OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Rev. Henry Davis, D. D., Pres't. Hamil ton College, New.York.

Hon. STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER, LL. D., Rev. Jeremiah Day, D. D., Pres't. Yale

College, Connecticut.

Rev. William R. De Witt, Harrisburgh,
Pennsylvania.

Rev. Henry Dwight, Geneva, New-York.
Rev. Justin Edwards, D. D., Boston, Mass.
Rev. Ezra Fisk, D. D., Goshen, Orange
county, New-York.

Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, Newark,
New-Jersey.

Rev. E. W. Gilbert, Wilmington, Del.
Rev. Eliphalet Gillet, D. D., Hallowell,

Rev. C. C. Cuyler, D. D., Poughkeepsie,||Rev. John C. Young, President of Centre New-York.

Mr. KNOWLES TAYLOR, Treasurer.
Mr. ARTHUR TAPPAN, Auditor.

Rev. ABSALOM PETERS, Corresp'ing Sec'y.
Mr. ABIJAH FISHER, Rec. Secretary.

Executive Committee..

Mr. JOHN D. KEESE, Chairman.
Rev. James M. Matthews, D. D.
Rev. Benjamin H. Rice.
Rev. Elihu W. Baldwin.
Rev. William Patton.

Rev. Cyrus Mason.

Mr. Eleazar Lord.
Mr. John Nitchie.
Mr. William M. Halsted.
Mr. John C. Halsey.

Ex-Officio Members.

Mr. Knowles Taylor, Treasurer.

Rev. Absalom Peters, Corresponding Secretary.

Mr. Abijah Fisher, Recording Secretary. Mr. CHARLES HALL, Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer.

THE WESTERN AGENCY OF THE A. H. M. S. FOR THE STATE OF N. Y. THE "WESTERN AGENCY," which is a board of inquiry and reference, for the district embracing the seventeen western counties in the state of New-York, has been reappointed for the year commencing May, 1831, and is composed of the following gen. tlemen, viz.:

Rev. HENRY DWIGHT, Geneva, Chairman.

Rev. MILES P. SQUIER, Geneva, Corresponding Secretary and Agent.
Rev. ELIAKIM PHELPS, Geneva.

Mr. ABRAHAM B. HALL, Geneva.

Mr. H. H. SEELYE, Geneva.

Rev. JAMES RICHARDS, D. D. Auburn.

Rev. JOSIAH HOPKINS, Auburn.

Rev. DANIEL C. AXTELL, Auburn.
Rev. ANSEL D. EDDY, Canandaigua.
WALTER HUBBELL, Esq. Canandaigua.
Rev. JOSEPH PENNY, Rochester.
Rev. WILLIAM WISNER, Rochester.
Rev. SYLVESTER EATON, Buffalo.
Mr. JOSEPH STOCKING, Buffalo.

EXTRACTS FROM THE FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT.

The section of our country, which it is our privilege to occupy in behalf of the H. M. cause, has from its first settlement, been one of unusual interest. Occupied principally by the sons of the prilgrims; lying on the great thoroughfare of intercourse and business between the East and the West; possessing every advantage for the pursuits of agriculture and commerce; increasing rapidly in all the results of that industry and enterprise, for which it is proverbial; and signalized, of late, by the Spirit of God, as a theatre of his redeeming influences; it has claims to the regard of the philanthropist and christian which are of no common character.

Only about forty years have elapsed, since the first christian settlements were made on this ground, now containing a population of more than half a million of souls. Sixteen years ago, but one Presbytery had been formed within these limits, (some congregations belonging to another, lying within their Eastern border,) embracing about forty churches, and thirty ministers of the Gospel. There are now on this ground, nine Presbyteries, and one Consociation, numbering not less than one hundred and fifty ministers of the gospel, and having two hundred and twenty-five congre. gations, or upwards, under their care. More than one half of these congregations, including those at the largest centres of population and influence, either have pastors installed over them, or are statedly supplied with the word and ordinances of Christ's house, one half of the remainder have the labours of a clergyman, for half of the time each, while the residue, in our more recently settled, and feebler districts, are less frequently blessed with the feet of him, who publishes the tidings of grace.

There is yet room for the planting of more congregations on this field. As, its borders are becoming more densely peopled every year, and as many from the folds of christian instruction are crowding out upon it, we may safely calculate, that within five years, forty or fifty more churches will be located within the limits assigned to this agency.

Of the congregations already supplied, in whole or in part, more than one hundred and twenty have, in succession, been sustained by the A. H. M. S.; seventy-two of which have this year derived aid from its funds. Our number of missionaries has this year been fifty-eight, making, together with the Secretary of this Board, fifty-nine labourers on this field.

The aggregate of the Missionary expenditures, within our bounds, (so far as from a careful estimate, they should be included in a Report of the year ending May 1st, 1831,) is somewhat rising of $5000; but to assist in balancing the appropriations of the year, $500 have been raised, or pledged, in behalf of our funds by Auxiliary Associations, or otherwise, at the stations occupied by our Missionaries.

The receipts of the year have been $5721 40. This amount, besides providing for the expenses which have accrued on the field, will, we trust, furnish some help for the more destitute in the regions beyond us.

This sum has been derived, as heretofore, from Auxiliary Associations, both Male and Female,-from the annual public collections on the Sabbath, or the state Thanksgiving days, at the monthly concert for prayer, and from individual donations. The last has been a most efficient source of income. The church has friends within this agency, who are resolved, that the cause of Home Missions shall not languish by reason of a deficiency of the silver and the gold, that may be requisite to sustain it; and their number is increasing from year to year, as our work moves on, and its results are progressively unfolded.

The largest individual donation to our treasury, the present year has been $1000. One individual appropriates to this department of benevolent efforts $250. Several others sustain each one missionary. Two individuals in one of our farming congregations, besides associating with eight others in sustaining a missionary, contribute $100, for the support of another labourer in the valley of the Mississippi, who shall devote himself more especially to the cause of Sabbath schools. Several of our auxiliary associations sustain each one missionary. This may be said in commendation of the Ladies' Auxiliaries of Auburn, Rochester and Buffalo-of the young Ladies Auxiliary of Rochester, and of the young people's Auxiliary of Geneva. Some congregations have assumed the expense of supporting one Missionary each, and forwarded the requisite sums, and it is a fact worthy of record, that more funds have accrued to our treasury this year, without the personal application of an Agent, than at any previous period.

The Missionary work, with us, has this year been clothed with unusual interest. Ours have been the consolations of that man, who, when he has " gone forth weeping, bearing precious seed, cometh again rejoicing, bringing the sheaves with him." The present has become the year of Jubilee to the churches in this region. Christians here, have never seen such a time before. The Heavens have dropped down in mercy upon us, and salvation, like a river, has flowed through our streets. More than fifty congregations within this agency, have been visited with seasons of special refreshing from the presence of God, gathering sinners in great numbers to the fold of Christ. Our most important villages, and centres of strength and influence, have been distinguished in the descent of the Divine Spirit, the cloud of mercy has dispersed its blessings, in grateful measures, on various portions of this vineyard, widely remote from each other.

Enterprise, talent, wealth, and influence, have been sanctified, and truth has gained rapidly on the empire of sin and error. It is safe to conclude that from four to five thousand souls, have been added to the "number of the believers" from within the field under review, since the commencement of the revivals in September last. Nor is the work yet stayed. Every hour's intelligence furnishes proof of the advancing movements of the Spirit of God, and justifies the confident expectation of his people, that the day-spring from on high" is to be on all our border, and give new life and strength to all the churches.

In this dispensation of the spirit, our beneficiary congregations have extensively shared, and it has been to them like "the former and the latter rain." In several of them, the face of society is altogether changed; the cause of the Redeemer has been delivered from the persecutions of a spirit of prevailing impenitence and irreligion; and Zion has been obliged to enlarge the border of her tent, saying, "the place is too strait for me, give place that I may dwell."

Among the congregations the most distinguished, as the seat of the Spirit's influences, are Castleton, in Ontario Co.; Marion, in Wayne Co.; North-Penfield, in

Monroe Co.; Bergen and Leroy, (Congregational Society,) in Gennessee Co.; Evans, in Erie Co.; Ripley, in Chautauque Co.; and Richford, in the County of Tioga. The average number of conversions to Christ in each of these congregations, is, in the judgment of our missionaries, from seventy-five to one hundred.

Other congregations have been gladdened with gentle showers of grace. Several others are now, exhibiting the presages of a special work in them, while the great body of those, to whom the bounty of the society has extended, have been confirmed in the faith and fellowship of the gospel.

The work of Home Missions is closely associated with every other department of christian effort. Our Missionaries, as charged in their instructions, had done much to help on the cause of benevolence around them. They have been efficient instruments in circulating the Bible; and the christian Tract in advancing the interests of Sabbath schools, and of Temperance, and the sanctification of the Sabbath day; and in stirring up the infant churches, for whom they have laboured, to a benevolent sympathy in behalf of the nations that sit in darkness, and the shadow of death.

Several houses for public worship have been erected this year at the stations occupied by this Board, and several more are under contract, and will be built the present

season.

It is evident from a review of the operations of the year, that much advancement has been given to the cause of truth among us, and that the work of domestic missions has approached nearer to its accomplishment within this Agency. Still there remains even here much land to be possessed, to the occupation of which the friends of Christ should now hasten with redoubled energy, and a quickened step. The Spirit of God is leading our way, and crowning our exertions with unexampled success. This day of revivals, urges the necessity of our work, while it multiplies our facilities for its accomplishment. Christian converts from the enclosures of Zion, are thrusting themselves out upon the waste places, and from thence in their extremity, are calling for help; and we are looking with an intense solicitude to the labours and results of the year now to commence. Darkness is fleeing upon the outposts,-new fields of toil and encouragement are opening in rapid succession before us; many of which of inviting promise we hope soon to see supplied with a preached gospel. Let there be union of counsel, and an efficient and systematic charity in the work, and it need not be long before this entire border shall be brought under the influences of the preached gospel, and become as the garden of the Lord.

The harvest is ready for the reaper's hand. The aspects of providence encourage every friend of the missionary cause to minister help now. Opposition, more than ever, is powerless before the march of truth. "The Spirit says come." Nor can we anticipate permanent results for Christ, without the administration of gospel truth, nor must we, when the power to help is in our hands, let there be "a famine of the hearing of the word of the Lord," in such a day as this.

Appointments by the Executive Committee of the A. H. M. S. from April 15th, to May 15th, 1831.

Rev. Truman Baldwin, Cicero, Onondaga Co.,
N. Y.

Rev. Clement Lewis, Lee, Oneida Co., N. Y.
Rev. N. Gillett, Nelson, Madison Co., N. Y.
Rev. O. C. Beardsley, Charlotte, N. Y.

Rev. Eben'r Raymoud, Murray, Orleans Co., N. Y.
Rev. Ludovicus Robbins, Sparta, Livingston Co.
N. Y.

Rev. Erie Prince, Nankin and Perkin, Mich. Ter.
Rev. J. A. Carnahan, Lafayette, Indiana.
Rev. Williams H. Whittemore, Rye, N. Y.
Rev. Calvin W. Babbitt, Tazewell Co., II.
Rev. R. C. Hand, Governeur, N. Y.
Rev. Jos. Nimmo, Sweet Hollow ch. L. I.
Rev. J. G. Bergen, Springfield, Ill.
Rev. H. O. Higley, Hartford, Licking Co., O.
Rev. A. P. Clark, Preble, Cortland Co., N. Y.
Rev. Moses Ingalls, Lewis, Essex Co., NY.

The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the Receipt of the following sums, from April 15th to May 15th, 1831.