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 The Missionary Work essential to the Development and Growth of 
 the Christian Church. 
 
 
 
 A SEEMON, 
 
 DELIVERED BEFORE TUE 
 
 FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY 
 
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 NEW-YORK AXD BROOKLYN, 
 
 S-AJBB.A.TII :NTOVEjMHER, G and 20. 
 
 BY REV. RUFUS W. CLARK, D.D., 
 
 PASTOR OF THE SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BROOELYN. 
 
 W'lTH REPORTS OF COR. SECRETARY AND TREASURER. 
 
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 ALMON MERVIN, BIBLE HOUSE, ASTOR PLACE. 
 
 1859. 
 
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 2 Cor. 9 : 6. 
 
 “But this I saj, ITe which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and 
 which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.” 
 
 This and the preceding chapter may be regarded as 
 a missionary address from St. Paul to the Christians at 
 Corinth. The feeble churches in Palestine were suffer- 
 ing greatly for want of assistance from abroad ; and 
 the Apostle pleads their claims with that tenderness of 
 feeling, logical skill, and force of argument that charac- 
 terize all his efforts in the service of his Master. 
 
 He commences by a touching allusion to the churches 
 of Macedonia, that at the very time they were suffering 
 persecution, their exceeding joy at the reception of the 
 doctrines of the Gospel, prompts them, out of their ex- 
 treme poverty, to show the riches of their liberality. 
 Instead of excusing themselves on the ground of their 
 present severe trials and pressing necessities, they urge 
 St. Paul to take a liberal donation to the suffering saints 
 in Judea. The Apostle then alludes to the eminence 
 of those whom he addresses, in the various Christian 
 graces, in faith, knowledge, eloquence, diligence in the 
 discharge of Christian duties, in love for himself, and 
 urges that the grace of charity be added to these ; re- 
 minding them in language of exquisite beauty and irre- 
 
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 sistible power, of tlie grace of Him who though he was 
 rich in exhaustless treasures, yet for their sakes became 
 poor, that through his poverty and sacrifices they 
 might become rich in spiritual gifts and heavenly bless- 
 ings, Reference is made to the divine estimate of the 
 charity, measured not by the magnitude of the gift, but 
 by the expression made of the feelings of the heart ; to 
 the rewards that God will bestow upon the benevolent 
 in two worlds ; to the joy lighted up in the hearts of 
 the recipients of the bounty ; to the reciprocal influence 
 of liberality among the churches ; and to the great 
 vital j3rinciple, presented in our text, that each Christian 
 will reap in exact proportion as he sows. He will reap 
 in the satisfaction that his benevolent works will afford, 
 in the development of his Christian principles, in ability 
 to enter upon other extensive fields of usefulness, and 
 in the approbation and rewards of heaven. 
 
 We propose, therefore, to elucidate and prove the 
 proposition that 
 
 The missionary work is essential to the development 
 and growth of the Christian Church. 
 
 Our arguments will be based upon the natui'e of 
 Christianity ; the laws of the human mind ; the law of 
 progress in the individual Christian character, and the 
 periods of the greatest prosperity in the history of the 
 Church. 
 
 I. What is Christianity ? Objectively, we say, it is 
 that system which comprises the doctrines and princi- 
 ples taught by Christ, Subjectively, it is that system 
 of truth in the human soul working out its legitimate 
 results. The Christianity that is in the world, that is 
 real, vital, operative, is, in the followers of Christ, pro- 
 duced there by the light of Gospel truth, and the influ- 
 ences of the Holy Spirit. It is not simply a system of 
 
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 abstract principles bouiul np in a volnine or expressed 
 in articles of faith, or unfolded in a Christian literature, 
 or preached in sermons ; but it is a living thing, taking 
 hold of the aftections of the heart, the faculties of the 
 intellect, and the powers of the will, and constituting 
 the Church, in the language of its Head, the salt of the 
 eai’th, the light of the world. And when we come 
 down to the substance of Christianity, as thus defined, 
 and analyze it, w'e perceive that the missionary work, 
 or the spirit of usefulness, or the outgoings of the soul 
 in doing good to others, is one of its essential elements. 
 It is not something superadded to a man’s religion, 
 something that he can cultivate or not cultivate without 
 aflectiug the fundamental principles of his piety. This 
 is one of the principles itself. 
 
 Here is a man who says, I believe in Christ as the 
 Son of God. I accept his doctrines as true. I endeav- 
 or to live an honest and upright life, have made a 
 public profession of my faith, and am endeavoring to 
 save my soul. Very well, as far as it goes. But this 
 is only a part of Christianity. This system enters the 
 human soul to revolutionize it in all its departments, to 
 search out and expel every selfish principle, to rej)ro- 
 duce the moral image of God, to render the spirit God- 
 like in character, purpose, and achievement. It rests 
 satisfied with nothing short of this. And to be god- 
 like, is obviously to have the principle of benevolence 
 supreme upon the throne, a law that enlists all the 
 faculties and powers in doing good to others. For the 
 essence of Deity is given in the brief utterance, “ God is 
 love ” All the other attributes exist for the develop- 
 ment of this. Omnipotence creates worlds and systems, 
 that channels may be opened through which the 
 streams of benevolence may flow. Wisdom frames 
 sentient creatures, that are capable of being the recip- 
 
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 ients of the clivlue bounty. Holiness erects tlie great 
 pillars of right and justice that sustain the manifes- 
 tations of love. When Moses desired to see the 
 glory of God, Jehovah complied with the request, by 
 saying : “ I will cause my goodness to pass before thee.’’ 
 This was the highest, most beautiful, most sublime mani- 
 festation of his glory. Wonderful displays of his 
 power, the most dazzling exhibitions of the splendors 
 of his being, would be nothing to this. And thus he 
 has caused his glory to pass before successive genera- 
 tions of men. It shines in the sun, sparkles in every 
 star, breathes in the air, waves in the forest, blooms in 
 every flower, glistens in every gem, is heard in the 
 ocean anthem and in the song of the bird, is felt in 
 every pulsation of life, in every thrill of joy, in every 
 gift from the infinite Father. Even our very know- 
 ledge of God’s existence is derived through the opera- 
 tion of the great j^rinciple that we are considering. We 
 travel up to his throne through the avenue that his 
 benevolence has opened. We know God through his 
 love, and viewing him through this medium, all the 
 attributes seem glorious, and heaven and earth are 
 bathed in the light of his benignant countenance. 
 
 The mission, too, of him who came as the representa- 
 tive of the Father to men, is a striking illustration of 
 the principle before us. Although in him dwelt the 
 fullness of tlie Godliead ; although in him were hid all 
 the treasures of wisdom ; although as a teacher he let 
 down one map after another of eternal truth, upon which 
 men gazed with astonishment and admiration, yet his 
 biography is written in these words ; “ He went about 
 doing good.” lie unfolded his character, revealed 
 those virtues that are new forces in society, that are 
 more than institutions — revealed, 1 may say, a new sys. 
 tern of religion, in his daily life. Each hour was a 
 
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 chapter, each act a miracle, each suffering a fulfilled 
 prophecy in the New Testament of divine love. Virtue 
 streamed forth from his finger as he touched the eyes 
 of the blind, and gave them sight. Faith was in his 
 tread, as the very waters under his feet were converted 
 into solid marble. The multiplication of the loaves and 
 fishes was an emblem of the reproductive power of the 
 truths he taught, and the blessed doctrines he promul- 
 gated. The ocean storm hushed by his word was a 
 prophecy of that coming kingdom that would bring 
 peace on earth and good-will among men. 
 
 And what shall we say of Calvary ? of that burdened, 
 lacerated, bleeding form toiling up the steep ascent? 
 Why these nails, this rough cross, the spear, the iron- 
 clad soldiers, the haughty Pharisee, the low scoffer ? 
 AVhat strange mystery encircles the innocent victim ? 
 That countenance bearing the traces of sorrow and 
 divinity, the mingled wildness and majesty in the eye, 
 the sealed lips, the submission of a lamb led to the 
 slaughter ? Surely there is some great principle work- 
 ing here; some great lesson for the ages to come is 
 taught here. More than a lesson you say — Redemption ! 
 Yes, and in the redemption is the lesson. It touches 
 character as well as safety. 
 
 And Christ has a Church on earth that he may mul- 
 tiply and perpetuate copies of himself, that his life may 
 be repeated in that of every true disciple. So fully did 
 the apostles comprehend this design, that St. John says: 
 “ Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid 
 down his life for us : and we ought to lay down our lives 
 for the brethren.” 
 
 And in relation to the missionary work, Ave have on 
 the one hand the heathen waiting to receive the Gospel, 
 and on the other the Church waitino; to receive the 
 benefits, the culture, the spiritual growth, to be derived 
 
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 from giving them the Gospel. "VYe find ourselves, in 
 professing Christianity, under a law as rigid and inflexi- 
 ble as the law of gravitation, that unites Christian vigor, 
 the highest religious development, and eminence in 
 holiness to usefulness in extending the Redeemer’s king- 
 dom and saving the souls of men. We do not come, 
 then, to-night, to press the claims of a cause that lies in 
 the outer court of your religion. We do not come to 
 portray what has been termed the reflex influence of 
 missions. We come rather to plant this cause far down 
 amid the primary elements of your Christianity, that it 
 may feel the warmth of your heart, beat with every 
 pulsation of conscience, work with the forces of a sanc- 
 tified will, and pervade those blessed doctrines that 
 have come to you from “ the truth as it is in Jesus.” 
 
 II. In the next place, we argue from the laws of 
 mind, that the missionary work, or benevolent effort, is 
 essential to its spiritual development. 
 
 The soul of man was created for certain specific and 
 grand purposes, which can only be accomplished by 
 obedience to the laws that have been instituted for its 
 government. Being made in the image of God, we may 
 reasonably infer that those laws are similar to the prin- 
 ciples that govern the Infinite mind. And experience 
 and revelation show that this inference is a correct one, 
 and that benevolent action calls forth the noblest 
 powers and confers the highest happiness. To coope- 
 rate with God in his great plans of love, to follow in 
 the pathways that Jesus trod, to labor to extend the 
 kingdom of i-ighteousness and peace on earth, is to bring 
 the mind directly under the influence of those princi- 
 ples that will develop and strengthen its faculties, and 
 open the sources of the most exquisite enjoyment. And 
 the pleasure derived from doing good Avill increase the 
 
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 ability, will move all the activities of the soul, will 
 kindle that ardor and enthusiasm that are so essential 
 to success. The joy of the Lord will be the Christian’s 
 strength, will send new vigor through every fiber of his 
 being, will clothe him with the whole armor of God — 
 the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the 
 sword of the Spirit — and enable him to achieve signal 
 victories in the cause of his IMaster. 
 
 The Saviour laid down the principle that “ it is more 
 blessed to give than to receive.” The benefactor re- 
 ceives the largest share of the benefit. In the very act 
 of blessing othei*s, he is blessed himself. The young 
 Christian goes forth full of zeal to spread the glad tidings 
 of salvation, to enrich others with the treasures that he 
 has found to be so precious to his own soul. lie pleads 
 with his fellow-men to go to the Saviour, and receive 
 salvation at his hands. He bears the standard of the 
 Cross to distant climes, and devotes his energies and 
 life to the work of extending the Redeemer’s kingdom. 
 And lo ! he finds that he is gathering a harvest of 
 blessings to his own soul. As he extends the light of 
 Christianity, new stars of hope shine in the firmament 
 of his own spirit. Every convert led to Jesus brings 
 the Saviour nearer to himself, and increases the value 
 and power of the great salvation. As the desert re- 
 joices and blossoms as the rose, the chords of his own 
 heart vibrate to the music of new pleasures, and he 
 walks in a Paradise clothed with celestial verdure, and 
 decorated with flowers that never hide. 
 
 But, we are asked, does not this religion require us 
 to make sacrifices? Does not Christ himself say, “If 
 any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and 
 take up his cross and follow me ?” Yes ; but what is 
 Christian self-denial ? It is simply giving up a present 
 small advantage for a future great advantage ; relin- 
 
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 quishiDg the transient for the permanent, the temporal 
 for the eternal. The same authority says : “ There is 
 
 no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters* or 
 father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for 
 my sake and the Gospel’s, but he shall receive a 
 hundred fold now in this time, .... and in the world 
 to come eternal life.” By giving up the world, the 
 disciple of Christ takes possession of it. Treading the 
 earth beneath his feet, where it belongs, he becomes 
 heir to an hundred worlds. Every planet in its flight 
 describes the extent of his kingdoms. Every star 
 shines upon his home. He is no where a stranger, for 
 God is his Father. lie may take the wings of the 
 morning, the chariots of the dawning light, and hasten 
 to the uttermost parts of the universe,and he is still at 
 home in the presence of the Infinite. There is no dark- 
 ness to his soul, no darkness in the universe. Even the 
 valley of the shadow of death is lighted up, and angel 
 messengers wait, when he shall have drank of the hun- 
 dred streams that flow from the fountain of life here, to 
 bear him to the life everlasting. 
 
 Viewed in the light of this beautiful law, the mis- 
 sionary work comes to you, and to every disciple of 
 Jesus, as the greatest privilege that can be conferred 
 upon your spiritual and immortal nature. The door of 
 usefulness opened by this Society is to you the door to 
 the halls of heavenly knowledge, where you may be in- 
 structed in divine things according to the promise : “ If 
 any man wdll do the will of God, he shall know of the 
 doctrine.” It is the door to a habitation of blessedness, 
 that you would not exchange for the palaces of kings, 
 or the houses of the most famed earthly royalty. And 
 when the Church universal shall awake to a consciousness 
 of this grand truth, she will then put on her strength. 
 Jerusalem will put on her beautiful garments, and go 
 
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 forth to publish salvation to the nations, and say unto 
 Zion : “ Tliy God reigneth.” 
 
 III. In the next place, tlie truth of our proposition 
 apjiears in the history of individual Christians. 
 
 AVho are the men that stand as fire pillars along the 
 wastes of past ages; who have been as lights to guide 
 the nations ; the sources of institutions ; whose lives are 
 the elements of a progressive civilization, and are work- 
 in" with the ever-workin" moral universe of God ? Are 
 
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 they not the men whom missionary plans, or great 
 schemes of usefulness, have developed ? Have they not 
 been educated'in the schools of benevolence, disciplined 
 and equipped by the power of magnificent enterprises, 
 brought out and placed upon the thrones of influence 
 by active service for humanity and God ? 
 
 Heroes have lived who have led on armies to conquest, 
 revolutionized nations, and swayed the scepter of au- 
 thority over vast empires. Discoverers have opened 
 new worlds for the planting of colonies, that have rip- 
 ened into powerful kingdoms. Inventors have promoted 
 the material interests of society, and developed the 
 wealth of nations. Genius has left its impress upon the 
 monuments of art and the creations of ideal beauty. 
 The thinkers of the race have supplied the means for 
 intellectual culture and scientific knowledge. But the 
 men whose lives have entered into millions of other lives, 
 whose thoughts constitute the mental nourishment of 
 enlightened communities, whose characters shine upon 
 successive generations with increasing lustre and power, 
 were developed under the great law of usefulness. 
 
 Moses was a missionary of the ancient faith to the 
 court and people of Pharaoh. His being was conse- 
 crated to the service of God, and the perpetuation and 
 extension of the true religion, and that consecration was 
 
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 liis educator. It disciplined liis intellectual powers ; 
 sanctified the knowledge that he acquired from the 
 Egyptians ; qualified him to lead forth the hosts of Israel ; 
 gave him insight into the principles of jurisprudence 
 that to-day lie at the basis of all civilized governments, 
 and placed in his hand the pen of inspiration that renders 
 his writings immortal. 
 
 The first outward manifestation of the reality of Paul’s 
 conversion was the inquiry: “Lord, what wdlt thou 
 have me to do ?” He was ready to consecrate his genius, 
 his intellectual attainments, his energies of body and 
 soul, upon the altar of duty. And now his real life 
 begins. The forces of his mental and moral nature are 
 quickened into activity. His mission reacts upon his 
 soul, kindling the fires of a quenchless Christian enthu- 
 siasm. His zeal sends the electric spark into other 
 minds, and they brighten with new hopes. His exe- 
 cutive force is employed in founding churches, establish- 
 ing the new religion upon a firm basis, and resisting the 
 fearful tide of persecution. The timid associating with 
 him gain courage ; the doubting gain faith ; the weak 
 gain strength. His intellect, touched by the spirit of 
 inspiration, grasps the doctrines of the ancient and new 
 dispensations, shows their relations and harmony, brings 
 out the nature, necessity, and glorious consequences of 
 the atonement. His genius, baptized in the celestial 
 influences of the heaven to which he was borne, ever 
 after glowed with a supernatural brightness, revealing 
 his full preparation for that state to which he longed to 
 depart. Ilis spiritual exercises are such that he counts 
 all things as loss for the excellency of the knowledge of 
 Christ Jesus, his Lord. Forgetting what is behind, he 
 presses forward towards the mark for the prize of his 
 high calling. His great work has kindled ardent long- 
 ings in his soul, that can only be satisfied by the ter- 
 
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 mination of the perishable and his introduction to the 
 immortal. He has sown bountifully, and he reaps 
 bountifully. lie wrote epistles to local churches, and 
 although the churches have passed aw'ay, and ancient 
 Rome, Corinth, and Ephesus are in ruins, and the nations 
 that at that time made the world tremble, are number- 
 ed with the wrecks of dead empires, yet these epistles 
 live are as fresh and vigorous, and mighty to-day as at 
 any former period ; even more mighty, influencing more 
 minds, stirring more hearts, kindling in more souls the 
 fires of a holy ambition, than at any former period. 
 His influence is felt. Sabbath after Sabbath, in thousands 
 of pulpits, tens of thousands of Christian fomilies, and 
 is exerted upon millions of youth and children gathered 
 in Sabbath-schools. It pervades a religious literature, 
 beats in the heart of every benevolent society, goes with 
 every missionary of the Cross to distant lands, and will 
 yet be known upon the plains of Africa, in the villages 
 of India, the gay cities of China, among the inhabitants 
 of Arctic regions, in the isles of southern seas, and 
 wherever the name of his great Master shall be whis- 
 pered, or the Gospel banner be unfurled. 
 
 The hero of the sixteenth century (Luther) was com- 
 missioned by the Holy Spirit to bear the principles of a 
 true faith to the Papal kingdoms of Europe. Long and 
 severe was the struggle in his mind between the power 
 of early superstitions and the dictates of conscience. 
 Dark and heavy were the clouds of despair that hung 
 around his spirit, as he groped along the pathways that 
 a corrupt Chm’ch had marked out, for spiritual growth 
 and religious peace. But when the clear light of divine 
 truth flashed upon his soul, and the grandeurs of an 
 atonement through the sacrifice of Christ, and of justifi- 
 cation by faith in him, opened before his view, and he 
 formed the purpose to obey the voice of the Spirit, and 
 
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 publish a pure Gospel, though it cost him ease, reputa- 
 tion, and life itself, then spiritual health comes to his 
 soul, bright visions of hope float before his imagination, 
 and he feels the life of Jesus entering into his life, beat- 
 ing with the pulsations of his own heart, and enabling 
 him to say, with the earnest Apostle : “ I can do all 
 things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.” 
 
 As the twilight of a great reformation dawns along 
 the moral horizon, a new enthusiasm is kindled in the 
 heart of our hero. His intellect is quickened to discern 
 the beauty and force of God’s truth, and boldness is 
 given him to expound and enforce the pure doctrines 
 of Christianity, in the hearing of astonished and admir- 
 ing thousands. His burning thoughts flow as streams 
 of spiritual life over the nations. His principles are 
 discussed in the palaces of kings and the cottages of the 
 poor, in the halls of the learned and the apartments of 
 the Vatican. Millions are aroused from the slumber of 
 ages. A consciousness of human rights, long subject to 
 grinding systems of oppression, flies with electric ra- 
 pidity and power from heart to heart. Him visions of 
 great changes to be wrought in society, of mighty revo- 
 lutions in ecclesiastical opinions and authority, assume 
 shape, and become blessed realities. Of freedom of 
 thought, freedom of speech, freedom of government, of 
 the glorious liberty of the Gospel, our hero becomes the 
 unconscious repi^sentative. 
 
 He lives to see kingdoms emancipated, religion throw- 
 ing off the shackles by which it has been for ages bound, 
 and a faith prepared for a continent upon which Pro- 
 testant institutions will rise, clothed Avith invincible 
 power, and sending their liglit and influence to all the 
 governments and religions of the Avorld. 
 
 Time would fail us to speak of Wyclifle and Kno.x, of 
 !Martyn and Brainerd, of Morrison and Mills, of Judson, 
 
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 Carey, Fisk, Newell, and a host of others, whose souls 
 have been enriched, whose affections have been warmed, 
 and whose hopes have been brightened by the grandeur 
 and glory of the undertakings to which they have de- 
 voted their lives. 
 
 Could we present in a single vivid and graphic view 
 their daily religious exercises as portrayed in their 
 journals, or preserved by friendly hands in their pub- 
 lished memoii*s ; could we paint the quickening influence 
 of benevolent effort upon their mental perceptions and 
 intellectual powers, enabling them to accomplish in 
 Biblical science and religious literature what some of 
 them at least looked back upon with astonishment; 
 could we trace the growth of their ability to present 
 Gospel truths in attractive forms, their wisdom in devis- 
 ing means for promoting the good of man and the honor 
 of God ; could we see the tide of their spiritual happiness 
 as it flowed in a thousand streams refreshing their spirits 
 and giving them foretastes of the heavenly felicity that 
 awaited them, we should have before us an argument 
 in favor of the grand enterprise for which we are plead- 
 ing that would carry conviction to the heart of every 
 Christian hearer. 
 
 Oh ! how many there are at this hour standing upon 
 the hights of God’s everlasting kingdom, worshiping in 
 celestial temples, and participating in the joys that 
 human eyes have never seen, w'ho thank God that they 
 were permitted to bear the glad tidings of salvation to 
 the perishing heathen, and to breathe out their life amid 
 the infant churches and schools, the monuments of their 
 faithful labors, among the recipients of their instructions 
 and the subjects of their earnest prayers. 
 
 Flow many Christian merchants who gave liberally 
 of their wealth to extend the Redeemer’s kingdom, are 
 making the arches of heaven ring with their songs of 
 
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 gratitude for the influence that led them to thus lay up 
 their treasures where moth and rust do not corrupt ; to 
 transport their fortunes where they would yield abun- 
 dant revenues through the ages of eternity ! 
 
 Said a dying Christian, who had given large sums to 
 various charitable societies : “ What I have spent of my 
 fortune is gone : what I have lost is beyond my re ach 
 but what I have given away I carry with me.” 
 
 The Society that we represent here, stands as a chariot 
 to receive your treasures and transport them to that 
 bright land whither you hope that you are hastening. 
 They will go by the way of heathen shores to cheer the 
 missionary in his toil, to purchase for the benighted the 
 pearl of great price, and then pass on to await your 
 arrival in the kingdom of God. 
 
 Finally — The periods of greatest prosperity to the 
 Church have been those marked by the greatest liber- 
 ality and zeal in giving the Gospel to the destitute, and 
 fulfilling the last command : “ Go ye into all the world 
 and preach the Gospel unto every creature.” 
 
 The apostolic age was preeminently one when the 
 disciples of Jesu^ sowed bountifully and reaped bounti. 
 fully. While bearing the tidings of salvation to the 
 perishing, and unfolding the love of Jesus to others, 
 every doctrine became more precious to their own souls. 
 Such was the strength of their faith and intensity of 
 their joy, that neither the threats of their enemies, the 
 hardships of their position, nor the fires of persecution^ 
 could sever the ties that bound them to Jesus. One 
 breaks forth Avith the impassioned utterance : “ Beloved, 
 now are Ave the sons of God ; and it doth not yet appear 
 Avhat Ave shall be, but we knoAV that Avlieii he appeareth 
 AA^e shall be like him, for Ave shall see him as he is.” 
 
 The obstacles and persecution that they encounter 
 
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 become the seed of ])recious hopes and tlie fuel of a 
 more intense enthusiasm. Tribulation worketh patience, 
 and })atience experience, and experience hope. The 
 severest trials are counted as light afflictions, continuing 
 but for a moment, and hailed with joy, because they 
 Avork out “ a far more exceeding and eternal Aveight of 
 glory.” In such expressions are the evidences of the 
 vitality and prosperity of the early Church — a Church 
 prospered in all the elements of spiritual poAver, moral 
 greatness, and religious hopes. 
 
 And from that period to the present the missionary 
 Avork has ahvays stimulated piety at home, increased 
 the number of candidates for the Gospel ministry, and 
 promoted revivals of religion. 
 
 The British and American churches are indebted for 
 much of their purity, activity, and power, to those be- 
 nevolent enterprises that embrace the welfare of man- 
 kind, and aim at the redemption of all nations. 
 
 And oh ! what a splendid future there is before the 
 Church of the nineteenth century, if she Avill but listen 
 to the trumpet calls of Providence, awake to the con- 
 sciousness of her resources and strength ; to the encour- 
 agements of the past, to the grandeur of the opportu- 
 nities for usefulness that open in e\’ery direction, and 
 to the honors as well as the duties embraced in the 
 command that is emblazoned in letters of fire in the sky 
 over the hosts of God’s elect : “ Go ye into all the world 
 and preach the Gospel to every creature.” 
 
 When Ave remember that this command has already 
 stirred Christendom, and mo\"ed the Church up to 
 a higher level of faith and hope ; that it has organized 
 nearly one hundred and fifty large societies that are 
 laboring to spread the Gospel among the destitute and 
 in foreign lands; that at an annual expense of seven 
 millions of dollars, it is sustaining among the heathen 
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 twenty-three hundred missionaries and assistant-mission- 
 aries, engaged in the various departments of Christian 
 labor, preaching the Gospel, establishing schools, pre- 
 paring grammars and dictionaries to facilitate the work 
 of education, and diffusing through various languages a 
 Christian literature ; that it has gathered converts on 
 the classic soil of Greece, among the hills of Palestine, 
 the ports of Syria, the villages of India, the wild tribes 
 of Southern Africa, the islands of eastern and southern 
 seas, and under the shadow of the mountains of Persia, 
 the ice-clad hills of Greenland, the mosques of Arabia, 
 and the temples of China ; when we remember all this, 
 and look out upon the army, two hundred and twelve 
 thousand strong, that has come from under the night of 
 Paganism into the glorious light of liberty of the Gospel, 
 and think of thousands of others who are in heaven 
 singing the songs of redeeming love, surely we have 
 every encouragement to press forward in this noble 
 work. 
 
 The next half-century may be even more distinguished 
 for the triumphs of the Gospel than the last has t^^en. 
 With science and art, education and literature, the 
 power of the press, and the achievements of enterprise 
 to aid us ; with the evidence that the missionary work 
 is no longer an experiment, but a success which has re- 
 ceived the seal of Heaven’s approbation ; and with the 
 promise of the adorable Saviour, “ Lo ! I am with you 
 always, even unto the end of the world,” the Church 
 must “put on her strength,” and not rest until “the 
 kingdoms of the Avorld are become the kingdoms of our 
 Lord.” 
 
 Look abroad and see the evidences of mighty revolu- 
 tions in human thought, in the institutions of society, in 
 the facilities of intercourse between nations, and the force 
 that sways the destinies of mankind. Millions are 
 
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 awaking from tlie slumber of ages. Princes tremble 
 upon their thrones — despotism is losing its hold upon 
 the masses. The vast enginery of the press is shooting 
 the light of truth across continents, and discussing every 
 (question that pertains to the rights of man or the welfare 
 of society. Commerce is exploring the pathways for 
 future missionaries to tread, and opening gates that the 
 messengers of God may enter with the bread of life. 
 The schemes of infidelity are coming to naught, and 
 science is laying her treasures upon the altar of religion. 
 
 This is the hour for duty and for victory. Let the 
 Church fulfill the one and achieve the other, and the 
 universe will echo with the joyous anthem, “Alleluia ! 
 for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth and the domi- 
 nion and the greatness of the kingdom will be “ given 
 to the people of the saints of the Most High.” 
 
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 |[eto-|orIi anb irfl0W]|n forngu Sissi0naru glssonatian. 
 
 We finish with this Anniversary the thirty-second year of our wwk as a Society. 
 In the last report we recorded the death of two of our Vice-Presidents ; hut during 
 the year under review, through the goodness of God, no officer of this Society has 
 been removed from among us. Our monthly meeting for" the communication of 
 missionary intelligence has been attended unusually well. It was deemed advisa- 
 ble to change the place of this meeting from the Tract-IIouse, wliere it had been 
 held so long, to the present more convenient location in the Bible-House; and 
 though this change has sacrificed some associations hallowed and precious — as all 
 such changes must — yet its results have justified its wisdom. 
 
 The past year has been far less eventful than w'as that year of general revival 
 which preceded it. Very few of our churches have been blessed with the special 
 influences of the Spirit; so that the present review may not seem so bright or so 
 encouraging as was the last. But we remember that though the brilliant orchard- 
 blossoms of the Spring-time fall, yet they give place to the growing fruit ; and then 
 f the landscape does seem more subdued and sombre, (for this loss,) it is enough to 
 know that, hidden among the leaves, the fruit is slowly approaching its golden ma- 
 turity. So we believe that though the glow and flush of revival feeling may have 
 subsided, yet there are many indications which show that revival-fruits are growing. 
 Elemental in such growth, there must of necessity be progress in missionar}’- zeal 
 and efficiency. This growth must continue; then what results of “the Great 
 Awakening” may we not expect to see for years to come, garnered into the king- 
 dom of God. 
 
 And we have heard during the past year, how the pulses of this quickened life 
 in our American Church have been felt across the ocean. The religious impulse of 
 our era, beginning in Judea., and through eighteen and a half centuries moving 
 westward, has seemed now, like a galvanic current, to return eastward upon its own 
 course. Its potent thrill has been felt anew, not only through the British empire 
 and in continental Europe; it has crossed the Bosphorus and the Euxine, and the 
 mountains of Kurdistan ; it has passed to Persia, and Africa, and India, and China, 
 and to the islands of the Pacific. God grant that it may come back again to us, 
 and never cease to go from land to laud until the whole world bo ensphered with 
 millennial glory. 
 
 About the time of our last Anniversary a revival had commenced in that mos 
 interesting and important Institution, the Bebck Seminary at Constantinople. A 
 liltlo daily prayer-meeting, begun by four of the younger jrupils, soon embraced the 
 entire school; all, with one e.xception, taking an active part in it. In a few weeks 
 nearly all the students wore hoping in Christ; and after the lapse of several months, 
 
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 tho missionaries write tliat there have been no indications that tho work was not 
 genuine and thorough. The effect upon tho pious students is described as having 
 been truly wonderful. Full of love and zeal, they went forth into the neighboring 
 churches, and labored with great efficiency and success. This remarkable work ol' 
 gnice, wo are told, presented precisely tho same characteristics which were salient 
 in the awakening enjoyed by our American churches. Its influence was widely 
 felt among the mission families, the native churches, and among those who hitherto 
 had been unaftected by the truth. In Constantinople a daily prayer-meeting 
 was commenced and sustained with deep interest. Not ns yet, are many hopeful 
 converts reported among the Mohammedans ; but tho work on their behalf is in- 
 crea.sing in promise, presenting a decided contrast with the difficulty and tho bar- 
 renness of former years. Tho church at Marash has a remarkable history. Tho 
 missionary work was commenced there but five years since. In the beginning of 
 1838 this church had forty-nine members; within the past fifteen months eighty- 
 four have been added to this number by profession. At tho Nestorian Mission there 
 have been in both of tho Seminaries revivals which have extended into several of 
 the adjoining villages. Tho Mission Church, numbering two hundred and ninety- 
 six members, reports that a score or more have been added at each communion 
 season. The Syrian Mission, spreading over the ridges of Lebanon, received nine, 
 teen to the church early in the past year. The Missions in Western India, where 
 Hall, Newell, and their associates began their labors, are the oldest in connection 
 with tho American Board. At these Missions, the intelligence of the awakening in 
 America produced a profound impression. In their dail}' prayer-meetings, we are 
 told, “ the thoughts and feelings which thrilled the hearts of those who attended 
 the prayer-meetings in New-York, Boston and Philadelphia, touched a responsive 
 chord, and led to more earnest and united supplication ” for a blessing on Missionary 
 labors. Three nfew churches make the whole number eleven, with three hundred 
 and nineteen members, of whom eighty-six were added during the past year. The 
 Madura Mission now numbers twenty-eight churches, with five ^native pastors, 
 and a membership of nine hundred and ninety-seven ; one hundred and twelve new 
 members having been added during the year under review. The Ceylon Mission 
 reports twenty-eight additions to their churchea Tho “ Self supporting English 
 High School,” at Batticotta, is still prosperous; and the Batticotta Seminary has 
 been reopened, as a “Training and Theological Institution,” for the education of 
 pious natives for pastors and helpers. The Missionaries in China are convinced that 
 the time for the occupation of the Interior has come. Dr. Bridgman writes, that 
 probably more conversions have occurred there in the last year than during the 
 previous half-century. The Mission among the Choctaw Indians of our own land, 
 reports one hundred and thirty-two hopeful conversions during the year. 
 
 Such facts as these are eloquent with instruction and with exhortation to every 
 one whose heart beats in sympathy with the heart of Christ. There is one lesson 
 of profound importance which they utter with special emphasis to us. They show 
 us how a revival in our church at home will send its potent influences through aU 
 the Missionary field. They teach us that the prayer-meeting in New-York is united 
 with the prayer-meetings in Constantinople, in the mountains of Nestoria, in Syria 
 in India, in China, and in the Islands of the Pacific, as by a great net-work of nerves, 
 sensitive to every thrill of Christian feeling. We have been accustomed to look 
 out into the great Mission field for encouraging results wherewith to feed the flame 
 of our zeal, and to nerve the energy of our purpose in this work of Christ. But the 
 lesson of the past year is, that we need to look more earnestly and prayerfully to 
 
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 our own spiritual condition at home, because its effects are so potential abroad. It 
 is not only nor chiefly an overflowing treasury which the Missionary work is need- 
 ing, but such a state of piety in our own churches here, as the late revival showed 
 us we might, and therefore ought to have. In many portions of the foreign fleld, 
 the work seems to have reached just now, a critical stage in its progress. It has 
 reached — if I may so speak — just that condition of equipoise in which, if only it 
 receives under God, the right impulse from the forces of our Christian life, it will 
 sweep before it at once all the obstacles it has been so long undermining, and so 
 will startle and shame our feeble faith, by achieving as in a day, results sublime as 
 the compass of prophecy and promise. The treasury of the Lord does indeed 
 require money; but it wants that money to be baptized with the tears of penitence 
 and prayer; it wants it to be redolent of faith, of love, of self-denial, and of the pro- 
 foundest Christian sympathy ; or it wOl not pass current in the purchase of such 
 blessings as the heathen need. No novel or artful scheme of begging can All the 
 Lord’s treasury ; it will be really full only when the faith, and love, and Christian 
 sympathies of the Church shall reach and maintain so high a level as to overflow it 
 with their fullness of blessing. The Church must be earnest, for the times in which 
 we live are earnest. Whatever is slow and feeble is overborne by the momentum 
 of modern haste. Concentration and intensity are the conditions for the attain- 
 ment of place and power among the factors of the age. The church must “ know 
 the time;" she must give herself with increasing energy and with enlarged views 
 to her sublime work, for which she was commissioned by her Lord and Master. 
 This is not a time for leisurely surveys of the past, and for complacent congratula- 
 tions over what has been accomplished. The work is yet before us ; its demands 
 are growing, and must continue to grow. The success which God has given us in 
 answer to our prayers, has not only multiplied the calls upon us for increasing 
 benevolence, but has given to those calls an urgency and a pathos which are 
 enough to stir any heart. Laborers willing to be sent forth, wOl not be wanting ; 
 our Theological Seminaries are fuller than ever before ; but will the benevolence of 
 the Church keep pace with this progress? Will they be equal to the exigency? 
 This question is solemn as Eternity. Our churches must make the most of the 
 resources which God has given them. We need to have every believer enlisted in 
 this work, for it must increase in its demands until prophecy becomes history. 
 Strange as it may seem, it is lamentably evident that there are some who can be 
 idlers in Christ’s vineyard. We read concerning Titian — that great artist, to pick 
 up whose pencil Charles V. pronounced a service worthy of an Emperor — that 
 though his home commanded a view of the Tyrolese Alps; yet none of his works 
 show the slightest evidence that he ever really perceived or felt the constant and 
 impressive appeal of all that solemn grandeur and awful sublimitj'. This seems 
 passing strange tons; we can scarce understand it; and yet how like human 
 nature it is! What is ever before us affects us but little. There are believers liv- 
 ing day by day within the dark shadows of that stupendous fact which towers over 
 all others, with only the cross above it — eight hundred millions of men still in 
 HEATHENISM ; and yet you can see in the works of those believers no evidences 
 whatever that they have felt the appeal which this solemn fact continually makes 
 to all that is human and Christian within us. Can it be that such lives are really 
 Christian ? Wo do not answer ; but only pray that our lives may not be such. 
 
 THOMAS S. HASTINGS, 
 
 Corresponding Secretary. 
 
Il]e foreign glissionarg Socittn of Uclo-fjorli anb Sroolilp, 
 
 in account current with their Treasurer, ALMON MERWIN. 
 
 From August 1st, 1858, to July 31st, 1859. 
 
 Allen-stroet Presbyterian Churcli, 
 
 Brick " “ . . 
 
 Broadway Tabernacle, .... 
 
 Central l*resbyterian Church, 
 
 Church of the Puritans, .... 
 
 Eastern Congregational Church, 
 
 Eleventh Presbyterian “ . . . 
 
 Fourteenth-street an _ _ 
 
 Fourth Avenue " “ . . . 
 
 First-street “ “ . 
 
 Harlem “ “ . . . 
 
 Mercer-street « n _ _ 
 
 Madison-square “ “ . . . 
 
 North « « , . 
 
 Seventh “ “ . . . 
 
 Spring-street n u _ 
 
 Thirteenth-street “ “ . . . 
 
 West .. i< . . 
 
 West 23d-street “ “ . . . 
 
 Sundry donations in New-Tork and Brooklyn, 
 BROOKLYN. 
 
 Bedford Congregational Church, 
 
 Church of the Pilgrims, 
 
 Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, 
 Central “ “ 
 
 First Presbyterian “ • 
 
 Plymouth Congregational “ 
 
 Park Presbyterian “ . 
 
 South “ “ 
 
 South Congregational “ . 
 
 Third Presbyterian “ 
 
 Westminster “ “ . . 
 
 Warren-street Mission “ 
 
 Williarasburgh First Presbyterian “ . 
 
 New England Congregational “ 
 
 Cr. 
 
 $99 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 . 733 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 279 
 
 69 
 
 
 
 . 547 
 
 93 
 
 
 
 352 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 33 
 
 
 
 166 
 
 70 
 
 
 
 . 2406 
 
 08 
 
 
 
 621 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 . 13 
 
 04 
 
 
 
 167 
 
 39 
 
 
 
 . 2919 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 3357 
 
 73 
 
 
 
 . 364 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 275 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 . 101 
 
 89 
 
 
 
 131 
 
 66 
 
 
 
 . 335 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 73 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 
 $12,961 
 
 78 
 
 2437 
 
 33 
 
 2,437 
 
 33 
 
 25 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 . 1787 
 
 73 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 38 
 
 
 
 , 36 
 
 70 
 
 
 
 1047 
 
 75 
 
 
 
 . 167 
 
 04 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 77 
 
 
 
 . 626 
 
 65 
 
 
 
 248 
 
 49 
 
 
 
 . 428 
 
 42 
 
 
 
 271 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 . 16 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 49 
 
 36 
 
 
 
 . 100 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 4,909 51 
 
 $20,308 62 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Paid for Carriage hire, $7 40 
 
 “ “ 3,000 copies of Dr. Parker’s Sermon, . 128 20 
 
 Entered at sundry times in accotmt with James M. 
 
 Gordon, Treasurer of the A.B.C.F M., 
 
 136 60 
 20,173 02 
 
 $20,308 62 
 
 New-Tork, July 31, 1859. 
 
 Examined and found correct. A. Meewin, 
 
 Oliver H. Lee, Treasurer. 
 
 L. E. Jackson, 
 
RECEIPTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
 
 The following statement exhibits the receipts of the Foreign Missionary Society of New-York 
 and Brooklyn, from its organization in 182T, to August, 1859 ; and also the same in periods of three 
 and six years, and the increase per cent of each of the longer periods. 
 
 182T,..., 
 
 1827- 28,, 
 
 1828- 29, 
 
 1829- 30, 
 
 1830- 31, 
 
 1831- 32, 
 
 1832- 33,, 
 
 1833- 34, 
 
 1834- 35, 
 
 1835- 36, 
 1886-37, 
 
 1837-38, 
 
 1838- 39, 
 
 1839- 40, 
 1840^1, 
 
 1841-42, 
 
 184333,. 
 
 184;3-44, 
 
 1845-45, 
 
 1845- 46, 
 
 1846- 47, 
 
 1847.48,, 
 
 1848- 49,. 
 
 1849- 50, 
 
 1850- 51, 
 
 1851- 52, 
 
 1852- 58, 
 
 1858-54, 
 
 1854- 55, 
 
 1855- 56, 
 
 1856- 57, 
 
 1857- 58, 
 
 1858- 59, 
 
 Tear ending July 31. 
 
 ,S6,970 99 
 . 3.407 20 
 . 6,682 49 
 
 9,564 29 
 7,597 23 
 9,984 91 
 
 .14,044 64 
 . 7,6-35 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 
 
 .11,698 89 
 ,21,252 76 
 .13,241 69 
 
 .17,847 81 
 .2.3,231 49 
 .22,178 26 
 
 ,20,842 48 
 ,18,106 29 
 21,648 94 
 
 28,914 41 
 ,24,208 24 
 ,20,808 62 
 
 Periods of three 
 years each. 
 
 Periods of six 
 j-ears each. 
 
 Increase per cent 
 of each period of 
 six years on the 
 preceding. 
 
 $17,060 68 
 
 
 
 27,146 43 
 
 $44,207 11 
 
 
 85,082 04 
 
 
 
 40,507 15 
 
 75,589 19 
 
 71 
 
 37,377 16 
 
 
 
 89,614 02 
 
 76,991 IS 
 
 1.9 
 
 33,666 55 
 
 
 
 46,092 84 
 
 79,759 89 
 
 8.4 
 
 63,251 06 
 
 
 
 60,097 66 
 
 123,848 72 
 
 54 
 
 78,481 27 
 
 
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 An inspection of the above table shows very considerable irregularity In the contributions re- 
 ported annually. During the last twenty-five years, the year of smallest receipts was 1845-6, 
 when they did not quite equal $8000. The largest amount raised was In 1856-7 : the sum being 
 nearly $29,000. 
 
 Dividing tho thirty-three years Into periods of three years each, we find that of the last nine 
 periods tho one of smallest receipts was tho fifth— from 1844 to 1847. Excepting that, and the 
 
fourth of Iho eleven (from 1585 to 1S8S) when the receipt* rose above th..fe of the preceding and 
 the three following period*, there was an Increase In each period to the tenth. In which there 
 a alight foiling off, as coiiipared with the ninth, succeeded by a considerable enlargement In the 
 
 eleventh. , . 
 
 Doubling these periods, an advance Is disclosed In each period of six years on the one that pre- 
 cedes It The rate of advance, however, is very unequal. From the first to the second tt 1* i 
 per cent; from the second to the third it Is only 1.9 per cent; from the third to the fourth it Is 
 8.4 per cent; from the fourth to the fifth it rises to 51 per cent; In the la.st three years it 1s Is per 
 
 cent over the previous period. .... , 
 
 The commencement of the third of the larger periods (ISSS) was the year of the disruption of 
 the Presbyterian Church, followed by increasing diversion of contrlbntlons fh>m the treasury of 
 the American Board and this Auxiliary into that of the Board of the General Assembly, (0. 8. ) 
 The commercial revulsions also of the periods following 1S87 and 1857 are indicated in the figures 
 
 of the above tabular view. -r- i i 
 
 The immense growth which has Uken place in the population and wealth of New-Tork an*l 
 Brooklyn has affected the missionary contributions of our churches both favorably and adversely. 
 It has brought several new churches, of which three or four are wealthy and liberal, into exist- 
 ence to aid us with their offerings ; but it has also, by the change of population, swept some once 
 strong, and many weaker churches out of existence, or stricken them with a wasting which is the 
 precursor of death. Just twenty years ago— in 1S8S-9— contributions were acknowledged from 
 twenty-eight congregations. Of those, thirteen have become extinct; five have removed uj. 
 town • and four were Old School Presbyterian churches, only one of which now gives it mission - 
 ary collections (in part) into this channel. During the same period, several churches have had 
 both their birth and their death. 
 
 This process of removal, organization, and extinction, is still going on. Seven years ago, not 
 including three Presbyterian churches which then contributed an aggregate of $12.54. and do not 
 now cooperate with us, contributions were received from thirty-four churches, seven of which 
 have since ceased to e.xist, and five have erected costly houses of worship, and exist as essential!) 
 new congregations in other parts of the city. 
 
 The heavy draughts upon the pecuniary resources of the churches thus made, and imposed by 
 the many other objects rightfully claiming their share of assistance, are not, however, so serious a 
 hindrance to the advance which is desirable in this department of benevolent activity, as are the 
 difficulty of training the churches to right habits of giving through the constant change in the 
 membership and the sadly counteracting influences of business and social life. What might not 
 the wealth that is in our churches, if it were consecrated to Christ, achieve for his kingdom and 
 the salvation of the heathen ? 
 
 The receipts of the year just past are less by $3900 than those of the preceding year. Morv 
 than $.3000 of this sum was withdrawn by the decease of liberal contributors. 'Who among the 
 living will take the place In their offerings to this cause, of the sainted dead ? 
 
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 LIST OF OFFICERS 
 
 FOE THE TEAR 1859. 
 
 PRESIDENT. 
 
 DAVID nOADLEY. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
 
 A. R. WETMORE, I WILLIAM E. DODGE, 
 
 S. B. CHITTENDEN, \ OLIVER E. WOOD. 
 
 CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
 
 Rev. THOMAS S. HASTINGS. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY. 
 
 ALMON MERWIN. 
 
 TREASCRER. 
 
 ALMON MHRWIN. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 Alien-street Prcshyterian Church, 
 Brick “ “ 
 
 Broadway Tabernacle, 
 
 Central Presbyterian “ 
 
 Church of the Puritans, 
 
 Eastern Congregational “ 
 
 Eleventh Presbyterian “ 
 
 Fourteenth-street “ “ 
 
 Fourth Avenue '■ “ 
 
 Harlem “ “ 
 
 Mercer- street “ “ 
 
 Madison- Square “ “ 
 
 North “ “ 
 
 Seventh “ 
 
 George Betts, Joseph W. Lester. 
 
 A. L. Ely, Horace Holden. 
 
 W. G. West, W. W. Fessenden. 
 
 W. S. Dorr, James W. Dunning. 
 
 W. C. Gilman, Elisha Harris, M.D. 
 
 . . . .James Remsen, Lewis Chichester. 
 
 Alex. McNey, J. H. Bolen. 
 
 . . .S. II. Wale;. J. F. Joy. 
 
 Alfred C.Post,M.D.,W.A.Wheeleu. 
 
 . . . .E. Ketch UM, James Riker, Jr. 
 
 W. W. Chester, G. Manning Traoy, 
 
 Richard Bigelow. 
 
 Geo. D. Phelps, Z. S. Ely, Charles 
 
 Trask. 
 
 0. H. Lee, George D. Cragin. 
 
 ....Charles Merrill, H. B. Littell, 
 Jas. W. Bishop. 
 
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 First-street Presbyterian Chuueh, 
 Spring-street “ “ 
 
 Thirteenth-street Presbyterian Church, 
 W'est “ “ 
 
 iresi 2'iclrstreet “ “ 
 
 Bedford Cong. Church, Brooklyn, 
 Clinton Av. “ “ “ 
 
 Church of the Pilgrims, " 
 
 Central Cong. Church, “ 
 
 Elm Place “ “ " 
 
 First Presbyterian " “ 
 
 Plymouth Cong. " “ 
 
 Park Presbyterian “ “ 
 
 Second “ “ “ 
 
 South " " 
 
 South Cong. " “ 
 
 Third Presb. “ “ 
 
 Westminster Presb. “ “ 
 
 irarren-s/. Mission “ “ 
 
 First Presb. Church, WiUiamsburgh, 
 
 . . .Francis Duncan, John Kerr. 
 
 . . .John Endicott, John R. Wilcox. 
 
 . . .John C. Hines, Geobqe W. Beale. 
 
 . . .Lewis E. Jackson, A. L. Earle. 
 
 . . .Henry D. Crane, T. D. Lander. 
 
 . . .D. 0. Calkins, Edward T. Goodall. 
 ...A. S. Barnes, Samuel E. Warner, 
 Alfred Smithers. 
 
 . . .Sidney Sanderson, S. F. Puei.i’s, 
 Rich. P. Buck, ElyMygatt, Jr. 
 . . .William Cutter, S. B. Cole. 
 
 . . .F. W. Burke, Chas. B. Williams. 
 
 . . .Fisher Howe, J. W. Hayes. 
 
 ...J. T. Howard, Arthur Nichols, 
 Edward Corning. 
 
 . . .E. A. Lambert, T. C. Dodd. 
 
 . . .A. Trask, A. B. Baylis. 
 
 . . .R. F. Howes, A. L. Van Bures. 
 
 . . .S. N. Davis, Henry Law. 
 
 . . .W. W. Hurlbut, j. C. ILalsey, M.D. 
 . . .Walter S. Griffith, John Milton 
 Smith, Andrew Maso.v. 
 
 . . .N. H. Holt. 
 
 . . .Joseph F. Tuttle, J. W. Buckley.