, at this moment, and observe 
 for example, How much of the world’s wealth has 
 come into the hands of God’s saints during these last , 
 eighteen centuries ? How much of the world’s wealth, 
 and her sources of wealth, do the saints possess to-day ? 
 Draw them aside out of all the nations ; let the people 
 of God take their trades and their treasures and go 
 
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 forth, as of old the Israelites went forth from Egypt, to 
 some far off land of promise. From Europe, from the 
 East, from Britain, from America, from the islands of 
 the seas, let all Christians withdraw, bearing with them 
 their accumulated and proper wealth. And is there a 
 nation under heaven that could make out such an 
 inventory, and show such an estate as the Church pos- 
 sesses to-day ? Nay, is there a nation in the whole cir- 
 cle of Christendom that would not be bankrupt in a 
 twelvemonth after such an exodus of her saints, and 
 their treasures ? 
 
 Or take any other element of social power. Take 
 intelligence, for instance ; the mastery of all arts, the 
 knowledge of all sciences, the ability to influence and 
 affect the world, and what au accumulation of all forms 
 of enduring and practical wisdom have the saints of 
 these bygone centuries made ! Have the nations any 
 single science, trade, invention, art, philosophy of which 
 the saints are now ignorant ? 'Nay, do not the nations 
 derive their trades, and arts, and knowledges almost 
 exclusively from the people of God ? Who are the 
 pioneers in all the sciences ? Who lead the way in all 
 the trades? Who explore the unknown seas? Who 
 discover the unknown continents ? Who pilot the ways 
 of traffic? Who are the men that are thus the lights 
 of the ages? Why, were one to go back over these 
 eighteen centuries, and extinguish every thought, and 
 erase every revelation, and annihilate every book, and 
 remove all that the saints of God have contributed to 
 illumine, and elevate, and gladden the nations ; were he 
 to go farther, and take away every Christian soul, our 
 Western world would become as dark as is the Eastern ; 
 and there would be as little intelligence, or as little 
 thrift here anion" the nations that have come towards 
 
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 the setting sun, as among those who sit in the shadow 
 of death, in India, and China, and Japan. For eighteen 
 centuries, the saints have been gradually getting posses- 
 sion of the world, of its intelligence, of its arts, of its 
 property, of its positions of power and influence. And 
 what they have once gained, they have never finally 
 relinquished, and never wholly lost. Great monarch* 
 have abandoned their thrones ; great captains have lost 
 their laurels — great empires have become bankrupt, and 
 desolate, and poor. But the saints have let go no 
 single item of their possessions, except to gain greater, 
 and, after all her changes and migrations, the Church is 
 wiser, stronger, richer to-day than she ever was before. 
 Project this Church into the future now ! Let the saints 
 of God go on for the centuries to come, acquiring and 
 accumulating as they have done in times gone by ; and 
 is not here an argument to attest what the prophet fore- 
 saw ? That the kingdom, and dominion, and the great- 
 ness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be 
 given at length to the people of the saints of the Most 
 High God ? 
 
 And then, 3, All the indications of Providence point, 
 as with a prophetic finger, to the same grand consum- 
 mation, the delivery of the world into the hands of the 
 saints. Within half a century, all the nations have been 
 thrown open to the saints of God, and they may enter 
 and ply their work diligently and mightily as they will. 
 Within the same period, the mind of the world has 
 awakened to universal consciousness and universal in- 
 quiry. And among all the nations, the great questions 
 which agitate, the masses, and strike to the very foun- 
 dations of being and thought, are, What things are 
 true ? and, What things are right ? Who is to answer 
 these questions ? Who shall supply these inquiring mil. 
 
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 lions, with what they seek ? Look again. Within half 
 a century, all the powerful tongues on the globe have 
 been impregnated and freighted with the truths of 
 Christianity. The Bible has been translated into more 
 than two hundred languages and dialects, and given to 
 the nations. So that there is not now, on earth, a single 
 wide-spread or powerful form of human speech that 
 does not contain, and promulgate, and echo among the 
 people, the truths and promises of the word of God. 
 Meantime, all the old religions of the heathen have 
 become confessedly effete and decrepit. Not one of 
 them can ever spread ; not one of them can continue 
 long to live, even. Among their own disciples, nay, among 
 their former devotees, they have already become a 
 burden and a grief. Nor is this all. Mohammedanism, 
 once so mighty, and Infidelity that had power in other 
 ages to diffuse itself, and Roman Catholicism that once 
 encircled the globe with its missions and its triumphs ; 
 all these systems, the last that time has power to breed, 
 are to-day shorn of their power, and unable to extend 
 to other races. Look over the world. Where is there 
 a spot on any of its continents, where either of these 
 rival religions can ever take root or spread ? Will the 
 Hindoo receive the discarded neology of the Germans ? 
 As soon will the prairie that has been thoroughly burnt 
 once, kindle and take fire from a second torch. Is 
 there a place on the globe to which the Pope can fly, 
 and on which he can establish another empire ? No ; 
 the other religions of the world are getting ready to 
 fall, when that mother of all the delusions, and queen of 
 all the idolatries — the Roman Hierarchy — comes down. 
 The shock of the falling Babylon will bring to the 
 ground all these decaying fabrics, leaving the world 
 open to the one remaining religion : the religion of the 
 
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 saints. Are there not signs among the nations ? "What 
 is to come when these old tottering systems reel in the 
 tempest, and go down never again to rise ? Are the 
 nations to have no sanctuary ? no God ? no religion ? Is 
 universal atheism to arrive, and conclude the drama? 
 No ; the saints of God are hiding their time: and that 
 time is not far distant. The world has, in its descent, 
 thus far followed exactly, and step by step, the track of 
 prophecy. Power and supremacy, in their way to the 
 saints, lodged for a time with the Assyrian ; went next 
 to Rome, and perched for a period on the sceptre of the 
 Caesars; till descending once more, they were robed in 
 scarlet, and went forth to change times and laws, and 
 wear out the saints, and make the earth drunk with the 
 blood of the martyrs. Thus far have rule and authority 
 come along the line of prophecy. One step remains — 
 for that the nations wait. When Antichrist falls, then 
 comes the reign of the saints ! 
 
 We may remark, then, in concluding our discourse, 
 and by way of particular application of our subject, 
 
 1. That in this great work of possessing and governing 
 the world, the people of God must never allow them- 
 selves to confine their endeavors to any single achieve- 
 ment, but must preserve a breadth and amplitude of 
 purpose, equal to their universal mission. 
 
 The strength and prosperity of a kingdom depend, 
 as we know, upon the joint action of all its offices, and 
 organs, and people. When those who make and those 
 who administer the laws ; and those who teach the 
 schools ; and these who ply the trades ; and those who 
 hold the possessions ; and those who navigate the seas ; 
 and those who negotiate with distant states ; and those 
 who direct the course of public thought, discharge their 
 respective functions in an orderly, continuous and bene- 
 
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 ficent way ; then the empire prospers. But if rulers 
 and people, neglecting all other interests, give attention 
 exclusively to one, no matter what that one may be, 
 whether conquests in other lands, or commerce, or 
 legislation, or luxury at home, so soon as in any great 
 empire, the magistrates and people crowd together 
 into one exclusive enterprise, staking the national for- 
 tunes upon that single throw, that moment the entire 
 commonwealth will begin to decline. 
 
 Now it may be, that one of the great mistakes of tbe 
 day, is just this, of supposing that the saints of the Most 
 High God have in hand, not au entire kingdom, but 
 only some one great interest connected with the king- 
 dom. For are we not continually asking, over our great 
 religious enterprises, as the disciples did, over their own 
 persons and prospect, Which of these is greatest in 
 the kingdom of God ? 
 
 One man, contemplating the masses of our own 
 population, to whom the Gospel is not yet ministered, 
 computes their numbers, counts their vices, and medi- 
 tates their doom, till he is ready to believe that the 
 one great work of the American Church is to overtake 
 and evaugelize this accumulated and threatening mass 
 of heathenism at home. Another returns from the mis- 
 sion-school or the crowded precinct, and declares, that 
 the American Church will overtake the chief mission 
 of the age, if she withholds a timely and saving effort for 
 this great army of unevangelized children. A third 
 has looked upon the desolation of the pagan world, and 
 to him — what else could happen to a sensitive and 
 Christian soul ? — the cause of missions to the heathen, is 
 the leading interest of the day. A fourth, considering 
 the lethargy of the saints and the decline of godliness 
 at home, imagines that the revival of God’s work in 
 

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 these ten thousand sleeping churches, is a matter which, 
 in its issues and prospects, outweighs all other consider- 
 ations, whether for ourselves or the heathen. A fifth 
 finds that Christianity is every where oppressed and 
 enfeebled by contact with the customs of a corrupt 
 community. To his mind therefore, the Church can 
 never make conquest of other races, till she has sancti- 
 fied the commonwealths in which she herself resides. 
 How can religion overthrow the idolatries of pagan 
 lauds, he asks, while it is impotent to subdue the 
 vices and suppress the lusts which it encounters in 
 Christian soil ? In his view, therefore, the prime and 
 all - important work of God’s saints, is not a work of 
 missions abroad, but of morals at home. Make for the 
 nations one model state, he says: nay, take a single 
 city, and complete what Christianity has but commenced 
 as yet ; show the world one specimen of universal intel- 
 ligence, order, piety, and thrift, and such an example, 
 lifted up to the gaze of the nations, would be a stand- 
 ard which they would speedily follow. Now the error 
 in all these cases, is not, that men attach a fictitious 
 value to triumphs that are in themselves of little con- 
 sequence, but that they allow themselves to think that 
 the kingdom of Christ can be administered and extend- 
 ed in this world by single endeavors, and solitary suc- 
 cesses. No, my brethren! we must adopt broader, 
 grander views than these, if we intend to succeed in 
 our work. No where on the face of the globe is the 
 kingdom of the Redeemer completed as yet. On every 
 continent ; in every city ; at every point, something 
 waits to be done. In one land the task is that of in- 
 stant assault and vigorous acrsrression. The missionaries 
 of Christ, leading the van of the advancing army, must 
 set foot on new territory, and plant on far off continents 
 
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 the standard of the cross, the sign of strength, the 
 pledge of victory. 
 
 On other ground, the light of a lost religion must be 
 rekindled in sanctuaries that for centuries have been 
 the sepulchers of an extinguished life, the dormitories 
 of a departed faith. 
 
 Here, the work of God must be revived in congrega- 
 tions, and over whole continents, when piety declines, 
 and graces droop, and the fire of devotion is almost 
 extinct. 
 
 These, even must be expunged, and corruptions eras- 
 ed, and piety restored to her twin inheritance, of purity 
 and truth. These morals must be improved and intel- 
 ligence advanced, and laws administered, and the public 
 weal made prosperous and safe. 
 
 Thus in every field and in every place, there is some- 
 thing to be done to give strength, and success, and en- 
 largement to the kingdom of Christ. And what waits 
 to be done ; in one spot or another ; afar in heathen 
 land, or here in our own cities and churches ; whatever 
 work is yet unfinished, and yet on hand, that and all 
 of it, is alike indispensable and alike important. So 
 that we may not point to one field or another, and say: 
 There is our one only work. Our work is every where, 
 every where till the kingdom is set up. And this brings 
 us to say : 
 
 2. That neglect or debility in any one department of 
 this great work of saintly conquest and control, enfee- 
 bles and endangers the whole enterprise. 
 
 The cause, the kingdom, the Church, are one ; even 
 as Christ their Head and owner, is one. Our religion 
 too, the animating principle of all our endeavors, at 
 home and abroad, is one and the same. You can not 
 disable it for one of its appointed tasks, and have it 
 
strong and undamaged for the others. Let any church 
 or commonwealth of churches, become lax and impo- 
 tent in the great work of missions among the heathen ; 
 and the same impotence and the same neglect will in- 
 stantly appear in its greater work of building the 
 kingdom at home. Zeal will decay, prayer cease, ordi- 
 nances lose their power, hopes grow dim, and stagnancy 
 and decline and apprehension be in all their sanctuaries. 
 The light set under a bushel to prevent its rays going 
 forth to gladden the whole house, droops in its unna- 
 tural prison, till, going out, it becomes as dark inside 
 the bushel as it is in hall or chamber or closet around. 
 On the other hand, let a church, or a continent of 
 churches, neglect their work at home, to give the 
 greater attention to the cause of missions in the far-off 
 lands; and the distant heathen field will reflect iu all 
 its fortunes, phases, and destinies, the exact state of 
 things in the Church and the communities at home. 
 Take what care of hand and foot you will, if the heart 
 be diseased, if the lungs are unsound, if there be weak- 
 ness and decay at the fountain-head of life, the extre- 
 mities partake in the common decline ; and no care of 
 these far off members can prevent the transmission of 
 decay and impotence to them. 
 
 And I would suggest, my brethren, for profound 
 inquiry to-night, whether it be not just here, that we are 
 to look for the hidden cause of all our impotence and 
 ill success on heathen ground and in the cause of foreign 
 missions. Fifty years have passed since the Church of 
 America went forth to carry the Gospel to the benighted 
 pagans. Doubtless much has been achieved in that 
 time. And there was occasion for thanksgiving and 
 jubilee, in the great convocation that met a few weeks 
 since, in a neighboring city. But go back over the 
 
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 course of centuries, and read what the first missionaries 
 of Christ accomplished for him within fifty years from 
 the date of their commission. Compared with their mag- 
 nificent achievements, how poor a spectacle, over which 
 to celebrate a jubilee, is this which we have done. 
 What is the cause of this shortcoming in modern mis- 
 sions? And I submit to those who can answer: Whether 
 our successes abroad have not kept pace exactly with our 
 efforts and our advancement at home ? In other words, 
 whether we have not done as much in heathen lands, 
 as could be done by a religion that accomplishes no 
 more on her own domain and among her own people. 
 When so many of our churches at home, decline in 
 grace and decay in strength, when the number of our 
 converts scarcely exceeds the number of annual re- 
 movals by death ; when our children, bearing the bap- 
 tismal sign, reject the religion which we offer to the 
 heathen, and Satan snatches from Christian households 
 almost as many souls as we. reclaim from the pagan 
 hosts ; when immorality gains strength within sight of 
 our sanctuaries, and worldliness corrupts the graces of 
 so many who call themselves saints ; when ignorance 
 and superstition and fraud constitute a heathenism on 
 our own soil, and that heathenism instead of giving way 
 before our religion, is growing annually more confident, 
 more mighty, more portentous, is there not a cause in 
 the character of our Christianity at home, for all its im- 
 potence and ill success when offered to the far off races 
 of the heathen ? 
 
 The best thin" the Church of America could do, the 
 best thin" the Church of Christendom could do for 
 
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 the great work of missions to the heathen would be, to 
 stir up their graces, and call into use their strength, and 
 accomplish at once and to the full, the work they have 
 
on hand at home. God be merciful unto us and bless us, 
 cried a saint of the olden time who understood the con- 
 nection between the several parts of the Church’s work. 
 God be merciful unto us, and bless us, and cause his face 
 to shine upon us, that thy way may be known on earth, 
 thy saving health unto all nations. Arise, shine, said a 
 prophet to the far-off Church of Christian times, arise, 
 shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord 
 is risen upon thee. That is the time for the Church to 
 shine upon the nations that sit in the shadow of death, 
 when there is light in all her towers, and the glory of 
 the Lord overshadows her services, and irradiates her 
 sons. 
 
 Go then, ye saints of the Most High God, to your 
 great, your universal, your predestined and royal work. 
 Set up the kingdom, set up the kingdom, and commence 
 your glorious and rightful reign. Here on the home 
 field, acquit yourselves with courage, fidelity, and un- 
 wearied zeal. Take up all these honest, inviting, and 
 beneficent trades, holding and working them for Christ 
 and his kingdom. Acquire what you may by every 
 lawful means, of this precious useful and accessible pro- 
 pert) 7 . Ascend upon all legitimate paths, to posts of 
 influence and seats of authority. Lay hold of govern- 
 ment; possess the offices ; compass all forms of know- 
 ledge ; appropriate all liberal and honorable arts ; wield 
 the power of letters ; put forth the energy of thought ; 
 get so much of the world as is within your reach, into 
 Christian hands. And then, make it your fixed pur- 
 pose, as it is your high mission, your holy calling, 
 your supreme and unalterable duty, to hold, use, 
 and govern all that you possess, in a truly Christian 
 way; making the field in which you dwell a miniature 
 kingdom of Christ. Scatter instruction ; suppress sin ; 
 
overcome evil ; diffuse good ; build upon tliis waiting 
 soil the empire of your ascended Lord. Show to the 
 nations, and send to the nations, that true, that mighty, 
 that transforming religion which can erect here among 
 us, and there among them, the needed, the promised, 
 the glorious kingdom of Christ. 
 
THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 gJeMJork anb grooklmt foreign 
 
 glissionarg ^oticlir. 
 
 This Anniversary concludes the thirty-third year of our history as a Society. 
 It has been a year of peculiar interest in the missionary work, both because of its 
 own events, and because it was the jubilee year of the parent organization. 
 
 The Treasurer’s report will show that the churches connected with this Society 
 have made an advance of some $2500 in their regular contributions, as compared 
 with those of the previous year ; and, in addition to this, they have given $20,000, 
 as their portion in the successful effort to relieve the American Board from the 
 oppression of their onerous debt. Thus the amount yielded during the past year, 
 by our field, to the general treasury ($43,037.48) is twice as great as its ordinary 
 harvest. The special effort which this has cost will prove a blessing to us if we 
 receive and improve its twofold lesson. It teaches us that the cause of foreign 
 missions has a deep and strong hold upon our churches, and so it should make us 
 grateful and hopeful in our work. And it teaches us also that we can, and there- 
 fore should, accomplish far more in this cause than we have been wont to do. Thus, 
 we have given testimony both for and against ourselves. 
 
 The American Board have sent out during the past year, twenty-six persons as 
 an addition to the working force in the foreign field, and thirteen more are now 
 under appointment. The reports which have come to us during the year from the 
 Northern Armenian mission, have been full of interest. The work among the 
 Bulgarians in European Turkey, in connection with this mission, is most promising. 
 That interesting people are eager for the word of God, and are longing and strug- 
 gling to be free from the yoke of the Greek Church. A prominent and most en- 
 couraging feature, in the history of the year is the religious movement among the 
 Mohammedans. Six Moslem converts have made a public profession of their faith 
 in Christ ; among them an Imam of seventy years. In Constantinople, Philipopolis, 
 Smyrna, Yozgat, Cesarea, and Diarbekir, Mohammedans are becoming more and 
 more ready to receive religious instruction. In connection with this mission there 
 are twenty-eight churches, to which one hundred and nineteen members have been 
 added on profession of their faith during the year under review. 
 
 The progress of the work in the South Armenian Mission has been truly remark- 
 able. There are in all connected with this mission twelve churches, eight of them 
 but six years old, and yet they have nearly six hundred members, one hundred 
 and seven having been received during the past year. Few, if any, churches 
 among us have had so rapid and signal a growth in numbers and in Christian ac- 
 tivity. The lay members of the churches, in the spirit of the primitive Christians, 
 
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 have engaged zealously and effectively in true missionary work, going from hou3e 
 to house, and from village to village, proclaiming the Gospel. Home Missionary 
 Societies have been formed, one at Marasb, and another at Aintab, appropriately 
 called in their language “ Soul-loving societies.” At Marasb, where but a few 
 years since native preachers were imprisoned and a missionary forbidden to preach, 
 a large stone church has been built entirely by their own efforts, which on special 
 occasions is filled with a congregation of from fourteen to sixteen hundred 
 people. Theological schools at Aintab and Marash are gradually supplying the 
 churches with native pastors. The ordinary Sabbath congregation at the former 
 place is nine hundred, and the Sunday-school numbers sixteen hundred men, 
 women and children. A missionary spent a few months, last season, at Kessab, 
 and gathered a church of sixty-one members, who, with the assistance of their 
 fellow-townsmen, have erected a house of worship that will accommodate a thou- 
 sand people. Could we report a corresponding degree of Christian activity, and 
 of Christian progress in the two great cities, so many of whose churches are con- 
 nected with this Society ? Believers have been wont ever to look through the 
 vista of the centuries to the East, to see in the Galileean the only model of a per- 
 fect manhood ; perhaps we are yet to look eastward also to learn a lesson concern- 
 ing the development of churches in zeal and efficiency, and a lesson concerning 
 the true method of multiplying churches in wide aud ready fields as “ soul-loving 
 organizations perhaps the East will thus repay our expenditures on their behalf 
 with lessons whose value can not be measured by the gold which has gone from 
 our treasury. 
 
 The past year has been a fearful one for the mission in Syria. The heart of 
 Christendom has thrilled with horror at the appalling barbarities by the sword and 
 by the fagot, which have left thousands of widows and fatherless children, without 
 shelter or clothing or food. The dreadful story is too familiar to justify a recital 
 here. We shall keep India and Syria together in our memories for many years to 
 come. We have special occasion for gratitude that amid the general massacres, 
 our missionaries and their families have been mercifully preserved from all harm. 
 The aid which has been sent to the sufferers from here and from England has been 
 most timely; but must be continued and increased, ortho consequencos will be 
 unspeakably disastrous. 
 
 A reinforcement has been sent to the Nestoriau Mission, with the design of pro- 
 secuting the work among that interesting people with increasing energy. There 
 are fourteen hundred pupils in the different schools, and three hundred members in 
 the churches. In the Mahratta Mission sixty-nine converts have been received 
 during the year to thcchurches, whose aggregate membership is nearly four hun- 
 dred. In the Madura Mission the Christian congregations number six thousand 
 people, the churches have ten hundred and twelve members, seventy-five having 
 been received during the year under review. More than one thousand children 
 are gathered in the free schools. In the Ceylon Mission we find nine churches, 
 three of them with native pastors, the membership of all numbering four hundred 
 and fifty-seven, forty-six having been added during the past year. The mis- 
 sions in China have a special interest now that the great Empire is in a disturbed 
 and transition state. A letter from China, appearing first in the Foreign Missionary 
 for November, and copied by one of our daily papers a few weeks since, was cal- 
 culated to revive again the hopes which we once had from the rebellion. 
 
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 It seems that a Dative Christian is second in command at the capital, aod next 
 to Tai-piDg-wang, well known as the leader of the rebel forces. The missionaiies 
 have received letters from this man, of a deeply interesting character, lie makes 
 a full declaration of all the cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith as belonging 
 to his creed. According to him, the programme of the rebels includes the adop- 
 tion of all the materiel of western civilization, railroads, telegraphs, etc. The 
 heathen temples are to be converted into places of Christian worship; the Bible 
 is to be the text-book ; the most friendly relations with foreigners are to be culti- 
 vated. In the Sandwich Islands there are twenty-three churches, with a member- 
 ship of fourteen thousand four hundred and thirteen ; five hundred and seventy- 
 three of these haviDg been added duiing the year. The contributions of these 
 churches for different objects of benevolence amount to about $20,000. 
 
 Nothing of special interest is reported from the Missions among the American 
 Indians, except in two instances. It is proposed to dissolve the connection of the 
 Board with the Mission among the Tuscaroras in the western part of our State. 
 At least one third of their number are members of the church, and it is deemed 
 proper that what aid a community so long and fully evangelized may still need, 
 should be received from other sources. The Board has closed its work amoDg the 
 Cherokees. The nation may be said to be Christianized. The Bible is read daily 
 in the schools, and Christianity is recognized among the people as much as in aoy 
 part of the United States. They have the institutions of the Gospel so established 
 among them that there is one licensed preacher to about every four hundred peo- 
 ple; and one third of the adult population are church members. For these rea- 
 sons, and also because of the difficulty of the further prosecution of work there by 
 the American Board, this mission has been discontinued. 
 
 Such, in brief, is the history of her missionary work for the past year. How in- 
 capable are mere statistics to convey any just idea of the condition or progress of 
 the kingdom of God. We are told that “amoDg the first habits that a young 
 architect should learn, is that of thinking in shadow, not looking at a design in its 
 miserable liny skeleton, but conceiving it as it will be when the dawn lights it 
 and the dusk leaves it ; when its stODes will be hot, aDd its crannies cool ; when 
 the lizards will bask on the one, and the birds build in the other.” We need to 
 learn the application of a rule analogous to this in all our thinking concerning the 
 progress of that grand Spiritual Temple which God is building out of the tuins of 
 our fallen manhood. Our statistics draw for us but “a miserable liny skeleton.” 
 We need to think of that skeleton, by the aids of Faith’s conceptions, as filled out 
 with that strength and beauty which no statistics can describe; as gilded and 
 glorified by the light of prophecy, its polished stones all radiant with the beams 
 of the Sun of Righteousness. 
 
 Fifty years ago, our American church began its foreign missionary work. Five 
 earnest souls gathered at the first meeting of the American Board in 1810. Fifty 
 years later more than five thousand believers sat down simultaneously at the table 
 of the Lord, at the late jubilee anniversary of the same Board. What will it be 
 at the end of another half-century ? During those fifty years more than fifty thou- 
 sand hopeful converts have been gathered out of heathendom, as the first fruits of 
 the missionary work. And yet how much remains to be done both at home and 
 abroad. Here in our field, notwithstanding all that has been accomplished, how 
 great are the yet undeveloped resources of our churches I How many professed 
 Christians among us have as yet scarce felt, or acknowledged the pressure of their 
 
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 obligations to the missionary cause. "We are told that one of the great Masters of 
 color painted that solemn and tender scene, the Supper at Emmaus, making it 
 the back-ground for two children playing with a dog ! What an incongruity, we 
 exclaim ; and yet have we not more than its counterpart in the lives of too many 
 professed Christians ? Should not Christ, the Saviour for all the nations, be in the 
 fore-ground of every believing life? 
 
 At the late jubilee meeting in Boston there was one memorable occasion, when 
 the holy fervor and Christian enthusiasm of the great convocation reached its 
 climax. The plans for the future had been discussed, and appeals had been made, 
 until every heart seemed to be overcharged with the electiicity of Christian sym- 
 pathy and ardor. The pent-up fenlings of the meeting must have expres- 
 sion. It was decided that all present should vote on the question of endeavoring 
 to raise $409,000 during the next year. When this question was put the vast au- 
 dience rose to their feet as by one common impulse ; and then the first hush of that 
 intense moment was broken by the thrilling chorus of more than three thousand 
 voices joining as one in the missionary song : 
 
 “ Shall we, whose souls are lighted 
 With wisdom from on high, 
 
 Shall we to men benighted 
 The lamp of life deny.” 
 
 The spell was broken ; the deep feeling had found fitting expression. It was a 
 scene of surpassing impressiveness ; old men and young, men w ho had grown stal- 
 wart in the service bowed their heads and wept, while all hearts were melted into 
 one. Can not we catch something of the glow of that high and holy enthusiasm 
 for our work? In this first jear of another hall-century of missionary history, 
 shall not that song which thrilled so many hearts at the jubilee as never before, 
 find a fitting response in our increased devotion to the work of proclaiming the 
 joyful sound of salvation to all of our benighted race? 
 
 THOMAS S. HASTINGS, 
 
 Corresponding Secretart. 
 
£[ie foreign glissionarir Sociclij of Jhto-Joili anir gnrflhlp, 
 
 in account current with their Treasurer , A. MERWIN. 
 
 From August 1, 1859, to July 31, 1860. 
 
 Cn. 
 
 $162 42 
 . 287 50 
 
 518 79 
 273 54 
 264 00 
 196 00 
 2640 77 
 
 $1010 00 
 
 . 773 83 
 
 64 66 
 . 5310 99 
 $200 00 
 
 . 3624 60 
 293 06 
 . 209 92 
 
 99 83 
 . 222 31 
 
 270 46 
 
 $15,212 68 
 
 Sundry donations in New- York and Brooklyn, . 5426 36 5,426 36 
 
 Of which for the debt, . . . . 1190 00 
 
 BROOKLYN. 
 
 Church of the Pilgrims, 
 
 Of which for the debt, 
 
 Clinton avenue Congregational Church, 
 
 Of which for the debt, 
 
 Central Congregational Church, 
 
 City-Park Mission “ 
 
 First Presbyterian, “ 
 
 Of which for the debt, 
 
 Park Presbyterian Church, 
 
 Plymouth Congregational Church, 
 
 South “ “ 
 
 “ Presbyterian “ 
 
 Of which for the debt, 
 
 Third Presbyterian Church, 
 
 Westminster “ “ 
 
 Warren-street Mission “ 
 
 New-England Cong. “ 
 
 7,374 05 
 
 
 $1074 
 
 99 
 
 $550 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 2525 
 
 71 
 
 740 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 8 
 
 36 
 
 
 
 103 
 
 48 
 
 
 
 1904 
 
 61 
 
 1220 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 416 
 
 42 
 
 
 
 300 
 
 92 
 
 
 
 121 
 
 81 
 
 
 
 549 
 
 21 
 
 . 250 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 255 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 . 47 
 
 54 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 00 
 
 Alien-street Presbyterian Church, . 
 Brick-street “ “ 
 
 Broadway Tabernacle. 
 
 Central Presbyterian Church, 
 
 Church of the Puritans, . 
 
 Eleventh Presbyterian Church, 
 Fourteenth-street “ “ . . 
 
 Of which for the debt, . 
 
 Fourth avenuo Presbyterian Church, 
 Harlem “ “ 
 
 Madison Square “ “ 
 
 Of which for the debt, 
 Mercer-street Presbyterian Church, 
 North “ “ 
 
 Seventh “ “ 
 
 Spring- street “ “ 
 
 Thirteenth “ “ 
 
 West “ 
 
 $28,013 09 
 
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 Including sums sent by contributors directly to the Trea- 
 surer in Boston, and acknowledged by him, the contributions 
 from the field of this Society, exclusive of those for the debt, 
 amount for the year to $23,037.29. The contributions for the 
 debt, including the payments made since the close of the 
 fiscal year, are $20,000.22. Making the total of contributions 
 $43,037.51. 
 
 The account for the debt is as follows : 
 
 A merchant of this city and his partners paid, . 
 
 $10,000 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 Fourteenth-street Presbyterian Church, 
 
 . 1,060 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 Madison Square “ “ 
 
 850 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 Mercer- street “ “ 
 
 500 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 West “ “ 
 
 . 200 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, 
 
 Clinton avenue Church, “ ... 
 
 . 1,550 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 . 740 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 First Presbyterian “ “ 
 
 . 1,295 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 Plymouth Cong. “ “ 
 
 1,150 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 South Presbyterian “ “ 
 
 First “ “ Williamsburgh, . 
 
 250 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 . 110 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 From sundry individuals 
 
 . 2,295 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 
 $20,000 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dr. 
 
 
 
 Paid for carriage hire, .... 
 
 $6 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 “ 3000 copies Dr. Clark’s Sermon, 
 
 125 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 
 $131 
 
 90 
 
 Entered at sundry times in account with James 
 
 M. 
 
 
 
 
 Gordon, Treasurer of the A. B. C. F. M., 
 
 . 27,881 
 
 19 
 
 27,881 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 
 $28,013 
 
 09 
 
 New- York, Juhj 31, 1860. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Examined and found correct, 
 
 Ai.mon 
 
 Merwin, 
 
 
 L. E. Jackson, Treasurer. 
 
 O. E. Wood. . 
 
RECEIPTS OF THE SOCIETY, 
 
 Thk following statement exhibits the receipts of the Foreign Missionary Society 
 of New-York and Brooklyn, from its organization in 1827, to August, I860. 
 
 For the year euding Aug. 31, 
 
 July 31, 
 
 1827, 
 
 1828, 
 
 1829, 
 
 1830, 
 
 1831, 
 
 1832, 
 
 1833, 
 
 1834, 
 
 1835, 
 
 1836, 
 
 1837, 
 
 1838, 
 
 1839, 
 
 1840, 
 
 1841, 
 
 1842, 
 
 1843, 
 
 1844, 
 
 1845, 
 
 1846, 
 
 1847, 
 
 1848, 
 
 1849, 
 
 1850, 
 
 1851, 
 
 1852, 
 
 1853, 
 
 1854, 
 
 1855, 
 
 1856, 
 
 1857, 
 
 1858, 
 
 1859, 
 
 1860, 
 
 $6,970 99 
 3,407 20 
 6,682 49 
 9,564 29 
 7,597 23 
 9,984 91 
 14,044 64 
 7,635 57 
 13,401 83 
 12,164 95 
 17 107 34 
 11,234 86 
 13,796 61 
 11,132 91 
 12,447 64 
 15,301 06 
 13,390 01 
 10,923 95 
 11,885 04 
 7,974 42 
 13,807 09 
 11,598 39 
 21,252 76 
 13,241 69 
 17,847 31 
 23,230 49 
 22,173 26 
 20,342 43 
 18,106 29 
 21,648 94 
 28,914 41 
 24,208 24 
 20,308 62 
 28,013 09 
 
 $501,340 95 
 
LIST OF OFFICERS 
 
 FOR T1IB TEAR 1860. 
 
 PRESIDENT. 
 
 DAVID HOADLEY. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
 
 A. R. WETMORE, I WILLIAM E. DODGE, 
 
 S. B. CHITTENDEN, | OLIVER E. WOOD. 
 
 CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
 
 Rev. T. RALSTON SMITH. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY. 
 
 ALMON MERWIN. 
 
 TREASURER. 
 
 ALMON MERWIN. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 Alien-street Presbyterian Church, 
 Broadway Tabernacle , 
 
 Central Presbyterian “ 
 
 Church of the Puritans 11 
 
 Eleventh Presbyterian 11 
 
 Fourteenth-street “ “ 
 
 Fourth Avenue “ “ 
 
 Harlem “ 11 
 
 Mercer-street “ “ 
 
 Madison-square “ “ 
 
 North , “ “ 
 
 Seventh “ “ 
 
 George Betts, Joseph W. Lester. 
 
 .... W. W. Fessenden, Samuel Holmes. 
 
 W. S. Dorr, James W. Dunning. 
 
 . . . .C. Abernethy, Elitua Harris, M.D. 
 . . . . Alex. McVey, J. II. Bulkn. 
 
 . . . .S. II. Wales, J. F. Joy. 
 
 . . . . Alfred C. Post.M.D., W. A. Wheeler. 
 . . . .E. Ketchum, James Hiker, Jr. 
 
 W. W. Chester, Richard Bigelow, 
 
 Tiios. Bond. 
 
 Geo. D. Phelps, Z. S. Ely, Cuarles 
 
 Trask. 
 
 . . . .Charles H. Rusher, Georg* D. 
 Craoin. 
 
 . . . .Charles Merrill, H. B. Littbi.l, 
 Jas W. Bishop. 
 
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 First-street Presbyterian Church, 
 Spring-street “ '• 
 
 Thirteenth-street “ “ 
 
 WesI “ “ 
 
 Bedford Cong. Church, Brooklyn, 
 Clinton Av. “ “ “ 
 
 Church of the Pilgrims, u 
 
 Central Cong. Church, “ 
 
 Elm Place “ “ “ 
 
 First Presbyterian “ “ 
 
 Plynwuth Cong. “ “ 
 
 Park Presbyterian “ “ 
 
 South “ 11 “ 
 
 South Cong. “ “ 
 
 Third Presb. “ “ 
 
 Westminster Presb. “ 
 
 Warren-st. Mission “ 11 
 
 Fit st Presb. Church, Williamsburgh, 
 
 . . .Francis Duncan, John Kerr. 
 
 . . .John Endicott, John R. Wilcox. 
 
 . . .John C. Hines, Rufus 8. King. 
 
 . . .Lewis E. Jaokson, A. L. Earlf. 
 
 . . .D. 0. Calkins, Edward T. Uooij ai.l. 
 
 — A. S. Barnes, Samuel E. Warner, 
 Alfred Smithers. 
 
 . . .Sidney Sanderson, S. F. Phelps, 
 Rich. P. Buck, Ely Mygatt, Jp. 
 
 . . .William Cutter, S. B. Cole. 
 
 ...F. W. Burke, Chas. B. Williams. 
 
 ...Fisiier Howe, David Wesson, Hen- 
 ry Ide. 
 
 . . .J. T. Howard, Arthur Niciiols, 
 J. B. Hutchinson. 
 
 . . .E. A. Lambert, W.v. W. Wickes. 
 
 ...R. F. IIowes, A. L. Tan Buren, 
 J. Milton Smith. 
 
 . . .S. N. Davis, Henry Law. 
 
 •W. W. Hurlbut, J. C. Halsey, M.D. 
 
 . . . Andrew Mason, George Walsh. 
 
 . . .James Hawkins. 
 
 ...J. W. Buckley, Geo. W. Edwards.