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MEETING OF THE BOARD FOR 1852-3.

PITTSBURGH, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1852.

In accordance with the requirements of the Constitution of the American Baptist Missionary Union, the Board of Managers met after the adjournment of the Union, at 7 o'clock, P. M.

The Chairman of the Board not being present, Hon. James M. Linnard, of Pa., was appointed Chairman pro tem.

The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. T. Winter, of Pa. The roll was called, and the following members were found to be in attendance.

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Rev. Messrs. A. P. Mason, A. D. Gillette, V. R. Hotchkiss, L. B. Allen, T. Winter, G. W. Samson, and Mr. S. Colgate, were appointed a committee to nominate an Executive Committee, two Corresponding Secretaries, a Treasurer, and an Auditing Committee.

Rev. Messrs. E. Lathrop and D. B. Cheney were appointed tellers to conduct the election of Chairman and Recording Secretary of the Board.

The tellers reported the election of

HON. IRA HARRIS, LL. D., of N. Y., Chairman;

MORGAN J. RHEES, of N. Y., Recording Secretary.

The Committee to nominate an Executive Committee and officers, reported.

The report was accepted, and the Board proceeded to ballot therefor. Rev. Messrs O. Dodge and H. G. Weston were appointed tellers.

The tellers to conduct the election of an Executive Committee, &c., reported the election of the following:

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SOLOMON PECK, D. D., Corresponding Secretary for Foreign Department.
EDWARD BRIGHT, JR., Corresponding Secretary for Home Department.
RICHARD E. EDDY, Treasurer.

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Resolved, That the salaries of the Corresponding Secretaries and Treasurer be $1,500 each for the current year.

The report of the Committee on grants from coördinate societies, &c., referred by the last Board, was read and considered, and laid on the table.

The resolution of the Union in reference to Expenditures of 1852-3, was taken up, and on motion it was

Resolved, That the Executive Committee be instructed to arrange their missionary appropriations and expenditures for 1852-3 on the scale of $135,000 income.

Resolved, That the proceedings of the Board and of the Union be published under direction of the Executive Committee.

Resolved, That when we adjourn, we adjourn to meet in the North Pearl Street Baptist Church, Albany, N. Y., on the Tuesday before the third Thursday in May, 1853.

Adjourned. Prayer by Rev. Evan Jones, of the Cherokee Mission. M. J. RHEES, Rec. Secretary.

THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT.

MR. CHAIRMAN:

It is with an unaffected sense of obligation to God for past blessings, and of dependence on him for future mercies, that the Executive Committee present their thirty-eighth Annual Report to the Board of Managers. The year embraced in this Report, has been attended by such manifestations of the divine faithfulness, in both the home and foreign service of our Union, as call for grateful praise. Death has done its work, indeed, as in other years. We mourn to-day that Rev. JOHN TAYLOR JONES, D. D., of the Siam Mission, Rev. HARVEY M. CAMPBELL and Mrs. E. R. KEYES KNAPP, of the Arracan Mission, Mrs. LUCRETIA BROWNSON STILSON, of the Maulmain Burman Mission, and Rev. WILLIAM T. BIDDLE, appointed to the Maulmain Karen Mission, are no longer our missionaries to the heathen. Their appointed service is finished; but the results live, and will live, to the praise of Him who accounted them worthy to serve and to suffer in his name. The loss of five missionary laborers in a single year, is no common bereavement, and speaks impressively, not only because the number is large. A missionary ready to depart for his field, a missionary having just acquired the language of the people to whom he had been sent, a missionary o ripe attainments and varied experience, the founder of a mission and a translator of the Scriptures,-three men representing three stages of missionary life, -have fallen in one year; and with them two faithful women, engaged in like service and looking forward to the same recompense of reward.

MISSIONARY ROOMS.

The Committee have held their usual meetings within the missionary year, and their deliberations have been uniformly attended by a fraternal spirit and followed by unanimous decisions.

Immediately after the close of the last annual meeting of the Board a communication was received from Rev. J. G. Oncken, urging the Committee to send a deputation from this country to the approaching Triennial Convention of the Baptists of Germany. In view of the facts set forth in this communication, and the influence of such a deputation on the European missions and on home deliberations, the Committee were impressed with the importance of the proposed measure; and, therefore, both on account of his superior fitness for the service and the state of his health, requested the Foreign Secretary to attend the Convention and to visit the missionary stations in Germany and France. Provision having been made for the temporary care of his department without additional expense to the treasury, Dr. Peck sailed for Europe early in July, and returned early in November. The whole cost of the deputa

tion to the treasury was a little less than $450, and the Committee have ample proof that the results of the visit have been much more than an equivalent for the time and money used in making it.

The Treasurer's department has lately been deprived of the services of Mr. Robert Cogswell by death, after he had faithfully performed his duties almost thirteen years. The health of Mr. Thomas Shaw, also, became so impaired as to make it necessary for him to be several months absent from his post. In the meantime the work of purchasing and forwarding goods has been committed to the Treasurer.

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.

The expenditures of the year ending with March, 1852, have been,

For purposes described in the Treasurer's Report,
Civilization of the Ojibwa, Ottawa, Shawanoe, and Delaware tribes
of North American Indians,..

$102,958 09

Translating, printing and distributing Scriptures, in Burmese, Karen,
Assamese, Teloogoo, Siamese, Chinese, German, and French,
Tracts in Burmese, Karen, Assamese, Teloogoo, Siamese, Chinese,
German, French, and Greek,

4,000 00

11,500 00

4,000 00

2,100 00

$124,558 09

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$124,211 94
346 15-$124,558.09

with which the debt of April 1, 1851, has been increased to $19,894.47. In a year of so great pecuniary embarrassment in many sections of the country, and when other institutions have been making extraordinary demands upon the beneficence of the churches, such a result is occasion for grateful and joyous praise to Him who knows the structure and the work of our organization, and has again given to both the seal of his approbation.

The receipts from all sources have been more by $3,385.39, in the last than the preceding year, and the whole expenditure for current operations has been more by $5,684.51. The income from donations and legacies, also, has exceeded that of the preceding year, by $4,038.34, while the legacies have been less by $1,410.32;-showing an increase of $5,448.66 in the gifts of living contributors in the last over those of the preceding year. In no year except that of 1845-6, when nearly $30,000 were contributed towards the liquidation of the debt of $40,000, were the donations and legacies so large as in the

*See Report of Treasurer.

The following table shows the amount received in donations and legacies from the respective states in the home field of the Missionary Union, during each of the past six years, with the average annual contributions from each state and each member of the churches the first five years, and the average from each member the last year.

last; and even then, the amount received from these sources was not $400 above the corresponding receipts of that year.

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Maine,

200

293

19,782

$4,676.82

$5,388.23

$6,052.28 $4,506.87 $5,072.49

New Hampshire,
Vermont,

71

96

8,244

2,237.50

2,527.67

79 104

7,000

1,938 95

Massachusetts,

258

245

31,344

21,383.94

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$5,139.34 26 19,780
2,210.59 1,856.32 1,983.92 2,163.20 .26
2,610.53 1,964.73 1,452.36 2,093.48 2,012.01 .30
23,928.42 23,483.47 24.316.48
6,185.13 4,613.25 6,444.68 4,671.18
6,236.61 4,248.45 5,039.74 5,602.06
20,191.46 22.708.15 24,707.14

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New Jersey,

95

97

12,531

2,181.05

2,625.77

3,229.83

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2,286.11
6,340.13
600.13

24,037.90 .28
3,715.90 2,807.73 .22
6,190.29
142.00

84,337

12,531

29,324.05 .35 3,560.02 .28

6,767.51

.23

30,435

288.43 .87

320

285

437

23,122

2,607.31

6,429.81

6,635.85

5,740.52

4,127.47

5,108.19 .22

23,122

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6,024.57

.20

150.00 .47
5,792.00 .25
633.64 .03
1,884.20.14

.11

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$85,009.24 $85,894.42 $88,902.99 $86,853.00 $95,776.35 $88,487.20

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The number of members in New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, is given the same as in 1850,

Contributions,
1851-52.

Average per

Member, 1851-52.

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