expressions of gratitude in an ANNUAL REPORT. To this service, therefore, espeeially, the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE invito the assembled members, directors, and friends of the AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

and commotion, and has not permitted them to hurt or to hinder his own cause. The churches have been blessed, and the benevolent institutions of our land have moved onward, almost unimpeded.

Among the Societies whose anniversaries, the present week, are moving the sympathies and enlisting the prayers of a great religious community, perhaps no one has more reason than that which it is our privilege to serve, to rejoice in the prosperity which has attended its efforts. To exhibit, as briefly as possible, the substance of their Report, the committee have, as usual, thrown the details of the Society's operations into tabular form.

A year so fearfully marked with the displeasure of Him before whom goeth the pestilence, as that which now closes, this nation never experienced. The judg ments of the Lord have been abroad in the carth. Wasting and destruction, in terrific forms, have been within our borders; and the political elements of our republic have been wrought into convulsions, which have threatened to rend for ever the sublime and happy union of this nation. But he [Here follows, in the Annual Report, the who sitteth as King in Zion has waved his alphabetical list of Missionaries, Congresceptre over these wide scenes of dismaygations, &c., which is omitted in this place.]

SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE.

Exhibiting the amount of receipts from each state, the number of congregations and missionary districts aided, and the number of missionaries employed in each state, within the last year.

RECAPITULATION.

they contain, and the minutes of the Exe

From the preceding tables the following cutive Committee. They may be relied on results are obtained, viz:

The whole number of Ministers of the Gospel employed by this Society during the year, is 606, which is an increase of 97 since last year.

These have laboured, either as missionaries or agents, in 801 congregations, missionary districts, or fields of agency, in 21 of the United States and territories, and in the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada,-411 being settled as pastors or employed as stated supplies in single congregations, 137 extending their labours to two or three congregations each, and 58, includ. ing agents, being employed on larger fields. Of the missionaries and agents thus employed, 397 were in commission at the commencement of the year; 241 of whom have been re-appointed, and are still in the service of the Society. The remaining 209 have been new appointments since the last anniversary, making, in all, 606.

The amount of ministerial labour reported as having been performed within the year, is 416 years and 9 months.

The number reported as added, within the year, to the churches aided, has been 6,041, viz:-1,757 by letter, and 4,284 by examination, on profession of their faith.

One hundred and one of the churches aided have been blessed with special revivals of religion; and the number of hopeful conversions reported, (the larger portion of whom are not embraced in the re

ported additions to the churches,) is 3,435, making the probable number of conversions, under the labours of our missionaries, within the year, about 7,000.

The number of Sabbath Schools sustained, during the whole or a part of the year, under the ministry of our missionaries, is 770, embracing 31,140 scholars.

The number of Bible Classes reported, as conducted by the missionaries themselves, has been 378, embracing 11,195 pupils of all ages.

The number of subscribers to the principle of entire abstinence from the use of intoxicating drinks, reported in the congregations aided, is 53,746, which is 17,344 more than the number reported last year. These results have been ascertained by a laborious examination of the reports of the missionaries and agents, and by accu. rate calculations from the statements which

In this estimate, when the stated labours of a missionary are extended to more than three congregations, it is denominated a missionary district, and counted one. If all the single congregations were counted, they would probably be 1000, or more.

as correct, and fully sustained by documents on the files of the Society. But these documents, though they are entirely worthy of trust, in regard to their accuracy, as far as they extend, are, nevertheless, necessarily defective. Many of the Reports from missionaries do not bring down the account of their labours to the end of the year, and from some, reports of the last quarter are due, which, on account of the failure of the conveyances to which they have been intrusted, or other hindrances, have not been received. Results, therefore, obtained by calculations founded on testimony actually in possession, in these circumstances, must be regarded as falling short of the facts. More has been accomplished than these calculations exhibit; more Sabbath Schools have been sustained, and more Bible Classes instructed; and if 6,041 souls have been reported as actually added to the churches, it is safe to conclude that a larger number have been the hopeful subject of regenerating grace, under the labours of our missionaries.

Though the last year, therefore, has not been so signally marked, as the preceding, with the blessing of revivals, there has been an advance in the work of conversion, and in every other good influence which ordinarily attends the labours of our mission

aries. This, indeed, has been the permanent characteristic of the American Home

Missionary Society, during the whole pe

riod of its existence. Its movement has been onward. The report of each succeeding year has exhibited a rapid enlargement of its operations, and the blessing of God upon every department of its influence has been generally in proportion to this enlargement.

State of the Treasury.

The foregoing remarks are supported, not only by the details already enumerated, but also, in part, by an examination of the receipts into the treasury of the Society. There has been, every year, an increase in the amount received, though this increase, for the last two years, has not been in proportion to the increase of the Society's expenditures. At the last anniversary, the balance against the treasury was $2,509 14; and the treasurer's report, this evening presented, exhibits a balance of the same kind, amounting to $159 93. At different periods during the year, this balance has been much greater than it now is. During the months of December, January, and Feb

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onward, though not in proportion to the number of its missionaries, or the enlarged demands of the work to be done.

Sources of income.

Individual contributions directly to the Society's Treasury have been received, as formerly, from almost every section of the country. Several small legacies have also been collected; the largest of which was $1,350, from the late Thames Wilcox, of Connecticut. Collections by mission

collections in churches, have also been continued, and have constituted a considerable item in the receipts of the Treasurer. But Agencies, Societies, Associations, and Churches, regularly auxiliary, have furnished by far the largest amount derived from any one of the general resources of the Society's income.

The following, on account of their importance and efficiency, demand a special notice in this report.

ruary last, the Treasury was actually overdrawn from $8,000 to $14,000, for which the treasurer and other members of the Executive Committee were personally responsible. Here, then, is a failure in that delightful proportion which has marked the increase of the Society in almost every other department of its operations. The churches have withheld from this enterprise more than was meet. And whether it hath tended to their own poverty, let such as have been delinquent, decide. We judge them not. But, as representa-aries and others, and contributions and tives of a VOLUNTARY SOCIETY, having no claim upon the contributions of the religious community, excepting such as addresses itself to the heart and the conscience, and makes its appeal for our "work's sake," the Executive Committee affectionately ask, whether the friends of this Society, who have failed to do what they can to sustain it, have duly considered the amount of individual sacrifice and responsibility devolved upon its servants by their failure? It is not for the want of friends that the Committee have so long found it necessary to pledge their own notes for the means required to meet the drafts of the missionaries as they become due. Evidence is abundant that the work in which we are engaged is popular. Multitudes of estimable citizens, as well as members of the churches, rejoice in its prosperity and usefulness, who do little or nothing to promote it. Their knowledge of its popularity, it may be, is, in many cases, the reason of their withholding their contributions, or diverting them to other objects, under the impression, that, without their assistance, an enterprise so interesting to all American Christians, will be sustained. But in a field so wide, and a work so difficult, such reasoning is obviously incorrect. The state of the Society's Treasury is a standing appeal for an increase of contributions from all such as have failed to do their duty.

This failure, however, has not been universal, and while the delinquency of some seems to have furnished a just occasion for the foregoing remarks, the Committee acknowledge with gratitude the prompt and efficient aid of many, in all parts of the land, who have loved, not in word only, but in deed and in truth. Though the receipts of the last two years have been less than the expenditures of the Society, still the receipts of the last year have been $15,812 78 more than those of the previous year. In this respect, therefore, as well as in others, the grand characteristic of the Society has been preserved. Its movement

Massachusetts Missionary Society.

This Society, though constitutionally auxiliary to the A. H. M. S. for several years past, did not adopt the terms of direct co-operation with the Parent Society, until the 26th of May, 1832. This event was hailed with satisfaction by the Executive Committee; and they have watched, with deep interest, the increasing prosperity of the Massachusetts Society, during the year. The Rev. R. S. Storrs, Secretary of that Society, and also of the Parent Society for the New-England states, had spent most of the preceding year in Massachusetts, as joint agent for the two, and through his efficient labours the receipts of that auxiliary had been much increased. At the time of the above change in the terms of its auxiliary connexion, it brought to the aid of the common cause, a balance in its Treasury of $2,387. Its receipts, from the above date to April 1st, 1833, (a little more than ten months,) were $9,595 84, making the whole amount at the disposal of that Society, during the same period, $11,982 76. A considerable portion of this sum was pledged in the commissions of the previous year, and has since been paid. The number of missionaries, including agents, appointed by that Society in Massachusetts, within the year, under commissions furnished by the Parent Society, has been 55. These have been sustained from the Treasury of the auxiliary; and, in addition to the amount thus expended, the sum of $4,900 has been transmitted to the Treasury of the A. H.

M. S., and expended in the Western and subject to the order of the Parent Society, Southern states.

In addition to the above amount, the following sums have been received from the state of Massachusetts, viz.

have been $5,054 75, which is $2,139 58 more than the amount received during the previous year. There have also been received from individuals and churches in that state, contributed directly to the Parent Society, $411 47, which, with $300 transmitted by the N. H. M. S., makes, in all, from the state of New-Hampshire, $5,766 22. The number of missionaries within that state, including the agent, has been 53, and $4,609 64 has been expended in their support, leaving $441 11 on hand, April 1, 1833. This Report shows an increase of 12 missionaries within the year, and a rapid advance in the amount of buContributions from churches and indi-siness done by the Society. This auxiliary, viduals in that state, transmitted by the donors directly to the Parent Society, $2,893 31.

From the HAMPSHIRE MISSIONARY SoCIETY, $1,862 72, which, together with a balance previously paid, but unappropriated to the credit of that Society, has been expended in the support of 23 missionaries in different states. This amount is $1,07172 more than was received from the same Society the previous year, and indicates an increased interest in the cause among our efficient friends in the "Old County of Hampshsire."

These sums added to the receipts of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, make the whole amount received from the state of Massachusetts, within the last year, $14,351 87.

Connecticut Missionary Society.

in proportion to the ability of the churches embraced in it, is perhaps not surpassed in the liberality of its contributions and its prospects of enlarged usefulness. The Reports, both of the Secretary, the Rev. J. Scales, and of the Rev. A. Rankin, our agent on that field, are of a highly encouraging character. The sum already pledged for the year to come surpasses the receipts of the last year; and through the efficient labours of Mr. R. and his coadjutors, we trust a much larger amount will be se|| cured.

Maine Missionary Society.

The Connecticut Missionary Society, auxiliary to the A. H. M. S., within the year ending April 1, 1833, granted aid, under commissions furnished by the Parent Society, to support 34 missionaries in that state, one in Rhode Island, and 3 in Mis- The receipts of this Society, in the year souri. It has also employed two agents, ending April 1, 1832, were $3,530 14. From for a short time each, the Rev. C. L. Wat- that time to April 1, 1833, its receipts have son, and the Rev. A. Crane, whose labours, been $5,618 56, which exhibits an increase we are assured, were highly useful and || of $2,129 42. The number of its missionacceptable. The Report of last year exaries has also been increased from 56 to hibited a balance in its Treasury of $2,053 64, all within the state of Maine, while $99 72. Receipts acknowledged since that have been received by the Parent Society time, $5,021 63, making in all, at the dis- from individuals and churches in that state posal of that Society, during the year, for the support of Missionaries in the West$7,075 35. Of this sum, 3,547 04 have ern states, making a total from the state been expended, leaving $3,528 31 in the of Maine of $5,717 56. It is delightful Treasury, subject to the order of the Pa- to witness the movings of this sympathy rent Society, April 1, 1833. in churches of the extreme East, on behalf of the farthest West. The Secretary, Dr. Gillett, in communicating his Report, remarks, "There is a Sabbath School, a Temperance Society, and a Bible Class, in almost every place where missionaries labour. Revivals have not been as numerous as last year, but the general operations of the Society have been very much enlarged and wonderfully succeeded.— There have been 18 settlements in the ministry in this state since last year at this time, and 10 of this number are missionaries of the M. M. S. Our income is almost doubled, but we shall be constrained to add 25 per cent to it next year, or restrict our operations.

The following sums have also been received from the state of Connecticut, viz. From the HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY, EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW-HAVEN Co., $691, which has been expended in the support of 3 missionaries in Illinois and Ohio.

Donations from individuals and churches in that state, transmitted directly to the Parent Society, $3,559 10, making in all, received from the state of Connecticut within the year, $9,271 72.

New-Hampshire Missionary Society. The receipts into the Treasury of this Society, in the year ending April 1, 1833,