the welfare of other portions of the || portion of them would have had no field.

existence, and none of them their present power, had not relief been extended in a time of need. Not a few of them have risen to such stature and strength, that the fact of their missionary origin is generally forgotten, and excites sur. prise when announced. The course of this Society, like that of the quiet streamlet, is indicated, not by the noise of its impetuous motion, but by the strip of deeper green that it pencils on the landscape; and oftentimes, like that streamlet, is half concealed from view by the exuberance of its own creating."

At the beginning of the year, there was a balance in the treasury of $2,024 34. Since that time, up to April 1st, the receipts have been $15,934 78-making the resources of the year $17,959 12. Of this sum, $8,976 04-a less amount than in the preceding year-has been expended for the support of missions within the state; and $5,000 or more than the year previous has been paid to the Parent Society, in promotion of its general objects. In doing this, the Committee of the Auxiliary identify their interests with those of the remotest sections of the land, and tender Rhode-Island Domestic Missionary their sympathy and their co-operation, with a feeling, that to them, as a component part of the National Institution, belongs the duty and the joy of preaching the Gospel to our whole country. Besides the above, there has been paid, from different parts of Massachusetts, directly into the treasury of the A. H. M. S., the sum of $12,646 66. Included in this sum are various legacies to the Parent Society, amounting to $8,247 40, and also $1,483 56 from the Hampshire Missionary Society. The whole amount for Home Missions received from this state, during the year, is $28,584 44.

Of the good accomplished by the Massachusetts Missionary Society, no adequate impression can be gained by looking back over only a single year. The husbandry of Home Missions has so gradually changed the barren waste into a fruitful field, that the annual progress is scarcely observed; and yet the whole result is one of incalculable value. Says the Secretary, REV. JOSEPH S. CLARK, in the last Report of the Society, "If 150 evangelical churches in Massachusetts, embracing 9 or 10 thousand members should be suddenly blotted out, and so many fountains of christian charity and moral influence dried up, the loss would seem irreparable-the ways of Zion would mourn; the world would feel the shock. And yet there are so many churches, embracing so many members, and put. ting forth such influences on the field which the Society has cultivated within the bounds of this state. A large pro

Society.

The Secretary of this Society REV. M. TUCKER, D. D., reports that the expenditures of the year have been $850. The missions aided have struggled with various and protracted difficulties, which have impeded their success. There is much ground, still needing the attention of the friends of intelligent, evangelical piety. One newly gathered church is about to be added to the 3 assisted last year, and a candidate is preaching to it, with a prospect of settlement. Five hundred dollars of the sum expended by this Auxiliary, were furnished by the liberality of the Connecticut Missionary Society.

Connecticut Missionary Society,

Auxi iary to the A. H. M. S.

The balance in the treasury of this Auxiliary, April 1st 1842, was $4,373 39. In the succeeding twelve months, the receipts have been $5,240 82, and the expenditures $5,544 76. Of this latter sum, $3,613 were expended for missions in the State, $500 appropriated to the aid of the Rhode-Island Domestic Missionary Society, and $1,431 reinitted to the National Society, to be employed in other sections of the great field. Additional contributions, to the amount of $8,133 57, were also made to the A. H. M. S. from various Auxiliares, and other sources in the State; so that the whole sum realized from Connecticut, for this object, during the year, is $13.374 39-which exceeds the

cy, REV. ABIJAH CRANE," of the precious fruits of these revivals. It has been a time of peculiar refreshing to the churches-emphatically a revival of religion-strengthening them, vastly more, by raising the standard of piety and benevolence, than by increasing their numbers. The revivals have all begun under the labors of pastors, each in his own parish, or by an occasional exchange of service with a neighboring brother. An unusual amount of lay service has been performed under pastoral direction. Stillness and solem

edifices for public worship, and the sions, however, gives but a meagre completion of 2 others. The tempe-view," says the Secretary of the Agenrance revival has extended to all classes of society, and been the source of incalculable good. And the breath of the Almighty, which has breathed so extensively upon the slain of our land, and caused an exceeding great ariny to stand up in the enjoyment of a new and immortal life, has visited with its vital energy 23 of the valleys of vision, where the missionaries of this Society are stationed to prophesy in the name of the Lord. Of the fruits of this divine influence, 579 have already joined themselves to the church of God. The total of additions, by letter and by pro-nity have characterized public meetfession, is 723.

ings, and an importunate spirit of prayer has pervaded the churches. In some Central Agency, Utica, N. Y. cases, there has been overwhelming emotion, but it was produced by the Fifty-four missionaries have been in still small voice of the Spirit, rendercommission during the year, within the ing the Gospel of Christ quick and powbounds of this Agency, ministering to erful. A higher estimation is placed 61 congregations. Nine of these con- in these churches, on the pastoral of-. gregations have never before received fice and the ordinary means of grace.. missionary aid, and five of them are in There is also an increased consciousplaces where the Gospel has never be-ness of parental responsibility, and a fore been steadily preached by a Pres- growing attachment to household conbyterian or Congregational ministry. secration." Four of the churches, which last year were aided by the Society, have now assumed the entire support of their Gospel institutions, and become our fellow laborers in the good work of elevating other feeble and destitute congregations to the same privilege and dignity. Five missionaries have been settled as pastors, during the year; seven houses of worship have been completed or are in the progress of erection, and several others have been made more convenient, more comfortable, and more appropriate places for rendering praise and thanksgiving to the Most High.

The happy effects of the outpouring of the Spirit upon the churches within this Agency, has been seen, too, during the last half of the year, in their contributions to the cause of missions. The severe pecuniary distress, experienced on this field, had made the receipts of the first half of the year, exceedingly small; and it seemed inevitable, that they must fall far below those of former years. But as religion revived, contributions increased; few churches now gave less than in former years, some doubled the amount of the previous year, some trebled it, and one gave even four fold-so that the receipts of Seventeen of the missionaries make the year, amounting to $3,607 94, fall mention of interesting revivals of re-but a trifle short of the year preceding. ligion, as enjoyed during the year or now in progress among the people of their care. By many of them, the number of nopeful conversions is not estimated; six hundred are, however, reported as having, in the judgment of charity, passed from death unto life, and 200 have been added to the churches on profession of their faith.

Western Agency-Geneva, N. Y.

The receipts from the field of this Agency, during the year, have been $3,395 85, greater than the amount contributed last year by $2,017 51; "the fruits of more sacrifice and self-denial," says the Secretary of the agency, REV. "The number of hopeful conver- JOHN A. MURRAY, "than would have

been requisite, a few years since, to secure double the amount to the same cause."

avocations would permit. Eighteen missionaries have been in commission, within the limits of this Society, during the year. Several of the churches have been visited with seasons of refreshing from on high, the condition of most of them has been improved, and the conviction is every where becoming stronger and deeper, that our own coun

Eighty-six missionaries have been in commission during the year, thirty of whom were not in commission last year, and twenty-five of whom have never before labored under the direction of this society. Ninety-six congregations have enjoyed the labors of the mission-try calls for increased liberality, more aries-ten of which are gathered in fields hitherto unoccupied. Fourteen houses of worship have been cominenced or completed; others have been repaired and freed, from debts, which had long held them in jeopardy and greatly embarrassed the congregations which worshipped in them.

But the most grateful evidence that the friends of missions have not labored in vain, in this portion of their Master's vineyard, is found in the special blessings of Heaven, which have descended upon the congregations that have received their benefactions. Twenty-six of the missionaries report revivals of religion in their churches; and thirteen of them, 626 cases of hopeful conversion. More than a thousand, are reported as having been added to the churches connected with the agency during the year-777 of them, on profession of their faith; and were the returns complete, the number added on profession, it is believed, would appear to be several hundreds greater.

Western Reserve Domestic Missionary Society.

energetic effort and more importunate prayer in the work of giving to her rapidly extending population, the blessings of education, and the hopes of immortality.

Marietta Agency, Ohio.

in the boundaries of this Agency, since the last report; $530 have been received by the treasurer of the Agency towards their support, and the balance drawn from the treasury of the Society. requisite for sustaining them has been A general revival of religion, extending has been experienced in all this region. into every evangelical denomination,

Nine missionaries have labored with

those upon which the Spirit has deThe missionary churches are among scended with great power. Converts have been multiplied, the churches have the communities, in which they shine been increased and strengthened, and as lights in the world, have felt the restraining, sanctifying, elevating power of divine truth.

"One most encouraging feature of the work in this field," says the SecThe receipts of this Society, during retary of the Agency, REV. HENRY the year, have been but, $550 81. This SMITH, "is, that young missionaries, diminished amount, as compared with who were born and educated within its the receipts of former years, is to be limits, who have the entire confidence accounted for, partly by the increased of the people from the very outset of severity of pecuniary embarrassments, their labors, whose local and national and partly, by the fact that very little affections and sympathies are here, and direct agency has been employed, for who, knowing before hand our spiritual the collection of funds. The REV. destitutions, are willing to spend and MYRON TRACY, the Secretary of the be spent to supply them-enduring Society, has given his attention to mat- hardness as good soldiers of Jesus ters of correspondence, and has ren-Christ-are just beginning to thrust dered essential service to the cause, in the sickle into our whitening harvest. diffusing information, in encouraging What we now need, and what our feeble congregations, and in calling the salvation imperatively demands, is the attention of pastors and churches to the development of our own importance of systematic efforts for We must act ourselves, as well as be building up the waste places of their acted upon. There is power of muscle, Zion, to such an extent as his other energy of purpose, strength of intel

resources.