Appointments by the Executive Committee of the A. H. M. S., from Jan. 1st, 1844, to Feb. 1st, 1845. Re-appointed. Rev. C. A. Hoyt, Wilmington and Bethel, O. Rev. Wm. Salter, Andrew and Makoqueta, Chhs., Rev. E. G. Johnson, Johnstown and Trenton, O. lowa. Rev. Ebenezer Alden, Jr., Tipton, Iowa. Rev. N. B. Dodge, Little Osage and Deerfield, Mo. Rev. T.S. Reeve, St. Joseph, Mo. Rev. W. T. Diekson, West Ely, Mo. Rev. Timothy Morgan, Mount Zion Ch., Mo. Rev. B. Pond, in bounds of Illinois Presb., Ill. Rev. John Summers, Bernadotte and Virgil, Ill. Rev. Thos. Lippincott, Troy and Edwardsville, Ill. Rev. S. W. Rose, McKean, O. Rev. N. T. Fay, Montgomery, O. Rev. G. S. Johnson, Amboy, &c., Lucas Co., O. Rev. E. J. Boyd, Brooklyn, Mich. Rev. A. Worthington, Hartland and Tyrone, Mich. Rev. H. E. Waring, Byron, Mich. Rev. W. H. Wheeler, Grand Haven and Muskegan, Mich. Rev. A. H. Gaston, Three Rivers, Mich. Rev. Louis Mills, Clarendon and Eckford, Mich. Rev. L. Dady, Victory, N. Y. Rev. H. B. Taylor, Centreville, N. Y. Rev. C. P. Bush, 10th Ch., New-York. Rev. James Brown, Liberty and Concord, O. Rev. C. W. Carpenter, Delanti and Sinclairville, Rev. M. Doolittle, Mansfield and New Albion, N. Y. The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, from January 1st, 1844, to February 1st, 1845. VERMONT Middlebury, by Prof. Stoddard, A. Wilcox, $20; Miss Adelaide McDonald, $15, to const. the latter a L. M.; Prof. S. Stoddard, $30, to const. James G. Stoddard a L. M.; W. Bass, $10; P. Starr, $10; Rev. B. Labaree, $10; R. Wainwright, $10; Rev. T. A. Merrill, $5; W. Slade, $5; Rev. S.G.Coe, $5; J. Warner, $5; W. M. Field, $5; L. W. Clark, $3; C. Hill, $2; S. Swift, $5; Ladies, $16, to const. Rufus Wainwright, Samuel Swift, and Wm. Swift Life Members, Willsboro, Rev. Josiah Lyman, MASSACHUSETTS Home Missionary Society, by B. Perkins, Asst. Treas., Andover, South Soc., in part of Mon.. Hadley, Mass. Ladies' H. M. S. of the Providence Benev. Cong., B. Dyer, to 61 75 100 00 50 00 1000 00 60 00 300 00 5. 00 641 62 5:00 5 00 122 66 700 3.90 East Haddam, Ladies' Cent Soc, by Rev. I. Parsons, Hartford, in full of legacy of the late Normand Smith, by F. Parsons and Thomas Smith, Ex'rs, Long Ridge, Cong. Ch., by Rev. F. H. Ayres, Madison, T. Hotchkiss, by E. S. Hotchkiss, Middletown, First Cong. Ch., by J. B. Fem. H. M. S., full to const. Rev. Samuel D. Hubbard, L. D., $100, Mrs. Houston st. Ch., by D. Stevens, $8 25; W. R. Beebe, $5; Mr. Badeau, $1; Cash, 0 25: E. H. Burger, $5, Mercer-st. Ch., A. G. Phelps, $100; J. B. Murray, $20; R. Lockwood, $25; Mon. Con.Coll., $9 75; R. H. M'Curdy, $25; C. S. Brown, $10; O. W. Morris, $2, 19 50 191 75 40 00 Pearl st. Ch., Miss. Assoc., per W. S. Smith, $1, Randolph, by Rev. E. Taylor, Rensselaerville, Fem. Miss. Soc., by Mrs. Salisbury Mills, Mon. Con. Coll., by Rev. J. B. Hubbard, Schaghticoke, Presb. Ch., by Rev. J. H. Noble, Sherman, by Rev. E. Taylor, 6.00 10.00 M. L. Dayton, 16.25 Sag Harbor, Mrs. Clarissa Sleight, 5.00 12.00 87 00 5. 00 John Anketell and Mrs. Augusta A. Anketell, Life Members, 60 00 92 00 New London, Ct., First Cong. Soc., Ladies' Sew. Soc., $30, to const. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Starr a L. M., A friend, to const. Edward Learned, Westfield, Coll. by Rev. T. M. Hopkins, Yorktown, by Rev. J. B. Stoddard, 35 00 NEW-JERSEY Bloomfield, J. C. Baldwin, Deckertown, bal. of Coll., by Rev. Mr. Hanover, First Presb. Church by J. M. 10.00 175 12 50 5.00. 347 40.00 30 00 29 00 Norwich, Ladies, by Mrs. H. G. Ripley, Stonington, Fem. H. M. S, of which $30 is to coust. Rev. Wm. Clift a L. M., by Miss L. A. Sheffield, 34.00 52 00 Westchester, Cong. Soc., for the West, family, $7; Coll., $46, by E. C. Parkhurst, 43 36 NEW-YORK New Brunswick, H. P. Clark, Second Presb. Ch., M. O. Halsted and family, to const. Wm. Hamilton, Mrs. Wm. Hamilton and Wm. Ogden Halsted Life Members, $100; others, $73 19, by S. W. Baldwin, Treas, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington City, Fourth Presb. Ch., Ladies H. M. S., by Mrs. H. Goodrich, Sec. 5.00 53 00 173 19 50.00 23 36 OHIO Forrestville, N. Y., by Rev. E. Taylor, 5 00 13 00 6 65 Chillicothe, Loyal Wilcox, 100.00 New Lebanon, N. Y., Presb. Ch., in part to const. Rev. C. J. Knowles a L. M., New-York City, viz Allen-st. Presb. Ch., A. Osman, $1, Bleecker st. Ch., C. N. Talbot. $50; H. Graham's Station, by Rev. W. H. Bay, 7:00 22 31 Johnstown, Presb. Ch., by Rev. E. G. Johnson, 15.42 Do. Do. Phillips, Wayland, Mrs. Alpheus Biglow, Jr., Do. a Friend, Boston, a Gentleman, Do. Essex-street Church, Do. Old South, Do. Bowdoin street, Mr. Vernon, Do. Park-street, Do. Winter-street, Do. Salem-street, Pine-street, 30.00 2.00 100 00 Central Church, N. L., Philadelphia, Mr. 10.00 42 00 30.00 2.00 715 04 546 85 573 60 355 31 667 75 450 52 311 38 Darby, Presb. Church, Pa., coll. in part, to const. Rev. M. E. Cross, L. D., Marple, Presb. Church, Pa., coll. in part, $31 37; also Fem. Miss. Soc., $14 75, in part to const. Rev. M. E. Cross L. D., Neshamony, Presb. Church, Pa., coll. in church, in part, 53 88 46 12 53 47 300 10 290 07 31 18 23 14 600 4.00 21 86 20 00 12.00 382 00 9.00 138 00 30.00 30 00 67 02 210 01 100 00 300 00 Hublersburg, Presb. Church, Pa., T. Huston and wife, $10; Miss S. M. Huston, $2.50; Miss C. Huston, $2 50; Miss J. Huston, $2.50; Miss J. E. Huston, $2 50; Mrs. M. Harris, $3; G. W. Hutchins, $3; others, $4 45, by Rev. Mr. Harris, Harrisburg, Presb. Church, Pa. F. Wyith, $20; Cash, $20; John A. Weir, $10; Mrs. D. Armond, $8; Mrs. McCormick, $5; Mrs. Mahony, $5; Mrs. Halderman, $5; Miss Todd, $5; Mr. and Mrs. Briggs, $5; Mrs. Geiger, $6; R. M. Crain, $6; R. J. Ross, $2; Dr. McPherson, $2; others, $27 25, 30 45 Wells, Presb. Church, Bradford county, Pa., Mon. Con. coll., $1 58; Mrs. C. Roosa, $1; Rev. J. L. Riggs and wife, $2.50, 508 Lenox, Mrs. Lucy Northrup, 42.00 77 00 East Whiteland, Presb. church, Pa., coll, 777 6. 00 Hampden Co. Home Miss. Soc., H. Brewer, Jr., Treasurer, In the last number of the Home Missionary, considerations were adduced, which impress our own minds-and, also, we trust, the minds of our readers-with the conviction that no time is to be lost by those who would stamp upon the future people of this land the image of a pure Christianity. Especially do the condition and prospects of the NEW STATES demand, that the arduous and long continued struggle by which their peculiar moral difficulties are to be surmounted, should begin, in all its vigor, without delay. The more we become acquainted with the character and condition of the mass of western mind-its diversity of habits and moral tendencies, the prevailing carelessness of religious restraint, the want of a public conscience in respect to the demands of religion and religious institutions, the allowed disregard of the Sabbath, the prejudices which prevail, and the errors which are inculcated by many professed religious teachers, and fostered by that want of better information which springs from the too prevalent neglect of common school instruction-the more are we impressed with the greatness of the obstacles to be overcome in bringing our vast Central Valley under the power of the Gospel. The work demands the sympathies of all hearts, and the efforts of all hands. There ought not to be, there cannot be, any monopoly of the toils, and privileges, and glory of this work. The zeal which spreads the Bible, and religious tracts, and Sabbath schools, over that great field, is all wanted; and every truly christian heart must hail these agencies with a cordial fellowship. But still, we are more and more convinced, with every passing year, that to give direction, concentration and efficiency to all these auxiliary methods of doing good, the population of the West must be supplied with the PREACHING of the Gospel. All other means, without this, will produce but limited and transient effects. Nothing else leaves permanent memorials of its influence, any further than it tends to draw after it the stated ministrations of the Gospel. Over the tract, the religious volume, nay, over the Bible itself, with all its treasures of wisdom, hundreds of thousands of that people will slumber till they die. They cannot, or they will not read. "They are not generally a reading people, but a thinking and a talking people. They are accustomed to catch the glance of the living eye, and to be instructed and animated by the living voice. Books do not attract their attention; and before the Bible will ever be read by that population, there must be in all that land, the voice of one crying in the wilderness' to prepare its way." |