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 nber. 
 
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 in Sep- 
 
 lber. 
 
 . October. 
 
 The Noith Classis of Long Island, on the third Tuesday in April and October. 
 
 The South Classis of Long Island, on the second Tuesday in Apiil and fourth 
 Tuesday in September. 
 
 The Classis of Michigan, on the second Friday in April and first Tuesday in 
 October. 
 
 The Classis of Monmouth, on the second Tuesday in Aptil and October. 
 
 The Classis of Montgomery, on the thiid Tuesday in April and last in Sep- 
 tember. 
 
 The Classis of New Brunswick, on the third Tuesday in April and October. 
 
 The Classis of New York, on the third Tuesday in April and October. 
 
 The South Classis of New York, on the third Tuesday in April and October. 
 
 The Classis of Orange, on the thiid Tuesday in Aptil and October. 
 
 The Classis of Pa ram us, on the third Tuesday in April and September. 
 
 The Classis of Passaic, on the first Tuesday in April and October. 
 
 The Classis of Philadelphia, on the thiid Tuesday in Apiil and October. 
 
 The Classis of Poughkeepsie, on the ihiid Tuesday in Apiil and October. 
 
 The Classis of Haritan, on the second Tuesday in Apiil and October. 
 
 The Classis of PensseWr, on the third Tuesday in Apiil and S<y tunber. 
 j The tTas.-is of Saratoga, ou the third Wednesday in April and Sep' ember. 
 
 The Classis of Schnectady, on Ihe third Tuesday in April and September. 
 
 The Classis of Schohaije, on ihe third Tuesday in April and September. 
 
 The ZJIasBis of Ulster,on the third Tuesday in Apiil und first Tuesday in Octo- 
 ber. 
 
 The Classis ofW est ch ester, on the third Tuesday in Aptil and October. 
 
 The Classis of Wisconsin, on the third Wednesday in April and September. 
 
 The Board of Svperinftvdent* meel, lor the annual examination of the theo- 
 logicul students, on the third Tuesday in May. 
 
THE 
 
 Acts and Proceedings 
 
 OF THE 
 
 GENERAL SYNOD 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Eefoemed Chukch 
 
 In America, 
 
 CONVENED IN REGULAR SESSION 
 
 IN THE 
 
 City of Philadelphia, in Jthste, 1869. 
 
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 NEW YORK: 
 
 BOARD OF PUBLICATION OF THE REFORMED CHURCH, 
 
 103 Fulton Street. 
 
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ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS 
 
 Of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, 
 convened at philadelphia, on wednesday, the second day of 
 June, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hun- 
 dred and Sixty-nine. The Session continued from the 
 Second to the Ninth day of June, inclusive. 
 
 FOKMATION OF SYNOD. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 OPENING OF SYNOD. 
 
 The Synod was opened with prayer by Rev. E. S. Porter, Presi- 
 dent of the last General Synod, who preached a sermon on the Even- 
 ing of the first day of the Session, from Psalm 48 : 12-14. " Walk 
 about Zion, &c." 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 MEMBERS PRESENT. 
 
 From the Particular Synod of New York. 
 
 1. From the Classis of Arcot. — Rev. Joseph Scudder, 3 Rev. 
 Ezekiel C. Scudder. 4 
 
 2. From the Classis of Bergen. — Rev. J. H. Suydam, J. K. Allen, 
 Elder. — John H. Berry. 3 
 
 3. From the South Classis of Bergen. — Rev. P. D. Van Cleef, 
 D.D., E. P. Terhune, Wm. W. Halloway, Jr. Elders — Orson Wilson, 
 R. N. Perlee, ! John Duncan. 
 
 1. Took his seat en the third day of the',; Session. 
 
 2. Do. sixth Do. 
 
 3. Obtained leave of absence on the fourth day of the Session. 
 
 4. Do. eighth Do. 
 
540 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 4. From the Classis of Hudson. — Rev. John McC. Holmes, John 
 G. Johnson, ! F. M. Kip, Jr. 2. Elder8 — 1E - Stickles, 4 Thomas Elmen- 
 dorf. 
 
 5. From the North Classis of Long Island. — Rev. Ira C. Boice, 
 John M. Wagner, John H. Smock. Elders — Charles McLear, Peter 
 Cox, 6 Daniel V. Weeks. 6 
 
 6. From the South Classis of I<ong Island. — Rev. W. T. Enyard, 9 
 Z. Eddy, D.D., D. S. Sutphen. Elders — James Myers, Geo. Pool, 
 Garret G. Bergen. 
 
 V. From the Classis of Monmouth. — Rev. James B. Wilson. Elder 
 
 —Gilbert H. Van Mater 6 
 
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 8. From the Classis of New Brunswick. — Rev. J. Howard Van 
 Doren, John Mauley. Elders — R. Voorhees, J. Letson, R. A. 
 Staats. 
 
 9. From the Classis of New York. — Rev. Thomas DeWitt, D.D., 
 John Forsyth, D.D., W. J. R. Taylor, D.D. Elders— Thomas Jere- 
 miah, Henry Camerden, Jr. 
 
 10.. From the South Classis of New York. — Rev. J. B. Steele, 
 Isaac S. Hartley, J. M. Mathews, D.D. Elder — John R. Smith. 
 
 11. From the Classis of Paramus. — Rev. Isaac S. Demund, Ben- 
 jamin A. Bartholf. Elders — John W. Ferdon, John JSip, Cornelius 
 I. Smith. 
 
 12. From the Classis of Passaic. — Rev. N. Conklin, James Dema- 
 rest, John C. Cruikshank. Elder — James Van Ness. 4 
 
 13. From the Classis of Philadelphia. — Rev. 0. Gesner, W. B. 
 Voorhees, *C. W. Fritts. Elders — S. Voorhees, S. Waldron, 'N. 
 Van Zandt. 
 
 14. From the Classis of Poughkeepsie. — Rev. G. Talmage, H. 
 Heermance, 3 Cornelius Van Cleef, D.D. Elders — William H. Crosby, 
 Wm. R. Schell, 3 Wm. Seward. 
 
 15. From the Classis of Raritan. — Rev. Abraham Messier, D.D., 2 J. 
 
 A. H. Cornell, D.D., 3 C. H. Edgar, D.D. 6 Elder— -W. G. Stewart. 
 
 16. From the Classis of Westchester. — Rev. John H. Pitcher, John 
 
 B. Thompson, J. Henry Bertholf. Elders — John A. Van Tassel, 
 Elias B. Littell, J. S. Van Court. 
 
 1. Took his seat on the second day of the Session. 
 
 2. Do. third Do. 
 
 3. Do. BixtK Do. 
 
 4. Obtained leave of absence on the fourth/lay of the Session. 
 
 5. g Do. sixth Do. 
 
 6. Do. eighth Do. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 541 
 
 From the Particular Synod of Albany. 
 
 1. From the Classis of Albany. — Rev. J. Elmendorf, D.D., 5 Jere- 
 miah Searle, J. F. Neef. 6 Elders— T. F. Cornell, Peter Monteith. 6 
 
 2. From the Classis of Cayuga. — Rev. J. H. Enders, A. G. Ver- 
 milye, D.D. Elder— G. C. Churchill. 
 
 3. From the Classis of Geneva. — Rev. I. H. Collier, S. J. Rogers, 
 8 A. M. Mann, D.D. 4 Elders—?. A. Brokaw, 5 E. F. Strong.* 
 
 4. From the Classis of Greene. — Rev. J. K. Rhinehart, S. P. M. 
 Hastings, J Jno. A. Lansing, D.D. Elders — I. J. Leming, 5 Philip 
 Miller. 
 
 5. From the Classis of [Kingston. — Rev. M. F. Liebenau, N. H. 
 Van Arsdale, Charles H. Stitt, D.D. Elders — J. Auchmoody, 
 Jacob R. Hardenberg, Peter dispell. 
 
 6. From the Classis of Montgomery. — Rev. Joseph Knieskern, 2 B. 
 Van Zandt, D.D. Elders — F. Vedder, George Timerman, James 
 Yauny. 
 
 7. From the Classis of Orange. — Rev. W. E. Turner, S. W. Mills, 
 C. Spaulding. Elder — P. B. Elting. 
 
 8. From the Classis of Rensselaer. — Rev. E. L. Heerraance, 2 Wilson 
 Ingalls, 3 J. B. Drury. 
 
 9. From the Classis'^ of Saratoga. — Rev. C. D. Kellogg, O. H. 
 Gregory, D.D. Elder — 3 A. Marshall. 
 
 10. From the Classis of Schenectady. — Rev. William W. Letson, 
 F. F. Wilson, W T m. P. Davis. Elders — Nanning Vischer, C. F. 
 Hoag. 
 
 11. From the Classis of Schoharie. — Rev. John S. Lott, S. H. 
 Cobb, x Edwin Vedder. Elder— 2 ?. S. Danforth. 
 
 12. From the Classis of Ulster. — Rev. A. M. Arcularius, J. N. 
 Voorhis, D. B. Wyckoff. 6 Elders — Abram Sleight, J. U. Emerick. 6 
 
 1. Took his seat on the second day of the Session. 
 
 2. Do. third Do. 
 
 3. Do. sixth Do. 
 
 4. Obtained leave of absence on the fourth day of the Session. 
 
 5. Do. sixth Do. 
 
 6. Do. eighth Do. 
 
542 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 From the Particular Synod of Chicago. 
 
 1. From the Classis of Michigan. — Rev. C. Vander Veen, 2 A. H. 
 Van Vranken. Elder — 1 C. W. MeNair. 
 
 2. From the Classis of Illinois. — Rev. S. A. Buinstead, J. S. Jo- 
 ralnion, Egbert Winter. Elder — J. Overcamp. 
 
 3. From the Classis of Holland. — Rev. Philip Phelps, Jr., D.D., 
 5 Jacob Vandermeulen, 5 A. C. Van Raalte, D.D. Elder — 2 H. Yntema. 
 
 4. From the Classis of Wisconsin. — Rev. James Demarest, Jr.' 
 P. Lepeltak, 2 John Vandermeulen. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 MODERATORS. 
 
 Rev. Charles H. Stitt was elected President ; Rev. G-oyn Talmage 
 Adsessor ; and Rev. D. S. Sutphen and Rev. S. J. Rogers, Clerks, 
 pro tern. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 READING OF THE MINUTES. 
 
 The Minutes of the last ordinary Session of the Synod were read. 
 
 1. Took his seat on the second day of the Session. 
 
 2. Do. third Do. 
 
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 ACTS OF THE SYNOD. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 ORDERS AND RULES. 
 
 These were read. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 STANDING COMMITTEES. 
 
 The following were appointed : 
 
 On the Professorate. — Rev. A. G. Vermilye, John B. Thompson, 
 John Forsyth. Elders, Thomas Jeremiah, James Myers. 
 
 On Overtures. — Rev. P. D. Van Cleef, Abraham Messier, I. S. 
 Demund. Elders, Johnson Letson, Wm. H. Crosby. 
 
 On Sy nodical Minutes. — Rev. Joseph Scudder, James B. Wilson, 
 O. Gesner. Elders, P. A. Brokaw, E. F. Strong. 
 
 On Domestic Missions. — Rev. S. W. Mills, M. F. Libeneau, J. 
 Knieskern. Elders, P. B. Elting, I. S. Van Court. 
 
 On Foreign Missions. — Rev. W. J. R. Taylor, E. P. Terhune, J. 
 K. Rhinehart. Elders, R. N. Perlee, Jacob R. fiardenberg. 
 
 On the State of Religion.— Rev. Z. Eddy, W. T. Enyard, N. H. 
 Van Arsdale. Elders, T. F. Cornell, James U. Emerick. 
 
 On Education. — Rev. J. McC. Holmes, E. L. Heermance, J. S. 
 Joralmon. Elder*, Abram Sleight, S. Waldron. 
 
 On Judicial Business. — Rev. J. Elmendorf, J. H. Suydam, I. S. 
 Hartley. Elders, Charles McLear, James Yauny. 
 
 On the Widows' 1 and Disabled Ministers' Funds. — Rev. J. Searle, 
 Wm. E. Turner, D. B. Wyckoff. Elders, J. Overcamp, George 
 Timerman. 
 
 On Publication. — Rev. James Demarest, Jr., J. Howard Van 
 Doren, Wm. B. Voorhees. Elders, Peter Cox, G. H. Van Mater. 
 
6U JUNE, 1869. 
 
 On Nominations. — Rev. John Forsyth, W. W. Halloway, Jr., A. 
 M. Arcularius. Elders, Elias B. Littell, Jonathan Auchmoody. 
 
 On Correspondence. — Rev. John G. Johnson, J. C. Cruikshank, C. 
 Spaulding. Elders, R. A. Staats, R. Voorhees. 
 
 On Accounts. — Rev. Jacob N. Voorhis, J. H. Bertholf, John S. 
 Lott. Elders, F. Yedder, C. F. Hoag. 
 
 On Leave of Absence. — Rev. N. Conklin, J. S. Joralmon, S. A. 
 Bumstead. Elders, James Van Ness, Garret G. Bergen. 
 
 On the Board of Direction. — Elders, John W. Ferdon, Wm. R. 
 Schell, R. N. Perlee, Peter Crispell, G. C. Churchill. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 COMMUNICATIONS. 
 
 The following report was received from the Board of Superin- 
 tendents of the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, and was 
 referred to the Committee on the Professorate : 
 
 To the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America : 
 
 The Board of Superintendents of the Theological Seminary met 
 in Peter Hertzog Hall at New Brunswick, on Tuesday, May 18, 
 1869, at 12 o'clock, M., and adjourned on Wednesday evening. 
 
 In the absence of the President the Rev. Gnstavus Abeel, D.D., 
 was called to the chair, who opened the meeting with praver. The 
 Rev. David Cole, D.D , was elected President, and Rev. William H. 
 Ten Eyck, Clerk pro tem. 
 
 The following members were present : 
 
 Rev. Gustavus Abed, Rev. W. V. V. Mabon, 
 
 John McC. Holmes, John F. Mesick, 
 
 Garret C. Schanck, II. Doolittle, 
 
 A. P. Pceke, Nathaniel Conklin, 
 
 S. W. Mills, David Cole, 
 
 J. II. Oerter, Denis Wortman, 
 
 Francis A. Ilorton, William Anderson, 
 
 Jacob N. Voorhees, J. L. Pearse, 
 
 Augustus Blauvelt, B. C. Lippincott, 
 
 Henry Dater, Wm. II. Ten Eyck. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 545 
 
 The following Classes were not represented in the Board, viz : 
 
 Arcot, Geneva, Holland, Illinois, South Long Island, Michigan, 
 Montgomery, New Brunswick, South Classis of New York, Sara- 
 toga, Schoharie, Wisconsin. 
 
 The seats of the following members become vacant by the expi- 
 ration of the time for which they were appointed, viz : 
 
 Rev. J. L. Pearse, from the Classis of Alban}% 
 
 G. Abeel South Classis of Bergen, 
 
 A. P. Peek , . . . . Classis of Cayuga, 
 
 Wm. H. Ten Eyck North Classis of Lon£ Island, 
 
 N. E. Smith South Classis of Long Island, 
 
 J. W. Beardslee Classis of Michigan, 
 
 Benj. Van Zandt Montgomery, 
 
 Stephen Searle New Brunswick, 
 
 J. C. Dutcher South Classis of New York, 
 
 Nathaniel Conklin Classis of Passaic, 
 
 Horace Doolittle ........ Philadelphia, 
 
 Henry Dater Poughkeepsie, 
 
 John F. Mesick Raritan, 
 
 J. Van Der Meulen Wisconsin. 
 
 These vacancies are all to be filled for the full term of three 
 years. 
 
 From the report of the Professors it appears that the following- 
 students have been members of the Theological Seminary : 
 
 Senior Class. 
 
 Edward G. Ackerman, George D. Hulst, 
 
 Herman C. Berg, James L. Southard, 
 
 A. Aug. Bookstaver, Peter V. Van Buskirk, 
 
 Isaac P. Brokaw, John Garnsey Van Slyke. 
 
 Middle Class. 
 
 Teunis G. Bergen, Elias Mead, 
 
 James B. Campbell, C. F. C. Suckow, 
 
 John B. Church, Wm. H. Van Doren. 
 Peter E. Kip, 
 
 Junior Class. 
 
 P. G. M. Bahler, Peter L. Van Der Veer, 
 
 Vernon B. Carrol, Louis B. Voorhees, 
 
 Wm. E. Davis, Arthur Crosby, 
 
 Matthew N. Oliver, T. S. Hamlin. 
 
 After the organization of the Board, the report of the Professors 
 of Theology was received. They state that Mr. John V. W. Heer- 
 
546 JUNE, 1869, 
 
 mance was also received as a member of the Junior Class, but labor- 
 ing at the time under great mental depression and doubts whether 
 it was his duty to enter the ministry, he withdrew before commenc- 
 ing his studies. 
 
 Mr. Arthur Crosby, desiring to complete his course of studies in 
 two years, and finding that it was not allowable to omit the studies 
 of the Junior year, nor practicable to compress the studies of both 
 years into one, retired, after being with us two months, with the 
 prospect of being able to accomplish his wishes in another institu- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Bahler, also, of the Junior class, felt himself compelled, by 
 pecuniary embarrassment, to engage in teaching from the 1st of Jan- 
 uary until the present time. The Faculty did not feel warranted in 
 granting leave of absence for so large a portion of the year, and he 
 was informed that the question of his being still regarded as a mem- 
 ber of the Class, and being admitted with them to examination, 
 would be submitted to the Board of Superintendents. 
 
 Mr. T. S. Hamlin did not enter upon his studies until the first of 
 January. By private instruction from the Professor of Sacred Lit- 
 erature, and great diligence on his part, he was enabled to make up 
 the time he had lost, and by his faithful attention to duty, and pro- 
 ficiency in study, he has highly commended himself to his Profes- 
 sors. 
 
 They report that "By the blessing of God we have passed 
 through the year without serious interruption by ill-health of Pro- 
 fessors or Students, and with such tokens of Divine favor toward the 
 Seminary as forbid despair. Our numbers are small and must con- 
 tinue so for another year ; but looking to the lower Classes in the 
 College, and at the number in the Grammar school who are prepar- 
 ing for the ministry, we have hope for the future." 
 
 Reference is then made to the pecuniary affairs of the institution, 
 but these statements we will not repeat, as they are fully embraced 
 in the report of the Standing Committee on Hertzog Hall, and in- 
 corporated in the latter part of this document. 
 
 There is another item to which attention is called. " With the 
 increased expensivencss of fuel and labor, the expenses of the Hall 
 have been so great as to compel us to make an assessment upon the 
 rooms which is onerous, and almost intolerable to the Students, 
 many of whom are very poor. The amount received from General 
 Synod is very small, and no greater now than twelve years ago. 
 While other wants of the Seminary are receiving attention, might 
 not such an addition to our income be obtained, as would make the 
 expenses incident to rooming in the Hall, if not merely nominal, yet 
 not oppressive." 
 
 The Faculty also state to the Board that there are in our Library, 
 in many instances, from two to twenty copies of the same work, 
 
JUNE, 1869. 547 
 
 and ask authority to use their discretion in exchanging duplicates 
 for other books that are needed in the Library, when it can be done 
 to advantage. 
 
 The Board of Superintendents, by special resolution, have ex- 
 pressed the hope that liberal minded individuals in our denomina- 
 tion will provide the ways and means to meet these assessments on 
 the rooms in Hertzog Hall. They have also recommended that 
 discretionary power be granted to the Theological Faculty to ex- 
 change duplicate copies of works in the Library for other books, as 
 they have proposed. 
 
 The usual examinations, of the several Classes in the Seminary, 
 were conducted by the Professors in the presence of the Board. 
 
 The Seniors were examined on personal piety, and their views in 
 entering the ministry, and also gave specimens of sermonizing. 
 Sermons were also laid upon the table by the higher classes for in- 
 spection. All the students were interrogated as to their observance 
 of the rule in regard to students preaching, and their answers were 
 satisfactory. It was unanimously 
 
 Resolved, That the several examinations be sustained, and that 
 the members of the Senior Class be recommended to the Professors 
 to receive the customary certificate. 
 
 In reference to Mr. Bahle, who has been absent from the exer- 
 cises of the Seminary from 1st of January : having been engaged 
 in teaching to remove pecuniary embarrassments, the Board of Su- 
 perintendents would state that Mr. Bahler has sustained a satisfac- 
 tory examination with his Class, and has, in other respects, com- 
 mended himself to the approbation of the Professors; and that they 
 recommend him to General Synod for a dispensation as to the time 
 during which he was absent from the Seminary. 
 
 The annual address to the Students of the Seminary was deliv- 
 ered by Rev. J. McC. Holmes, on Wednesday evening, in the 
 chapel. 
 
 In order to secure, in future, a full attendance of the members of 
 this Board, they recommend to the General Synod the adoption of 
 some measure whereby the several Classes may be led to institute 
 an inquiry as to the attendance of their delegate at its annual meet- 
 ing, and if he has been absent, as to his reasons for the omission of 
 this duty. 
 
 The Standing Committee appointed on Hertzog Theological Hall, 
 
 made their report to the Board of Superintendents in conformity 
 
 with the resolutions of General Synod, adopted in 1868, p. 417 of 
 
 the Minutes, as follows : 
 
 The first and principal resolution of General Synod has received 
 our attention, requesting the Board of Direction, in co-operation 
 with the Committee on Hertzog Hall, to raise $100,000 by subscrip- 
 
548 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 tion for completing the endowment of the Professoral Fund, and 
 the payment of the debt of General Synod, with power to employ 
 an agent. The Board of Direction cordially concurred with a pro- 
 posal of the Standing Committee to appoint a Joint Executive Com- 
 mittee, consisting of two members from each body, to accomplish 
 as soon as practicable the object proposed by General Synod. This 
 Joint Committee, of which Mr, James Myers, the President of the 
 Board of Direction, is Chairman, must necessarily report directly to 
 General Synod. To the Standing Committee it has been informally 
 reported by our own members of the Joint Committee, that they 
 have secured the valuable services of the Rev. J. A. H. Cornell, D.D. 
 The first result of his exertions was a gift of $40,000 from a mem- 
 ber of the Collegiate Church in New York. He is prosecuting his 
 work, not without discouragements from adverse influences, but 
 with hope of ultimate success. 
 
 While there were other important interests of the Seminary, to 
 some of which the attention of the Church has been urgently and 
 repeatedly called by General Synod, we have felt that the object for 
 which Dr. Cornell is laboring must first be secured. The time has 
 come, however, to consider the propriety of providing for these 
 other wants of the institution, as an immediate continuation of the 
 effort to pay the debts and complete the endowment. The Commit- 
 tee have reason to hope that through the blessing of God on Dr. 
 Cornell's warm advocacy of the claims of the Seminary and inde- 
 fatigable exertions, this part of the work to which his present com- 
 mission extends will be accomplished, without a general appeal 
 even to the very wealthy members of our Church; and that if Dr. 
 Cornell can be induced to continue this service, under the same Di- 
 vine blessing, the high end proposed by General Synod in institut- 
 ing the Hertzog Hall Committee may be attained, and our Seminary 
 " become equal, in all its provisions, to any other Theological insti- 
 tution in this country." 
 
 We wish to call the special attention of the Board of Superin- 
 tendents to the condition of the property at New Brunswick, which 
 has been inspected under the direction of your Committee. To put 
 the main building in ordinary repair, will require the expenditure of 
 several thousand dollars. A considerable additional amount can be 
 advantageously employed in remedying several great faults in its 
 original erection, and in introducing water. The latter object is in- 
 deed of very great importance to the comfort of the students. 
 Three years 'ago the Synod proposed to raise an amount for repairs 
 to the Hall, but not more than one-third of the sum was obtained, 
 which was soon consumed, either in merely temporary improve- 
 ments, or in those which left the building scarcely less disgraceful to 
 the public eye. 
 
 The Committee also report that the grounds are in a bad condition. 
 The soil needs to be deepened and enriched ; the roads and paths 
 need to be reconstructed, and the trees are dwindling for want of 
 attention. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 549 
 
 The houses, already on the property, need the work which is 
 usual in new buildings, after a year or two of shrinkage and settling, 
 and their finishing coats of paint within and without. Also, a fourth 
 house is needed to complete the number of Professoral residences. 
 
 The Committee need hardly call the attention of the Board of Su- 
 perintendents to the necessity of a liberal provision for the Theo- 
 logical Library, since, two years ago, it was made the subject of an 
 earnest appeal by the Board of Superintendents to the General 
 .Synod, and by the Synod recommended to the Churches. 
 
 In view of the importance of these objects, your Committee have 
 felt that they would be warranted in exercising the authority given 
 in 1857, "to employ an agent or agents in obtaining the necessary 
 amounts ; and they regard it eminently desirable to secure, if possi- 
 ble, the office of the Rev. Dr. Cornell, until the whole sum needed, 
 to supply all the w 7 ants of the Theological Seminary, has been se- 
 cured. But the Committee deem, that if he can be induced to ac- 
 cept the service, he should go forth with all the encouragement and 
 moral support which will result from having received his commis- 
 sion, directly from the General Synod, the highest authority in the 
 Church, rather than as employed by a Committee. 
 
 Your Committee, therefore, desire, through the Board of Super- 
 intendents, respectfully to recommend to the General Synod, by its 
 own act, to appoint Dr. Cornell to continue the work which he has 
 so auspiciously commenced, with such provision for his comfort as 
 its wisdom may suggest. 
 
 The Board of Superintendents desire to express to General Synod 
 their deep conviction that the time has come w r hen every effort 
 ought to be made to obtain at least $200,000, to relieve the Theo- 
 logical Seminary from all the hinderances to its usefulness, specified 
 both in the report of the Theological Professors, and of the Com- 
 mittee on Hertzog Hall, as they are recorded in this paper — in fine 
 to secure for it ample and sufficient endowment that it may afford 
 every opportunity and help for the thorough preparation of our The- 
 ological Students for their high calling, enjoyed by the best semi- 
 naries in our land. We heartily commend and endorse these plans 
 and aims as vital to the growth and prosperity of our beloved 
 Church, 
 
 We also respectfully suggest, from the almost insuperable diffi- 
 culty of convening the Committee on Hertzog Hall, in consequence 
 of the pressure of their business engagements, that it would be good 
 policy to select such laymen as members hereafter as can attend its 
 meetings, in order that the scheme for the endowment of the The- 
 logical Seminary may be brought to a speedy and successful conclu- 
 sion, with the blessing of God, 
 
 JOHN F, MESICK, Chairman, 
 A True Copv, 
 
 P, D, VAN CLEEF, Stated Clerk. 
 
550 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 The following report was received from the Board of Superin- 
 tendents of the Theological Seminary at Holland, and referred to the 
 Committee on the Professorate. 
 
 To the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America : 
 
 The members of the Board of Superintendents of the Theological 
 Seminary, from the Particular Synod of Chicago, met at Holland, 
 Mich., May 19-22. 
 
 The following members were present : 
 
 Rev. E.- Winter, Rev. J. W. Beardslee, 
 
 John Vandermeulen, Jacob Vandermeulen. 
 
 Rev. E. Winter was elected President; Rev. John Vandermeulen, 
 Clerk pro tern. 
 
 The following students have been connected with the Theological 
 classes during the year. 
 
 Senior Class. 
 
 Ale Buursma, Peter Moerdyk, 
 
 Geirit Dangermond, William Moerdyk, 
 
 William B. Gilmore, John W. Te Winkel, 
 
 Harm Woltman. 
 
 Middle Class. 
 
 James De Pree, John Huizinga, 
 
 Eune J. Heeren, Balster Van Ess. 
 
 Junior Class. 
 
 John Broek, William Visscher, 
 
 Gerrit Van de Kreeke. 
 
 The Professor in Theology reported that the behavior of the 
 Theological students had been consistent and their attention to their 
 studies close. "The largest liberty allowed by Synod to her Theo- 
 logical students has been given to the Senior class to preach outside 
 of the Seminary, and such preaching has been well received and 
 much enjoyed by the Churches, but it has too heavily taxed some of 
 these sons of the prophets." 
 
 The Professor and Lectors reported that they had been engaged 
 in the several branches assigned them by Synod. 
 
 Professor Crispell, in Didactic and Polemic Theology ; Dr. Phelps 
 in Sacred Exegesis ; Prof. Beck, in Hebrew and Greek ; Prof. Scott, 
 in Sacred History and Church History. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 551 
 
 Besides these branches assigned to them by Synod, by request of 
 Prof. Oggel, who was prevented by serious and protracted illness 
 from attention to his official duties, Prof, dispell has taught Pastoral 
 Theology and Dr. Phelps Sacred Rhetoric. Prof. Scott, by request 
 of the Board, has acted, temporarily, as Lector in Church Govern- 
 ment. 
 
 The examinations were upon all the branches of study pursued 
 during the year, and were sustained. 
 
 The various classes were interrogated as to their observance of the 
 rule in regard to preaching. No transgression had taken place. 
 
 The Middle and Senior classes presented a sermon. The Senior 
 class gave satisfactory proof of their proficiency in sermonizing and 
 preaching. 
 
 The Board were gratified, to see that the Committee on the Pro- 
 fessorate recommended, last year, to the Synod to establish additional 
 Professorships : 
 
 1. A Professorship of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology. 
 
 2. A Professorship of Exegetical Theology. 
 
 3. A Professorship of Evangelistic Theology. 
 
 Believing that the establishment of these Professorships would 
 largely conduce to the dignity and efficiency of the school, they 
 would recommend to Synod to carry out this plan. 
 
 The Board have recommended the students of the Senior class 
 for their Professorial certificates. Thev, however, regret that this 
 first theological class, which leaves the school of the Church at the 
 West, does so while questions relating to the vital interests of the 
 school are still pending and awaiting the decision of General Synod. 
 Still, the Board felt it their duty to go forward according to the 
 usual order. We cannot close this report without recommending to 
 General Synod, that, whereas the West is unanimously in favor of 
 the University plan new before Synod ; and the Board, aiso, are 
 convinced that the interests of the Church in the West, and of the 
 school, urgently demand a speedy and final settlement of this ques- 
 tion, the General Synod accede to this unanimous request of the 
 AVestern Classes. 
 
 EGBERT WINTER, President. 
 A true copy. 
 
 JACOB VANDERMEULEN. 
 Holland, May 21st, 1869. 
 
 A communication was received from the Classis of Bergen in ref- 
 erence to assessment?, which was referred to the Committee on the 
 Board of Direction. 
 
 Communications were received from the Classes of Holland and 
 
552 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 Wisconsin in reference to Freemasonry, which were referred to the 
 Committee on Overtures. 
 
 A communication was received from the Classis of Wisconsin in 
 reference to the support of Disabled Ministers, which was referred to 
 the Committee on the Widows' and Disabled Ministers' Funds. 
 
 A communication was received from the Classis of Holland in 
 reference to the Theological school at Hope College, which was re- 
 ferred to the Committee on the Professorate. 
 
 A communication was received from thcClassis of New York, 
 asking for a Dispensation to license Wm. L. Johnson, which was 
 referred to the Committee on Overtures. 
 
 A communication was received from the North Classis of Long 
 Island, asking leave to license Wm. Ferris, which was referred to the 
 Committee on Overtures. 
 
 A communication was received from the South Classis of Long 
 Island in regard to a change in the Statistical Tables, which was 
 referred to the Committee on Overtures. 
 
 A communication was received from the Classis of New Bruns- 
 wick in reference to the holding of stock in certain companies, which 
 was referred to the Committees on Overtures. 
 
 A communication was received from the members of the Senior 
 class in the Theological school at Hope College, which was referred 
 to the Committee on the Professorate. 
 
 A communication was received from the Rev. Prof. John DeWitt, 
 as Chairman of the Committee on Peter Hertzog Hall, and referred 
 to the Committee on the Professorate. 
 
 A communication was received from Rev. Prof, C. E. dispell, 
 which was referred to the Committee on the Professorate, 
 
 A communication was received from the Synod of the Secession 
 Church in Holland, which was referred to the Committee on Corres- 
 pondence, 
 
 An invitation to visit the United States Mint was received and 
 accepted with thanks, 
 
 An invitation was received from the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation to the lecture of Dr. Lees on the evening of the sixth day of 
 thf Session, which was declined, with regrets that the engagements 
 of Syu ~>d will not allow its acceptance. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 553 
 
 An invitation was received to visit the Forty-sixth Annual Exhi- 
 bition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which was 
 accepted with thanks to the Board of Directors. 
 
 An invitation was received to visit the Navy Yard, which was ac- 
 cepted with the thanks of the Synod. 
 
 A communication on systematic benevolence was received from 
 the South Classis of Long Island and referred to a special commit- 
 tee, consisting of Rev. J. Forsyth, Z, Eddy, Cornelius Van Cleef, and 
 Elders Peter Monteith and S, R. W. Heath, to report at the next 
 Stated Session. 
 
 A communication was received from Profs. Woodbridge, DeWitt 
 and Demarest, which was referred to the Committee on the Board 
 of Direction. 
 
 An invitation to visit the rooms of the Union League was re- 
 ceived and accepted, with the thanks of the Synod. 
 
 An invitation to visit the rooms of the Academy of Natural 
 Sciences was accepted, with the thanks of the Synod, 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 BOARD OF CORPORATION, 
 
 The following Report of the Board of Direction of the Corporation 
 was received, accompanied with the Annual Digest, the Treasurer's 
 Annual Account, List of Securities belonging to the General Synod, 
 Widows' Fund Account, Widows' Fund Income Account, Hope 
 College Income Account, Hope College Endowment Fund Account, 
 List of Endowed Scholarships, Education Fund Income Account, 
 Disabled Ministers' Fund Acconnt, Expense Account, Estimate of 
 Amount to meet deficiency in Revenue and Van Benschoten Fund 
 Account, 
 
 To the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America. : 
 
 The Board of Direction of General Synod beg leave to report, that 
 there have been received during the year the following bequests : 
 
 From the Executor of Mrs, Fanny Jewett, deceased, the sum of 
 $1,000, less the United States Internal Revenue Tax of $60, be- 
 queathed by her to the Board of Education of the Reformed Pro- 
 testant Dutch Church in America; and the sum of $1,000, less the 
 
 40 
 
554 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 United States Internal Revenue Tax of 860, bequeathed by her to 
 the Board of Domestic Missions of said Church. 
 
 From the Executors of Rachel Berry, deceased, the sum of $1,000, 
 less the United States Internal Revenue Tax of $60, bequeathed by 
 her for the maintenance and support of the Foreign Missions of the 
 Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 
 
 From the Executors of Mrs. Maria R, LefFerts, deceased, the sum 
 of $2,095, less United States Internal Revenue Tax of 8125 70, be- 
 queathed by her for the support and education of young men for the 
 Gospel Ministry; and the sum of 8209 50, less the United States 
 Internal Revenue Tax of 812 57, for the support of Western Mis- 
 sions of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, and 8209 50, less 
 the United States Internal Revenue Tax of 812 57, for the support 
 of Foreign Missions of said Church, 
 
 From the Executors of Mrs. Ann Hertzog, deceased, the sum of 
 810,000, bequeathed by her, to be applied to the keeping and main- 
 taining, in good order and repair, the Peter Hertzog Theological 
 Hall, located at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Also, $1,060 for in- 
 terest thereon. 
 
 From the Executors of Lucas J. Voorhis, deceased, the sum of 
 $1,000, bequeathed by him to be applied for the maintenance and 
 support of the Foreign Missionaries of the Reformed Protestant 
 Dutch Church, 
 
 Your Board would report that they have received from Samuel 
 B. Schieflfelin, Esq,, a donation of 83,000, for the Parochial School 
 Fund, and that the Fund has been further enlarged by the appor- 
 tionment of twenty-eight shares of the increased capital stock of the 
 Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 
 
 Your Board would report, that the amount received to the first of 
 May last, on account of the assessment of $20,000 made by General 
 Synod in June, 1864, for the purpose of increasing the Permanent 
 Fund of Synod, is $16,417 41, 
 
 Hope College Endowment Fund, — There has been received fortius 
 fund, during the year, in cash and promissory notes, the sum of 
 $2,8 '4 63 ; and there has been paid from the fund, to the Treasurer 
 of Hope College,. in cash and promissory notes, the sum' of $253, on 
 account of the donation of 830,000 made by General Synod to said 
 College. The total amount paid on account of the said donation, 
 up to^the 1st of May, is $29,405 86. 
 
 Widows' Fund, — This Fund amounts to $29,192 19. Two an- 
 nual subscribers have withdrawn from the fund the proportion of the 
 amount of their former subscriptions, to which they were entitled 
 under the rule for the government of the fund. 
 
 The collections from Churches during the past year amount to 
 $1,336 39, 
 
JUNE, 1869. 555 
 
 Annuities have been paid from the fund, for the six months end- 
 ing May 1st and November 1st, 1868, amounting in the aggregate 
 to $1,257 50. 
 
 Your Board report, that James Suydam tendered his resignation 
 as a member of the Board, which was accepted ; and Abm, J, Beek- 
 man was elected a member of the Board to fill the vacancy. 
 
 In accordance with instructions of General Synod, the Board have 
 cancelled the Bond of the Rev, N, E, Smith, amounting to $40,000, 
 
 On the suggestion of their counsel, L. K- Miller, Esq., that as an 
 application was before the Legislature of our State, for some necessary 
 legislation relating to the name of our Church, it would be a fitting 
 time to obtain, if possible, an enlargement of the amount of funds 
 which the Church is allowed bv law to hold. Your Board made 
 arrangements to procure an amendment of the Act of Incorporation 
 of General Synod to meet this object; and they are happy to be 
 able to report, that such an amendment has been obtained, of which 
 the following is a copy : 
 
 "Chapter 171 
 
 An Act 
 
 To amend "An Act to incorporate the General Synod of the Re- 
 formed Dutch Church :" passed April seventh, eighteen hundred 
 and nineteeu ; and to enable said Synod to hold property to a 
 greater amount, Passed April 14th, 1869, 
 
 " The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
 Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1, It shall be lawful for the General Synod of the Re- 
 formed Protestant Dutch Church, to take and hold by gift, grant, 
 devise or otherwise, hereafter made, and by purchase hereafter 
 made, to hold and convey any estate, real or personal, provided that 
 the clear annual value or income of such estate shall not exceed the 
 sum of Fifteen Thousand dollars, exclusive of such Professorships 
 and Scholarships, for the purposes of theological education, as may 
 be from time to time endowed; but the right herein granted, to 
 take and hold real or personal estate by bequest or devise, shall be 
 subject to all provisions of law in relation to devises and bequests by 
 last will and testament. Nothing herein contained is to be construed 
 to apply to any question, matter, thing involved or at issue in any 
 action now pending in any Court in which said Synod is a party, or 
 to any action or proceeding which may hereafter be commenced 
 against, or by, or on behalf of said Synod, or in which said Synod 
 shall be a party and which shall not relate to property granted, 
 bequeathed or devised to or acquired by said Synod subsequent to 
 the passage of this act. 
 
 Section - 2, This act shall take effect immediately," 
 
 Your Board would also state that in accordance with the Resolu- 
 
556 
 
 JUNE, 1869 
 
 tion of General Synod at their last meeting, requesting them to co- 
 operate with the Committee on Hertzog Hall, in an endeavor to 
 raise 8100,000 by subscription, for completing the endowment of 
 the Professoral Fund, and the payment of the debt of Synod, ac- 
 tion has been taken by them, and the services of the Rev. James A, 
 H, Cornell, D,D., have been secured for this purpose, and that he is 
 now engaged in the work which will be prosecuted with all dili- 
 gence, 
 
 Synod will please notice that the Treasurer of your Board is 
 again in advance for salaries and contingent expenses. 
 
 The following Classes were in arrears for Contingent Expenses on 
 the 1st in st. 
 
 South Classis of New York $101 
 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 
 s of Monmouth. . . 
 
 s of Pararaus 
 
 s of •■aritan 
 
 s of West Chester. 
 
 s of Albany 
 
 s of Geneva 
 
 s of Montgomery. 
 
 s of Orange 
 
 s of Saratoga 
 
 27 
 
 20 
 
 294 
 
 
 85 
 
 
 32 
 
 
 158 
 
 76 
 
 17 
 
 87 
 
 13 
 
 75 
 
 66 
 
 
 209 
 
 94 
 
 $1,005 52 
 
 The following Classes were in arrears on the 1st inst- for assess- 
 ment to increase the Permanent Fund of General Synod by the sum 
 of $20,000, viz : 
 
 South Classis of Bergen $1,066 
 
 South Classis of New York , 
 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 Class 
 
 s of Bergen 
 
 of Paramus. 
 s of Philadelphia 
 
 s of Albany 
 
 s of Greene 
 
 s of Montgomery, 
 s of .Rensselaer. . , 
 s of Saratoga . . . 
 
 of Schenectadv , 
 
 499 
 
 95 
 
 551 
 
 11 
 
 297 
 
 80 
 
 144 
 
 61 
 
 33 
 
 74 
 
 133 
 
 08 
 
 214 
 
 30 
 
 540 
 
 59 
 
 70 
 
 29 
 
 30 
 
 62 
 
 5,582 09 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 JAMES MYERS, President. 
 M, S, HUTTON, ) 
 
 J AS, A, WILLIAMSON, [Directors. 
 ABR'M J, BEEKxMAN, ) 
 JOHN I, BROWER, Treasurer. 
 New York, May 29, 1869. 
 
 / 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 557 
 
 Hbxwwcrf# Annual ^mmt 
 
 >+~^ 
 
 The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, in account 
 ivith John I. Brower, Treasurer. 
 
 1868. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 May 16 
 
 June 5 
 
 5 
 
 June 8 
 
 25 
 
 50 
 
 May 16 To Cash paid the following persons for annuity from 
 
 the Widows' Fund for the six months ending 
 1st in st., viz: 
 
 Mrs. Rosina Stillwell, $11 
 
 " Annie M. Heyer 15 
 
 " Maria Rudy , 22 
 
 " Maria Lansing 30 
 
 " Lydia M. W. Slujter 30 
 
 " Catharine E. Van Wagenen 30 
 
 " Harriet V. V. Mabon 30 
 
 " Esther S. Winfield 30 
 
 " Caroline Hoff 30 
 
 '• Esther Hammond 30 
 
 " Jane Harlow 30 
 
 " M. A. Bassler 30 
 
 " Maria H. Van Dyck 30 
 
 " Elizabeth T. On rrie 30 
 
 Rev. R. W. Knight 30 
 
 John F. Ward, Guardian for John Scott, 
 a minor child of the late Rev. James 
 Scott, D.D 11 
 
 25 
 
 paid Rev. Isaac j~N\ Wyckoff, D.D., the pro- 
 portion of annual payments heretofore made 
 by him into the Widows' Fund, to which he 
 was entitled, under the rules for the govern- 
 ment of the fund 
 
 paid Rev. Thomas B. Gregory, amount of ap- 
 priation from the Disabled Ministers' Fund, 
 for three months from May 1st 
 
 paid Board Education, per F. J. Hos- 
 ford, Treasurer, for six months' interest 
 to May 1st, on amount of invested 
 scholarships 2,472 
 
 for interest on Hope College endow- 
 ment Fund to May 1st, 1868 1,113 
 
 03 
 
 36 
 
 paid from the Disabled Fund, the following ap- 
 prop i iations : 
 
 Rev. A. C. Hiliman, $50 
 
 Nanning Bogardus 100 
 
 R. W. Knight 50 
 
 Mrs. Mary T. Searle 100 
 
 Amount^carried forward. 
 
 420 
 
 405 
 
 50 
 
 3,585 39 
 
 300 
 
 $4,760 39 
 
558 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 1868. 
 
 June 8 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 18 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 To Cash paid the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co., the 
 following installments on 28 shares of the in- 
 creased Capital Stock, apportioned to the 
 General Synod for Parochial School Fund : 
 Installment of $20 per share, June 8 .560 
 
 <( 
 
 10 
 10 
 10 
 10 
 
 July 9. 
 Aug. 6. 
 Sept. 9. 
 Oct. 6. 
 
 .280 
 .280 
 .280 
 .280 
 
 paid for Insurance on the Peter Hertzog Theo 
 logical Hall for one year from this date, as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 "Washington Insurance Co., on $5,000 37 50 
 
 Manhattan " «' 5,000 37 50 
 
 New Brunswick " " 5,000 37 50 
 
 Greenwich " " 5,000..... 37 50 
 
 $4,760 39 
 
 paid for traveling expenses of Delegates in at- 
 tending the meeting of General Synod this 
 month, viz: 
 
 Rev. I. Collier, from Classis of Michigan 
 
 Rev. W. I. Skillman, 
 
 Elder M. A. Marinus, 
 Rev. A. V. Gulick, 
 Rev. M. L. Schenck, 
 Elder Simon Wyckoff, 
 Rev. A. C. Van Raalte, 
 Rev. Jacob Vandermeulen, 
 Rev. John Vandermeulen, 
 Rev. J. H. Karsten, 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 .28 
 
 .28 
 
 .28 
 
 .36 
 
 " ..36 
 
 ..36 
 
 Holland.. 2 8 
 
 " ..28 
 
 Wisconsin. .32 
 
 " ..32 
 
 paid the following Professors in the Theological 
 Seminary at New Brunswick, for one quarter's 
 salary, due 1st inst., viz: 
 
 Rev. JohnDeWitt, D.D 625 
 
 Rev. David D. Demarest, D.D 625 
 
 Rev. Samuel Woodbridge, D.D 625 
 
 Joseph F. Berg, D.D 625 
 
 " " for one-quarter's allow- 
 ance for house rent 125 
 
 paid Rev. D. D. Demarest, D.D., as follows : 
 for one year's salary to 1st inst., as Stated 
 Clerk of General Synod 150 
 
 for traveling expenses to Synod $12 50, 
 postage, $3 50 16 
 
 for stationary, $25 ; printing, $27 ; tele- 
 grams, $10 16, for General Synod 62 
 
 16 
 
 Carried forward. 
 
 1,680 
 
 150 
 
 312 
 
 2.625 
 
 228 16 
 
 $9,755 55 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 559 
 
 1868. 
 
 June 19 
 
 20 
 
 22 
 
 SO 
 
 July 
 
 Aug. 
 
 28 
 
 28 
 
 1 
 15 
 
 19 
 
 S«pt 11 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 To Cash paid John C. Howser, per Miller, Peet and 
 Opdyke, $3,000, amount loaned on his Bond 
 
 and Mortgage 
 
 paid Rev. P. D. Van Cleef, D.D.. for one 
 year's salary to 1st inst., as Stated Clerk 
 
 of the Board of Superintendents 25 
 
 for expenses of the Board 1 75 
 
 paid Hosford & Sons, for Demy Minute Book 
 for General Synod 
 
 paid Rev. John Steele, for traveling expenses in 
 attending the meeting of the Synod of the Re- 
 formed Presbyterian Church in North Ameri- 
 ca, as Corresponding Delegate 
 
 paid North River Insurance Co., for insurance 
 on the three Professoral Buildings at New 
 Brunswick, N. J., for one yearfrom this date. . 
 
 paid Rev. Win, H. Phraner, for traveling ex- 
 penses in attending the meeting of General 
 Synod, to present the report of Committee on 
 Finances 
 
 paid Board of Education, per F. J. Hosford, 
 Treasurer, amount of bequest of Mrs. Fanny 
 Jewett, deceased, $1,000. less the United 
 States Internal Revenue Tax of $60 
 
 paid Board Domestic Missions, per John R. 
 Smith, Treasurer, amount of bequest of Mrs. 
 Fanny Jewett, deceased, $1,000, les- the 
 United States Internal Revenue Tax of $60. . . 
 
 paid Rev. Thomas B. Gregory, amount of appro- 
 priation from the Disabled Ministers' Fund, for 
 the three months commencing this date 
 
 paid Rev. P. Peltz, D.D., for traveling expenses 
 in attending the meeting of the General As- 
 sembly of the United Presbyterian Church, as 
 Corresponding Delegate 
 
 paid North River Insurance Co., for insurance 
 on the furniture and library in the Peter 
 Hertzog Theological Hall, for one year from 
 20th inst 
 
 paid the following Professors in the Theological 
 Seminary at 2s ew Brunswick, for one quarter's 
 salary, due 1st inst: 
 
 Rev. John DeWitt, D.D 625 
 
 David D. Demarest, D.D 625 
 
 Samuel M. Woodbridge, D.D 625 
 
 Joseph F. Berg, D.D 625 
 
 " " for one quarter's al- 
 lowance for house rent 125 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 $9,156 55 
 
 3,000 
 
 26 75 
 14 
 
 30 
 90 
 
 10 
 
 940- 
 
 940 
 50 
 
 8 62 
 
 45 
 
 2,625 
 $17,534 92 
 
560 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 1868. 
 
 Sept. 15 
 
 21 
 25 
 25 
 
 25 
 Oct. 5 
 
 10 
 Nov. 2 
 
 17 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Amount brought forward 
 
 To Cash paid Board of Education, per F. J. Hosford, 
 Treasurer, for six months' dividend on fifty- 
 six shares of the Stock of the Delaware and 
 
 Hudson Canal Company 
 
 paid Board of For. Missions, per G. G. Smith, 
 Treasurer, amount of Legacy of Rachel Ber- 
 ry, deceased, $1,000, less U. S. Internal Reve- 
 nue Tax of $60 
 
 paid Board of Domestic Missions, per John R. 
 Smith, Treasurer, amount received from estate 
 of Maria R. Lefferts, deceased, $209 50, less 
 
 U. S. Internal Revenue Tax of $12 57 
 
 paid Board of Foreign Missions, per G. G. Smith, 
 Treasurer, amount received from estate of Ma- 
 ria R. Lefferts, deceased, $209 50, less U. S. 
 
 Internal Revenue Tax of $12 57 
 
 paid Home Insurance Co. for insurance on build- 
 ings connected with Hope College, Michigan, 
 
 for one year from this date 
 
 paid Rev. A. C. Hillman, balance of appropria- 
 tion of $100 from the Disabled Ministers' Fund 
 for the year commencing April 1st, 1868. . . . 
 paid Rev. P. J. Ogge), Treasurer Hope College, 
 on account of the $30,000 donated by Gen- 
 eral Synod to said College 
 
 paid Rev. Thos. B. Gregory, amount of appro- 
 priation from the Disabled Ministers' Fund, for 
 
 three months from 1st inst 
 
 paid the following persons for annuity 
 from the Widows' Fund, for the six 
 months ending 1st inst., viz: 
 
 Mrs. Rosina Stillwell $21 75 
 
 Annie M. Heyer 29 
 
 Maria Rudy 43 
 
 Maria Lan^in^ 25 50 
 
 Lydia M. W. Sluyt.er 58 
 
 Cathat ine E. Van Wagenen 58 
 
 Harriet V. V. Mabon 58 
 
 Esther S. Winfield 58 
 
 Caroline Hoff 58 
 
 Esther Hammond 58 
 
 Jane Harlow 58 
 
 M. A. Bassler 58 
 
 Maria 11. Van Dyck 58 
 
 Elizabeth T. Currie 58 
 
 Eliza C. Lyall 58 
 
 Rev. R. W. Knight 58 
 
 John F. Ward, M.D., guardian for John 
 Scott, a minor child of the late Rev. 
 James Scott, D.D 21 75 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 $17,534 92 
 336 
 940 
 196 93 
 
 196 93 
 18 50 
 50 
 
 243 
 50 
 
 837 50 
 $20,403 78 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 561 
 
 1868. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 JO To Cash paid Board of Education, per F. J. Hosford, 
 Treasurer, for six months' interest to 1st inst. 
 of amount of invested Scholarships. .$2,100 
 paid for six months' interest to 1st inst., 
 
 on Hope College Endowment Fund. 375 
 
 Dec. 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 26 
 1869. 
 Jan'y 22 
 
 27 
 
 paid Rev. A. R. Thompson, D.D., for traveling 
 expenses in attending the meeting of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, as 
 Corresponding Delegate 
 
 paid the following expenses in attending 
 the inauguration of Rev. Professor 
 Crispell, at Holland, Mich, in Sept. last : 
 
 Rev. James Demarest $20 
 
 David D. Demarest, D.D 76 35 
 
 paid Rev. Joseph F. Berg, D.D., Treasurer, 
 for one year's salary of the Janitor of 
 the Peter Hertzog Theological Hall, to 
 
 Oct. 16, 1868 $100 
 
 for fuel for the same time 20 
 
 paid the following Professors in the Theo- 
 logical Seminary for one-quarter's sal- 
 ary due 1st inst, viz: 
 
 Rev. John De Witt, D.D $625 
 
 David Demarest, D.D 625 
 
 Samuel M. Woodbridge, D.D 625 
 
 Joseph F. Berg, D.D 625 
 
 " " one quarter's al- 
 lowance for house rent 125 
 
 paid Mary Anna May (invalid daughter of the 
 late Rev. E. H. May), per Rev. H. D. Ganse, 
 amount of appropriation from the Disabled 
 Ministers' Fund, for the year commencing 
 June 1st, 1868 
 
 paid Rev. N. J. Marselus, D. D., amount of ap- 
 propriation from the Disabled Ministers' Fund, 
 for the year commencing Nov. 1st, 1868 
 
 paid Marshall S". Bid well, Esq., per L. K. Miller, 
 Esq., for retaining fee in the Laing Will case. 
 
 paid Rev. Charles H. Stitt, for traveling ex- 
 penses in attending the meeting of the Synod 
 of the German Reformed Church, as Corres- 
 ponding Delegate 
 
 paid for $5,200, in U. S. 5-20 Registered Bonds, 
 for Parochial School Fund, five thousand, six 
 hundred and sixty-eight dollars 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 $20,403 78 
 
 2,475 
 
 6 58 
 
 96 35 
 
 120 
 
 2,625 
 
 200 
 
 200 
 250 
 
 27 
 
 5,668 
 $32,071 71 
 
562 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 1869. 
 
 Feb'y 1 
 
 26 
 
 March 1 
 
 3 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 April 16 
 
 21 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 To Cash paid Rev. Thomas B. Gregory, balance of ap- 
 propriation of $200 from the Disabled Minis- 
 ters' Fund, for the year commencing May 1st, 
 
 1868 
 
 paid Board of Education, per F. J. Hos- 
 ford, Treasurer, six months' dividend 
 on fifty shares of the Stock of the Del- 
 aware and Hudson Canal Company.. .$250 
 for balance of proceeds of tbe sale of l 
 34 shares of the Stock of said Co 57 43 
 
 paid the following Professors in the Theo- 
 logical Seminary, for one quarter's 
 salary, due this day, viz : 
 
 Rev. JohnDeWitt, D.D $625 
 
 David D. Demarest, D.D 625 
 
 Samuel M. Woodbridge, D.D 625 
 
 Joseph F. Berg, D.D 625 
 
 " " one quarter's allow- 
 ance for house rent 125 
 
 paid Henry M. Wynkoop for printing memo- 
 rial of General Synod, in reference to amend- 
 ing its corporate Title 
 
 paid the following Professors in the Theo- 
 logical Seminary, amount of donation 
 from Samuel B. Schieffelin, viz : 
 
 Rev. John De Witt, D.D 
 
 David D. Demarest, D. D 50 
 
 Samuel M. Woodbridge, D.D 60 
 
 Joseph F. Berg, D.D 50 
 
 $32,0*71 71 
 
 50 
 
 paid John A. Lansing, D.D., the proportion of 
 annual payments heretofore made by him into 
 the Widows' Fund, to which he was entitled, 
 under the rules for the government of the 
 fund 
 
 paid the Home Insurance Co., for insurance on 
 Hope College, Michigan, for one year from 
 14th inst 
 
 paid the New Brunswick Insurance Co., for in- 
 surance on the three Profeseoral buildings at 
 New Brunswick, for one year from 18th inst. 
 
 paid for expenses incurred by the committee ap- 
 pointed by the Board of Direction, for the 
 purpose of procuring an amendment to the 
 Act of Incorporation of General Synod, pass- 
 ed in the year 1819, in relation to enlarge- 
 ment of the amount of funds which the 
 Church is allowed to hold 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 307 43 
 
 2,615 
 
 10 
 
 200 
 
 195 
 
 93 75 
 
 67 50 
 
 150 
 
 $35,770 3y 
 
r 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 563 
 
 1869. 
 
 May 
 
 1869. 
 
 May 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 To Cash paid Board of Foreign Missions, per G. G. 
 Smith, Treasurer, $1,000, amount of bequest 
 of Lucas J. Voorhis, deceased 
 
 paid John C. Elmendorf, Esq., Treasurer of Rut- 
 gers College, for one year's interest on the 
 Henry Rutgers donation of $5,000 
 
 paid John I. Brower, as follows, viz : 
 
 for one year's salary to 1st inst., as 
 Treasurer of General Synod 1,000 
 
 for postage, stationery, and discount on 
 
 uncurrent funds 41 12 
 
 This amount apportioned to the following Funds, as per 
 resolution of General Synod, viz: 
 
 Permanent Professoral Fund 524 83 
 
 Education " 216 33 
 
 Widows' " 256 18 
 
 Permanent Contingent " 4 48 
 
 Hope College Endowment " 39 30 
 
 $1,041 12 
 
 To Cash Deposited in the United States Trust Co., 
 Fifteen Thousand Dollars 
 
 To balance on hand carried to new account 
 
 $35,r70 39 
 
 1,000 
 
 300 
 
 1,041 12 
 
 15,000 
 
 $53,111 51 
 12,111 88 
 
 $65,223 39 
 
064 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 1868, 
 
 May 1 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 23 
 
 June 1 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 12 
 
 26 
 
 July 2 
 
 14 
 
 Or. 
 
 By Balance from last account 
 
 By Cash received for six months' interest to April 30th, 
 on bond of $6,000 
 
 for six months' interest to April 29, on bond of 
 $1 5,000 
 
 for six months' interest to this date, on bond of 
 $5,000 
 
 for twelve months' interest to this date, on sub- 
 scription of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch 
 Church of $5,000, to the Permanent Fund of 
 General Synod 
 
 for six months' interest to this date, on United 
 States 5-20 Registered bond of $10,000, and 
 gold premium thereon 
 
 for six months' interest to this date, on United 
 States 5-20 Coupon bond of $100, and gold pre- 
 mium thereon 
 
 for six months' interest to April 28th, on bond of 
 $6,500 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on bond of 
 $5,000 
 
 for six months' interest to 19th inst., on bond of 
 $20,000. 
 
 for six months' interest to this date, on bond of 
 $20,000 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on bond of 
 $7,500 
 
 for 12 months' interest to 1st inst., on note of 
 Rev. Wm. J. R. Taylor, of $250 
 
 for six months' interest to 6th inst., on bond of 
 $2,500 
 
 for six months' interest to 9th inst., on bond of 
 $12.000 , 
 
 from the following persons, for one year's inter 
 est to May 1st, 1868, on their subscriptions to 
 the Permanent Fund of General Synod: 
 
 Estate of Cornelius Duryee, per George 
 W. Jewett, Executor 15 
 
 David W. Wetmore 30 
 
 Samuel Smith, Esq 15 
 
 Thomas C. Doremus 30 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on $25,300 
 United States 5-20 Registered bond, and gold 
 premium thereon 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on $4,500 
 United States Coupon bonds, "1881," and gold 
 premium thereon 
 
 from Thomas C. Doremus, on account of his sub- 
 scription of $500 to the Permanent Fund of 
 General S} T nod 
 
 Carried forward. 
 
 .3,392 10 
 210 
 450 
 150 
 
 417 37 
 
 4 18 
 
 227 50 
 
 150 
 
 600 
 
 600 
 
 225 
 
 17 50 
 
 87 50 
 
 420 
 
 90 
 
 
 1,065 
 
 44 
 
 189 
 
 67 
 
 100 
 
 
 $18,696 
 
 26 
 
JUNE, 18G9. 
 
 565 
 
 1868. 
 
 July 21 
 21 
 
 Aug. 
 
 6 
 6 
 
 21 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 12 
 
 Cr. 
 
 for five months, twenty-two days' interest on 
 bond of $6,000 , 
 
 for six months' interest on bond of $4,000 
 
 5.000 
 
 for six months' dividend on fifty-six ehares of the 
 stock of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 
 
 for six months' interest to 14th inst., on bond of 
 $7,000 , 
 
 from Executors of Estate of Rachel Berry, de- 
 ceased, $1,000, less United States Internal' 
 Revenue Tax of §60, being amount of bequest 
 to be applied for the maintenance and support, 
 of the Foreign Missions of the Reformed Prot-i 
 estant Dutch Church 
 
 for six months' interest to May 1st., on §5,000, 
 balance of bond 
 
 from Samuel B. Schieffelin, for the Parochial 
 School Fund 
 
 for six months' interest to Oct. 1, on bond of 
 17,000 
 
 for interest on bond of $3,000 
 
 from Executors of estate of 
 Maria R. Lefferts, dec'd, 
 for the Maria R. Lefferts' 
 
 Fund $2,095 
 
 less U. S. Internal Reve- 
 nue tax 125 70 
 
 $1,969 30 
 
 for the support of "Wescern 
 
 Missions $209 50 
 
 less U. S. Internal Rev. tax. 12 57 
 
 for the support of Foreign 
 
 Missions .$209 50 
 
 less U. S. Internal Rev. tax. 12 57 
 
 $196 93 
 
 $196 93 
 
 Carried forward, 
 
 525 
 
 Brought forward $18,696 26 
 
 for six months' interest to 18th inst., on bond of 
 $16,000 
 
 from James H. Swift, Executor of the Estate of 
 Fanny Jewett, deceased, as follows ; 
 
 amount of bequest to the Board of Education of 
 the Reformed Prot. Dutch Church, $1,000 
 less U. S. Internal Revenue Tax of $60 940 
 
 amount of bequest to the Board of Do- 
 mestic Missions of the Reformed Pro- 
 testant Dutch Church, 1,000, less U. S. 
 Internal Revenue Tax of $60 940 
 
 1,880 
 
 202 
 120 
 150 
 
 336 
 
 245 
 
 98 
 
 940 
 
 175 
 
 3,000 
 
 245 
 58 
 
 91 
 
 2,363 16 
 
 $28,937 31 
 
666 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 1868. 
 
 Sept. 12 
 
 Or. 
 
 12 
 
 25 
 
 Oct 10 
 
 10 
 14 
 
 15 
 
 19 
 
 23 
 
 30 
 
 31 
 
 Nov. 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 from Mrs. E. S. Labagh, per Rev. ¥m, H. Camp- 
 bell, D.D., $100, on account of the amount 
 loaned by the Board of Direction to the Com- 
 mittee on the Hertzog Theological Hall, for 
 the purpose of finishing the Professoral build- 
 ing occupied by Professor David D. Dema- 
 rest, D.D 
 
 for six months' interest to this date, on bond of 
 $3,200 ' 
 
 from the Board of Domestic Misions. . . .$66 67 
 
 from Board of Foreign Missions 66 67 
 
 being proportion of expenses incurred 
 in the matter of the Probate of the Will 
 of Mrs Maria R. Lefferts, deceased 
 
 for Endowment Fund of Hope College, 
 per Rev. P.J. Oggel $118 
 
 per Rev. P. Phelps , ... 125 
 
 $28,937 81 
 
 for interest on two bonds of $500 each 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on two bonds 
 amounting to $16,000 
 
 for six months' interest to the 16th inst., on 
 $4,000, babmce ot bond 
 
 for six months' interest to 20th inst., on bond 
 of $7,000 
 
 for six months' interest to 22d inst., on two 
 bonds amounting to $5,250 
 
 for six months' interest to 27th inst, on bond of 
 $2,800 
 
 for six months' interest to 21st inst., on bond of 
 $5,000 
 
 for proceeds of the sale of 25 shares of 
 the Stock of the Delaware and Hud- 
 son Canal Co $3,240 30 
 
 for proceeds of the sale of 9 shares of 
 
 the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 1,165 13 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst.. on $5,000, 
 
 balance of bond 
 
 for six months' interest to Oct. 30th, on bond of 
 
 $6,000 
 
 for six months' interest to Oct. 28th, on bond of 
 
 $6,500 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on bond of 
 
 $5,000 
 
 for six months' interest to Oct. 29, on bond of 
 
 $15.000 
 
 for six months' interest to Nov. 1, on bond of 
 
 000 
 
 for six months' interest to Nov. 19, on bond of 
 
 $20,000 
 
 Curried forward. 
 
 100 
 112 
 
 133 34 
 
 243 
 
 50 
 
 560 
 140 
 245 
 183 75 
 84 
 150 
 
 4,405 
 
 43 
 
 175 
 
 
 210 
 
 
 227 
 
 50 
 
 175 
 
 
 450 
 
 
 150 
 
 
 600 
 
 
 
 33 
 
JUNE, 18G9. 
 
 56f 
 
 1868. 
 
 14 
 
 Deo. 
 
 1 
 
 
 3 
 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 1869. 
 
 Jan'y 7 
 
 
 19 
 
 
 20 
 
 27 
 Feb'y 4 
 
 March 4 
 12 
 16 
 
 March 25 
 
 April 3 
 10 
 14 
 16 
 
 Cr. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst. on United 
 States 5-20 Kegistered bond of $10,000, and 
 gold premium thereon 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on United 
 States 5-20 Coupon bond of $100, and gold 
 premium thereon 
 
 for six months' interest to thia date, on bond of 
 ( $20,000 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on bond of 
 $7,500 % 
 
 for six months' interest to 9th inst,, on bond of 
 $12,000 
 
 for - , six months' interest to 6th inst, on bond of 
 $2,500 
 
 for six months' interest to 28th inst., on bond of 
 $6,000 _ 
 
 for six months' interest to 18th inst., on bond of 
 $15.000 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on $25,300, 
 United States 5-20 Kegistered bonds, and gold 
 premium thereon 
 
 for six months' interest to the 1st inst., on $4,500, 
 United States Coupon bonds " 1881," and 
 gold premium thereon 
 
 for interest on the Parochial School Fund 
 
 for six months' dividend on 50 shares of the 
 Stock of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 
 
 for six months' interest to February 14th, on 
 bond of $7,000 
 
 for six months' interest to this date, on bond of 
 $3,200 , 
 
 from Samuel B. Schieffelin, donation for the 
 Theological Professors at New Brunswick. . . . 
 
 received from Mahlon D. Livensetter and W. 
 Burton Carver, executors of the estate of Mrs. 
 Ann Hertzog, deceased, Ten Thousand Dollars, 
 amount of Legacy to be applied to the keep- 
 ing and maintaining in good order and repair, 
 the Peter Hertzog Theological Hall, located 
 at New Brunswick, New Jersey,. .$10,000 
 
 interest thereon 1,060 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst, on two bonds, 
 
 amounting to $10,000 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst, on two b mds, 
 
 amounting to $16,000 
 
 for six months' interest to 16th inst, on $4,000, 
 
 balance of bond 
 
 for six months' interest to 27th inst, on bond of 
 
 $2,800 
 
 Carried forward. 
 
 ,831 
 
 33 
 
 404 
 
 25 
 
 4 04 
 
 600 
 
 
 225 
 
 
 420 
 
 
 87 
 
 50 
 
 210 
 
 
 525 
 
 
 1,028 44 
 
 182 93 
 64 03 
 
 250 
 
 245 
 
 112 
 
 200 
 
 11,060 
 350* 
 560 
 140 
 
 84 
 
 $54,073 52 
 

 568 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 1869. 
 
 April 19 
 
 22 
 
 24 
 
 May 
 
 Cr. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 for six months' interest to 20th inst., on bond of 
 
 $7,000 
 
 for six months' interest to 21st inst., on bond of 
 
 $5,000 
 
 for six months' interest to 22d inst., on two bonds, 
 
 amounting to $5.250 
 
 from Henry H. Voorhis and Albert G Zabriskie, 
 Executors of the estate of Lucas J. Voorhis, 
 deceased, One Thousand Dollars, being amount 
 of bequest to be applied for the maintenance 
 and support of the Foreign Missionaries of the 
 
 Reformed Protestant Dutch Church 
 
 for six months' interest to 1st inst., on $5,000, 
 
 balance of bond 
 
 for six months' interest to April 30th, on bond 
 
 of $6,000 
 
 by cash received during the year, on account of 
 the assessment of $20,000 made by General 
 Synod in June, 1864, for the purpose of in- 
 creasing the Permanent Fund of Synod, viz : 
 
 Classis of New Brunswick $60 43 
 
 Classis of Ulster 67 17 
 
 Reformed Church, West New Hempstead 30 
 
 Classis of Geneva 18 40 
 
 Classis of Paramus 325 20 
 
 Classis of Schenectady 200 
 
 received during the year, on account of the 
 $2,800 to be raised by a committee appointed 
 by General Synod in June, 1867, to provide 
 for deficiency in funds to meet the salaries of 
 the Theological Professors, for the year com- 
 mencing May 1st, 1867, viz : 
 
 Second Church at Albany 50 
 
 Church at Clarksville, $1 34; Church at 
 
 Union, $1 53 2 87 
 
 Peter S. Duryee 100 
 
 Second Church at Bethlehem 8 
 
 First Church at Albany. 71 21 
 
 Rev. A. P. Van Gieson, Chairman of Com- 
 mittee 633 58 
 
 received for Contingent Expenses during the 
 year, from the following Classes, viz : 
 
 Poughkeepsie, $83— $44 127 
 
 Rensselaer 31 62 
 
 New Brunswick 28 
 
 South Long Island 53 
 
 Raritan 27 
 
 South Kow York, $o0, $20, $50 100 
 
 $54,073 52 
 245 
 150 
 183 75 
 
 Carried forward, 
 
 366 62 
 
 1,000 
 175 
 210 
 
 701 20 
 
 865 66 
 
 $57,604 13 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 569 
 
 1869. 
 
 May 
 
 > 
 
 Cr. 
 
 Brought forward $366 62 
 
 Westchester 33 
 
 North Long Island, $45, $39 84 
 
 Passaic 25 
 
 Philadelphia, $235 39, $127 61 363 
 
 Paramus 40 
 
 Bergen, $108, $26 134 
 
 New York 198 
 
 Kingston 24 75 
 
 Ulster 26 13 
 
 Albany 38 50 
 
 South Bergen 44 
 
 Geneva 46 46 
 
 Schenectady 75 25 
 
 Cayuga 59 13 
 
 Greene 20 62 
 
 Orange 39 87 
 
 Schoharie 37 63 
 
 Hudson 28 
 
 received for the Widows' Fund during the year, 
 
 as follows : 
 from the Reformed Church at Bayonne 
 
 N. J 6 39 
 
 from the Reformed Church at Greenpoint, 
 
 L. 1 25 67 
 
 from the Classis of Paramus, per Rev. G. 
 
 M. S. Blauvelt 100 
 
 Reformed Church at Harlem 15 28 
 
 - Belleville 14 60 
 
 First " Kingston 28 62 
 
 " Schoharie 8 
 
 " Middleburgh 4 50 
 
 Second " New Brunswick... 52 
 
 First " Pella, Iowa 26 75 
 
 " New Salem, N. Y.. 2 57 
 
 Collegiate Ref. D. Church, New York... 49 14 
 
 Reformed Church, Astoria, L. 1 14 
 
 North " Newark 29 29 
 
 " Lafayette, N. J 3 30 
 
 " New Utrecht, L. I.. 19 37 
 
 South " Brooklyn, 4 83 
 
 First " Glenville 5 50 
 
 " East New York 14 
 
 First " Newark 25 
 
 First " Jersey City 76 01 
 
 " Berea, N. Y 4 
 
 " New Hackensaek,N.Y. 10 
 
 Second " Poughkeepsie 40 10 
 
 Third " Raritan 9 
 
 Leeds, N. Y 2 50 
 
 $590 42 
 Carried forwrrd. ........... ^ 
 
 41 
 
 $57,604 13 
 
 1,683 96 
 
 $59,288 09 
 
570 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 1869. Or. 
 
 Brought forward $590 
 
 May 3 Reformed Church Germantown, N. Y.. 6 
 
 «< 
 
 Second 
 First 
 
 First 
 
 First 
 
 First 
 Second 
 
 Second 
 First 
 First 
 First 
 
 << 
 
 (I 
 
 «< 
 
 II 
 
 It 
 
 tt 
 
 M 
 
 42 
 
 50 
 
 50 
 61 
 43 
 
 80 
 
 75 
 
 38 
 70 
 
 23 
 50 
 
 $59,288 09 
 
 Northumberland 10 
 
 Rotterdam, N.Y 7 
 
 Port Richmond, S. I. . 21 
 
 Flatlands 6 
 
 Schenectady 4 
 
 Six Mile Run 20 
 
 Schenectady 13 
 
 Wyckoff 4 
 
 Peekskill 11 
 
 Middlebush, N. J 12 
 
 New Concord, N. Y. . 3 
 
 Fairview, 111 8 
 
 Claverack 11 
 
 Brooklyn 75 
 
 Griggstown . . 17 
 
 Paterson 23 78 
 
 Ghent 5 
 
 Bergen 17 50 
 
 Claverack 26 04 
 
 Rotterdam 8 
 
 Van Voorst, J. City. . 16 70 
 
 Hudson 25 
 
 New Paltz 20 
 
 " New Lots 15 
 
 German Evangelical Church, New York. 10 
 
 Second Ref. Church, Coxsackie 4 65 
 
 Second " Newark 9 34 
 
 u Catskill . 14 
 
 Brighton Heights ,S. I. 14 10 
 
 D. 
 
 D. 
 D. 
 
 << 
 
 r 
 
 a 
 
 received for the Widows' Fund, during th^ year, 
 
 where $20 of each amount is to apply to the 
 
 credit of pastors, as follows, viz: 
 from the Reformed Church on the Heights, 
 
 Brooklyn, Rev. Zachary Eddy, pastor. . 53 43 
 Ref. Church, Geneva, Rev. Samuel J. Ro- 
 gers, pastor 20 
 
 First Reformed Church, New Brunswick, 
 
 Rev. Richard H. Steele, D.D., pastor. . 4*4 
 North Reformed Church, Brooklyn, Rev. 
 
 Wm. T. Enyard, pastor 24 42 
 
 Reformed Church, 34th street, New York, 
 
 Rev. Isaac Riley, pastor 46 41 
 
 Reformed Church, Branchville, N. J., 
 
 Rev. Wm. Pitcher, pastor 20 
 
 Reformed Church, Yonkers, Rev. David 
 
 Cole, pastor ($40 to apply to his credit). 55 20 
 Reformed Church,Gallupville, Rev.Edwin 
 
 Vedder, pastor 20 
 
 Carried forward, 
 
 $283 46 
 
 $1,032 93 
 
 $150,321 02 
 
JUNE, 18G9. 
 
 571 
 
 1869. Or. 
 
 Brought forward $283 46 
 
 May 3 Reformed Church, East Brooklyn, Rev. S. 
 
 F. Farmer, pastor 20 
 
 received from the following Clergymen, during 
 the year, for their annual payments to the 
 Widows' Fund, viz : 
 
 Rev. John H. Duryea $20 
 
 John H. Bevier 20 
 
 David D. Demarest, D.D 20 
 
 John R. Brock 20 
 
 William Demarest 20 
 
 G. M. S. Blauvrit 20 
 
 Jeremiah S. Lord, D.D 20 
 
 William G. E. See 20 
 
 John L. See. D.D 20 
 
 Ab'm Mattice 20 
 
 J. Pascal Strong 20 
 
 Wm. W. Halloway 20 
 
 Joseph Wilson 20 
 
 A. H. Myers 20 
 
 Stephen Searle 20 
 
 Ab'm Thompson 20 
 
 A. B. Taylor 20 
 
 Martin Luther Berger 20 
 
 George H. Peeke 20 
 
 John H. Pitcher 20 
 
 Benjamin C. Lippincott 20 
 
 John Gardner 20 
 
 Cornelius Wyckoff 20 
 
 Samuel M Woodbridge, D.D 20 
 
 John H. Duryea 20 
 
 H. B. Stryker 20 
 
 Isaac S. Demund 20 
 
 Cyrel Spaulding 20 
 
 A. J. Sebring 20 
 
 Henry A. Ra} 7 mond 20 
 
 P. D. Van Cleef, D.D 20 
 
 Augustus F. Todd 20 
 
 John A. Lansing, D.D 20 
 
 Henry W. F. Jones 20 
 
 Charles Becker 20 
 
 $60,321 02 
 
 303 46 
 
 received for the Disabled Ministers' Fund, during 
 the year, as follows, viz : 
 
 from Reformed Church atLodi, N. Y 10 
 
 " " Pekin, 111 11 25 
 
 Harlem, N. Y. 15 28 
 Ref. Church on the Heights, Brooklyn. . . 53 42 
 " English Neighborhood. 25 
 
 " Middleburgh 4 60 
 
 Second " Pella, Iowa 5 
 
 124 45 
 Carried forward 
 
 700 
 
 $61,324 48 
 
572 
 
 • 
 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 
 1869. 
 
 
 
 Cr. 
 
 
 
 Brought forward . 
 
 
 $61,324 48 
 
 May 3 
 
 
 
 
 Collegiate R. 
 
 D. Church, New York 54 13 
 
 
 
 Reformed Ch 
 u 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 it 
 
 Stuyvesant 5 60 
 
 
 
 Rev. E. 
 North R 
 
 Nevi 
 eforn 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 First 
 
 
 Pella, Iowa... 25 05 
 " Lafayette, N.J. 10 . 
 
 
 
 South 
 
 
 " Brooklyn... 4 83 
 
 
 
 X 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 Reformed Clin 
 First 
 
 
 
 
 New Brunswick 100 
 
 
 
 
 (i 
 
 East New York 14 
 
 
 
 First 
 
 
 Jersey City 16 01 
 
 Berea, N. Y 4 00 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Francis T 
 
 
 
 
 Third Ref. Chi 
 it 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 II 
 U 
 
 Leeds, N. Y 2 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 
 
 
 
 (1 
 
 Port Richmond, S.I 21 13 
 
 
 
 
 It 
 
 Flatlands 6 43 
 
 
 
 
 <l 
 
 Catskill 27 
 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 
 
 
 First 
 
 II 
 II 
 II 
 
 « 
 
 Peekskill 11 38 
 
 Boardville, N J 10 
 
 Pomptou 20 25 
 
 
 
 
 (« 
 
 New Concord, N. Y 10 
 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 Fairview 111 6 35 
 
 
 
 First 
 
 II 
 
 Claverack 11 50 
 
 
 
 First 
 
 II 
 10 
 II 
 
 Montville 10 
 
 New Hackensack, N. Y. 9 
 
 
 
 Second 
 First 
 
 «i 
 « 
 
 Ghent 5 
 
 
 
 Glenville 3 50 
 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 
 
 
 Holmdel, N. J 12 77 
 
 
 
 
 l« 
 
 34th street, New York. . 41 05 
 
 
 
 r> 
 
 II 
 
 1 
 
 Bergen . . . .• 11 50 
 
 
 
 Second 
 
 II 
 II 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 First 
 
 II 
 
 (1 
 
 'Gallupville 3 
 
 
 
 Hudson 25 
 
 
 
 
 II 
 tl 
 
 New Paltz 8 33 
 
 
 
 New Lots 10 
 
 
 
 Second 
 
 << 
 
 Newark 9 84 
 
 
 
 $1,078 18 
 
 
 
 Carried forvrai 
 
 •d 
 
 $61,324 48 
 
 
 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 573 
 
 1869. 
 
 May 
 
 Cr. 
 
 Brought forward $1,078 18 
 
 German Evangelical Church, New York. 10 
 First Reformed Church, Grand Rapids. . 12 
 Reformed Church, Bloomingburgh, N. Y. 13 
 
 " Bergen Point 30 
 
 " Brighton Heights, S. L 14 10 
 
 reoeived for the Endowment Fund of Hope 
 
 College, Mich., as follows, viz ; 
 From Classis of Poughkeepsie, $125, 
 
 $168... 293 
 
 Reformed Church, Pompton 150 
 
 Classis of Rensselaer 602 75 
 
 Reformed Church, Little Falls, KJ 50 
 
 " Pompton Plains 200 
 
 " Preakness 34 
 
 First " Paterson 275 
 
 " Stone House Plains... 23 50 
 
 M Wyckoff 63 
 
 ■■ Fairfield, N. J 25 
 
 Rev. J. Steele '9 50 
 
 Second Reformed Church Claverack. . . .120 
 Reformed Church, 34th street, New York.103 19 
 
 Classis of New Brunswick 68 38 
 
 " Geneva 128 23 
 
 " Raritan 47 
 
 Ref. Ch., Bronxville, per. Rev. C. D. Buck . 80 
 
 '* Greenburgh, " " . . 8 64 
 
 " Hastings, « " ..100 
 
 " Unionville, " " 36 75 
 
 First " Tarry town, " " ..150 
 
 Second" Tarrytown, " " 73 69 
 
 $61,324 48 
 
 May 
 
 Total 
 
 1| By balance on hand brought forward 
 
 1,257 28 
 
 2,641 63 
 
 $65,223 39 
 
 $12,111 88 
 
 JOHN I. BROWER, Treasurer. 
 
 New Yoke, May 1st, 1869. 
 
 The subscribers, a committee appointed to examine the accounts 
 
 of John I. Brower, Treasurer, have examined the same with the 
 
 vouchers exhibited by him, and find them correct, leaving a balance 
 
 on hand of twelve thousand one hundred and eleven dollars and 
 
 eighty-eight cents. 
 
 JAMES A. WILLIAMSON, ) Committee 
 AB'M. J. BEEKMAN. f ^ ommiltee - 
 
 New York, May 28th, 1869. 
 
574 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 ^ttmtul Ijig^i 
 
 The Board of Direction submit to General Synod their Annual 
 Digest, as follows : 
 
 FUNDS DEVOTED TO EDUCATION. 
 THE VAN BENSCHOTEN FUND. 
 
 This Fund, a3 reported by John C. Elmendorf, Esq., Treasurer of 
 Rutgers College, and which is loaned upon bonds secured 
 by mortgages upon property in the State of New Jersey, etc., 
 amounted, on the 1st of April, 1869, to $20,313 57 
 
 There has been paid to students, out of the income of this Fund, 
 
 during the year 2,173 
 
 Cash on hand April 1st, 1869 698 57 
 
 LEGACY OF MISS REBECCA KNOX. 
 
 No report received. 
 
 EDUCATION FUND. 
 
 Amount of moneys invested by the Board of Direction on bonds 
 
 secured by mortgages, and on Government bonds, <fec $74,700 
 
 Balance of principal, April 30, 1869 1,098 62 
 
 Balance of interest received to April 30th 2,572 05 
 
 PERMANENT FUND. 
 
 Amount of this Fund, in which is included the donation of 
 $5,000, by the late Colonel Henry Rutgers, deceased, for the 
 benefit of Rutgers College, invested by the Board of Direc- 
 tion on bonds secured by mortgages, and on Government 
 
 bonds, <fcc $123,000 
 
 Loan to complete Professoral building — balance 3,900 
 
 Balance of fund not yet invested t 6,080 07 
 
 Twenty-three shares of Bergen Turnpike stock, ten of which 
 
 belong to Rutgers College, valued at 230 
 
 Amount of unpaid subscriptions to the Permanent Fund, upon 
 
 which interest is received 6,400 
 
JUNE, 1869. 575 
 
 widows' fund. 
 
 Amount of moneys invested on bonds secured by mortgages and 
 
 on Government bonds, <fcc $27,200 
 
 Balance of principal April 30th, 1869 1,992 19 
 
 There has been paid to Annuitants, out of the income of this 
 
 Fund, during the year 1,257 50 
 
 Balance on hand April 30th, 1869 833 57 
 
 PERMANENT CONTINGENT FUND. 
 
 Amount of this Fund, April 30th, 1869 $1,622 21 
 
 Of which there is invested 1 ,300 
 
 BOARD OF DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 
 
 There has been invested for this Board, on bond secured by 
 
 mortgage $250 
 
 Balance of interest to April 30th, 1869 31 89 
 
 HOPE COLLEGE. 
 
 There has been received toward the endowment of this Institu- 
 tion, in money and securities $46,888 70 
 
 Of which there has been paid, out of the sum donated by Gen- 
 eral Synod to enable the Council to obtain their Charter. . 29,405 86 
 
 There has been paid out of this Fund, by direction of General 
 Synod, to Rev. P. Phelps, D.D., for expenses incurred in se- 
 curing the endowment 11,861 89 
 
 Amount of funds in hands of the Treasurer 16,121 45 
 
 Of this sum, there has been invested on bonds secured by mort- 
 gages, (fee 14,500 
 
 Balance of Fund not yet invested 1,621 45 
 
 Balance of interest on hand April 30th, 1869 456 14 
 
 DISABLED MINISTERS' FUND. 
 
 Balance of this Fund April 30th, 1869 $1,419 55 
 
 There has been paid from this Fund, during the year 950 
 
 PAROCHIAL SCHOOL FUND. 
 
 This Fund consists of fifty shares of the stock of the Delaware 
 
 and Hudson Canal Co. and 
 
 United States 5-20 Registered bonds, amounting to $5,200 
 
 There has been received for dividends on stock and interest, 
 
 during the year ending May 1 640 03 
 
 LEGACY OF MRS. ANN HERTZOG. 
 
 The amount of this Legacy (which is invested) is $10,000 
 
 Interest thereon 1,060 
 
 Erratum. — The amount paid to Rev. P. Phelps, D. D., (as 
 above,) for expenses incurred in securing the endowment of Hope 
 College, should be $1,361 39, instead of $11,361 39. 
 
576 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 ASSETS IN THE HAND OF THE TREASURER. 
 
 Bonds and mortgages, and bonds and notes, amounting to $196,050 
 
 Loan to Committee on the Peter Hertzog Theological Hall, to 
 
 complete Profeseoral building, balance 3,900 
 
 Government securities 39,900 
 
 Cash, balance in bank 12,111 88 
 
 Deposit in the United States Trust Co 15,000 
 
 Advances for salaries and contingent expenses 5,8*75 86 
 
 $272,337 74 
 
 Certificate of fifty 'shares of the stock of the Delaware and Hudson Canal 
 Co., and United States 5-20 Registered bonds, amounting to $5,200, 
 belonging to the Parochial School Fuud. 
 
 MINUTES OF GENERAL 8YNOD. 
 
 Received for Minutes $861 45 
 
 Paid for Minutes, Postage, &g $673 18 
 
 Paid indebtedness per last report 142 83 816 01 
 
 Balance on hand $45 44 
 
 JAMES MYERS, President. 
 
 M. S. HUTTON, ) 
 
 JAMES A. WILLIAMSON, } Directors. 
 
 ABR'M. J. BEEKMAN, ) 
 
 JOHN I. BROWER, Treasurer. 
 
 New Yore, May 29, 1869. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 511 
 
 Resolved, That so much of the above report and documents as 
 relates to the Widows' and Disabled Ministers' Funds, be referred 
 to the Committee on the Widows' and Disabled Ministers' Funds, 
 'and the remainder to the Committee on the Board of Direction, 
 with the exception of so much as relates to the effort for raising 
 $100,000 for the Professoral Fund, which was referred to the Com- 
 mittee on the Professorate ; and the Estimate of contingent ex- 
 penses, which, was referred to the Committee on Accounts. 
 
 The Committee on Nominations having reported, Synod pro- 
 ceeded to the election of the Board of Direction of the Corpora- 
 tion. On counting the ballots it appeared that the following were 
 chosen: Mr. Peter R. Warner, President; Rev. M. S. Hutton, 
 John Van Nest, Jas. Suydam, Directors ; and Mr. John I. Brower, 
 Treasurer. 
 
 A resolution on the subject of the salaries of the Professors of 
 Theology was offered, and referred to the Committee on the Board 
 of Direction. 
 
 The Committee on the Board of Direction presented the follow- 
 ing report which was accepted and adopted : 
 
 Report of Committee on the Board of Direction. — The Committee 
 on the Board of Direction respectfully report on the following 
 papers referred to them, viz : 
 
 The Annual Report of the Board of Direction, with the docu- 
 ments connected therewith; Treasurer's Annual Account; Annual 
 Digest ; List of securities belonging to General Synod ; List of En- 
 dowed Scholarships ; Education Fund Income Account ; Hope Col- 
 lege Endowment Fund Account ; Hope College Income Account ; 
 Expense account ; Estimate of amount to meet deficiency in Revenue, 
 and Yan Benschoten Fund Account. 
 
 The Digest also contains an account of the Widows' Fund; of 
 the Widows' Fund Income, and the Disabled Ministers' Fund. 
 
 ■i 
 
 Report of Board of Direction. — The Board acknowledge the re- 
 ceipt, by bequest, of the sum of 83,095 during the past year, for the 
 Board of Education. Also, by bequest, the sum of $1,209 50 for 
 the Board of Domestic Missions, and in, like manner, the sum of 
 $2,209 50 for the Board of Foreign Missions. 
 
 The sum of $3,000 has been received for the Parochial School 
 Fund, and has been further enlarged by the apportionment of 
 twenty-eight shares of the increased capital stock of the Delaware 
 and Hudson Canal Co. 
 
 The amount received on account of the assessment of $20,000 
 made by General Synod in June, 1864, for the purpose of increasing 
 
578 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 the Permanent Fund, is $16,417 41. The balance still due is 
 $3,572 59. The amount paid during the past year on this assess- 
 ment is $710 48. In relation hereto, your Committee recommenr* 
 the passage of the following resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That the Classes who have failed to pay the assessment 
 made, in 1864, for raising $20,000 for the further endowment of the 
 Professoral Fund, be requested to take immediate measures for the 
 payment of their respective quotas : and that, in the judgment ot 
 General Synod, they ought to pay interest on the amount of which 
 they are deficient, during the term of such deficiency, from this date. 
 
 The Board of Direction also report, tbat $10,000 have been re- 
 ceived from the Executors of Mrs. Anna Hertzog, for maintaining 
 and keeping in good order Peter Hertzog Theological Hall. 
 
 Hope College Endowment Fund. — There has been received for 
 this Fund, during the year, in cash and promissory notes, the sum 
 of $2,894 63, and has been paid from the Fund to the Treasurer of 
 Hope College, in cash and promissory notes, the sum of $253, on 
 account of the donation of $30,000 made by General Synod to said 
 College. Total arriount paid on account of the said donation, up to 
 May 1st, is $29,405 86, leaving a balance of $594 14. 
 
 Hope College Income Fund Account. — There are in the hands of 
 the Treasurer, belonging to this account, $456 14. 
 
 The endowed scholarships amount to the sum of $75,798 62. 
 
 Securities belonging to the General Synod of the Reformed 
 Church in America, in the hands of the Treasurer May 1st, 1869, 
 amounted to $254,850. 
 
 The full amount of assets in the hands of the Treas'r is $272,337 74. 
 
 Widows' 1 Fund. — There has been paid to annuitants, out of the 
 income of this fund during the year, $1,257 50. 
 
 Disabled Ministers' 1 Fund. — There has been paid from this Fund 
 during the year, $950. 
 
 Treasurer's Annual Account. — The balance on hand May 1st, 
 1869, $12,111 88. 
 
 Treasurer's General Expense Account. — There is a balance due 
 the Treasurer, on this account, of $5,375 86. 
 
 Estimate of amount to meet deficiency of revenue. — It is estimated 
 by the Treasurer that this deficiency for the year commencing May 
 1st, 1869, will be $3,751. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 579 
 
 The amount necessary to free the Synod from debt, as will be 
 seen by the Treasurer's report, is as follows : 
 
 Amount advanced for salaries and expenses 89,326 33 
 
 Loan to Building Committee 4,000 
 
 Note at State Bank — see report of Hertzog Hall Com- 
 mittee 5,878 72 
 
 19,205 05 
 Interest on above note 414 13 
 
 $19,619 18 
 To this is to be added the estimate of the Treasurer 
 
 for the current year, commencing May 1st, 1869. 3,751 
 
 $22,956 05 
 414 13 
 
 $23,370 18 
 
 Your Committee would call attention to the communication re- 
 ceived from the Professors of the Theological Seminary in reference 
 to the amount falling due July 22d, 1869, for the sum of $6,292 85, 
 payable to the State Bank of New Brunswick, N. J. And recom- 
 mend the passage of the following resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That it be referred to the Board of Direction to relieve 
 
 the Theological Professors from the debt ($6,292 85) incurred by 
 
 them under authority of General Synod, in order to complete the 
 
 Professorial houses, either by a temporary loan, or by such other 
 
 means as they may deem most expedient. 
 
 At the last meeting of General Synod, the Board of Direction was 
 requested to raise, in cooperation with the Committee on Hertzog 
 Hall, the sum of $100,000, by subscription, for completing the 
 endowment of the Professorial Fund, and the payment of the debt of 
 Synod, with power to employ an agent. 
 
 The Rev. Jas. A. H. Cornell was duly empowered by the Board 
 for this purpose, and your committee is happy to say, that there is 
 now a fair prospect of raising, not only the sum of $100,000, but of 
 increasing the amount to $200,000. Tbe sum of $40,000 having 
 already been subscribed by one person — James Suydam, Esq., of 
 New York city. 
 
 In connection herewith, your Committee recommend the passage 
 of the following resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That the General Synod of the Reformed Church of 
 
 America return its sincere thanks to James Suydam, Esq., for his 
 
 munificent subscription of $40,000 to the Professorial Fund of said 
 
 Church. 
 
580 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 Resolved, That Rev. J as. A. H. Cornell be requested to continue 
 his labors as agent for the Board of Direction, and Standing com- 
 mittee on Peter Hertzog Hall, during the present financial year. 
 
 Resolved, That the salary of each of the Professors in the Theo- 
 logical Seminary at New Brunswick be $3,000 for the current year. 
 
 Resolved, That Prof. Berg be allowed $500 for rent of dwelling for 
 
 the current year. 
 
 JOHN W. FERDON, 1 
 RALPH N. PERLEE, 
 WM. R. SCHELL, )■ Committee. 
 
 G. C. CHURCHILL, | 
 PETER CRISPELL, Jr. J 
 
 Resolved, That the Board of Direction be authorized to pay to the 
 Standing committee on Peter Hertzog Theological Hall, the amount 
 of interest now in their hands from the bequest of Mrs. Anna 
 Hertzog ; and also, from time to time, such interest as may here- 
 after accrue. 
 
 Resolved, That so much of the assessment for the $20,000 as 
 remains unpaid by the South Classis of New York, and charged to 
 the South Church of New York, be transferred to the Classis of 
 New York for collection ; and that the portions charged to the 
 Market Street Church, and the Church at Stapleton be remitted. 
 
 Resolved, That the Board of Direction be requested to prepare 
 and issue, as soon as possible, a brief statement of facts and an 
 appeal in behalf of the Widows' and Disabled Ministers' Funds, 
 for general circulation among the Churches, and for use in the 
 public presentation of these objects. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 Reports were received from Rev. W. J. R. Taylor, Delegate to the 
 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church convened at the 
 Brick Church, New York, Rev. John L. See, Delegate to the Gener- 
 eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church convened in the Church 
 of the Covenant, New York, Rev. John A. DeBaun, Delegate to the 
 General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, Rev. W. R. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 581 
 
 Gordon, Delegate to the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran 
 Church, and Rev. C. H. Stitt, Delegate to the Synod of the German 
 Reformed Church, -which were referred to the Committee on Corres- 
 pondence. 
 
 Resolved, That the credentials of Corresponding Delegates, after 
 being read, be referred to the Committee on Correspondence. 
 
 Rev. William Gregg appeared in Synod, and took his seat as a 
 Corresponding Delegate from the Synod of the Canada Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 Rev. Peter Stryker, D.D., appeared in Synod, and took his seat 
 as a Corresponding Delegate from the General Assembly of the 
 Presbyterian Church meeting in the Church of the Covenant at New 
 York City. 
 
 Rev. E. E. Higbee, D.D., appeared in Synod, and took his seat 
 as a Corresponding Delegate from the Synod of the German Reform- 
 ed Church. 
 
 Rev. Abraham Gosman, D.D., appeared in Synod, and took his 
 seat as a Corresponding Delegate from the General Assembly of the 
 Presbyterian Church convened at Albany in 1868. 
 
 Rev. Prof. S. S. Schmucker, D.D., appeared in Synod, and took 
 his seat as a Corresponding Delegate from the General Synod of the 
 Evangelical Lutheran Church. 
 
 Rev. David Steele, D.D., appeared in Synod, and took his seat as 
 a Corresponding Delegate from the General Synod of the Reformed 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Rev. W. W. Barr appeared in Synod, and took his seat as a Del- 
 egate from the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church 
 of North America. 
 
 A paper presented by Rev. J. S. Hartley on the subject of the 
 ^Ecumenical Council called by the Pope of Rome was referred to the 
 Committee on Correspondence. 
 
 The Committee on the calling of a National Council of Evangeli- 
 cal Churches made a report which was accepted, and the Committee 
 was continued, and Rev. J. M. Matthews was added to it. 
 
 Resolved, That a Delegation of three Ministers and two Elders be 
 appointed to attend said Council. 
 
582 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 Rev. James M. Matthews, Thomas De Witt, E. S. Porter, and Elders 
 Erastus C. Benedict, and William H. Crosby were appointed. 
 
 It appearing that several of the highest judicatories and assemblies 
 of Evangelical denominations have not been invited to send dele- 
 gates to the proposed Council to be held in New York in October 
 next, and whose next annual meetings are not to be held previous to 
 that time, but who are anxious to be represented on the occasion ; 
 
 Resolved, That m all such cases the Committee appointed to send 
 out invitations be instructed to correspond with the presiding offi- 
 cers of such judicatories or assemblies and request them to take such 
 measures as to them shall seem best to secure a representation. 
 
 Resolved, That in case of death or sickness of any member of the 
 Committee for the Council in October, the President and Stated 
 Clerk of the Synod shall have power to fill the vacancy. 
 
 The Committee on Correspondence presented the following Re- 
 port, which was accepted and adopted : 
 
 Report of the Committee on Correspondence. — The Committee on 
 Correspondence respectfully report that they have had put into 
 their hands the following papers : 
 
 1. Reports from the several delegates appointed by General Sy- 
 nod to bear the salutations of the Reformed Church to the several 
 Churches with which our Church is in correspondence, to wit: 
 From the Rev. W. R. Gordon, Delegate to the Evangelical Lu- 
 theran Church, whose General Synod met at Washington, D. C, on 
 the 13th of May last. 
 
 From the Rev. W. J. R. Taylor, Delegate to the General Assem- 
 bly of the Presbyterian Church which met in the Brick Church, New 
 York City, on the 20th day of May, 1869. 
 
 From the Rev. John DeBaun, Delegate to the General Assembly 
 of the United Presbyterian Church which met in Monmouth, Illinois, 
 May 26th, 1869. 
 
 From the Rev. John L. See, Delegate to the General Assembly of 
 the Presbyterian Church which met in the Church of the Covenant, 
 in the city of New York, in May last. 
 
 From the Rev. Charles H. Stitt, Delegate to the Synod of 
 the German Reformed Church which met in Hagerstown, Md., on 
 the 21st of October, 1868. 
 
 All these brethren report that they were most favorably and kind- 
 ly received, and their fraternal salutations from the Reformed Church 
 reciprocated in the best spirit by the bodies to which they were 
 sent. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 583 
 
 The Delegate to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
 which met in the Brick Church, in the city of New York, reports 
 that that Assembly appointed a special committee for the considera- 
 tion of the proposal made by the last General Synod of the Re- 
 formed Church for a National Council of Evangelical Churches in 
 the United States, and selected delegates to attend said Council. 
 
 The Delegate to the Evangelical Lutheran Church reports a like 
 action in the Synod of that body in regard to the proposed National 
 Council. 
 
 2. Certificates of the appointment on the part of the following Ec- 
 clesiastical bodies of delegates to bear their Christian and fraternal 
 salutations to the Synod of the Reformed Church, to wit : 
 
 Of the Rev. Dr. E. E. Higbee, of the German Reformed Church; 
 the Rev. Peter Stryker, of the Presbyterian Church N. S.; the Rev. 
 David Steele, of the Reformed Presbyterian Church ; the Rev. 
 Prof. S. S. Sch mucker, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church; the 
 Rev. x\brara Gosman, of the Presbyterian Church, O. S.; and of the 
 Rev. W. W. Barr, of the United Presbyterian Church of North 
 America. 
 
 And of the Rev. Wm. Gregg, of the Canada Presbyterian Church, 
 for the purpose of opening a correspondence with the General Synod 
 of the Reformed Church, ami requesting that a delegate be appoint- 
 ed by this Synod to convey the fraternal salutations of the Reformed 
 Church to the Canada Presbyterian Church. 
 
 The Committee recommend that this request be granted, and that 
 the General Synod reciprocate the fraternal salutations of the Can- 
 ada Presbyterian Church. 
 
 3. A communication from the General Synod of the Reformed 
 Presbyterian Church, containing an extract from their minutes de- 
 clining for reasons therein given to send delegates to the proposed 
 National Council. 
 
 The Committee submit that no action is necessary. 
 
 4. A letter from the Committee of the Synod of the Secession 
 Church of Holland, informing this Synod that the Synod of said 
 Church will meet D. V. on the 15th of June next, at Middleburg, 
 the capital of the Province of Zeeland, and requesting the Synod to 
 send a deputalion to attend said meeting of Synod, for the further- 
 ance by mutual intercourse of the fellowship of Saints. 
 
 The committee recommend that the Synod express their gratifica- 
 tion at the reception of this letter, and appoint Rev. C. Van Der- 
 meulen, who they understand is on his way to meet said Synod ; such 
 deputation to bear the salutations of this Synod to the Secession 
 Church of Holland. 
 
 5 A paper containing a preamble and resolutions on the subject of 
 the ^Ecumenical Council called by the Pope of Rome, Pius the IX., 
 
584 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 to convene in that city on the 8th day of December next, to devise 
 such means and measures as shall be for the extension of the Gospel 
 of Jesus Christ throughout the world, and the uniting of all Christ- 
 ians in one fold and under one Shepherd. 
 
 No action is recommended. 
 
 In behalf of Committee, 
 
 J. G. JOHNSON, Chairman. 
 
 The Committee on Correspondence having reported a double 
 number of nominations, the Synod proceeded to ballot for delegates 
 to the bodies with which the Synod is in correspondence. The fol- 
 lowing were elected : 
 
 Rev. David Cole was elected Delegate Primarius to the General 
 Assembly of the Presbyterian Church O. S., and. Rev. James Le 
 Fevre Secundus. 
 
 Rev. James Demarest was elected Delegate Primarius to the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church N. S., and Rev. Samuel 
 W. Mills Secundus. 
 
 Rev. J. B. Thompson was elected Delegate Primarius to the Sy- 
 nod of the German Reformed Church, and Rev. J. T. Demarest Se- 
 cundus. 
 
 R,ev. John McC. Holmes was elected Delegate Primarius to the 
 General Synod of the German Reformed Church, and Rev. A. G. 
 Ryerson Secundus. 
 
 Rev. J. F. Harris was elected Delegate Primarius to the General 
 Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in North America, 
 and Rev. William E. Turner Secundus. 
 
 Rev. John G. Johnson was elected Deleo-ate Primarius to the 
 Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, and 
 Rev. Richard H. Steele Secundus. 
 
 Rev. Goyn Talmage was elected Delegate Primarius to the Gen- 
 eral Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Rev. Edgar L. 
 Heermance Secundus. 
 
 Rev. Samuel J. Rogers was elected Delegate Primarius, and Rev. 
 Nf. L. Pcrger Secundu9 to the Synod of the Canada Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 585 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 SYNODICAL REPORT. 
 
 The Committee on the State of Religion presented the following 
 report, which was accepted and adopted : 
 
 The Committee on the State of Religion respectfully submit the 
 
 following report : 
 
 From the Minutes of the several Particular Synods the following 
 results have been gathered : 
 
 Total number of Churches, four hundred and thirty-eight. (438.) 
 
 There have been received into the Church on confession of their 
 iaith three thousand one hundred and twenty five. (3,125.) 
 
 By certificates from sister Churches, two thousand and one, 
 (2,001.) 
 
 Two hundred and fifty- three thousand two huudred and three 
 dollars and fourteen cents (253,203 14) have been contributed to 
 objects of benevolence, and seven hundred and ninety-eight thou- 
 sand eight hundred and ninety dollars and sixty-one cents (798,- 
 890 61) have been raised for congregational purposes. 
 
 In comparing these items with the reports of last year, your Com- 
 mittee find that there are ten (10) Churches less than were then 
 reported, and that of the 438, seventy-five (75), being an increase 
 often (10), are now vacant. 
 
 These figures show the lamentable fact that numerically at least 
 we are losing ground, there being ten (10) Churches less, and ten 
 .(10) vacancies more. 
 
 In the Classis of Schoharie there are 13 Churches, and only 5 set- 
 tled Pastors. 
 
 In the Classis of Montgomery there are 23 Churches and but 
 eleven (11) pastors, two (2) having four (4) Churches, leaving nine 
 (9) destitute of the stated preaching of the Gospel. 
 
 The accession to our membership on confession of faith as com- 
 pared with the previous year shows a decrease of 679 — 
 
 And by certificate of 293, making a total of 972 less than were 
 then received. 
 
 In reference to the contributions of our Churches, it is gratifying 
 to be able to report unusunl liberality. 
 
 There has been an increase of forty-eight thousand seven hundred 
 and ten dollars and twenty-one cents (48,710 21) in the amount re- 
 ceived for benevolent objects — 
 
 And for congregational purposes, thirty-four thousand seven hun- 
 dred and forty-two dollars and ninety-five cents (34,742 95), making 
 
 42 
 
586 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 a total in excess of last year of eighty -three thousand four hundred 
 and fifty-three dollars and sixteen cents (83,453 16). 
 
 We record with thanksgiving that some of our Churches have 
 been blessed with special effusions of the Holy Ghost. The Classis 
 of Albany seems to have been especially favored, several congrega- 
 tions having enjoyed a gracious reviving. The First Church of 
 Bethlehem has received 82 into its communion on confession of 
 faith. 
 
 In the Church of Owasco, Cayuga Classis, over seventy have been 
 awakened and hopefully brought to Christ, The Church of Amity, 
 Schenectady Clasr-is, has been increased by the accession of forty. 
 Those of Plattekill and Shokan, Classis of Ulster, respectively thirty- 
 seven and twenty-nine. The Classis of Kingston reports interest- 
 ing revivals in the Churches of Marbletown and Rosendale. The 
 Classis of Michigan also makes grateful mention of " times of re- 
 freshing " from the presence of the Lord. 
 
 The last year, though it will scarcely be remembered as one of 
 marked prosperity, has been one of peace, order, and harmony 
 throughout our beloved Zion. No bitter controversies have agitated 
 our Churches ; no schisms have marred their fellowship ; no deadly 
 heresies have poisoned their life ; no outbreak of fanaticism has dis- 
 turbed their order. From our pulpits, so far as is known, has sound- 
 ed forth the doctrine which is according to godliness, unmixed with 
 those great errors which prevail in these perilous times. The wor- 
 ship of the Triune God has been duly and reverently celebrated in 
 mobt of our Churches, without any gross departure from our ancient 
 and excellent forms — those forms which have witnessed for many 
 generations to the truth as it is in Jesus Christ. We cannot, how- 
 ever, but express our concern lest the venerable sacramental forms, 
 the use of which is binding on all our Ministers, should be gradually 
 laid aside, or replaced by crude, extemporaneous effusions, at the 
 will of particular celebrants. The semi-liturgical character of our 
 worship is a distinctive feature of this Church. It is in itself as no- 
 ble as it is evangelical. It is sacred and fragrant with the memories 
 of a past as great and august as that of any sister Church, and 
 should be cherished in love and reverence to the fathers. Possibly 
 some of those forms may need some slight revision to adapt them to 
 the wants and the taste of our own time ; but the substance of them 
 should be sacredly preserved. When our liturgy falls into utter neg- 
 lect, our apology for a distinct denominational existence will have 
 passed away. 
 
 Closely connected with this topic is another of even greater im- 
 portance. Your Committee have reason to fear that the prescribed 
 and time-honored duty of explaining in order the Catechism, has, in 
 many (lunches, fallen into disuse. And, it is also feared, that in- 
 struction in this excellent symbol is less thorough in families and in 
 Sabbath-schools than it was in former times. Tins we regard as a 
 
JUNE, 1869. 587 
 
 deplorable and ominous fact. It is in our Catechism, more than in 
 any other standard, that the true idea of the Church, the sacraments, 
 and the Christian life is clearly and beautifully expressed. It is in 
 the Catechism that the true relation of children to Christ and His 
 Church, and the true idea of Christian nature is admirably set forth. 
 We suggest to the Synod the expediency of issuing a Pastoral Let- 
 ter to the Churches touching this matter, and of solemnly enjoining 
 on all acting Pastors in our communion the faithful performance of 
 their duty as prescribed in the Constitution. 
 
 It appears from the statistics of the Particular Synods that the 
 number of Sunday-school scholars who have been under instruction 
 during the year is 46,794, some 500 less than in 1868. The num- 
 ber of Catechumens reported is 21,142, showing a decrease of 1,317. 
 If these figures are reliable they ought to occasion deep concern. 
 There ought to have been an increase of thousands. 
 
 Our Ministry has been weakened during the year by the loss of 
 several to other denominations, and by the death of a few excellent 
 and beloved men, among whom we mention the names of Jeremiah 
 S. Lord, D.D , A. 0. Halsey, Abram Berky, I. N. Wyckoff, D.D., 
 S. Kissam, Nanning Bogardus. 
 
 It appears that the number of Ministers without charge, irrespect- 
 ive of those engaged in teaching and in managing our different 
 Boards, is 115; and the number of vacant Churches is 75. These 
 figures, placed side by side, are not only startling and suggestive but 
 positively sorrowful. What remedy shall be applied to the enorm- 
 ous evil thus disclosed, it is for the Synod to devise. With a numer- 
 ical overplus of Ministers, it is lamentable that so large a proportion 
 of our Churches should be destitute of Pastors. 
 
 A general review of the facts brought out in this report warrants 
 the statement that this Church, though scarcely in a state of decay 
 and disintegration, is far from exhibiting signs of a healthy and rap- 
 id growth. The facts cannot be ignored. As a Christian denomi- 
 nation we are not doing our work. While the country and sister 
 Churches are making rapid strides, we are standing still. In our 
 large cities, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and others, new 
 Churches are not springing up, while some of historic renown are 
 dying out. In the great West we have here and there a Missionary, 
 but they are few and far between. In the vast region between the 
 Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean, with one or two exceptions, we 
 are not represented by a single Church. Great States are springing 
 up on either slope of the Rocky Mountains in which the Reformed 
 Church is unknown. There is scarcely a Minister of our Church be- 
 tween this great State of Pennsylvania and the Gulf of Mexico. 
 
 In the work of Foreign Missions, God has especially smiled upon 
 our efforts. But our Missions are cramped for lack of men and 
 
588 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 money, and our Board is entangled in debt. Our educational insti- 
 tutions, excellent in themselves, are not generously supported, and 
 are less flourishing and fruitful than they ought to be made. 
 
 While the Committee thus frankly express their misgivings touch- 
 ing the present state of religion among up, we also declare our firm 
 conviction that the Spirit of the ever-living Head is s^ ill with us; 
 that our Church is a living branch of the true vine ; that her latent 
 powers need only to be developed to render her abundantly fruitful ; 
 that her distinctive peculiarities of faith and order are as valuable as 
 they are scriptural ; that she has a special and important mission to 
 fulfill in this country at the present time ; that her stability, intelli- 
 gence, orthodoxy, and admirable ecclesiastical polity, so congenial 
 with our free institutions and the spirit of the ?ge, fit our Reformed 
 Church for a work which no other denomination can do as w ell. 
 God, in His favor, is now offering us a glorious career. He is 
 calling us, rather, to a mighty work. May He impart to us wisdom 
 to understand and strength to fulfill our high mission. 
 
 The Committee recommend that the first Friday in January, 1870, 
 be set apart as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer, that God 
 w r ill again visit this vine which His own right hind has planted with 
 the relreshing showers of His grace. 
 
 The Committee on the State of Religion, with the addition of the 
 President of the Synod, were appointed to prepare and send forth in 
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622 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 8YNODICAL REFERENCES. 
 
 The Committee on Synodical Minutes presented the following re- 
 port, "which was accepted and adopted : 
 
 Your Committee on Synodical Minutes would respectfully report 
 that they have examined the Minutes of the General Synod of last 
 year, as well as those of the Particular Synods of New York, Al- 
 bany, and Chicago of this year. 
 
 The Committee find no business item in either of the Particular 
 Synods which needs the attention of the General Synod. We beg 
 leave, however, to suggest that more attention be paid in future to 
 the mechanical part of these Minutes; that the stated clerks be ad- 
 vised to procure better paper, employ newer type, and secure a more 
 accurate proof reader, as these documents are the histories of our 
 Church. 
 
 The unfinished business of the last General Synod, which is in re- 
 ference to Flope College, will be found in the minutes of the Commit- 
 tee on the Professorate, entered on pages 480, 481, 482, 483, 4*4, 
 of the Acts and Proceedings of the Sixty-second General Synod of 
 the Reformed Church. The closing sentence under article 9, on 
 page 68, of the Minutes of the Synod of Chicago, in regard to ap- 
 pointment of members of the Board of Superintendents, the com- 
 mittee are informed was printed by mistake. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted, 
 
 JOSEPH SCUDDER, 
 
 Chairman of the Committee. 
 
 The Committee on Overtures presented the following report, 
 which was accepted and adopted, with the exception of the part re- 
 ferring to Freemasonry, which was referred to a special committee 
 consisting of the Committee on Overtures, and Rev. John Forsyth f 
 and Rev. Philip Phelps, Jr. 
 
 Report of the Committee on Overtures. — The Committee on Over- 
 tures beg leave to report that there have been placed in their hands 
 the following papers, which have received careful consideration : 
 
 1. An application from the Classis of New York on behalf of Wil- 
 liam L. Johnson, for a dispensation that he may be examined for li- 
 censure. Mr. Johnson is a colored man, a member of the South Re- 
 formed Church of New York, and a graduate of Lincoln University, 
 
JUNE, 1869. 628 
 
 Oxford, Penn., where he has been a diligent student for four years, 
 having pursued a full collegiate and theological course, and from 
 which Institution he graduates with high honors. 
 
 His pastor, the Rev. Dr. Rogers, testifies to his irreproachable 
 character, and the Faculty of the University give him a high repu- 
 tation for scholarship. He wishes to devote himself to laboring 
 among the Freedmen of the South, and has spent several months of 
 his last vacation in successful labors in North Carolina. 
 
 Your committee recommend that the application be granted. 
 
 2. A communication from the North Classis of Long Island stat- 
 ing that that Classis has examined Mr. William Ferris, in the pres- 
 ence of a Deputatus, and according to the requirements of the Con- 
 stitu ion, with the exception of an examination in the Hebrew lan- 
 guage, of which he has no k? owledge. The Classis is fully satisfied 
 of the piety, qualifications, and gifts of the candidate, but inasmuch 
 as be lacks a?- acquaintance with the Hebrew, which is required by 
 the Constitution, the Synod is asked to consent to his licensure. 
 
 If the Classis had asked for a dispensation with a view to the ex- 
 amination of Mr. Ferris, we would have felt no hesitation in com- 
 mending the application to the favorable consideration of Synod. 
 But it has anticipated the Synod's action, and proceeded without the 
 authority of law or precedent. The Constitution requires that a 
 candidate for licensure shall appear before Classis with a profes- 
 orial eeitificate. There is no substitute for this except a special 
 dispensation from General Synod. The Classis has assumed the 
 prerogatives of Synod, and now asks that its irregular action be 
 sanctioned. Your committee feel that the candidate, for whom they 
 entertain the highest respect, should not be made to suffer for the 
 fault of the Ciasrds, nor should the action of Classis be allowed to 
 pass into a precedent. They therefore recommend the following 
 resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That Mr. William Ferris be allowed a dispensation from 
 the study of the Hebrew language, and that he be authorized to ap- 
 ply to the North Classis of Long Island for an examination with a 
 view to his being licensed to preach the Gospel. 
 
 3. A communication from the South Classis of Lon«x Island in 
 reference to the following resolution of General Synod, adopted in 
 18(58, and found on page 461 of the Minutes: 
 
 Resolved, That the several Classes be directed to require of each 
 consistory to incorporate in their annual statistical rcpoits a detailed 
 account of all collections taken during the year for the several 
 Boards of the Cnurch, and that the same be included in the Classi- 
 cal Report on the State of Religion, and transmitted to the Particu- 
 lar Synod. 
 
 The Classis asks that this resolution be reconsidered, inasmuch as 
 the information thus sought is already furnished annually in Article 
 22 of the Proceedings of General Synod. 
 
624 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 Your committee recommend as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That this request be complied with, and that said reso- 
 lution be and hereby is rescinded. 
 
 4. An overture from the Classis of New Brunswick in the follow- 
 ing words, viz.: 
 
 '' Resohed, That the General Synod be requested to consider the 
 propriety of its holding stock in incorporated companies which sys- 
 tematically violate the Sabbath day." 
 
 Your committee are not aware that the Synod holds any such 
 stock. The Classis should have accompanied its request with defi- 
 nite statements. It may refer to railroad companies that run un- 
 necessary trains on the Lord's day. Against this growing evil it is 
 proper that the Synod should protest as earnestly as the Classis has 
 done ; but in the absence of definite information as to the relations 
 of the Svnod to such corporations, your comnittee can only express 
 the conviction that those Christian p-entlemen who have control of 
 the investment of the Synod's funds will act in their official capac- 
 ity for the Board of Corporation with the same conscientious regard 
 for the divine law of the Sabbath as if they were acting for them- 
 selves, under a sense of personal responsibility. 
 
 All which is respectfully submitted, 
 
 PAUL D. VAN CLEEF, Chairman. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 SYNODICAL APPEALS. 
 
 Nothing occurred. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 CHURCH GOVERNMENT. 
 
 The Committee on the Revision of the Digest presented the fol- 
 lowing report, which was accepted aud adopted : 
 
 The Committee appointed by General Synod to revise and com- 
 plete the Digest of the Laws of General Synod, respectfully report 
 as follows : 
 
JUNE, 1869. 625 
 
 By the terms of our appointment we were directed to present in 
 a convenient form the legislative action of Synod as it now stands. 
 To prevent undue size and needless expense, if it shall please Synod 
 to have it printed as a manual of reference for its own members and 
 the members of subordinate bodies, we have eliminated from the for- 
 mer Digest what was merely historical, and legislative enactments 
 which have been superseded. Such a manual as that published by Syn- 
 od in 1848 was of great use, but has already placed on sufficiently con- 
 venient record a valuable compend of the early history of the Church. 
 From expressions of brethren, so far as we have had opportunity to 
 consult them, the present need of the Church which Synod proposes 
 to supply is a brief compend of existing laws for our ecclesiastical 
 action, so compact that it would be easily referred to, and that breth- 
 ren in attending our various ecclesiastical bodies would take with 
 them for reference. Questions pertaining to the past history of the 
 Church, and action needing an examination of it, are almost without 
 exception referred to committees to study them during the intervals 
 of meetings. Our former Digest, already embodied in the Minutes 
 of Synod, is a sufficient guide, and sufficiently accessible to all who 
 need to use them. The Chairman of our Commutee is empowered 
 to state verbally to Synod the changes proposed in the arrangement 
 of the new Digest. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 JOHN L. SEE, 
 
 W. H. PHRANER, }- Committee. 
 
 THOS. C. STRONG. 
 
 It was resolved that the revised Digest be ordered to be printed 
 under the superintendence of the same committee, and that the 
 thanks of the Synod be given to the committee for their extended 
 and efficient labors. 
 
 The Committee to secure legislative action on the change of the 
 Dame of the Church reported that the legislation desired had been 
 granted by an act of which they presented a certified copy as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 CHAPTER 197. 
 
 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE CORPORATE TITLE OF THE GENERAL SYNOD 
 OF THE REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH TO THAT OF THE 
 GENERAL SYNOD OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA. PAS- 
 SED April 15, 1869. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
 Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 47 
 
626 JUNE, 1869 
 
 Section 1. The ecclesiastical body hitherto incorporated and 
 known as the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch 
 Church sha 1 hereafter be designated and known by the corporate 
 title of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, and 
 as such exerc^e and enjoy all the rights and powers it has hitherto- 
 possessed, but this act shall not affect any contract, suit, or proceed- 
 ing, claim or demand now existing against said corporation. 
 
 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 ■ 
 
 State of New York, Office of the Secretary of State, ss. : 
 
 I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in 
 this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript 
 therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal of office, at the City of Albany, this 
 twelfth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 sixty-nine. 
 
 [seal] D. WILLERS, Jr., 
 
 Deputy Secretary of State. 
 
 The Committee on the Reorganization of the Particular Synods 
 presented their report, which was accepted, amended, and adopted : 
 
 The Committee appointed at the last session of the General Synod 
 to devise a plan for the reorganization of the Particular Synods, beg 
 leave respectfully to present the following report : 
 
 The history of the Particular Synods of the Reformed Church 
 in America dates back to the year 1794. Previous to that period 
 there had been but two kinds of ecclesiastical assemblies in the 
 Church aside from the Consistory, viz. : the Classis, and the Synod, 
 or, as thev were originally designated, the Part'cular and General 
 Bodies. For many ) ears each of these were annually convened. But 
 in the year 1 7 94 the sessions of the General Synod were made triennial 
 and in the same year a Particular Synod was organized with a view 
 to supplement the lack of the Church arising from the sessions of the 
 General Synod being held only once in three years. In the year 
 ]800, however, the growth of the Church seemed to demand an in- 
 crease of its ecclesiastica 1 judicatories, and accordingly the number 
 of Classes was increased from five to nine, and that of the Particular 
 Synods from. one to two. The functions of these latter bodies were 
 from this period, and especially from the year 1.812, when the ses- 
 sions of the General Synod were again held annually, substantially 
 the same as at the present time. 
 
 As early, however, as 183S, a feeling of dissatisfaction began to 
 be expeiienced by the Church in reference to the constitution and 
 office of the Particular Synods. And in June of that ye*r certain 
 resolutions were presented in the General Synod relative to the organi- 
 
JUNE, 1869. 627 
 
 zation of the Particular Synods ; but after considerable discussion they 
 were indefinitely postponed. In 1848 the Committee appointed the 
 previous year upon the State of the Church, in presenting their re- 
 port to Synod, devoted no inconsiderable amount of attention to the 
 subject of the 1'aiticular Synods, and suggested a plan for their re- 
 organization which in many of its provisions was peculiarly wise 
 and happy. This plan was referred to a special committee by whom 
 it was more thoroughly matured. And having been subsequently 
 adopted by the General Synod, it was sent down to the Classes for 
 their approval or rejection. The Synod of the following: year, how- 
 ever, received reports on this subject from but twelve of the Classes, 
 and as six were in favor of the proposed change, and six against it, 
 the Synod, at the instance of the Committee to whom the reports 
 were referred, resolved that " any change as to the number or man- 
 ner of constituting the Particular Synods would be inexpedient for 
 the present." In 1854 a resolution was adopted by the General 
 Synod that "the following question be sent down to the Classes, 
 viz. : Shall the Particular Synods be made conventional instead of 
 being, as now, delegated bodies? And if not conventional, shall the 
 delegation be increased ? And that their answers be transmitted to 
 the next General Synod." The following year replies were received 
 to these questions from sixteen of the twenty four Classes, and re- 
 ferred to a special committee, who after reviewing the nature of the 
 responses given, reported that "from the replies it would appear 
 that there is a general uneasiness and dissatisfaction with refeience 
 to the sessions of the Particular Synods ; a feeling that something 
 should be done to give greater interest and efficacy to these judica- 
 tories. But in view of the answers that have b«en returned your 
 Committee would recommend the following resolution : 
 
 u Resolved, That it be declared inexpedient to make any change 
 at the present time, in the manner of constituting the Particular Sy- 
 nods." 
 
 In the General Synod of 1868, the question of the reorganization 
 of the Particular Synods was again raised, and your present Com- 
 mittee appointed to report thereon. 
 
 From this rapid review of the history of the Particular Synods, 
 and the action of the General Synod respecting them, it is manifest 
 that the Church is by no means satisfied with their present consti- 
 tution and functions, and that some radical change is necessary to 
 enable them to meet the demands of our denomination at the pres- 
 ent time. 
 
 In undertaking, however, the discharge of the duty assigned them, 
 your Committee have been confronted at the outset with the ques- 
 tion " whether the Particular Synods subserve any useful purpose in 
 the Church, and whether the best method of accomplishing their 
 reorganization would not be to abolish them?" There are not a 
 few in our communion who incline to the belief that they are alto- 
 
628 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 gether valueless. And so general is the disgust occasioned by their 
 present inefficiency, that this number is rapidly increasing. Your 
 Committee, however, after carefully considering the matter, have 
 become fully convinced that the Particular Synods are even now an 
 important feature of our ecclesiastical polity ; and that with certain 
 modifications they may be made to subserve a far more efficient pur- 
 pose in connection with our denominational life and growth. As at 
 present constituted, they perform certain clerical duties in regard to 
 nominations, statistics, &c, which tend greatly to the relief of the 
 Geneial Svnod. In like manner thev constitute a barrier, not al- 
 wavs insuperable, but oftentimes efficient, against the introduction 
 of local and inferior matters upon the floor of the higher judica- 
 tory. And so, too, they exert an influence greater, perhaps, than is 
 commonly realized in the direction of union and harmony of sym- 
 pathy and co-operation between the different Classes of which they 
 are composed. While thus, however, the Particular Synods are by 
 no means useless bodies now, your Committee are fully persuaded 
 that they may be made far more influential for good than they have 
 ever yet been. There seems to be a sphere intermediate between the 
 Classis and the General Synod, which neither of these bodies can, 
 appropriately or successfully occupy, a sphere in which important 
 interests are lodged, and in which the Particular Synods can find 
 scope for extended and vigorous and useful effort. This being the 
 case, it is manifestly the duty of the Church to occupy this sphere. 
 And hence your Comnvttee are unanimously of the opinion that the 
 Particular Synods ought to be retained as an integral part of our 
 ecclesiastical system. 
 
 Ace- pting this conclusion, however, the question which next 
 recurs, respects the changes requisite to be made in order to bring 
 these bodies up to an important and influential position among the 
 judicatoiies of the Church, The satisfactory solution of this ques- 
 tion is conditioned upon the views entertained respecting the dis- 
 tinctive province of the Particular Synods. As already intimated, 
 your Committee are of the opinion that there are certain depart- 
 ments of our Church work which can be done more appropriately 
 and efficiently by thrse bodies, than by either the Classis or the 
 General Svnod. Aside from the functions they already perform of 
 confirming nominations, of collecting statistics, of apportioning as- 
 sessments, and of supervising the examination of candidates, there are 
 certain more peculiarly spiritual duties which properly devolve 
 upon them. 
 
 In the judgment of your Committee it is clearly within the prov- 
 ince of the Particular Synods to exert a specially hallowing influ- 
 ence not only upon the Churches in which they convene, but also 
 upon all the Churches within their bounds. To them the annual 
 reports of the several Classes are sent, and before them come, prop- 
 erly in review, the spiritual condition and prospects of every Church 
 within their limits. It seems eminently fitting, therefore, that the 
 
JUNE, 1869. 629 
 
 Particular Synods should be charged with special duties aDd respon- 
 sibilities in reference to the spiritual welfare of their several congre- 
 gations, and that, accepting the trust, they should devise some effi- 
 cient methods for properly fulfilling it. 
 
 Your Committee are also impressed with the conviction that there 
 are certain duties connected with Church extension and Benev- 
 olence which the Particular Synods can better discharge than either 
 of the other judicatories. Of necessity the Geneial Synod cannot 
 attend to the minute details of these important departments of our 
 Church work, while in numerous instances the Classis, through 
 either indifference or inability, fails to fulfil its mission in this re- 
 gard. Confessedly it is within the province and the power of the 
 Particular Ssnods, if properly constituted and centralized, to give a 
 fresh impetus to the growth of our Church in numerical strength, in 
 spiritual efficiency, and in christian beneficence. 
 
 Your Committee, furthermore, are of the opinion that the Particular 
 Synods ought, for a certain class of causes, to be Courts of final appeal. 
 As at present constituted, they review the proceedings of the lower 
 judicatories, and render a decision upon the matter at issue — only 
 to have an appeal taken in the majority of cases to the General 
 Synod. There seems to be an eminent propriety in allowing, in all 
 cases of Process and Trial, two appeals. But in the judgment of 
 your Committee there is an equal propriety in allowing but two. 
 While in all cases originating in the Classis, it is but just that the 
 privilege of appeal should be granted ; first, to the Particular 
 Synod, and then to the General Synod, in all cases originating in 
 the Consistory, it seems equally just that the opportunity of appeal 
 should be restricted to ; first, the Classis, and then the Particular 
 Synod. By adopting a provision like this, the right of appeal 
 would not be infringed, nor the principles of justice invaded, 
 while on the other hand the General Synod would be relieved of 
 many comparatively unimportant questions of adjudication, and the 
 dignity and importance of the Particular Synods would be increased. 
 
 Entertaining these views respecting the peculiar duties and pre- 
 rogatives of the Particular Synods, your Committee have endeavored 
 to draft a plan for their reorganization, which shall enable them, in 
 connection w T ith the work they already perform, to accomplish their 
 mission in the directions indicated in this report. The plan involves 
 several distinctive features, but each of them your Committee re- 
 regard as sustained by influential considerations. 
 
 First of all, then, it seems eminently desirable that the Particular 
 Synods should have their geographical limits so adjusted as that on 
 the one hand the influence of the Synod may be distinctly felt by 
 all the Churches within its bounds, and on the other hand the sev- 
 eral Churches of the Synod may experience the pulsations of .. com- 
 mon sympathy. These bodies as at present constituted, with ter- 
 ritories stretching, in the case of the Particular Synod of New York, 
 from Philadelphia to Hudson, and in that of the Particular Synod 
 
630 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 of Albany, from Newburg to Rochester, are powerless to influence 
 in the desirable directions already suggested, the remote Churches 
 of which they are composed. But little can be done to promote 
 the spiritual welfare of individual organizations, and but little to 
 achieve success in the matter of Church extension. Of necessity, 
 therefore, greater centralization must be secured to the Particular 
 Synods, and that, too, as your Committee think, by abridging their 
 territorial limits. It seems, also, exceedingly important that these 
 judicatories of the Church should reap all the advantages to be de- 
 rived from a delegation of numerical force. It is true that not al- 
 ways in a multitude of counsellors is there wisdom. At the same 
 time, however, there is a certain prestige and power communicated 
 to an ecclesiastical judicatory by a goodly array of influential mem- 
 bers, not to say anything of the increased interest imparted to the 
 transactions of the body by reason of the many who participate in 
 the same. Your Committee, therefore, have felt that the number 
 of those composing the Particular Synod should be enlarged, and 
 have seriously discussed the question whether this end would be 
 best attained by making the Synods conventional, or by increasing 
 the number of delegates from each Classis. To the former of these 
 methods there are very grave objections. The conventional system 
 seems illy to accord with the genius of our Presbyterian form of 
 Church government, which is republican rather than democratic, 
 and especially is there an incongruity in having a convention 
 charged with the exercise of judicial functions. It is to be feared, 
 also, that this systeii would suggest such a division of responsibility 
 as that but a comparatively few would attend the sessions of the 
 Particular Synods. Besides, there are many Ministers and Elders 
 connected with remote and feeble Churches, who now attend the 
 meetings of these judicatories because, as delegates, their expenses 
 are paid, but who would be wholly deprived of this privilege if the 
 bodies were made conventional. For these reasons your Committee 
 incline to the bel ef that the membership of the Particular Svnods 
 can be best enlarged by an increase in the number of Classical dele- 
 gates. 
 
 If, however, these ecclesiastical assemblies, when convened, are 
 to accomplish the full measure of their legitimate work, it seems 
 indispensably necessary that their sessions should be rendered more 
 interesting, and especially more devotional. The meetings of the 
 Particular Synods have, for many years past, been burlesques upon 
 ecclesiastical judicatories, and even Christian convocations. Dele- 
 gates, both clerical and lay, have attended these bodies, seemingly 
 with the idea of a speedy leturn home uppermost in their minds. 
 The business of the session has been hurriedly transacted. With 
 the exception of the Synodical sermon, no devotional services have 
 been performed, and assembling at ten o'clock, A. M., the Synod 
 has adjourned at five o'clock, P. M., with its duties improperly dis- 
 charged, and, what is far worse, with no favorable impression of 
 
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 ministerial consecration or Christian spirituality left upon the minds 
 and hearts of the people, in whose sanctuary the sessions were held. 
 Your Committee feel that the meetings of the Particular Synods 
 should assume an entirely different character from that they have 
 hitherto possessed, and that such changes should forthwith be 
 effected as will render them worthy of the Church with which they 
 are connected, and the Saviour in whose interests they are convened. 
 
 The theory of our ecclesiastical polity, however, by no means 
 contemplates the restriction -of the influence or efforts of the Par- 
 ticular Synods to the sessions which are annually held. So far from 
 this, these bodies are charged with sacred duties and responsibilities 
 extending throughout the year. Your Committee, therefore, are 
 fully impressed with the belief that some method should be devised 
 to enable the Synods to fulfil their mission in these important di- 
 rections. The promotion of spirituality and activity among the 
 Classes, and their respective congregations ; the culture and devel- 
 opment of systematic beneficence among the masses of our people; 
 the extension of our denominational influence and interests in the 
 organization of new churches, and other kindred forms of Christian 
 effort, afford the fullest scope for the legitimate working of the Par- 
 ticular Synods. And if by committees or otherwise this work 
 could t e undertaken and performed, new life would be given to the 
 Particular Synods themselves, and fresh vigor and inspiration would 
 be communicated to the Church we love and serve. 
 
 In view of these considerations, your Committee in closing their 
 report would respectfully offer the following resolutions, viz : 
 
 1. Resolved, That this Synod deems it desirable to organize anew 
 Particular Synod, and that the Classes of Bergen, South Bergen, 
 Monmouth, New Brunswick, Paramus, Passaic, Philadelphia, and 
 Raritan, be and hereby are dismissed from the Particular Synod of 
 New York, to constitute a new Particular Synod. 
 
 2. Resolved, That the Classes of Bergen, South Bergen, Mon- 
 mouth, New Brunswick, Paramus, Passaic, Philadelphia and Raritan, 
 be and hereby are instructed to appoint delegates at their next fall 
 sessions, in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution, to 
 meet in the First Reformed Church of New BruDswick, N. J., on the 
 first Monday of November next, at 10 o'clock, A. M., and proceed 
 to organize a new Particular Synod, to be called the Particular 
 Synod of New Brunswick. 
 
 3. Resolved, That the Revs. Goyn Talmage, J. Elmendorf, and 
 Gabriel Ludlow, be a Committee on the part of this Synod, to at- 
 tend the above-mentioned meeting, and assist in the organization of 
 the contemplated Particular Synod. 
 
 4. Resolved, That the Classes of Kingston and Orange be and 
 hereby are transferred from the Particular Synod of Albany, to the 
 Particular Synod of New York. 
 
 5. Resolved, (If a majority of the Classes concur), That every 
 Particular Synod shall hereafter consist of a delegation of four Min- 
 isters and four Elders from each of the Classes within its bounds. 
 
632 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 6. Resolved, That it be enjoined upon the Particular Synods 
 to transact their business with due deliberation, and to hold such 
 devotional services during their sessions as may conduce to the 
 spiritual improvement of their members, and the several Churches in 
 which they assemble; and that to compa-s this desirable result, it 
 is earnestly recommended by this Synod, that the Particular Synods 
 hereafter convene at three o'clock, P. M., of the day designated for 
 their regular session ; that after their organization is effected, the 
 fiist hour be spent in devotional services ; that the Synodical sermon 
 be preached the same evening; that the first hour of the next morn- 
 ing session be spent in devotional exercises, in connection with 
 which the Chairman of the Committee on the State of Religion 
 shall read such extracts from the annual reports of the Classes as he 
 may elect; that in the afternoon of the second day of the session, 
 the Lord's Supper be administered under the auspices of the Synod; 
 that in the evening of the same day a sermon be preached before 
 Synod ; the Preacher and his theme, together with an alternate, to 
 be chosen at the preceding annual session, and that the fir.-t half- 
 hour of each subsequent day of the Synod be spent in devotional 
 services. 
 
 7. Resolved, (If a majority of the Classes concur), That the Par- 
 ticular Synods be, hereafter, Courts of final appeal for all causes 
 that have, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, 
 been tried originally in the Consistory, unless as many members of 
 the Particular Synod as there are Classes composing said Synod 
 shall, within ten days after the adjournment of the same, file with 
 the President of the Particular Synod a certificate to the effect that 
 in their judgment, any cause originating in the Consistory which 
 has been reviewed by the Particular Synod, is a proper case for the 
 action of the General Synod, in which case an appeal may be taken 
 to the higher judicatory. 
 
 8. Resolved, '1 hat two committees be hereafter appointed by 
 each of the Particular Synods, to be called respectively the Committee 
 on Church Visitation, and the Committee on Church Extension; 
 that each of these Committees be composed of nine members, viz : 
 Six Ministers and three Elders; that at the next regular session of 
 each of the Particular Synods, these Committees be appointed by 
 ballot — one-third of their number, viz: Two Ministers and one 
 Elder being chosen to serve for one, two, and three years respectively, 
 and that at each succeeding annual session, two Ministers and one 
 Elder be elected for three years. 
 
 9. Resolved, That the Committee on Church Visitation be 
 charged with the promotion of spiritual religion and Christian be- 
 neficence among the Churches within the bounds of the Particular 
 Synod; and that at some suitable period of each year, it arrange to 
 hold a Convention of Churches within the limits of each Classis, at 
 which some of its members shall be present, to urge these import- 
 ant interests upon the minds and hearts of the people. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 633 
 
 10. Resolved, That the Committee on Church Extension be 
 charged with the general supervision of our denominational growth 
 within the bounds of the Particular Synod ; that it search out op- 
 portunities for the establishment of new organizations, and that it 
 afford ah possible encouragement and assistance to feeble enter- 
 prises — it being understood that this Committee is designed to 
 supplement rather than supersede the efforts of the Classis, and the 
 Board of Domestic Missions, and that nothing in this resolution 
 shall be construed in such a manner as to infringe the preroga- 
 tives of either. 
 
 11. Resolved, That the Secretaries of the several Boards of the 
 Church be requested, so far as they may be able, to attend, alter- 
 nately, the sessions of the Particular Synods, and address the 
 members upon the claims of the respective Boards, and upon the 
 general subject of Christian beneficence. 
 
 The plan, thus suggested by your Committee, involves the neces- 
 sity of amending two sections of the Constitution. They recom- 
 mend, therefore, the adoption of the following supplemental reso- 
 lutions, viz : 
 
 Resolved, That the General Synod approve and propose to the 
 Classes the amendment of Chapter II., Article IV., Section I., of 
 the Constitution of the Reformed Church, in such a manner as that 
 it shall read as follows, viz: " Every Particular Synod shall compre- 
 hend a certain number of Classes to be designated by the General 
 Synod, and shall consist of a delegation of four Ministers and four 
 Elders from every Classis within its bounds, and nine Ministers and 
 nine Elders, when regularly convened, shall constitute a quorum for 
 the transaction of business, excepting those Synods which may con- 
 sist of not more than five Classes, in which cases six Ministers and 
 six Elders may form a quorum." 
 
 Resolved, That the General Synod approve and propose to the 
 Classes the amendment of Chapter II., Article I., Section 7, of the 
 Constitution of the Reformed Church, by inserting after the phrase 
 "enjoys the same privilege" the language "except that the Particu- 
 lar Synod shall be a Court of final appeal for all causes that have, 
 in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, been tried 
 originally in the Consistory," unless as many members of the Par- 
 ticular Synod as there are Classes composing said Synod shall, with- 
 in ten days after the adjournment of the same, file with the Presi- 
 ident of the Particular Synod a certificate to the effect that in their 
 judgment any cause originating in the Consistory which has been 
 reviewed by the Particular Synod, is a proper case for the action of 
 the General Synod, in which case an appeal may be taken to the 
 higher judicatory. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 JOHN McCLELLAN HOLMES, Chairman. 
 
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634 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 A Committee was appointed, consisting of Rev. J. B. Drury, E. 
 Winter, Elder J. W. Ferdon, on the Appendix to the Constitution. 
 The Committee presented the following report, which was accepted 
 and adopted : 
 
 Your Committee to consider the relation to the Constitution of its 
 
 second Appendix and the resolution in reference to its amendment,. 
 
 would respectfully report : 
 
 That ail the sections of the Appendix are nothing more than res- 
 olutions of Synod, and may therefore be amended by the same au- 
 thoiity. 
 
 In view of the inconvenience which may arise in case any of our 
 Holland Churches might wish to call a Minister from the mother 
 country, we would propose the following addition to the above- 
 mentioned rule, viz : 
 
 " This rule shall not apply to Ministers called from the Reformed 
 Church in Holland by any of our congregations, and coming with 
 satisfactory credentials and testimonials." 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 J. B. DRURY, Chairman, 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 DOCTRINES AND MORALS. 
 
 Nothing occurred. 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 
 * 
 
 CUSTOMS AND USAGES. 
 
 The Committee on the Publication of the Hymn Book presented 
 ninety-five Hymns for examination by the Synod, with a view to 
 their introduction in the Book. 
 
 The following Committee was appointed to make such examina- 
 tion. Rev. J. Forsyth, James Demarest, Jr., and Elder Wm. H. 
 Crosby. 
 
 The Committee reported that the Hymns be approved, and the 
 report was accepted. 
 
 The Committee on the Publication of the Hymn Book presented 
 the following report, which was accepted, amended, and adopted : 
 
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 The Committee appointed at the last session of General Synod, 
 with directions "to arrange for and superintend the publication of 
 the Hymns approved " by said Synod, respectfully report progress, as 
 follows : 
 
 The directions given being general in their character, the Com- 
 mittee considered it their first duty to study up the history of the 
 Hymnology of the Church, and the action of Synod respecting it in 
 previous years, that they might conform their action, as far as possi- 
 ble, to established usage. 
 
 A resume of that history may not improperly introduce this report. 
 
 The Church orders ratified by the National Synod of Dordrecht 
 (A. D. 1618, 1619) which are still "recognized as containing the 
 distinctive and fundamental principles of our Church government," 
 (Minutes of Synod for 1833, p. 202), declare that " the one hundred 
 and fifty psalms of David; the Ten Commandments; the Lord's 
 Prayer ; the twelve articles of the Christian faith ; the songs o f 
 Mary, Zacharias, and Simeon, versified only, shall be sung in public 
 worship. The Churches are left at liberty to adopt, or omit, that 
 entitled Thou who art our Father God! All others are pro- 
 hibited." This usage prevailing in the Netherlands, was transfer- 
 red to this country. Several copies of the Psalm-books, which the 
 fathers brought with them, are in the hands of the Committee. They 
 are invariably bound up in the same volume with the Bible, or the 
 New Testament at least, the Catechism and Liturgy. These Psalms, 
 in Hollandish, are the version of Peter Dathe, the eminent biblical 
 scholar and critic, by whom they were translated, however, not from 
 the original, but from the French. 
 
 This was the first book in use in the Reformed Church, in America. 
 It contains, besides the Psalms, the Ten Commandments, the song of 
 Zacharias, the song of the Virgin Mary, the Apostle's Creed, the 
 Lord's Prayer, the Articles of the Christian faith, translated out of 
 German by Jan Uytenhoven, the Morning prayer, the Evening 
 prayer, the prayer before Sermon, prayer before eating, prayer after 
 eating, the evening prayer entitled Christe qui Luxes et Dies, and a 
 tran>lation by Abraham Van der Meer, from the Greek Bible, of the 
 one hundred and fifty-first of the Psalms of David. Every word oi 
 the>e Psalms, and Creeds, and Prayers, is set to music of a simple 
 recitative character, in which all might join, by Cornells de Leeuw. 
 This book was in use in all the Dutch Churches in this country 
 until the Consistory of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of 
 the city of New York found it necessary to have divine service per- 
 formed in the English language, and, on the 9th of November, 1767, 
 approved and recommended for the use of their Church and schools 
 an English Psalm-book, published by their order, " which is greatly 
 indebted to that of Dr. Brady and Mr. Tate ; some of the Psalms 
 being transcribed verbatim from their version, and others altered so 
 as to fit them to the music used in the Dutch Churches." (Prefatory 
 
636 JUNE, 1869 
 
 note.) This book contains, besides the Psalms of David, fifteen 
 pages of " Hymns," viz: The Ten Commandments, song of Zacharias, 
 the song of the Virgin Mary, the song of Simeon, the Creed, and 
 the Lord's Prayer, all set to the simple music, in which all the people 
 joined, so that the compiler could truthfully say, " A great part of 
 divine worship consists in harmonious sinking. This first book 
 in English was the second book in use in our Churches. 
 
 The Articles of Union adopted in 1771, make no mention of 
 Psalmody, but agree to " abide in all things," by the regulations of 
 the Synod of Dort, hereinbefore quoted. 
 
 In 1773, a new version of Psalms and Hymns was compiled and 
 adopted in the Netherlands, and was soon after introduced into some 
 of the Dutch Churches in America, constituting the third book thus 
 used. Of this, the Committee have not, as yet, been able to secure 
 a copy, but it is believed that it differs from the preceding chiefly in 
 the higher critical character of the Psalms. In 1787, General Synod 
 appointed a committee to compile a Psalm-book "out of other col- 
 lections of English Psalms in repute and received in the Reformed 
 Churches — no congregation, however, to be obliged thereto, where 
 that of the New York Consistory is in use." Additional instructions 
 were given the next year, to print " some well-composed spiritual 
 hymns, in connection with the Psalms," and the committee was 
 " also empowered, as soon as the majority agree in relation to the 
 compilation, to forward said Psalm-book to the press." This, how- 
 ever, they did not do until they had reported the same to the extra- 
 ordinary session of Synod in 1789, and obtained its approval thereof, 
 after which it was speedily published. It contains, besides the 
 Psalms of David, a century of hymns, of which, " 1 to 52 are suited 
 to the Heidelberg Catechism ; 53 to 73 are adapted to the Holy 
 Ordinance of the Lord's Supper ; and hymn 74 to the end are on 
 miscellaneous subjects." Among these occur such titles as " Christ- 
 mas," "The Song of the Angels," "Resurrection," "Ascension," 
 " Whitsunday," " New Year," &c , &c, &c. 
 
 This first book prepared by the order of General Synod, being 
 the fourth book used in our Churches, is without music, as have been 
 all subsequent books thus prepared until this time. This selection 
 continued in use for a full quarter of a century, and is still an admi- 
 rable one. Many of its selections, which had been unaccountably 
 dropped from succeeding books, have been restored in the one here- 
 with presented to Synod. 
 
 In 1812, on petition of the Classis of New York, referred to Gen- 
 eral Synod by the Particular Synod of New York, Synod declared it 
 " desirable that our Psalms and Hymns be improved and enlarged," 
 and requested " Dr. Livingston to make the selection, agreeably to 
 the views expressed," which he did, submitting it to a committee, 
 by whom it was reported to the Synod of 1813, whereupon a man- 
 datory order was issued, that it " be forthwith introduced into 
 public worship in all our Churches !" Its use was recommended, 
 
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JUNE, 1869. 637 
 
 also, "to all families and individuals, instead of the book hitherto 
 in use." No radical change has been made in the Psalmody of the 
 Church from that day to this. This second book, prepared by order 
 of Synod, being the fifth book in use in the Churches, has been in- 
 creased by successive additions, but is essentially the book still in 
 use. The order of the hvmns in this book is the same as in that 
 which preceded it, but the number was increased to two hundred 
 and seventy-three (273). In 1831, the Rev. Thomas DeWitt, 
 chairman of a committee appointed for that purpose, reported one 
 hundred and seventy-two (172) other hymns, which were approved 
 and published as an appendix, called "Book II." of hymns. The 
 book thus enlarged may be regarded as the sixth book in use in our 
 Churches. 
 
 In 1843, three hundred and thirty-one (331) other hymns were 
 approved by Synod and published under the title of " Sabbath 
 School and Social Hymns." The direction of Synod to separate the 
 Sunday school from the social hymns was not observed. 
 
 In 1845, it was "Resolved, that the whole subject of the hymn- 
 book be referred to a special committee, — to consider the import- 
 ance of a new arrangement of our hymns for social and Sabbath 
 school worship ; and that they report to the next General Synod, 
 with the addition of such new hymns as may make the collection 
 more complete, (p. 478.) In 1846, the Rev. Isaac Ferris, Chair- 
 man, reported three hundred and fifty additional hymns, which 
 were approved. Of these, eight (8) were added to the " Sabbath 
 School and Social Hymn Book," and three hundred and forty-two 
 (342) were published separately, under the title of "Additional 
 Hymns." These, together with those before constituting "Book I." 
 and "Book II.," were all re-arranged and numbered as they now 
 stand in the book in use in our Churches. This may be regarded 
 as the seventh book thus used in the Reformed Church in America. 
 The committee presided over by the venerable Thomas DeWitt, as 
 well as that presided over by the Rev. Chancellor Isaac Ferris, both 
 suggested the convenient arrangement of classifying the Psalms and 
 Hymns in one general arrangement, though the work was not per- 
 formed by either. In the book of 1789, this distinction was made 
 with propriety, the versions of the Psalms being comparatively 
 close, and the hymns of a widely different character. But in all 
 succeeding books, ft has been a distinction without a difference, 
 some of the so-called "hymns " being much more nearly accurate 
 versions of Psalms than others classed as such ; and some of the 
 " Psalms " partaking very slightly of the character of the Hebrew 
 Psalm of the same number. 
 
 It is worthy of note also, that in 1846, for the first time, did Gen- 
 eral Synod authorize an edition of the Psalm and Hymn-book with- 
 out the Liturgy, the committee advising it and suggesting that they 
 had endeavored " to make the poetical liturgy of the Church com- 
 plete." 
 
638 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 In 1862, the Board of Publication laid before Synod the "Fulton 
 Street Hymn-book," containing three hundred and twenty-six 
 hymns, twenty-tivo (22) of which had " never been authorized by any 
 Sy nodical action, with the view to obtain its sanction for the use of 
 the hymns here pointed out." These hymns were accordingly ex- 
 amined by the Committee on Publication, and, on their recommen- 
 dation, were " sanctioned and approved," and " the book recom- 
 mended to the Churches." 
 
 In this chronological sketch, no allusion has been made to books in 
 the French and German languages ; but so long ago as 1792, Synod ap- 
 proved and recommended, " in the French language, the Psalms and 
 hymns compiled by Theodore De Beza and La Moiet; and in the 
 German language, the Psalms and hymns published at Marburghand 
 Amsterdam, used in the Reformed Churches in Germany, in the 
 Netherlands, and in Pennsylvania." 
 
 In 1853, the German Evangelical Mission Church of New York, 
 through its pastor, the Rev. J. C. Guldin, petitioned General Synod 
 "in relation to the preparation and publication of a hymn-book in 
 the German language ; whereupon a committee was appointed to 
 select and arrange the materials for such a book." The committee 
 was directed to submit it, when prepared, to the inspection of 
 another committee, and it was "Resolved, That when approved by 
 them, the Board of Direction be authorized to make a contract for 
 having them printed, without delay." Accordingly, the excellent 
 
 book compiled by , now in use in our German Churches, 
 
 was published in October of the same year. 
 
 The Board of Publication has also published a German book for 
 Sunday schools, with music, and an edition of our standard Psalms 
 and hymns, with music. 
 
 This statement, it is believed, completes the outline of this his- 
 tory until the inception of the present enterprise. 
 
 In 1868, the South Classis of Long Island preferred to General 
 Synod a request " for the approval of two hundred and fifty new 
 hymns and chants, to be published with about three hundred and 
 fifty of those hitherto approved, with appropriate music." A book, 
 including these hymns, was then in process of preparation under the 
 direction of the Classis. The matter was referred to a special com- 
 mittee, which reported in favor of granting the request, and of ap- 
 proving, also, three hundred and fifty (350) other hymns, selected 
 from various sources by the Committee. Synod adopted the report 
 of the Committee, and thus made an addition to the hymnology of 
 the Church of six hundred ((>uo) hymns never before approved, 
 The present Committee was appointed " to arrange for and superin- 
 tend the publication of the hymns herewith approved." Only a 
 part of this work has, hs yet, been accomplished. 
 
 The collection, for the service of the sanctuary, entitled "Hymns 
 of the Church " is complete. It is printed, but it is not yet issued, 
 both because the labor of preparation has been much greater than 
 
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 was anticipated, and because it was thought desirable not to publish 
 it until after this meeting of General Synod. The book, as it was, 
 in the hands of the Classical Committee at the last meeting; of Gen- 
 eral Synod, was afterward greatly enlarged and modified by them, 
 according to the request of Synod's Committee, by whom it was 
 subsequently received from the Claris. The general arrangement 
 and structure of the book is essentially the same as it was at that 
 time. The Chairman of the Classical Committee, the Rev. Zachary 
 Eddy, has been the faithful co-laborer of the Committee in revising 
 the book for publication, and in carrying it through the press. 
 
 The Committee, according to direction, first selected " about 
 three hundred and fifty (350) of the best of those (hymns) hitherto 
 approved." These, together with the two hundred and fifty (250) 
 sent up from the South Classis of Long Island, were digested under 
 appropriate headings, and prepared for publication. But it was soon 
 found that an additional number of the hymns "hitherto approved" 
 might be incorporated without materially increasing the expense, 
 and with the probable result of largely increasing the sale of the 
 work. Such additional selection was accordingly made. In the 
 construction of the work on the plan adopted, it frequently became 
 necessary to complete a page with a hymn upon the same subject 
 as the others on the page, and also in the same metre, and a hymn 
 answering both these requirements could not always be found among 
 those hitherto approved. 
 
 It thus became necessary either to stop the work, to do it in an 
 imperfect manner, or to insert some hymns not yet approved. On 
 mature deliberation and consultation, this last plan was adopted, 
 with the intention of asking the approval of these hymns, before 
 the issue of the book with the imprimatur of the Synod, as was 
 done in the case of the Fulton Street Hymn Book. Of course, 
 pains have been taken to select only hymns whose teaching is 
 strictly in accordance with the standards of the Church. The criti- 
 cal character of these additional hymns, is necessarily below that of 
 the rest of the book, at least in many cases. A few which have 
 been inserted at the special request of brethren, or written for the 
 work are, of course, excepted from this statement. For these addi- 
 tional hymns, approval is hereby asked. 
 
 The Committee desire to acknowledge the valuable assistance of 
 christian brethren and friends, (especially of the Rev. David K. Sut- 
 phen and the Rev. Maurice G. Hansen), in the preparation of the 
 Indexes. Important suggestions respecting the work have also been 
 made by others, for which the Committee are deeply grateful. 
 
 Various authors and publishers have allowed the use of both 
 hymns and tunes belonging to them, for which kind courtesy they 
 merit the thanks of the Church, and none more than the Rev. x^hilip 
 Scha.fr, D.D. Several gentlemen have furnished original contribu- 
 tions which add greatly to the excellence of the work. Among 
 these it is not invidious to mention the Rev. Ray Palmer, D.D., 
 
640 JUNE, 1P69. 
 
 who has kindly allowed the use of several hymns first published in 
 this collection. The musical editor of the work is the well-known 
 chorister and organist, U. C. Burnap, Esq. 
 
 The Committee has been fortunate enough to secure the publica- 
 tion of this book by the firm of A. S. Barnes & Co., which has had 
 a very wide experience and unprecedented success in enterprizes of 
 this kind. The book is published without any expense or any risk 
 on the part of the Synod or the Church. Two editions are pre- 
 pared ; the one, with tunes ; the other, without. 
 
 The publishers have agreed to pay a royalty of twenty-five (25) 
 cents on each and every book sold. Of this royalty, ten (10) cents 
 on each book with music is to be paid to the musical editor, as com- 
 pensation for his services. 
 
 The rest of the proceeds, after the payment of expenses, (being 
 fifteen (15) cents on each book with music, and twenty -five (25) 
 cents on each book without music), will be paid, if Synod endorse 
 the book and recommend it to the Churches, to the Treasurer of 
 General Synod. The publishers with great liberality allowed the Com- 
 mittee to designate, precisely, the paper and type they desired, and 
 entirely new type was bought to meet their wishes. In mechanical 
 construction and beauty, at least, the book is far in advance of any 
 in the market. Several congregations of the Presbyterian, Congre- 
 gational and other denominational bodies are preparing to introduce- 
 it at once. 
 
 In editing the hymns, pains has been taken to conform them as 
 far as possible to the form in which they were issued by their au- 
 thors. This is a simple act of justice, but it is believed that it has 
 very much increased the excellence of hymns largely made pointless 
 by the mutilation of compilers. In a few instances where it has 
 seemed impossible to restore the original form without a shock to 
 both taste and habit, the common form has been retained, the fact 
 of alteration being indicated in the table of first lines. In some 
 cases the Committee have not been able to discover the original 
 form, and have simply retained that which seemed in most common 
 use. The labor and care involved in verifying such a selection, 
 made in fact from the whole field of English literature, can be known 
 only by those who have had experience of it. It is hoped that the 
 character of this selection will prove not unworthy of the times in 
 which it is made. The general revival of hymnology throughout 
 the christian world, the valuable additions made to it by transla- 
 tions from various languages, the increased regard which is paid to 
 it as the principal means by which the people of God participate 
 actively in public worship, have affected all denominations. It was 
 fitting that the first Reformed Church in America should be behind 
 none in adapting herself to the times in which she lives, by availing 
 herself of all the best possible God given means of praise. Nor is 
 it less a matter of gratulation that many of these excellent hymns 
 are from the pens of the ministers whom God has given to our own 
 Church. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 641 
 
 The music also has been derived from sources wide apart, the resi- 
 dence of the editor in various lands, and his familial ity with their 
 languages and modes of worship, enabling him to avail himself of 
 the music in use throughout the Christian world. Competent critics 
 confidently assert that the music of this book is, as a whole, of a 
 higher grade than that of any book hitherto published in this coun- 
 try. It is hoped that the book may be the means of cultivating 
 taste as well as piety. 
 
 In conclusion, the Committee beg leave to suggest to Synod the 
 desirableness of departing from the precedent established in 1813, 
 the only other instance in which an entirely new book was prepared 
 by order of Synod. At that time it was 
 
 " Resolved, That this selection be forthivith introduced into pub- 
 lic worship in all our Churches ; and the General Synod recommend 
 the same to all the families and individuals within their commun- 
 ion, to be adopted instead of the book which has hitherto been in 
 use." 
 
 The Committee suggest the adoption of the following resolution, 
 modified from that of 1813 : 
 
 Resolved, That General Synod approve and authorize the book 
 entitled " Hymns of the Church," including the ninety-five addi- 
 tional hymns for which approval is asked, and recommend it to all 
 Churches, families, and individuals within their communion. 
 
 JOHN B. THOMPSON, 
 
 ASH BEL G. VERM I LYE, \ Committee. 
 
 ALEX. R. THOMPSON, 
 
 Resolved, That the action of the General Synod in 1848, prohib- 
 iting the issue of any edition of the Psalms and Hymns of our 
 Church without the Confession of Faith and Liturgy, be reaffirmed in 
 relation to the " Hymns of the Church " approved and authorized 
 by this Synod. 
 
 Resolved, That the Committee having this matter in charge be 
 instructed to procure a sufficient number of copies of said Book for 
 use in our Churches, which shall contain our Docttinal Standards and 
 Liturgy as now published, and that General Synod recommend such 
 only to be introduced into our Churches. 
 
 Resolved, That all such copies shall bear upon their title page the 
 named of our Church, " Reformed Church in America." 
 
 The Committee en the Revision of the Liturgy reported progress 
 and the Committee was continued. 
 
\ 
 
 642 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 SCHOOLS AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION. 
 
 The Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education was 
 received and referred to the Committee on Education, with the ex- 
 ception of so much as refers to vacancies, which was referred to the 
 Committee on Nominations. 
 
 The Annual Report of the Treasurer of the Board of Education 
 was received, and referred to the Committee on Education. 
 
 The Committee on Education presented the following report, 
 which was accepted and adopted : 
 
 The Committee on Education, to whom was referred the Thirty- 
 seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education of the Reformed 
 Church, and its accompanying documents, having carefully examin- 
 ed the above-mentioned papers, beg leave respectfully to present the 
 following report : 
 
 The operations of the Board of Education during the past year 
 have been characterized by the most marked success. Fifty-eight 
 students for the ministry have been sustained by the funds of*the 
 Board, of whom six have graduated from the Theological Seminary, 
 and are now engaged in the work to which God has called them in 
 our own land, in China, and in Japan. Of the aggregate number 
 thus composing the beneficiaries of the Board, twenty-one have been 
 received during the last twelve months, constituting an increase of 
 students in preparation for the sacred office which is every way 
 gratifying to the Church. This large increase, next to the divine 
 blessing upon the Board, is chiefly attributable to the change in its 
 policy, inaugurated at tbe last session of the General Synod. And 
 in view of the results already effected, the wisdom of receiving young 
 men upon the funds of the Board, previous to their being fitted to 
 enter College, is fully vindicated. 
 
 The Parochial School system, wdiich is conducted by the Board, 
 although comparatively limited in its operations, is yet accomplish- 
 ing an important work. Thirteen churches have received aid dur- 
 ing the year in support of their Parochial Schools, and from the an- 
 nual reports which have been received by the Board, it appears that 
 happy influences have been exerted and gratifying results accom- 
 plished in connection with this agency of the Church. It is to be 
 regretted, however, that more churches do not avail themselves of 
 the benefits derivable from the system thus established. Manifestly 
 the conj unction of intelligence and piety is essential to the welfare 
 of the Church, and for the furtherance of this end the Parochial 
 
JUNE, 1869. 643 
 
 school system seems eminently adapted. It is therefore earnestly 
 commended to the Churches of the Synod. Despite the success, 
 however, which has attended the efforts of the Board in the several 
 departments of its work, its receipts during the year have not been 
 commensurate with its expenditures. The amount derived from col- 
 lections and donations, exclusive of interest from invested funds, has 
 been 812,301 3*7. This sum, while an increase of $1,792 97 over 
 the receipts of the previous year, has not been sufficient to conduct 
 the operations of the Board; and, as the consequence, a debt is re- 
 ported to Synod as resting upon the Board of 13,942 49. This re- 
 sult is attributable partly to the failure of two hundred churches to 
 contribute anything to the funds of the Board during the past year, 
 and partly to the heavy drafts made upon the treasury for the sup- 
 port of Hope College. 
 
 So far as the former of these causes is concerned, your Committee 
 regard it as wholly unjustifiable. The interests represented by this 
 Board are vital to the efficiency and success of the Church. Every 
 organization, and indeed every individual, has a personal responsi- 
 bility in connection with their support. And the strongest considera- 
 tions of duty, therefore, urge upon every church the taking of an 
 annual collection in behalf of this object. 
 
 So far as the remaining cause is concerned, your Committee are 
 equally clear in their convictions that so soon as is practicable it 
 ought to be removed. Hope College is the child of the Church, one 
 of the youngest and most fondly loved of her children. It deserves, 
 therefore, at her hands the most affectionate care, and the most lib- 
 eral support. This, however, can be afforded in a satisfactory man- 
 ner only by means of an adequate and permanent endowment. It 
 is justice neither to Hope College nor to the Board of Education 
 that the former should be dependent upon the latter for support, and 
 the latter should divert more than one half of its annual collections 
 from their legitimate channel of educating students for the Ministry 
 in order to suppoit an institution which the Church is abundantly 
 able to endow. 
 
 In view of the considerations which have thus been suggested, 
 your Committee would offer the following resolutions, viz : 
 
 1. Resolved, That this General Synod gratefully recognizes the 
 divine blessing which has attended the efforts of the Boaid of Edu- 
 cation during the past year, and heartily reaffirms its previous reso- 
 lutions of confidence in the efficient management of the Board. 
 
 2 Resolved, That the important work in which the Board of Ed- 
 ucation is engaged entitles it to the hearty cooperation and liberal 
 support of the entire Church, and that it be and hereby is enjoined 
 upon all the Churches within the bounds of this Synod to take an 
 annual collection in behalf of its funds. 
 
 3. Resolved, That the speedy endowment of Hope College is vital 
 to the educational interests of the Church, and that this work be 
 heartily commended to the liberality of the Churches with a view to 
 
644 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 relieving the Board of Education from the support of this institution 
 on or before the first day of May, 1871. 
 
 4. Resolved, That the last Thursday in February be observed 
 throughout our entire denomination as a day of special prayer for 
 Colleges and other Seminaries of learning, and that the Pastors of 
 all the Churches be requested to preach upon the subject of Christ- 
 ian education on the preceding Sabbath. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 JOHN McC. HOLMES, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 The Committee on Nominations having reported, Synod proceed- 
 ed to fill the places of those in the Board of Education whose term 
 of service bas expired. On counting the ballots it appeared that 
 Rev. B. C. Taylor, J. B. Thompson, J. Romeyn Berry, David Cole, 
 J. Elmendorf, Messrs. S. B. SchiefFelin, Marcus Lyon, and R. N. Per- 
 lee were elected. 
 
 One person was recommended to the Board of Trustees of Rutgers 
 College to receive aid from the Van Benschoten Fund. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 CHURCH COLLEGES. 
 
 The Annual Report of the Council of Hope College was received, 
 and referred to the Committee on the Professorate. 
 
 The following persons recommended by the Particular Synod of 
 Chicago were elected members of the Council of Hope College : 
 
 For Classis of Holland, Rev. P. J. Oggel. 
 " Wisconsin, " J. H. Karsten. 
 
 " Illinois, " U. D. Gulick. 
 
 Rev. C. Van Derveen was nominated and chosen by the General 
 Synod for the Classis of Michigan. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 PROFESSORATE. 
 
 The unfinished business found on the Minutes of the last session 
 of General Synod, pages 480-4, was referred to the Committee on 
 the Professorate. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 645 
 
 The Committee on the Professorate presented the following re- 
 port, which was accepted and adopted : f 
 
 The Committee on the Professorate have had before them for ex- 
 amination — First, the Report of the Board of Superintendents at 
 New Brunswick, which includes also that of the Standing Committee 
 on Hertzog Hall ; and with this Report a separate paper addressed 
 to General Synod by the Chairman of the Committee on Hertzog 
 Hall. 
 
 From these papers your Committee now report the following items 
 for action by General Synod : 
 
 (1.) First. We recommend that the Standing Committee on Hert- 
 zog Hall be instructed to take such means as may be practicable to 
 lighten onerous assessments upon the rooms of students. 
 
 (2.) Second. We recommend that leave be granted to the Semi- 
 nary Faculty to exchange duplicate books in the Library for others, 
 where it can be done to advantage. 
 
 (3.) Third. We recommend, as the Board of Superintendents also 
 recommend, that a dispensation be granted to Mr. Bahler of the Junior 
 Class for necessary absence during part of the year. 
 
 (4.) Fourth. In order to secure such meetings of the Standing 
 Committee on Hertzog Hall as are necessary to the purposes of its 
 creation by General Synod, we recommend the following slight change 
 from the order of last year, viz., that it consist, with power to fill va- 
 cancies, of one Theological Professor (chosen by the Faculty), and 
 five, instead of nine, other members, to be chosen annually by Gen- 
 eral Synod. We also recommend the following members, on the part 
 of General Synod, for the current year, viz. : 
 Rev. J. A. H. Cornell, 
 Rev. W. J. R. Taylor, 
 James Suydam, Esq., New York. 
 William Wood, Esq., New York. 
 David Bishop, Esq., New Brunswick. 
 
 (5.) Fifth. Your Committee have the great gratification of report- 
 ing to General Synod a most liberal donation from James Suydam, 
 Esq., of New York, through the agency of Rev. J. A. H. Cornell, 
 D.D., of forty thousand dollars ($40,000), to endow a Professorship, 
 "to be called and always hereafter known as the James Suydam 
 Professorship of Didactic and Polemic Theology, in the Theological 
 Seminary of the Reformed Church in America ;" which donation 
 has already been deposited in IT. S bonds, and is, by agreement, to 
 be paid to the Treasurer of General Synod on the first of September 
 next. 
 
 Your Committee therefore recommend as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the thanks of this General Synod, and of the wnole 
 Church which it represents, are due, and are hereby gratefully pre- 
 sented to James Suydam, Esq., of New York, for his large gift of 
 $40,000 to endow a Professorship in our Theological Seminary at 
 New Brunswick. 
 
646 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 Resolved, That the Professor ship so endowed shall be called and 
 always hereafter known as "The James Suydam Professorship of Di- 
 dactic and Polemic Theology." 
 
 Resolved, That these resolutions be signed, in the name of Gener- 
 al Synod, by the President, Adsessor, and Stated Clerk, and by them 
 presented to Mr. Suydam. 
 
 (6.) Sixth. In view of his eminent fitness and success thus far, we 
 recommend that the Board of Direction and Standing Committee on 
 Hertzog Hall be authorized to secure the continued services of Rev. 
 J. A. H. Cornell, D.D., in piosecuting that work of endowing the 
 Seminary so auspiciously commenced ; the Board of Direction to 
 make such arrangements as to compensation for his services past and 
 future as they may deem just. 
 
 II. The following papers, relating to Hope College and Seminary 
 have been referred to us, viz: 
 
 General Synod minutes of last year, containing " unfinished bu- 
 siness, pages 481-484 : the annual report of the Council, and that 
 of the Superintendents ; a letter from Prof. Crispell J and a commu- 
 nication from the Classis of Holland ; and a letter from the Senior 
 Class of the Theological School. 
 
 The latter requests " a part in the approaching commencement 
 that shall be indicative of their relations to the University ; " and 
 to be allowed " a professional diploma from the Conncil of Hope 
 Haven University." 
 
 We find the letter respectful, and unexceptionable in tone. But 
 should Synod create such an Institution, no action upon the request 
 will be necessary. In the light of an argument or influence to se- 
 cure that end, while the subject is under discussion in General Synod 
 your Committee deem the communication unusual. 
 
 The subject of chief interest in these papers, is, of course, the 
 University scheme. And, in relation to this matter, your Committee 
 would strongly urge that action, one way or the other, is now im- 
 peratively demanded for the benefit of all concerned. We give the 
 following facts as containing the ca c e in few words. " Hope Col- 
 lege " is located at Holland, Michigan. It is now sustained, and 
 probably for some time will be, very largely, if not mostly, by the 
 Hollanders. But the Hollanders have "no sympathy with a merely 
 literary institution." They will not support it. They say so, and 
 reiterate it, in their various communications to General Synod. It 
 is a Theological school they principally want. The Seminary in per- 
 manent connection with the College, is, therefore, viral to the con- 
 tinued existence of Hope College. Hence, confessedly, the Univer- 
 sity scheme. 
 
 But, on the Theological Seminary side, it is strongly urged, for 
 the dignity of Theology and the interests of ihe Seminary, that it 
 should not become a mere department in a University ; but remain, 
 as at present, "at Hope Co lege," but in a measure separate from 
 it, with its own internal discipline, and its own acknowledged Pro- 
 
JUNE, 18G9. 647 
 
 fessors, its own Board of Superintendents also, distinct from the 
 Council or Trustees of the College. 
 
 Your Committee would now represent, that General Synod has 
 never vet definitely fixed the status of the officers in these several 
 departments, literary and theological. Here are Professors mingling 
 in the same faculty ; but sometimes as College officers, and some- 
 times as Theological officers. Hence inevitable clashing as to duties 
 and powers, injurious to the interests of both institutions. 
 
 But if the status be fixed on the Theological plan, what have we? 
 "We have a young institution, still weak, almost incipient; but wjth 
 divided interests within it, — Jacob and Esau, — when it should be 
 essentially one : a double Faculty, a Council for the College and a 
 Board of Superintendents for the Seminary; and with the jealousy, 
 so fatal to the College, still remaining, that in time they may separate. 
 
 On the other hand, your committee cannot approve, at present, 
 the University scheme ; though the Western Classes look with favor 
 upon it. We are of the opinion that, unless under State control, or 
 with the prestige of large endowments, a university is a thing of 
 time and growth. A university of fifty students, no funds, and paper 
 Professorships, can command no respect, and does not meet the 
 proper idea of that term 
 
 But coming now to Hope College, as already founded, we find, it, 
 by its very charter already complete. It is to provide the usual 
 course of study, " in connection with sound* evangelical, religious in- 
 struction, according to the standards" of our Church. The Council 
 " may, at their option, conduct a Theological Department" So says 
 the charter. The Council is appointed by General Synod directly, 
 from its western ministry and Churches. The funds are under full 
 and absolute control of General Synod. It is General Synod's 
 Theological College. 
 
 With this before us, your Committee feel prepared to submit to 
 General Synod the following resolution, intended to remove present 
 difficulties by fixing definitely the status of things at Hope College: 
 
 Resolved, let, That the action of General Synod in 1867, dividing 
 the Board of Superintendents of the Theological Seminary into two 
 parts, be and the same is hereby rescinded. 
 
 Resolved, 2d, That the Council of Hope Collegebe and the same is 
 hereby constituted and appointed the Board of Superintendents of 
 the Theological school in Hope College ; with duties and preroga- 
 tives like those of the Board of Superintendents of the Theological 
 school at New Brunswick. 
 
 Resolved, 3d, That the Synod proceed to elect two additional 
 Theological Professors ; one of Evangelistic Theology, a*nd one of 
 Exegetical Theology. 
 
 Resolved, 4th, That the Council of Hope College be, and the same 
 is hereby instructed to complete the organization of the Theological 
 department in the College, according to the provisions of the 
 charter and the original design of Synod, as speedily as practicable, 
 
648 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 with the same course of study established by Synod in the Theological 
 school at New Brunswick ; and that such department be, and the 
 same is hereby recognized as the Western Theological School of 
 this Synod. 
 
 Resolved, 5th, That the Faculty of Hope College, exclusive of 
 such members as are not acting as Theological Professors and 
 Lectors by appointment of General Synod, be, and the same is hereby 
 recognized as the Faculty of the Theological school of Synod in Hope 
 College. 
 
 Resolved, 6th, That the Faculty of the Theological school in Hope 
 College be, and the same is hereby empowered and instructed to 
 elect one of their number to represent them as a member of the 
 Council of Hope College. 
 
 Resolved, 7th, That the Council of Hope College be, and the same 
 is hereby empowered and instructed to take such measures to com- 
 plete the endowment of the institution, as shall relieve the Board of 
 Education of the support of its Professors within the space of two 
 years. 
 
 In conclusion, should this young institution grow in time, and, 
 under the divine blessing, to the stature of a University of the Re- 
 formed Church, all, doubtless, would rejoice. But at present, the 
 above is what, and all, we deem the case to demand. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 A. G. VERM1LYE, Chairman, 
 
 Synod proceeded on the eighth day of the session to the appoint- 
 ment of a Professor of Evangelistic Theology, and also of a Professor 
 of Exegetical Theology for the Theological School in Hope College. 
 
 Nominations were made for the Professorship. 
 
 On the succeeding day the Synod, after a season of special prayer, 
 proceeded to the election of two Professors. 
 
 On counting the ballots it appeared that Rev. A. C. Van Raalte 
 was elected Professor of Evangelistic Theology, and Rev. Philip 
 Phelps. Jr., Professor of Exegetical Theology. 
 
 Rev. P. Phelps, professor-elect, appeared in Synod, and signified 
 his acceptance of the office. 
 
 The Synod proceeded to fill the places of those in the Board of 
 Superintendents of the Theological Seminary whose term of service 
 has expired. 
 
 Nominations were received from the Classes of Albany, Pough- 
 kcepsie, Raritan, Saratoga, New Brunswick, Montgomery, South 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 649 
 
 Classis of Bergen, South Classis of Long Island, and South Classis 
 of New York. 
 
 The Committee on Nominations reported a double number of per- 
 sons from whom to choose members for the Classes that have not 
 made nominations. 
 
 The following were elected : 
 
 For Classis 
 
 of Albany, 
 
 Rev. A. C. Millspaugh. 
 
 u 
 
 Poughkeepsie, 
 
 " 0. E. Cobb. 
 
 « 
 
 Raritan, 
 
 " P. M. Doolittle. 
 
 u 
 
 Saratoga, 
 
 " P. Furbeck, in place of Rev. 
 C. Van Santvoord. 
 
 (1 
 
 New Brunswick, 
 
 " C. D. Hartranft. 
 
 it 
 
 Montgomery, 
 
 w R. M. Stanbrough. 
 
 South " 
 
 Bergen, 
 
 " E. P. Terhune. 
 
 South " 
 
 Long Island, 
 
 " J. H. Manning. 
 
 South " 
 
 New York, 
 
 " M. S. Hutton. 
 
 u 
 
 Cayuga, 
 
 " A. G. Vermilye. 
 
 North " 
 
 Long Island, 
 
 " W. H. Ten Eyck. 
 
 <( 
 
 Passaic, 
 
 " N. Conklin. 
 
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 Philadelphia, 
 
 " J. Gardner. 
 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 
 STUDENTS IN THEOLOGY. 
 
 Nothing occurred. 
 
 ARTICLE XVI. 
 
 CHURCH VISITATION. 
 
 Nothing occurred. 
 
 ARTICLE XVII. 
 
 PREVAILING SINS. 
 
 Nothing occurred. 
 
 49 
 
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050 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 ARTICLE XVIII. 
 
 MISSIONS. 
 
 The Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions was received, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Mis- 
 sions, with the exception of so much as relates to vacancies, which 
 was referred to the Committee on Nominations. 
 
 The Report of the Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions was 
 received, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Missions. 
 
 The Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Board of Domestic Mis- 
 sions was received and referred to the Committee on Domestic Mis- 
 sions, with the exception of so much as relates to vacancies, which 
 was referred to the Committee on Nominations. 
 
 The Report of the Treasurer of the Board of Domestic Missions 
 was received, and referred to the Committee on Domestic Missions. 
 
 The Report of the Church Building Fund was received, and re- 
 ferred to the Committee on Domestic Missions. 
 
 The Comnrttee on Domestic Missions presented the following re- 
 port, which was accepted and adopted : 
 
 The Committee on Domestic Missions respectfully report that the 
 Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Board of Domestic Missions, 
 together with the Treasurer's Report, have been placed in their 
 hands. 
 
 These reports are well calculated to awaken gratitude to God, and 
 to stimulate the Church to fresh zeal and activity in the great work 
 committed to her by her Divine Lord. Clear and decided evidence 
 is furnished therein of the progress of our Domestic Missionary work, 
 and of the blessing of God upon the efforts thus put forth. This evi- 
 dence is found in the contributions made to the Board, amounting to 
 $24,973 33, of which sum $16,988 has been given by the churches, 
 an increase over last year of $1,607 from this source, and a larger 
 amount than has ever before been given by them in one year, except 
 when some special appeal has been made to them, in an increase 
 of 32 in the number of contributing churches over those of last year, 
 in an addition during the year of seven to the number of self-sustain- 
 ing churches, some of which have been dependent upon the Board 
 from their organization, in the supply of laborers for the West fur- 
 nished by our westt-rn institutions, meeting a want long felt, in the 
 interest taken by some of our Sabbath schools in the work, two of 
 which unite in furnishing the entire support of a Missionary at the 
 West, in the reviving, under encouraging circumstances, of some 
 
 
JUNE, 1869. 651 
 
 churches at the "West which had been abandoned, in the individu- 
 al aid furnished in at least one instance, where the entire support of 
 a Pastor has been contributed by one who had previously erected a 
 church edifice for the congregation, in the addition to the mem- 
 bership of the churches of 921, of which number 668 have been by 
 conversion, in the refreshing showers of divine grace which have 
 descended upon several of our Mission Churches, and in the increased 
 interest generally exhibited by the Church in sustaining this work. 
 All these call for devout gratitude and thanksgiving to the great 
 Head of the Church. 
 
 But with these songs of joy and praise there mingle in the report 
 of the Board the notes of sadness. The melancholy fact is disclosed 
 that while there has been an increase in the contributions by church- 
 es and individuals over the past and many previous years, the Treas- 
 ury is in arrears to the amount of $5,568 63. This arises chiefly 
 from a falling off in the amount received from legacies. In this con- 
 nection it may well be asked whether we are doing all that we 
 should in so important a cause? Is the sum of $17,000 all that a 
 Church so abundant in resources has to give for the evangelization 
 of our country, and for her own enlargement and increase ? Are 23 
 churches and mission stations all that she can enable this Board to 
 maintain in the great West, now assuming greater importance thai* 
 ever before, and especially when one great difficulty is to a great ex- 
 tent removed, that of procuring laborers for this field ? We feel 
 constrained to say that the amount thus contributed does not reflect 
 any great credit upon our denomination. It is neither according to 
 the measure of our ability, nor to the wants of our country, nor what 
 the interests of our Church require. The times demand of us much 
 larger contributions and more energetic efforts. The spirit of enter- 
 prise and energy and sleepless activity exhibited in the prosecution' 
 of worldly schemes, and especially in the great highway across the 
 continent just completed ; the wide extent of our country; the vast 
 immigration pouring in upon us from other lands ; the mighty ef- 
 forts making by the enemies of truth and godliness indica'ing the 
 approach of a fearful conflict between the friends and foes of Christ; 
 the increasing disregard of the Sabbath and its institutions ; the pre- 
 valence of vice and crime, and the tide of corruption which has been 
 setting in, and is rolling with such fearful power over our land ; all 
 these summon us as a Church to gird up our loins and to do fa* 
 more than we have yet done if we would save our country from ru- 
 in. This land belongs to Christ. The foundations of our country's 
 greatness were laid in the faith of the Gospel, and in the religious 
 principles of its first settlers. That which the Gospel gave us, it 
 only can preserve. It alone can save us from the evils which threat- 
 en our overthrow. Let us not prove false to the trust committed to 
 us. 
 
652 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 CHURCH BUILDING FUND. 
 
 From the Report of the Board it appears that this Fund is render- 
 ing important aid in the work of Domestic Missions. Twelve 
 churches have been finished during the year, or have reached an ad- 
 vanced stage of progress, through the assistance received from this 
 Fund, 121 churches have contributed to it during the year, being 
 47 more than the preceding year, their contributions amounting to 
 $10,772 09. It well deserves the consideration of Synod whether 
 efforts should not be made to increase this Fund as being indispen- 
 sable to the growth and expansion of our Domestic Missionary work. 
 Places in abundance, we are assured, can be found by our Church, 
 and the men can be had to fill them, but the church edifices are 
 wanting, and hence the Board cannot occupy them, or if so, under 
 the greatest difficulties. When $10,000 thus contributed will com- 
 plete twelve houses of worship, is there any better expenditure that 
 can be made of money ? Should not an effoit be made at once 
 to increase the sum to $100,000? We suggest likewise to those 
 whom God has blessed with worldly substance, in making bequests 
 to objects of benevolence, not to forget this right arm of our Do- 
 mestic Missionary work. Let it be considered that whatever is 
 thus given is perpetual, and will be doing its work in all coming 
 time. 
 
 SABBATH SCHOOLS. 
 
 There are in connection with the churches under the care of the 
 Board, 95 Sabbath schools, in which are 8,115 children, 1,317 
 more than last year, while the number of schools is four less. In 
 these have been 93 conversions. Your Committee regard favorably 
 the suggestion in the Report to Pastors and Superintendents of Sab- 
 bath schools, to organize their schools into Domestic Missionary As- 
 sociations, to cooperate with the Board in the work of sustaining 
 feeble churches. 
 
 Your Committee would recommend the adoption of the following 
 resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That this Synod gratefully recognizes the favor of God 
 toward the work of the Board during the past year. 
 
 Resolved, That Synod has learned with much gratification of the 
 increase in the number of churches contributing to the Board, and 
 urgently recommend to every church in our denomination the im- 
 portance of taking a collection for it during the coming and every 
 succeeding year. 
 
 Resolved, That the Board be instructed to make efforts as speed- 
 ily as possible, by employing an agent hitherto authorized by Sy- 
 nod, or by the agents appointed during the past year in the several 
 Classes, to increase the Building Fund to $100,000. 
 
 Resolved, That the Pastors of our Churches and the Superintend- 
 
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 ents of Sabbath schools be recommended, where no such organiza- 
 tions are already in existence, to form Domestic Missionary Asso- 
 ciations in their Sabbath schools, to aid the Board in their work. 
 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 
 S. W. MILLS, 
 
 Chairman, 
 
 The Committee on Foreign Missions presented the following Re- 
 port, which was accepted and adopted : 
 
 A year of unusual prosperity in the Missions demands the most 
 grateful recognition of the Synod and the Churches. The gracious 
 favor of the head of the Church is manifested in every page of the 
 Annual Report of the Board. As this important document will be 
 printed with the Minutes of Synod, and also in pamphlet form for 
 general circulation, your Committee believe that no more powerful 
 arguments can be presented for increased liberality, and abounding 
 prayer, and advancing movement, than the facts and statements of 
 its encouraging record. Truly has it been " a year of the right hand 
 of the Most High." In addition to the ordinary work of the several 
 Missions, we have special reasons for devout thanksgiving to our 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, whose everlasting love and match- 
 less grace have been so signally displayed in the toils and successes 
 of our favored Missions. We refer specifically to such facts as 
 these : Ingatherings of the Churches, the progress of the schools, 
 the usefulness of the medical department of the service, the remarka- 
 ble preaching tours of our brethren in India, with their native assist- 
 ants, the new stations which have been occupied, and those which in- 
 vite our possession, the wonderful work at Chiang-Chiu, the pressing 
 claims of Tindevanum, and the singular providences in Japan, the 
 rapid increase of the native ministry and Gospel helpers in India, 
 the translation of the Scriptures into the Japanese language, and 
 their circulation and results in the other Missions, the new efforts 
 for the education of women in China, the removal of old obstacles, 
 and the positive progress reported by every Mission, and to crown 
 all, the blessings of the Holy Ghost upon the labors of our brethren 
 and their Churches and stations. 
 
 For the particulars of these and other great facts, we must refer 
 the whole Church to the Annual Report. It deserves the careful 
 examination of the ministry, and its important statements should be 
 made familiar to every congregation of the Reformed Church. 
 
 The only shadow that falls upon these annals of the Missions, is 
 from that cloud of debt which overhangs the Board. Yet tLis is 
 the result, not of apathy nor of declining power, but of abundant 
 success, together with some extraordinary expenditures for buildings 
 and for the return of our worn laborers to their native land for rest 
 and health. The actual contributions of the Churches during the 
 
654 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 year have exceeded those of any previous year of our separate mis- 
 sionary operations, and they are a substantial pledge of still greater 
 liberality in the future. « 
 
 The publication of the new monthly paper of the Board, entitled 
 " The Gospel Field," marks an era in the progress of the work, and 
 your Committee believe that the widest possible circulation should 
 be given to this valuable periodical. It ought to reach every family 
 in the Churches. The last great subject which is illustrated and 
 enforced by the Report of the Board, is re-enforcement of the Mis- 
 sions. Two more men are needed at once for India, two for China, 
 and one for Japan ; and there is room for more in each of these 
 fields, if they can be procured. The missionaries now in this coun- 
 try, and who will return with the three ladies, who are already com- 
 missioned as assistant missionaries, will only fill places that are tem- 
 porarily vacated. For new, large, inviting fields ; for aggressive 
 movements upon the kingdom of darkness, and for accomplishing 
 our proper work, the Church once more, in her Saviour's name, 
 makes the solemn appeal, both for the laborers and for the means to 
 send and support them. 
 
 Grateful to the Lord of the harvest, interpreting his favor to our 
 Missions as the royal order for new forward movements, and com- 
 mitting our way unto tbe Lord, we believe that the very safety of 
 the Missions lies in the line of progress, and that the power of the 
 Church, for good, rests in her obedience to the great commission. 
 "With these views your Committee propose for the adoption of Gen- 
 eral Synod the following 
 
 RESOLUTIONS : 
 
 1. Resolved, That this General Synod acknowledges, with devout 
 thanksgiving to the great Head of the Church, the gracious favor 
 wbich He has shown during the past year to the several Missions of 
 our Reformed Church, and that we regard these blessings as new ar- 
 guments for a more vigorous prosecution of this great work. 
 
 2. Resolved, That in view of the important openings for enlarged 
 operations in China, India, and Japan, and the pressing demands for 
 re-enforcements, the Board of Foreign Missions be and hereby is 
 directed, as provided by the last General Synod, to commission and 
 send forth those who are prepared to enter upon this holy service 
 for Christ among the heathen. 
 
 3. Resolved, That while this Synod deplores the existence of the 
 debt of ($24,000) twenty-four thousand dollars, which has been re- 
 ported by the Board, it also rejoices in the fact that this incum- 
 brance is not the result of apathy and decreasing interest among 
 the Churches, but that it is chiefly the effect of the providential 
 successes and enlarged operations of the Missions. 
 
 4. Resolved, That the Synod also recognizes, with great satisfac- 
 
JUNE, 1869. 655 
 
 tion, the liberality of the Churches during the past year, and re- 
 gards this as the pledge of systematic efforts to liquidate the debt, 
 and to sustain and advance the Missions during the present year. 
 
 5. Resolved, That the Churches be recommended to take their 
 monthly contributions for this cause on the morning of the first 
 Sabbath in each month, so that the benevolent offerings of their full 
 congregations may regularly flow into the Treasury, instead of the 
 limited gifts of the few who usually attend the monthly concert for 
 prayer, and in order to prevent the depletion of the funds during 
 the summer season, it is farther recommended that congregational 
 contributions and payments of monies, for this object, be made as 
 largely as practicable in these months. 
 
 6. Resolved, That consecration to the work of Missions, in a time 
 like this, and amid such high encouragements, is alike the duty and 
 the privilege of the Church and her children ; and that this subject 
 is most urgently commended to the hearts and consciences, the pro- 
 gress and faith, the liberality and self-sacrifice of the entire Church. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 WM. J. R. TAYLOR, Chairman. 
 
 Resolved, That the Board be requested to consider the expediency 
 of stationing a Missionary to meet, as they arrive, the heathen now 
 beginning to come in so large numbers to our Pacific coast. 
 
 Resolved, That it be recommended to the families and members 
 of the Reformed Church in America, about to emigrate to the West 
 or the South, to do so, as far as practicable, in companies, which may 
 afford facilities for the establishment of churches and schools among 
 them. 
 
 Resolved, That the Ministers and Elders of the churches be re- 
 quested to be assistant in the matter with good counsel and advice 
 to those under their charge. 
 
 Resolved, That the Board of Domestic Missions be requested to 
 give attention to this subject, and, if they find it practicable, make 
 it the business of their Secretary to aid with such information and 
 advice as he may be able to give, the formation and settlement of such 
 companies, and not only from among the members of the Reform- 
 ed Church in America, but also from among the immigrants from 
 Holland and Germany. 
 
 The Committee on Nominations having reported, the Synod pro- 
 ceeded 1 to fill the places of those in the Board of Foreign Missions 
 whose term of service has expired. On counting the ballots it ap- 
 peared that the following were elected : Rev. G. H. Peeke, W. H. 
 Steele, Denis Wortman, J. McC. Holmes, W. V. V. Mabon, Mr. 
 Sanford Cobb, A. H. Hazen, A. V. Van Vechten. 
 
656 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 The Committee on Nominations having reported, Synod proceed- 
 ed to fill the places of those in the Board of Domestic Missions 
 whose term of service has expired. On countirjg the ballots it ap- 
 peared that the following were elected : Rev. Isaac Riley, T. G. 
 Watson, J. H. Duryea, R. H. Steele, John A. Hardenberg, Robert 
 H. Pruyn, John W. Ferdon, John R. Smith. 
 
 ARTICLE XIX. 
 
 widows' and disabled ministers' funds. 
 
 The Committee, on the Widows' and Disabled Ministers' Funds, 
 presented the following Report which was adopted : 
 
 The Committee on the Widows' and Disabled Ministers' Funds, 
 beg leave to report from the following papers which have been 
 placed in their hands, viz : Widows' Fund Account, Widows' Fund 
 Income Account, and Disabled Ministers' Fund Account, they learn 
 the state of these funds respectively. 
 
 The principal of the Widows' Fund, May 1, 1868, was $27,395 80 
 Receipts, from all sources during the year, 1,796 39 
 
 Making the amount of principal, May 1, 1869, $29,192 19 
 
 From the Income Account, we learn that there was on 
 
 hand, May 1, 1868 928 67 
 
 Receipts from all sources 2,128 58 
 
 Amount paid Annuitants. . . . • $1,257 50 
 
 Withdrawn under the rules 600 00 
 
 3 per cent, of $3,666 66, carried to the prin- 
 
 pal under the rules ... 110 00 
 
 Expenses of Management 256 18 
 
 $3,057 25 
 
 $2,223 68 
 
 Leaving a balance, May 1, 1869 833 57 
 
 Disabled Minister^ Fund : 
 
 Balance on hand, May 1, 1868 $1,087 27 
 
 Receipts, from all sources 1,282 28 
 
 Total $2,369 55 
 
 Appropriated to beneficiaries 950 00 
 
 Balance, May 1, 1859 $1,419 55 
 
JUNE, 1869. 657 
 
 While it is pleasant to note an increase in the number of contrib- 
 uting Churches, it appears to your Committee a matter of deep re- 
 gret that so few of our Churches as yet have given to these funds 
 their confidence and support. It is surely the duty of the Church 
 to care for her aged and disabled ministers, and for the needy wid- 
 ows and orphans of those whose lives have been devoted to her ser- 
 vice. But how shall the Churches be aroused to the importance of 
 this duty ? Various methods have been suggested to the minds of 
 the Committee, all of which have been carefully considered. Among 
 these plans for reaching the Churches, that which seems most feasi- 
 ble to your Committee is, to woik through the Classes. Yet we are 
 at once met by the fact that the subject has again and again been 
 commended to the Classes, and still the matter has failed to receive 
 the attention its importance demands. This may, however, be ac- 
 counted for, at least in part, by the consideration that the Classical 
 agents who were appointed by direction of Synod, have in most in- 
 stances been pastors, who were unable, from their very position, to 
 present the matter to the separate Churches. Your Committee, 
 however, believe that this difficulty might be greatly relieved, if not 
 entirely removed, by the selection of one or more efficient elders in 
 each Classis, to solicit funds under the direction of the pastors of 
 the Churches. We believe that such elders may be found in all our 
 Classes, who will be not only active, but successful agents. We re- 
 commend the following action : 
 
 1. Resolved, That it be enjoined upon each Cassis connected 
 with this Synod, to see to it, that the claims of the widows and 
 disabled ministers are presented in all the Churches. 
 
 2. Resolved, That the method of doing this be left to the judg- 
 ment of the Classis, but that Synod suggests the propriety of en- 
 gaging the eldership in the work of presenting these claims where- 
 ever practicable. 
 
 3. Resolved, That any collateral aid which it may be in the power 
 of unemployed ministers, especially those whose age and influence 
 are such as to insure the confidence of the Churches, to render to 
 these agents, is cordially invited by this Synod. 
 
 There is a single feature of the plan of the Widows' Fund, to 
 which the Committee deem it important to call attention. 
 
 Under the amended rules, the contributions of the Churches, un- 
 less otherwise ordered by the Churches contributing, are added to 
 the principal of the fund. The cop equence is that these contribu- 
 tions have but little perceptible ini* ence upon the amount of annu- 
 ities. It is the view of your Committee that one great reason of the 
 lack of confidence which is manifested by the Churches and Pastors, 
 is the smallness of these annuities. If the sums contributed by the 
 Chinches during the last year had been added to the income to be 
 divided among the annuitants, the amount paid to each would have 
 reached nearly the maximum allowed by the rules of the Fund, viz : 
 $200. With a view, therefore, to enable the Fund to pay to those 
 
658 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 who are entitled to receive its benefits, a sum more nearly adequate 
 to meet their necessities, which in some cases are very pressing, and, 
 at the same time, to inspire a larger confidence, your Committee re- 
 commend the adoption of the following resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That it be recommended to the Churches, in making 
 contributions to the Widows' Fund, to direct the application of 
 their contributions to the income of the Fund, so far as may be nec- 
 essary to bring the annuities up to the maximum amount. 
 
 A memorial has also been placed in the hands of the Committee 
 from the Classis of Wisconsin, upon the subject of establishing a 
 fund to sustain the Emeriti Ministers of our Church, or their wid- 
 ows and orphans, who have no other means of support. The occa- 
 sion of this paper was the case of a Pastor who, having been de- 
 clared emeritus, and promised an annuity, was deprived of his ex- 
 pected support by a division of the congregation. As we have 
 already a " Widows' Fund," and a " Fund for Disabled Ministers," 
 your Committee cannot recommend any action looking to the estab- 
 lishment of another. They recommend, however, the following action 
 in reference to the matter of this memorial : 
 
 Resolved, That the proper course to be pursued in a case of this 
 kind is an application, endorsed by the Classis, for an appropriation 
 from the Disabled Ministers' Fund. 
 
 Believing that the Disabled Ministers' Fund has a very special 
 claim upon the liberal cooperation of the Churches, your Committee 
 recommend the following resolutions : 
 
 1. Resolved, That a standing committee be appointed in each 
 Classis, to whom all applications for aid from the Disabled Minis- 
 ters' Fund shall be presented. This committee shall send a faithful 
 statement of each case to the Stated Clerk of General Synod before 
 the meeting of Synod, for the use of the Sy nodical Committee on the 
 Widows' and Disabled Ministers' Funds, which committee shall ap- 
 portion the money collected during the year for disabled Ministers 
 among the applicants. 
 
 2. Resolved, That every Church within our bounds be earnestly 
 exhorted to take up an annual collection for the Disabled Ministers' 
 Fund, and that every Pastor be enjoined to present this subject to 
 his consistory, and urge their compliance with this request. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 J. SEARLE, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 ARTICLE XX. 
 
 BOARD OF PUBLICATION. 
 
 The Fifteenth Annual Repoit of the Board of Publication was re- 
 ceived, and referred to the Committee on Publication, with the ex- 
 
JUNE, 1869. 659 
 
 ception of so much as refers to vacancies, which was referred to the 
 Committee on Nominations. 
 
 The Report of the Treasurer of the Board of Publication was re- 
 ceived, and referred to the Committee on Publication. 
 
 The Report of the Committee appointed by the last Synod to 
 confer with the Board of Publication was received, and referred to 
 the Committee on Publication. 
 
 The Committee on 'Publication presented the following report, 
 which was accepted and adopted : 
 
 The Committee on Publication respectfully report that the papers 
 referred to them have been carefully examined, viz : the Annual Re- 
 port of the Board of Publication, through its Corresponding Secre- 
 tary, and the Report of the Committee appointed by the last Synod 
 under resolutions appearing on page 497 of the Minutes for 1868. 
 
 The Report of the Board shows the amount collected during the 
 year ending May 1, 1869, from churches, individuals, and Sabbath 
 schools to be $6,927 29. Of this amount, $4,703 03 have been 
 contributed for general purposes, and $2,224 26 f>r the endowment. 
 The total collections during the previous year were $5,812, showing 
 an increase in contributions the past year of $1,1 15 29. 
 
 The statement of the financial condition of the Board shows its 
 total assets to be $38,007 15; and total liabilities $10,836 38; 
 making a balance in its favor of $27,1 70 77. The total stock on 
 hand in the Depository amounts to $30,037 37, which is an increase 
 of $4,299 44 over the amount on hand at the date of the previous 
 report. 
 
 The sales of books, &c, for the year amount to $15,918 94, of 
 which about half, your Committee are informed, have been the pub- 
 lications of the Board, a proportion somewhat larger than that of 
 last vear. 
 
 ■r 
 
 The expense of carrying on the depository amounts to $3,445 33 ; 
 salary, <fcc, of the Corresponding Secretary, $2,590 97 ; making a 
 total expense of $6,036 30. 
 
 The main object to be considered in connection with this show- 
 ing is the position of the Board in relation to the work of the Church, 
 and its adaptedness to carry out the design of its formation. 
 
 In the judgment of your Committee, the Board of Publication 
 occupies a different position from that of the other Boards of the 
 Church. It is indeed a benevolent Board, but not in the sense in 
 which they are benevolent. These disburse money with no expecta- 
 tion of a return in kind, while that devotes its main efforts to the 
 strictly business operation of selling books. It is a benevolent work, 
 probably, to sell good books ; but it is, after all, an enterprise in 
 which money is used to get money again. It is true a few grants 
 of books, &c, have been made by the Board during the past year, 
 
660 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 but these amount to a very inconsiderable fraction of the Board's 
 operations. The business aspect of the Board of Publication should 
 be continually kept in view, not solely, indeed, but mainly, for it is 
 through its business operations that it must attain, if ever, a capa- 
 bility of benevolence. It must make money on its sales for benevo- 
 lent uses. In proportion as its business operations prosper will it 
 be able to make grants of its publications to feeble churches and 
 schools, and to enrich with its surplus the treasuries of the purely 
 benevolent Boards of the Church. This your Committee conceive 
 to be the true position of the Board of Publication in its relation to 
 the benevolent work of the Church. 
 
 A sanctified press is undoubtedly one of the great agencies for the 
 evangelization of the world. This proposition, however, which none 
 will question, does not imply that it is the duty of the Church as 
 such to go into the publishing business. The Board of Publication, 
 as an agency of the Church in carrying forward its operations, does 
 not properly appeal to the churches for sympathy and sustenance on 
 this general ground. Rather it is a part of the machinery of the 
 Church, which needs to be kept in good condition for the harmoni- 
 ous and effective working of the whole. A denominational litera- 
 ture is a great desideratum ; to furnish which to the Church is the 
 appropriate work, as it is the first duty of the Board. Thus, the 
 Board is the appropriate agent of the Church in supplying a suitable 
 literature, whether its own publications or those of other houses, to 
 Sabbath school and congregational libraries. Its benevolent func- 
 tions, as already hinted, consist in gratuitous grants of its own and 
 other publications to churches and mission stations which need the 
 fostering care of the General Synod, as well through this as its Board 
 of Missions. Still further, the province of the Board of Publication 
 is to conduct the business of a publishing and bookselling house in 
 such a way as to make money for the use of the General Synod in 
 such a manner as it shall see fit to ordain. 
 
 The condition of the Board up to the present time has not been 
 such as to enable it to discharge these functions, except in part. It 
 is, however, advancing from year to year toward their realization. 
 A denominational literature is gradually growing up under its aus- 
 pices, and it is increasing its grants of books to feeble church and 
 Sunday school enterprises. These amounted to $621 the past year, as 
 agaiiist $228 09 the former year. Its financial condition, moreover, 
 is sound, and its stock increasing. 
 
 The business of the depository 7 , however, has not been conducted 
 in such a manner as to command the confidence of the churches : 
 and hence the appointment of a committee by the last General Sy- 
 nod to confer with certain bookselling houses in New York in re- 
 gard to transferring to them, or one of them, the sale of the publica- 
 tions of the Board. This Committee entertained one view on the 
 subject, and the Board another; and the whole matter remains, 
 therefore, in statu quo. The Committee say in their report that 
 
JUNE, 1869. 661 
 
 they " deem it important that same arrangement should be made by 
 which larger sales could be secured, and the expenses reduced." 
 The cost of selling the publications of the Board is indeed a large 
 per centage of the sales ; and it is plain that as a business operation 
 this part of the Board's work is not conducted to the advantage of 
 the Church. Just where the fault, if fault there be, may be, whether 
 in untoward legislation on the affairs of the Board in former years, 
 or somewhere else, it is not for your Committee to say. The fact, 
 however, is sufficiently plain, that the depository costs too much for 
 the work it does. It ought to pay expenses not only, but to gain a 
 surplus for Church work. The way to remedy the defect is not, your 
 Committee think, bv abolishing the depository and handing over the 
 business of selling the publications of the Board to some other house, 
 but rather to adopt such measures as shall secure, if possible, the 
 more efficient conduct of its affairs. The discontinuance of the de- 
 pository would be in effect the abolition of the Board ; for without 
 this tangible method of operation it would soon lose the measure of 
 confidence which it now enjoys, and be regarded as most emphati- 
 cally the fifth wheel of the ecclesiastical wagon. The Church, more- 
 over, needs a headquarters of its own, a place where Ministers and 
 lay brethren may meet together, the whole year round, to exchange 
 fraternal greetings not only, but especially to engage in fraternal con- 
 ference in regard to the interests and operations of the Church. 
 
 As entire reorganization is usually the surest way of remedying 
 chronic inefficiency in almost any institution, your Committee are 
 of the opinion that the entire reorganization of the business of the 
 depository would be most likely to secure the end at which the Sy- 
 nod has been so long aiming. And they are the more inclined to 
 recommend this, inasmuch as a change of some kind will shortly 
 have to be made. Your Committee have learned that the publishing 
 agent of the Board, Mr. Win. Ferris, is about to engage in the work 
 of the ministry. This will, of course, deprive the Board of his ser- 
 vices. Your Committee feel that the Board, in making other ar- 
 rangements, should keep steadily and solely in view the necessity of 
 making the depository a paying institution, in accordance with the 
 views set forth above. Your Committee therefore recommend the 
 following action : 
 
 Resolved, That the Board of Publication be instructed to reorgan- 
 ize the business of its depository in such a way as to secure its most 
 efficient conduct, with a view to making it pay expenses not only, 
 but also to gain an increasing surplus, year by year, to be appropri- 
 ated in such channels of church work as the General Synod shall 
 direct. 
 
 Resolved, That the General Synod reiterates its recommendation 
 of the Board to the churches for an endowment of $30,000, whereby 
 the Board may be supplied with an adequate capital for carrying on 
 its work of publication. 
 
 Resolved, That the special committee appointed by the last Synod 
 
662 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 to confer with publishing houses in New York in regard to the sale 
 of the publications of the Board be, according to their request, and 
 hereby are, discharged from further service. 
 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 
 JAS. DEMAREST, Jr., 
 
 Chairman of Committee. 
 
 The Committee on Nominations having reported, the Synod pro- 
 ceeded to fill the places of ^those in the Board of Publication whose 
 terra of service has expired. On counting the ballots it appeared 
 that the following persons were elected: Rev. A.R.Thompson, John 
 Forsyth, M. B. Riddle, Henry P. Thompson, E. S. Porter (in room 
 of Rev. P. Van Wyck), Messrs. Thomas Jeremiah, David Smith, 
 "William Wood, Samuel B. Stewart. 
 
 ARTICLE XXI. 
 
 PARTI CULARIA. 
 
 Invitations to meet in stated session next year were received from 
 the North Church of Newark, from the First Church of Brooklyn 
 and Church on the Heights jointly, and from the Church in Utica. 
 
 It was resolved that the invitation from the North Church of 
 Newark be accepted. 
 
 Resolved, That the Stated Clerk be directed to have the Roll 
 printed for the use of the members. 
 
 The death of the wife of ex-President Hasbrouck, of Rutgers Col- 
 lege, having been announced, it was 
 
 Resolved, That the respectful condolence of General Synod be 
 conveyed by its President to Hon. A. B. Hasbrouck, of Kingston, 
 the venerable ex-President of Rutgers College, on occasion of his 
 sudden bereavement, the announcement of which has this day been 
 made to us. 
 
 The Committee on the establishment of a religious newspaper re- 
 ported progress, and asked for the privilege of adding five members 
 to the Committee. 
 
 Resolved, That the request be granted. 
 
 Resolved, That hereafter the annual meetings of the General Sy- 
 nod commence at 3 o'clock, P. M., on the first Wednesday in June* 
 
JUNE, 1869. 663 
 
 The Van Benschoten Bequest was read. 
 
 Resolved, That the office of Permanent Clerk be restored, and that 
 the division of labor be arranged between this officer and the Stated 
 Clerk. 
 
 Resolved, That the Permanent Clerk be allowed a salary of fifty 
 dollars per annum, and that his necessary expenses while attending 
 the meetings of General Synod be paid. 
 
 Resolved, That Rev. Paul D. Van Cleef be appointed Permanent 
 Clerk. 
 
 Resolved, That this General Synod thankfully accepts the gift of 
 the Manual of the Reformed Church in America from the author, 
 Rev. Edward Tanjore Corwin, and it cordially commends this vol- 
 ume as an invaluable repository of the History and Ministerial Bio- 
 graphy of our Church. 
 
 .'ARTICLE XXII. 
 
 ^BENEVOLENT AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS, 
 
 A Committee consisting of Rev. N, Conklin, C. Spaulding, J. H. 
 Suydam, and Elder R. N. Perlee, was appointed to make arrange- 
 ments for devotional exercises, administration of the Lord's Supper, 
 and to consider applications for the supply of pulpits in the city on 
 the Sabbath. 
 
 After the reading of the Minutes on the morning of each day's 
 session, a-half hour was spent in devotional exercises. 
 
 An hour was spent on the afternoon of the first day in devotional 
 exercises. 
 
 On the afternoon of the second day of the session, after a sermon 
 by Rev. John Forsyth, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was ad- 
 ministered. 
 
 The Secretaries of the Boards were, in accordance with the rule 
 of the Synod, heard on the morning of the third day of the session, 
 and were followed by the members of Synod in a free interchange 
 of thought and feeling. 
 
 A sermon on Benevolence was preached on the evening of the 
 sixth day of the session, by Rev. C, H. Edgar, from Luke, 10:37, 
 44 Go and do thou likewise." 
 
664 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 Eev, Z. Eddy was chosen Primarius, and Rev. J, McC. Holmes, 
 Secundus, to preach the sermon on Benevolence at the next stated 
 session. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Scudder, Secretary of the American and Foreign 
 Christian Union, addressed the Synod in behalf of that Institution. 
 
 Resolved, That the Synod heartily endorses the American and 
 Foreign Christian Union, and earnestly commends the Society to 
 the benevolence of the Churches, 
 
 Rev. W. J. R. Taylor, Secretary of the American Bible Society, 
 presented the claims of that Institution. 
 
 Resolved, That this Synod has heard, with unfeigned satisfaction, 
 the statements of Rev. W. J. R. Taylor, Corresponding Secretary of 
 the American Bible Society, respecting the work in which that In- 
 stitution is engaged, and that gratefully recognizing the Divine pow- 
 er which has accompanied the efforts of the Society in the past, it 
 invokes a continuance of the same blessino* in the futnre, and cor- . 
 dially commends it to the sympathy, and prayers, and liberality of 
 the families within its bounds. 
 
 A meeting on behalf of Foreign Missions was held on the evening 
 of the seventh day of the session, and which was presided over by 
 Rev. Thomas DeWitt, at which the Missionaries Ballagh, from 
 Japan, Kip, from Amoy, and E. C. Scudder, from India, were pre- 
 sent, and at which children from the " Home for Wanderers," by in- 
 vitation of the Synod, participated in the singing exercises. . ;.£j 
 
 Resolved, That the Synod urgently recommend to the Churches the 
 observance of the usual Week of Prayer in January. 
 
 Whereas, The " Bethune Memorial Church," of this city, under 
 the pastorate of the Rev. P. Stryker Talmage, is located in a portion 
 of the city where a church of our order is needed, and in the very 
 flow of the tide of population ; and 
 
 Whereas, Under the smiles of Heaven, it has reached that point 
 when a church edifice seems absolutely necessary for its permanency 
 and enlargement. Therefore, be it 
 
 Resolved, That this Synod cordially commend this enterprise to 
 the liberal benefactions of our Churches, and especially of those with- 
 in the city and Classis of Philadelphia. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 665 
 
 TABULAR STATEMENT 
 
 Of the Contributions made during the year ending April 30, 1869, 
 by the several Churches, to the {denominational) Boards and Funds 
 recommended by Synod, each sum comprising the total amount re- 
 ceived from each Church, whether by Church collections or other- 
 wise. 
 [See Synod's Proceedings, June 1862, p. 212.] 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
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 Church 
 
 Building 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Classis of Albany. 
 
 354 96 
 73 04 
 
 .366 81 ' 
 422 19 
 
 14 29 
 4 DO 
 
 115 48 
 41 00 
 
 15 00 
 3 85 
 
 2343 83 
 
 802 31 
 
 3o 00 
 
 9 64 
 
 :8 60 
 
 101 00 
 
 40 85 
 
 40 00 
 
 231 15 
 
 27 65 
 
 302 36 
 29 25 
 
 4 00 
 
 100 22 
 
 50 00 
 
 
 
 1000 00 
 
 
 ••-»•••• 
 
 ••••••• 
 
 96 17 
 
 Third do 
 
 
 First Bethlehem 
 
 7 00 
 
 50 00 
 28 50 
 20 25 
 
 18 71 
 
 51 31 
 
 7 00 
 
 80 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31 00 
 
 
 98 21 
 14 60 
 
 2 57 
 
 
 
 
 
 New Baltimore 
 
 
 
 40 50 
 
 
 7 50 
 
 
 
 
 15 75 
 
 * 
 
 92 06 
 359 00 
 279 05 
 179 7S 
 
 211 00 
 
 107 50 
 
 4 20 
 6 40 
 
 423 95 
 2i6 89 
 
 1.85 80 
 
 13 06 
 
 90) 00 
 
 59 53 
 
 424 78 
 
 4 55 
 28 41 
 
 
 25 0& 
 
 
 Holland 
 
 5 00 
 8 00 
 
 11 0; 
 
 20 00 
 
 12 00 
 
 125 00 
 56 3J 
 39 93 
 
 22 6» 
 
 21 50 
 11 00 
 
 23 00 
 10 00 
 
 
 Classis of Arcot. 
 Classis of Bergen. 
 
 English Neighborhood, 
 
 
 
 
 30 00- 
 
 
 22 00 
 34 50 
 
 8 15 
 
 45 86 
 
 147 63 
 74 52 
 64 05 
 12 25 
 78 04 
 
 17 50 
 
 14 60 
 
 76 01 
 
 6 3!) 
 
 25 00 
 
 17 50 
 76 01 
 
 
 Third Jersey City 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21 10 
 
 144 00 
 60 39 
 
 209 6i i 
 30 00 
 
 112 03 
 21 50 
 
 105 69 
 
 
 S. Classis of Bergen. 
 
 24 00 
 16 70 
 
 166 86 
 
 5 00 
 
 53 14 
 
 15 15 
 
 143 93 
 
 $122 00 
 
 139 18 
 
 147 31 
 
 11 10 
 
 129 93 
 
 
 
 
 16 70 
 
 
 
 * Included in Jerusalem. £Last year. 
 
 50 
 
666 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
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 — — 
 
 risabled 
 
 Ministers' 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Church 
 
 Building 
 
 Fund. 
 
 S. Bergen Cont'd. 
 
 34 00 
 
 62 06 
 125 00 
 
 18 08 
 
 450 00 
 17 64 
 51 00 
 
 40 00 
 
 184 07; 
 
 150 50 
 22 81 
 
 1814 36 
 
 6 92 
 
 250 46 
 
 2 00 
 
 40 00 
 
 10 00 
 63 18 
 
 25 00 
 
 53 66 
 141 65 
 
 5 (i0 
 
 656 33 
 
 6 25 
 
 232 97 
 146 46 
 103 4? 
 
 91 50 
 10 00 
 
 8 00 
 22 40 
 
 92 00 
 25 (0 
 
 15 00 
 18 90 
 "6 00 
 31 0') 
 
 16 00 
 
 35 49 
 
 62 00 
 86 60 
 112 87 
 43 27 
 37 75 
 
 17 50 
 30 On 
 24 00 
 
 29 20 
 100 00 
 
 34 08 
 80 00 
 
 61 68 
 10 10 
 
 30 00 
 21 00 
 
 19 12 
 3 00 
 
 13 83 
 
 32 72 
 
 20 00 
 
 9 34 
 
 29 29 
 
 3 30 
 
 9 34 
 
 30 00 
 
 29 28 
 10 00 
 
 151 36 
 
 *75 00 
 
 
 9 55 
 
 171 65 
 
 9 00 
 
 18 50 
 
 2 00 
 
 
 North Newark 
 
 German, West Newark... 
 
 500 00 
 20 25 
 
 Classis of Cayuga. 
 
 
 
 
 2 00 
 
 15 00 
 8 55 
 
 20 50 
 50 94 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 40 00 
 
 
 
 10 00 
 
 
 
 
 12 89 
 
 8 78 
 
 10 00 
 
 
 
 
 25 00 
 
 321 57 
 
 10 25 
 
 13 88 
 84 74 
 35 10 
 33 00 
 15 00 
 
 
 
 32 f2 
 5 75 
 
 37 55 
 48 25 
 21 05 
 43 25 
 12 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Classis of Geneva. 
 
 
 
 87 03 
 
 
 
 Cato 
 
 IS 00 
 5 00 
 
 
 12 CO 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tyre 
 
 15 00 
 40 01 
 15 21 
 10 0'i 
 14 23 
 
 12 00 
 22 00 
 
 "is Do" 
 
 10 OD 
 
 13 00 
 
 11 00 
 10 00 
 10 00 
 
 18 23 
 
 28 00 
 J 7 00 
 43 7S 
 22 18 
 33 00 
 
 33 60 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 05 
 
 
 30 00 
 
 93 67 
 
 5 20 
 
 51 00 
 30 00 
 
 14 00 
 4 65 
 2 50 
 
 27 00 
 2 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 16 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 11 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Classis of Greene. 
 
 
 
 
 42 33 
 
 
 
 30^00 
 
 
 
 
 22 68 
 
 
 Mores ville and S. Gilboa.. 
 
 11 25 
 84 01 
 
 25 50 
 
 16 41| 
 
 
 
 
 8 00 
 
 Classis of Holland. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 * $10 00 last year, 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 667 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
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 £-3 
 
 3.2 
 
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 JO 
 
 3 
 3 
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 IS 
 
 Disabled 
 
 Ministers' 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Church 
 
 Building 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Holland Cont'd. 
 
 Grand Haven 
 
 30 00 
 
 50 00 
 4 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 12 50 
 124 00 
 164 10 
 
 13 00 
 10 00 
 70 66 
 
 27 38 
 
 20 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 70 24 
 
 22 00 
 
 1051 15 
 373 72 
 505 09 
 221 iy 
 173 83 
 156 00 
 123 85 
 10 00 
 80 40 
 
 140 76 
 15 00 
 
 23 80 
 
 24 25 
 
 10 50 
 43 20 
 
 11 00 
 
 SO 40 
 18 00 
 
 20 75 
 52 00 
 15 00 
 83 00 
 
 150 23 
 
 547 02 
 15 00 
 
 451 93 
 65 13 
 
 127 92 
 
 41 00 
 
 9 00 
 
 179 86 
 210 41 
 
 34 39 
 
 9 58 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Kalamazoo .... 
 
 18 19 
 
 32 40 
 
 17 77 
 
 
 14 0:i 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 00 
 22 00 
 5 00 
 11 70 
 10 00 
 10 00 
 Y3 00 
 
 
 Polkton 
 
 38 49 
 
 
 
 11 (2 
 
 23 00 
 
 2 75 
 
 9 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 33 20 
 
 
 50 00 
 
 90 04 
 16 68 
 
 54 99 
 
 48 00 
 
 25 00 
 11 50 
 
 26 04 
 
 6 50 
 8 23 
 
 25 00 
 11 50 
 40 00 
 
 6 50 
 
 6 35 
 11 25 
 
 
 Classis of Hudson. 
 
 Linlithgo vv 
 
 66 00 
 
 l'O 00 
 32 25 
 
 212 39 
 45 55 
 55 09 
 64 55 
 
 53 73 
 44 90 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 20 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 
 Classis of Illinois. 
 
 Fair View 
 
 20 00 
 
 12 00 
 11 50 
 
 7 00 
 3 60 
 
 3 08 
 27 65 
 
 11 65 
 
 25 80 
 
 4 50 
 
 •50 00 
 
 18 42 
 
 5 00 
 
 6 05 
 41 45 
 
 8 00 
 
 43 30 
 
 13 00 
 20 00 
 
 4 00 
 
 27 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 35 28 
 
 225 57 
 
 188 28 
 22 57 
 
 14 16 
 
 5 37 
 
 Pekin 
 
 
 Vanderveer 
 
 
 
 
 Spring Lake 
 
 7 00 
 
 Ravitan _^. . . 
 
 3 60 
 6 25 
 3 00 
 5 00 
 
 
 
 26 50J 
 
 Bushnell.. , 
 
 Dtvenport 
 
 5 85 
 
 Whitehall 
 
 26 75 
 
 5 00 
 25 05 
 
 8 00 
 
 
 
 First Pella 
 
 Bethel 
 
 32 85 
 19 00 
 
 
 40 00 
 
 9 60 
 23 00 
 35 75 
 
 6 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Classis of Kingston. 
 
 12 00 
 4i 00 
 4 70 
 22 75 
 20 00 
 57 30 
 11 30 
 147 00 
 
 "34 69* 
 
 
 The Clove 
 
 25 00 
 
 Dashville Falls 
 
 
 
 
 
 23 00 
 
 Second Oh. of Kingston 
 
 
 
 59 S9 
 
 Marbletown 
 
 20 00 
 
 8 33 
 
 
 North Ch. Marbletown.... 
 
 44 34 
 
 17 25 
 
 
 7 85 
 14 19 
 
 82 36 
 16 25 
 
 
 
 4 78j 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 25 
 
 42 00 
 28 51 
 
 
 N. CI. Long Island. 
 
 43 77 
 101 80 
 
 
 
 32 03 
 
 
 
 * Last year. 
 
668 
 
 JUNE, 1809. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
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 2 3 
 
 Disabled 
 
 Ministers' 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Church 
 
 Building 
 
 Fund. 
 
 N. L. Island Cont'd. 
 
 Oyster Bay 
 
 83 77 
 10 00 
 
 26 47 
 10 75 
 65 00 
 64 00 
 45 OO 
 60 00 
 18 50 
 
 62 31 
 14 64 
 
 47 98 
 312 00 
 206 61 
 
 85 00 
 
 52 85 
 
 153 00 
 35 Oi) 
 
 5 00 
 55 00 
 
 6 HO 
 
 4281 37 
 
 1641 72 
 
 779 31 
 
 258 11 
 331 32 
 688 09 
 
 259 12 
 172 81 
 255 45 
 
 53 3l 
 296 25 
 
 4663 07 
 
 34 CO 
 
 12 00 
 2H 30 
 37 00 
 64 32 
 49 01 
 
 12 07 
 
 16 50 
 
 34 07 
 
 84 00 
 14 70 
 
 14 f0 
 25 67 
 
 11 00 
 
 14 67 
 28 73 
 
 281 06 
 
 
 8 50 
 
 
 85 00 
 57 Ort 
 50 76 
 
 48 28 
 
 
 
 
 
 12 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 250 00 
 750 86 
 37 00 
 21 50 
 15 18 
 30 16 
 29 00 
 27 05 
 
 39 24 
 
 35 16 
 
 647 01 
 
 13 10 
 
 12 00 
 10 50 
 
 10 00 
 32 33 
 
 52 65 
 
 5 00 
 20 00 
 
 7 50 
 
 485 16 
 765 54 
 336 (0 
 51 90 
 87 65 
 30 36 
 60 20 
 
 6 40 
 *50 00 
 
 71 20 
 
 67 44 
 
 754 27 
 
 37 00 
 
 38 00 
 
 12 50 
 
 15 22 
 
 22 32 
 
 29 33 
 
 5 00 
 
 2 78 
 10 00 
 
 24 00 
 62 56 
 51 50 
 
 
 Second Newtown 
 
 
 
 5 00 
 
 Ger. Evan. Brooklyn, E. D. 
 
 S. CI. Long Island. 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 
 
 
 36 00 
 
 135 05 
 
 689 75 
 
 56 63 
 
 69 68 
 
 9 71 
 
 ' 36*66* 
 
 9 15 
 
 14 29 
 
 30 00 
 
 181 18 
 
 75 00 
 
 75 00 
 
 76 50 
 60 15 
 
 
 i.9 37 
 
 
 40 42 
 
 
 22 00 
 
 
 6 43 
 15 00 
 14 00 
 
 4 83 
 
 6 43 
 10 00 
 14 00 
 
 4 83 
 
 44 00 
 
 
 12 20 
 
 
 42 04 
 7 49 
 
 11 08 
 
 
 26 71 
 
 26 71 
 
 
 Church on the Heights 
 
 158 24 
 25 00 
 
 Classis of Michigan. 
 
 6 00 
 15 00 
 
 
 
 24 00 
 
 
 
 12 00 
 
 
 Jefferson and Pittsford .... 
 
 33 04 
 
 
 
 5 00 
 
 
 2 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23 41 
 75 00 
 64 00 
 
 
 CI. of Monmouth. 
 
 2 50 
 
 78 30 
 139 89 
 229 90 
 
 89 05 
 7'i 39 
 31 00 
 17 09 
 
 55 00 
 
 
 
 
 81 40 
 
 
 50 00 
 12 00 
 
 16 14 
 
 
 
 88 68 
 
 Holmdel 
 
 
 12 77 
 
 169 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 17 50 
 25 57 
 10 21 
 
 30 00 
 
 
 Long Branch 
 
 CI. of Montgomery. 
 
 20 00 
 4 46 
 
 20 00 
 
 4 25 
 
 10 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ♦Individual. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 669 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 Montgomery cont'd. 
 
 Canajoharie 
 
 Columbia 
 
 Currytown 
 
 Ephratab 
 
 Florida 
 
 Port Plain 
 
 Fort Herkimer... 
 
 Fultonville 
 
 Glen 
 
 Hageman'a Mills. 
 
 Henderson 
 
 Herkimer 
 
 Ilion 
 
 Indian Castle. . . . 
 
 Jtfanheim 
 
 Mapletown 
 
 Mohawk . 
 
 Port Jackson. .. 
 
 St. Johnsville 
 
 Stone Arabia.... 
 Spraker's Basin . 
 Tillaborough 
 
 a 
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 "S 
 
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 3 
 -3 
 
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 1 00 
 
 26 40 
 15 60 
 
 CI. New Brunswick. 
 
 First New Brunswick 
 
 Six Mile Run 
 
 Hillsborough 
 
 Middlebush 
 
 Griggstown 
 
 Second New Brunswick... 
 
 Bound Brook 
 
 Third New Brunswick .* 
 
 East Millstone 
 
 Metuchen 
 
 CI. of New York. 
 
 New York (Collegiate) 
 
 Thirty-fourth Street 
 
 St. Paul's 
 
 N. W. Twenty-Th'd Street. 
 Ger. EvaD. Missionary Ch. 
 
 Bloomingdale 
 
 Harlem 
 
 Washington Heights 
 
 Mott Haven... 
 
 Slaten Island 
 
 Richmond, S.I 
 
 Ch. of the Huguenots, S. I. 
 
 Fourth German 
 
 Prospect Hill 
 
 Holland 
 
 South Dutch 
 
 South New Haven 
 
 8 60 
 
 6 50 
 17 90 
 
 S. CI. of New York. 
 
 Stapleton 
 
 Brighton Heights 
 
 Market Street 
 
 Washington Square 
 
 •$79 Ust year' 
 
 112 00 
 58 00 
 37 27 
 36 17 
 10 00 
 
 136 10 
 
 3 8 
 
 <v o 
 
 22 00 
 
 40 00 
 
 28 53 
 
 8 60 
 
 7 30 
 
 26 00 
 
 2 50 
 
 10 00 
 
 1332 74 
 
 78 07 
 
 50 00 
 
 204 37 
 
 25 00 
 
 57 SO 
 
 38 13 
 
 11 86 
 
 4 25 
 
 433 27 
 
 35 00 
 25 00 
 
 3S4 50 
 
 205 00 
 30 11 
 
 102 50 
 75 O'l 
 
 206 36 
 
 51 78 
 25 01) 
 
 lfi07 30 
 
 100 00 
 
 91 30 
 
 210 04 
 
 65 00 
 
 280 00 
 
 17 61 
 85 00 
 2u 00 
 29 84 
 
 40 00 
 
 5 78 
 
 377 15 
 
 280 78 
 223 34 
 
 .£? ° 
 
 J- 71 
 
 7 50 
 
 18 00 
 
 34 00 
 15 00 
 
 94 00 
 34 15 
 
 25 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 42 30 
 2 50 
 
 408 39 
 537 40 
 196 75 
 215 00 
 1S7 00 
 1424 12 
 
 191 97 
 
 80 75 
 
 4664 14 
 27o 0.) 
 367 63 
 
 2777 80 
 24* 00 
 
 450 00 
 
 IS 85 
 120 00 
 26 30 
 18 35 
 20 00 
 50 00 
 14 66 
 3206 02 
 
 174 15 
 590 22 
 
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 .2 
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 3 
 
 50 
 
 8 00 
 
 8 60 
 
 7 35 
 2 00 
 
 67 39 
 29 00 
 
 5 00 
 12 00 
 
 8 50 
 70 74 
 
 18 03 
 6 97 
 
 502 05 
 47 91 
 24 83 
 
 230 57 
 15 00 
 
 46 25 
 
 29 75 
 
 3 00 
 
 91 . 
 
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 •a 3 
 
 19 45 
 
 20 00 
 
 12 70 
 17 00 
 52 00 
 
 49 14 
 
 « - . 
 
 ■ 
 
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 100 00 
 
 154 13 
 41 05 
 
 10 00 
 15 28 
 
 21 61 
 
 14 00 
 
 10 00 
 15 28 
 
 21 13 
 
 ^•a a 
 
 14 00 
 
 46 08 
 
 144 25 
 
 58 60 
 
 33 96 
 
 54 52 
 
 14 10 
 
 902 60 
 150 00 
 
 1337 44 
 20 00 
 
 •30 00 
 4 78 
 
 86 44 
 
6V0 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 S. CI. N. Y. cont'd. 
 
 Manhattan 
 
 Bushwick 
 
 Union Reformed, 6th Ave. 
 German 
 
 Classis of Orange. 
 
 Berea 
 
 Bloomingburgh 
 
 Cuddebackville. .. 
 
 Deer Park 
 
 Ellenville 
 
 Fallsburgh 
 
 Grahamville 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Mamakating 
 
 Middleport 
 
 Milesville 
 
 Minisink 
 
 Montgomery 
 
 Newburgh 
 
 New Hurley 
 
 New Prospect 
 
 Shawangunk 
 
 Thumansville 
 
 Upper Neversink. 
 
 Walden 
 
 Walpack (Upper). 
 "Walpack (Lower). 
 Wawarsing 
 
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 22 00 
 
 8 55 
 56 15 
 20 25 
 13 45 
 
 14 15 
 
 24 75 
 
 3 10 
 
 36 00 
 
 Classis of Paramus. 
 
 Clarkstown 
 
 Tappan 
 
 Acquacknonk 
 
 Second Totowa 
 
 Paramus 
 
 Pascack 
 
 Saddle River 
 
 Ramapo 
 
 West New Hempstead 
 
 Warwick 
 
 Nyack 
 
 Piermont 
 
 First Holland, Paterson 
 
 Holland Lodi 
 
 Broadway, Paterson 
 
 Second Holland, Paterson. 
 Spring Valley 
 
 Classis of Passaic. 
 
 Boardville, (M.S.). 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 Little Kails , 
 
 Montville 
 
 Sixth Paterson 
 
 Pompton Plains . . . 
 
 Pomplon 
 
 Ponds 
 
 Preakness 
 
 26 no 
 10 25 
 
 10 78 
 
 36 08 
 28 15 
 121 85 
 25 00 
 20 OS 
 
 8 20 
 
 29 59 
 29 (10 
 11 34 
 62 (JO 
 
 32 31 
 3i 83 
 
 15 00 
 
 10 00 
 10 00 
 
 56 50 
 
 no 
 
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 25 75 
 
 32 00 
 35 45 
 19 00 
 191 40 
 40 i0 
 55 80 
 16 00 
 
 9 40 
 
 207 0> 
 
 34 84 
 
 5< 
 
 7 
 
 '0 
 30 
 22 6S 
 
 00 
 00 
 
 78 00 
 18 16 
 21 00 
 2u 00 
 
 104 60 
 52 91 
 
 119 32 
 24 00 
 
 26 52 
 
 8 50 
 
 53 28 
 
 127 00 
 
 (6 8S 
 
 42 00 
 
 6 00 
 
 33 00 
 10 00 
 
 77 81 
 
 12 00 
 
 28 00 
 10 00 
 73 75 
 50 00 
 
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 fe'«3 
 
 32 65 
 43 40 
 10 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 15 85 
 
 515 12 
 
 145 (.0 
 
 259 50 
 
 10 50 
 
 1009 39 
 
 3S7 32 
 
 50 10 
 
 8 00 
 
 97 09 
 
 291 90 
 
 30 25 
 38 00 
 
 191 93 
 
 70 < ; 5 
 
 703 10 
 
 264 38 
 
 94 
 
 54 
 
 S9 
 70 
 
 35 76 
 20 6* 
 
 162 11 
 41 00 
 6« 78 
 
 140 00 
 4 00 
 
 71 00 
 10 00 
 12 42 
 
 20 00 
 
 50 50 
 
 179 32 
 
 128 50 
 
 6 00 
 
 26 00 
 
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 6 00 
 
 8 10 
 44 54 
 
 51 71 
 
 50 00 
 
 4 00 
 
 6 63 
 
 75 00 
 
 n'36' 
 
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 4 00 
 
 22 05 
 
 lo 00 
 
 127 42 
 
 30 00 
 
 8 15 
 
 80 00 
 11 76 
 
 83 65 
 
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 *32 00 
 *193 00 
 
 4 CO 
 
 34 48 
 13 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 20 25 
 
 6 25 
 22 93 
 41 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 21 00 
 19 19 
 
 *Last year. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
 671 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 a 
 
 JO 
 
 S3 
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 3 
 -3 
 W 
 
 Domestic- 
 Missions. 
 
 Foreign 
 Missions. 
 
 a 
 
 JO 
 
 o 
 
 3 
 
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 £ a 
 
 2 3 
 
 Disabled 
 
 Ministers' 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Church 
 
 Building 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Passaic cont'd. 
 
 13 00 
 
 13 24 
 
 20 O'l 
 
 4" 30 
 
 9 Od 
 
 71 00 
 
 153 63 
 43 00 
 
 117 85 
 
 132 38 
 36 f2 
 
 105 00 
 
 2S 40 
 
 124 36 
 30 00 
 
 133 30 
 
 343 39 
 117 0' 
 363 00 
 313 5 1 
 230 92 
 177 00 
 250 00 
 20 15 
 
 12 00 
 95 98 
 
 6 00 
 50 00 
 91 16 
 
 341 72 
 
 478 58 
 
 2n 31 
 
 3< 3 63 
 157 65 
 310 48 
 5' 6 55 
 50 00 
 91 17 
 
 13 00 
 .288 00 
 
 *10 00 
 30S 25 
 163 50 
 100 00 
 264 73 
 237 60 
 121 00 
 141 50 
 152 25 
 282 10 
 
 21 78 
 
 8 00 
 
 8 50 
 
 23 78 
 
 4 00 
 
 
 
 01. of Philadelphia. 
 
 Harlingen 
 
 100 00 
 
 10 u 
 
 23 70 
 
 Ne-Shanic 
 
 40 00 
 
 8=i 50 
 26 20 
 35 00 
 
 
 First Church Philadelphia. 
 Second Church " 
 Third Church " 
 N. and South Hampton .. 
 
 
 Rocky Fhll 
 
 Clover Hill 
 
 9 Jin 
 
 12 78 
 
 28 23 
 52 24 
 1S5 00 
 33 4'l 
 2S 00 
 
 93 87 
 
 11 10 
 
 50 19 
 
 3 HO 
 
 15 00 
 30 00 
 
 136 25 
 
 197 26 
 
 61 11 
 
 45 08 
 
 37 70 
 
 10' i 00 
 
 235 43 
 
 16 90 
 40 00 
 27 00 
 
 +10 00 
 
 50 00 
 95 87 
 
 40 10 
 
 
 
 01. of Poughkeepsie 
 
 Fishkill , 
 
 Hyde Park 
 
 269 41 
 54 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 110 oo 
 
 35 50 
 
 30 05 
 
 10 00 
 
 9 00 
 25 00 
 
 13 50 
 
 32 21 
 12 23 
 
 
 15 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mill Brook - 
 
 
 89 41 
 
 Classis of Raritan. 
 
 71 55 
 10 00 
 
 65 01 
 93 4 r » 
 
 25 76 
 
 104 99 
 67 80 
 
 16 00 
 £0 35 
 
 
 
 
 Bedminster 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Second Raritan 
 
 30 00 
 130 15 
 11 16 
 65 0«i 
 27 00 
 70 00 
 
 80 00 
 80 00 
 25 00 
 
 i25 66 
 
 bS 80 
 
 5 00 
 
 
 Third Raritan 
 
 15 50 
 
 40 00 
 19 00 
 52 00 
 
 15 00 
 
 9 00 
 
 9 00 
 
 
 Plainfield .• 
 
 
 Central Plainfield 
 
 • . •••••• 
 
 35 00 
 15 00 
 
 33 00 
 121 00 
 
 21 00 
 117 10 
 136 10 
 
 55 00 
 
 
 CI. of Rensselaer. 
 
 
 20 50 
 
 Castleton 
 
 47 84 
 
 44 86 
 10 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ♦Individual. 
 
 tLast year. 
 
672 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 a 
 
 o 
 
 MM 
 
 a 
 a 
 
 3 
 •V 
 
 w 
 
 C en 
 
 
 e 
 
 e 
 
 53 
 eS 
 
 O 
 
 ■^ 
 
 s 
 
 
 Disabled 
 
 Ministers* 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Church 
 
 Building 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Rensselaer cont'd. 
 
 25 00 
 63 12 
 49 37 
 30 0i 
 20 70 
 
 41 70 
 
 10 25 
 
 5 00 
 
 10 50 
 5 00 
 
 105 37 
 
 10 00 
 
 19 75 
 
 21 00 
 
 6 00 
 
 21 53 
 
 25 00 
 
 11 50 
 24 40 
 
 25 00 
 
 35 50 
 
 724 61 
 
 110 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 67 31 
 190 W> 
 '20 00 
 
 184 14 
 
 45 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 7 00 
 
 5 00 
 31 30 
 68 76 
 66 90 
 
 1 18 
 
 28 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 
 
 20 08 
 
 
 3 00 
 
 10 00 
 10 60 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 00 
 12 20 
 
 CI. of Saratoga. 
 
 
 
 17 38 
 
 
 
 
 2 67 
 
 
 
 92 87 
 20 92 
 
 100 00 
 33 25 
 55 50 
 40 00 
 
 14 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 87 50 
 
 
 20 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 80 
 
 
 
 18 00 
 10 00 
 
 25 00 
 100 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 
 Northumberland 
 
 40 00 
 
 5 75 
 
 CI. of Schenectady. 
 
 First Church Schenectady. 
 
 Third do 
 
 First Church Glenvill e 
 
 First Church Rotterdam. .. 
 
 5 00 
 7 13 
 5 00 
 
 147 40 
 7 10 
 
 40 11 
 
 12 00 
 
 2S0 50 
 8 25 
 
 133 50 
 
 51 10 
 
 *10 00 
 
 52 00 
 55 00 
 96 00 
 16 00 
 
 6 25 
 
 21 27 
 
 7 00 
 16 00 
 
 9 00 
 
 13 75 
 
 4 80 
 
 5 50j 
 15 50 
 
 13 75 
 3 50 
 
 22 50 
 5 50 
 
 8 50 
 100 00 
 
 Lisha's Kill 
 
 10 00 
 9 00 
 
 22 00 
 37 10 
 48 21 
 
 
 
 6 00 
 
 Princeto wn 
 
 
 
 Day 
 
 
 
 3 81 
 
 Classis of Schoharie 
 
 
 11 87 
 124 6i 
 62 81 
 19 06 
 10 00 
 10 00 
 18 17 
 
 75 00 
 113 38 
 127 HO 
 10 00 
 35 00 
 47 60 
 
 8 55 
 8 50 
 3 20 
 2 75 
 6 23 
 
 30 00 
 26 04 
 
 5 00 
 
 4 00 
 
 3 00 
 
 8 00 
 4 50 
 
 4 50 
 3 00 
 
 
 
 27 00 
 1 00 
 
 17 31 
 
 
 5 00 
 
 5 84 
 
 Gilboa 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sharon 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ♦Sabbath School. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 
 
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 Ministers' 
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 Church 
 Building 
 
 Fund. 
 
 Classis of Ulster. 
 
 19 34 
 
 13 21 
 45 00 
 47 57 
 31 44 
 
 207 88 
 
 80 00 
 
 9 25 
 
 202 74 
 
 61 76 
 
 80 00 
 
 26 50 
 82 03 
 
 732 44 
 
 201 00 
 
 9 25 
 
 424 21 
 
 24 89 
 52 08 
 
 43 36 
 
 100 00 
 19 54 
 
 120 84 
 
 6 35 
 
 21 00 
 
 227 25 
 15 00 
 
 370 31 
 38 S6 
 
 245 23 
 
 322 59 
 28 00 
 41 80 
 
 353 32 
 
 61 41 
 
 27 63 
 
 44 70 
 
 25 00 
 82 31 
 31 00 
 34 00 
 
 31 15 
 
 26 00 
 
 6 no 
 4 00 
 
 14 60 
 27 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 25 00 
 30 50 
 
 14 42 
 172 6J 
 
 7 3« 
 
 Plattekill 
 
 35 75 
 22 41 
 
 32 00 
 11 00 
 
 10 00 
 66 65 
 43 03 
 
 7 35 
 
 28 62 
 11 38 
 
 11 88 
 
 26 5T 
 
 
 
 Shokan 
 
 
 Shandaken 
 
 
 
 
 West Hurley 
 
 
 
 10 04 
 4 16 
 
 6 CO 
 4 16 
 
 40 00 
 
 
 
 
 CI. of Westchester. 
 
 Bronxville 
 
 
 
 
 Fordhara 
 
 26 12 
 
 12 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13 45 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 34 00 
 29 65 
 25 24 
 84 57 
 58 36 
 
 36 02 
 
 22 84 
 19 50 
 
 23 42 
 
 
 Mount "Vernon 
 
 31 44 
 10 00 
 26 50 
 100 00 
 33 25 
 10 00 
 
 50 49 
 
 6 06 
 8 17 
 
 5 31 
 
 Tarrytown, First 
 
 34 49 
 
 West Farms 
 
 
 64 49 
 
 
 White Plains 
 
 
 CI. of Wisconsin. 
 
 Franklin 
 
 6 95 
 
 
 
 
 
 Alto 
 
 
 
 
 Second Chicago 
 
 High Prairie 
 
 6 90 
 10 00 
 
 72 64 
 15 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 17 00 
 
 6 00 
 10 00 
 
 
 Eden , 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fulton , 
 
 
 
 
 14 50 
 
 
 York, Minnesota 
 
 
 
 
 
674 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 ARTICLE XXIII. 
 
 pastoral letter. 
 
 The General Synod to the Ministers, Elders, Deacons, and 
 Brethren, of the Reformed Church in America : Grace 
 to you and Peace, from God our Father, and the Lord 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 We have heard, dearly beloved, with unfeigned joy, of your stead- 
 fastness in the faith; of your unity and fellowship in the Spirit; of 
 your zeal and diligence in every good work ; of the riches of your 
 liberality ; and of your tender and constant affection to the Church 
 of God, which was first planted by the Apostles and afterwards re- 
 stored to its primitive purity by the noble Reformers. We thank 
 the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for your filial and de- 
 voted attachment to that branch of the Church Catholic which bears 
 the title of Reformed. It is not the offspring of human invention ; 
 it is not the growth of a day ; it has passed through the fiery trials 
 of many centuries, and has been found as gold which the furnace 
 may purify but cannot destroy. Our doctrines are those of Protest- 
 ant Christendom ; our polity and discipline are in strict accordance 
 with the New Testament ; and our order of worship has come down 
 to us essentially unchanged from the first age of the glorious Re- 
 formation. 
 
 Doubtless this Church is ordained of God to a high and benefi- 
 cent mission on this continent. And it is an indispensable pre-re- 
 quisite to the fulfillment of that mission, that her ministers and mem- 
 bers should clearly understand and justly appreciate her distinctive 
 denominational peculiarities. To one or two of these we would, at 
 this time, call your candid and thoughtful attention. 
 
 1. The Reformed Church has always been distinguished for its 
 solicitude and care for the right nurture of the children and youth 
 within its pale. It asserts, as a fundamental principle, that our 
 children, though fallen in Adam, are sanctified in Christ, and there- 
 fore, as members of His Church, are entitled to Holy Baptism. This 
 being assumed, the Church treats her baptized children with tender 
 affection, as the visible children of God, and heirs of salvation. She 
 puts into their mouth the language of appropriating faith, of adopt- 
 ion, and of joyous hope. She teaches them to claim God as their 
 Father, Christ as their Saviour, and the Holy Ghost as their Sancti- 
 fier and Comforter. Now it is this which distinguishes our excel- 
 lent Catechism from most other Protestant manuals of the same 
 class. The aim of the Catechism is to develope gracious disposi- 
 tions already implanted by the Spirit of God. It is, therefore, full of 
 tenderness and comfort. Its form, though not severely scholastic, 
 like that of some other manuals, is sufficiently logical for all purposes 
 
JUNE, 1869. 675 
 
 of instruction. When properly used, far from being gloomy and re- 
 pulsive to the youthful mind, it is singularly genial and attractive. 
 
 Now we have reason to fear, not only that our Catechism is, in 
 many congregations, falling into disuse, but that the systematic in- 
 struction of children and youth, in the doctrines of grace, is widely 
 neglected. It is feared that many parents, pastors, and ruling elders, 
 have delegated this duty to Sunday school teachers, and that the 
 majority of the latter are averse even to the occasional use of the 
 Catechism as a text-book. We need not say, brethren, that we 
 would by no means have the Catechism supplant the Bible in the 
 family, the Sunday school, or the pulpit. The principle that the 
 Word of God is the only infallible rule of faith and practice, is the 
 corner-stone of our Protestantism. Let the Bible, therefore, have 
 the supreme place in every scheme of Christian education ; but next 
 to the Bible, let us place the Catechism as the best and wisest sum- 
 mary of revealed truth. 
 
 A course of instruction based on the Catechism, will not fail to 
 arm the youthful Christian against those baneful errors which, like a 
 flood, have overspread the world in these perilous times, and which 
 threaten to sweep away all who are not grounded and settled in the 
 truth, from the foundation of Apostles and Prophets, and from the 
 chief Corner-stone, Christ. Let the doctrine which is according to 
 godliness, pre-occupy, not only the memory, but the heart and con- 
 science of the rising generation, and they shall be saved from the 
 apostasy and " the great tribulation " of the latter days. " When the 
 Bon of Man cometh, shall He find faith upon the earth ? " 
 
 We therefore exhort you, dearly beloved, to employ with diligence 
 the admirable means of spiritual nurture which the Church of your 
 fathers has put into your hands. Let every Minister, not only ex- 
 plain the Catechism in order from the pulpit, on the Lord's Day, but 
 let him appoint set times for catechising the children and youth 
 under his care. And let the elders not only require this of the min- 
 ister, but according to their best ability, countenance and assist him 
 therein. Let parents set apart some portion of each Lord's Day for 
 the instruction of their children, encouraging and requiring them to 
 commit to memory every question and answer of the Catechism. 
 We recommend, too, that one Lord's day in each month be given by 
 every Sunday school to the study of the Catechism. From such sys- 
 tematic, thorough, and patient instruction, we anticipate the most 
 happy results. 
 
 2. The Reformed Church is also distinguished by the peculiar 
 character of its worship. While it has always encouraged free 
 prayer, and is therefore widely separated from the rigidly liturgical 
 Churches whose canons and rubrics repress the spontaneous and 
 glowing affections of true spiritual worship, it has provided for the 
 most solemn occasions appropriate forms as a safe-guard against the 
 crude, extemporaneous effusions of ignorance, error, and fanati- 
 cism. Our sacramental offices are eminently sober, scriptu- 
 
676 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 ral and edifying. Besides they set forth, with singular clearness, 
 those great truths which underlie the ordinances of the Lord's 
 House. They witness most impressively to the expiatory virtue of 
 our Lord's sufferings and death, and thus rebuke the rationalistic 
 heresies which have already entrenched themselves in some churches 
 which were once accounted evangelical. We believe that it was 
 never more important than now, to connect with the administration 
 of the Lord's Supper an explicit statement of the doctrine that our 
 Lord offered to divine justice a true vicarious sacrifice for His peo- 
 ple. Any minister who shrinks from such a statement is out of 
 place in our Reformed Church, and is bound in honor, as well as in 
 conscience, to withdraw from her communion. This we say, be- 
 loved, in the full persuasion that our body is not, as yet, infected 
 with deadly Socinian errors ; but seeing the wolf coming we cannot, 
 as faithful shepherds, refrain from sounding the alarm. We earn- 
 estly exhort you to cleave to those scriptural and time-honored forms 
 which assert with such emphasis and pathos the redeeming work of 
 Christ. We solemnly enjoin it on all our ministers and elders to see 
 to it that our noble Liturgy is used, on all prescribed occasions, with 
 such deliberation, reverence and devotion, that it shall continue to 
 be, as it has been in former ages, a lively means of grace to all our 
 people. 
 
 It is possible that the diction of these venerable forms may be im- 
 proved, and perhaps they may, with advantage, be somewhat 
 abridged ; but let no minister presume to mutilate, change, or set 
 them aside at the suggestion of his own private taste and judgment. 
 The General Synod has appointed a Committee to revise the Liturgy, 
 and till that Committee shall have completed its work, and till that 
 work shall have been accepted and approved by the Synod, let the 
 prescribed order of worship be sacredly maintained in all our con- 
 gregations. s 
 
 We would also earnestly recommend that, in the ordinary worship 
 of the sanctuary, all the people be encouraged to praise God with 
 heart and voice in the united singing of authorized psalms and 
 hymns. We cannot sufficiently deplore the tendency in many of 
 our Churches, to delegate this important part of worship to a few 
 hired performers, the majority of whom make no profession of piety. 
 We regard the use of light, operatic, secular music in the sanctuary 
 as an awful desecration of the Lord's Day, and of divine worship. 
 Let this evil be banished from our churches. To aid you in this 
 needed reform, the Synod formerly authorized the " Book of Praise," 
 and now recommends to your favor the " Hymns of the Church, 
 with tunes," a book which has been compiled with the special de- 
 sign of promoting congregational singing. We exhort you also to 
 provide for the instruction of our children and youth in sacred mu- 
 sic, and to impress it upon their minds as a duty to praise God in 
 the great congregation. It would, we believe, greatly promote the 
 animation and freedom of congregational singing, if the people 
 
JUNE, 1869. 677 
 
 would stand up when they praise God. Sitting or reclining is not 
 the natural and appropriate posture of praise. 
 
 "We have in this epistle, dearly beloved, called your attention to 
 certain external duties and points of order in the Church ; but we do 
 not forget that the form of godliness is of no avail if the life and 
 power be wanting. It is our fervent prayer to Almighty God, that 
 ye may be filled with the Spirit and made fruitful in all good works. 
 We especially long for the plentiful effusion of the Holy Ghost on 
 all our congregations, that our beloved Church may "look forth as 
 the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an 
 army with banners." We earnestly entreat you to unite your pray- 
 ers with ours, not only in the Sabbath assembly, but in the closet, 
 that the God of our fathers will look down from heaven, and behold, 
 and visit this vine, and the vineyard which His right hand planted 
 of old, and the branch which He made strong for Himself. 
 
 Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord 
 Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the 
 everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good w T ork to do His 
 will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through 
 Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever, Amen. 
 
 ZACHARY EDDY, 
 
 W. T. ENYARD, 
 
 N. H. VAN ARSDALE, 
 
 THEO. F. CORNELL, M. D., 
 
 JAMES U. EUERICK, 
 
 Committee. 
 CHARLES H. STITT, 
 
 President of Synod. 
 
 ARTICLE XXIV. 
 
 STNODICAL ARCHIVES. 
 
 Resolved, That the Committee appointed by General Synod in 
 1866 in reference to preservation of documents relating to the past 
 history of the Church, be continued, with power to add to their 
 number. 
 
 Resolved, That the Committee be directed to request any Minister 
 of our Church, or other person, who has written a historical work 
 connected with the Church, to send a copy of the same to tht Theo- 
 logical School at New Brunswick, for preservation in the Library of 
 that Institution. 
 
678 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 ARTICLE XXV. 
 
 ACCOUNTS. 
 
 It was resolved that the expenses of the Committee on calling a 
 National Council, for printing circulars and thirteen dollars and fifty 
 cents for traveling expenses be paid. 
 
 Resolved, That the expenses of the Committee to secure legisla- 
 tive action on the change of name of the Church, amounting to 
 eleven dollars and twenty-five cents, be paid. 
 
 The Committee on Accounts presented the following report, which 
 
 was accepted and adopted : 
 
 The Committee on Accounts would respectfully report that the 
 Particular Synod of Chicago is ■ represented by thirteen delegates, 
 viz : three from the Classis of Michigan, four irom the Classis of Il- 
 linois, three from the Classis of Holland, and three from the Classis 
 of Wisconsin. 
 
 According to the rule of Synod they are entitled to traveling ex- 
 penses, as follows, viz. : 
 
 Three delegates from Michigan Classis, $28 each $S4 
 
 " " " Illinois " 36 " 108 
 
 " " " Holland " 28 " 84 
 
 " " " Wisconsin " 32 " 96 
 
 Total $372 
 
 The following bills have been presented to the Committee : 
 
 J. B. Lippincott <fc Co., stationery 810 55 
 
 Sherman & Co., 200 tickets of nominations e . . . . 5 00 
 
 John Linerd, stationery 7 07 
 
 Sherman & Co., 250 copies of Roll of Synod 10 00 
 
 Doorkeeper's bill 26 90 
 
 Total $59 52 
 
 By the rule of the Synod of 1868, it is the duty of the Committee 
 on Accounts to present a detailed estimate of all contingent expenses 
 for the current year. The following is the estimate of the Treasurer 
 of the General Synod for the present year : 
 Traveling expenses of delegates in attending the meeting 
 
 of Synod $325 
 
 Traveling expenses of Corresponding Delegates 200 
 
 Salary and traveling expenses of Stated Clerk 175 
 
 " " " Permanent Clerk 51 
 
 Expenses at the meeting of Synod 60 
 
 Sundries 150 
 
 Total $961 
 
JUNE, 1869. 679 
 
 The Committee recommend that the delegates from the Particular 
 Synod of Chicago be paid the sum to which each is entitled from the 
 Contingent Fund of General Synod, and also that the items of the 
 above bills, amounting to $59 52, be paid. 
 
 The Committee, in accordance with the resolution cf the last Gen- 
 eral Synod, also recommend that the estimated contingent expenses 
 be apportioned by the Treasurer to the several Classes, that of Ar- 
 cotjbeing excepted. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 J. N. VOORHEES, 
 
 Chairman, 
 
 3 
 
 ARTICLE XXVI. 
 
 RESUMPTION AND CLOSE, 
 
 Resolved, That the Stated Clerk be authorized to publish the 
 usual number of copies of the Minutes of this Synod, duly authenti- 
 cated, and to distribute among the Classes the number of copies 
 ordered by them, and that the price of each copy be printed on the 
 cover. 
 
 Resolved, That the hearty thanks of General Synod be and hereby 
 are tendered to the Consistory of the First Reformed Church of 
 Philadelphia for the use of their Church, and to them, their pastor 
 and the members of the congregation, and to the many other kind 
 friends in and near the city, who have so hospitably provided for 
 the comfort and enjoyment of the members of Synod daring its 
 session, and we pray that temporal and spiritual blessings be richly 
 multiplied unto them. 
 
 Resolved, That the Synod hereby thanks the Superintendent and 
 children of the Little Wanderer's Home for the interesting part they 
 took in the Missionary services. 
 
 On calling the roll, it appeared that S. Waldron was absent with- 
 out permission. 
 
 The Minutes were read and approved. 
 
 ARTICLE XXVII. 
 
 Synod adjourned, to meet in the North Reformed Church in 
 Newark, on the first Wednesday in June, 1870, at three o'clock, P. 
 
680 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 M., and was closed with singing and prayer and the pronouncing of 
 the Apostolic Benediction by the President. 
 
 CHARLES H. STITT, President. 
 G. TALMAGE, Adsessor. 
 
 DAVID S. SUTPHEN, ) ri , 
 SAMUEL J. ROGERS, \ LlerKS P ro tem " 
 
 Official copy from the original minutes : 
 
 DAVID D. DEMAREST, Stated Clerk. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 681 
 
 ACTS OF THE SYNOD. 
 
 ARTICLE PAGE 
 
 1 Orders and Rules 543 
 
 2 Standing Committees 543 
 
 3 Communications 544 
 
 4 Board of Corporation 553 
 
 5 Correspondence 580 
 
 6 Synodical Report 585 
 
 7 Svnodical References. 622 
 
 8 Synodical Appeals 624 
 
 9 Church Government 624 
 
 10 Doctrines and Morals 634 
 
 1 1 Customs and Usages 634 
 
 12 Schools and Christian Education 642 
 
 1 3 Church Colleges 644 
 
 1 4 Professorate 644 
 
 15 Students in Theology 649 
 
 16 Church Visitation 649 
 
 17 Prevailing Sins 649 
 
 18 Missions 650 
 
 19 Widows' and Disabled Ministers' Funds 656 
 
 20 Board of Publication 658 
 
 21 Particularia 662 
 
 22 Benevolent and Religious Institutions 663 
 
 23 Pastoral Letter 674 
 
 24 Synodical Archives 677 
 
 25 Accounts 678 
 
 26 Resumption and Close 679 
 
 27 Adjournment 679 
 
 51 
 
682 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 Irtsitottte of fetural 
 
 TEAR PRESIDENTS FROM WHAT STATE PLACE OF MEETING 
 
 1794— Rev. William Linn New York Albany, N. Y. 
 
 1797— Rev. Dirck Romeyn " New York. 
 
 1800 — Rev. Ira Condict New Jersey,. . . .Albany. 
 
 1803 — Rev. John H. Livingston New York Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 
 1806 — Rev. James V. C. Romeyn New Jersey. . . .Albany. 
 
 1809 — Rev. Nicholas Lansing New York New York. 
 
 1812— Rev. Jacob Sickles " ... . .Albany. 
 
 1814— Rev. John M. Bradford " New York. 
 
 1815 — Rev. John Schureman New Jersey. . . .Albany. 
 
 1816 — Rev. Jacob Brodhead Pennsylvania. ..New York. 
 
 1817 — Rev. Cornelius D. Westbrook. .New York Albany. 
 
 1818 — Rev. William McMurray " . . . .New York. 
 
 1819— Rev. John M. Bradford " Albany. 
 
 1820 — Rev. James S. Cannon New Jersey. . . .New York. 
 
 1821— Rev. Selah S. Woodhull New York Albany. 
 
 1822— Rev. Philip Milledoler " New York. 
 
 1823— Rev. Jesse Fonda " Albany. 
 
 1824— Rev. Thomas De Witt " New York. 
 
 1825 — Rev. Jacob Brodhead Pennsylvania . ..Albany. 
 
 1826— Rev. John Ludlow New York. . . . New York. 
 
 1827— Rev. Cornelius C. Cuyler '* Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 1828 — Rev. Jacob Schoonmaker " Albany. 
 
 1829 — Rev. John Knox " New York. 
 
 1830 — Rev. Wilhelmus Eltinge New Jersey New Brunswick, N. J. 
 
 1831 — Rev. John Gosman New York Albany. 
 
 1832 — Rev. Isaac Ferris " New York. 
 
 1833 — Rev. Jacob J. Janeway " Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 1834 — Rev. Sam. A. Van Vranken. . . .New Jersey . . ..New York. 
 
 1 835 — Rev. Robert Bronk New York Philadelphia. 
 
 1836 — Rev. Thomas M. Strong " Albany. 
 
 1837 — Rev. Isaac N. Wyckoff " New York. 
 
 1838 — Rev. Benjamin C. Taylor New Jersey Albany. 
 
 I839 — Rev. George W. Bethune Pennsylvania. . .Philadelphia. 
 
 1840 — Rev. James Murphy New York New York. 
 
 1841 — Rev. James Romeyn " Albany. 
 
 1842 — Rev. James B. Hardenberg. ... " New York. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 683 
 
 TEAR PRESIDENTS FRJM WHAT STATE PLACE CF MEETING 
 
 1843 — Rev. "William C. Brownlee New York Albany. 
 
 1844 — Rev. Jacob Van Vechteii Poughkeepsie. 
 
 1845 — Rev. Maurice "W. Dwight " New Brunswick. 
 
 1846— Rev. "William H. Campbell " Albany. 
 
 1847 — Rev. Abraham Messier New Jersey. . . .New York. 
 
 1848 — ^ev. Thomas E. Yermilye New York Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 1849— Rev. George H. Fisher " New York. 
 
 1849 — Rev. J. Van Vechten (ex. ses.). . " Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 1850 — Rev. Jeremiah Searle Poughkeepsie. 
 
 1851 — Rev. Alexander M. Mann " Albany. 
 
 1852 — Rev. Gustavus Abeel New Jersey. . . .Williamsburgh, N. Y. 
 
 1853 — Rev. Duncan Kennedy New York . . . .Philadelphia. 
 
 1854— Rev. Manciua S. Hutton " Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 1855 — Rev. Ransford Wells New Brunswick. 
 
 1856— Rev. Francis M. Kip " Utica, N. Y. 
 
 185*7— Rev. Cornelius Van Santvoord. " Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 1858— Rev. David D. Demarest " Newark, N. J. 
 
 1859 — Rev. Samuel B. How .New Jersey. . . .Albany. 
 
 I860 — Rev. Oscar H. Gregory New York Philadelphia. 
 
 1861— Rev. Cornelius Van Cleef " Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 1862 — Rev. John Garretson " Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 1863— Rev. Talbot W. Chambers " Newburgh, N. Y. 
 
 1864 — Rev. Philip Phelps, Jr Michigan Schenectady. 
 
 1865 — Rev. Anson Du Bois New York New Brunswick. 
 
 1866 — Rev. Hervey D. Ganse " New York. 
 
 1867— Rev. Thomas C. Strong " Geneva, N. Y. 
 
 1868— Rev. Elbert S. Porter " Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 1869— Rev. Charles H. Stitt " Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 STATED CLERKS. 
 
 Rev. Cornelius Brouwer, appointed 1800 
 
 Rev. James V. C. Romeyn, 
 Rev. John M. Bradford, 
 Rev. Selah S. Woodhull, 
 Rev. John Knox, 
 Rev. Thomas M. Strong, 
 Rev. David D. Demarest, 
 
 ,1806 
 
 ,1812 
 
 ,1818 
 
 1820 
 
 1828 
 
 1862 
 
684 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 CATALOGUE OF MINISTERS AND CANDIDATES. 
 
 NAMES P. O. ADDRESS PAGE 
 
 Abeel, Gustavus Newark, N. J 592 
 
 Ackerman, Edward G Spring Valley, N. Y .... 
 
 Allen, John K Hoboken, N. J 591 
 
 Alliger, John B Jamaica, N. Y 600 
 
 Amerman, James L Richboro, Pa 611 
 
 Anderson, William East Greenbush, N. Y 614 
 
 Anderson, William H Verplanck's Point, N. Y 619 
 
 Arcularius, Andrew M Port Ewen, N. Y 618 
 
 Atwater, E. R 103 Fulton street, N. Y 600 
 
 Bahler, Louis H Coeymans, N. Y 589 
 
 Bahler, P. B Rochester, N. Y 594 
 
 Bailey, William Whitehouse, N. J 613 
 
 Ballagh, James H Kanagawa, Japan 
 
 Ballagh, William H Knox, N. Y 589 
 
 Bartholf, B. A Pascack, N. J 609 
 
 Bates, E. D. (deposed) 614 
 
 Beardslee, J. W Constantine, Mich 602 
 
 Bechthold, A. H Boston Highlands, Mass 609 
 
 Beck, T. Romeyn Holland, Mich 596 
 
 Becker, Charles Naumburgh, N. Y 593 
 
 Benedict, William A Durham, N. Y 617 
 
 Bentley, E. W Ellenville, N. Y 608 
 
 Berg, Herman C. (candidate) New Brunswick, N. J 
 
 Berg, Joseph F New Brunswick, N. J 
 
 Berger, Martin L Syracuse, N. Y 593 
 
 Bernart, James E Pompton, N. J 610 
 
 Berry, J. Romeyn Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y 591 
 
 Berry, Philip Athens, Pa 
 
 Bertholf, J. Henry Neperan, N. Y 619 
 
 Bevier, John H East Chatham, N. Y 614 
 
 Bingham, Lewis G New York City 600 
 
 Blauvelt, Augustus Creek Locks, N. Y 599 
 
 Blauvelt, 'Cornelius West Hurley, N. Y 618 
 
 Blauvelt, C. R East New York, N. Y 601 
 
 Blauvelt George M. S Tappantown, N. Y 609 
 
 Bodine, G. D. W Germantown, N. Y 59*7 
 
 Boehrer, John Damascus, Pa 608 
 
 Bogardus, F. M Pine Plains, N. Y 597 
 
 BogarduB, William E Norris, Illinois 598 
 
JUNE, 1869. 685 
 
 NAMES P. O. ADDRESS PAGE \ 
 
 Bogart, N. J. M Metuchin, N. J 605 
 
 Boice, IraC Manhasset, N. Y 600 
 
 Bolks, S Zeeland, Mich 696 
 
 Bolton, James Colt's Neck, N. J 60S 
 
 Bookstaver, A. A. (candidate) Montgomery, N. Y 
 
 Boyd, John C Fonda, N. Y 604 
 
 Boyd, Joshua Newburgh, N. Y 608 
 
 Bradford, William J Marathon, N. Y .593 
 
 Brandt, H. W South Africa 605 
 
 Brett, Cornelius Flatlands, N. Y 601 
 
 Brock, John R Spring Valley, N. Y 
 
 Broek, D Graafschap, Mich 596 
 
 Brokaw, Isaac P Newark, N. J 
 
 Brown, S. A Auburn, N. Y 593 
 
 Brown, W. S Woodbourne, N. Y 60S 
 
 Brownlee, James Port Richmond, N. Y 606 
 
 Bruen, James M Irvington, N. J 592 
 
 Brush, Alfred H Nassau, N. Y 614 
 
 Brush, William Somerville, N. J 613 
 
 Brush, William W Stone Ridge, N. Y 599 
 
 Buck, Charles D Peekskill, N. Y 619 
 
 Buckelew, William D Saugerties, N. Y 618 
 
 Bumstead, S. A Raritan, Illinois 698 
 
 Campbell, Alan D Athens, N. Y 595 
 
 Campbell, William H New Brunswick, N. J 605 
 
 Carroll, J. Halstead Williamsburgh, N. Y 600 
 
 Chamberlain, J Mudnapilly, India 590 
 
 Chambers, Talbot W 70 W. 36th st, New York city 606 
 
 Chapman, N. F Saugerties, N. Y 618 
 
 Clark, W. H 180 W. 29th st., New York city.. 60ft 
 
 Clark, Rufus W Albany, N. Y 589 
 
 Cleghorn, E. B New York city 606 
 
 Cobb, Henry N Washington Hollow, N. Y 612 
 
 Cobb, Oliver E Adriance, N. Y 612 
 
 Cobb, Sandford H Schoharie, N. Y 61*7 
 
 Cochran, A. G Easton, N. Y 615 
 
 Cole, David Yonkers, N. Y. 619 
 
 Cole, Isaac D Spring Valley, N. Y 609 
 
 Cole, Solomon T Paterson, N. J 610 
 
 Collier, Edward A Kinderhook, N. Y 614 
 
 Collier, Ezra W Aiken, S. C 595 
 
 Collier, Isaac Battle Creek, Mich 602 
 
 Collier, Isaac H Lodi, N. Y 594 
 
 Collins, B. V Passaic, N.J 610 
 
 Collins, Charles, Jr Philadelphia 611 
 
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 Comfort, Lawrence L New Hurley, N. Y 608 
 
 ComptoD, James M Palatine Bridge, N Y 604 
 
 Conklin, Nathaniel Boonton, N. J 610 
 
 Connitt, G. W Ulsterville, N. Y 608 
 
 Consaul, G. D Mohawk, N.Y 604 
 
 Cooper, Jacob New Brunswick, N. J 605 
 
 Cornell, J. A. H New Baltimore, N. Y 613 
 
 Cornell, William Somerville, N. J 613 
 
 Cornell, William A Poughkeepsie, N. Y 612 
 
 Corwin, E. T Millstone, N. J 605 
 
 Crispell, C. E Holland, Mich 
 
 Cruikshank, John C Little Falls, N. J 610 
 
 Dater, Henry Hyde Park, N. Y 612 
 
 Davis, John A. Amoy, China 618 
 
 Davis, William P Guilderland Centre, N. Y 616 
 
 De Baun, John A Niakayuna, N. Y 616 
 
 DeBeer, J. B Forreston, Illinois 620 
 
 De Bey, B Chicago, Illinois 620 
 
 Decker, Henry E Havana, " * 598 
 
 De Hart, William H Richboro', Pa 611 
 
 Demarest, David D New Brunswick, N. J 
 
 Demarest, James Belleville, N. J 610 
 
 Demarest, James, Jr Chicago, Illinois 620 
 
 Demarest, William Suffern, N. Y 609 
 
 Demarest, John T Nyack Turnpike, N. Y 609 
 
 Demund, Isaac S Hohokus, N. J 609 
 
 De Pree, P Pella, Iowa 598 
 
 DeWitt, John New Brunswick, N. J 
 
 DeWitt, Richard Tuthill, N. Y 599 
 
 DeWitt, Thomas 55 Ninth street, New York city. .606 
 
 Deyo, Paul T Samsonville, N. Y 599 
 
 Dickson, Alexander Lansingbuigh, N. Y 589 
 
 Doeppenschmidt, C Hudson City, N. J 592 
 
 Doolittle, Horace Stanton, N. J 611 
 
 Doolittle, P. M North Branch, N. J 613 
 
 Doolittle, T. Sandford New Brunswick, N. J 605 
 
 Drury, John B Ghent; N. Y 614 
 
 Du Bois, Anson Schenectady, N. Y 616 
 
 Du Bois, Hasbrouck Mott Haven, N. Y 606 
 
 Du Bois, John Kerbonksen, N. Y 608 
 
 Dunnewold, John W Gibbsville, Wis 620 
 
 Dut and, C. B Boonton, N. J 610 
 
 Duryea, John H Paterson, N. J 609 
 
 Duryee, W. R Jersey City, N. J 592 
 
 Dutcher, Jacob C Bound Brook, N. J 605 
 
JUNE, 1869. 687 
 
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 Dusenberre, T. S Prattsville, N. Y 595 
 
 Eddy, Zachary Brooklyn, N. # Y 601 
 
 Edgar, Cornelius H Easton, Pa 613 
 
 Elmendorf, Joachim Albany, N. Y 589 
 
 Eltinge, Cornelius D Oquawka, Illinois 598 
 
 Enders, J. Henry , Lysander, N. Y 593 
 
 Enyard, William T Brooklyn, N. Y 601 
 
 Fairchild, E. S Flushing, N. Y 600 
 
 Farmer,S. F Brooklyn, N. Y 601 
 
 Fehrman, Jacob 6 18 Lexington av., New York city .619 
 
 Ferris, Isaac 108 E. 12th st., New York city . . 606 
 
 Ferris, J. Mason 103 Fulton st., New York city 601 
 
 Fiiher, George H Hackensack, N. J 591 
 
 Forsyth, John Newburgh, N. Y 606 
 
 Frazee, J. H Bloomingburgh, N. Y 608 
 
 Friedel, H. A New York city 607 
 
 Fritts, Charles W Blawenburgh, N. J 611 
 
 Furbeck, Philip Buskirk's Bridge, N. Y 615 
 
 Ganse, Hervey D 358 W. 22d st., New York city .. 606 
 
 Gardner, John Harlingen, N. J 611 
 
 Gardner, T. A Orient, N. Y 615 
 
 Garretson, Gilbert S Dingman's Ferry, Pa 608 
 
 Gaston, John Saugerties, N. Y 618 
 
 Gessner, Oscar Rocky Hill, N.J 611 
 
 Geyer, Julius W New York City 606 
 
 Gordon, Wm, R Schraalenbergh, N. J 591 
 
 Gramm, Gustavus E Philadelphia, Pa 611 
 
 Grant, Henry J., Jr. (candidate) Ithaca, N. Y 
 
 Gregory, O. H West Troy, N. Y 615 
 
 Gregory, Thomas B Bergen Point, N. J 606 
 
 Gulick, Albert V. . . Manito, Illinois 598 
 
 Gulick, Uriah D Pekin " 598 
 
 Haeselbarth, G. (candidate) Nyack, N. Y 609 
 
 Hageman, A. J Hageman's Mills, N. Y 604 
 
 Hageman, Charles S Poughkeepsie, N. Y .612 
 
 Hal], David B Dunnsville, N. Y 616 
 
 Halloway, W. W Paterson, N, J 609 
 
 Halloway, W. W., Jr Belleville, N. J 592 
 
 Hammond, J. W Shokan, N. Y 618 
 
 Hansen, Maurice G Gravesend, N. Y. . 601 
 
 Hardenbergh, James B 13 W. 21st st., New York City. . . 606 
 
 Harris, J. F Hurley, N. Y 599 
 
 Hart, Charles E Newark, N. J 592 
 
 Hartley, Isaac S New York City 607 
 
 Hartranft, C. D New Brunswick, N. J 605 
 
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 Hastings, S. P. M Coxsackie, X. Y 595 
 
 Heermance, Edgar L Castleton, N. Y 614 
 
 Heermance, Harrison Rhinebeck, X. Y 612 
 
 Heyser, H. C New Brooklyn, X. Y 601 
 
 Hicks, W. W Charleston, S. C 600 
 
 Hillman, A. C 26 Wilson st., E. D. Brooklyn. . . 600 
 
 Hirarod, John S Hudson, NY * 597 
 
 Hoes, John C. F Kingston, X. Y 618 
 
 Holmes, Edwin Hudson, X. Y 597 
 
 Holmes, John McC Hudson, N. Y 597 
 
 Hones, Julius Brooklyn, N. Y .. 601 
 
 Horton, Francis A Catskill, X. Y 595 
 
 Houbolt, W. A Muskegon, Mich 6^6 
 
 Hoy t, Alex. S Greenwich, N. Y 615 
 
 Huibert, V. M White Plains, N. Y 619 
 
 Hulst, Geo. D East Williamsburgh, N. Y 
 
 Button, If. H Mt. Vernon, X. Y 619 
 
 Hutton, M. S New York City 607 
 
 Huyssoon, J Paterson, N. J 609 
 
 Ingalls, W Defreetsville, N. Y 614 
 
 Israel, (candidate) India 590 
 
 James, W. L Kingston. N. Y 618 
 
 Jameson, C. M Somerville, X. J 606 
 
 Jansen, John X. Pompton, N. J 610 
 
 Johns, William Spartansburgh, Pa 595 
 
 Johnston, H. H Jefferson, Illinois 598 
 
 Johnson, John G Upper Red Hook, N. Y 597 
 
 Jones, David A Claverack, X. Y 597 
 
 Jones, H. W. F Bergen Point, X. J 592 
 
 Jones, Nathan W Xew York City 608 
 
 Joi-es. Thomas W Pottersville, X. J 613 
 
 Joi.treneel, L. G Sayville, X. Y 600 
 
 Joi-dlmon, J. S. . - Fairview, Illinois 598 
 
 Justin, J Town of Union, Hudson Co., X. J. 591 
 
 Karsten, J. H Waupum, Wis 620 
 
 Kasse, A. K Paterson, X J 609 
 
 Kellogg, C. D Bacon Hill, X. Y 615 
 
 Kershow, J. H Xew Salem, X. Y 589 
 
 Kitkiutveld, M Grandville, Mich 596 
 
 Kimball, Joseph Brooklyn, X. Y 601 
 
 Kip, F. M ...Fishkill, X. Y 612 
 
 Kip, F. M., Jr Livingston, X. Y 597 
 
 Kip, Isaac L Schodack Landing, X. Y 614 
 
 Kip, Leonard W Amoy, China 606 
 
 Klyn, B. G Chicago, Illinois 620 
 
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 Knieskern, Joseph St. Johnsville, N. Y 604 
 
 Knight, R. W Pultneyville, N. Y 594 
 
 Kriekaard, A Kalamazoo, Mich 596 
 
 Kuvper, A. C Holland, Mich 596 
 
 Lane, Gilbert Minaville, N. Y 604 
 
 Lansing, A. G Pella, Iowa 598 
 
 Lansing, John A 103 Fulton street, New York City . 595 
 
 Lefevre, James Raritan, N. J 613 
 
 Lente, James R Washingtonville, N. Y 599 
 
 Lepeltak, P Calumet, 111 620 
 
 Letson, W. W Visscher's Ferry, N. Y 616 
 
 Liebeneau, M. F Roeendale, N. Y 599 
 
 Lippencott, B. C Nyack Turnpike, N. Y 609 
 
 Livingston, E. P Bushnell, Illinois 598 
 
 Lloyd, Aaron New York City 598 
 
 Lock wood, Samuel ' Keyport, N. J 603 
 
 Lott, Henry R. (candidate) New Brunswick, N. J 605 
 
 Lott, John S Middleburgh> N. Y 617 
 
 Lowe, John C Van Vechten, N. Y 616 
 
 Ludlow, Gabriel Neshanic, N. J 611 
 
 Ludlow, James M 116 W. 48th st., New York City.. 606 
 
 Lu9k, Matthias Coxsackie, N. Y 595 
 
 Mabon, William V. V New Durham, N. J 591 
 
 Macaulay, J. M New York City 607 
 
 Mandeville, G. H Newburgh, N. Y 608 
 
 Manley, John New Brunswick, N. J 605 
 
 Mann, Alex. M Farmer Village, N. Y 594 
 
 Manning, John H Brooklyn, N. Y 601 
 
 Markle, Josiah Gansevoort, N. Y 615 
 
 Marselus, N. J 201 S. 5th st. Williamsburgh, N.Y . 606 
 
 Marvin, Uriah Nyack, N. Y 609 
 
 Matthews, J. M. New York City. 607 
 
 Mattice, A Hudson, N. Y 597 
 
 Mayou, Joseph Arnee, India 590 
 
 McKelvey, Alex . . . Greenpoint, N. Y 600 
 
 McNair, John L. 103 Fulton street, New York City . 606 
 
 McWilliam, Alex BnshMU, Pa 608 
 
 Mead, C. S Chatham Four Corners, N. Y ...614 
 
 Meeker, S. H Williamsburgh, N. Y 607 
 
 Meerwein, Otto . . .820 Otis street, Philadelphia 611 
 
 Merritt, Wm. B Glaeco, N. Y 618 
 
 Mesick, John F Somerville, N. J 613 
 
 Messier, Abraham Somerville, N. J 613 
 
 Meuri, John Mott Haven, N. Y 619 
 
 Miller, Edward Berne, N. Y 617 
 

 600 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 NAMES P. O. ADDRESS PACE 
 
 Miller, William H 48 S. 9th street, Brooklyn, N. Y . .606 
 
 Mills, George A Copake, N. Y 597 
 
 Mills, Samuel W , . . Port Jervis, N. Y 608 
 
 Millspaugh, Alex. C Feurabush, N. Y 689 
 
 Minor, John Glenville, N. Y 616 
 
 Mohn, Leopold Hoboken, N. J 591 
 
 Moore, William S Montague, N.J 608 
 
 Morris, Henry Binghampton, N. Y 608 
 
 Morris, Jonathan F Bushnell, 111 598 
 
 Muller, John Freeport, HI 620 
 
 Munn, A. F Coxeackie, N. Y 595 
 
 Meyers, Abm. H Monsey, N. Y 609 
 
 Myers, Henry V. S. (candidate) Brooklyn, N. Y 
 
 Neef, Jacob F Albany, N. Y 589 
 
 Nevius, Elbert Stuyvesaut, N. Y 614 
 
 Nykerk, G.J Overyssel, Mich 596 
 
 Oerter, J. H 252 W. 40th street, N. Y. City 606 
 
 Oggel, E. C Holland, Mich 596 
 
 Oggel, P. J ! Holland, Mich 596 
 
 Ostrander, Henry Saugerties, N. Y 618 
 
 Ostrom, Alvin Franklin, N. J 592 
 
 Pearse, J. Lansing Adams' Station, N. Y 589 
 
 Peck, T. R. G Hastings-upon-Hudson, N. Y 619 
 
 Peeke, A. P Owasco, N. Y 593 
 
 Peeke, George H Jersey City, N. J 592 
 
 Peltz, Philip New Paltz, N. Y 599 
 
 Pepper, John P Brooklyn, N. Y 589 
 
 Petrie, J Herkimer, N. Y 604 
 
 Phelps, Philip, Jr Holland, Mich 596 
 
 Phraner, Wm. H Millstone, N. J 605 
 
 Pierce, N. P Brooklyn, N. Y 601 
 
 Pieters, Roelof Holland, Mich 
 
 Pitcher, John H Scarsdale, N. Y ! 619 
 
 Pitcher, William South Branch, N. J 613 
 
 Pitts, Robert Stroudsburgh, Pa 608 
 
 Pool, Charles H Pluckdmin, N. J 613 
 
 Porter, E. S , Williamsburgh, N. Y 600 
 
 Quackenbush, D. McL 231 E. 86th street, N. Y. City 606 
 
 Quick, A. M Port Jackson, N. Y 604 
 
 Quick, J. J Mohawk, N. Y 604 
 
 Quick, Peter J New Brunswick, N. J 605 
 
 Rapalye, D. Amoy, China 601 
 
 Raymond, H. A Cohoes, N. Y 615 
 
 Reiley, D. T. (candidate) New Brunswick, N. J . . . . 605 
 
 Reiley, William Holmdel, N. J 603 
 
 
JUNE, 1869. 691 
 
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 Renskers, G.J Clymer, N. T 594 
 
 Rhinehart, J. K Roxbury, N. Y 595 
 
 Rice, CD. Poughkeepsie, N. Y 612 
 
 Riddle, M. B Newark, N. J 592 
 
 Riley, Isaac 155 West 36th street, N. Y. City.. 606 
 
 Rockwell, George Alexandria Bay, N. Y 593 
 
 Roe, Sanford W Brookfield, Conn 606 
 
 Rogers, E. P 42 West 27th street, N. Y. City. . .606 
 
 Rogers, Samuel J Geneva, N . Y 594 
 
 Romaine, Benjamin F Columbus, Ohio 
 
 Romeyn, Theodore B Hackensack, N. J 591 
 
 Romondt, C. R. Y Washington, D. C 612 
 
 Roosevelt, Washington Pelham, N. Y 619 
 
 Rutte, John M Paterson, KJ 610 
 
 Ryerson, A. G Paterson, N. J 610 
 
 Sawyer, Andrew Arnee, India 590 
 
 Schanck, Garret C Marlboro*, N. J 603 
 
 Schenck, Martin L Glasco, N. Y 598 
 
 Schenck, John V. N Pompton Plains, N. J 610 
 
 Schermerhorn, H. A Hudson, N. Y 59*7 
 
 Schlieder, F. E West Leyden, N. Y 593 
 
 Schnellendreussler, H. F 
 
 Schoonmaker, Martin L Walden, X. Y 608 
 
 Schoonmaker, Richard L Sing Sing, N. Y 616 
 
 Schroeder, A Hackensack, N. J 591 
 
 Schwilk, William F. (suspended) Schenectady, N. Y 616 
 
 Scott, Charles Holland, Mich 608 
 
 Scribner, John M Middleburg, X. Y 617 
 
 Scudder, E. C Vellore, India 590 
 
 Scudder, Jared W Chittoor, India 590 
 
 Scudder, John Arcot, India 590 
 
 Scudder, Joseph New York City 590 
 
 Scudder, Silas D 590 
 
 Scudder, William W Vellore, India 590 
 
 Searle, Jeremiah Albany, N. Y 589 
 
 Searle, Samuel T Godwinville, N. J 595 
 
 Searle, Stephen Griggstown, N. J 605 
 
 Sears, Jacob C Six Mile Run, N. J 605 
 
 Sebrkg, A. J Mellenville, N. Y 597 
 
 Sebring, E. N Hudson, N. Y 614 
 
 See, Isaac M English Neighborhood, N. J 591 
 
 See, John L 103 Fulton street, N. Y. City 605 
 
 See, William G. E Kiskatom, N. Y 595 
 
 Seibert, George A Middletown, N. J 603 
 
 Shaffer, Thomas L Berne, N. Y 617 
 
692 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 NAMES P. O. ADDRESS PAGB 
 
 Shaw, John F Athens, Pa 594 
 
 Shaw, William A Kingston, N. Y 618 
 
 Shepard, Charles I Newtown, N. Y 600 
 
 Siraonson, John Plainfield, N. J 613 
 
 Sinclair, J. H Richmond, N. Y 606 
 
 Skillman, W. J ,. South Bend, Ind 602 
 
 Slauson, Hiram Fair Haven, Vt 689 
 
 Smith, John Troy, N. Y 
 
 Smith, Marshall B Spring Valley, N. Y 610 
 
 Smith, N. E Brooklyn, N. Y 601 
 
 Smith, William H 604 
 
 Smock, John H Greenvale, N. Y 600 
 
 Snyder, Benjamin F Creek Locks, N. Y 614 
 
 Spaulding, Cyril Bruynswick, N. Y . .608 
 
 Staats, John A Goshen, N. Y. . 608 
 
 Stanbrough, R. M Manheim Centre, N. Y 604 
 
 Statesir, B. T Bloomfield, N. J 610 
 
 Steele, John Paterson, N. J 610 
 
 Steele, John B Salem, N. Y 607 
 
 Steele, Richard H New Brunswick, N.J 605 
 
 Steele, William H Newark, N. J 605 
 
 Steinfuhrer, C. D. F Astoria, N. Y 600 
 
 Stewart, Abel T Holland, Mich 602 
 
 Stimson, E. P. (deposed) Castleton, N. Y 614 
 
 Stitt, Charles H Kingston, N. Y 599 
 
 Stobbelaer, H Cedar Grove, Wis 620 
 
 Stout, Henry Japan 
 
 Strong, J. Paschal Passaic, N. J 609 
 
 Strong, Robert G New Baltimore, N. Y 589 
 
 Strong, Selah W Acord, N. Y 599 
 
 Strong, Thomas C Ithaca, N. Y 594 
 
 Southard, James L. (candidate) Newark, N. J 
 
 Stryker, H. B South Side, N. Y 606 
 
 Sutphen, David S New Utrecht, N. Y 601 
 
 Suydam, John H Jersey City, N. J 591 
 
 Swain, George Marlboro', N. J 603 
 
 Swick, Minor Farmer Village, N. Y 6C8 
 
 Swits, A. J Schenectady, N. Y 616 
 
 Talmage, Goyn Rhinebeck, N. Y 612 
 
 Talmage, James R Napanoch, N. Y 593 
 
 Talmage, John V. N Amoy, China 611 
 
 Talmage, P. Stryker 1,541 Franklin street, Phila., Pa. . .611 
 
 Tarbell, J. G Alamo, Mich 602 
 
 Taylor, Andrew B English Neighborhood, N. J 591 
 
 Taylor, Benjamin C Hudson City, N. J 592 
 
 
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 Taylor, Wesley, (suspended) 618 
 
 Taylor, William J. R Bible House, N. Y. City 606 
 
 Ten Eyck, James B Walden, N. Y 608 
 
 Ten Eyck, William H Astoria, N. Y 600 
 
 Terhune, Edward P Newark, N. J 592 
 
 Thompson, Abraham Pella, Iowa 598 
 
 Thompson, Alexander R 320 West 30th street, N. Y. City. .606 
 
 Thompson, John B Tarrytown, N. Y 619 
 
 Thompson, Henry P Pea Pack, N. J 613 
 
 Timlow, H. R 607 
 
 Todd, Augustus F Piermont, N. Y 609 
 
 Todd, John A Tarrytown, N. Y 619 
 
 Tomb, J. S. L Wynantskill, N. Y 615 
 
 Turner, William E Grahamsville, N. Y 608 
 
 Uiterwyck, Henry Vriesland, Mich 596 
 
 Van Aken, Enoch 361 West 27th st., N. Y. City 606 
 
 Van Aken, Gulick Freehold, N.J 603 
 
 Van Amburgh, Robert High Bridge, N. J 613 
 
 Van Arsdale, J. R Magee's Corners, N. Y 594 
 
 Van Arsdale, N. H High Falls, N. Y 599 
 
 Van Benschoten, W. B Godwinville, N. J 610 
 
 Van Buren, John M East New York, N. Y 601 
 
 VanBuskirk, P. V Closter, N.J 
 
 Van Cleef, Cornelius Poughkeepsie, N. Y 612 
 
 Van Cleef, Paul D Jersey City, N. J 592 
 
 Vandermeulen, Cornelius Grand Rapids, Mich 596 
 
 Vandermeulen, Jacob Holland, Mich 596 
 
 Vandermeulen, John 492 10th st., Milwaukie, Wis 620 
 
 Vanderscheur, K Sheboygan, Wis 620 
 
 Vanderveen, C Grand Rapids, Mich 602 
 
 Vanderveer, David N Kingston, N. Y 618 
 
 Vanderveer, F. H Warwick, N. Y 609 
 
 Vanderveer, John Easton, Pa 613 
 
 Vandewater, A Pompton, N. J 
 
 Van Doren, John A Clinton Station, N. J 613 
 
 Van Doren, J. H Griggstown, N. J 605 
 
 Van Doren, David K Root, N. Y 604 
 
 Van Dyck, L. H Bayonne, N. J 592 
 
 Van Gieson, A. P Poughkeepsie, N. Y 612 
 
 Van Kleeck, R. D Jersey City, N. J 591 
 
 Van Liew, John Readington, N. 3 611 
 
 Van Nest, Abraham R Florence, Italy 606 
 
 Van Neste, George J Little Falls, N. J 609 
 
 Van Raalte, A. C Amelia C. H., Virginia 596 
 
 Van Santvoord, C Chicago, 111 616 
 
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 Van Santvoord, Staats New Baltimore, N. Y 589 
 
 Van Slyke, Evert West Farms, N. Y 619 
 
 Van Slyke, J. G Readington, N. J 
 
 Van Vechten, Jacob Auburn, N. Y 589 
 
 Van Vechten, Samuel Fish/kill, N. Y 612 
 
 Van Vranken, Adam H Centreville, Mich 602 
 
 Van Vranken, F. V GleD, N. Y 604 
 
 Van Woert, J. H Lawyerville, N. Y 617 
 
 Van Wyck, Polhemus, Hudson, N. Y 619 
 
 Van Zandt, A. B Montgomery, N. Y 608 
 
 Van Zandt, Benjamin Canajoharie, N. Y 604 
 
 Vedder, Edwin Gallupville, N. Y 617 
 
 Vedder, Herman Pine Plains, N. Y 612 
 
 Veenhuizen, A. B East Williamson, N. Y 594 
 
 Vehslage, Henry, Jr Irvington, N. J 592 
 
 Verbeck, Guido F Nagasaki, Japan 593 
 
 Vermilye, A. G Utica, N. Y 593 
 
 Vermilye, Dupuytren Guilderland, N. Y 591 
 
 Vermilye, Thomas E 50 E. 49th street, New York City . 606 
 
 Voorhees, H. M Albany, N. Y ." 589 
 
 Voorhees, W. B Clover Hill, N. J 611 
 
 Voorhis, Henry V Brooklyn, N. Y 437 
 
 Voorhis, Jacob N Ulster Park, N. Y 618 
 
 Vroom, W. H Davenport, Iowa 598 
 
 Wagner, John M. Williamsburgh, N. Y 600 
 
 Waldron, C. X Cohoes, N. Y 616 
 
 Ward, Henry New Hackensack, N. Y 612 
 
 Warner, Alexander H Hackensack, N. J 591 
 
 Warner, Isaac W. (candidate) Williamsburgh, N. Y 607 
 
 Warnshuis, J. W Cleveland, Ohio 594 
 
 Watson, Alexander,' (candidate) Sing Sing, N. Y. . . .. 619 
 
 Watson, Thomas G Tompkinsville, N. Y 694 
 
 Welch, R. B Schenectady, N. Y 
 
 Wells, Cornelius L Flatbush, N. Y 601 
 
 Wells, Theodore W Bayonne, N. J 592 
 
 Wells, Ransford Stuyveaant Falls, N. Y 614 
 
 Wenisch, John Newark, N. J 592 
 
 West, Jacob 103 Fulton street, New York City. 601 
 
 Westveer, Adrian Clarksville, N. Y 589 
 
 Whitbeck, John Ithaca, N. Y 594 
 
 Whitbeck, R, M Livingston, N. Y 597 
 
 White, George Schaghticoke, N. Y 616 
 
 Whitehead, Charles 64 W. 35th street, New York City .606 
 
 Wiggins, Ebenezer New York City 607 
 
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 Williamson, N. D Chicago, Illinois 598 
 
 Williamson, P. S San Francisco, Cal 600 
 
 Willis, Ralph Spotswood, N. J 608 
 
 Wilson, A. D Fairview, Illinois 598 
 
 Wilson, Charles W Two Rivers, Wis 620 
 
 Wilson, Frederick F ' Scotia, N. Y 616 
 
 Wilson, James B Long Branch, N. J 603 
 
 Wilson, Joseph Little Falls, N. Y 610 
 
 Winter, Egbert Pella, Iowa. : 593 
 
 Woodbridge, S. M New Brunswick, N. J 
 
 Wortman, Denis Schenectady, N. Y 616 
 
 Wurts, William A , Canastota, N. Y 593 
 
 Wust, W. C. (suspended) Lodi, N. J 
 
 Wyckoff, A. N Glenham, N. Y 612 
 
 Wyckoff, Cornelius New Brunswick, N". J 613 
 
 Wyckoff, D. B Woodstock, N. Y 618 
 
 Wyckoff, JacobS West Troy, N. T 615 
 
 Wyckoff, James Queens, N. Y 600 
 
 Wynkoop, Jefferson Cuba, N. Y 600 
 
 Yasadian, V. (candidate) India 590 
 
 Zabriskie, A. A. Farmer Village, N. Y 594 
 
 Zabriskie, F. N Claverack, N. Y 597 
 
 Zabriskie, Jeremiah L Cuddebackville, N. Y. 608 
 
 Zecheriah, John Coonoor, India 590 
 
 Zwemer, Adrian Thornton, 111 620 
 

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 Rev. J. M. Ludlow, Mr. C. Dusenberry, 
 " J. Gaston, " J. B. Jewett, 
 
 " J. Steele, " Walter Brett, 
 
 Mr. John D. Prince, " John Lefferts. 
 
 Members whose Term Expires June, 1871. 
 
 Rev. M. S. Hutton, D.D., Rev. G. H. Mandeville, 
 " W. H. Ten Eyck, Hon. E. C. Benedict, L.L.D. 
 
 " J. H. Manning, D.D., Mr. F. J. Hosford, 
 " J. T. Demarest, D.D., " Johnson Letson. 
 
 Members whose Term Expires June, 1872. 
 
 Rev. B. C. Taylor, D.D., Rev. J. Elmendorf, D.D., 
 
 J. B. Thompson, Mr. Samuel B. Schieffelin, 
 
 J. Romeyn Berry, D.D., " Marcus Lyon, 
 " David Cole, D.D., " R. N. Perlee. 
 
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 Rev. M. S. Hutton, D.D., President, 
 " B. C. Taylor, D.D., Vice-President, 
 " John L. See, D.D., Cor. Secretary, 
 " W. H. Ten Eyck, Pec. Secretary, 
 
 Mr. F. J. Hosford, Treasurer. 
 
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 Mr. S. B. Schieffelin, Mr. Charles Dusenberry, 
 
 " John Lefferts, " R. N. Perlee. 
 
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 Members whose term expires June, 1870. 
 
 Rev. P. D. Van Cleef, D.D., Rev. G. Abeel, D.D., 
 
 " E. P. Rogers, D.D., Mr. A. J. Beekman, 
 
 " E. S. Porter, D.D., " Henry Cammerden, Jr., 
 
 " James Lafevre, " J. V. D. Hoagland. 
 
 Members whose term expires June, 1871. 
 
 Rev. A. G. Vermilye, D.D., Mr. S. R. W. Heath, 
 " C. I. Shepard, . " John A. Hardenberg, 
 
 " Anson DuBois, D.D., " James Myers, 
 
 * G. Talmage, " James W. Beekman. 
 
 Members whose term expires June, 1872. 
 
 Rev. Isaac Riley, Mr. John P. Hardenbergh, 
 " T. G. Watson, " Robert H. Pruyn, 
 
 « J. H. Duryee, " John W. Ferdon, 
 
 " R. H. Steele, D.D., " John R. Smith. 
 
 OFFICERS FOB 1869-70. 
 
 Mr. John A. Hardenberg, - - - President, 
 
 Rev. P. D. Van Cleef, D.D., - . - Vice-President. 
 
 " Jacob West, ..... Cor. Secretary. 
 
 Mr. John R. Smith, ..... Treasurer. 
 
 Rev. R. II. Steele, D.D., • - - Rec. Secretary. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Rev. P. D. Van Cleef, D.D., Mr. John A. Hardenberg, 
 " G. Abeel, D.D., " S. R. W. Heath, 
 
 " J. IT. Duryee, " James Myers, 
 
 " Isaac Riley, " John R. Smith, Ex. Off. 
 
 Rev. J. West, Ex. Off. 
 
JUNE, 1869. 699 
 
 § vM of «f amp |p$i!$ii«. 
 
 Members whose Term Expires June, 1870. 
 
 Rev. Thomas De Witt, D.D., Rev. H. D. Ganse, 
 
 " E. P. Terhune, Theo. L. Mason, M. D., 
 
 u A. R. Thompson, D.D., Mr. D. J. Steward, 
 
 " C. L. Wells, " Warren Ackerman. 
 
 Members whose Term Expires June, 1871. 
 
 Rev. Isaac Ferris, D.D., LL.D., Rev. W. J. R. Taylor, D.D., ' 
 " A. P. Van Gieson, Mr. Joseph B. Sheffield, 
 
 " Joseph Scudder, D.D., " James A. Williamson, 
 
 " G. H. Mandeville, " John Lefferts. 
 
 Members whose Term Expires June, 1872. 
 
 Rev. George H. Peeke, Rev. W. V. V. Mabon, D.D., 
 
 " William H. Steele, Mr. Sanford Cobb, 
 
 " Denis Wortman, ? A. H. Hazen, 
 
 " J. McC. Holmes, " A. V. W. Van Vechten. 
 
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 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Rev. Isaac Ferris, D.D., LL.D., Mr. Sanford Cobb, 
 
 William H. Steele, Theo. L. Mason, M.D., 
 
 E. P. Terhune, Mr. James A. Williamson, 
 
 A. R. Thompson, D.D., " A. V. W. Van Vechten, 
 H. D. Ganse, " D. Jackson Steward. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1869-70. 
 
 Rev. Thomas De Witt, D.D., President. 
 
 Mr. Sanford Cobb, Vice-President. 
 
 Rev. A. P. Van Gieson, Recording Secretary. 
 
 " J. M. Ferris, Corresponding Secretary. 
 Mr. Gamaliel G. Smith, Treasurer, 
 
 342 Pearl Street, New York City. 
 
 MEDICAL ADVISORS. 
 
 James Anderson, M.D., New York. 
 
 Henry R. Baldwin, M.D., New Brunswick, N. J. 
 
700 JUNE, 1809. 
 
 md 0f § notation. 
 
 Members w7iose Term Expires June, 1870. 
 
 Rev. Isaac Ferris, D.D., Rev. J. B. Wilson, 
 
 " C. Van Santvoord, D.D., Mr. James A Williamson, 
 
 " E. S. Porter, D.D., " Peter Duryee, 
 
 " N. P. Pierce, " R. Amerman. 
 
 Members whose Term Expires, June, 1871. 
 
 Rev. Thomas DeWitt, D.D., Mr. James Myers, 
 
 " T. C. Strong, D.D., " John S. Woodward, 
 
 " W. R. Gordon, D.D., " William T. Runk, 
 
 " Zachary Eddy, D.D., " Peter S. Wynkoop. 
 
 Members whose Term Expires 1872. 
 
 Rev. Alex. R. Thompson, D.D., Mr. Thomas Jeremiah, 
 " John Forsyth, D.D., •' David D. Smith, 
 
 " M. B. Riddle, " Samuel B. Stewart, 
 
 " H. P. Thompson, " Thomas M. Gopsill. 
 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD FOR 1869. 
 
 Rev. Thomas DeWitt, D.D., President. 
 
 " John Forsyth, D.D., Vice-President. 
 
 " John A. Lansing, D.D., Cor. Secretary. 
 Mr. Peter Duryee, Treasurer. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Rev. A. R. Thompson, D.D., Chairman, 
 Rev. W. R. Gordon, D.D., Mr. James Williamson, 
 
 M. B. Riddle, " D. D. Smith, 
 
 J. A. Lansing, D.D., ex-off. " S. B. Stewart, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Jeremiah, " Peter Duryee, ex-off. 
 
 FINANCE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Jeremiah, Mr. D. D. Smith, 
 
 " J. S. Woodward, " James A. Williamson, 
 
 Mr. William T. Runk. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. 
 
 Rev. W. R. Gordon, D.D., Rev. J. Forsyth, D.D., 
 
 " M. B. Riddle, " A. R. Thompson, D.D 
 
 COMMITTEE ON THE DEPOSITORY. 
 
 Rev. M. B. Riddle, Mr. T. Jeremiah, 
 
 " W. R. Gordon, D.D., " Peter Duryee, 
 
 Mr. S. B. Stewart. 
 
 LITERARY COMMITTEE. 
 
 Rev. W. V. V. Mabon, D.D., Rev. J. R. Berry, D. D., 
 
 Rev. W. H. Steele. 
 
 Depository Agent. — Mr. William Ferris. 
 
ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS 
 
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This Volume embraces the Minutes of the following Sessions 
 
 of the General Synod, viz: 
 
 JUNE, .... 1866. 
 
 JUNE, - - - 1867. 
 
 NOVEMBER, - - : 1867. 
 
 JUNE, - - - 1868. 
 
 JUNE, - - - 1869. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 A. 
 
 Abell, Rev. James, death of noticed 425 
 
 Absence, application for leave of, to come through Committee 284 
 
 " Committee on leave of, reports 366 
 
 Absentees without permission. ... 124, 357, 516, 679 
 
 Academy of Fine Arts, Synod invited to visit 553 
 
 of Natural Sciences " " 553 
 
 Accounts, reports of Committee on 124, 296, 356, 515, 678 
 
 " " to estimate contingent expenses 413 
 
 Ackerman, Warren, thanks to for donation to Board of Foreign Missions 275 
 Agent, appointment of, for completing endowment of Professorial Fund, 
 
 authorized 417, 646 
 
 Alliance, Evangelical, communication from 11 
 
 " " delegates appointed to 44 
 
 Albany, Classis of, asks for a dispensation 160 
 
 Alliger, Rev. J. B., delegate to Synod of German Ref. Church 44, 189 
 
 Amendment to the Constitution, on ordination of elders and deacons, 
 
 negatived 86 
 
 Amendment to the Constitution, on admitting Professors of Theology to 
 
 membership in ecclesiastical bodies, negatived 86 
 
 Amendment to the Constitution, in regard to tabling of charges not ad- 
 vised. 237 
 
 to the Constitution, on changing the word "school" to 
 
 schools," recommended 242 
 
 vote of classes, on 331 
 
 final action of Synod on 340 
 
 on change of name adopted (.sec name) 3H5 
 proposed by South Classis of L. Island. 376 
 " " on organization of the Particular Synods 
 
 proposed 633 
 
 American Bible Society 113, 286, 600, 664 
 
 " Missionary Association 113,281,286 
 
 " and Foreign Christian Union 1 14, 286, 500, 664 
 
 " Seaman's Friend Society 501 
 
 Anderson, Dr. James, invites the Synod 13 
 
 Andrews, R. E., invites the Synod 377 
 
 Appeal by North Classis of Long Island in case of Mr. Fairchild 80 
 
 Mr. Fairchild, sus- 
 tained 85 
 
 by Clastis of Philadelphia, in case of Jno. L. Bellis, postponed. . 239 
 
 " not sustained.. 331 
 
 Appendix (Rules of Order) 126 
 
 Arcot, Claesis of, asks for dispensations 12, 375, '60 
 
 " communication from, on union of Preshyteiian Churches 
 
 in India 160 
 
 communication from 12, 105 
 
 expenses of delegate from, to be paid 296 
 
 communication from, on Polygamy 377, 466 
 
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 Arrearages of Classes for contingent expenses.. 14, 98, 162, 379, 411, 556 
 
 " for repairs of Rutgers College 15, 163 
 
 " on apportionment of $20,000 for Permanent Fund, 
 
 16, 163, 380, 412, 556 
 
 " Classes requested to pay 99 
 
 " interest on, to be charged 578 
 
 Assembly, Gen. of Presbyterian Church, communication from 877 
 
 " action of, in caee of Classis of Wisconsin and Presby- 
 tery of Milwaukie, noticed 419 
 
 Aseessment, communications on subject of. 11, 12, 32-1, 551 
 
 " resolution of 1864, on rescinded 325 
 
 " report of Committee on 403, 5 1 7 
 
 " Classes requested to pay with interest 412 
 
 '* for Theological Seminary to be kept distinct ... 412 
 
 " action of Classis of Orange in regard to 96 
 
 number of communicants to be basis of 413 
 
 treasurer empowered to make for contingent expenses. .... 413 
 
 * General Synod to make for contingent expenses 414 
 
 m Committee on Board of Direction to report apportionment to 
 
 Synod 414 
 
 " to be made known through Stated Clerk to the Classes,. ... 414 
 
 " amount received on 654 
 
 for Permanent Furd interest to be paid on arrearages 578 
 
 " transfer and remissions of portions in New York City 580 
 
 " on rooms in Ilertzog Hall to be lightened 645 
 
 Ayes and Nays on change of name. ... 241, 332, 835 
 
 " " Freemasonry 463 
 
 B. 
 
 Bahler, P. G. M., engages in teaching, 546 ; dispensation allowed 645 
 
 Barr, Rev. W. W., delegate from United Presbyterian Church 581 
 
 Batrow, Mrs. Eliza, legacy from 161 
 
 Baasler, Rev. B., death of 46 
 
 Belli*, John L., appeal in case of. 239, 330 
 
 Beneficiaries, number of. 88, 243, 469 
 
 " recommended for aid from V. B. and Knox funds 100, 247, 471 
 
 Benevolent operations, discussion on 113 
 
 sermons in behalf of. 113,285,500, 663 
 
 " " preachers on appointed 113, 286, 500, 663 
 
 " " Committee to devise a system for, appointed,. . . 286 
 
 " " extension of time for making report on 353 
 
 " " report of Committee on, referred to Committee 600 
 
 " " report of Committee on plan of 501 
 
 pastors held responsible for 604 
 
 Joint Committees of Boards to furnish pro- 
 grammes for 504 
 
 Circular letter in regard to, to be sent 504 
 
 " " to be read from the pulpit 505 
 
 Classes to inquire whether collections have been 
 
 taken tor 505 
 
 " " names of pastors of non-contributing churches, 
 
 to be reported 501 
 
 " " Classes to devote an hour to prayer for 506 
 
 " " attention of Classes called to small proportion of 
 
 contributions to our own Boards 504 
 
 Berg, Prof., communication from 4 160 
 
 rentallowedto 272, 417, 680 
 
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 Berky, Rev. A. , death of 587 
 
 B«rry, Rev. J. It., delegate to Gen. Assembly, Pres. Church 195, 418 
 
 Berry, Rachel, legacy from 554 
 
 Bettiog, resolution against 86 
 
 Bethune, Rev. Dr., bust of, received 10 
 
 " •« " thanks for 98 
 
 •' Memorial Church recommended for aid 664 
 
 Biblical instruction defined 80 
 
 Blair, Hev. Dr. Hugh, delegate from Assembly of United Pres. Church. 42 
 
 Blind, invitation to visit N. Y. Institution for the 12, 113 
 
 Blois, Mrs. Hannah M., establishes a scholarship 162 
 
 Bogardus, Rev. N., death of . . 587 
 
 BooSstaver, A. A., dispensation for '616, 460 
 
 Brown, Rev. Dr., communication from 12 
 
 Building Committee on professorial residences, Treasurer of Synod to pay 
 
 monies to ... 97 
 
 monies paid to 161 
 
 relief for asked 442, 345 
 
 reports of 264, 474 
 
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 Campbell, Rev. Dr., ecclesiastical relations of 13, 83 
 
 Camphel 1 , James B., dispensation trran'ed to 237 
 
 Canada Presbyterian Church, coTespondence opened with 583 
 
 Catechbm, Heidelberg, instruction in commended 586, 675 
 
 Catechumens defined 80 
 
 Chambers, liev. Dr., report as corresponding delegate 191 
 
 CJiance, games of to be discountenanced 86 
 
 Chicago, Second Church of. applies for aid 348 
 
 '• " Board of Domestic Missions to raise money for. . 348 
 
 " " amount of subscription for to be published 348 
 
 Christian Intelligencer recommended 352 
 
 Church Building Fund, cl.i.ns of 279, 281 
 
 " " money loaned to Church of Iloboken by 13 
 
 " " agent to be appointed for increasing 105 
 
 fl " loans of 162 
 
 " modifications in plan of 279 
 
 " " placed in care of Board of Domestic Missions. . . . 281 
 " " securities to be assigned to the Board of Domes- 
 tic Missions 348 
 
 '* " monies of transferred to Board of Domestic Mis- 
 sions 378 
 
 " " claims of to be urged 491 
 
 " • " agrnt in behalf of' to be appointed 492,652 
 
 " " report on ■ 652 
 
 Church Colleges, article adopted 91 
 
 Church exten-ion 197, 328 
 
 Classical stit'stic*, attention of Stated Clerks called to 83 
 
 Claverack Church ; thanks for copy of Ili>tory of 352 
 
 Clerk, Permanent, office restored 663. Salary fixed, 663. Rev. P. D. 
 
 Van Cleef appointed 663 
 
 Cole, Rev. D., delegate to General Assembly Presbyterian Church 584 
 
 Collections, overture from Classis of New York on leporting 375 
 
 reports to be made to the Clasres 461 
 
 Classes to inquire whether they have been made 505 
 
 resolution on reporting repealed 624 
 
 College of New York, invitation to visit 12 
 
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 Arrearages of Casses for contingent expenses.. 14, 98, 162, 379, 411, 556 
 
 " for repairs of Rutgers College 15, 163 
 
 " on apportionment of $20,000 for Permanent Fund, 
 
 15, 163, 380, 412, 556 
 
 " Classes requested to pay 99 
 
 " interest on, to be charged 578 
 
 Assembly, Gen. of Fresbyteiian Church, communication from 37*7 
 
 " action of, in caee of Classis of Wisconsin and Presby- 
 tery of Milwaukie, noticed 419 
 
 Assessment, communications on subject of. 11, 12, 324, 551 
 
 " resolution of 1864, on rescinded 325 
 
 " report of Committee on 403, 5 1 7 
 
 " Classes requested to pay with interest 412 
 
 " for Theological Seminary to be kept distinct 412 
 
 " action of Classis of Orange in regard to 96 
 
 " number of communicants to be basis of 413 
 
 " treasurer empowered to make for contingent expenses. .... 413 
 
 * General Synod to make for contingent expenses 414 
 
 * Committee on Board of Direction to report apportionment to 
 
 Synod 414 
 
 " to be made known through Stated Clerk to the Classes,. ... 414 
 
 " amount received on 554 
 
 " for Permanent Furd interest to be paid on arrearages 578 
 
 " transfer and remissions of portions in New York City 580 
 
 " on rooms in Ilertzog Hall to be lightened 645 
 
 Ayes and Nays on change of name. ... 241, 832, 835 
 
 " Freemasonry 463 
 
 
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 Bahler, P. G. M., engages in teaching, 546 ; dispensation allowed 645 
 
 Barr, Rev. W. W., delegate from United Presbyterian Church 581 
 
 Bat row, Mrs. Eliza, legacy from 161 
 
 Baesler, Rev. B„ death of 46 
 
 Belli.-* , John L., appeal in case of. 239, 330 
 
 Beneficiaries, number of. 88, 243, 469 
 
 " recommended for aid from V. B. and Knox funds 100, 247, 471 
 
 Benevolent operations, discussion on 113 
 
 sermons in behalf of. 113, 285, 500, 663 
 
 preachers on appointed 113, 286, 500, 663 
 
 Committee to devise a system for, appointed,. . . 286 
 
 extension of time for making report on 353 
 
 report of Committee on, referred to Committee 500 
 
 report of Committee on plan of 501 
 
 pastors held responsible for 504 
 
 Joint Committees of Boards to furnish pro- 
 grammes for 504 
 
 Circular letter in regard to, to be sent 504 
 
 " " " " to be read from the pulpit, 505 
 
 " " Classes to inquire whether collections have been 
 
 taken tor 505 
 
 " " names of pastors of non-contributing churches, 
 
 to be reported 501 
 
 " Classes to devote an hour to prayer for 506 
 
 " " attention of Classes called to small proportion of 
 
 contributions to our own Boards 504 
 
 Berg, Prof., communication from 4 160 
 
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 Berky, Rev. A., death of 587 
 
 Bmy, Rev. J. It., delegate to Gen. Assembly, Pies. Church 195, 418 
 
 Berry, Rachel, legacy from 554 
 
 Betting, resolution against 86 
 
 Bethune, Rev. Dr., bust of, received 10 
 
 " " " thanks for 98 
 
 " Memorial Church recommended for aid 664 
 
 Biblical instruction defined 80 
 
 Blair. Rev. Dr. Hugh, delegate from Assembly of United Pres. Church. 42 
 
 Blind, invitation to visit N. Y. Institution for the 12, 113 
 
 Blois, Mrs. Hannah M., establishes a scholarship 162 
 
 Bogardus, Rev. N., death of . . 587 
 
 BooKstaver, A. A., dispensation for 376, 460 
 
 Brown, Rev. Dr., communication from 12 
 
 Building Committee on professorial residences, Treasurer of Synod to pay 
 
 monies to 97 
 
 monies paid to 161 
 
 relief for asked 442, 345 
 
 reports of 264, 474 
 
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 Campbell, Rev. Dr., ecclesiastical relations of 13, 83 
 
 Campbel', James B., dispensation framed to 237 
 
 Canada Presbyterian Church, co-re^pondence opened with 583 
 
 Catechbm, Heidelberg, instruction in commended 586, 675 
 
 Catechumens defined 80 
 
 Chambers, Itev. Dr., report as corresponding delegate 191 
 
 Chance, games of to be discountenanced 86 
 
 Chicago, Second Church of. applies for aid 348 
 
 '• " Board of Domestic Missions to raise money for. . 348 
 
 " " amount of subseiiption for to be published 348 
 
 Christian Intelligencer recommended 352 
 
 Church Building Fund, clams of 279, 281 
 
 " " money loaned to Church of Iloboken by 13 
 
 " " agent to be appointed for increasing 105 
 
 '* loans of 162 
 
 modifications in plan of 279 
 
 placed in care of Board of Domestic Missions. ... 281 
 securities to be assigned to the Board of Domes- 
 tic Missions 348 
 
 " " monies of transferred to Board of Domestic Mis- 
 sions 378 
 
 " " claims of to be urged 491 
 
 " • " agrnt in behalf of' to be appointed 492,652 
 
 '• " report, on ■ 652 
 
 Church Colleges, article adopted 91 
 
 Church exten-ion 197, 328 
 
 Classical stU'stic*, attention of Stated Clerks called to 83 
 
 Claverack Church ; thanks for copy of History of 352 
 
 Clerk, Permanent, office restored 663. Salary fixed, 663. Rev. P. D. 
 
 Van Cleef appointed 663 
 
 Cole, Rev. D., delegate to General Assembly Presbyterian Church 584 
 
 Collections, overture from Classis of New York on leporting 375 
 
 reports to be made to the Clashes 461 
 
 Classes to inquire whether they have been made 505 
 
 resolution on reporting repealed 624 
 
 College of New York, invitation to visit 12 
 
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 Colonization Society commended 502 
 
 Committees, standing, appointed 7, 155, 868, 543 
 
 " " Committee on Board of Direction added t > 18£ 
 
 " '• changes in 323 
 
 Constitution, amendments to acted on 86, 242, 335, 340, 460 
 
 " to be published in a cheap form 238 
 
 to be tianslated into the Holland language 376, 497 
 
 national, amendment to proposed 377, 420 
 
 amendments to proposed ....... ^ 633 
 
 " report on Appendix 1o 634 
 
 Contingent expenses, communication from Classis of Bergen concerning. 11 
 
 " " action on 95 
 
 • '« estimated 99 
 
 arrearages for 162, 379, 411, 556 
 
 Committee on accounts to estimate for cuirent year 413 
 
 Treasurer empowered to assess amount for 413 
 
 number of communicants, basis of assessment for.. . 413 
 " Treasurer to send an estimate for to General Synod. 414 
 
 " " estimate to be referred to Committee on Board of 
 
 Direction 414 
 
 " " Stated Clerk to transmit assessment to the Classes 414 
 
 " " estimate of for current year 678 
 
 " " to be apportioned by the Treasurer 679 
 
 Contributions for religious, <&c, purposes defined 80 
 
 Convention of Presbyterian Ohurches in India pr >posed 277 
 
 Conventions for promoting spirituality 328, 425 
 
 reports of 377,462 
 
 to be held annually 632 
 
 Council, (Ecumenical, paper on presented, 581, not acted on 684 
 
 Council, National, of Evangelical denominations recommended 420 # 
 
 " " " Committee on appointed 421 
 
 " report of Committee on, 581, delegates 
 
 to appointed 581 
 
 " Commit'ee on increased, 581. Officers 
 
 of ecclesiastical bodies to be corresponded 
 with, 582. Filling of vacancies in dele- 
 gation authorized, 582. Delegates ap- 
 pointed by other bodies, 583. Expenses 
 
 of Committee to be paid 678 
 
 Correspondence, reports of Committees on 42, 194, 327, 418, 582 
 
 with Classis of Aimterdam to be arranged and bound.. . 112 
 
 with Evangelical Lutheran Church opened 418 
 
 with Canada Presbyterian Church opened 583 
 
 Credentials of member- of General Synod to be sent to them 499 
 
 " corresponding delegates to be referred to Committee on 
 
 Correspondence 581 
 
 Crispell, Rev. C. E., chosen Professor of Theology 273 
 
 " " communications from 343,376, 552 
 
 " " status of in relation to Hope College 844 
 
 ': " certificate of appointment of to be altered 346 
 
 " " da}' of inauguration fixed 346 
 
 " " Prof. Demarest to preside at inauguration of 475 
 
 Crosby, Arthur, retires from the Seminary 546 
 
 Cruickshank, Rev. J. C, delegate to General Assembly United Presby- 
 terian Church 45, 192 
 
 Cnrrie, Rev. R. O.. death of 46 
 
 Cyr, Narcisse, addresses Synod 600 
 
 Cornell, Rev. Dr., efforts ot in behalf of the Seminary 648, 656 
 
 authorized by Synod to secure endowment 680, 646 
 
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 Corwin's Manual, thanks of Synod for 663 
 
 " " recommended 663 
 
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 DeBaun, Rev. J. A., delegate to United Presbyterian Church 421, 580 
 
 Debt of Synod, provision for 417 
 
 " " amount of 579 
 
 Delegates corresponding, reports of not to be printed 419 
 
 to General Synod, credentials to be sent 499 
 
 " from the West, traveling expenses paid 124, 296, 357, 515 
 
 from other bodies, certificates to be referred to Committee on 
 
 Correspondence 581 
 
 Demarest, Rev. D.D., resignation of as member of Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions 12 
 
 " rent a'lowed to 272 
 
 " appointed to preside at inauguration of Prof, dispell. . , .475, 480 
 
 " Rev. James, delegate to General Assembly Presbyterian 
 
 Church 584 
 
 Rev. James, Jr., heard in behalf of 2d Church of Chicngo 348 
 
 " " appointed to preach at Prof. Crispell's inaugu- 
 ration 346 
 
 Demott, John, elected member of Committee on Hei tzosr Hall 273 
 
 Denham, Rev. James, delegate from Presbyterian Church, Ireland 194 
 
 Denominational lifr, evidence of 200 
 
 De Piee, Rev. P., labors of in Iowa 279 
 
 Devotional exercises 113, 285, 353, 499, 663 
 
 " standing rule in regard to 114 
 
 DeWitt, Rev. J., delegate to General Synod German Reformed Church. . 45 
 " *' services of acknowledged by Committee on llertzog 
 
 Hall 94 
 
 " " communication from 160 
 
 " Synod declines to receive subscription of 272 
 
 " is reimbursed for expenses 272 
 
 Deyo, Paul T., dispensation for 324, 329 
 
 Digest of Acts of Synod, petition from Classis of New Brunswick con- 
 cerning 376 
 
 " Committee to prepare appointed 462 
 
 " report of Commit! ee on 624 
 
 " revised, to be printed 6i5 
 
 Annual 36,186,400, 574 
 
 Direction of the Corporation, Board of, reports of 13, 160, 377, 553 
 
 I " members of chosen 39,189,403,577 
 
 " " to relieve trustees of Rutger'a College from 
 
 payment of house rent 97 
 
 II " to borrow money for payment of salaries. . 189 
 " '' Standing Committee on appointed 189 
 
 reports of 325, 279, 414, 577 
 
 " " authorized to give mortgage 272 
 
 " " Bond of Kev. N. E Smith referred to 272 
 
 " " to furnish an annual estimate of expenses, 
 
 Ac, of Synod 325 
 
 " " to prepare a paper on the Widows' and 
 
 Disabled Ministers' Fund 580 
 
 Disabled Ministers' Fund, reports on 1 U6, 283, 493, 656 
 
 " " communication from Chwsis of Wisconsin 552 
 
 " " appeal in behalf of to be prepared 580 
 
 M " Classes enjoined to present the claims of 657 
 
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 Disabled Minister's Fund, services of elders and unemployed ministers to 
 
 be secured 657 
 
 " " Standing Committee on to be appointed by 
 
 Clas-is 658 
 
 " " application for aid from to be presented to 
 
 Synod 658 
 
 " M appurtiunment to be made by Commiitee of Sy- 
 nod 658 
 
 " " annual collection for recommended 658 
 
 Dismission of Church mernbeis, communication concerning.. 376 
 
 " " form of certificate of no part of the Con- 
 stitution 461 
 
 DuBois, Rev. A., preaches before S3'nod 3 
 
 Duryee, Kev. Isaac G., death of 46 
 
 " Rev. J. T., thanks to for securing instruction in elocution to 
 
 students 98 
 
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 Education, Board of, reports of committees on 87, 242, 468, 642 
 
 state of funds of 87, 244 
 
 debt of 24 6 
 
 members of elected 91, 247, 471, 644 
 
 beneficiaries of freed from payment of tuition in 
 
 Rutgers' College 245 
 
 annual collection for urged 247 
 
 preaching in behalf of 90, 247 
 
 rule of denying help before entering college to be 
 
 rescinded 470 
 
 " " contributions to be annually made 471 
 
 11 " legacies for 471 
 
 •■ " increase of beneficiaries on 642 
 
 Elrnendorf, Rev. A., death of 46 
 
 Elocution, Professorship of, attention called to need for ^158 
 
 " " Synod not prepared to establish 267 
 
 Emigration to the Wett or South should be in families 655 
 
 " Ministers and Domestic Board to aid with advice 655 
 
 Endowment of the Seminary to be prosecuted 646 
 
 Evangelical Alliance, communication from 11 
 
 " " delegates to 44 
 
 " Theology, professor of elected in Western Seminary 648 
 
 Exegelical " " " " " 648 
 
 Extension of Church in N. Y. city, act of incorporation for 13 
 
 " " committee on to be appointed by Particular S} nod. 632 
 
 duties of 632 
 
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 Fairbairn, Rev. P., delegate from Free Church of Scotland 194 
 
 Fairchild, Kev. E., appeal in case of 81, 85 
 
 " " minute on action of Particular Synod 237 
 
 Families, number of those attending services to be reported in the tables 80 
 Ferri«, Rev. Dr. Isaac, resigns as member of Board of Foreign Missions. . 377 
 
 " •' re-elected 491 
 
 " " to deliver charge to Rev. Dr. Cri-pell 346 
 
 " William, leave to, license a?ked 552, dispensation grant- 
 ed 623 
 
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 Financial deficiencies 416 
 
 Forsyth, Rev. J., appointed delegate to Evangelical Alliance 44 
 
 '" " " member of Board of Publication 110 
 
 " " " preai-hes a sermon 668 
 
 Free Church of Scotland, communication from 11 
 
 " " delegate to appointed 44 
 
 " " delegates from 1 94 
 
 Freemasonry, overtures on 376, 37*7 
 
 " Synod declines to give an opinion on 461 
 
 " ayes and nayes on question of 4 63 
 
 " communications on .... , 551 
 
 " subject referred to a committee 622 
 
 Fund, Professorial, $100,000 to be raised for 417 
 
 Foreign ministers, rule not to apply to Holland ministers 634 
 
 Forms of worship, 586, observance enjoined 676 
 
 G. 
 
 Gane, Rev. P., delegate from Synod of General Reformed Church 41 
 
 Ganee, Rev. H. D., President of Synod 6 
 
 " " preaches before Synod 151 
 
 Gaston, Rev. John, report of as delegate to Reformed Presbyterian 
 
 Church 40 
 
 " chosen preacher on benevolenee 500 
 
 Gilbert, Rev. A. T., death of 201 
 
 Gordon, !iev. II., delegate from United Presbyterian Church 418 
 
 Gordon, Rev. W. R., corresponding delegate, report of 581 
 
 Gosman, Rev. John, death of 46 
 
 " Misses, thanks to for donation of books to Hope College 352 
 
 " Rev. A.^delegate from Presbyterian Church 581 
 
 Gray, Rev. John, death of 46 
 
 Gregg, Rev. Win., delegate from Canada Presbyterian Church 581 
 
 Gregory, Rev. O. II , delegate to Synod of German Reformed Church. . . 195 
 
 Gospel Field, publication of noticed 654 
 
 H. 
 
 Hall, Rev. Dr. John, delegate from General Assembly of Presbyterian 
 
 Church 41 
 
 Halsey, Rev. A. O., death of 687 
 
 Hamlin. T. G., enters the Seminary 546 
 
 Harris, Hev. J. F., delegate to United Presbyterian Church 584 
 
 Hasbrouck, death of Mrs. A. B 662 
 
 Heidelberg Catechism, on uniformity in mode of explaining 238 
 
 " to be taught and publicly expounded 675 
 
 Hertzog, Mrs. Anna, death of noticed Ill 
 
 " " bequest of received 554 
 
 " inttrest on to be paid to Hertzog Hall Committee. . 680 
 
 Feyer, Rev. W. S., death of 46 
 
 Higbee, Rev. E. E., delegate from German Reformed Church 581 
 
 llii.chman, Janet, bequest of 285 
 
 Historical documents, committee on preservation of appointed 112 
 
 " " " continued 677 
 
 " " to be sent to the library at New Brunswick 677 
 
 " Society, invitation to visit looms of 11 
 
 allowed to translate correspondence 112 
 
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 Hoes, Rev. J. C. F., delegate to General Assembly Pre?. Church. . . .44, 190 
 
 Hogeb»om, Judge, invites Synod 377 
 
 Holland, Classis of asks for dispensation 160 
 
 Holmes, Rev. J. McC, addresses students 547 
 
 " " delegate to German Reformed Church 584 
 
 Hope College, communication from senior class in 12 
 
 " monies for received 14 
 
 " endowment of recommended . 90, 247 
 
 " change in rules of 90 
 
 " commit' ee to visit. 91 
 
 " theological in-truction at allowed 97, 269 
 
 " agreement of with General Synod 162 
 
 " monies received for endowment fund of 162 
 
 " report <>f committee to visit 248 
 
 • rector of Grammar school at 252, 271 
 
 report of Council of 253, 47*1 
 
 '• theological class at 268 
 
 " Professor of Theology to be appointed at 271 
 
 " Committee on Endowment of 271 
 
 " Professors of to be lector3 in Theology at Holland 271 
 
 " expenses for secuiing endowment fur to be paid 272 
 
 " communication from Council of 324 
 
 President Phelps of 324 
 
 " Classes requested to pay their subscriptions for scholar- 
 ships in 341 
 
 Profe-sors of entitled to gratitude and sympathy 341 
 
 consideration of papers concerning deferred 347 
 
 " Committee to visit 347 
 
 " communication from Professors in 376 
 
 receipts for endowment of 379, 554 
 
 Council of requested to complete the endowment 417 
 
 Classes urged to complete their scholarships 484 
 
 " Council of reque-ted to relieve Board of Education. . .471, 484 
 
 " consideration of papers from deferred 471 
 
 " members of Council appointed 89, 254, 472, 644 
 
 Committee to visit 472 
 
 plan of theological seminary at referred 472 
 
 no change at to be inaugurated 472 
 
 " recommended to the liberality of the churches 485 
 
 " amendment to articles of association making it a Universi- 
 ty proposed 481 
 
 " consideration of the amendment deferred 481 
 
 " communication in regard to Theological School at 552 
 
 " communication from Senior Theological Class at 646 
 
 " endowment of before May, 1871, urged 643 
 
 " members of Council to be Board of Superintendents of 
 
 Seminary . f 647 
 
 " " " directed to complete organization of 
 
 Theological School 647 
 
 " " " to adopt course of study pursued at 
 
 New Brunswick 648 
 
 " members of Theological Facul'y at designated 648 
 
 " Council of to embrace a member of the Theological Faculty 648 
 
 *' " to take measures to complete endowment in two 
 
 years 648 
 
 Hopkins, David, dispensation fur 323, 329 
 
 Hombeck, Joehua, legHcy from 378 
 
 How, Rev. Samuel B., death of 425 
 
 Hudson, Classis of,/eport of convention held by 377 
 
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 Hudson River Institute invites Synod 377 
 
 Hulbert, Kev. V. M„ delegate to Synod of German Re'ormed Church 195, 418 
 
 Humiliation, day of recommended 425, 588 
 
 Hntton, Rev. M. S., delegate to Evangelical Lutheran Church 422 
 
 Hymn Book, communication in regard to 376 
 
 report of Committee on 467 
 
 publication of aul horized 468 
 
 Committee to superintend appointed 468 
 
 report of Committee on publication of 634 
 
 approved and authorized 641 
 
 to contain Standards and Liturgy 641 
 
 to bear name of the Church on title page 641 
 
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 Illinois, Classis of, communication from on want of ministers 159 
 
 Income and expenses of General Synod 325 
 
 " deficiency in 379 
 
 Incorporation of Synod, act relating to holding of property amended.... 555 
 
 India, convention of Pi esbyterian Churches in 277 
 
 Intelligencer, Christian, recommended 352 
 
 Intemperance, attention to resolutions on 402 
 
 Invitation from New York Historical Society 11 
 
 Ward school 11 
 
 " New York In- tit ution for the Blind 12 
 
 College of New York 13 
 
 " James Anderson, M.D 13 
 
 " to meet at Hudson 159 
 
 " Philadelphia and Brooklyn 376 
 
 " Young Men's Christian Association 159, 376, 552 
 
 " Public school at Hudson 876 
 
 " Judge 11 ogeboom 377 
 
 C. 11. Miller 377 
 
 R. S. Andrews 377 
 
 Hudson River Institute 377 
 
 United States Mint 552 
 
 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 553 
 
 Navy Yard 553 
 
 Union League 553 
 
 Academy of Natural Sciences 553 
 
 to meet at New York and Brooklyn 662 
 
 Israel, dispensation granted to 460 
 
 J. 
 
 Jewett, Mrs. Fanny, leeacy from 553 
 
 Johnson, Rev. J. G., delegate to Reformed Presbyterian Church 584 
 
 W. L., dispensation asked for 552 
 
 granted 623 
 
 Judicial business, committee on constituted 8 
 
 reports of 81, 238 
 
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 Kingston, Classis of to be transferred to Particular Synod of New York 631 
 Kissam, Rev. S., death of 587 
 
Ill INDEX. 
 
 Knox Fund, nominations for 100, 471 
 
 Kuiper, A. C, dispensation for 237 
 
 L. 
 
 Labagh, Rev. Abm. J., death of 46 
 
 Lading, Rev. Jno. A., appointed Secretary of Board of Publication 351 
 
 Lansing, Susan Y., establishes a scholarship 161 
 
 Lectors in Theology at Hope College, work of 551 
 
 Lefferts, Maria R., legacies from 161, 554 
 
 Letson, Johnson, e'ected member of Hertzog Hall Committee. .'. 101 
 
 Library of Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, increase of recom- 
 mended 11, 98, 549 
 
 " " " duplicates in to be disposed of ....546, 645 
 
 Licensure after two years study not approved 238 
 
 " amendment to Constitution regarding|proposed 460 
 
 Liturey, committee to revise appointed 467 
 
 Long Branch, gift for building chapel at H52 
 
 Lord. liev. J. S , death of 587 
 
 Lord's Supper, Sacrament of celebrated 113, 285, 500, 6u3 
 
 Lotteries to be discountenanced 86 
 
 Ludlow, Rev. G., delegate to General Assembly Presbyterian Church 44, 192 
 
 Lutheran Church, correspondence with opened 418 
 
 Lyall, Rev. Wm, death of 425 
 
 M. 
 
 Manual of Reformed Church, thanks for, 663, recommended 663 
 
 Mattice, Rev. A., labors of in Wisconsin 280 
 
 McClure, Rev. A. W., death of 46 
 
 Meeting of Synod to commence at 3 P. M 662 
 
 Members, Church, non-residents to be excluded from statistical report. . . 80 
 
 Memorial, Bethune Church commended for aid 664 
 
 Mesick, Rev. J. F., repot t as delegate to S)iiod of German Reformed 
 
 Church 39 
 
 Miller, C. IT, invites the Synod 377 
 
 Milligan, Rev. J. C, delegate from Synod of Reformed Presbyterian 
 
 Church 42 
 
 Milwaukie, Presbytery of, complaint against 327, 419 
 
 Minist ers, Foreign, rule not to be applied to Hollanders 634 
 
 Ministry, perpetuation of the 196 
 
 " young men to be sought out for the 247 
 
 Mint, U. S., invitation to 552 
 
 Minutes, reading of 6,154,322,367, 542 
 
 " early publication of urged 12, 83 
 
 copies of to be printed 124, 296, 357, 516, 679 
 
 " Classes at fall eession to provide for payment of 499 
 
 " Synod cal, reports of Committees on 80,235,459, 622 
 
 " of Particular Synods, mechanical part to be improved 622 
 
 Missions, Domestic, Board of, reports of committees on. . . .101, 277, 490, 650 
 " " directed not to encroach on Presbyterian 
 
 Church 43 
 
 ** '* to occupy new fields 105 
 
 " " Classis to be careful in recommending church- 
 es to 105 
 
 " " to do what it can lor the South 105 
 
 Sabbath school department of commended. . 105 
 
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INDEX. Xlll 
 
 Missions, Domestic, Board of, to appoint an agent for Church Building 
 
 Fund 105 
 
 members of elected. 106,282,491,656 
 
 u " communical ion from Classis of Illinois 278 
 
 " " Ministers needed for 278 
 
 «' " its feeble churches in the East 280 
 
 " " resignation of Rev. G. Talmage as Secretary 282 
 
 " " form of devise to amended 285 
 
 " " communication from on action of Presby- 
 tery of Milwaukie 324 
 
 " " to be custodians of the Church Building 
 
 Fund 348 
 
 " " to make special effort for the Church of 
 
 < Chicago 348 
 
 " " to concentrate their efforts 491 
 
 " " to appoint an agent for locating churches. . 491 
 
 " " Church Building Fund right arm of 491 
 
 " " collections for enjoined 652 
 
 " " societies in behalf of to be formed in Sab- 
 bath schools , . 653 
 
 " " to give emigrants information 655 
 
 Missions, Foreign^ Board of, reports of Committees on. . . .105, 274, 487, 653 
 
 " " debt of embarrassing 105 
 
 " " hindrances to the work in Japan 106 
 
 members of elected 106,282,491,655 
 
 " ■ " gift of Warren Ackerman to 275 
 
 " " young men needed for 276,488 
 
 " " public meetings in behalf of 276 
 
 " " Missionaries to be commissioned, , 48S 
 
 ' ' " prayer for 490 
 
 " " financial needs of ... 490 
 
 " " means for increasing funds of 490 
 
 " " resolutions of Synod concerning to be printed 490 
 
 " " meeting in behalf of 500 
 
 " '" reinforcements needed 654 
 
 " " Board directed to commission missionaries, . 654 
 
 " debt of 654 
 
 monthly collections recommended to be 
 
 taken in the morning 655 
 
 to send missionary to Pacific coast 655 
 
 " meeting on behalf of 664 
 
 Myers, James, elected President of the Board of Direction 403 
 
 N. 
 
 
 Name of the Church, change of, committee on appointed 112 
 
 " communication concerning 160, 236 
 
 report of committee on 240 
 
 amendment concerning recommended. . . 240 
 " " Classes to act on at their fall session. . . 241 
 
 " Synod to take final action on at adjourned 
 
 session 241 
 
 " " corporate titles of churches not to be af- 
 fected by 241 
 
 " " committee on civil legislation connected 
 
 with 241 
 
 ayes and nayes on amendment 241 
 
 rt - rights of consistories to express views con- 
 cerning 242 
 
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XIV INDEX. 
 
 Name of the Church, change of, payment for printing report of commit- 
 tee ordered ; 285 
 
 ' '• report on to be published in Intelligencer. 285 
 
 " " communications from Classes in regard to. 324 
 
 " " reports of the votes of the Classes on 381 
 
 " reference to next Synod negatived 332 
 
 " " ayes and na3 s on reference 332 
 
 " " final action on with ayes and nays 335 
 
 " report of committee on civil legislation.. 336 
 " legislative enactment to be procured. .. . 339 
 members added to committee on legisla- 
 tion 339 
 
 to appear on title page of Minutes 340 
 
 " " in headings of reports of the 
 
 Board 340 
 
 " report of Committee to secure legislative 
 
 action 464 
 
 " " " Committee continued 464 
 
 " President and Stated Clerk to prepare 
 
 a memorial to the Legislature 464 
 
 '• memorial adopted 464 
 
 " legislative act concerning 625 
 
 expenses of committee on legislation to 
 
 be paid 6*78 
 
 National Temperance Society 114 
 
 " " delegates not to be sent to 462 
 
 Navy Yard, Synod invited to visit 553 
 
 Nevin, Rev. Dr. J. W., delegate from Synod of German Reformed Church 418 
 
 New Brunswick, Particular Synod of to be formed 631 
 
 Newspaper, religious, Committee on to be enlarged 662 
 
 Norris, Illinois, resolutions concerning Church at 491 
 
 North Claesis of Long Island, on application to license Wm, Ferris 623 
 
 O. 
 
 Oakey, Rev. P. D., corresponding delegate General Assembly Presby- 
 terian Church 194 
 
 Orange, Classis of, to be transferred to Particular Synod of New York. . 631 
 
 Order, rules of, report of Committee on 86 
 
 " " to be published in Appendix 126 
 
 Orders and rules read 7, 155, 368, 543 
 
 Overtures, Committee on created 8 
 
 reports of 81, 236, 329,459, 622 
 
 P. 
 
 Parker, Rev. Dr. J., delegate from General Assembly Presbyterian 
 
 Church 42 
 
 Parochial schools, interest of the Church in 88 
 
 " number of 244 
 
 " fund for, donation to 554 
 
 Particular Synod of Chicago, Minutes to be sent early to General Synod 459 
 " New York requests amendment to the Constitution 237 
 
 Synods, reorganization of 12, 82, 83, 95 
 
 " " Committee on appointed 463 
 
 " " report of. 626 
 
 " advised to extend the time of their sessions 83 
 
INDEX. XV 
 
 Particular Synods, delegation to be increased 631 
 
 " measures recommended to increase efficiency of, ... . 632 
 
 " to be final courts of appeal in certain cases 632 
 
 " Secretaries of Boards to attend meetings of 633 
 
 " amendments of Constitution in regard to proposed. . 633 
 
 Pastoral Letter 353 
 
 " Committee on appointed 588 
 
 report of 674 
 
 Paton, Thomas, dispensation for 323, 329 
 
 Peabody, Prof., instructs students of Seminary in elocution 11, 98 
 
 Periodical, religious for the Church, resolutions on 498 
 
 " " Committee on appointed 499 
 
 " " " to have interview with 
 
 Mr. Van Wyck 499 
 
 action on no censure of Christian Intelligencer 499 
 
 Peltz, Rev. P., delegate to Assembly United Presbyterian Church. . .195, 418 
 
 Permanent Fund, monies for received 14 
 
 " arrearages on 163, 380, 412 
 
 " Classes requested to pay assessments for 99, 412 
 
 Phelps, Rev. P., communication from 12 
 
 " delegate Lo General Synod Reformed Presbyterian 
 
 Church 45, 1 9 1 
 
 " elected Professor of Theology 648 
 
 Phraner, Rev. W., expenses to be paid 515 
 
 Porter, Rev. E. S., report as delegate to General Assembly Presbyterian 
 
 Church 39 
 
 elected President 367 
 
 " preaches a sermon 539 
 
 Polygamy, communication from Classis of Arcot on... 377 
 
 " ** action on 466 
 
 Prayer, Week of to be observed 286, 664 
 
 Day of for colleges 90, 471, 644 
 
 Preaching by Students, amendment of rule declined 96 
 
 Professorial Fund to be increased 417 
 
 Professorate, reports of Committees on 94, 265. 345, 475, 645 
 
 Professorship, fourth, monies for endowment of paid 92 
 
 " services of Prof. DeWitt in raising funds for 94 
 
 " of Didactic and Polemic Theology, name of James Suydam 
 
 given to 646 
 
 Professorships in Western Seminary recommended 551 
 
 Professors of Theology, houses for 92, 272 
 
 " " subscriptions for building 256 
 
 " report of building Committee 264 
 
 salaries of 99, 271 
 
 " monies to be borrowed for prompt pay- 
 ment of 189 
 
 " to be assisted in removing 100 
 
 " expenses of removal to be allowed 100 
 
 " a committee to attend Mrs. Hertzog's funeral. ... 112 
 
 " Committee to raise deficiencies in salaries of. . . . °.72 
 
 •' ask to be relieved from pecuniary responsibilities 257 
 
 " to be excused from collecting money 346 
 
 " resolution for increase of salaries of 403 
 
 " reports of Committee to raise money for salaries 
 
 of 416, 474 
 
 " salaries, increase of not granted ». 417 
 
 communication from 553 
 
 resolution in regard to their salaries introduced. . 578 
 
XVI INDEX. 
 
 • 
 Professors of Theology, resolution to relieve them from pecuniary respon- 
 sibility 579 
 
 " salaries of to be 3.000 dollars 580 
 
 " two elected for Western school 648 
 
 Psalmody, Scottish version allowed 84, 8*7 
 
 Publication, Board of, reports of Committees on 108, 284, 494, 659 
 
 " amount of stock, expenses, &q 108 
 
 " Book of Praise, published by 109 
 
 " indebtedness of 109 
 
 " appointment of a Secretary recommended 109 
 
 '• members of, appointed 110, 284, 498, 662 
 
 referred to committee for examination 284 
 
 " report of committee to examine affairs of 349 
 
 " endowment of, recommended 351 
 
 " plan for endowment of 352 
 
 " Secretary of, commended to the churches 359 
 
 state of 495 
 
 recommended for endowment 496 
 
 " committee to confer with, 497 
 
 " condition of. 660 
 
 " business of Depository to be reorganized 661 
 
 >c endowment of recommended 661 
 
 " special committee, on discharged 662 
 
 R. 
 
 Reformed Presbyterian Church, communication from, on amendment of 
 
 Federal Constitution 377 
 
 " " " action on 420 
 
 " Presbyterian Church declines to send delegates to National Coun- 
 cil 583 
 
 Religion, State of, reports of Committees on 45, 196, 328, 422, 585 
 
 " " to be read in the Churches. . . 425 
 
 Revenues of Synod, deficiencies to be apportioned 414 
 
 Rippey, Rev. John, delegate from United Presbyterian Church 194 
 
 Rogers, Rev. S. J., delegate to Canada Presbyterian Church 584 
 
 Roll of Synod to be printed Ill, 284, 662 
 
 Rules of Order adopted 86, 126 
 
 Rutgers College, trustees to be released from payment of rent. ...... 97 
 
 " " monies received from 161 
 
 " " action of, on nomination of Professor of The- 
 ology in 265 
 
 " " nomination, of Professors, minutes concerning 269 
 " " arrearages for repairs of 163 
 
 S. 
 
 Salaries of pastors, attention of Churches called to 425 
 
 Schenectady, communication from Third Church of 150, 236 
 
 Schiefl'elin, S. B., donation from, to Parochial School Fund 554 
 
 Schmucker, Prof., delegate from the Lutheran Church 531 
 
 Scholl, Prof W. N., delegate from General Synod Evangelical Lutheran 
 
 Church 418 
 
 School Ward, invitation to visit 11 
 
 Schraalenbergh, complaint of Church of, against 2nd Presbytery of New 
 
 York 43 
 
 Scott, Rev. C, resignation as member of Board of Publication 13 
 
 Scottish version of Psalmody allowed 84, 87 
 
INDEX. XV11 
 
 Secession Church in Holland, communication from 552 
 
 " " delegate to, appointed 583 
 
 Secretaries of the Boards heard 113, 285, 500, 663 
 
 '* to attend meetings of Particular Synods 633 
 
 See, Rev. J. L., delegare to Gen. Assembly Presbyterian Church. . . .421, 580 
 
 Singing, Congregational, recommended 676 
 
 Singing, standing posture in, recommended 676 
 
 Smith, Rev. N. E., report, as delegate to Gen. Assembly of the United 
 
 Presbyterian Church 41 
 
 Smith, Rev. N. E., interest on bond of, paid 91 
 
 " failure to redeem bond 161, 379 
 
 " bond referred to Board of Direction 272 
 
 " bond to be cancelled 417 
 
 " bond of, cancelled 555 
 
 Sower, gratuitous distribution of, recommended. 109 
 
 Statistical tables, omissions in 12 
 
 " directions for filling up 80 
 
 " communication in regard to 552 
 
 Statistics, summaries of 79, 234, 4 58, 621 
 
 Steele, Rev. John, delegate to the Synod of Ref. Presbyterian Ch. . 196, 418 
 
 Steele, Rev. D., delegate from Ref. Presbyterian Church 581 
 
 Stimson, Rev. E., communication from 12 
 
 " " action on 84 
 
 Stitt, Rev. C. H., delegate to the Synod of Ger. Ref. Church 421, 581 
 
 " President of Synod 542 
 
 Stock held by Synod in companies violating the Sabbath 552, 624 
 
 Stokes, Caroline L., legacy from 378 
 
 Strong, Rev. T. C, President of Synod 154 
 
 " preaches before Synod 363 
 
 Stryker, Rev. P., delegate from the Presbyterian Church 581 
 
 Students preaching, alteration of rule declined y6 
 
 Sunday Schools to be under Ecclesiastical control 199 
 
 " to be established in the West 280 
 
 " under care of Domestic Board 652 
 
 " to form Domestic missionary associations 653 
 
 Superintendents of Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, reports 
 
 from 8, 156, 369, 544 
 
 Superintendents of Theological Seminary, on reorganization of. .12, 95, 159, 
 
 273 
 " " " committee on reorganization. .159 
 " " " communications on reorgani- 
 zation 324, 375 
 
 " " " consideration of report on re- 
 organization deferred 273, 347 
 " " " present organization of, to re- 
 main 478 
 
 " " " time for examinations before. 267 
 
 " " " resolutions of, relating to the 
 
 Professors 373, 475 
 
 members of, elected 100, 273, 485, 
 
 649 
 " " " deficiency in attendance at 
 
 meetings of 479 
 
 " " •' at Holland, reports from... 373 
 
 479, 550 
 " " " action dividing, rescinded... 647 
 " " of Western school, to be com- 
 posed of the Council of 
 Hope College 647 
 
xvm INDEX. 
 
 Suydam, James, donation for scholarships acknowledged 378 
 
 " thanks to, for subscription to Professorial Fund. . .5*79, 645 
 
 " name to be connected with a Professorship. 645 
 
 Synod, General, session to open at 3 P. M 662 
 
 Synods, Particular, report of Committee on reorganization of 626 
 
 " delegations to be increased 631 
 
 " measures to increase efficiency of recommended ... 632 
 
 " to be final courts of appeal in some cases 632 
 
 to have committees on Church visitation and exten- 
 sion 632 
 
 Systematic beneficence, communication on, referred to committee 553 
 
 T. 
 
 Tabular statements 115, 287, 506, 665 
 
 Talmage, Rev. G., resolution on his retirement as Secretary 282 
 
 '• delegate to Evangelical Lutheran Church 584 
 
 Taylor, Rev. W. J. R., delegate to General Assembly Presbyterian 
 
 Church 421, 580 
 
 Temperance National Society, claims of and resolution 114 
 
 " National Convention, delegates not to be sent to 462 
 
 Thanks of Synod to J. W. Scheimerhorn for copies of sermon 112 
 
 •' W. Taylor for copies of Dr. Ferris' sermon 112 
 
 " Rev. P. Stryker and Consistory, <fec 124 
 
 " Pastor and session of Presbyterian Church, Geneva. 285 
 
 " Rev. S. J. Rogers and Consistory, <fec 297 
 
 " Misses Gosman for donation of books to Hope College 352 
 
 Mrs. Warburton 352 
 
 " Pastor and Consistory of North Church, Albany 357 
 
 " Pastor, Church, <fec, Hudson 516 
 
 " Consistory of First Church of Philadelphia, <fcc 679 
 
 to " Little Wanderers " • 679 
 
 Theological Hall, reports of Standing Committee on.. . 91, 254, 341, 473, 547 
 
 " on refurnishing of 92, 97 
 
 " repairs to necessary 93, 648 
 
 " Committee to raise money and make repairs 97 
 
 " " to assist Professors in removing 100 
 
 " " authorized to borrow money 272 
 
 " report of Committee on repairs of 263 
 
 " loan received by Standing Committee 326 
 
 " Committee on authorized to make farther loan for houses 326 
 
 " repairs on needed 342, 548 
 
 " Committee asks relief from pecuniary responsibility. . . 341 
 
 " " to raise means for repairing 346 
 
 " " loan to Standing Committee on 378 
 
 u " indebtedness of 473 
 
 " " relieved from collecting monies 473 
 
 " •' reorganized 478 
 
 " " empowered to appoint agent 478 
 
 " " to pay monies to the Board of Direction .... 478 
 
 " " to hold quarterly meetings 478 
 
 " " to report annually 479 
 
 " " to hold joint sessions with Board of Superin- 
 tendents 479 
 
 " " to report to Synod through the Board 479 
 
 " " members of chosen 486. 645 
 
 expense of living in, 546, to be diminished if 
 
 possible 645 
 
INDEX. XIX 
 
 Theological Hall Committee, communication from chairman of Committee 
 
 on 552 
 
 " " Committee on, number of diminished 645 
 
 Theological schools, amendment to Constitution recommended 242 
 
 " " report of votes of Classes 331 
 
 final action 340 
 
 Theological Seminary, on assessment for expenses of 12, 96 
 
 " endowment of the fourth professorship in 92 
 
 " history of the movement for fourth professorship 255 
 
 " list of subscriptions for endowment of 257 
 
 " expense, account of endowment 261 
 
 Committee on endowment of appointed 271 
 
 " small number of students in 37 1 
 
 " Board of Direction and Hertzog Hall Committee 
 
 to raise funds for 317 
 
 needs of ... 475 
 
 " Dr. Cornell appointed agent to secure endowment 
 
 of 556 
 
 at Holland, lectors in 374 
 
 " communications concerning ........ 376 
 
 " plan of proposed and deferred 480 
 
 " " recommended to confidence of churches 485 
 
 Thompson, Rev. A. R., delegate to General Assembly Presbyterian Church 
 
 195, 418 
 
 " Rev. J. B., delegate to German Reformed Church 584 
 
 Rev. Wm. J, death of noticed./ 201 
 
 Timlow, Rev. H. R., preaches sermon on benevolence 113 
 
 Treasurer of General Synod to pay Building Committee 12,000 dollars. . 97 
 
 " " salary increased and apportioned 100 
 
 reports of. 16,165,381,557 
 
 " to pay for printing report on change of name 285 
 
 authorized to receive bequest of Janet 
 
 Hinchman 285 
 
 " thanked by Committee on assessments 414 
 
 " " to send estimate of deficiencies to Synod. . . . 414 
 
 Triennial Synod of German Reformed Church, delegate to appointed. ... 43 
 
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 Union of Presbyterian Churches, communication from Reformed Presby- 
 terian Church on 160 
 
 " resolution on 195 
 
 in India, resolution concerning 277 
 
 Union League, Synod invited to rooms of 553 
 
 University, Hope Haven, consideration of plan deferred 472 
 
 plan of rejected 647 
 
 V. 
 
 Van Benschoten Bequest read 112, 284, 498, 663 
 
 " Fund, persons recommended for aid 100,247, 471, 644 
 
 Vandermeulen, Rev. C, delegate to Secession Church, Holland 583 
 
 Vanderveer, Rev. C. G., death of noticed 425 
 
 Van Dyck, Rev. C. L., death of noticed 201 
 
 Van Nest, Rev. A. R., delegate to Assembly of Free Church of Scotland 
 
 44, 326 
 
 " John, communication from 160 
 
 Van Raalte, Rev. A. C, delegate to Evangelical Alliance 44 
 
 " elected Professor of Theology 648 
 
XX INDEX. 
 
 Van Zandt, Rev. A. B., delegate to General Synod Reformed Presbyteri- 
 an Church 422 
 
 Vermilye, Rev. A. G., report as delegate to General Assembly Presbyteri- 
 an Church 40 
 
 " preaches sermon on benevolence 2S5 
 
 Visitation, Church Committee on in Particular Synod 632 
 
 Voorhis, Lucas J., legacy of received 554 
 
 W. 
 
 Wack, Rev. C. P., death of 201 
 
 Warburton, Mrs., thanks to, for donation to chapel at Long Branch. . . 352 
 
 "Warner, P. R., resigns as President of Board of Direction ... 324 
 
 " resignation of accepted 325 
 
 " elected President of Board of Direction 325, 577 
 
 "Washington, J. P., heard in behalf of the freedmen 113 
 
 "Wells, Rev. Jamf s, delegate from General Assembly Free Church of 
 
 Scotland 194 
 
 "Westminster Catechism, endorsement of. 159, 236 
 
 "Wheeler, F. B., testimonial as corresponding delegate 418 
 
 Widows' Fund, amount of 13, 162, 283, 379, 492, 554 
 
 reports of committees on 106, 282, 492, 656 
 
 " salary of treasurer increased ... 107 
 
 payments of . . . , 283 
 
 " resolutions concerning , . . 283 
 
 " appeal on behalf of, to be prepared 580 
 
 " Classes enjoined to present the claims of 657 
 
 " services of elders and unemployed ministers for 657 
 
 " Church collections to go to income account 658 
 
 "Willers, Rev. D., delegate from Synod of German Reformed Church. ... 194 
 
 Wilson, M. W., application for dispensation denied 376, 460 
 
 Wisconsin, Classis of, complaint against Pres. of Milwaukie 324 
 
 " " committee to present before General 
 
 Assembly 327 
 
 " " action of Assembly on 377 
 
 Wood, Rev. A. A., delegate from General Assembly Pres. Church 194 
 
 Woodbridge, Prof., communication from 159 
 
 rent to be paid 272 
 
 Wyckoff, Rev. I. N„ death of 587 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yasadian, dispensation to granted ... 460 
 
 Young men to be directed to the ministry 425 
 
 Z. 
 
 Zabriskie, Rev. F. N., thanks to for copy of History of Claverack 352 
 
 Zacharias, Rev. D., delegate from General Synod of German Reformed 
 
 Church 418 
 
THE 
 
 THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Stall of (!r duration 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA, 
 
 PRESENTED TO THE 
 
 General Synod, at the Annual Meeting, June, 1869, 
 
 -»« ♦• »»» 
 
 New Yoi\k 
 
 fi 
 
 BOARD OF PUBLICATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 eformed Church in America, 
 
 No. 103 Fulton Street. 
 1S69. 
 
s 
 
 KEPOKT. 
 
 Your Board of Education respectfully presents to General Synod 
 the fol owing- Report of the various interests committed to their 
 care (luring- the year, beginning May 1st, 1868, and ending Apiil 
 30, 1869. 
 
 I. STUDENTS FOR THE MINISTRY. 
 
 The total number of young men under the care of the Board, 
 -during the year, was fifty-eight. Six of these graduated from the 
 Theological Seminary in May, 1868, and received license from their 
 Classes. Four of the six are now usefully employed in the pastoral 
 charges to which they were soon called. Two have been sent by 
 the Board of Foreign Missions to aid our brethren in China and 
 Japan. Of those who remain under our care, ten have pursued 
 their stud its in the Theological Seminarv at New Brunswick. Ten 
 have been connected with the theological classes under the care of 
 Synod's Professor at Holland. Twenty-one have been connected 
 with the various classes in Rutgers College. Three have studied at 
 Hope College. One has been permitted, for reasons connected with 
 his family and church relations, to study at the College of New 
 York City. Eleven have been in preparation for College at the 
 Grammar School at New Brunswick. Twenty one have been re- 
 ceived under our care, on proper recommendation of their Classes dur- 
 ing the year. The name of one has been dropped from our roll, on 
 account of his marriage. The number on the funds of the Board 
 at the close of the fiscal year, April 30, was fifty-one. Between 
 that time and the meeting of the Synod, two of these will have 
 graduated from the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, aad 
 six from that at Holland. Reports of the standing of our young 
 men ; of their advance in study, and the development of the char- 
 acteristics which promise usefulness in the ministry, have been 
 
4 REPORT ON 
 
 highly satisfactory. The professors and teachers, under whose care 
 they have been prosecuting their preparation, have exhibited a 
 hearty interest in all that pertains to the great object of the Church, 
 with reference to this portion of their students and pupils. We 
 take pleasure in noticing the continued favor of God, in permitting 
 us to pass another year without the necessity of reporting the lessen- 
 ing by death of the number of those to whom we are looking for 
 supplies in the future ministry of the church. We also notice grate- 
 fully, the encouraging gain in the number under our care. The re- 
 ception of twenty-one, in place of the six who entered the ministry, 
 speaks of God's answer to the prayers of His people for laborers for 
 the harvest. One probable reason of this more than usual increase, 
 has been the removal of the limitation, requiring young men to be 
 prepared for entrance into College, before they could receive aid 
 from our funds. 
 
 Your Board, at its first meeting after receiving the instructions of 
 Synod, promptly complied, and during the remaiuder of the year 
 received all whom the Classes sent with proper recommendations. 
 As was to be expected, the number was made up principally of 
 those who had, by one way or another, secured part of the prepara- 
 tion formerly required. We feel that we are thus put into a posi- 
 tion to claim a more hearty and liberal help from the Churches. 
 According to the Report of the Committee on Education, adopted 
 by the Synod of 1868, an official sanction of Synod was given to 
 what had come to the committee " from several sources," that by 
 our former rule the usefulness of the Board was limited. This is 
 the last thing that any of us who serve Synod in the Board wish to 
 do. Organized to supply one of the most pressing and earliest felt 
 wants of the Church — a sufficient supply of ministers — blessed of 
 God in all its past efforts to this end, and able to point to the re- 
 cords of the Church itself as testimony of success, your Board only 
 wish, with the expanding growth of the Church, and with the open- 
 ing doors of entrance into all the world, to expand this and every 
 other branch of its work. We feel that we have ground to expect 
 a corresponding increase in the interest and liberality of the 
 Churches; that we have not been altogether disappointed in this 
 confidence in the Church, yet that there is room for much advance, 
 will be more appropriately considered in the section of our Report, 
 pertaining to the means which have been given us. We only add, 
 
EDUCATION. 5 
 
 with reference to this now in hand, that Synod suggested, on behalf 
 of the Churches, a change which would enlarge our usefulness. The 
 change was at once made. It seems to have come up to Synod 
 from the Churches, and the request to direct its change, carries ne- 
 cessarily with it, an engagement to meet whatever responsibilities 
 it occasions. The Board has taken its place in the gap, and assumed 
 for the Church, as she desired, the support of these young brethren. 
 They are a strong part of the hope of the Church for establishment 
 and extension. The idea of their benefit to the Church, may be 
 caught from the fact of their early engagement in ministerial work, 
 year after year, as they are sent forth. The little band of six sent 
 out during the year are already fulfilling, for the Church, the com- 
 mand "to preach the Gospel to every creature." Three are among 
 the activities of our struggling life near at home; one among the 
 surgings of the tides of emigration in our great West ; one is amid 
 the 'overturnino-s of a dead and selfish semi-barbarism in China, al- 
 ready rumbling with the earthquakes of God's power, by which her 
 high wall of separation is to be thrown down, and herself given to 
 Christianity. The remaining one is where the same advances of a 
 Providence in covenant with the eternal Son are invading her 
 island isolation to give her to Jesus. Surely the Board will not be 
 permitted to stand where the Church kas ordered it to go, to be de- 
 serted in regard to the supplies needed for holding its ground and 
 continuing its growth. Our i all for aid is to the help of the Lord 
 against the mighty, by prayers for still more laborers, not leaving 
 undone the duty of the ministration of still more abundant means. 
 
 r 
 
 II. HOPE COLLEGE. 
 
 In the absence of any official report from this Institution at the 
 time of preparing this statement, we have nothing to add to the 
 statements of former years. Our relations to it in reference to the 
 amount of appropriations, the persons of those engaged in teaching 
 in its various departments remain as they were. The means of the 
 Board to meet its appropriations to the College, by receiving the 
 aid of the interest of the endowment funds in the hands of Synod's 
 Treasurer, have been diminished by the payment to the Treasurer of 
 the Council, of the sum of $5,000, as stated in your Treasurer's last 
 Annual Report, transferred in accordance with the plan originally 
 
6 REPORT ON 
 
 adopted, " on account of the $30,000 donated by Synod " to the 
 Council. During the present year about $2,600 have been paid to 
 Synod's Treasurer, on account of the endowment, mostly in settle- 
 ment of balances, or in partial payment on account of the Classical 
 scholarships. Three classes of Theological students have been 
 under the care of Synod's Professor : one of which, consisting of 
 six students, will graduate in a h\v weeks. The same arrangements 
 have existed for the services of the College Professors in instruct- 
 ing the Theological classes. 
 
 The Report of the Committee on Education, adopted by General 
 Synod last year, and thus made the expression of Synod's own 
 views, plainly asserts that by some means or other the Board of Ed- 
 ucation ought to be relieved of its support. When the Board 
 obeyed the directions of Synod, in the felt need of a College at the 
 West, to assume so large a part of its support until it could be pro- 
 vided with permanent funds of its own, it was not contemplated by 
 the Board, and we did not suppose that it was by either the Synod 
 or the Council, that with so large a share of responsibility under- 
 taken by us at the start, to meet a temporary emergency, it 
 would burden us undiminished so long, or be reduced so slowly. 
 The Board would, therefore, urgently request Synod to take steps 
 to relieve us from the payment of Professors of Hope College, and 
 would respectfully suggest whether it might not be advisable for 
 the Synod to fix some period in the future when such payments 
 shall cease to be made by the Board of Education, and for the 
 Council of Hope College to take measures to make provision for 
 the same by the time designated. The Board is laboring under a 
 heavy debt, and as shown by our Report to Synod last year, that 
 debt is traceable to this cause. Had the contributions of the 
 Churches been kept to anything like the standard, which might 
 have been reasonably expected, from the zeal and even enthusiasm 
 with which the work was entered upon, the gradual increase of the 
 endowment would have so relieved the amount of our expenditure, 
 that we might not only be unembarrassed, but have been in a con- 
 dition to extend aid in other educational centres which are pa- 
 tiently waiting, and even suffering from our inability to help them. 
 We have not abated a jot of our conviction of the importance of 
 this great work to our Western interests, nor an iota of our desire 
 to see its full and permanent establishment. We believe that the 
 
EDUCATION. 7 
 
 Synod has not. We hoped that all the Church had not. But com- 
 mendatory resolutions, not followed by effort; adoption of Classical 
 scholarships, not followed by the funds pledged, will never carry on 
 this or any work of the kind. There is needed, and now, and at 
 once, urgently needed, whatever action will provide funds without 
 delay. Your Board has assumed responsibilities in confidence ; 
 has acted steadfastly in providing funds to meet its responsibili- 
 ties. We are, however, compelled to say, that the backing of our 
 efforts, implied, promised, pledged, has not been given as we hoped 
 it would. We are in the day of grand and glorious action. All 
 denominations of the Church, our own included, have felt the mo- 
 mentum of the onward wave by which God in His Providence is 
 carrying the Church forward, and enlightening all lands with the 
 knowledge of His works and VV ord. Among ourselves, and as 
 among others, noble hearts and noble hands have owned the call of 
 God. Consecration of tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, 
 have made useful institutions more useful, or have opened high 
 paths of good to new and rising ones. We would fain hope that 
 the eyes of some able and liberal brethren, seeking where they may 
 do good in the Lord's name, with the means which God has granted, 
 would look to this gap in His great work and fill it. Ten, twenty, 
 fifty, a hundred thousand dollars would find proper employment 
 here ; would honor God, and return an everlasting interest to its 
 donors. 
 
 III. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 This department of our work, so nobly started by a Christian 
 brother, and with such a loving desire for the lambs of the Lord's 
 flock, has continued to engage our interest and care. Thirteen 
 Churches have received aid during the year from our fund, in sup- 
 porting their Parochial schools. Annual Reports have been received 
 from ten of them. The following statistics are gathered from those 
 received : 
 
 Number of pupils on the roils, f>15 
 
 " u " in average attendance, 529 
 
 Amount raised for their support by their own churches,. .02,791 50 
 
 Amount of aid by the Board 1,0 1 7 50 
 
 " collected in these churches, for the Parochial 
 
 School Fund, C6 50 
 
8 REPORT ON 
 
 In statements from pastors and consistories of Churches which 
 are aided in maintaining these means of the rel ginus culture of 
 their youth, we find such assurances as follow : " In places like this, 
 everything conducive to the welfare and growth of our Reformed 
 Church depends on such a school, and I am glad to state that all 
 the families of the congiegation have reason to bless the Lord for 
 our school." " Local influences affecting the condi-ion of our pub- 
 lic schools from which the Bible and every kind of recognition of 
 religion is banished, render it extremely necessary for us to sustain 
 our school." "Quite a number of the scholars have joined the 
 Church during the last year, and a very good spirit prevails among 
 them now. The larger scholars attend Church and the evening 
 prayer meetings very regularly, and attend the Sabbath schools." 
 "The children are much interested in religious instructions, and the 
 teacher h s been often requested to continue them longer." " The 
 pupils love the school, and by it the blessed Word of God is spread. 
 The fruits can be seen in obedienee, in love of prayer, and in a 
 faithful attendance on the public worship." Can the work be doubt- 
 ful of which such witness is given ? 
 
 We have no reason, perhaps, to expect anything else of the world 
 than sneers at the fanaticism of religious schools. We, perhaps, will 
 gain but little attention from a great part of the Church, because of 
 what may seem the smallness of this record. Onlv a dozen or so 
 Churches engaged in it. Only a few hundred chddren influenced. 
 But it is the utterance of highest authority : " We can do nothing 
 against the truth, but for the truth" Of all the seeds sown in the 
 soil of this human life, and history of ours, that which is of God, 
 which is His Word, is alone endowed with an almighty and all- 
 conquering energy. This is it, and this only is it which, at the last 
 and most perfect condition to which the cooperating energies of 
 Providence and of Redemption will elevate our humanity, will develop 
 the fruit of immortal souls renewed and sanctified, which the reapers 
 of God's harvest shall gather into His garner. One such school is 
 doing more for eternal good, and more of what will lemain as perma- 
 nent work in this world, as the development of a perfect Christianity 
 progresses, than a State full of such as advance the highest possible 
 worldly knowledge, if something higher be neglected Grammar and 
 its kindred studies may develop correctness and power of expression, 
 which a bad heart may make only the speech of devils. Geography 
 
EDUCATION. 9 
 
 and its allied pursuits may show every curious place of earth and its 
 resources, yet leave the one path out of the world into the eternal 
 mysteries nothing more that a way to the dark realms of despair. In 
 short, all knowledge apart from the knowledge of God, may advance 
 the support, the comforts and the luxuries of the merely present life, 
 but the whole world which it develops, is to perish and be burned up. 
 Religion alone, planted in this knowledge of God's truth, bears the 
 fruit of immortal souls abiding in the joy of God forever. Surely it 
 is worthy of greater care than the Churches are giving to it, to carry 
 to higher perfection the evangelizing of the schools in which the 
 minds and hearts of their youth are moulded for eternity. 
 
 IV. FUNDS. 
 
 Our receipts for the year from collections and donations, exclusive 
 of interest from invested funds, have amounted to $12,301 3*7. 
 This is an increase of 81,792 97 over the receipts of the last year. 
 Contributions have been received from two hundred and forty-one 
 Churches. This is eight less than the number reported last year. 
 In the apparent impossibility of quite yet securing a thorough regu- 
 larity of contributions, it is so small a difference that it affords no 
 ground of suspicion that interest in our work or objects has suffered 
 any diminution. Yet, however satisfactory might be the thought 
 that there is no diminution, and that we have succeeded in holding 
 the ground already attained, we cannot restrain our thoughts from 
 regions beyond, in the sphere of what we have not. Beyond those 
 dark, mysterious depths of an ocean of Christian love, so vast and 
 so wide that the poor, weak breath of our calls, of the Synod's 
 exhortations, has never been able to reach them, we know, by some 
 signs, that there must be an inhabited continent of Christian life, 
 which ought to be made tributary to the call of the Lord for 
 laborers in His harvest. We are pretty sure that there must be some 
 two hundred Churches there. We have not, it is true, been left 
 altogether, through all the past, without any token of their life. We 
 hope yet to find some means of reaching them and persuading them 
 to a more regular intercourse with us. The life around them is 
 growing more active, and pressing them more intensely with its 
 influences. We are encouraged by the proofs given by a steady 
 increase in the number of contributing Churches, and in the amounts 
 
10 REPORT ON 
 
 contributed for our work, to believe that it is taking deeper hold 
 upon the heart of a goodly part of the Church, and winning a more 
 prominent place among the objects of her prayer and effort. 
 
 We regret to be compelled to report a debt of $3,942 49 upon 
 our treasury. If those who have not aided us for the past two 
 years had simply presented our interests to the people, and obtained 
 such collections as th< y were able and willing to give, the Board 
 could have presented this year a statement of work done and all paid 
 for. The secret of our constant struggling lies just here : Two hun- 
 dred Churches have done nothing for us through an entire year. 
 One hundred and twelve of them have done nothing through two 
 whole years. Our debt has been kindly and patiently carried by 
 the responsibility of a single brother. Is this right ? Can it be ac- 
 cording to the mind of the Master to have two hundred organized 
 branches of His Church fold their hands in a complacent neglect of 
 a means of increasing the supply of His ministry? Shall the Board 
 be compelled to curtail its work to relieve this responsibility, as it is 
 hio-h time it ought to be, and confine itself only to the amount of 
 work for which funds are actually furnished? Will not, rather, 
 these Churches rouse themselves and bid us keep all we have under- 
 taken for them, and gc on to still more ? The responsibility rests 
 with them. They can decide the case within a single quarter of a 
 year. 
 
 In regard to invested funds, the interest of which is available for 
 our work, we have already alluded to the decrease of £5,000 paid on 
 the $30,000 donation account by the Treasurer of Synod to the 
 Treasurer <-f Hope College. This is partly counterbalanced by the 
 addition of $2,600 paid in on scholarships to Synod's Treasurer, to 
 which, also, allusion was before made. 
 
 There has been added to our funds for the education of young 
 men a further payment of about 82,000 by the estate of Mrs. Maria 
 Lefferts, on account of her bequest. 
 
 The Parochial School Fund has also received a further addition 
 of $3,000 by donation of S. B. Schieffelin, Esq., the original donor 
 of the principal of $7,000, previously given for this purpose. 
 
 Members of our Churches, who are pondering plans of present 
 usefulness with means at their disposal, or arranging their estates 
 with a view of devising portions of them to works of Christian good, 
 after they themselves have passed away, are affectionately urged to 
 
EDUCATION. 11 
 
 consider these and other examples which our Reports furnish from 
 year to year. The results of such donations or bequests, in estab- 
 lished institutions of Christian learning; in increasing numbers of 
 faithful preachers of the Gospel, and of souls saved by their means, 
 and in the happy influence on themselves and the Church, of thous- 
 ands of children taught to serve God in all pursuits of life, are com- 
 mended to their notice. If anv who have such funds wish to teach 
 for ages, to preach to the end of the world, and to bring many chil- 
 dren to Jesus, that, with His blessing on them, they may go to the 
 activities of life, here is a most excellert way. Experience has tried 
 it. God has blessed it. The Church has been established and en- 
 larged by it. The world has feb, a large stream of Christian and up- 
 right activity flowing from it. These all say to any who can, "Go 
 and do thou likewise." " Make to yourselves friends, that when ye 
 fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations." 
 
 V. MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 The terms of the following members expire this year, and are to 
 be filled by Synod's election, viz : 
 
 Rev. B. C. Taylor, D.D., Rev. J. Elmendorf, D.D., 
 
 " J. B. Thompson, Mr. S. B. Schieffelin. 
 
 " J. Romeyn Berry, D.D., Mr. Marcus Lyon, 
 
 " David Cole, D.D., Mr. John P. Hardenberg. 
 
 The foregoing Report w r as adopted by the Board of Education at 
 their session May 18th, 1869, and ordered to be forwarded to Gen- 
 eral Synod. 
 
 JOHN L. SEE, 
 
 Corresponding Secretary. 
 
 \ 
 
12 REPORT ON 
 
 SUGGESTIONS BY THE SECRETARY. 
 
 Our report for the present year, under its first section, referring to 
 '• Students for the Ministry," exhibits a very gracious answer t© the 
 prayers of the Church. Twenty-one young men, of promising quali- 
 fications, have consecrated themselves to the work of the ministry. 
 One of the Professors, under whose care they are pursuing their 
 studies, after several months of intercourse with them, voluntarily 
 appended to his report of their studies and Christian deportment, 
 that he had never had under his care a more promising band of 
 students. God has, therefore, given us good men for a good work. 
 Is not each and every one of our Churches interested in their suc- 
 cessful entrance into the great field of usefulness for which they are 
 preparing ? Tt is simply God's work for the edification of His Church 
 and the salvation of the world. Some of these young men may, in 
 future years, be your own pastors. Some of them may be your mis- 
 sionary preachers to carry the Gospel to the heathen for you ; for 
 this is your work as much as their's. They are now, while studying, 
 actually engaged in the Lord's work, and in the Church's service. In 
 undertaking their support, the Board is simply the Church's agent. 
 Added to the work of supporting others already under our care, and 
 with an embarrassed treasury, the Boa^d has assumed, in accepting 
 them, a responsibility, in the full confidence that the Churches would 
 cheerfully meet all the expense which the answer to her own prayers 
 might entail. What folly would it be to argue that the Church 
 could not do all this? The Church is able, and in her own heart 
 conscious of her ability. Brethren, shall the confidence of the Board 
 in your will, as well as your ability, be dishonored ? Anything like 
 a generous response will meet all the demands of the case. We can 
 thus far excuse, on the ground that the Churches were not fully 
 aware of the extent of our need — the fact that so many of our 
 Churches did not aid us last year. But, dear brethren, in the name 
 of the Lord, here is now to you all a definite and accurate statement. 
 In the Lord's work, and in your behalf, as also by the very answer 
 of God to your own prayers, we stand before you with a debt in- 
 curred for no object of our own individual ambition or interest, 
 but for your good, of about $4,000 and an increase of our num- 
 ber of young men. Is it necessary that we shall ; shall it be a 
 
EDUCATION. 13 
 
 fact that we shall have to say next year to Synod, " Only about half 
 of our Churches have added gifts to their prayers, to secure preach- 
 ers to the Church and for the woild ?" Let us, affectionately, repeat 
 the questions which we asked a year ago : 
 
 1. Did your Church aid us by a contribution last year? 
 
 2. If it did not, will you not see that it does this year? 
 
 3. If it did, will you not see, carefully, that it is repeated this 
 year? 
 
 Pastors and Consistories can surely secure a proper response to 
 the last two questions. If they will, our debt will be paid, our work 
 of the year will be paid for as it goes along, and we will have cour- 
 age to expand with the growth and need of the Church. 
 
 GIVEN AWAY, OR INVESTED. 
 
 Thirty years ago a Christian brother endowed a scholarship for 
 the support of a student for the ministry. It pleased God greatly to 
 bless the ministry of the first minister educated by it. As a token of 
 gratitude to God for this blessing, the founder endowed, about ten 
 years later than the first, a second scholarship. In looking over our 
 records, some three years since, the Secretary found that these two 
 scholarships had educated ten ministers of our Church. By their 
 ministry, about five hundred souls had been added to the Church on 
 profession of their faith. Under the ministry of the first minister, 
 above alluded to, two of his grandchildren had been met by him 
 away from home, addressed on the subject of religion, awakened and 
 led to the Saviour, and are now humble followers of Christ. The 
 kind donor has long since gone to heaven and left all bis earthly 
 property behind. By these endowments, he is still preaching and 
 bringing souls to Jesus. As shown, some of his own family have 
 been saved by it. These saved souls have also, many of them, passed 
 to heaven. Which is his paying property to him now ? 
 
SDMMAEY REPORT OF THE TREASURER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ioavrt of (Station of th* §. #♦ % 
 
 1869. Dr. 
 
 Paid Students at New Brunswick So, 226 56 
 
 " " Hope College 1,816 
 
 " Professors and Teachers, Hope College 6,550 
 
 " Salary of Corresponding Secretary 2,499 99 
 
 " " Treasurer 150 
 
 Appropriations to Parochial Schools ],0l7 50 
 
 Expenses 1,03*7 35 
 
 Loans. . . 19,800 
 
 Interest 202 62 
 
 Balance in Treasury 857 51 
 
 839,157 53 
 Or. 
 
 By Balance, as per last Report $1,152 34 
 
 " Receipts for Educational Purposes 12,234 87 
 
 " '* Parochial Schools 66 50 
 
 " Interest on Education Funds 4,572 03 
 
 " " Parochial School Funds 643 43 
 
 " " Hope College " 1,488 36 
 
 " Loans 1 9,000 
 
 839,157 53 
 
 Due for Loans 83,200 
 
 " Salaries at Hope College 1,600 
 
 4,800 
 
 Less on hand 85751 
 
 Xet Indebtedness 83,942 49 
 
 F. J. HOSFORD, Treasurer. 
 New York, May 1, 1869 
 
THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 WuxA tti SjgmtstK MimnM 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA. 
 
 PRESENTED TO THE] 
 
 General Synod, at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, 
 
 JUNE, 1869. 
 
 NEW YORK : 
 
 BOARD OF PUBLICATION OF THE REFORMED CHURCH, 
 
 103 Fulton Street. 
 1869. 
 
Will Pastors please read the following Resolutions of General 
 Synod to their respective congregations 1 
 
 " General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, in session in 
 Philadelphia, June, 1869. 
 
 The following resolutions were adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That Synod gratefully recognizes the favor of God 
 towards the work of the Board during the past year. 
 
 Besolved, That this Synod has learned with much gratification of 
 the increase of the number of churches contributing to the Board, 
 and earnestly recommend to every Church in our denomination 
 the importance of taking a collection for it during the coming and 
 every succeeding year. 
 
 Resolved, That the Board be instructed to make efforts as speed- 
 ily as possible, by employing an agent hitherto authorized by 
 Synod or by the agents appointed during the past year in the sev- 
 eral Classes, to increase the Building Fund to $100,000. 
 
 Resolved, That the Pastors of our Churches, and the Superin- 
 tendents of Sabbath schools be recommended, where no such or- 
 ganizations are already in existence, to form Domestic Missionary 
 Associations in the Sabbath schools to aid the Board in their 
 work." 
 
 A True Copy. 
 
 DAVID D. DEMAREST, 
 
 Stated Clerk. 
 
EEPOET. 
 
 To the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America : 
 
 The Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Board of Domestic 
 Missions is presented to General Synod with thanksgivings to God. 
 It would be too much to say that all hopes were realized, and all 
 undertakings were in every instance successful, but enough has 
 been accomplished to inspire the liveliest gratitude; enough to 
 demonstrate the possibility of still greater success, and animate the 
 hearts of the friends of the cause with the most cheering hopes. 
 The Word of God has been preached by those who not only bore 
 the commission of this Board, but who feel that they were sent of 
 God. The ministrations of our Holy religion have sought out the 
 stranger and him that was ready to perish. And it is a pleasura- 
 ble task to report to Synod that the measure of blessing attending 
 our Mission work, as a whole, exceeds, we believe, that vouchsafed 
 to an equal number of self-supporting Churches. Upon field after 
 field, and month by month, the smiles of God have fallen upon 
 our Mission Churches, until we feel that success is only limited by 
 the faith and liberality of God's people, and the courage of the 
 Board to go forward in the work. 
 
 During the year 4,000 families have received Pastoral care, and 
 5,358 members of Mission Churches have enjoyed the stated means 
 of grace, 668 souls have been enrolled among the followers of 
 Jesus, and more than 8,000 children have learned the story of the 
 Cross through your Board. We cannot contemplate these results 
 without thanksgivings to God, and the feeling that He calls upon 
 us to enlarge greatly our efforts in His cause. The Board would 
 respectfully direct the attention of Synod to 
 
REPORT ON 
 
 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD. 
 
 We do this with a deeper sense of its appropriateness, because 
 the most vigilant need to renew their observations frequently to 
 keep pace with the sweeping progress of events. The recent re- 
 moval of political dissentions ; the amazing natural resources of 
 the country, in area, soil, climate, and productions ; the recent 
 completion of a highway from ocean to ocean, across the continent ; 
 the coveted privilege of self-government, by which the alien and 
 the stranger soon come to share with us the duties and responsi- 
 bilities of citizenship, make this field one that appeals to the heart 
 of every Christian, to the heart of every American citizen ! It is 
 not difficult to see that the Gospel and the Sabbath are the only 
 weapons with which we can defend life, liberty of conscience, and 
 the purity of the Church of God. 
 
 PROGRESS OF THE WORK. 
 
 It will be observed that the Board do not report quite so large 
 a number of Missions sustained or Missionaries employed this 
 year as the last, in consequence of the considerable number of 
 Churches which have become self-sustaining during the last and the 
 present year. This pleasing fact has also somewhat reduced the 
 number of families under our care, and of members connected with 
 our Mission Churches. The new fields entered upon are, in several 
 instances, purely Missionary in their character, and have not yet 
 attained organization. Still the good work goes hopefully on, and 
 every new field affords cheering indications of success. Seventy 
 two Missions, extending from 60 miles east of New York city to 
 150 miles west of the Mississippi, have received the fostering care 
 of the General Synod's Board of Domestic Missions ; 4,000 fami- 
 lies have statedly enjoyed the means of grace through the same 
 agency. The Missionary Pastors have, through God's blessing, 
 been permitted to receive 921 members into the communion of the 
 Church, G68 on confession of their faith, and 253 by certificate 
 from other Churches. This is also a diminution of numbers as 
 compared with last year, to be attributed to the cause already re- 
 ferred to. In general progress, and in the manifestations of God's 
 favor, we are happy to say, the present year compares favorably 
 
DOMESTIC MISSIONS. t 
 
 with the past. In several instances precious revival seasons have 
 been enjoyed, among which we may instance Coytesville and Boon- 
 ton, N. J., Leyden Centre, 111., Constantine, Mich., and Cato, N. Y. 
 God has graciously owned his work to the conversion of many 
 souls. 
 
 The Week of Prayer has sent its savour through all the weeks of 
 the year, and through all time. Over the entire field committed 
 to the care of this Board, there are evidences of general progress 
 and vigor that should stimulate the friends of Christ to renewed 
 zeal and self-denial in the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom. 
 
 THE MISSIONARIES. 
 
 The brethren who have been in the service of the Church under 
 your Board number sixty-six. And we bear cheerful testimony to 
 the faithfulness and self-sacrifice with which they have preached the 
 Gospel to the destitute. It has not been found practicable, owing 
 to the partial failure of crops in the West, and the stagnation 
 of business in the East, to reduce the salaries of those in the em- 
 ploy of the Board. And in many instances the self-denying Mis- 
 sionary would have found himself in extreme want, but for boxes 
 of clothing which kind hearts and willing hands sent to his relief. 
 It is a happy outlet to the benevolent impulses of the Churches 
 East, for which the Missionaries and the Board are very thankful. 
 
 It is also a matter of congratulation that the destitution of labor- 
 ers for the West is less now than at any former period of our his- 
 tory. The Theological Seminary at Hope College is admirably 
 supplying a lung felt want in this important field. Seven young 
 men, acclimated, familiar with western wants and modes of 
 thought, are about to be licensed to preach the Gospel in fields that 
 have already claimed their services. These are the first fruits of 
 an Institution to which the Board looks with much hope in the 
 work of efficient church extension. 
 
 NEW UNDERTAKINGS AND NEW FIELDS. 
 
 The Rev. A. G. Lansing has been employed since early last 
 autumn in the region of Pella, Iowa, where he finds an ample field 
 for his services. His work is a purely Missionary one, in which 
 
« REPORT ON 
 
 he has, as yet, attempted no organization further than to gather 
 the children together in Sabbath schools, and the people in assem- 
 blies to hear the Word of God. But the day is probably not dis- 
 tant when another Church will dot the Prairies of Iowa, on our 
 western frontier. His pecuniary support is derived from two Sab- 
 bath schools, that of Flatbush, L. I,, and North Newark, N. J., 
 whose Missionary he is. 
 
 Brookfteld, Conn., is a field of considerable promise. The Rev. 
 Sanford W. Roe has been laboring there for the greater part of 
 the year with great acceptance. The mission is on the point of be- 
 ing organized as a church, with a very fair prospect of success. 
 
 South Bend, Ind., has been re-occupied, and the Rev. W. J. Skil- 
 man has relinquished Macon and South Macon to enter upon the 
 work. It was, in the estimation of the Classis of Michigan, a field 
 of too great importance to be abandoned. And we are happy to 
 say that Brother Skillman is prosecuting the work with every pros- 
 pect of surmounting difficulties, and of establishing the Reformed 
 Church on a sound basis. 
 
 During the year just closed a church has been organized, and, by 
 the aid of the Church Building Fund, a sanctuary has been erected 
 at Saugatuck, Mich. They are waiting for the graduating class of 
 the Holland Seminary to supply them with a Pastor. 
 
 Yorhtown, Minnesota, is taking steps for the erection of a church, 
 and has been recommended to the Board for aid in sustaining a 
 Pastor. And the prospects are that a strong church will exist in 
 that thriving state where now is only spiritual desolation. 
 
 SELF-SUSTAINING CHURCHES. 
 
 In addition to the considerable number of Churches reported last 
 year as requiring no longer aid from your Board, we are happy 
 to be able to add seven more this year. They are as follows : 
 
 Cuddebackville, N. Y., Union Church, N. Y., Fourth German, 
 Albany, N. Y., Cleveland, O., Constantine, Mich., High Bridge, 
 N. J., and German, Hoboken, N. J. It is a matter of rejoicing to 
 bid those whom we have been aiding God speed, as they, leaning 
 upon the arm of the Beloved, enter upon a self-supporting basis. 
 And the number is probably as large as we could expect under the 
 
DOMESTIC MISSIONS. t 
 
 circumstances. The long deferred repairs, the stringency of money, 
 and the partial failure of crops, made it difficult for Churches to 
 attain an independent position, or to carry on their work with re- 
 duced appropriations where they still remained dependent. There 
 is, however, in this respect, a marked improvement in the Classes 
 of Michigan and Holland. One Church has become self-support- 
 ing, and in every other instance, except one, the appropriations 
 asked for the coming year have been greatly reduced. For these 
 indications of prosperity and progress, the Board is devoutly 
 thankful. 
 
 THE TREASURY. 
 
 The Board presents to the General Synod this item of the An- 
 nual Report with mingled feelings of regret and satisfaction. The 
 apprehensions of the last year have been realized. The Treasury 
 is in arrears $6,000, less $431 37 in hand. It was only from a 
 providential interposition that it did not occur last year. The 
 Board should not be so largely dependent upon the uncertain source 
 of income arising from bequests. This, from the nature of the 
 case, must vary greatly, being some years greatly in excess of 
 others, and leaving us at one time with a large surplus, and at an- 
 other with an embarrassing deficiency. It will undoubtedly be 
 the policy of the Board hereafter to fund a portion of these gifts of 
 God's gathered ones as a reserve against the day of need. On the 
 other hand, the fast and reliable friends of the cause of Domestic 
 Missions are greatly on the increase. 296 Churches have contri- 
 buted to this Board during the year, an increase of 32 over last' 
 year, showing a total of $1,607 over last year's contribution. In- 
 dividual donations are also considerably in excess of former years, 
 showing that our home work is growing in the affection of our 
 people, and indicating an awakening of the Church to a sense of her 
 responsibility to God in the preservation of this land from igno- 
 rance, intolerance, and anarchy. The contributions by the 
 Churches amount to $16,988, probably $1,000 more than has ever 
 been contributed before without a single extra effort, or a collection 
 urged out of its place. 
 
 This is a matter of unfeigned thankfulness. It proves vhe loy- 
 alty of the Church, the increased appreciation of home work, and 
 
8 REPORT ON 
 
 the unshaken confidence of the friends of the Board that God will 
 crown our efforts with complete success. If Pastors and Consisto- 
 ries will train their congregations in systematic benevolence, and a 
 conscientious discharge of the duties we owe to our own heritage, 
 the Board will be enabled to assume a position very far in advance 
 of any yet undertaken. Individual contributions have reached 
 $2,353 90, being an increase of $812 33 over last year. Sabbath 
 schools have contributed $2,165 47, $2,027 26 have been paid in 
 from legacies, and Churches and Missions have contributed 
 $1,037 13. 
 
 With unfaltering trust in God, and in the faithfulness of his peo- 
 ple, your Board see no cause for discouragement, but, on the other 
 hand, new and stronger motives for self-consecration and unswerv- 
 ing Christian fidelity. 
 
 CHURCH BUILDING FUND. 
 
 The Board report that the importance of this interest can hardly 
 be over-estimated, and while all has not been accomplished that we 
 hoped, yet a great advance has been made over last year. 124 
 Churches have contributed to this Fund during the year, being 47 
 more than on the previous year. The last General Synod author- 
 ized this Board to appoint an agent to complete the endowment of 
 the Building Fund. But the Board felt that such an appointment 
 must necessarily be an expensive as well as a protracted one, and 
 instead of one general agent, they appointed one in every Classis, 
 that by dividing the work the Churches might be sooner reached 
 and the work accomplished, and the result has probably justified 
 the experiment. The amount contributed by the Churches is 
 $6,026 11. Individuals, $2,893 23. Sabbath schools, $243 36. 
 Other sources, $154 — making an aggregate of $9,115 70, which, 
 together with a balance of $1,654 39, makes a total of $10,772 09. 
 
 The following Churches have been aided during the year : 
 
 Clinton Station, N. J. ; Saugatuck, Mich. ; Coytesville, N. J. ; 
 Grandville, Mich. ; Second Chicago, 111. ; Ley den Centre, 111. J 
 Boonton, N. J. ; Spotswood, N. J. ; Locust Valley, L. I. ; Norris, 
 111. ; Buffalo, N. Y. ; and Second Pella, Iowa. And our progress 
 is only stayed by the want of means to encourage the people *' to 
 arise and build." 
 
DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 
 
 CHURCH BUILDINGS COMPLETED. 
 
 In this item more than elsewhere will be seen the power of the 
 Church Building Fund to conserve the interests of church exten- 
 sion, and the promotion of the glory of God. Twelve churches 
 have been finished, or have reached an advanced stage of progress, 
 through the aid extended to them by the Building Fund. They are 
 as follows ; Clinton Station, N. J.; Saugatuck, Mich.; Coytesville, 
 N. J.; Grandville, Mich.; Leyden Centre, 111.; Boonton, N. J.; 
 Locust Valley, L. I.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Norris, 111. This Church, 
 as the Synod are aware, has been erected by the eminent Christian 
 liberality of a lady of Philadelphia, who has also generously paid 
 the entire salary of the Pastor, and continues to provide for his 
 support. So that neither the church edifice nor the maintenance of 
 the Pastor has cost the Board anything. Such instances of Christ- 
 ian beneficence are refreshing indeed, and lead us to feel that God 
 has among his people those who are determined that the poor shall 
 have the Gospel preached unto them. 
 
 The First Church of Chicago have also finished their church edi- 
 fice, and are enjoying enlarged facilities for comfort and usefulness, 
 but it cannot be said in any proper sense that the Board have aided 
 them in its erection, except as we have given them moral support, 
 and contributed a little more largely to the salary of their Pastor. 
 The fund has at no time during the year been in a condition to af- 
 ford the relief they needed. 
 
 The Second Church of Chicago, having secured a very eligible 
 site, have erected and enclosed their new church edifice, and finish- 
 ed the basement in which they are at present worshipping. They 
 have still not the means to complete their main audience room. 
 They are united, persevering, and hopeful, and feel that they cannot 
 now fail. In their Report they say : " Everything indicates that 
 the completion of the building is now the one instrumentality need- 
 ed to place the Church on its feet. The good hand of our God up- 
 on us has brought us on so far that we should have little faith in- 
 deed did we not confidently expect a joyful consummation in his 
 own good time." 
 
10 REPORT ON 
 
 REMOVALS AND CHANGES. 
 
 The Rev. W. J. Skillman has been transferred from Macon and 
 South Macon to South Bend, Ind. A graduate from the Holland 
 Theological Seminary will supply his place. Rev. Martin L. 
 Schenck has been reluctantly compelled, by the want of a church 
 building, to relinquish the charge of the Church of Whitehall, Wis., 
 and has accepted a settlement at the East. The want of ample 
 means in the Church Building Fund is seldom more strikingly ex- 
 hibited. Rev. A. K. Kasse has removed from Cleveland, Ohio, and 
 become the Pastor of the Second Holland Church, Paterson, N. J. 
 The Rev. James Huyssoon has been called from the Church of 
 Polkton, Mich., to the First Holland Church, Paterson, N. J. The 
 Board have not yet been able to supply his place. Rev. J. W. 
 Dunnewold has been called to the Church of Gibbsville, Wis., 
 where he has been laboring with very cheering success. Rev. B. 
 A. Bartholf has resigned the charge of the Church of Wolcott, and 
 has entered upon another field. Rev. T. G. Watson has been call- 
 ed from the Church of Cato, to Brighton Heights, S. I. Rev. J. 
 Henry Enders has relinquished the charge of the Church of Ly- 
 sander. This enterprise proposes to become self-sustaining. 
 
 SABBATH SCHOOLS. 
 
 The Board report to the General Synod, with gratification, the 
 cheerful aspect of our Sabbath school work. 
 
 The number of schools under our care is 4 less than last year, 
 yet the number of scholars in attendance is greatly increased. 
 8,116 children as compared with 6,798 last year, have enjoyed the 
 benefits of Sabbath school instruction. 
 
 Our Missionaries report 93 as having given their hearts to Je- 
 sus, and made a profession of religion during the year. Two Sab- 
 bath schools — that of Flatbush, L. I., and North Newark, N. J., 
 have united in supporting a Missionary, Rev. A. G. Lansing, and 
 will continue it as long as he needs it. This is an example worthy 
 of all imitation, and the Board would urgently commend to Pastors 
 and Superintendents the appropriateness of organizing their Sab- 
 bath schools into auxiliary Domestic Missionary associations, to 
 co-operate with the Board in extending the institutions of religion 
 
DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 11 
 
 over our rapidly settling country. This land belongs to the child- 
 ren of this age. Their homes are here and are to be here. And 
 it is both wise and just to transmit to hands skilled in the defence 
 of the truth a nation guarded by the Divine oracles. 
 
 The Rev. C. W. Wilson has successfully prosecuted Sabbath 
 school labors at Two Rivers, Wis. The day when the Master 
 makes up his accounts will only reveal how many erring feet have 
 been led into the way of truth through this instrumentality. The 
 General Synod is indebted to a lady formerly a member of the 
 Broome street Church, New York, for his entire support. 
 
 We are happy to add that 21 new schools have been organized, 
 and that the Sabbath schools have contributed $2,165 47 to the 
 work. 
 
 PARTICULARIA. 
 
 The term of service of the following members of the Board ex- 
 pires June, 1869 : 
 
 Rev. Jacob West, Hon. Robert H. Pruyn, 
 
 " J. H. Duryee, Mr. John I. Brower, 
 
 " R. H. Steele, D.D., " John R. Smith, 
 Mr. John N Stearns. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 With the earnest prayer that God's rich blessing may crown the 
 labors of his servants with abundant success, to the glory of His 
 name, this report is respectfully submitted to the General Synod. 
 
 J. WEST, 
 
 Cor. Secretary. 
 Adopted by the Board, May 25th, 1869. 
 
 A Tabular Statement is appended. 
 
12 REPORT ON 
 
 TABULAR STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS AND RE- 
 SULTS— 1 868-69. 
 
 Churches and Missions aided 72 
 
 " " at the East 43 
 
 " " at the West 29 
 
 New organizations and undertakings 5 
 
 Houses of worship in course of erection or finished... . 12 
 
 Received into Membership 921 
 
 " " on Confession 668 
 
 " " by Certificate ,. . . 253 
 
 Whole number of Families in Mission Churches 4,000 
 
 " " Members 5,358 
 
 " " Sabbath schools 95 
 
 " " Scholars 8,113 
 
 Contributions to the Board by the Missions $1,031 13 
 
 Contributed by the Missions to other benevolent objects $3,41 1 71 
 
 Whole amount received into the Treasury $24,973 33 
 
DOMESTIC MISSIONS. 
 
 13 
 
 TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 The Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America in 
 account with John R. Smith, Treasurer. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 April 30, 1869.? 
 
 To cash as per appropriation to Missionaries for the 
 
 year ending this date $22,492 36 
 
 for removal and traveling expenses of Mis. . . . 582 16 
 
 $23,074 52 
 
 for Sunday school work, viz : for Missionaries. 1,911 50 
 for books 181 60 
 
 $2,093 10 
 
 for salary of the Corresponding Secretary 2,500 00 
 
 for office and traveling expenses 191 50 
 
 for rent of office, P, O. box and fuel 112 97 
 
 for revenue, and postage stamps and stationery 100 00 
 for counterfeit currency 2 50 
 
 $2,804 96 
 
 for traveling expenses of members of Board 
 
 and Executive Committee 53 60 
 
 for printing, circulars, and reports 82 41 
 
 $102 50 
 
 American Missionary Society, for contributions 
 
 for Freedmen 
 
 premium to Gebhard Ins. Co. on St. Peter's Church, Wil- 
 liamsburgh, L. I 
 
 for interest, as follows : Estate of George Fair 
 
 on loan to the 2d Chicago Church, 111 1,750 00 
 
 Gebhard Fire Ins. Co. on loan to St. Peter's 
 Evangelical Church, L. 1 173 50 
 
 Bank of New York National Banking Associa- 
 tion 339 04 
 
 $136 01 
 25 11 
 43 20 
 
 To balance. 
 
 Due Bank of New York. 
 Cash on hand. 
 
 $6,000 00 
 431 37 
 
 - $2,262 56 
 431 37 
 
 $30,973 33 
 
 Indebtedness $5,568 63 
 

 14 
 
 REPORT 
 
 Or. 
 
 May 1, 1869. 
 
 By cash on hand $1,438 70 
 
 April 30, 1869. 
 
 By cash contributions from Churches $16,988 00 
 
 contributions from Sunday schools 2,165 47 
 
 contributions from individuals 2,353 90 
 
 Total amount of contributions $21,507 37 
 
 By cash from legacies. 2,027 26 
 
 Total receipts for the year '. $23,534 63 
 
 By cash borrowed from the Bank of New York National Bank- 
 ing Association $6,000 00 
 
 $30,973 33 
 
 JOHN R. SMITH, Treasurer. 
 New York, May 1, 1869. 
 
 Examined and found correct. 
 
 JOHN A. HARDENBERG, 
 S. R. W. HEATH, 
 
 Auditing Committee. 
 New York, May 1, 1869. 
 

THIRTY-SEVENTH 
 
 AJsncsTTXA-i-i :R/:e:po:r>t 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 \tfoxmtb §W(lj iti Mmtxim, 
 
 AND 
 
 TWELFTH OF SEPARATE ACTION, 
 
 WITH 
 
 The Treasurer's Tabular and Summary Report of Receipts, 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 YEAR ENDING APRIL 30th, 1869. 
 
 ♦—^ 
 
 New York : 
 BOARD OF PUBLICATION 
 
 OF TITE 
 
 Reformed Church in America, 
 
 No. 103 Fulton Street. 
 1869. 
 

E E P O E T 
 
 ^•♦•^ 
 
 The Board of Foreign Missions respectfully presents to the Gen- 
 eral Synod the following Report of the thirty-seventh year of its ex- 
 istence, and the eleventh year of its separate and independent ac- 
 tion : 
 
 I HOME DEPARTMENT. 
 
 1. MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 
 
 There has been no change in the membership of the Board during 
 the year. The kind Providence, which we have thankfully acknow- 
 ledged for years past, has continued to give health and life to those 
 who have been associated in this work. 
 
 2. AGENCIES EMPLOYED. 
 
 From the beginning of the year to the second Sabbath of Janu- 
 arv, 1869, Rev. D. Rapalje, of the Amoy Mission, was occupied 
 upon nearly every Lord's Day in presenting the work in China to 
 the Churches. From the first Sabbath of June to January, ] S69, 
 Revs. Henry Stout and John A. Davis, commissioned respectively as 
 missionaries to Japan and China, pleaded for this cause before the 
 Churches. From the beginning of October to the close of the year, 
 Rev. E. C. Scudder, of the Arcot Mission, and Rev. L. W. Kip, of 
 the Amoy Mission, have presented from the pulpits of the Reformed 
 Church the work and wants of the fields to which they are devoted. 
 Rev. S. R Brown, D.D., has frequently spoken, as he has had the 
 opportunity, respecting Japan. 
 
4 REPORT ON 
 
 TJp to the first of March the intelligence from our own Missions, 
 
 and interesting facts from the Missions of other bodies, were made 
 
 known through the columns of the Christian Intelligencer and Sower. 
 
 The condition of our treasury has been constantly presented 
 
 through the editorial department of the Christian Intelligencer. 
 
 After a careful deliberation, continued through three months, the 
 Board concluded to publish its own periodica], for the sake of ob- 
 taining the widest possible diffusion of our missionary intelligence, 
 and of the facts and arguments bearing upon our work, and also to 
 awaken a general interest and participation in the operations com- 
 mitted to our supervision. The first number of " The Gospel Field" 
 the number for March, was issued in February, '69. The circulation 
 of that number was eleven thousand copies, and of the April num- 
 ber, thirteen thousand. By the generous offer of a member of the 
 Board, a considerable portion of the cost of this periodical for the 
 first year was guaranteed. 
 
 For the sake of securing the end in view, namely, the widest pos- 
 sible diffusion of missionary intelligence, and the formation of a 
 general missionary spirit, it was resolved to furnish the Paper at 
 only the expense of postage to the recipient. , It was argued that 
 every family contributing to the support of our work, was entitled 
 to the infoimation furnished by this medium, and that all families 
 not contributing, if willing to accept the Paper, ought to have it, so 
 that they might be induced to assist in sustaining the Missions. 
 
 The 37,000 families of the denomination can be supplied with 
 this monthly periodical at an expense to the Board of about 
 $4,000 a year. 
 
 3. FINANCES. 
 
 The receipts of the year have been : from Churches, $59,523 03 ; 
 Sabbath Schools, $5,310 99 ; Individuals, through Churches, 
 $6,140 11 ; Individuals, not through Churches, $2,211 42 ; Legacies, 
 $5,457 74: Miscellaneous sources, $2,767 09; Total, $81,410 38. 
 Deducting $200 received from the American Tract Society, and 
 $2,201 20 received as interest on the Security Fund, and the 
 amount realized from Legacies, $5,457 74 ; in all, $7,858 94, we 
 have $73,551 44 left as the contribution of the denomination during 
 the year. For this encouraging result, we are indebted, mainly, to 
 the hearty and earnest efforts of the pastors, seconded by the zeal- 
 ous co-operation of certain liberal laymen. 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 5 
 
 The Board began the year with a debt of $16,000. Notwith- 
 standing the general response to our appeals, the debt at the close 
 of the year was $24,000. This increase of obligations is due, 
 exclusively, to unusual expenses. It has been necessary to complete 
 buildings, for various purposes, in each of the Missions, to bring 
 home brethren in need of a change of climate, and to send out a 
 re- enforcement. Although the Board mentions these as unusual ex- 
 penditures, yet we are unwilling even to intimate that there may be 
 allowed any decrease in the offerings of the Church for this work) 
 during the next or any succeeding year, for some time to come, 
 for there is not now expended upon the fields we occupy as much as 
 their wants require, leaving out of the reckoning what should be 
 laid out upon such aggressive Christian warfare as should be con- 
 stantly and vigorously prosecuted. 
 
 To sustain the Missions during the next year, to return two of the 
 missionaries now in this country, to send out those now under com- 
 mission, and to meet home expenses, we shall need $67,847 50. 
 Adding to this the amount of present indebtedness, we have the 
 sum of $92,000 to be obtained during the year ending on April 
 30th, 1870. 
 
 The Board is constrained to call the attention of the Church once 
 more, through the Geneial Synod, to the decline in our income ex- 
 perienced through the summer months. This is annually the cause 
 of serious embarrassment, beside adding a considerable sum, in 
 the form of interest upon loans, to the usual outlay. For economi- 
 cal reasons your foreign work is sustained by monthly payments. 
 Each month calls for an outlay of between five and six thousand 
 dollars. We request, therefore, that the Churches be entreated to 
 make one collection for this work, if possible, between the first day 
 of May and the first day of August in each year. We are happy 
 to be able to announce that the number of the Churches which con- 
 tribute to our treasury on the first Sabbath morning of each month 
 is steadily increasing. It is not found that this custom interferes 
 with the collections for any other good work, or in any degree di- 
 minishes their amount, but rather operates to increase the liberality 
 of the people towards all the departments of Christian benevolence. 
 We are happy, also, to report that systematic benefactions have in- 
 creased, and that, in a number of the Churches, plans have been 
 adopted calculated to reach every communicant, and afford each one 
 an opportunity to contribute. We have noticed with pleasure that 
 
6 REPORT ON 
 
 the propiiety and necessity of organized and systematic effort to 
 develope the ability of the Church to give to the extension of the 
 Redeemer's Kingdom, is receiving more and more attention. 
 
 4. RE-ENFORCEMENTS. 
 
 It has been our privilege to add the Rev. Henry Stout and wife 
 to the missionary force of the Japan Mission, and Rev. John A. 
 Davis and wife to tbat of the Amoy Mission, These brethren sailed 
 with Rev. 1). Rapalje, of the Amoy Mission, who had spent two 
 years at home to restore impaired health, on the 9th day of January 
 last, by the Pacific Mail Line Steamer. They reached their destina- 
 tion in the following March. 
 
 The Board also commissioned Miss M. J. Mandeville and Miss 
 Josephine Chapin as Assistant Missionaries, to be connected with 
 the Arcot Mission. As thS period had passed when missionary 
 families sail for India, it was necessary to detain these ladies. It is 
 expected that they will embark during the summer of this year. 
 
 The Board has also commissioned Miss Mary E. Kidder, of Brook- 
 lyn, L. L, as an Assistant Missionary, to be connected with the 
 Yokohama station of the Mission to Japan. It is probable that this 
 lady will leave for her appointed field in July next with Rev. S. R. 
 Brown, D.D., who hopes to return to Yokohama at that time. 
 
 While it has been a pleasure to send this help to the brethren 
 who are striving to overtake the wants of the fields open before 
 them, we have not been able to repress the desire that a larger 
 number of candidates for missionary service would be presented* 
 and that the Church w r ould furnish the means to enable us to send 
 them forth. The force of each of our Missions should be increased. 
 By the departure of Mr. Verbeck, to Yedo, to perform important 
 work for the Government and the cause of our Master, Mr. Stout is 
 left alone at Nagasaki. He should have a fellow laborer. God has 
 blessed that station above every other within the Empire, and it 
 ought to be supplied by us with a force sufficient to improve the 
 opportunities constantly presented. 
 
 The Amoy Mission needs at least two additional missionaries, 
 one of them a physician, to occupy Chiang-chiu, the commercial 
 and social centre of a large and populous valley, and of an exten- 
 sive region beyond. The services maintained in this city, mainly 
 by the native helpers, have been attended by crowds of respectful 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 7 
 
 listeners. The brethren of the Mission find it a difficult matter, in- 
 deed an impossibility, to cultivate this open field as it deserves, and 
 to improve the opportunities offered daily to instruct men in the 
 word of life. Our missionary band, at Amoy, ought to have an ad- 
 dition of two laborers. The work of the Arcot Mission is increas- 
 ing with great rapidity in the southern portion of South Arcot. 
 Mr. Mayou, who is in charge of this part of the territory occupied* 
 although possessing unusual physical vigor, and being a most indus- 
 trious workman, is altogether unable to look after the villages seek- 
 ing for Christian counsel and instruction, and those desiring a visit 
 from a preacher of the Gospel. If two additional missionaries were 
 located in this district they would be fully occupied in caring for 
 those who are at this very time ready to renounce idolatry and 
 place themselves under Christian instruction. There is every reason 
 for the belief that if this part of our field were properly supplied 
 with ordained missionaries, a large portion of the population would 
 soon be gathered within the Church of Christ. 
 
 Our work is annually enlarging. Our missionary brethren are 
 overtaxed by the demands made upon them. These are the le- 
 gitimate results of prosperity. We should rejoice that the Lord 
 has given us such a blessing. We should expect to be called upon 
 to increase the number of our missionaries. Besides we ought to 
 give a place in our calculations to events almost certain to occur 
 in the future. We cannot expect that disease and death will pass 
 by the men we have at present in the field. Yet not one of them 
 could now be spared. The Lord can indeed accomplish His gra- 
 cious designs by a few as well as by many, but His declaration is that 
 he who soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully, and he that sow- 
 eth sparingly shall reap sparingly. If those who can do much con- 
 tent themselves with doing a little, they must also be content with 
 meagre results. 
 
 W 7 e need one man for Japan, two for China, two for India, at 
 this very time. 
 
 II. SURVEY OF THE MISSIONS. 
 
 1. THE AMOY MISSION CHINA. 
 
 (Organized in 1844.) 
 
 Occupying the cities of Amoy, population 200,009; Chioh-bey, 
 population 60,000 ; Chiang-chin, population 200,000 ; Tongan, pop- 
 
8 REPORT ON 
 
 nlation 60,000. The field traversed, that is, the territory includ- 
 ing those cities, has a population of about 3,090,000. 
 
 The missionary force engaged consists of 
 
 Missionaries. — Revs. J. V. N. Talmage, DJX, D. Rapalje, John 
 A. Davis, and Revs. L. W. Kip, J. H. Van Doren, at present in this 
 country. 
 
 Assistant Missionaries. — Mrs. Talmage, Mrs. Helen A. Kip, Mrs. 
 Davis. 
 
 During half of the year Dr. Talmage has been the only mission- 
 ary of this Board on the field. Early in the year, Mr. Van Doren, 
 on account of an affection of his eyes, resulting from general physi- 
 cal prostration, sailed for Yokohama, Japan, in the hope that the 
 change of climate would restore his strength and heal his eyes. 
 This improvement was denied to him, and towards the close of the 
 summer, by the advice of physicians, he returned to this country. 
 Mr. Kip, being very much reduced in strength, was ordered home 
 by the physicians in June. He reached New York in September 
 last. Mr. Rapalje having recovered health and strength, accompa- 
 nied by Mr. Davis, just commissioned, embarked for Amoy in Jan- 
 uary, and reached his destination in March. Mr. Kip, God willing, 
 hopes to return during the fall of the present year. 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 STATISTICAL TABLE OF THE " TAI-HOE, OR CLA8SIS OF AMOY, 
 
 For the Year 1868: 
 
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 34 
 
 20 
 
 Contributions for Be- 
 nevolent and Reli 
 gious Purposes. 
 
 Kang-thau,* under 1st Church 
 O-pi* 
 
 Ang-tung-thauf " 
 Tong-anf " " 
 
 Chianer-chiu.t 
 
 388 20 
 
 5 07 
 
 5 40 
 
 342 34 
 
 11 74 
 
 87 04 
 17 75 
 
 
 
 
 
 377 
 
 37 
 
 129 
 
 36 
 39 
 33 
 43 
 
 -4- 
 
 38 
 
 4 
 
 18 
 
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 9 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 5 
 
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 3 
 
 1 
 
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 5 
 
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 • • 
 
 409 
 
 39 
 
 144 
 
 36 
 44 
 43 
 53 
 
 24 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 3 
 
 30 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 65 
 
 9 
 
 74 
 
 
 Total under care Am. Ref. Ch. 
 Mission 
 
 807 54 
 
 
 
 Church at Peh-chui-la 
 
 
 Koanjim,§ under Peh-chui-la 
 
 Ho-Khang,|| •' 
 Peh-chioh,|| « 
 
 Church at E-mung-kang 
 
 Church at Khiu-be 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Station at An-hai 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Koan-Kio^[ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Station at Chin-chiu 
 
 7 
 
 324 
 701 
 
 14 
 
 66 
 
 104 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 15 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 21 
 
 789 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 39 
 
 18 
 48 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total under care of English 
 Pres. Ch. Mission 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 Total under care of Tai-hoe. . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 f do., Second Church. 
 | do. Ma-peng. 
 
 * Included in Statistics of First Church. 
 
 \ do., Chioh-bey. § do. Peh-chui-la. 
 
 ^[ do. An-hai. 
 
 Native Preachers, (including the two Pastors) 18 under the care of each 
 Mission. Theological students, each Mission 7. Medical students, each Mis- 
 sion 1. 
 
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 10 REPORT ON 
 
 STATE OF THE CHURCHES. 
 
 First Church of Amoy. — This Church has a consistory of four 
 elders and four deacons, and a native pastor supported by itself. 
 Pastor Lo has been sick for more than two years. Two years ago 
 the physicians gave up all hope of his recovery, and thought his 
 end very near. In answer to prayer, God has spared his life, and 
 there has been, for more than a year past, a gradual improvement in 
 his health. Last year lie made a visit to Formosa, and while there 
 began again to preach. Since his return he has been able to relieve 
 me from the pastoral care of his Church, and has preached every 
 Sabbath. 
 
 The small increase of members, and the large number under sus- 
 pension, are sad proofs of the want of the outpouring of the Spirit 
 on this Church. In a Christian land, a mere desire to maintain 
 respectability will keep individuals from such conduct as would lead 
 to suspension from Church fellowship ; here the reverse is true. The 
 influences of a heathen community like this are against a Christian 
 course of conduct, and are so many and so powerful that it requires 
 much more grace to resist them. Hence, when the pastor and elders 
 of a Church are faithful, a low state of piety will be manifested in 
 the number suspended from Church fellowship. 
 
 As Pastor Lo's health improves, enabling him to take a more 
 efficient oversight of his charge, I trust we shall see an improve- 
 ment in the prosperity of his Church. The improvement has, I 
 think, already commenced. The eight additions to this Church in 
 1867 were from the out-stations; of the eight received during this 
 year, six were from Amoy, and two more are to be baptized next 
 Sabbath. 
 
 KANG-THAU. 
 
 There have been two baptisms, one death, and one suspension at 
 this out-station of the First Church. 
 
 OPI. 
 
 At this out-station there has been one death, two suspensions, and 
 no additions. There lias been, however, much increase of interest, 
 and a large accession to the number of inquirers. These inquiiers 
 are being winnowed gradually ; some are falling off, others are 
 proving themselves true, and will probably soon be received. 
 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 11 
 
 The villages of Kang-thau and O-pi are distant from each other 
 between three and four miles. The Christians residing in them pe- 
 titioned, in the spring of 1867 to be organized as a Church. A com- 
 mittee was appointed by the Classis to perform this work, but Mr. 
 Kip's departure and Pastor Lo's sickness made a postponement ne- 
 cessary. The preliminary steps having been taken, last Sabbath the 
 organization, under the name of the O-kang Church, was completed 
 by the ordination of tw r o elders and one deacon — another deacon, 
 who had been elected, had been suddenly called awav bv his busi- 
 ness. The Church begins with thirtv members, all from the First 
 Church of Amoy. A few more will soon be added from the same 
 Church. 
 
 SECOND CHURCH OF AMOY. 
 
 This Church also has four elders and four deacons, and a native 
 pastor supported by itself. Pastor lap is not in very good health. 
 He was laid aside from preaching for many weeks during the last 
 summer, but was able to continue the pastoral care of the Church. 
 For a long time we have felt the urgent need of a new outpouring of 
 the Spirit on this Church also. The remarks made respecting the 
 First Church apply also to the Second, but the improvement during 
 the last year has been more manifest in this Church. Of the nine- 
 teen additions reported, eleven were from Amoy. Two more are to 
 be added to this Church also on the next Sabbath We have just 
 had a very pleasant evidence that there is still much piety in the 
 Amoy Churches — and, I trust, an increase of piety — during the 
 Week of Prayer. The meetings were unusually well attended, 
 and of unusual interest. 
 
 TE-SOA 
 
 Is an out-station, under the care of this Church, on the mainland 
 (Amoy is an Island), about fifteen miles to the north. During the 
 year two adults have been baptized. For a long time the work here 
 was not very encouraging, but for the last twelve months there has 
 been much increase of interest, and the number of inquirers has 
 greatly multiplied. Our present chapel is entirely too small on 
 some occasions, especially at the celebration of the Lord's Supper, 
 when the members from Ang-tung-thau also attend, to accommo- 
 date the congregation. 
 
12 REPORT ON 
 
 ANG-TUNG-THATJ, 
 
 Also an out-station of the Second Church, is three or four miles to 
 the northwest of Te-soa. Six adults have been baptized during the 
 year ; there have been, also, two or three suspensions from church 
 fellowship. After the persecution here two years ago, there was a 
 great increase in the attendance, this was followed by a reaction. 
 Then, last summer, the present preacher stationed here was disa- 
 bled by sickness for some months. He is now prett} r well recovered, 
 and the interest in that region is again increasing. 
 
 TONG-AN 
 
 I have reported as a station. We began to send helpers to this 
 place in 1867, to preach as opportunity offered, and they have been 
 much encouraged. No one has yet been baptized. We have made 
 repeated attempts to hire a room or building for worship, but in 
 every instance the landlord has been frightened from his bargain be- 
 fore the lease was signed. We are very anxious to retain our foothold 
 in this city, both because of its importance in itself, being a populous 
 city, situated in a densely populated region, and because it is on the 
 thoroughfare between Amoy and the district of An-khoe. If our 
 Church supports our Mission properly, we hope soon to extend our 
 outposts from Tong-an into this district, which, at present, seems an 
 inviting field for missionary operations. 
 
 CHURCH OF CHIOH-BEY. 
 
 This Church has four elders and four deacons. At the time of 
 our last report, we hoped to be able before this to report progress in 
 settling a native pastor over this Church. The matter has been kept 
 before them, and has been the subject of much discussion and prayer, 
 but they cannot yet see their way clear. 
 
 There is much that is interesting in the character of the Church of 
 Chioh-bey. It was subject to great opposition and persecution in 
 its infancy. It has lived through all this, and at the present time 
 has an excellent character among the heathen. The Christians have 
 exhibited so much prudence and such a Christ-like disposition, as to 
 compel the people to speak well of them. A large number meet to- 
 gether every evening for the study of the Scriptures and for prayer. 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 13 
 
 The daily preaching services are well attended by passers-by. Many 
 of the important truths and doctrines of Christianity must be more 
 or less familiar to thousands in the large towns and in the region 
 around teeming with population. Great numbers seem to be con- 
 vinced of the truth and excellence of Christianity. I know of 
 no place where there seems so much readiness for a large ingather- 
 ing. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit is only necessary to lead 
 men to embrace with the heart, the doctrines already recommended 
 to their intellects. The Church at home will assist us in seeking 
 for this blessing. 
 
 CHIANG-CHIU. 
 
 The work at this out-station, under the care of the Chioh-bey 
 Church, has increased in interest during the year. Of the eleven 
 added to the Church at Chioh-bey, seven were baptized at Chiang- 
 Chiu. One more was baptized on my last visit to the place. There 
 are several inquirers who, I trust, may be received before long. The 
 place is of so much importance that we have stationed two of our 
 best native helpers there. The greater part of the city is still in 
 ruins, the result of the late most disastrous rebellion. Under the 
 oppressive and short-sighted policy of the present government, it 
 will be many years before the city recovers its former prosperity. 
 
 In August last, I informed you of the purchase of lots in Chiang- 
 Chiu for a chapel. It took me from that time until about ten days 
 ago to get the deed through the Mandarin offices. It would seem 
 that the officials are so accustomed to deception that our openness 
 in the whole affair bewildered them. 
 
 CHHA-THAU-PO. 
 
 I have set this down as an out-station, under the care of the 
 Chioh-bey Church. It must be worked from Chiang-Chin, and 
 unless we succeed in obtaining a larger missionary force, and a part 
 of this be located at Chiang-Chiu, the work at Chha-thau-po, and 
 in all that region, must be left almost entirely to the care of the 
 native Christians. It will usually take us nearly three days to reach 
 the place from Amoy. 
 
 The work here began with two men, who had been under treat- 
 ment in the hospital at Amoy, where they heard the Gospel. Re 
 
14 REPORT ON 
 
 turning home, they told what they remembered to some of their 
 friends. Soon a request was sent to Chiang-Chiu for some one to 
 come and teach them more of the truth. This desire being con- 
 veyed to us, as soon as possible, Mr. Kip visited the locality, and 
 found ten persons who had renounced idolatry and were worshiping 
 the true God according to the light they had. Since that time* 
 which was during the last spring, we have frequently sent native 
 helpers to the place, having them remain sometimes simply over the 
 Sabbath, and sometimes for two or three weeks. We made two 
 efforts last summer to have our helpers remain still longer, but on 
 both occasions illness compelled them 'to return. When we find a 
 suitable helper for the field, he should be stationed there. 
 
 As yet, we have received none of the inquirers in this town into 
 the Church. There is a community of over twenty persons, men, 
 women and children, who profess to worship God. They have met 
 with and endured much persecution in time past, and are still ex- 
 posed to many annoyances, to the loss of property and threats, be- 
 cause of their religion. 
 
 schools. 
 
 Many years ago we had two parochial schools, one connected with 
 each Church at Araoy. The oue connected with the Second Church 
 was held in the lower part of my residence. I gave considerable 
 personal attention to it, and taught a second teacher, that he might 
 be able to give instruction in various departments of study not 
 usually attended to in Chinese schools. This school became very 
 flourishing for a time. Then this ''second teacher" was removed 
 by death, and soon our hands were so much weakened that we had 
 to cast the schools on the care of the Chinese churches. An < ffbrt 
 was made to be more economical, and teachers were obtained for a 
 smaller salary. The consequence was, the schools dwindled and 
 became almost worthless. In the same way, the school at Chioh- 
 bey finally died out. 
 
 The schools at Amoy and Chioh-bey have been resuscitated. We 
 have employed teachers of a better class. It has cost us more money ; 
 but if money is to be laid out for schools, it has been well spent. 
 All our schools have become prosperous. The scholars have been 
 regular in their attendance during the whole year, which is very 
 different from what was usually the case in years past. The school 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 15 
 
 connected with the Second Church of Amoy has thirty-four scholars. 
 I do not suppose that there is another school in this city at all to 
 be compared with it as to size and efficiency. Perhaps the one the 
 nearest to it is that of the First Church. The school at Chioh-bey, 
 has twenty scholars, instead of half a dozen as in former years. Per- 
 haps we should, this year, establish schools at Chiang-Chiu and 
 Ang-tung-thau. 
 
 NATIVE PREACHERS. 
 
 I have set down the number of these, including the two native 
 pastors, at eighteen. The two pastors are sustained by the native 
 Churches. Of the sixteen sustained by the Mission, two or three, 
 perhaps, should be reckoned as chapel-keepers, which is their espe- 
 cial business. But they are very valuable helpers. 
 
 These preachers and native helpers generally show commendable 
 zeal, and are of the utmost importance in our work. They cost the 
 Mission from $50 to $100 each per annum. Daring the past year 
 there has been more sickness than usual among them. In a few in- 
 stances, I think, the sickness was caused by overwork, or, at least, 
 by neglect of themselves when they had found better opportunities 
 for preaching than usual. 
 
 THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS. 
 
 This class has now been in existence for many years. Our most 
 valuable helpers had a part of their training in it. In consequence 
 of the amount of work on my hands, I have not been able to give 
 much attention to the class during the past year. I meet with them 
 once a week, to give instruction in the analysis of texts of Scripture, 
 and in sermonizing. The missionaries of the Engligh Presbyterian 
 Mission have also given them instruction in various departments of 
 knowledge, such as systematic theology, scripture history and exe- 
 gesis, as they have been able. The students of the two Missions meet 
 
 together in these exercises. 
 
 We made application early last fall for an appropriation of $300, 
 
 that we might be able to erect a building for our theological stu- 
 dents on Kolongsu. After the completion of our residence, I pur- 
 chased an adjoining lot of ground. Part of it, at least, was needed 
 for the protection of our house. It will be a very suitable place for 
 
16 REPORT ON 
 
 our Theological Hall. Perhaps on account of the smallness of the 
 amount we asked for (only $300 for a Theological Seminary !) the 
 matter was not considered very important, and was forgotten by the 
 Board. We consider it a matter of great importance. Those young 
 men ought to be under our immediate and constant supervision. By 
 being near me, they might receive some instruction every day, in- 
 stead of once a week, as at present. I ought to add that the rooms 
 occupied by these young men are in our former residence, a part of 
 which is occupied by Pastor lap, so that they are somewhat under 
 his supervision. This department of our work — the training of 
 young men to become pastors and helpers — cannot be over-estimated. 
 
 MEDICAL STUDENTS. 
 
 I have mentioned one medical student under our care, Dr. Car- 
 nagie, who has had charge of the missionary hospital for so many 
 years, and has made it so efficient, originated the plan of medical 
 students. He recommended that each of the three Missions should 
 select a lad of piety and promise, and engaged, on his part, to give 
 them medical instruction. These lads are on the same footing as 
 our theological students. If they turn out well, they will be of 
 great assistance to us in our work. 
 
 Dr. Carnagie has now left Amoy, to the great regret of all the 
 missionaries and foreign residents. Dr. Jones has kindly consented 
 to carry on the hospital work, and give instruction to these students. 
 
 THE INSTRUCTION OF WOMEN. 
 
 This is a subject of great importance, not presented in our sta- 
 tistical table. A serious obstacle to the advance of our Church in 
 all that is good, is the ignorance of the women. There are none 
 who can read the whole Bible, and verv few can read some of the 
 easier portions of it. By far the larger part of them cannot read 
 the proper Chinese characters at all. Imagine, if you can, what 
 would be the efficiency of a Church in the United States, none of 
 the female members of which could read. What can you expect of 
 families with such wives and mothers? What of the children 
 trained by them ? 
 
 The question, how can this evil be remedied ? has given us much 
 anxious thought. In Amoy and Chioh-bey, where we have schools 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 17 
 
 connected with our Churches, we have endeavored to impress on 
 parents the duty of educating their children — their daughters as 
 well as their sons. At all other stations, although theoretically 
 teaching them the same duty, we have not been able to render them 
 any practical assistance. Now look at the statistics of the three 
 schools I have mentioned — in all nine girls ! 
 
 It may be said, " the parents are to blame." No doubt they are. 
 But we have to deal with facts. Beside the subject is beset with 
 difficulties. The state of society is such that it would be unsafe for 
 girls to pass through the streets alone to school, except when they 
 live in its immediate neighborhood. Then ag-ain, when thev arrive 
 at the age of 13 or 14 years, it is felt to be improper to leave them 
 in a promiscuous school. It is a sad fact also that the female chil- 
 dren who have the advantage of these few years in school, lose the 
 little knowledge of the Chinese characters they had gained. This 
 is not to be wondered at. The written language is a different lan- 
 guage from that which is spoken. Suppose a school to be estab- 
 lished for teaching small boys and girls in the Latin, how many of 
 the scholars would retain their ability to read it after they had left 
 the school a few years, if they had no other inducement to continue 
 its practice than the opportunity of reading a few ancient books ? 
 This is a fair illustration of the case before us. 
 
 We may hope, as Christianity advances, that there will be a cor- 
 responding advance in teaching the children of the Church, and 
 when Christianity shall have made sufficient progress, all the chil- 
 dren of the Church will be taught, at least, to read But how many 
 years, perhaps generations, must we wait for this ? What in the 
 meantime shall we do for the ignorant women (not to speak of the 
 men) already in the Church, and the great multitudes whom we 
 hope to see brought in ? Even though the children may be taught 
 to read the Chinese characters, these cannot be. We have been 
 trying for twenty years to teach the women to read the Bible. We 
 have encouraged them to take the Bible and follow us as we read it 
 from the pulpit. There are a few who have made such proficiency 
 as to be able to find the place where we are reading, and very few 
 who can o-o much further. 
 
 It was, in order to meet and remove this difficulty, as far as pos- 
 sible, that an experiment was made of furnishing some books in the 
 romanized colloquial. This may not have been the best plan, but 
 thus far it has been the only one. We do not expect this system 
 
18 
 
 REPORT OX 
 
 of writing ever to become general and supplant the Chinese charac- 
 ter. It is only a temporary expedient to do what we can to remedy 
 a great evil. The experiment was begun many years ago. It prom- 
 ised well for a time. Then the supply of books failed, and our Mis- 
 sion became too much weakened to carry this work forward. About 
 two years ago, Mr. Van Doren undertook to put our small hand- 
 press again in operation, and furnish us with books, provided the 
 older missionaries would supply him with " copy." 
 
 As soon as Mrs. Kip was able to use the language sufficiently, she 
 took charge, on Thursday afternoon of each week, of the women's 
 meeting, for religious instruction and prayer, connected with the 
 Second Church. When colloquial books began again to be furnish- 
 ed, she added a-half hour to the exercises of this meeting for teach- 
 ing the romanized colloquial. Mrs. Talmage joined her on Sundays, 
 before the afternoon service, to assist in this teaching, thus begin- 
 ning a Sunday School composed of old as well as young, connected 
 with the Second Church. When the experiment began to prove 
 successful in this church, Mrs. Talmage, her health having become 
 sufficient to warrant it, commenced a similar class in the First 
 Church on Friday afternoon of each week, also meeting with them 
 on Sunday before the afternoon service. Since Mrs. Kip's return- to 
 the United States, Mrs. Talmage has taken both classes, and on 
 Sunday alternates between the two Churches. These classes have 
 advanced so far in the knowledge of the colloquial books, that the 
 only instruction she now has occasion to give, is to listen to their 
 reading of the portions of Scripture which are the subjects of study 
 on the week days, and to hear their answers to the Scripture ques- 
 tions which form their lessons for Sundays. Of those who attend 
 these classes, there are now forty women, in our two Amoy Churches, 
 who thus read, with greater or less fluency, the colloquial Scriptures, 
 and recite from the Scripture question book, 
 
 Beside, the Scriptural instruction which these women thus obtain 
 directly from attendance on these classes, they are much more inter- 
 ested and interesting hearers of the preaching of the Word than 
 they were previously. It is worthy of note how soon Christianity 
 begins to show its influence even in the external appearance of 
 those who embrace it, and attend on the ordinances of God's house, 
 softening the countenance, kindling an expression of intelligence, 
 and increasing the appearance of respectability in the whole persoD. 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 19 
 
 In the same way does the ability to read, even these few colloquial 
 books, begin to show itself in the appearance of these women. 
 
 In conclusion it becomes me to make acknowledgment, with sin- 
 cere gratitude to God, of the health enjoyed by myself and family, 
 during the greater part of the year. It is known that Mrs. Tal- 
 mage's health was so seriously affected by our protracted voyage out, 
 that for a long time after we were in great anxiety lest she should 
 never recover. Since our removal to Kolongsu, her health has con- 
 tinued, very slowly indeed, to improve. After the departure of Mrs. 
 Kip, it was with many misgivings, on my part and that of others, 
 that she undertook the charge of the class left by Mrs. Kip in addi- 
 tion to that of her own. But the work seemed important enough, 
 to warrant the experiment. God has given us strength equal to 
 our day. 
 
 When we consider the weakness of the Mission ; for more than 
 half of the year only one missionary and one assistant missionary in 
 the field ; one of the native pastors laid aside, by sickness, from all 
 work during more than half a year, and only able to perform very 
 partial service during the remainder of the time ; the other native 
 pastor in only partial health — for many weeks laid aside from all 
 preaching — and an unusual amount of sickness among our native 
 helpers, we have great cause for thankfulness to the great Head of 
 the Church that we are able to report so much progress for the 
 year. 
 
 2. The Arcot Mission. India. 
 (Organized in 1854.) v 
 The Mission occupies : 
 
 North Arcot District. — Area, 501*7 square miles; population, 
 1,000,716. 
 
 South Arcot District. — Area, 4,916 square miles; population 
 1,102,184. 
 
 The following extracts are presented from the Annual Report of 
 the Mission : 
 
 The Lord has been very merciful to us. Sickness has en- 
 tered our dwellings it is true, and several of our number have been 
 seriously ill. Still death has not been permitted to invade our cir- 
 cle, and restoring mercies have been granted to those who were sick. 
 The Lord has been very kind to our native Agents also. Of the 
 
20 REPORT ON 
 
 sixty-nine mentioned in our last report, only one has been removed 
 by death. The number of these helpers has been increased, and 
 now eighty are actively engaged in the various departments of our 
 work. As a body they have rendered us most efficient aid, we have 
 great reason to thank the Lord for raising them up to be co-laborers 
 with us in His vinevard. 
 
 TOURING. 
 
 Number of tours „ „ 17 
 
 " " encampments 44 
 
 Number of days the missionaries were out 204 
 
 " " " " native helpers " . . . c 733 
 
 " " sermons preached 2,887 
 
 u •" villages reached 2,41 1 
 
 " in audiences 74,482 
 
 of books sold 4,657 
 
 44 
 
 EVANGELISTIC WORK. 
 
 This includes the visitation of the villages within a few miles of 
 the stations. The statistics of this work are : 
 
 Number of sermons preached , 3,792 
 
 " " villages reached 305 
 
 ■" " places preached in 3,779 
 
 " in audiences 127,801 
 
 " of books sold 4,292 
 
 The proclamation of the Gospel to the adult population of our 
 district is the chief object of our Mission, and to it we devote our 
 best energies. A marked and cheering change has been noticed by 
 us in the manner in which the people listen to the Gospel message. 
 •The story of Jesus' love was formerly heard with indifference or 
 undissembled scorn. Now it often elicits a subdued and earnest 
 attention. Almost all violent opposition has passed away. A spirit 
 of serious inquiry in regard to the claims of Christianity seems to 
 be rapidly extending over the land, and quite a number of village 
 congregations have placed themselves under our care during the 
 past year. 
 
 A vast preparatory work is doing. The tables show that to over 
 200,000 souls the Gospel has been preached. When it pleases the 
 Lord to follow these labors with a copious out-pouring of His Spirit, 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 21 
 
 a great and saving change will take place among the people. Let 
 our daily and importunate prayer ascend to Him for that Spirit. 
 
 8AH0DARA SAXGAM. 
 
 Such is the vernacular name (meaning Band of Brothers) given 
 to a benevolent society which has been organized by our native 
 brethren during the past year. Its immediate object is to minister 
 to the necessities of poor converts who require aid. Persons re- 
 nouncing heathenism and placing themselves under our care, are 
 often left in the most destitute circumstances. Their friends re- 
 nounce them ; their employers denounce and dismiss them ; every 
 effort is made to injure their property or deprive them of it. In 
 the midst of these trials they appeal to us for assistance. This So- 
 ciety is designed to meet such appeals. The assistance is afforded 
 in the way of small loans, which the recipient pledges himself to 
 return if prospered in his business. That many of them are honest 
 in giving these pledges is sufficiently evinced by the fact that con- 
 siderable sums have already been paid back into the Society's trea- 
 sury. During the past year, the sum of Rupees, 1,550, has been 
 contributed to the Society, and much good has been accomplished 
 by it. 
 
 RESULTS. 
 
 A glance at the station reports and table of statistics will show 
 that encouraging progress has been made by our Mission. Thirteen 
 new Christian congregations have been added to those reported last 
 vear ; one new church has been organized at Modur, making a total 
 of fourteen in the Mission ; the communicants have increased from 
 439 to 534 ; the Christian community, which last year included 
 1,722 souls, now numbers 2,094 ; the buildings for the Arcot Semi- 
 nary have been completed ; a large number of youths have been 
 instructed in our schools and Seminaries, and our Medical Depart- 
 ment has been in a most flourishing condition. These are the 
 cheering results, and to God we give all the glory. 
 
 # 
 
 RE- ENFORCEMENT. 
 
 Our great want is an addition to our missionary force. The de- 
 parture of Rev. E. C. Scudder, to recruit, has left a fearful gap in 
 our already reduced number. Nearly seven years have passed away 
 since the youngest member of our Mission joined us. All the mis- 
 
22 REPORT ON 
 
 sionaries now in the field are severely overtaxed. It seems almost 
 miraculous that they do not sink under their burdens. The mission- 
 ary at Vellore is performing the duties hitherto devolving upon two 
 persons. Palamanair, one of our two Telugu stations, is vacant. 
 Guriattum, Tindevanum, and Wandiwash, are fields which ought to 
 be occupied, at once by a missionary. Thus five missionaries are 
 needed this day to man the field already under cultivation. The 
 interests of our work are daily suffering for want of them. Often 
 have we represented these urgent circumstances. Still we have not 
 the promise of a single new man. Again we raise an earnest, press- 
 ing cry to the Board for men. 
 
 PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 During the past year we have issued the following works : 
 
 An edition of " Telugu Jewel Mine " 5,000 copies. 
 
 " " Sweet Savors " in Tamil 3,000 copies. 
 
 Tamil New Testament and Psalms 1,500 copies. 
 
 Telugu Bible 250 copies. 
 
 The copies of New Testament and Psalms, and also of the Telugu 
 Bible, are paits of editions printed in connection with the Madras 
 Auxiliary Bible Society. 
 
 A Tamil translation of the Heidelberg Catechism is now in press, 
 and we think it will be found to be a valuable addition to the relig- 
 ious literature in Tamil. 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 23 
 
 STATISTICAL TABLE. 
 
 Churches. 
 
 00 
 
 a 
 o 
 
 e3 
 
 m 
 
 o 
 
 Communicants, '67. 
 
 a" 
 
 p 
 
 on" 
 
 — 
 
 e3 
 o 
 
 '3 
 
 g 
 
 a 
 
 o 
 
 Baptized Adults not 
 Communicants. 
 
 Baptized Children. 
 
 CO 
 
 s 
 
 o 
 
 a 
 
 Children of Cate- 
 chumens. 
 
 T3 
 
 o> 
 T3 
 
 c 
 P. 
 
 Scholars in Vernacular 
 Schools. 
 
 Total of Congrega- 
 tions, '67. 
 
 Total of Congrega- 
 tions, '68. 
 
 CD* 
 
 a 
 o 
 
 • 1-4 
 
 ■iS 
 
 .rl 
 i~ 
 +3 
 
 a 
 o 
 
 
 
 
 R. A. P. 
 
 
 2 
 
 42 
 
 39 
 
 17 
 
 25 
 
 47 
 
 43 
 
 2 
 
 26 
 
 130 
 
 173 
 
 93 5 
 
 
 11 
 
 67 
 
 76 
 
 6 
 
 69 
 
 163 
 
 173 
 
 3 
 
 97 
 
 319 
 
 490 
 
 164 4 3 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 21 
 
 2 
 
 17 
 
 29 
 
 27 
 
 3 
 
 11 
 
 97 
 
 99 
 
 * 
 
 
 3 
 
 52 
 
 59 
 
 12 
 
 73 
 
 32 
 
 35 
 
 3 
 
 49 
 
 161 
 
 214 
 
 198 
 
 Coonoor 
 
 1 
 
 61 
 
 74 
 
 26 
 
 96 
 
 11 
 
 4 
 
 
 43 
 
 ^183 
 
 211 
 
 246 
 
 Gnanodiam. . . 
 
 4 
 
 45 
 
 74 
 
 21 
 
 62 
 
 38 
 
 38 
 
 * 
 
 24 
 
 115 
 
 235 
 
 No Report. 
 
 Kattupadi. . . . 
 
 
 17 
 
 13 
 
 7 
 
 13 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 1 
 
 25 
 
 51 
 
 58 
 
 No Report. 
 
 Kundipatoor.. 
 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 5 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 
 19 
 
 58 
 
 54 
 
 16 3 5 
 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 
 25 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 
 13 
 
 
 53 
 
 * 
 
 Mudnapilly. . . 
 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 9 
 
 20 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 43 
 
 50 
 
 No Report. 
 
 Palamanair . . . 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 14 
 
 9 
 
 17 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 43 
 
 52 
 
 No Report. 
 
 Sattambady ... 
 
 
 19 
 
 21 
 
 4 
 
 14 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 149 
 
 40 
 
 No Report. 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 20 
 
 3 
 
 19 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 12 
 
 42 
 
 54 
 
 * 
 
 
 3 
 
 61 
 
 67 
 
 57 
 
 88 
 
 48 
 
 51 
 
 
 109 
 
 321 
 
 311 
 
 182 5 
 
 Total.. 
 
 25 
 
 439 
 
 534 
 
 178 
 
 555 
 
 408 
 
 400 
 
 19 
 
 439 
 
 1712 
 
 2094 
 
 899 13 1 
 
 ***Included in Arnee. A iupee is about 50 cents, gold. 
 
 The Arcot Seminary, for boys, is at Vellore, and lias 47 pupils ; 
 the Girls 1 Seminary at Chittoor, and has 46 pupils. The Prepar- 
 andi Class is taught at Arcot, and has 26 pupils. z 
 
 The following are the names of the out-stations whose statistics 
 are included in those of the churches to which they belong : Arcot 
 
24 REPORT ON 
 
 has Manimutthu and Eranthangal; Arnee has Servoor, Malliampet, 
 Pudupakan, Parachoor, Sandavasal, Tachambady, Maritambady, Tin- 
 divanum, Nungatoor, Adanur, Oratur ; Gnanodiam has Aurunadu, 
 Sirudalambandi, Paryantangle, Kirkalur ; Chittoor has Bommai- 
 Samudram, Konay Palli, Nanam Palli ; Coonor has Kotagherri ; 
 Palamanair has Arunodia ; Vellore has Oudranthangal, Shekadu, 
 Vannumpallj T . 
 
 STATE OF THE CHURCHES. 
 
 A ROOT. 
 
 Rev. S. D. Scudder, M.D., in charge of Dispensary and Hospital; 
 Rev. John Scudder, M. D., in charge of the Church ; Mrs. S. D. 
 Scudder and Mrs. John Scudder, Assistant Missionaries. 
 
 Joseph, John Silas, Assistant Catechists ; Job, Reader ; Peter, 
 Reader and Teacher in Preparandi School ; Isaac, Teacher ; Paul, 
 Tract Colporteur. 
 
 Rev. John Scudder writes as follows : 
 
 Although a number of families left us with the departure of the 
 1st Light Cavalry, still there has been an increase of 14 in the con- 
 gregation. The increase is owing mostly to those who have joined 
 us from heathenism and Romanism. Four persons have been added 
 to the church on confession of their faith, and one has been received 
 by certificate from another church ; but notwithstanding these addi- 
 tions, the number of communicants is three less than last year. 
 Death has removed one, we trust, to the church triumphant. One 
 has been suspended for immoral conduct, and six have been dismis- 
 sed to other chinches, making a loss of eight, which leaves the pre- 
 sent number 39. Nothing of very special interest has occurred dur- 
 ing the year. The congregation have been regular in their attend- 
 ance at divine service, and many of them have, I trust, grown in 
 Christian graces. They have contributed freely from their poverty 
 to benevolent objects, having given during the year Rupees 93-5-0 
 This is an advance on last year It has been my privilege to baptize 
 15 adults and 5 infants. Many of the adults are members of the 
 Preparandi School, who, a short time previous, were worshipping 
 idols and false gods, but now are followers of the Saviour. The usu- 
 al services have been maintained in the church, beside two prayer- 
 meetings held at the houses of the different members of the congre- 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 25 
 
 gation. A prayer-meeting for the women has also been held, which 
 is conducted alternately by Mrs. S. D. Scudder and Mrs. John Send- 
 der. Daily prayers are held in the compound of the Missionary, 
 after which many of the women are instructed in the Catechism. 
 The whole congregation is catechized every Sabbath after morning 
 service. 
 
 Vernacular School. — There are at present 26 scholars. They are 
 examined weekly by Mrs. S. D. Scudder. 
 
 Manimuttu. — The number of Catechumens at this institution is 
 the same as last year. They have been instructed daily in the rudi- 
 ments of Christianity. Many promise to join their number, but lack 
 courage to take the final step. The school is very small. The peo- 
 ple worship at Arcot on the morning of the Sabbath, and have a ser- 
 vice in their own village in the afternoon, 
 
 Eraniha.ngal. — This village has recently joined us. They have 
 been considering the subject for years, and have at last rejected their 
 idols and allied themselves to the Lord's people. Seven families, 
 composed of 13 adults and 16 children, have put themselves under 
 
 our instruction, 
 
 i 
 
 ARNEE. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Mayou, Missionary. Mrs. Mayou, Assistant Mission- 
 ary. 
 
 Paul Bailey, V. Thomas, Daniel, Simon, P. EL Joseph, Catechists r 
 P. Joshua, A. Anthony, A. Solomon, Assistant Catechuts. Michael, 
 John Joseph, Nithian, M. David, Solomon Havildar, Readers. Fran- 
 cis, Charles, Benjamin, Simon Martin, P. David, C. Barnabas, Aaron 
 Peter, Nathaniel, Nicholas, Ayasami, Teachers. Allappan, Manuel, 
 Yedamanikam, Zachariah Souri, Colporteurs, 
 
 The report of Arnee includes that of the organized churches of 
 Aliandal, Vellambi, Modur, and the out-stations, Malliampett, Pudu- 
 pakam, Parachoor, Sandavasal, Tavuni, Tachambady, Maritambady, 
 Tindivanum, Nungatoor, Adanur, and Oratur. 
 
 Mr. Mayou reports : 
 
 My supervision extends over three distinct sections, viz. : Arnee, 
 Gnanodiam, and Tindivanum, embracing 21 congregations, situated 
 in seven Talooks (counties), hence it is evident that the field is too 
 great to be successfully managed by one Missionary. During the 
 past year a kind Providence has given us health and strength to 
 labor continuously. 
 
26 
 
 REPORT ON 
 
 The results of the past year are as follows : It lias been my privi- 
 lege to baptize 34 infants, and, on confession of their faith in the 
 Lord Jesus, 34 adults, 18 deaths have occurred, viz. : 7 adults and 
 11 children. A church has been organized at Modur. A pastor has 
 been installed over the Church of Gnanodiam. Eight churches and 
 school houses have been built. There has been a gain of over 200 
 from Romanism and heathenism. Small congregations have been 
 gathered in six villages, and beginnings made in several others. Be- 
 side the multifarious duties belonging to the different congregations, 
 I have engaged in six tours among the heathen, in which we made 
 21 encampments, visited 601 villages, preached to 24,799 people, 
 and distributed 1,974 books. The native assistants report that they 
 have preached in 861 places to 22,760 people, and distributed 346 
 books. These efforts have been made among all classes of the peo- 
 ple, from the highest to the lowest. The results are yet to come. 
 God will bless His Word. 
 
 There are many difficulties attending the reception of the Gospel 
 by the poor. It entirely severs them from their heathen neighbors, 
 so that in a time of trouble they can obtain no help. The year has 
 been a hard one for our people ; they have managed to live, and that 
 is all. The continual scarcity of rain has produced want bordering 
 at tiroes on starvation. Some of the villages have barely been kept 
 'from disintegration, and as the present season is of the same trying 
 character, I fear they will not be able to endure the continual 
 drought, but be compelled to scatter to other villages to seek a live- 
 lihood. 
 
 The new congregation of Tachambady have given us much satis- 
 faction notwithstanding the violent persecution they have suffered. 
 By their patience they will conquer. 
 
 I must again call attention to the pressing need of a Missionary for 
 Tindivanum, the natural centre of the north-eastern section of the 
 South Arcot District. The advantages of the place were dwelt upon 
 in last year's report. The field has opened up during the year, and 
 we have been invited to a number of places arouud Nungatoor, a cen- 
 tre of Romanism. The Roman Catechist of the place, who had charge 
 of over 60 villages, has with others joined us, and his example will 
 probably be followed by many. The elder brother of A. Anthony, 
 our first convert from South Arcot, is one of the number, and has, in 
 consequence, been beaten by his father, although he is a man over 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 27 
 
 40 years of age. His wife and children have been taken from him, 
 and he has been driven from his house. 
 
 They have all been cut off from fire and water, and have been de- 
 prived of the services of the village washerman. These persecutions 
 they have all joyfully borne for the truth of God's Word, and have 
 thereby led others to consider the tyrannical system pursued by the 
 Romish Church. We have appointed a Catechist at Nungatoor, 
 and an Assistant Catechist at Adanur, a village 10 miles south of 
 Nungatoor, but are unable at present to man other places which call 
 for instruction for lack of helpers. The whole section of the coun- 
 try is a very hopeful one, but needs the constant presence and at- 
 tendance of a Missionary. Rev. John Scudder, M.D., and myself 
 spent three weeks in the region around Nungatoor visiting the vil- 
 lages, and preaching the Word and conversing with many who came 
 to our tent. We were much pleased with the hopefulness of the 
 field, and have no doubt that a large number of Romanists and 
 heathen would flock to the banner of the Cross if it could be worked 
 persistently by a Missionary with a few good assistants. I trust that 
 the Mission and the Board will soon see their way to place a Mis- 
 sionary at Tindivanum to work the whole field. 
 
 I would especially notice that the church of Vellambi, which was 
 under a cloud last year by the bad conduct of several of its members, 
 has made laudable efforts to redeem its character. Its members 
 have been orderly and obedient, and the fruit of it is seen in the in- 
 crease of the congregation as well as in the membership. As I write 
 this report the last two of the Romanists have given up their oppo- 
 sition and have joined us, and in proof of their sincerity they have 
 brought to us the images they formerly used to worship. I learn it 
 was hard for them to give up these darling idols. Notwithstanding 
 that the year has been a hard one in many respects to our churches, 
 I have still thankfully to acknowledge that they have increased in 
 liberality. The churches under my care have contributed to various 
 purposes the sum of Rupees 1.64.4.3 during the year. 
 
 Mrs. Mayou has superintended the schools around the station, has 
 conducted the women's weekly prayer-meeting, and in many and 
 various ways consistent w r ith family duties has enlarged her sphere 
 of labor in behalf of the women, and has attended to many duties 
 during my frequent absence from the station. 
 
28 REPORT ON 
 
 CHITTOOR. 
 
 Rev. J. W. Scudder, M.D., Missionary. Mrs. J. W. Scudder, As- 
 sistant Missionary. 
 
 Israel, Isaac, Isaiah, Catechists. Isaac Henry, John Abraham, 
 Assistant Catechists. Paul Silas, Isaac Lazar, Readers. 
 
 Rev. J. W. Scudder reports : 
 
 During the year nineteen persons have been received into this 
 church. Of these twelve were admitted on confession of faith, six 
 by certificate from other churches, and the remaining one was re- 
 lieved from excommunication. Five persons have been removed by 
 death, and five have been dismissed by certificate to other churches. 
 I have administered baptism to three adults and eleven children, and 
 solemnized three marriages. 
 
 The record of the year is, on the whole, gratifying. The addition 
 to the church of twelve persons on confession of their faith in our 
 Lord is certainly encouraging. Attendance on divine worship has 
 been pretty regular, and the conduct of the church members such. 
 that no occasion of discipline has been given. These facts make us 
 thankful, and afford us new hope and spirit for the labors of another 
 year. 
 
 There have been two preaching services on the Sabbath, and a 
 catechizing of the whole congregation at the close of the morning 
 worship, also a lecture service on Wednesday evening. Two prayer- 
 meetings a week have been held in the houses of native Christians, 
 and Mrs. Scudder has conducted a women's prayer-meeting every 
 Thursday. 
 
 The church has contributed : For the support of the Ministry 
 among themselves, Rupees 74.8.6 ; for benevolent purposes at home 
 and abroad, Rupees 123.7.6 ; total Rupees, 198.0.0. This is an in- 
 crease of more than 20 Rupees upon the contributions of last year. 
 
 Oat-Stations. — In Bommai-Samudram, about twelve miles south of 
 Chittoor, four persons with their families placed themselves under in- 
 structions in February last. Two of these relapsed into heathenism. 
 The others have stood fast, though exposed to much obloquy and 
 persecution. In December three more families joined us. The 
 Catechist, who has resided here eight months, reports a favorable 
 prospect of further additions. 
 
 Konay Palli is a village four mi'es southwest of Chittoor. In 
 March last, four heads of families sought for Christian instruction. 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 29 
 
 In a month or two after one was brought very low with fever. It 
 was regarded as a punishment for forsaking his gods, and he with a 
 comrade went back to heathenism. One has lately rejoined us. 
 
 Nanampalli. — This village is three miles east of Chittoor. Four 
 families have joined us here during the year. The people are ex- 
 tremely ignorant as in all these villages. We have simply a foot- 
 hold here, but the Gospel will enlighten and elevate. 
 
 Schools. — We have two day schools, one for boys and one for 
 girls. The death of one teacher about the middle of the year com- 
 pelled me to unite the schools. The attendance has been fair, and 
 the scholars have passed creditable weekly examinations before Mrs. 
 Scudder. There are 49 scholars. 
 
 coonoor. 
 
 Rev. Zechariah John, Native Pastor. Yesadian, Catechist. Male- 
 appan, Reader. Massilamani, Teacher. 
 
 The Rev. Z, John reports : 
 
 Eight have been received on certificate, and five on confession of 
 their faith ; two suspended members have been restored, five have 
 been dismissed to other churches, two have died, and two have been 
 suspended. Eight adults and eighteen children have been baptized. 
 One adult and two children of the congregation have died. 
 
 The Sabbath service has been regularly maintained. A 
 weekly prayer-meeting has been held at the houses of the members. 
 The houses of the foreign residents have been visited, and the Gos- 
 pel has been preached to the servants. We have also preached at 
 the weekly bazaar to the heathen. 
 
 The Lord has not left us without signs of his approbation. Three 
 families, comprising six adults, have joined us from among the 
 heathen, and two catechumens have been received into the Church. 
 There is a movement amongst the heathen of this place. They lis- 
 ten with marked attention, and seem at times under deep impres- 
 sions. 
 
 Though most of the members of this Church are poor, yet they 
 have not slackened their benevolent exertions. They have contribu- 
 ted : Towards the support of their pastor, Rupees 166.8.0. At Sab- 
 bath and Sacramental collections, Rupees 57.5.8. Rice given by fe- 
 male members, Rupees 22.2.4. Total, Rupees 246. The last item 
 needs explanation. The women set apart a handful of rice from their 
 daily portions, and on the Sabbath day they bring the gathered 
 
30 REPORT ON 
 
 quantity to the Church, and give it to the Lord. This rice has been 
 sold for Rupees 22.2.4. This is done with hearty gladness by the 
 women. 
 
 J wish to mention in this connection with grateful thanks the 
 kindness of Major and Mrs. Sweet to me personally. They called on 
 me and inquired into my circumstances. Finding I was in debt Ru- 
 pees 20, they kindly paid it. It seemed to me like a gift from 
 heaven to remove a burden that was oppressing me. Another gen- 
 tleman was also very kind to me. 
 
 The School. — Our day school is prospering, and has an attend- 
 ance of 27 children. Although Coonoor is a small place, quite a 
 number of schools have been established in it, and have drawn away 
 some of our children. An English school was opened, and some of 
 our boys wished to attend it. I therefore arranged to have a little 
 English taught in our school. Messrs. Sweet, Thacker, and Wilkin- 
 son gave me Rupees 38 for the school, and the boys have paid nearly 
 Rupees 7 beside. I examine the school every Monday. 
 
 Kotagherri. — Johnson, Assistant Catechist. 
 
 This out-station had last year only 13 attendants on Christian 
 worship. During this year there has been a gain of eleven. A 
 building suited both for divine service and for a day school has been 
 erected. The Missionaries who have visited Coonoor, and myself, 
 have at least once a month, and sometimes twice, visited Kotagher- 
 ri, and examined the school. Two adults and three children have 
 been baptized. 
 
 The Catechist has preached the Gospel in the weekly bazaars, and 
 in the town to many heathen souls. I have preached to large gath- 
 erings, and distributed among them many tracts and Scripture por- 
 tions. 
 
 GNANODIAM. 
 
 Rev.- Andrew Sawyer, Native Pastor. Samuel Sawyer, Assistant 
 Catechist. Y. C. Thomas, Souriappan, Jacob Babu, Readers. K. 
 Joshua, P. Isaac, Arokiam, John Apavu, John Arokiam, Teachers. 
 K. Zechariah, Colporteur. 
 
 Rev. Andrew Sawyer reports : 
 
 Two services have been held on the Lord's day. Public prayers 
 are held every evening, when the saving truths of the Gospel have 
 been made known, and the congregation instructed and questioned 
 respecting our Saviour's life. 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 31 
 
 Two deaths have occurred during the year. Houses of worship 
 hi*ve been built, by God's favor, in each of the villages of Gnanodi- 
 am, Sattambady, and Arunadu. The Christian congregations at- 
 tached to this station are four in number. 
 
 Arunadu. — The people of this new village have heard the Word 
 of God with eagerness, have forsaken the false ways in which they 
 formerly trusted, have been instructed in the rudiments of Christian- 
 ity, and have daily been walking orderly. Three families, having been 
 instructed in the elements of Christian doctrine, upon confession of 
 their faith, were baptized and received to the Lord's Supper. A few 
 families are still under instruction for baptism. The congregation is 
 regularly instructed on the Sabbath and at evening prayers. 
 
 Sattambady. — Divine worship is conducted both morning and 
 evening of the Sabbath, and evening prayers during the week. A 
 weekly prayer-meeting for women is kept up. The Gospel is preach- 
 ed as much as possible among the surrounding villages. 
 
 Sirudalabundi. — Religious services are conducted and instruction 
 given as in the other villages. A few families have forsaken Christi- 
 anity and have gone back to heathenism. Still three families of be- 
 lievers have been instructed and baptized and received into the 
 church. The Gospel has been made known to the neighboring vil- 
 lages. 
 
 Pariantangle. — Divine service and instruction the same as in the 
 other villages. A few persons have been baptized and admitted to 
 the Lord's Supper. A few are still under instruction. Another con- 
 gregation in the village of Kirkaloor has been received under Chris- 
 tian instruction, and a Christian Reader and a schoolmaster have 
 been sent among them to instruct them. The congregation num- 
 bers 63. Two other villages near this one are talking of joining us 
 soon. 
 
 MUDNAPILLY. 
 
 Rev. J. Chamberlain, M.D., Missionary. Mrs. Chamberlain, As- 
 sistant Missionary. P. Souri, Catechist. Rayal, Assistant CatechisL 
 Anthony, Teacher. 
 
 Rev. J. Chamberlain writes : 
 
 I have been away from here on tours and in evangelistic work at 
 out-stations altogether 122 days during the year. The native help- 
 
32 REPORT ON 
 
 ers and myself have preached in 1,601 different towns and villages 
 to 20,012 people. In more than half of these villages it was the first 
 sowing of the seed. In nearly all of the villages we have visited we 
 have been politely received and willingly listened to. I remember 
 but one marked exception. 
 
 The Christian congregation has increased during the year from 43 
 to 50. It has been my privilege to baptize eight adults, formerly 
 heathen, on confession of their faith in Christ, and six children. Two 
 have been received into the church by confession, and three by cer- 
 tificate from other churches, but this increase has been partially 
 counterbalanced by the removal of some of our former members to 
 other places. Two of the adults have died since their baptism, both 
 rejoicing in Christ as their Saviour. 
 
 There are six villages about us in which a number of persons have 
 declared their full intention io become Christians, and apparently 
 they are in earnest ; but none can as yet summon the courage to 
 take the decisive step. 
 
 Medical Work. — While kept in my tent during the months of 
 April and May by the heat, I devoted my energies in a great measure 
 to medical work, opening my dispensary every Monday, Wednesday, 
 and Friday morning, and receiving all who came for medical or sur- 
 gical aid. During the latter month my average number of patients 
 was about 50, while the average number of those present at the re- 
 ligious exercises preceding the giving out of medicines was over 60, 
 and a number of times 75 and 80 were present. 
 
 PALAMANAIR. 
 
 Rev. J. Chamberlain, Jr., M.D., in charge. 
 
 John Hill, Catcchist. Samuel Seth, Teacher. Alexander, Bible 
 Colporteur . 
 
 Mr. Chamberlain writes : 
 
 I have resided here with my family for five months of the year. 
 Two tours and a part of another have been made in this region. 
 We have visited every village above the ghauts within 10 miles of 
 Palamanair. In several villages are some who express the desire to 
 become Christians. The Catechist has pursued a systematic visita- 
 tion of the villages within three miles of the town. 
 
 Arunodaya — Out-Station. — This infant congregation has passed 
 through a series of temporal reverses. Crop after crop failed them 
 in consequence of the severe drought prevalent in this region, and 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 33 
 
 had it not been for aid kindly rendered by Government, in the 
 way of digging a well and making roads upon which they could 
 obtain work, they must have been reduced to starvation. The rains 
 of October have now, however, given them brighter prospects. 
 
 There has been, I hope, a growth among the people in spiritual 
 knowledge during the year under review. There are now six candi- 
 dates under instruction for admission to the Lord's table, and three 
 others are asking for baptism. Their progress, temporal, and spir- 
 itual, may, I think, be considered as on the whole satisfactory. 
 
 VELLORE. 
 
 Rev. W. W. Scudder, D,D., Rev. E. C. Scudder, (in the United 
 States), Missionaries. Mrs. W. W. and E, C. Scudder, Assistant Mis- 
 sionaries. Abraham William, P. Jaganathan, Masillamani, Catechists. 
 Gnanaparanum, Assistant Cateckist. Peter, Solomon Abraham, 
 Teachers. 
 
 Rev. Dr. William W. Scudder reports : 
 
 The total of the congregation shows a falling off of forty-three 
 souls. This has been not due to a falling back into heathenism. These 
 persons have left Vellore, and are, therefore, stricken from our list. 
 Many of them were connected with the 6th Reg. Native Infantry. 
 The number of communicants, however, has increased. 
 
 During the year, 1 8 persons have been received to the commun- 
 ion of the church; 7 of them on confession, and 11 on certificate. 
 Three communicants have been transferred to other churches, and 
 nine having left Vellore have been dropped from our list. Seven 
 children and two adults have been baptized. Three adult members 
 of the congregation have died. 
 
 The amount contributed for benevolent purposes by the native 
 members of the congregation is Rupees 182.0.5. This shows a com- 
 mendable increase over the contributions for 1867, and it gives us 
 great pleasure to record this evidence that the spirit of benevolence 
 is being cultivated and enlarged in our church. 
 
 There have been two services held every Sabbath and one every 
 Saturday in the church. Several weekly prayer meetings have been 
 sustained in the private dwellings of the congregation, and a female 
 prayer meeting, under the charge of Mrs. Scudder, has been held 
 every Tuesday afternoon at the Mission house. 
 
 The wife of one of the Catechists has been employed throughout 
 the year as a Bible Reader. 
 
 C 
 
34 REPORT ON 
 
 There are two parochial schools connected with this station. 
 The one for boys has 49 names on its roll. This school is taught 
 by one of the graduates of our seminary, and the children have 
 made commendable progress in their studies. The school for girls 
 has 18 names on its catalogue. I am sorry that Mrs. Scudder is 
 obliged to report that the scholars have not advanced in their stud- 
 ies as they should have done. A slight improvement has latterly 
 taken place, but the state of the school is still far from satisfactory. 
 Unless a decided change for the better manifests itself, it will be- 
 come necessary to seek for a more efficient teacher. Both schools 
 have been examined almost every week by Mrs. Scudder. 
 
 Street preaching in Vellore and its vicinity, and also in the vil- 
 lages surrounding the outskirts, has been regularly maintained. 
 
 Kattupadi. — Out- Station. — Jacob Ragi, Assistant Cateckist. Jno. 
 Moses, Teacher, Karubam, Colporteur. 
 
 During the year two communicants have removed from the place 
 — one has been suspended and one died — leaving the present num- 
 ber of communicants thirteen. Twelve members of the congrega- 
 tion having gone elsewhere to reside, have been stricken from the 
 roll. Seventeen persons have been added to the congregation. 
 
 Two Sabbath services and one weekly prayer meeting have been 
 sustained throughout the year. 
 
 The day school numbers twenty-five children, who come to Vel- 
 lore occasionally to be examined. 
 
 The work at this out-station is on the whole encouraging. Sev- 
 enteen persons have placed themselves under Christian instruction, 
 and there is good reason to hope for still greater increase. 
 
 Kandipatur, a Church. — V. Yesadian, Catechist. Moses, Colpor- 
 teur. 
 
 There is very little to report in regard to this out-station. The 
 number of communicants remains the same, there having been nei- 
 their additions nor losses. One member of the congregation has 
 died, and four have left the place. One new member has been added 
 to the congregation. 
 
 Two services on the Sabbath and daily prayers have been held in 
 the church throughout the year, and the congregation have been 
 regularly instructed in the catechism. A weekly female prayer 
 meeting has also been maintained. Rupees 16.3.5 have been con- 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 35 
 
 tribnted to benevolent purposes. The Lord's Supper has been ad- 
 ministered three times during the year. 
 
 The day school numbers 19 children, who have been instructed 
 chiefly by the Catechist's wife. The attendance has not, however, 
 been as regular as is desirable. 
 
 Shekadu. — Out- Station. — Samuel, Catechist. Jeba Gnanam, 
 Teacher. Munian, Colporteur. 
 
 Last year this congregation was mentioned as one which had re- 
 cently joined us. The number of adherents was then 42. I am 
 sorry to say that several of these have relapsed into heathenism. 
 They were exposed to many trials and temptations, and were not able 
 to withstand the pressure. One household, after leaving us for a 
 time, placed themselves again under instruction, and a new household 
 numbering five souls has joined the congregation. The persons 
 now constituting the congregation seemed to be firmly established 
 in the Christian faith, and a number of them are anxious to be re- 
 ceived to the ordinances of the Church. 
 
 The dav school has an attendance of 21 children. 
 
 Vennampally. — Out-Station. — Israel, Teacher. 
 
 This congregation renounced heathenism and placed themselves 
 under our instruction about nine months since. They have thus far 
 remained steadfast in their determination to be Christians, and have 
 made commendable progress in Scripture knowledge. We trust 
 their numbers will increase during the coming year, and that we 
 may soon have the privilege of organizing a church of God in their 
 village. A small school of nine scholars has been opened. The 
 teacher does not confine his labors to the school, but carries the gos- 
 pel message to the surrounding villages. 
 
 Oxdranthangal. — Out- Station. — Solomon, Teacher. 
 
 This also is a congregation which has been gathered during the 
 year. The persons constituting it have long been considering the 
 claims of Christianity, and have on several previous occasions been 
 almost ready to join us. They have come at last, and we trust they 
 may have faith to continue in the faith. A school has been estab- 
 lished in their village, and numbers 19 scholars. The teacher has 
 recently commenced visiting the surrounding villages for the pur- 
 pose of preaching to the heathen, and reports 244 as constituting 
 the audiences addressed. 
 
 A spirit of inquiry seems to be awakened in many villages ad- 
 
36 REPORT ON 
 
 joining Vellore, and we have reason to hope for large accessions to 
 our number. May the Lord give us an abundant harvest of souls. 
 It is for this we look and labor and pray. 
 
 THE. PREPARA.NDI SCHOOL. 
 
 This institution, Rev. John Scudder reports, has been in a flour- 
 ishing condition during the larger part of the year. At the time of 
 our last report it contained but nine students, there are now twenty- 
 seven. Thirty-four have been connected with it during the year. 
 
 Of these, two have been sent to the Arcot Seminary, one has 
 been sent out as a colporteur, and four have returned to their friends, 
 leaving the present number twenty-seven. All the members of this 
 institution have come to us from heathenism or Romanism, and are 
 of various castes. They have made commendable progress in their 
 studies, and now we are about to send five of them to the Arcot 
 Seminary. They recite their lessons to Mrs. Scudder, four times a 
 week. Peter, a native helper, is their regular teacher. Ten of the 
 present number have been introduced into the visible church by 
 baptism. 
 
 GIRLS SEMINARY. CHITTOOR. 
 
 Mr. Cumine, Teacher. Isaac Henry, Assistant Teacher. Mrs, 
 Lackey, Matron. 
 
 Rev. J. W. Scudder reports : 
 
 It gives me pleasure to report this institution as generally pros- 
 perous throughout the year. The number of scholars is forty-six. 
 Their health and comfort have been greatly promoted by their occu- 
 pancy of the spacious and well-ventilated seminary building com- 
 pleted last year. The usual course of study has been steadily pur- 
 sued, and the girls have made commendable progress. Mr. Cu- 
 mine, the teacher,, has, 1 regret to say, been prevented by illness 
 from attending to his duties for nearly three out of the twelve 
 months, buc we Lave tried, not without success, I hope, to make up 
 for any deficiency that might have been expected to result from his 
 absence. Mrs. scudder has devoted much time and attention to the 
 institution, and the matron, Mrs. Lackey, has, as usual, been a 
 mother to the girls. About Rupees 120 have, during the year, been 
 realized by the sale of crochet work, all of it the product of the 
 scholars' industry. Two girls have been married to graduates of 
 the Arcot seminary, and are now located with their husbands in 
 
 
FOREIGN MISSTONS. 37 
 
 their fields of labor. The most gratifying event of the year in con- 
 nection with this seminary is, that eight of the older girls have 
 given themselves to the Saviour, and become members of His 
 church. There has been a good deal of religious feeling among all 
 the scholars, evinced by a love of the Scriptures and of prayer, for 
 which we feel deeply grateful to our Heavenly Father. May He 
 bring all these little ones within His fold ! 
 
 At the close of last year, I appealed for pecuniary aid towards the 
 furnishing of the school-room with desks and other necessary appa- 
 ratus. A part of the sum required has been subscribed in America, 
 and one or two promises have been made in this country. I trust 
 I shall be able to report, at the close of next year that our wants in 
 this respect have all been met and removed. 
 
 ARCOT SEMINARY. ARCOT. 
 
 Rev. S. Ettiragooloo, Head Master, Moses Nathaniel, Second 
 Master. Zachariah, Third Master. 
 
 Rev. W. W. Scudder, D.D., who. is in charge of this institution, 
 writes : 
 
 It gives us great pleasure to report the completion of the Arcot 
 Seminary Buildings. Bitherto the lads have been kept in godowns 
 and out-houses, and have suffered in many respects for want of suit- 
 able accommodation. Now they have a large and comfortable 
 building, amply sufficient to accommodate 80 or 100 boarders. In- 
 teresting exercises were held on the 23d of December, when the 
 buildings were solemnly dedicated to the service of God, and then 
 occupied by the lads. These buildings, together with the Mission 
 house and surrounding compounds, have been secured at a cost of 
 about Rupees 19,000. Truly the Lord has been very good in grant- 
 ing us the means to accomplish this most important object. Our 
 grateful thanks are al.-o most cordially tendered to our American 
 churches for so liberally supplying the money for this purpose. 
 
 The Seminary having been left almost wholly in the charge of Mr. 
 Ettiragooloo for the past year, he has, at my request, drawn up the 
 following report : 
 
 The object of this institution has been from the first to train up 
 young men for the Lord's service. Secular studies are attended to 
 only as a stimulus to help forward the intellect to grasp more firmly 
 the truths of the Gospel, and wield them skilfully against heathen, 
 Mahomedan, and Popish errors. 
 
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 The number of lads at the beginning of the year was fifty. Of 
 these, six graduated, and are now employed in the Mission field as 
 teachers and preachers. The Lord is blessing our Mission very 
 largely, and the cry for more helpers is daily reaching us from va- 
 rious quarters. We have heard with pleasure that the young men 
 sent out of the Seminary have really a heart for the work, and zeal- 
 ously preach the Gospel to the heathen. 
 
 During the early part of the year a student of the first class, 
 Samuel David, died of consumption. He was a quiet and well-be- 
 haved lad, and we hope that he sought the Lord on his bed of sick- 
 ness and found Him. Four lads who left the school without per- 
 mission have not been re-admitted ; three have remained at home 
 on account of sickness, and one has been suspended for dishonesty. 
 In the course of the year, 12 new scholars have been received into 
 the seminary. We have at present 47 pupils. 
 
 There have usually been three classes ; a special class has been 
 added which deserves notice. Grown people often cast in their lot 
 with us. Owing to their age, the Mission has judged it wise to 
 give some of them a partial course of study, and when found com- 
 petent to employ them in the less responsible duties of the Mission. 
 This class has at present four members. 
 
 Instruction is given in the Seminaiy, in the Tamil, Telugu and 
 Sanscrit languages ; in spelling, reading, grammar, geography, 
 arithmetic, algebra, geometry, history, astronomy, moral science, 
 and theology. 
 
 The lads have established among themselves a discussion class, 
 and when they meet they read short essays written by themselves 
 on Scripture subjects, and close the meetings with singing and 
 prayer. 
 
 The exercises of the Seminary always begin with the reading of the 
 Scriptures, singing and prayer, and close with singing and the bene- 
 diction. The students hold daily meetings among themselves for 
 reading and prayer before going to bed. The Mission has very gen- 
 erously had the lads instructed in Tamil singing. 
 
 On Saturdays, many of them go out in groups to the nearest vil- 
 lages, and have preached during the year in 63 villages to 4,481 
 people, delivered 116 addresses, and distributed 79 portions of 
 Scripture and Tracts. Besides these, the six graduates during the 
 first three months of the year accompanied the Catechists and Read- 
 ers, and preached the Gospel to hundreds. They have made the 
 
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 excellent Bazaar Book their model. They studied it during the 
 week, and on Saturdays gave the truths out fresh from their mem- 
 ory. At times they have had intense and soul-stirring discussions, 
 but our space will not permit us to give specimens. An hour and 
 a-half is devoted every Sunday to test whether they have been at- 
 tending to the sermon in the church, and they are then instructed 
 in the Heidleberg Catechism and Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 During the year one of the students was baptized and five admit- 
 ted into the full communion of the church. 
 
 MEDICAL REPORT. ARCOT. 
 
 Rev. S. D. Scudder, M.D,, in charge of Dispensary and Hospital. 
 Mrs. Scudder, Assistant Missionary. Samuel Veragoo, Dresser, 
 Abram Muni, Solomon Aranachalem, Theraparanum, Medical Stu- 
 dents. 
 
 V 
 
 Dr. Scudder writes as follows : 
 
 The work in the Dispensary and Hospital has been conducted 
 very much in the same manner as in former years, save that it has 
 been on a larger scale. At the close of last year the number of 
 patients was steadily increasing, and we were hopeful that it would 
 so continue. Our hopes have not been disappointed, as the follow- 
 ing figures will show. 
 
 The whole number of patients, new and old, treated last year, was 
 15,507, giving a daily average of 42. This year the whole number 
 treated was 33,170, giving a daily average of 91. This, it must be 
 remembered, is the grand total, counting the attendance of each day 
 through the year, together with the number of in-patients, 12,000 
 — the average of the former being 58, and of the latter 33. 10,920 
 patients were dieted, and 1,080. not dieted, that is, supplied them- 
 selves with food while in Hospital. 
 
 The number of entirely new cases treated was 5,353 ; of these, 
 400 belong to the Hospital, and 4,953 to the out-patients. 
 
 Thus it will be seen that our work has more than doubled. This 
 fact is a source of great satisfaction to us. When the subject of the 
 Government closing their Dispensary, and giving over the district to 
 us was being canvassed, it was urged by some, that as we were Mis- 
 sionaries and our main object was the evangelization of the people, 
 we could never succeed : that the prejudices of the inhabitants were 
 against us, that they could not and would not come freely, that the 
 
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 REPORT ON 
 
 daily preaching of the Gospel alone would be a hydia in the way, 
 and that, therefore, the policy of giving over the district to ns was 
 one which could never recommend itself to the Government. The 
 Government, however, took the risk, and the success of the Institu- 
 tion, throngh God's goodness, is the answer. We glory in publish- 
 ing that the Gospel is preached in our Dispensary : that to the high, 
 and the low, the rich and the poor, to all who come, the plain, sim- 
 ple story of Christ's love to the fallen is told, and the truths of sal- 
 vation urged. Every morning, before the general work is under- 
 taken, and as soon as the benches are filled, a portion of God's word 
 is read, the great message of our Lord made known, and the great 
 Physician of the soul, as well of the body, pointed out. We rejoice? 
 too, in saying that we have yet to meet our first opponent, yet to 
 hear of any who would not enter the doors through fear of the 
 preaching. The truth is always made known kindly and in love, 
 and the people are beginning to understand our motives and our 
 aims. They do not fear us. They come to us freely, Missionaries 
 though we are ; they hear our words, if not with belief, with seem- 
 ing eagerness, and receive portions of Scripture and other books 
 with avidity, very often of themselves asking for them. Mission 
 dispensaries wherever established speak for themselves. As a rule, 
 they are most successful, the people come to them most freely, in 
 the largest numbers, and, we may say, with very little prejudice. 
 The glory is all of God. 
 
 THE FUNDS. 
 
 Through all the last year the Government gave us monthly, Ru- 
 pees 193 ; but a short time since, the allowance has been cut down 
 to 172 Rupees a month. We have never heard the reason for thus 
 decreasing our funds. It will make a difference of five or six pa- 
 tients to us. We shall be obliged to keep so many less. Our 
 building is large enough. We can accommodate from 60 to 80 in- 
 patients, and we would have them could we admit them. There 
 are many poor, diseased, miserable creatures ready to knock at our 
 doors for admission. They ar£ worthy of our charity and aid. 
 
 We have received some donations A considerable sum has also 
 been received for medical services, which was credited to the dis- 
 pensary fund. It will scarcely be credited that the largest sum of 
 money received this year, as a donation, was from a native gentle- 
 man. V. Lutchmia Naidoo, the Tahsildar of this district, has from 
 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 41 
 
 the first been a true friend to the dispensary. In the early part of 
 the year, hearing that we were in want of a clock, he generously 
 gave 35 Rupees to purchase one. Again, hearing that we were in 
 need of new hospital bedding, he at once donated 100 Rupees for 
 the purpose, adding at the same time 50 Rupees in aid of our poor 
 Christian villagers, who were suffering through the failure of their 
 crops. We have but one regular subscriber, our kind friend, F. H. 
 Wilkinson, Esq., the head Assistant Collector of the district, who 
 gives us 20 Rupees each month. 
 
 DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL ACCOUNT. 
 
 Whole cost for the vear Rs. 6,172 
 
 Received from the Government 2,190 
 
 " for medical services 360 
 
 " Colonel Shubrick, donation 100 
 
 " J. Thacker, Esq,, " 25 
 
 " J. Lee Warner, Esq., " 25 
 
 " A. R. Hutchings, " " 50 
 
 " Lutchmia Naidoo, " 135 
 
 " Mrs. W. G. Bevan " 30 
 
 " J. Corbett, Esq., " 46 
 
 " F. H. Wilkinson, Esq., 40 
 
 " Rev. B. J. Sayres, collection, 4 
 
 " Medicines, stores, etc., sold 90 
 
 The difference, about 3,000 Rupees or $1,500, gold, was paid 
 from the treasury of the Board. 
 
 Medical Students. — There are three, viz : Abram Muni, Solomon 
 Aranachalem, Thevaparanum. Of them Dr. Scudder writes : " In 
 most things our young men have given us satisfaction. They have 
 progressed in their studies, added largely to their practical knowl- 
 edge in the various departments of medicine and surgery, and are 
 able to diagnose and prescribe for general diseases. The want of a 
 knowledge of English is, however, a great and serious drawback to 
 them ; one against which, it is rather discouraging to them to feel 
 they must constantly struggle. They will gain a good medical edu- 
 cation we believe, if they steadily improve their opportunities, but it 
 will take a longer time than if they had been previously in- 
 structed in English. In prospect, however, there is great encourage- 
 ment for them. Our friend and medical brother, Dr. S. F. Green, of 
 
42 REPORT ON 
 
 Jaffna, is pursuing with ardor his noble work of translating and 
 publishing a list of no less than thirteen medical and surgical text 
 books. He has been laboring hard the past year to bring out a 
 work on surgery of about 600 pages, and was so kind as to send it 
 to us, in portions, as fast as it was printed. Most heartily do we 
 thank him. We are also indebted to him for other works." 
 
 Surgical Operations. — These have amounted to about 500, rang- 
 ing from the most simple to amputations, the cure of compound frac- 
 tures, and the removal of a portion of the lower jaw. 
 
 Conclusion. — Dr. Scudder makes this appeal : 
 
 We would conclude by again thanking our friends for all their 
 sympathy, prayers, subscriptions, and donations, and by earnestly 
 requesting their renewed and larger aid. We need more means. 
 W 7 e are working for the Lord, and we believe that we can extend the 
 work by giving help to a larger number of patients. Our building is 
 large and can accommodate sixty (60) patients with ease. There are 
 those who are very needy, and who cry out to us. Shall we refuse 
 them ? It will alone be for the want of means if we do ! We be- 
 lieve that the medical work is doing great good among the people 
 of this country. It is breaking down many of their prejudices, and 
 leading them to give up their bigoted belief in their own foolish, 
 false, and superstitions systems. Year by year they trust more and 
 more in our treatment, and this is drawing them closer to us. If 
 this were all, it would be worth the working for. But it is not all. 
 Besides ministering to their bodies, we strive, as God has given us 
 ability, to minister also to their souls, to labor for their eternal wel- 
 fare. Thousands upon thousands of all classes hear the Gospel, re- 
 ceive portions of Scripture, and carry them away into their hDmes, 
 far and near. The Lord will always bless His preached word ; will 
 always care for the good seed sown. There have been many inquir- 
 ers among our patients during the past year, and some have pledged 
 themselves to give up heathenism, to leave their evil ways and walk 
 in the path of truth. It is our duty then, as well as our joy, to go 
 on with our work, to extend it as much as we can by gathering in a 
 larger number of the sick, the needy, and the dying, for by thus do- 
 ing we shall advance the cause of our glorious Master, the Great 
 Physician ! We ask, therefore, all who are interested in this work, 
 to aid us as far as they are able. 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 43 
 
 3. The Japan Mission. 
 
 (Organized 1859.) 
 
 Missionaries at Yokohama. — Revs. S. R. Brown, D.D., J. H. Bal- 
 lagh. Assistant Missionaries, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Ballagh. 
 
 At Nagasaki. — Revs. G. F. Verbeck and Henry Stout. Assistant 
 Missionaries, Mrs. Verbeck and Mrs. Stout. 
 
 All of the Missionaries attached to the station at Yokohama are 
 now in this country. Rev. Mr. Ballagh embarked for the United 
 States early in 1869, and reached this city on February 13. 
 
 During the whole of 1868 Mr. Ballagh was our only representa- 
 tive at this station. At present we have no one there. 
 
 Rev. J. H. Ballagh reports concerning the year ending December 
 31, 1868, as follows: 
 
 The service commenced and continued by your Missionary from 
 August, 1866, has during the past, as in the previous year, been held 
 in Dr. Hepburn's dispensary. The Rev. D. Thompson, of the Pres- 
 byterian Board, and myself, have alternately conducted the exercises. 
 We have occupied the time with prayer, reading of the Scriptures, 
 and a familiar exposition of some selected portion of Holy Writ. 
 The average attendance has been from 15 to 20, several of the hear- 
 ers being attendants from the first, and, although of the common peo- 
 ple, all show marked progress in their knowledge and appreciation 
 of a Scriptural truth. 
 
 It was my joy and great privilege to baptize publicly two of my 
 pupils on the first Sabbath of February, 1868. They are the per- 
 sons mentioned in last year's report as prayerful students of God's 
 word ; one of them had at that time requested baptism, and the other 
 was the beloved pupil who gave instruction in English in a school at 
 Yedo. 
 
 Much interest was felt in the former of these young brethren, as he 
 had to return to his own principality at the very time when all of 
 the official class are compelled to register themselves as adhering to 
 the ancient religion or as having become Christians. [This regis- 
 tration is under the laws formed for the eradication of Christianity. 
 Had this young man reported himself a Christian, his life would 
 have been forfeited.] Great fears were consequently entertained for 
 the safety of the pupil, and much prayer was made for him by his 
 Christian brethren. Providentially the registration was omitted this 
 
44 REPORT ON" 
 
 year on account of the political difficulties in which the country has 
 been involved, and our brother escaped. 
 
 The other pupil happening to be on a visit to Yokohama, and re- 
 siding at my house, at the time the baptism of the one already men- 
 tioned was to take place, asked as soon as he heard of it, " What 
 hinders me to be baptized also ?" I answered him as Philip did the 
 eunuch. His examination, conducted before Dr. Hepburn and Rev. 
 D Thompson, was most satisfactory. In order to make their pro- 
 fession of faith as clear and instructive as possible to those witness- 
 ing it, I drew up a series of questions covering the vital truths of 
 Christianity, and proposed them. 
 
 They gave very clear and satisfactory answer*, and after a declara- 
 tion of their faith, and determination to continue therein, by the 
 grace of God, " till death," they were baptized according to the 
 names they have always borne, viz : Susuki Kwantchi and Ajiki Ke- 
 jiro. 
 
 The baptism was administered in the presence of a large number 
 of natives, and a few Christian brethren, A deep impression, we 
 felt, was made upon all present, and especially on one of Mr. Thomp- 
 son's most hopeful pupils — the one who was imprisoned a year ago 
 on account of the suspicion that he was a Christian — who said that 
 he also wished to be baptized. Since then Mr. Thompson's teacher, 
 a very scholarly and excellent man, has expressed his wish for the 
 same ordinance. His request is the result of a serious consideration 
 of the Saviour's command at the close of the Gospel by Matthew, 
 which Gospel he has several times translated. The old woman, who 
 has attended out service from its commencement, expressed her sin- 
 cere joy that now Jesu Kimi (the Lord Jesus) had disciples in Japan, 
 who loved him, just as their teachers did. 
 
 These brethren have worn well, attending the native service regu- 
 larly and being occasionally present at our English service, and have 
 taken part in prayer whenever called on to do so. A new power in- 
 deed, we feel, has been awakened, when God is entreated by natives 
 in their own tongue for the salvation of Japan. 
 
 The work of education that had been carried on by Rev. D. 
 Thompson and myself during the previous year, in private classes of 
 from 20 to 40 pupils, was continued until the scattering of our pu- 
 pils to their several provinces at the breaking out of the war, and, as 
 I had no suitable place for a school-room after the removal of the 
 dispensary, I turned over my remaining pupils to other missionary 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. . 45 
 
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 brethren, under whose instruction they are making good progress. 
 These pupils always came to the Sabbath service for the natives, and 
 several of them were members of my Japanese class in the Sabbath 
 school. The work of education has not been in vain. Our pupils 
 are to be found in nearly every part of the Empire, and in various 
 parts of the Christian world. From many of them we receive fre- 
 quent and encouraging accounts. 
 
 As an indication of how important education in EngHsh is becom- 
 ing, I may mention that the French Jesuit priests at Yokohama have 
 commenced a school in their chapel. They are not backward in im- 
 itating whatever they find to be successful in Protestant missionary 
 operations. In like manner they have a flourishing Sunday school, 
 in imitation of, and in opposition to our own. 
 
 The English Service. — The regular observance of religious wor- 
 ship and the preaching of the Gospel to the American and English 
 community has been conducted by Rev. Mr. Thompson and myself 
 at Dr. Hepburn's new dispensary room, or chapel. Latterly we have 
 been assisted by our newly-arrived brother, Rev. E. Corners, of the 
 Presbyterian Board. The attendance has been good, and although 
 we have not been encouraged by any accessions by conversion, yet the 
 simple maintenance of Christian worship and administration of Gos- 
 pel ordinances are of very great importance in an eastern foreign 
 community. To not a few Christian visitors and seamen have these 
 privileges been as an oasis in the desert. 
 
 A Sabbath school for the English speaking children, commenced 
 at the beginning of the year, in which all the Missionaries are en- 
 gaged, has proved entirely successful. Thirty to forty pupils have 
 been gathered in, and while listening to their happy voices singing 
 the old familiar tunes, or when hearing some Sabbath school man 
 addressing them, who may be passing this way, one can almost im- 
 agine himself in the most highly favored Christian land. A most 
 interesting feature of the school is the attendance of a class of Jap- 
 anese young men, and latterly .of several little girls and their moth- 
 ers. The latter are distributed amongst the other scholars, and are 
 learning to sing of Jesus and of heaven as heartily as any of their 
 companions. 
 
 Translation of the Bible. — The third and last revision, by the 
 united labors of all the Missionaries at Yokohama, of the Gospel of 
 Matthew, was completed in April, 1868, Dr. Hepburn has since 
 made a translation of the Gospel by John, and has undertaken a 
 
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 further revision of Matthew. It is very much to be regretted that 
 liberty and opportunity have not been enjoyed by your Missionaries 
 to engage more constantly in this work. The call for the Scriptures 
 will soon be urgent, and the call for the proclamation of the Gospel 
 equally so, and there will be no time to provide for these long pray- 
 ed for demands unless well concerted measures are speedily adopted. 
 A neat Gothic chapel, or lecture-room, has been erected on the 
 lot assigned by the Japanese Government to the Reformed Church. 
 This lot, heretofore held by trustees, has been conveyed to the 
 Board. • 
 
 NAGASAKI. 
 
 The Rev. G. F. Verbeck has continued to teach the Government 
 school until the latter part of March, when he was invited by the 
 Imperial Government to make Yedo, the eastern capital, his resi- 
 dence, and give his assistance in forming a national University. To 
 this he has acceded, with the consent of the Board. 
 
 During the year Mr. Verbeck has had frequent interviews with 
 men in high official positions, which he has carefully improved to 
 make known the truths of Christianity. He has been consulted by 
 princes and their ministers, by members of the Congress or Parlia- 
 ment, and by many in subordinate positions, in regard to education- 
 al, religious, and even political questions. A short time before the 
 session of the Congress in April, 1868, two meetings of members on 
 their way to Miako were held at Nagasaki, to which he was specially 
 invited to give his views respecting the revision of the ancient con- 
 stitution. With all these men he has pleaded for the removal of 
 the restrictions upon the profession of Christianity, and for the es- 
 tablishment of religious freedom. Many have engaged to give their 
 influence to the attainment of this end. 
 
 Beside this Mr. Verbeck has had the joy of leading three con- 
 verts into the fold of Christ. 
 
 Rev. Henry Stout was introduced by the authorities to the posi- 
 tion vacated by Mr. Verbeck in the school at Nagasaki, in the latter 
 part of March. 
 
 The departure of Mr. Verbeck from Nagasaki was attended by 
 many proofs of the esteem for him and his services, entertained by 
 official men. The Governor, from his private purse, paid the cost of 
 his removal to Yedo. Princes sent him presents of rare and curi- 
 ous articles, other men brought their gifts, and on every hand he 
 was met with the expression of the regret felt at parting with him. 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 47 
 
 III. CONCLUSION. 
 
 It is plain from the preceding survey, that we have prosperous 
 Missions on which God smiles. The facts presented tend to form the 
 conviction that a large ingathering of souls cannot be far distant. 
 We are encouraged to increase our piayers, our exertions, and our 
 gifts. The present is no time to suggest a decrease of our appropri- 
 ations, or a contraction of our work On the contrary we are in- 
 vited to add to the number of our Missionaries and native pastors 
 and helpers, to occupy new stations, to enlarge the circuit traversed 
 by our agents, to furnish greater facilities for the conduct of this di- 
 vinely appointed work. A debt indeed rests upon us, but it is the 
 result of the prosperity and the consequent increased demands of our 
 work. We thank God it is not the result of apathy or illiberality on 
 the part of the churches, nor of the hopeless depression which bur- 
 dens the soul when the Lord withholds his blessing, but simply and 
 only of the increased outlay demanded by success. It is only neces- 
 sary that the churches be made to appreciate the promise of the po- 
 sition to induce them to supply every want. 
 
 By the Providence of God the nations are coming into intimate 
 relations. Steamships cross every ocean, a railway spans this con- 
 tinent, a canal will soon mingle the waters of the Mediterranean and 
 Red Sea. " Cast ye up a highway," said the prophet, " and gather 
 out the stones." We live to see the king's highway, to see many 
 hands removing the hindrances. We have steam presses upon 
 which to print the Word of Life, railways and steamers to convey 
 the truth with rapidity to remote nations, may we have an energetic, 
 liberal spirit to improve the golden opportunity. 
 
 The nations are mingling. Hindoos work plantations in the West 
 Indies. Chinese work the mines of California and Nevada, and con- 
 struct a railway over the Sierras. Japanese are studying in our 
 schools and colleges. All nations flow together. 
 
 God has ordained that the living preach er]sh all declare His Word. 
 We must send forth the heralds of salvation. We have men, such 
 as those who have rendered us such acceptable service on our Mis- 
 sion fields, we have veterans to assist them in their preparations, to 
 counsel them in their first efforts, and these men have hesitated, do 
 now hesitate to offer themselves for this service, much as they long 
 to engage in it, because, notwithstanding the noble liberality of the 
 past year, there k is still an empty and embarrassed treasury. We 
 must look to the pastors and elders to bring the people to a right 
 
48 REPORT ON 
 
 appreciation of the position, and first we appeal to them as assembled 
 in the General Synod. 
 
 We pray the Synod to devise liberal things. And when we come 
 again to present an Annual Report, may it be to say, with thankful- 
 ness to God, that men are on the way to gather the harvest ripen- 
 ing on the plains around Tindivanum, to occupy Chiang-chiu, and 
 proclaim the life giving word through its populous valley ; to take 
 their stations amid the thronging millions of the streets of Osaca; 
 to add to the teeming beauties of the Inland Sea of Japan, the 
 crowning ornament of temples of the living God. Our ever gra- 
 cious, covenant-keeping God, the Lord God of Hosts, is saying to us, 
 " Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the cur- 
 tains of thy habitations : spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strength- 
 en thy stakes ; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on 
 the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles." 
 
 We must listen and obey. 
 
 We have reason to say to-day, " Hitherto hath the Lord helped 
 us," and to remember the promise of our adorable Master. " Lo, I 
 am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." 
 
 The following members of the Board complete the term for which 
 they were chosen, with this session of the General Synod : 
 
 Rev. George H. Peeke, Rev. W. V. V. Mabon, D.D., 
 
 Rev. Wm. H. Steele, Mr, Sanford Cobb, 
 
 Rev. N. E. Smith, D.D., Mr. A. B. Preston, 
 
 Rev. J. McC. Holmes, Mr. A. V. W. Van Vechten. 
 
 Adopted New York, May 26th, 1869. 
 
 J. M. FERRIS, 
 Corresponding Secretary, 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 19 
 
 TABULAR VIEW OF RECEIPTS 
 
 FROM 
 
 £ltu*dte, Sabbath J&fuwte and £ntliviM& 
 
 • 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES. 
 
 • 
 
 FROM 
 CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 S. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 
 INDIVIDUALS 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 Classis of Albany 
 
 Fourth Albany (German). . . 
 
 $9 64 
 
 155 65 
 26 45 
 40 85 
 
 100 
 60 50 
 8 50 
 2343 83 
 40 
 30 
 
 802 3] 
 
 179 78 
 52 06 
 60 50 
 
 359 
 
 156 
 
 254 05 
 6 40 
 4 20 
 6 92 
 2 
 
 145 46 
 
 383 23 
 
 13 06 
 
 184 07 
 1814 36 
 
 185 82 
 59 53 
 
 900 
 
 
 
 $9 64 
 
 75 50 
 1 20 
 
 
 231 15 
 
 New Salem 
 
 
 27 65 
 
 Jerusalem and Onisquethaw 
 Second Bethlehem 
 
 
 40 85 
 
 18 10 
 7 25 
 
 1 
 
 101 
 
 
 78 60 
 
 
 
 15 75 
 
 First Albany 
 
 
 2343 83 
 
 %i 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 Third Albany 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 802 31 
 
 Classis of Bergen 
 
 
 
 179 78 
 
 
 25 
 46 
 
 15 
 
 1 
 
 92 06 
 107 50 
 359 
 
 Thi id J erse v City 
 
 25 
 
 30 
 25 
 
 211 
 279 05 
 
 
 6 40 
 
 
 
 
 4 20 
 
 West Newark 
 
 
 
 6 92 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 South Classis of Bergen 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 75 
 44 72 
 
 30 
 
 1 
 
 250 46 
 
 
 428 95 
 13 06 
 
 
 
 184 07 
 
 North Ne\^rk 
 
 
 
 1814 86 
 
 Belleville 
 
 11 07 
 
 '"'20 
 
 216 89 
 
 Irvington 
 
 59 5S 
 
 
 i 
 
 
 900 
 
 D 
 
50 
 
 REPORT ON 
 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES. 
 
 South Classis of Bergen 
 
 CONTINUED. 
 
 First Van Voorst, Jersy City 
 
 Franklin 
 
 Bergen Point 
 
 First Jersey City 
 
 Clinton Avenue, Newark . . . 
 
 Classis of Cayuga 
 
 Syracuse 
 
 West Leyden. . . 
 Owasco Outlet. 
 
 Owasco 
 
 Chittenango . . . 
 
 Canastota 
 
 Utica 
 
 Ly sander 
 
 Classis of Geneva 
 
 Wolcott 
 
 Cato 
 
 Farmerville 
 
 Ithaca 
 
 Arcadia 
 
 Athens , 
 
 Geneva 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio, 
 
 Lodi , 
 
 Pultneyville. . . , 
 
 Tyre 
 
 Clymer , 
 
 Mina Corners. . , 
 Rochestar , 
 
 Classis of Greene 
 
 Second Coxsackie.. . . , 
 
 First Coxsackie 
 
 Prattsville , 
 
 Moresville and South, 
 
 Gilhoa 
 
 Roxbury , 
 
 Citskill 
 
 First Athens 
 
 Iviskatom , 
 
 Leeda 
 
 FROM 
 CHURCHES 
 
 $269 78 
 
 22 81 
 
 150 50 
 
 1185 80 
 40 
 
 6 25 
 91 65 
 53 66 
 
 35 18 
 
 656 33 
 25 
 
 "I 
 
 10 
 
 
 53 
 
 42 
 
 112 
 
 05 
 
 8 
 
 
 18 
 
 90 
 
 146 
 
 46 
 
 25 
 
 
 38 
 
 22 
 
 15 
 
 
 22 
 
 40 
 
 31 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 92 
 
 
 91 
 16 
 30 
 
 17 
 
 19 
 52 
 30 
 33 
 32 
 
 12 
 
 50 
 83 
 
 24 
 
 27 
 
 75 
 
 FROM 
 S. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 INDIVIDUALS! 
 
 100 
 
 55 
 
 50 
 
 25 
 
 3 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 120 95 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 38 28 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21 75 
 20 60 
 
 4 17 
 
 10 
 5 
 
 10 
 5 25 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 $424 
 
 22 
 
 150 
 
 1185 
 
 40 
 
 78 
 81 
 50 
 80 
 
 5 
 
 6 25 
 
 141 65 
 
 853 66 
 
 63 18 
 
 10 
 
 656 33 
 
 25 
 
 10 
 
 
 103 
 
 42 
 
 232 
 
 97 
 
 8 
 
 
 18 
 
 90 
 
 146 
 
 46 
 
 25 
 
 
 91 
 
 50 
 
 15 
 
 
 22 
 
 40 
 
 31 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 92 
 
 
 112 87 
 
 36 60 
 80 
 
 17 50 
 
 24 
 62 
 
 35 49 
 43 27 
 
 37 75 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 51 
 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES. 
 
 FROM 
 CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 S. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 INDIVIDUALS 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 Glassis of Holland 
 
 $48 66 
 164 10 
 
 13 
 5 
 
 22 
 
 25 
 
 92 
 
 29 20 
 
 70 24 
 
 12 50 
 100 
 4 22 
 
 10 
 
 20 
 
 27 38 
 
 136 
 
 373 72 
 931 15 
 
 123 85 
 173 83 
 221 19 
 100 
 
 400 09 
 80 40 
 
 89 46 
 
 23 80 
 80 40 
 15 
 
 24 25 
 21 
 
 10 50 
 17 40 
 18 
 11 
 
 127 92 
 85 23 
 
 368 02 
 40 
 
 
 22 
 
 $70 66 
 164 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 u 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 First Holland 
 
 
 32 
 
 124 
 
 
 
 29 20 
 
 Third Holland 
 
 
 
 70 24 
 
 
 
 
 12 50 
 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 
 
 4 22 
 
 North Holland 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 27 38 
 
 Classis of Hudson 
 
 20 
 
 
 156 
 
 
 
 373 72 
 
 
 120 
 
 
 1051 15 
 
 
 
 123 85 
 
 
 
 
 173 83 
 
 
 
 
 221 19 
 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 
 105 
 
 
 605 09 
 
 
 
 80 40 
 
 Classis of Illinois 
 
 51 30 
 
 
 140 76 
 
 
 
 
 23 80 
 
 First Pella 
 
 
 
 80 40 
 
 Pekin 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 24 25 
 
 Silver Creek 
 
 
 10 
 
 81 
 
 
 
 10 50 
 
 Davenport. 
 
 25 80 
 
 
 43 20 
 
 Bethel, Pella 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 Classis of Kingston 
 
 
 
 127 92 
 
 
 65 
 
 175 
 
 12 
 
 
 150 23 
 
 */ 
 
 4 
 
 547 02 
 
 Clove. 
 
 52 
 
 
 
 
52 
 
 REPORT ON 
 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 S. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 INDIVIDUALS 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 Classis of Kingston 
 
 CONTINUED. 
 
 $281 87 
 20 75 
 80 
 15 
 45 13 
 
 9 
 41 
 15 
 
 206 61 
 
 54 16 
 125 50 
 
 95 62 
 262 
 
 47 98 
 
 10 
 
 35 
 
 60 
 6 
 
 141 36 
 
 52 85 
 5 
 
 14 64 
 
 862 72 
 296 25 
 
 142 81 
 326 84 
 224 38 
 209 54 
 
 4206 37 
 622 31 
 155 45 
 
 4663 07 
 173 76 
 
 53 31 
 34 
 
 64 32 
 
 12 
 
 22 
 
 70 06 
 
 100 
 
 $451 93 
 20 75 
 
 
 Guilford 
 
 
 3 
 
 83 
 
 Paehville Falls 
 
 
 15 
 
 North Marbletown 
 
 20 
 
 
 65 13 
 
 Samsonville. 
 
 
 9 
 
 Rosendale 
 
 
 
 41 
 
 Marbletown 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 H. Classis of Long Island 
 
 
 
 206 61 
 
 Oyster Bay 
 
 8 15 
 16 
 114 79 
 
 11 50 
 
 62 31 
 
 Newtown 
 
 153 
 210 41 
 
 Astoria 
 
 50 
 
 312 
 
 
 
 47 98 
 
 
 
 25 
 5 
 
 35 
 
 St. Peter's, Williamsburgh. . 
 
 15 
 25 
 
 55 
 
 85 
 
 
 6 
 
 38 50 
 
 
 179 86 
 
 South Bushwick 
 
 
 
 52 85 
 
 Second Astoria 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 Manhasset 
 
 
 
 14 64 
 
 S. Classis of Long Island 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 
 779 
 
 1641 72 
 
 North Brooklyn 
 
 
 2'.'6 25 
 
 South Brooklyn 
 
 30 
 7 25 
 
 64 74 
 121 78 
 
 75 
 157 
 
 
 172 81 
 
 East New York 
 
 354 
 
 688 09 
 289 12 
 
 Flatlands 
 
 
 331 32 
 
 First Brooklyn 
 
 
 4281 37 
 
 New Utrecht 
 
 
 779 31 
 
 
 100 
 
 255 45 
 
 On the Heights 
 
 
 4663 07 
 
 North Gowanus 
 
 82 35 
 
 2 
 
 258 11 
 53 31 
 
 East Brooklyn 
 
 
 
 34 
 
 Classis of Michigan. 
 
 First Grand Rapids 
 
 Battle Creek 
 
 
 
 64 32 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 Conetantine 
 
 15 
 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 53 
 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 S. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 
 INDIVIDUALS 
 
 i 
 
 TOTAL. 
 
 Glassis of Michigan 
 
 CONTINUED. 
 
 Porter 
 
 $2 12 
 49 01 
 
 
 
 $2 12 
 
 49 01 
 
 Hope 
 
 
 
 
 20 30 
 
 38 27 
 12 40 
 
 
 20 30 
 
 Glassis of Monmouth 
 
 KevDort 
 
 32 12 
 217 50 
 
 17 09 
 
 89 05 
 139 39 
 
 25 
 
 78 80 
 
 7 50 
 55 
 15 
 
 42 80 
 34 15 
 
 
 70 39 
 
 Holmdel 
 
 
 229 90 
 
 Colt's Neck. 
 
 
 17 09 
 
 Second Freehold 
 
 
 
 89 05 
 
 
 
 139 39 
 
 Long Branch 
 
 6 
 
 
 31 
 
 First Freehold 
 
 
 78 30 
 
 Classis of Montgomery 
 
 Canajoharie 
 
 
 
 7 50 
 
 Fonda 
 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 Fort Plain 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 St Johnsville 
 
 
 
 42 30 
 
 Haereman's Mills 
 
 
 
 34 15 
 
 Herkimer 
 
 20 
 12 
 11 75 
 
 5 
 
 25 
 
 Florida 
 
 22 
 
 82 25 
 25 
 18 
 2 50 
 
 532 40 
 792 87 
 165 75 
 139 
 184 
 
 138 52 
 78 75 
 
 2891 02 
 2526 70 
 
 14 66 
 120 
 2381 45 
 
 13 
 
 34 
 
 Glen 
 
 
 94 
 
 Manheim 
 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 2 50 
 
 Clas. of New Brunswick 
 
 Six Mile Run 
 
 5 
 15 75 
 31 
 
 70 
 
 
 537 40 
 
 Second New Brunswick. . . . 
 Hillsborough 
 
 615 50 
 
 1424 12 
 196 75 
 
 
 6 
 3 
 
 215 
 187 
 
 East Millstone 
 
 43 45 
 
 181 97 
 
 
 2 
 
 315 
 
 1885 
 
 80 75 
 
 Classis of New York 
 
 South Church 
 
 
 3206 02 
 
 Collegiate 
 
 252 44 
 
 4664 14 
 
 Holland 
 
 14 66 
 
 Port Richmond 
 
 
 
 120 
 
 North West 
 
 281 35 
 235 
 
 115 
 
 2777 80 
 
 German Evangelical Mission 
 
 248 
 
 
 
54 
 
 REPORT ON 
 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES 
 
 FRJM 
 CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 S. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 INDIVII'UALS 
 
 TOTAL. 
 
 Classis of New York 
 
 CONTINUED. 
 
 $18 35 
 
 26 30 
 270 
 
 20 
 450 
 367 63 
 
 50 
 
 18 85 
 
 10 
 565 22 
 
 43 40 
 134 03 
 
 82 65 
 
 145 
 150 
 
 163 52 
 319 40 
 
 92 09 
 
 30 
 270 90 
 
 80 25 
 
 23 30 
 
 44 
 859 89 
 8 
 
 15 85 
 
 10 50 
 
 91 93 
 131 11 
 494 25 
 
 20 63 
 
 70 65 
 
 66 78 
 223 
 
 84 89 
 
 45 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 $18 35 
 
 Richmond 
 
 
 
 26 30 
 
 Fourth German 
 
 
 
 270 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 450 
 
 St. Paul's 
 
 
 
 367 63 
 
 Prospect Hill 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 
 18 85 
 
 South Classis of N. York 
 
 Norfolk Street 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 Sixth Avenue 
 
 
 25 
 
 590 22 
 
 
 43 40 
 
 Brighton Heights 
 
 40 12 
 
 
 174 15 
 
 
 
 32 65 
 
 Classis of Orange 
 
 Ellenville 
 
 
 
 145 
 
 Fallsburgh 
 
 13 
 
 193 80 
 195 72 
 
 96 50 
 30 
 
 259 50 
 
 
 387 32 
 
 O 
 
 615 12 
 
 Shawangunk 
 
 5 
 
 97 09 
 
 Bloomingburgh 
 
 30 
 
 Walden 
 
 21 
 
 
 291 90 
 
 Lower Walpack 
 
 
 30 25 
 
 Warwarsing 
 
 4 70 
 6 10 
 
 10 
 
 38 
 
 New Hurley 
 
 50 10 
 
 .New Prospect 
 
 150 
 
 1009 39 
 
 
 8 
 
 Cuddebackville 
 
 
 
 15 85 
 
 
 
 
 10 50 
 
 Classis of Paramus 
 
 50 
 
 30 
 208 85 
 
 60 
 1 
 
 191 93 
 
 Acquackanonk 
 
 162 11 
 703 10 
 
 Ramapo 
 
 
 20 63 
 
 Tappan 
 
 Nyack 
 
 Second Paterson 
 
 
 
 70 65 
 
 
 
 66 78 
 
 41 38 
 
 10 
 
 26 
 
 
 264 88 
 
 Param us 
 
 
 94 89 
 
 Broudway, Paterson 
 
 Suffern 
 
 
 71 
 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 00 
 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 
 S. SCHOOL8 
 
 FROM 
 j INDIVIDUALS 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 Classis of Paramus 
 
 CON TIN D ED. 
 
 Warwick 
 
 $41 
 35 76 
 54 70 
 80 
 12 42 
 
 4 
 10 
 
 150 12 
 128 50 
 
 6 
 124 36 
 
 45 50 
 
 17 50 
 
 21 49 
 
 30 
 
 26 
 
 363 
 
 318 01 
 200 
 115 
 
 34 91 
 133 30 
 117 
 
 75 98 
 313 50 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 70 74 
 
 50 
 
 20 15 
 
 127 65 
 
 202 
 231 31 
 
 68 75 
 
 86 17 
 481 17 
 341 72 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 $41 
 
 35 76 
 
 Saddle River 
 
 
 
 
 Paecack 
 
 
 
 54 70 
 
 Piermont 
 
 40 
 
 20 
 
 140 
 
 Spring Valley 
 
 12 42 
 
 First Holland, Paterson 
 
 • . 
 
 
 4 
 
 Second Holland, " 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 Classis of Passaic 
 
 Pomptcn Plains 
 
 * 
 
 29 
 
 20 
 
 
 179 32 
 
 
 
 128 50 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 Fir?t Paterson 
 
 
 
 124 36 
 
 Montville 
 
 5 
 2 
 6 
 
 50 
 91 
 
 
 50 50 
 
 Board ville 
 
 20 
 
 Stone House Plains 
 
 
 28 40 
 
 Wyckoff. 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 Classis of Philadelphia 
 
 Blawenburgh 
 
 
 
 363 
 
 30 
 
 38 
 
 50 
 30 
 
 348 39 
 250 
 
 North and Southampton. . . . 
 Addisville 
 
 32 
 56 
 
 25 
 
 177 
 91 16 
 
 Harlinsren 
 
 
 133 80 
 
 
 
 
 117 
 
 Rocky Hill 
 
 
 20 
 
 95 98 
 
 Second Philadel[)hia 
 
 Fourth Philadelphia 
 
 Manayunk 
 
 Third Philadelphia 
 
 
 313 50 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 160 
 
 18 
 
 
 230 92 
 
 Clover Hill 
 
 
 50 
 
 Stanton 
 
 
 
 20 15 
 
 Classis of Ponghkeepsie 
 
 Mill Brook 
 
 Fbhkill 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 80 
 10 
 
 157 65 
 
 288 
 241 31 
 
 Glenham 
 
 241 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 73 
 
 310 48 
 
 
 91 17 
 
 
 75 38 
 
 566 55 
 341 72 
 
 
 
 
 
56 
 
 REPORT ON 
 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 8. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 INDIVIDUALS 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 Classis of Poughkeepsie 
 
 CONTINUED. 
 
 Cold Spring 
 
 
 $13 
 
 
 $13 
 50 
 
 Hyde Park . 
 
 $50 
 
 478 58 
 303 63 
 
 264 73 
 187 60 
 150 
 150 
 
 
 Hopewell 
 
 
 
 478 58 
 
 
 
 303 63 
 
 Classis of Raritan 
 
 North Branch 
 
 
 
 264 73 
 
 Second Somerville 
 
 50 
 2 25 
 
 
 237 60 
 
 Rockawav 
 
 13 50 
 
 163 50 
 
 Third Raritan 
 
 152 25 
 
 
 10 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 Lebanon . 
 
 115 
 100 
 268 25 
 
 91 
 130 
 
 10 
 257 60 
 
 38 
 
 86 10 
 608 36 
 190 
 117 10 
 
 39 91 
 
 2:> 
 
 16 49 
 
 45 
 
 15 
 110 
 
 25 
 
 36 60 
 
 38 25 
 
 12 
 117 03 
 
 45 
 
 25 
 
 7 
 
 100 
 
 40 
 100 
 
 26 
 
 
 121 
 
 100 
 
 Bedminfter 
 
 40 
 30 
 
 11 50 
 
 8 30 
 
 24 60 
 
 
 308 25 
 
 Potters-ville 
 
 
 121 
 
 Branchville 
 
 
 141 50 
 
 Easton . 
 
 
 18 30 
 
 
 282 10 
 
 Plainneld 
 
 
 38 
 
 Classis of Rensselaer 
 
 Chatham 
 
 
 60 
 
 136 10 
 
 Kindei hook 
 
 116 25 
 
 724 61 
 
 Stuvvesant 
 
 
 190 
 
 Castl^ton 
 
 117 10 
 
 Second Ghent.. .... 
 
 27 40 
 
 
 67 31 
 
 
 25 
 
 Bloorningrove 
 
 4 51 
 10 
 5 
 
 
 21 
 
 First Ghent 
 
 
 55 
 
 Stuy vesant Falls 
 
 
 20 
 
 Nassau 
 
 
 110 
 
 New Concord 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 Greenbush 
 
 
 
 85 50 
 
 Classis of Saratoga 
 
 Union Village 
 
 
 
 38 25 
 
 Saratoga 
 
 43 50 
 67 11 
 
 
 55 50 
 
 First West Troy 
 
 
 184 14 
 
 Southwest Troy 
 
 
 45 
 
 Wynantskill 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 Boght 
 
 Northumberland 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 Buskirk's Bridge 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 Cohoes 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 Schaghticoke 
 
 
 • 
 
 25 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 57 
 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 
 8. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 
 INDIVIDUALS 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 Classis of Schenectady 
 
 First Glenville 
 
 $133 50 
 26 10 
 8 25 
 205 50 
 53 
 91 
 82 
 
 
 
 $133 50 
 51 10 
 
 First Rotterdam 
 
 
 25 
 
 75 
 2 
 5 
 
 Second Schenectady. ...... 
 
 First Schenectady 
 
 
 8 25 
 280 50 
 
 
 55 
 
 Lisha's Kill 
 
 
 96 
 
 Amity 
 
 
 82 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 10 
 
 Princeton 
 
 16 
 
 113 38 
 75 
 97 
 
 47 60 
 10 
 6 28 
 
 
 16 
 
 Classis of Schoharie 
 
 Middleburerh 
 
 
 
 113 38 
 
 Schoharie 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 First Berne 
 
 
 30 
 
 127 
 
 Knox 
 
 
 47 60 
 
 Beaverdam 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 Schoharie Mountain ... . 
 
 
 
 6 28 
 
 
 
 8 50 
 8 55 
 
 8 50 
 
 
 
 
 8 55 
 
 Gallupville 
 
 35 
 3 20 
 2 75 
 
 51 08 
 61 76 
 201 
 
 9 25 
 289 21 
 691 48 
 67 43 
 24 89 
 43 36 
 80 
 26 50 
 
 21 
 120 84 
 320 31 
 19 54 
 38 86 
 245 23 
 322 59 
 
 
 35 
 
 North Blenheim 
 
 
 
 3 20 
 
 Breakabin 
 
 
 
 2*75 
 
 Classis of Ulster 
 
 
 1 
 
 52 08 
 
 Blue Mountain 
 
 61 76 
 
 North Esopus 
 
 
 
 201 
 
 Plattekill 
 
 
 
 9 25 
 
 
 
 135 
 
 424 21 
 
 First Kingston 
 
 40 96 
 9 60 
 
 732 44 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 5 
 
 82 03 
 
 West Hurley 
 
 24 89 
 
 Wiltwyck 
 
 
 
 43 36 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 
 
 
 26 50 
 
 Classis of Westchester 
 
 Greenville 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 
 120 84 
 
 Mount Vernon 
 
 
 50 
 
 370 31 
 
 
 
 19 54 
 
 
 
 
 38 86 
 
 
 
 
 245 23 
 
 Second Tarrvtown 
 
 
 
 322 59 
 
 *J 
 
 
 
 

 58 
 
 REPORT ON 
 
 CLASSES AND CHURCHES 
 
 FROM 
 CHURCDE* 
 
 FROM 
 8. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 INDIVIDUALS 
 
 TOTAL. 
 
 Classis of Westchester 
 
 CONTINUKD. 
 
 West Farms 
 
 227 25 
 
 41 80 
 329 25 
 100 
 
 
 
 227 25 
 
 
 
 41 80 
 
 Bronxville 
 
 
 
 24 07 
 
 
 353 32 
 100 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 28 
 6 35 
 
 21 
 31 15 
 
 4 
 27 68 
 
 6 
 34 
 
 
 28 
 
 Classis of Wisconsin 
 
 Silver Creek 
 
 
 
 6 35 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 
 31 
 31 15 
 
 Two llivei's. 
 
 
 
 , 
 
 4 
 
 Fulton . . 
 
 
 
 27 68 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 34 
 
 
 25 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 Milwaukie 
 
 16 27 
 26 
 
 61 41 
 59 21 
 
 20 43 
 
 44 70 
 
 Forreston 
 
 26 
 
 Holland 
 
 
 
 61 41 
 
 Second Chicago 
 
 23 10 
 
 
 
 82 31 
 
 
 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 59 
 
 INDIVIDUALS NOT THROUGH CHURCHES. 
 
 A Friend $12 
 
 A Friend 25 
 
 Mrs. A. C. G., Orange, N. J.. . 10 
 
 Jeremiah Cline 1 
 
 Friend of Missions, Brooklyn, 
 L 1 10 
 
 Gen. G. Looraie, U. S. A 60 
 
 G. E 10 
 
 D. G. Van Vranken 2 
 
 Miss E. B. Brooklyn, L. 1 5 
 
 C. S 2 50 
 
 A. B. D., gold 5 
 
 Rev. J. R. Leute 5 
 
 Alpha 25 
 
 A Widow's Mite 5 
 
 Catherine Tully *17 
 
 C. S. Sutter 10 
 
 D. D. Williamson 100 
 
 H. Schnellendreus3ler 3 
 
 Jonathan Sturges 200 
 
 Eliza Schureman 10 
 
 X 10 
 
 Granville Van Vliet 10 
 
 Christian Intelligencer 5 
 
 Unknown, Williamsburgh, L.I. 10 
 
 A Friend, Newport, R. 1 30 
 
 Mary and Maggie Groff. 2 
 
 Miss H. Schoonmaker 2 
 
 Frank and Georgie, in part 
 
 silver 5 60 
 
 J. B. Bartow 10 
 
 Senex 100 
 
 Owen Van Olinda 5 
 
 A Friend 25 
 
 Anonymous 1 
 
 Peter Clement 5 
 
 G 7 
 
 Lambda 325 
 
 Mrs. E. C. S 30 
 
 E. T. C 20 
 
 An Old Friend 5 
 
 K 20 
 
 Rev. T. L. S 5 
 
 M. S. W.,I11 1 
 
 Cash 10 
 
 A Friend 2 45 
 
 H. N. N., N. Y. City 5 
 
 Rev. and Mrs. Chas. Whitehead 100 
 
 New Brunswick, N. J 
 
 A Friend 
 
 M. V. A., New Brunswick, N.J. 
 
 A 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Townsend 
 
 W. H. M 
 
 Mc 
 
 W. H. Jans^n 
 
 J. R. Van Mater and. 
 
 Eva V. Pike 
 
 M. R. C 
 
 WT TJ T 
 
 Peter V. Hoagland 
 
 Rev. A. Mattice 
 
 A Little Straw for a Brick. . . . 
 Lady Friend of the Cause. . . . 
 
 C. C, Pittsford, Mich 
 
 W. S. B., Woodbourne, N. Y.. 
 
 Rev. T. R. Beck 
 
 S. C. Roe 
 
 M. L. S.,111 
 
 H. P. Cline 
 
 L S., Pella, Iowa 
 
 Western Missionary 
 
 A Lady 
 
 H. S 
 
 Widow's Mite 
 
 Mrs. C. Whitehead 
 
 One of 50,000 Members 
 
 W. P P 
 
 Mrs. C. Ward 
 
 Friend of Missions 
 
 From the Lor ' 
 
 Memento Jewelry 
 
 Rev. J. Whitbeck 
 
 Mrs J. Whitbeck..: 
 
 D. G. Van Vranken 
 
 !C. II. D 
 
 | Friend of Mi-sions 
 
 Mary and Maggie Groff 
 
 \ Melville 
 
 I A Friend 
 
 Mrs. J. Ross 
 
 Student, N. B.. N. J 
 
 Two Friends, N. Y 
 
 Central New Y ork 
 
 W. P. P 
 
 A Friend, New Scotland, N. Y 
 
 $2 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 
 ioo 
 
 25 
 
 25 
 
 5 
 
 77 07 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 ] 
 10 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 50 
 50 
 10 
 
 3 
 10 
 
 1 
 50 
 20 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 140 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 10 
 
 2 
 10 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 100 
 
 30 
 
 "» 
 
 50 
 50 
 
/ 
 
 60 
 
 REPORT ON 
 
 A Minister's Widow 10 
 
 Rev. T. L. Shafer 5 
 
 Rev. H. S 2 
 
 W. H. A 1 
 
 Miss Ashley 5 
 
 A. Van Santvoord 100 
 
 A Friend 5 
 
 A Friend, Pleasantville, Pa. . 10 
 
 H. S. Coins 5 
 
 53 
 
 Rev. D. A. Jones. 15 
 
 From a Golden Wedding 6 65 
 
 E. H., Brooklyn, L. 1 10 
 
 Miss Josephine Penfold 40 
 
 E. Penfold, Jr 40 
 
 Unknown 12 62 
 
 Anonymous, Mich 10 
 
 $671 30 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Missionary Box $26 45 
 
 Premium on gold and silver 27 57 
 
 A Thank Offering 50 
 
 Mission Sabbath School, Athens, N. Y 1 
 
 " " Brownsville, N. Y 2 42 
 
 Sabbath School, Pine Bush, N. Y 6 21 
 
 Home Sabbath School, Holland Mich 2 78 
 
 High Woods Sabbath School 6 
 
 Shawangunk Benevolent Association 30 
 
 Young Ladies' Missionary Circle, New Centre, N. J 121 
 
 Hawthorne Mission Sabbath School 4 16 
 
 Mission Sabbath School, New Brunswick, N. J 50 
 
 Union School, Hollaud, Mich., Primary Dep't., Boys 10 
 
 Girls 3 30 
 
 Morgan Street Mission Sabbath School, Jersey City 10 
 
 Elm Sabbath School, New Brunswick, N. J 10 
 
 American Tract Society for Arcot Mission 200 
 
 Interest on Security Funds 2201 20 
 
 $2767 09 
 
 LEGACIES. 
 
 Peter Q. Voorhees 
 
 Chas. Shelpt 
 
 W. B. Dorercus 
 
 Helena Campbell 
 
 Jane Le Fevre 
 
 Rachel Berry 
 
 Maria R. Letter ts 
 
 B. Livingston Kip 
 
 Dora L. Lott 
 
 Government Tax on Legacy of Chas. O'Neil, refunded by 
 
 Board of Foreigh Missions of the Pres. Church 
 
 Lucas J. Voorhees 
 
 Little Girl's Legacy. . . ~ 
 
 Julia Delaplaine , , , ,..,,,. 
 
 $94 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 1 
 
 40 
 
 9 
 
 25 
 
 100 
 
 
 940 
 
 
 130 
 
 26 
 
 250 
 
 
 989 
 
 60 
 
 60 
 
 
 1000 
 
 
 1 
 
 23 
 
 1880 
 
 
 $5457 74 
 
FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 61 
 
 RECEIPTS FROM CLASSES. 
 
 Classes of Synod 
 of 
 
 New York. 
 
 
 CHURCH 
 
 CONTRIBUr's. 
 
 FROM 
 
 S. SCHOOLS 
 
 FROM 
 INDIVIDUALS 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 Bergen 
 
 10 
 13 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 13 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 14 
 
 5 
 17 
 
 9 
 14 
 11 
 13 
 14 
 
 $1080 91 
 
 5354 42 
 
 2540 23 
 
 1116 72 
 
 11970 81 
 
 598 45 
 2335 68 
 9167 96 
 
 785 30 
 1477 12 
 
 549 47 
 1829 59 
 2370 98 
 .1762 08 
 1821 02 
 
 $96 
 
 230 79 
 245 
 
 217 44 
 538 12 
 
 56 67 
 234 20 
 768 79 
 
 40 12 
 406 23 
 
 43 61 
 278 81 
 275 73 
 166 65 
 
 39 07 
 
 $71 
 
 106 00 
 
 $1247 91 
 5691 21 
 2785 23 
 
 Hudson 
 
 South Long Island. . 
 Monmouth 
 
 91 50 
 1235 
 
 • ••••••••• 
 
 661 50 
 2315 
 25 
 71 
 
 1425 66 
 
 13743 93 
 
 655 12 
 
 New Brunswick.... 
 
 3231 38 
 12451 75 
 
 S. New York 
 
 Paramus 
 
 850 42 
 1954 35 
 
 Passaic 
 
 593 08 
 
 Raritan 
 
 100 
 195 38 
 
 29 50 
 
 50 
 
 2208 40 
 2842 09 
 1958 23 
 
 Westchester 
 
 1910 09 
 
 Albany. 
 
 171 
 
 $44770 74 
 
 $3637 23 
 
 $4950 88 
 
 $53358 87 
 
 Albany 
 
 12 
 8 
 14 
 10 
 12 
 11 
 14 
 12 
 10 
 9 
 11 
 11 
 
 3617 73 
 868 07 
 594 42 
 322 71 
 
 1128 92 
 303 70 
 
 2162 20 
 
 1313 46 
 509 28 
 615 35 
 390 21 
 
 1545 96 
 
 102 05 
 
 25 
 159 23 
 
 61 52 
 342 06 
 
 43 75 
 434 32 
 163 16 
 110 61 
 
 10 
 
 1 
 68 
 65 
 
 15 25 
 107 
 5 
 291 50 
 50 
 
 3720 78 
 
 Cayuga 
 
 961 08 
 
 
 818 65 
 
 Greene 
 
 399 48 
 
 Kingston 
 
 1577 98 
 
 ran ere 
 
 352 45 
 
 2888 02 
 
 
 1526 62 
 619 89 
 
 Schoharie 
 
 107 
 47 05 
 141 
 
 732 35 
 437 26 
 
 Ulster 
 
 50 56 
 
 1737 52 
 
 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 134 
 
 $13372 01 
 
 $1502 26 
 
 $897 80 
 
 $15772 07 
 
 Holland 
 
 15 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 11 
 
 643 30 
 310 81 
 139 45 
 286 72 
 
 
 54 
 10 
 
 697 30 
 
 Illinois 
 
 77 10 
 35 30 
 59 10 
 
 397 91 
 
 Michigan . . . . 
 
 184 75 
 
 
 27 43 
 
 373 25 
 
 
 42 
 
 $1380 28 
 
 $171 50 
 
 $91 43 
 
 $1643 21 
 
 Total 
 
 347 
 
 $59523 03 
 
 $5310 99 
 
 $5940 11 
 
 $70774 13 
 
62 
 
 REPORT ON 
 
 TREASURER'S ANNUAL REPORT. 
 
 The Board of Forego Missions of the Reformed Church in America in 
 
 account with the Treasurer. 
 
 AMOY MISSION. 
 
 April 30, 1869. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 To cash paid drafts, <fec 
 
 on account of the Missions, <fec 
 
 on account of Mr. Doty's children. . . 
 
 $20,583 34 
 
 5,227 98 
 
 220 00 
 
 $26,031 32 
 
 ARCOT MISSION. 
 
 To cash paid drafts, &c $44,663 45 
 
 " " on account of the Missions, &c 3,549 25 
 
 JAPAN MISSION. 
 
 To cash paid, drafts, <fec $2,744 45 
 
 on account of the Mission 4,286 03 
 
 " " on occount of Japanese 1,895 64 
 
 " Bookkeeper $200 00 
 
 for the Sower 200 00 
 
 " " Incidental expenses 574 92 
 
 u Traveling expenses 368 89 
 
 Interest on loans 1,876 35 
 
 Rent 112 50 
 
 Cor. Secretary's Salary 2,500 00 
 
 41 Postage 127 92 
 
 " " Gospel Field 410 49 
 
 " " Miss Mandeville 
 
 " Miss Chapin 
 
 " " Notes during the year 
 
 " " Balance in Treasury 
 
 48,212 70 
 
 8,426 02 
 
 6,871 07 
 
 235 89 
 
 300 00 
 
 20,500 00 
 
 1,422 87 
 
 $111,499 87 
 
« « 
 
 (t <{ << 
 
 FOREIGN MISSIONS. 63 
 
 1868. Or. 
 April 30, By balance in Treasury $456 37 
 
 1869. 
 
 Apiil 30, By cash received from Churches $59,523 03 
 
 " Sabbath Schools. . . 5,310 99 
 
 " Individuals 5,940 11 
 
 « « « " not 
 
 through Churches 2,411 42 
 " Miscellan's sources 2,767 09 
 
 " " " Legacies 5,45 7 74 
 
 81,410 38 
 
 by Rev. G. F. Verbeck, of 
 Japan Mission, for account of 
 Japanese in this country. . . . 1,064 00 
 J. M. Ferris, ac. of Japanese. . . 300 00 
 
 " E. C. Scudder 60 00 
 
 '■ sale of $8,000 U. S. 5-20 bonds 8,709 12 
 " borrowed from bank 19,500 00 
 
 $111,499 87 
 
 Invested on account of Suydam fund 10,000 00 
 
 Mandeville fund 5,500 00 
 
 " " Warren Ackennan fund 10,000 00 
 
 " " General Security fund 4,500 00 
 
 U. S. Bonds held for Holland and Wisconsin Classes 2,357 00 
 
 We hereby certify, that having examined the accounts of the Treasurer of 
 the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 
 we find the same to be correct, and that the balance in hands of the Trea- 
 surer, on the 30th day of April, 1869, was fourteen hundred and twenty-two 
 dollars and eighty-seven cents, ($1,422 87). 
 
 Signed 
 
 JAS. A. WILLIAMSON, 
 A. V. W. VAN VECHTEN. 
 New York, June 1st, 1869. 
 
 GAML. G. SMITH, Treasurer. 
 
THE 
 
 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 nx& $f IttHiatwtt 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA. 
 
 PRESENTED TO THE 
 
 General Synod, at the Annual Meeting, June, 1869. 
 
 New yoi\K: 
 BOARD OF PUBLICATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Reformed Church in America, 
 
 No. 103 Fulton Street. 
 1869. 
 
,f ifetttft Jtotmal 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BOARD OF PUBLICATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA. 
 
 The review of another year in the history of this Board claims a 
 fresh tribute of gratitude to the Author of all good. Although no 
 startling leaps have been made in the line of successful labor, there 
 has been steady and encouraging progress ; progress in the solution 
 of questions that will enable the Board to reach a more settled and 
 satisfactory policy ; progress in the enlarged views of the Churches 
 of its importance as an aggressive, evangelizing agency ; progress in 
 their interest in its work and their sympathy with the Synod's plan 
 for its liberal endowment ; progress in the diffusion, through this 
 channel of the Church, of a sound, religious literature, and in the 
 good done, there is reason to believe, by the spread of its publica- 
 tions. 
 
 But gratitude is chastened with grief, as we record the removal 
 by death, during the year, of a prominent member of this Board, 
 Hon. J. R. Wortendyke, of Jersey city. Cordial in his co-operation, 
 wise in counsel, prompt yet prudent in action, he will long be re- 
 membered as the faithful friend of the Board. Much, however, as 
 we miss him in its deliberations, it becomes us to bow before the 
 higher claims of the Head of the Church, and though sorrowfully, 
 yet submissively to say, "Even so, Father" 
 
REPORT ON 
 
 DEPOSITORY. 
 
 I. SALES. 
 
 While the sales in Publishing Houses generally have been greatly 
 restricted, and trade is less brisk in business circles, it is a gratifying 
 feature of our fiscal year, that there has been no serious falling off in 
 the receipts of the depository. With the growing acquaintance of 
 the Churches with the Board, the field of patronage enlarges. Its 
 aim is to furnish such a supply of good, wholesome, religious read- 
 ing, especially that which is alike entertaining and instructive for the 
 use of Sabbath schools, and at such reasonable rates, as shall make 
 its book room worthy of patronage. Under the efficient manage- 
 ment of the Publishing Agent, Mr. William Ferris, arrangements 
 have been made by which the best and latest publications for Sab- 
 bath schools from the various publishing houses are promptly for- 
 warded as soon as issued, that orders for them may be filled with 
 the least possible delay. 
 
 II. GRATUITOUS DISTRIBUTIONS. 
 
 Increasing calls are made to supply the destitute from our deposi- 
 tory. The West, the South, and the South-west make pressing ap- 
 peals. The Board, recognizing its true position, as the servant of 
 the Church, to aid in doing its mission work, through the press, has 
 made larger donations than usual during the past year. To spread 
 its issues as widely as po?sible is a wise policy, whether it be to serve 
 as a pioneer in the planting of Churches, or as a means of Christian- 
 izino" the masses. When an irreligious press is flooding society with 
 ita issues, now artfully insinuating the poison of its dangerous doc- 
 trines, and now boldly assailing the most vital truths, thus pervert- 
 ing the faith and corrupting the morals of countless numbers, the 
 Church that would be true to her trust in counteracting these 
 crying evils, that would create and feed a healthful taste, must scat- 
 ter with a liberal hand, a literature leavened with the Gospel. And 
 since the supply of ordained preachers is so far short of the demand, 
 the necessity is all the more urgent, to harness the press to the car 
 of truth. 
 
 III. NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 While the Board is anxious to increase its issues, as a means of 
 increasing its usefulness, its aim is to publish works of merit, on 
 
PUBLICATION. '5 
 
 topics best suited to mould character and to meet the wants of the 
 age ; works written in a style most likely to command a ready sale 
 and a profitable perusal. Few such, it is much to be regretted, have- 
 been submitted to the Board for publication during the past year. 
 This will explain why the number of new issues has not been greater. 
 There has been a reprint of former issues, showing that the taste f6r 
 "the old wine " still remains ; and an ably penned manuscript on » 
 timely topic has just received the sanction of the Publishing Com- 
 mittee, and will probably soon be put to press. Measures are in pro- 
 gress, which, it is hoped, will prove successful, to enlist the pens of 
 competent authors ; and the working capital of the Board, as it in- 
 creases, will clothe it with ability to hold out more remunerative 
 offers for preparing works of the highest excellence for publication. 
 The plan of offering liberal premiums for engaging the best talent 
 commends itself to the Board ; and since its resources do not as yet, 
 warrant a large outlay for this purpose, it is hoped this plan will 
 meet with favor among those of ample means in our Reformed 
 Church who are desirous of extending their usefulness and of mak- 
 ing this Board a greater power for good. 
 
 IV. THE SOWER. 
 
 This monthly visitor continues in circulation among our Churches 
 and Sabbath schools. Its subscription list is not materially changed. 
 Although the receipts for its issue do not meet the cost incurred, — 
 as is the case with similar organs in publishing houses generally, — 
 yet, it would be an unwise policy to discontinue its publication sim- 
 ply on this account. It reaches and is read by a large class who 
 would not be likely to take a more expensive sheet, and thus it oc- 
 cupies a sphere of usefulness peculiarly its own. As a medium of 
 communication between our benevolent Boards and their constitu- 
 ents, its circulation should be more widely extended, that larger 
 numbers may be fully posted and thus be brought into closer sym- 
 pathy with the workings of these institutions. Instances occur in 
 which our treasuries are enriched through information gleaned from 
 the Sower. 
 
REPORT ON 
 
 PUBLISHING AGENT'S REPORT. 
 
 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 The Board has published the following during the year ending 
 May 1st, 1869: 
 
 1. The Nine Prizes, 18mo, 312 pages, Copies. 1,000 
 
 This little volume was prepared for the Board, and illustrates that 
 portion of our Lord's parables commonly called the Beatitudes. 
 
 2. The Missionary Doctor and his Family, 18mo, 256 pages, 
 
 Copies 1,000 
 
 This work was also written for the Board, and gives the history 
 of one of the early missionaries of our Church and his family. It is 
 written in a pleasing style, and is an interesting volume for the Sab- 
 bath school librarv. 
 
 3. The Reformed Church in America, 18mo, Tract, 30 pages, 
 
 Copies 1,000 
 
 The larger portion of this Tract was formerly prepared by Rev. 
 Thomas DeWitt, D.D., under the title " A Succinct Tract." The 
 Board has revised it, and added such matters of information as will 
 adapt it to the present history of the denomination. 
 
 4. Annual Report of the Board for 1868, 20 pages, Copies. . 1,750 
 
 5. A Sermon of Rev. Dr. Van Vechte^n before the Classis 
 
 of Albany, Copies 500 
 
 6. Memorial Sermon of Hon. J. B. Wortendyke, late mem- 
 
 ber of this Board, by Rev. P. D. Van Cleef, D. 
 
 D., Copies 1,000 
 
 Jn Press — 1 new volume on Baptism. 
 
 Tracts — 10 editions of former publications. 
 
 SUMMARY OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 2 Volumes, 18mo, 1,000 Copies each 2,000 
 
 1 Tract, 18mo, 1,000 " 1,000 
 
 1 Annual Report «' 1,750 
 
 2 Sermons " 1,500 
 
 Total new copies 6,250 
 
PUBLICATION. t 
 
 REPRINTS OF FORMER PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 18 Editions of bound volumes Copies 17,021 
 
 6 " Catechisms, Class Books, &c 1 0,000 
 
 3 " 12mo Tracts 3,000 
 
 3 " 18mo " 3,000 
 
 Total reprints 33,021 
 
 12 Editions of The Sower, Copies . . 68,500 
 
 SALES ACCOUNT. 
 
 The amount of sales from May 1st, 1868, to May 1st, 1869 : 
 
 For merchandize $14,618 94 
 
 " Sower 1,300 00 
 
 Decrease in sales from previous year $125 84 
 
 This decrease is owing to the fact that the past year has not been 
 as favorable for the book trade as some former years. We have 
 had a larger trade with Churches and Sabbath schools of our own 
 denominations than in any former year. Our exchanges with the 
 book trade have increased. While the net amount of sales falls a 
 trifle short of the previous year, the net amount of profits on the 
 sales has been from 3 to 5 per cent, larger on the amount sold. 
 
 DONATIONS. 
 
 The amount of books and tracts donated the past year is. . $621 00 
 
 Most of the books donated have been from the stock of the Board. 
 A few Mission Churches have been furnished with the Hymn Books 
 of our Church. Mission Sabbath schools have been supplied with 
 library and other books. 
 
 We have also distributed a large number of our publications in 
 Texas, through a lay Missionary, Mr. James Burke, who writes 
 that our tracts and publications, and especially our series of Christ- 
 ian school books, are well adapted to the wants of that important part 
 of our Union. 
 
8 REPORT ON 
 
 ACCOUNT OF STOCK. 
 
 The amount of stock and fixtures, including plates, 
 
 woodcuts, and electrotypes $1 3,787 36 
 
 Publications of the Board $13,039 62 
 
 Miscellaneous publications, stationery, &c. . . 2,610 39 
 
 16,250 01 
 
 Total stock $30,037 37 
 
 EXPENSE ACCOUNT. 
 
 Amount of expenses for conducting the operations of the Board 
 for the year ending May 1st, 1869 : 
 
 Salary of the Corresponding Secretary and traveling ex- 
 penses $2,590 97 
 
 Salary of the Publishing Agent 2,000 0O 
 
 to " Clerks 753 92 
 
 Total salaries $5,344 89 
 
 Rent, fuel, insurance, &c $1,372 41 
 
 Less amount received for rent 681 00 
 
 691 41 
 
 $6,036 30 
 CASH ACCOUNT. 
 
 Amount of cash received at the Depository from May 1st, 1868 
 to May 1st, 1869: 
 
 From merchandize $12,427 43 
 
 " The Sower 1,283 30 
 
 " Rents, &c 488 45 
 
 " Bills payable 1,200 00 
 
 41 The Treasurer 9,060 05 
 
 $24,459 23 
 
 PAYMENT ACCOUNT. 
 
 For merchandize $11,441 15 
 
 " expenses 4,575 28 
 
 44 bills payable 3,389 59 
 
 M Treasurer 5,057 21 
 
 $24,459 23 
 
PUBLICATION. 
 
 TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 1869.— May 1. Dr. 
 
 To cash paid Corresponding Secretary for salary and traveling 
 
 expenses from February 15, 18G8 to May 1, 1868,.. . 8537 50 
 
 To cash paid Corresponding Secretary for salary from 
 
 May 1, 1868, to May 1, 1869 2,500 00 
 
 To cash paid Wm. Ferris, Publishing Agent, for mer- 
 chandize, expenses and bills payable 21,358 34 
 
 To balance on hand 2,451 50 
 
 Total , 826,847 34 
 
 Cr. 
 
 By balance in the Treasury, May 1, 1868 $1,432 75 
 
 " cash collected from Churches 3,812 07 
 
 " " " " individuals 229 00 
 
 " " " " Sabbath Schools 56 18 
 
 " " for life memberships, from Churches, individuals, 
 
 and Sabbath schools 605 78 
 
 " " for endowment fund from Churches. . $859 26 
 
 " " from individuals 1,365 00 
 
 $2,224 26 
 
 m « « Y7m. Ferris, Publishing Agent, amount 
 
 received at the Depository ♦ . «, 18,487 30 
 
 $26,847 34 
 FINANCIAL CONDITION. 
 
 Amount of stock 830,037 37 
 
 " due on book account 4,384 53 
 
 " " on United States bond 1,133 75 
 
 M in the Treasury 2,45 1 50 
 
 Total assets , $38 007 15 
 
 LIABILITIES. 
 
 Amount due on funded debt $6,763 54 
 
 w " " book account 3,897 84 
 
 " " " unpaid interest 175 00 
 
 Total liabilities $10,836 38 
 
 Balance in favor of the Board , $27,170 77 
 
10 REPORT ON 
 
 SUMMARY. 
 
 • 
 
 One item omitted in inventory of 1868 $540 00 
 
 Increase of stock including above 4,299 43 
 
 Total increase in favor of the Board 5,242 35 
 
 Paid on funded debt 461 45 
 
 Donated in books and tracts , 621 00 
 
 Amount paid for Sower over receipts 306 01 
 
 Amount of increase in contributions 1,116 23 
 
 WILLIAM FERRIS, 
 
 Publishing Agent. 
 
 GENERAL SYNOD'S COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE. 
 
 At the last meeting of the General Synod, held in Hudson, the 
 following resolutions were adopted, V. Res., 1, 2, 3, p. 497, Min- 
 utes General Synod : 
 
 In accordance with these resolutions, said Committee met with 
 the Board of Publication and recommended the following, viz : 
 
 " Whereas, the undersigned were appointed by the Synod of 
 Hudson a Committee of Conference with the Board of Publication, 
 under Resolutions Nos. 1, 2, 3, p. 497 of proceedings of General 
 Synod, and have carefully examined and informed themselves on 
 the matter of the publication and sale of the works of the Board, 
 and in obedience to the instructions of the Synod, conferred with 
 Messrs. P. S. Wynkoop & Son, Robert Carter & Bro., and M. W. 
 Dodd, publishers, from whom propositions for the conduct of the 
 above business have been received, as the result of their investiga- 
 tion, they unanimously recommend the following : 
 
 Resolved, That in view of the saving of labor and expense at- 
 tendant upon the arrangement proposed, as well as for the prospect 
 of an enlarged circulation of the works published under the auspi- 
 ces of the Board of Publication of the Reformed Church, the Com- 
 mittee do 4 deem it most advantageous to the interests of the 
 Church and the Board,' that an arrangement be effected with one 
 of the above Houses to ' carry on the printing and publishing busi- 
 ness of the Board.' 
 
 Resolved, That the Board of Publication be requested to effect 
 
PUBLICATION. 11 
 
 such arrangement in behalf of themselves and the Committee, as 
 
 speedily as the interests of the Board will warrant. 
 
 J. B. J E WITT, 
 J. B. SMITH, 
 JOBN LEFFERTS, 
 JOHN HARDENBURGH, 
 
 Committee" 
 
 Whereupon the Board submitted the whole matter to the Execu- 
 tive Committee for their careful consideration. As the result of 
 their deliberations, the following report was submitted to the Board, 
 which, on motion, was unanimously adopted and ordered to be in- 
 corporated in the Annual Report of the Board to the General 
 Synod. 
 
 " To the Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America. 
 
 Your Executive Committee, to whom were referred the papers 
 submitted by the General Synod's Committee of Conference, re- 
 specting the publishing business of the Board, having duly consid- 
 ered the same, respectfully report : 
 
 In order to make an intelligent and satisfactory presentation of 
 the matter now in hand, attention must be called in the outset to the 
 last movement originated for the success and permanent welfare of 
 the Board, as related on the Minutes of the last Synod, pp. 496 and 
 497. 
 
 Synod, by resolution, recognizes in this Board ' a powerful instru- 
 mentality for good, demanded now more than ever' — italicizing the 
 adverb of time. Synod also declares that, as a Church, we would 
 be recreant to the work given us to do by the Master, if we permit- 
 ted it (the Board) to languish ; reiterates the resolutions of last 
 year, and ' earnestly commends the Board to the Churches for a 
 liberal endowment.'' 
 
 These resolutions, of course, are grateful and accepted as in keep 
 ing with a previously expressed fact ' that commendable effort has 
 been made by those in charge of its affairs, to increase its efficiency 
 and power,' and with the additional encouragement, ' we are sure 
 that not one of us would withhold from them a God-speed.' Yet, 
 in the immediate context of these resolutions, are found certain 
 ominous questions, simply suggestive of the possibility of inadequate 
 management, and a special notice of ' an offer from a publishing 
 house in the city of New York,' which together are made the basis 
 
12 REPORT ON 
 
 of quite another and different set of resolutions, all in the same 
 paper, and are as follows : 
 
 1. 'That a Committee be appointed consisting of five laymen, to 
 confer, in conjunction with the Board of Publication, with the firm 
 in question, and with other publishing houses in the City of New 
 York, and see if an arrangement may not be effected, by which 
 we may, without the expenses of our present machinery, carry 
 on the printing and publishing business, connected with the Board. 
 
 2. ' That said Committee confer with the Board of Publication 
 and that they be and hereby are directed and empowered mutually 
 to effect such an arrangement as they may deem most advantageous 
 to the interests of the Church. 
 
 3. ' That the affairs of the Board be conducted as at present, 
 until such time as the above arrangement can be effected.' 
 
 The General Synod, agreeably to this, appointed a Committee of 
 Conference with whom, in due time, and in obedience to Synod, the 
 Board had the pleasure of repeated interviews. But when the gen- 
 tlemen of the Committee and of the Board first came together over 
 this business, they found themselves not a little embarrassed by 
 instructions conveyed in resolutions which, if not absolutely incom- 
 patible with each other, yet are so loosely worded as to express 
 nothing clearly and enjoin nothing specifically. By the first item of 
 instruction, Synod's Committee, in connection with the Board of 
 Publication, were to form themselves into something like a joint 
 committee of conference, to confer with the firm in question, and 
 with other publishing houses in the city of New York, not to make 
 any positive arrangement about transferring their work of printing 
 and publishing to other parties, but 'to see if any arrangement of 
 this kind may not be effected? 
 
 By the second item of instruction, Synod's Committee, in its indi- 
 viduality, was directed to confer with the other members of this 
 joint committee, viz: the Board, not to make any definite arrange- 
 ment, but ' to see if anarrangement may not be effected ; ' and the 
 Committee and the Board are ' directed and empowered mutually* 
 — whatever that may mean — ' to effect such an arrangement as they 
 may deem best.' And finally, by the last item of instruction, ' the 
 affairs of the Board are to be conducted as at present, until such a 
 time as the above arrangement can be effected ; ' whereas no posi- 
 tive arrangement was spoken of at all, much less ordered to be made 
 — nothing beyond a conference to see about the matter. 
 
PUBLICATION. 13 
 
 In these circumstances, Synod's Committee did what they consid- 
 ered their duty, according to the supposed spirit of the empowering 
 resolutions, and bavins: ascertained on what advantageous terms the 
 publishing business of this Board could be done by other parties, 
 left the result of their action with the Board in the paper already 
 read with the correspondence on which it is based. 
 
 Having well considered these documents, we propose to speak of 
 their import in a frank and becoming business-like manner. 
 
 The first thing noticeable is that the offer from the publishing 
 house in New Yoik, already spoken of as partly prompting the 
 aforesaid resolutions of Synod, we understand, has been withdrawn. 
 
 The next tiling is that Mr. Dodd's proposition is substantially the 
 same with that of Carter & Biothers; the details of the latter, 
 because more specifically given, we recite as follows : 
 
 They propose taking all our stock on hand, at half the retail price, 
 paying for the same as sold. For new publications and new edi- 
 tions of old works, they propose to furnish paper, press work and 
 binding as their share of capital, which would be about one third of 
 it. The Board, on the other hand, to pay for composition and ster- 
 eotyping, which cost about two-thirds of the entire amount re- 
 quired to publish a book. The Board also must furnish all MSS., 
 and if they cannot get them gratuitously, must pay for them also. 
 For all this and other expenses, Carter & Brothers propose to pay 
 the Board fifteen per cent, of all cash sales of the Board's publica- 
 tions, and although, there would be no additional outlay of new 
 capital in the use of plates, now on hand, the commissions required 
 would be the same. 
 
 Such is the best arrangement Synod's Committee could make for 
 the execution of the publishing business of the Board by outside 
 parties, and it is submitted for our consideration by the Committee 
 who deem it advantageous to the interests of the Church and the 
 Board, that an arrangement be effected with one of the above houses, 
 to carry on the printing and publishing business of the Boaid ; and 
 they resolved that the Board of Publication be requested to effect 
 such an arrangement on behalf of themselves and the Committee as 
 speedily as the interests of the Board will warrant. 
 
 But if we show that the interests of the Board will warrant 
 nothing of the kind ; if we show from the face of the propositions 
 upon which the action of the Committee is founded, that compli- 
 ance with their request will speedily overwhelm the Board in finan- 
 
 
14 REPORT ON 
 
 cial ruin, we think the Committee themselves will not insist upon 
 the wisdom of their own recommendations. Let us look at it as 
 presented. 
 
 The working of such an arrangement as Messrs. Carter & Bro's. 
 and M, W. Dodd propose, would necessarily be as follows: 
 
 In the very beginning, by the terms of transfer of stock, we make 
 a loss of at least thirty-three and a-third per cent, on every hundred 
 dollars. By the last report made to Synod, we had of books, etc., 
 transferable stock, $12,844 44. The loss on this amount alone 
 would be $4,281 48. Untransferable stock, in store fixtures and 
 furniture, to be sold at a very reduced price, upon which the loss 
 would probably be about $400 ; making in the front of this experi- 
 ment a total lo.'s of $4,081 48. Besides, the plates, wood cuts, 
 electrotypes, worth to us $12,228 50, would be worn out for the 
 benefit of another party, free of expense — that is, of every dollar's 
 worth from this source, the Board would realize the sum of fifteen 
 cents. 
 
 When a book, published by this arrangement, might fail for any 
 cause, to create for itself a larger demand than one edition, the 
 Board would have to advance on that sixty-six and two third cents 
 on every dollar expended, and get back fifteen cents in return. This 
 would evidently be the gain of a great loss. 
 
 Should said book, however, prove a success, it would then have 
 to run through four editions of equal size, to return to the Board 
 the bare outlay upon the first edition, while the other party would 
 get all the pecuniary benefit of the^?^ four editions. An illustra- 
 tion will make this as plain as day. 
 
 Suppose, according to the request of Synod's Committee, we go 
 into this arrangement with Carter & Bro's. Having made the loss 
 above spoken of, we are to publish an edition of a new work, say 
 of one thousand copies, at a cost of $900, to be retailed at $1, or 
 wholesaled at 70 cents per copy, our respective profit and loss stand 
 thus : 
 
 Composition, plates and illustration?, amounting to two-thirds of 
 
 the whole cost to be paid by the Board $G0O 00 
 
 Paper, press work and binding, amounting to one-third of 
 
 the whole cost to be paid by said firm 300 00 
 
 An edition of 1,000 retailed at $1 1,000 00 
 
 " 1,000 wholesaled at 70 cents 700 00 
 
 If all were wholesaled, the share of the Board would be. . . 150 00 
 
PUBLICATION. 15 
 
 That of Carter & Bro's 550 00 
 
 Net profit to Carter & Bro's., on first edition 250 00 
 
 Entire loss on the same to the Board 450 00 
 
 Should the demand, however, be constant, then four editions of a 
 thousand each would have to be sold before the Board could get 
 back their original outlay, while the fortunate firm would net beyond 
 their outlay the sum of $1,000. 
 
 This is the straight forward operation of the arrangement pro- 
 nounced by the Committee ' advantageous to the interests of the 
 Church and the Board.' 
 
 From the data given, it is the only rational view of the case that 
 can be taken. We cannot, therefore, agree with the Committee 
 upon any such suicidal policy as this plan so obviously involves. It 
 would financially ruin the Board within the space of a year from 
 date of agreement ; for the more work they should attempt to ac- 
 complish under it, the more hopelessly would they become involved. 
 This new machinery would be speedily clogged not only, but rusted 
 to a fixed immobility, never again to be set a going. We are per- 
 suaded that Synod's Committee d : d not perceive the operation of 
 this arrangement, for if they had, their advice would have amounted 
 on!y to the absurd prescription of a physician, ' to cut off" the toe 
 to cure the corn.' 
 
 If Synod desire to abolish this Board, we need hardly attempt to 
 prove that our compliance with the respected Committee's request, 
 would be the readiest way to do it, without imposing on the Synod 
 the odium of voting the Board out of existence. But such com- 
 pliance we never can yield, and we feel persuaded that such would 
 not meet the desire of Synod. The imputation of incompetency 
 has so often been made in the very teeth of counter admissions, as 
 indicated in the document of Synod originating this Committee, 
 that we deem it most in accordance with self respect, to say nothing 
 more upon the subject of our success in conducting the publishing 
 business of the Church. For a series of years, this Board, in strict 
 obedience to the wishes of General Synod has faithfully studied and 
 striven to subserve the best interests of the Church. That they 
 have accomplished this end, to some extent, none will pretend to 
 deny ; that they have done well under an unnatural and uncalled-for 
 pressure of adverse influence, in comparison with similar institutions, 
 liberally fostered by their respective denominations, none can rea- 
 sonably deny ; that they have not done what might have been done 
 
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 16 REPORT ON 
 
 in their position, no one wishes to deny ; that they have succeeded 
 in their work to no greater extent, is not their fault, as has been 
 often shown ; that it is not owing to any lack of wisdom, wit or 
 skill, we will, under comimhion, venture to assert. Whatever defi- 
 ciency be charged upon the Board, it is owing, we believe, solely, 
 surely and steadily to the spontaneous combustion of an illiberal 
 influence, perhaps not ill-designing, but surely and sadly miscalculat- 
 ing to the production of mischievous effects here and there through- 
 out the Church ; an influence sufficiently occult and intangible to 
 elude our grasp but not our knowledge ; an influence which has not 
 wholly missed of creating a popular prejudice by means of warm 
 statements and cool mis-statements in reference to our wisdom and 
 our work ; and an influence which occasionally intonates the decla- 
 ration that the confidence of the Church in this Board is much im- 
 paired. We will not trust ourselves to comment upon its parentage 
 or its character; nor upon the manner by which this announcement 
 has been put forth as the mere expression of the * logic of events ' 
 in our history ; but content ourselves with calling attention to that 
 seemingly strange species of moral insanity which aims with equal 
 enthusiasm to pull down to-day what was built up yesterday, and all 
 for the glory of God ! 
 
 Whilst we cheerfully concede that it is the duty of Synod to keep 
 a close watch upon the Boards of the Churches, to see that they 
 faithfully execute the trusts for which they were called into existence, 
 we certainly may be excused for the concomitant remark that, as a 
 needlessly frequent expression of parental anxiety, with menacing 
 gesticulation, is not adapted to improve a child already doing as well 
 as it can, so expressions of confidence and distrust incongruously 
 commingled as to the business operations of this Board are not cal- 
 culated to promote its interests or those of the Church whose child 
 it is. 
 
 The time has come when the Board may claim indulgence for an 
 earnest remonstrance against a policy perverse in its inception, un- 
 wise in its efforts, illiberal in its judgments, destructive in its ten- 
 dency, and which savors not of that ' wisdom which cometh from 
 above.' All that this Board needs is the hearty, unquestioning co- 
 operation of the pastors and officers of all our churches ; and if for 
 one or two years this should be permitted in carrying out the recom- 
 mendations of Synod, no other argument would be needed to give 
 
PUBLICATION. \1 
 
 due prominence to its worth and advantage to every church in the 
 denomination. 
 
 We would not insult the intelligence, nor offend the piety of Gen- 
 eral Synod by asking that venerable body whether they mean to sus- 
 tain and to make efficient an instrumentality of their own creation, 
 avowed to be necessary for denominational benefit ; but surely we 
 may ask, without giving offence, that the question now shall be de- 
 finitely settled whether the Board shall be upheld by Synod's secur- 
 ing for it, as far as can be done, the patronage of the Church, or 
 shall be left to itself to cope with such influences as has been its 
 misfortune to meet with, for no adequate reason, within its own de- 
 nomination. 
 
 We feel that necessity is laid upon us to speak, and if in anything 
 we speak injudiciously, we ask to be forgiven, since our only aim is 
 to accomplish the great end for which all of us are professedly striv- 
 ing. We cannot conceal, what we have already learned from exper- 
 ience, that if Synod withhold its succor, or if, when given, should 
 allow the benefits of it to be dissipated by measures hurtful in their 
 very enactment, the interests of the Church and the Board must 
 suffer together. Complaint has been loudly uttered that our expenses 
 bear an undue proportion to our income, and during the last year 
 have exceeded it; but one of the earliest lessons taught in the Bible 
 is the injustice of requiring the tale of brick and withholding the 
 necessary amount of straw. Who does not know that expenses 
 must accrue if any great good is to be realized ? It is the sunshine 
 and the rain bestowed upon expenses that bring encouraging fruits 
 into the storehouse and burn, and these are the favors we seek at the 
 hands of General Synod. But just in this connection it is pertinent 
 to say that this Board had reached the point of self-sustentation so 
 far as its depository is concerned, when an unfortunate proceeding 
 was encouraged in the Synod of 1867 at its regular session in June, 
 the effects of which were speedily felt. It was just beginning to re- 
 cover, when another proceeding in 1868, still better adapted to drive 
 all confidence away, was had, and which has compelled us once more 
 to the attitude of self-defence. We have now shown, if there be any 
 such thing as demonstration, that the Board ought to have been 
 spared this second and more severe visitation ; ought to have been 
 spared the painful imputation, inseparable from the mortifying direc- 
 tion to employ its own agency, to see whether some other might not 
 be found better adapted to do the work with the execution of whieh 
 
18 REPORT ON 
 
 it has been entrusted, and for which it was incorporated. Surely 
 our incompetency need not put us to the blush in view of the afore- 
 said arrangement, recommended as quite fit to supplant the agency 
 of the Board in the matter of publication. The result of its adop- 
 tion, we have shown, would be inevitable ruin. 
 
 We therefore claim that, under favoring circumstances, such as 
 the Church can easily, and ought certainly to create, this Board of 
 Publication is able to do all that can be reasonably required of it, and 
 is as willing as able. Is it, then, too much to insist upon the duty of a 
 hearty, liberal, continuous effort to make this instrumentality what 
 it ought to be in our denomination, and what it is in others? Is it 
 presumption to press this duty as an outgrowth from the relation 
 created by General Synod, between itself and this Board ? Surely 
 not. If Providence takes care of creation in the works of nature, the 
 6ame necessity presides over the question of success in the works of 
 grace. 
 
 In the view of this whole matter just given, we recommend the 
 following resolutions, viz : 
 
 Whereas, A Committee of Conference appointed by General 
 Synod of 1868, to confer with this Board and with other parties to 
 1 see if an arrangement may not be effected by which we may, with- 
 out the expense of our present machinery, carry on the printing and 
 publishing business connected with the Board,' has been repeatedly 
 in conference with us and with other parties in reference to said sub- 
 ject ; and, 
 
 Whereas, The arrangement proposed by said Committee for satis- 
 factory reasons cannot possibly meet the approval of this Board, and 
 when understood by them, cannot, it is thought, possibly meet with 
 the approval of Synod ; therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That the report upon this subject made to this Board 
 by its Executive Committee be transmitted to the General Synod for 
 their information in the premises. 
 
 Resolved, That this Board respectfully express their well-formed 
 judgment to General Synod, that the ' printing and publishing busi- 
 ness ' required by the Church, ' and for which this Board was cre- 
 ated, cannot be done more economically and efficiently by any other 
 parties ;' and for the truth of this, they appeal to the proposition 
 submitted to the Committee, and by them to us, and by us to Gen- 
 oral Synod, with our demonstration of consequence. 
 
 JRonolved, That the prosperity and welfare of this Bpard depemd 
 
PUBLICATION. 19 
 
 upon the favorable action of the General Synod and its urgency up- 
 on the Churches to do for it what other denominations find it profit- 
 able to do for their respective Boards of Publication, and to protect 
 it as far as can be done from any and every adverse influence calcu- 
 lated to cripple its energies, and to discredit its work. 
 
 Respectfully submitted." 
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 From the statistics given by the Publishing Agent, and the state- 
 ments embodied in the special report of the Board, it will be seen 
 that its affairs are in a healthy condition. Not figures of rhetoric, 
 but figures of arithmetic show that its business department is almost 
 the synonym for economy, as its imprimatur is for orthodoxy. If 
 the poiDt of self-sustentation has not been gained, we ask, in view of 
 the agitations from which it has suffered, where rests the responsi- 
 bility ? This point was nearly reached when the current of counter 
 legislation set in. And is our Depository an anomaly here ? Look 
 into the history of similar Boards, not excepting that colossal enter- 
 prise, the Methodist Book Concern ; or turn to that mammoth union 
 institution, the American Tract Society. It was many years after 
 their organization before their sales' departments met expenses. 
 What if the clamor to abolish them, because not self-supporting, had 
 been successful, how would the cause of truth have suffered ! 
 
 Our Depository — and this is a feature which many fail to recog- 
 nize — is not an independent enterprise established to make money. 
 This is a radical misconception, a mercenary view, beneath the dig- 
 nitv of the Church of Christ. It is the servant of the Board, which 
 is a benevolent agency, or rather the Board itself in one aspect of its 
 operations. Now, it may happen in a mercantile establishment, that 
 one department of labor is carried on at a loss, while its connection 
 with other departments, as a link in a chain, gives it a value that 
 would make its removal a serious calamity and sadly derange, if not 
 wholly defeat, the end for which the establishment was founded. 
 Shall we, then, sever the Depository as a tributary of the Board from 
 the Board itself, look at it in the false light of a separate organization, 
 and decide its worth as seen purely from the arithmetical stand- 
 point? And then, just as under favorable auspices, it is about to 
 
20 REPORT ON 
 
 reach the plane of self-support, and, we venture to predict, that high- 
 er plane ultimately, where its receipts will be a source of revenue to 
 the Treasury of the Board, shall we presume to stay its progress, and 
 by an act of excision, treat it as a parasite or a useless excrescence ? 
 How damaging would be the prestige of such a process? Would it 
 not be regarded, and rightly, too, as a step in the line of a backward 
 march, a retrogression ? Not to speak of the worth of our Deposi- 
 tory as the literary depot of our Reformed Church, is the General 
 Synod prepared to surrender the advantage of having direct and im- 
 mediate control over the publication of its doctrinal standards? 
 
 But is it fair to make the issue turn on the pivot of financial suc- 
 cess? Regarding the connection between the Depository and the 
 Board as vital, — for "without opening a discussion on this point, what- 
 ever may be said to the contrary, they stand or fall together, — this, 
 like the other Boards of the Church, is a benevolent Board. How 
 strangely it would strike us to learn that the Board of Education re- 
 fuses to furnish funds for the support of candidates for the gospel 
 ministry except when a reliable guaranty is given that the Board 
 shall be reimbursed for its outlay? Or, that our Missionary Boards 
 have resolved to advance the means for planting and supporting 
 churches only in cases in which a positive pledge is made to refund 
 the sum received with interest? Is not tbe Board of Publication 
 laboring, in its appropriate way, for the same high and holy end, the 
 spread of the truth and the growth of the Church ? Why then is 
 it to be tried by a different standard ? Why write upon the door of 
 its Depository " Tekel," u weighed in the balance and found want- 
 ing," because it cannot coin all its issues into returns large enough 
 to cover its expenditures? Would it not be the reproach of the 
 Church to be governed by considerations of financial profit rather 
 than of spiritual good ? The question is, " Is the Board susceptible 
 of being made an efficient agency, under the fostering care of the 
 ChuTcb, in the work of evangelization?" On this question, the 
 General Synod has given its deliverance in no equivocal terms. It 
 has repeatedly put on record its conviction of its importance. And 
 it only remains for the Synod to echo the recent action of the Board 
 in order to remove the last stone of stumbling from the highway to 
 enlarged prosperity and usefulness. If there be a doubting Thomas 
 left, we will beg of him only the small favor which Diogenes asked, 
 " to step out of our sunshine," and not intercept the light and 
 
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PUBLICATION. 21 
 
 warmth coming from above upon this Board, and soon the advance 
 made, under the Master's blessing, will dissipate all doubt. 
 
 We make our appeal to the Synod with increased confidence, be- 
 cause of the growing favor of the Board with the Churches. As its 
 claims are laid before them on the Sabbath, they are followed by 
 practical responses which show that its work is appreciated. Last 
 year's record of contributions was a cheering testimony, which, all 
 the circumstances considered, the most hopeful could hardly hope 
 to see repeated in the present Report. But what has God wrought ? 
 We stand rebuked and instructed before him. Notwithstanding the 
 times have been less prosperous in commercial circles ; notwithstand- 
 ing the embarrassed treasury of the Board of Foreign Missions has 
 put a heavy strain upon the Churches, and, in many instances, 
 lessened their contributions to this Board, notwithstanding the large 
 individual donations of the previous year find no parallel in the year 
 just closed ; notwithstanding the unfortunate agitations already 
 alluded to ; in the face of all these facts, it is our privilege — and we 
 record it with gratitude, for " the silver and the gold are the Lord's" — 
 to report an advance of over eleven hundred dollars in the contribu- 
 tions of the year. The subscriptions to the Permanent Fund have 
 reached the sum of 85,000. It is simple justice to the Church of 
 Flatbush, L I., and its efficient pastor, to say that this is the banner 
 Church, having contributed nearly $900. May their zeal provoke 
 many, and an ample endowment be speedily secured which shall 
 place the Board beyond every ordinary contingency. 
 
 It is hardly possible, we remark in closing, to over-estimate the 
 importance of the work in which this Board is engaged. When we 
 think of the rapid growth of our population with the fields which 
 thus lie invitingly open — fields, barren of all Christian literature, and 
 in which the voice of the living preacher is yet to be heard, — a moral 
 waste stretches out before us large enough to enlist every department 
 of Christian effort. When we think of the rapid strides of error, 
 suggested by those three ominous R's, Rationalism, Ritualism and 
 Romanism, each making vigorous efforts for the ascendancy, and 
 each using the press as a powerful lever for this purpose; when the 
 fact is patent that Rome through her newly established Board of 
 Publication, during the last year, has circulated nearly 4,000,000 
 pages that came from her press smoking with error, is this a time 
 when the faith of our fathers is imperilled, when the forces of Anti- 
 Christ, in their multiform colors, are falling into line and closing 
 
22 REPORT. 
 
 ranks and rallying for a desperate and decisive onset ; is this a time 
 when the battle is waxing hotter, almost every hour, for any battal- 
 ion to strike its colors and beat a retreat, or for any commander to 
 bid his troops stack their arms ? Brethren of the Reformed Church, 
 this ignominy must not be ours, lest in the day of disaster and de- 
 feat, we cover our faces with confusion. Let every weapon, in de- 
 fence of the truth, be wielded with a strong arm and a stronger 
 faith. While the pulpit lifts up its voice like a trumpet, let the bat- 
 tering ram of a Christian press make the bulwarks of error tremble 
 before it. 
 
 The term of office of the following members of the Board expires 
 June, 1869, viz : 
 
 Rev. R. W. Clark D.D., Mr. Thomas Jeremiah, 
 
 A. R. Thompson,D. D., u G. G. Voorhees, 
 
 M. B. Riddle, " Johnson Letson, 
 
 P. Van Wyck, " David A. Smith, 
 
 Hon. John A. Lott. 
 
 By order of the Board, 
 
 J, A. LANSING, 
 Corresponding Secretary. 
 New York, May 27, 1869. 
 
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 Win of a pthist f 
 
 RECOMMENDED BY GENERAL SYNOD 
 
 (See Minutes of June. 1844, p. 368.) 
 
 -^ 
 
 " I give unto the General Synod of the Reformed Church 
 in America dollars, to be applied to 
 
 the support and education of pious indigent young men preparing 
 for the Gospel Ministry in said Church (or for the maintenance and 
 support of the Theological Seminary of said Church,) and they are 
 to invest the principle and apply the income to the said purpose." 
 
 If the devise should be for the benefit of any of the other benevo- 
 lent operations of the Church the following phraseology should be 
 used : 
 
 If for Domestic Missions : — " I give unto the Board of Domestic 
 Missions of the Reformed ^ hnrch in America 
 
 dollars, to be applied to the maintenance and support of the Domes- 
 tic Missions of said Church." 
 
 "I give unto the Board of Foreign Mis-ions of the Reformed 
 Church in America dollars, to be app ied for 
 
 the maintenance and support of the Foreign Missions of said Church." 
 
 If for the Board of Pvhlicaticn, u I give unto the Board of Publi- 
 cation of the Reformed Church in America, to be applied to the pur- 
 poses of that Board, the sum of dollars. 11 
 
 According as the testator may select cither of the above objects. 
 

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 NOTICES. 
 
 BOARD OF CORPORATION.— Peter R. Warner, President, 
 202 Greenwich street ; John I. Bkower, Treasurer of General Synod, 
 288 Greenwich Street, New York, to whom all moneys are to be paid 
 for the Funds enumerated in the Annual Digest, and the general pur- 
 poses of Synod, except for Building Fund and Minutes of Synod. 
 
 GENERAL SYNOD.— Rev. David D. Demarest, D.D., Stated 
 Cleric, New Brunswick, N. J., to whom all communications for Gene- 
 ral Synod and Statistical Reports of Classes should be addressed, and 
 payments made for printed Minutes of Synod. John I. Brower, 
 Treasurer, 288 Greenwich Street, New Yoik. 
 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION.— Rev. John U See, D.D., Corns. 
 Secretary/, Synod's Rooms, 103 Fulton Street. F. J. Hosford, 
 Treasurer, 56 Cedar street, who receives all moneys for aiding 
 beneficiaries studying for the Gospel Ministry and for the support of 
 Parochial Schools. 
 
 BOARD OF DOMESTIC MISSIONS.— Rev. Jacob West, 
 Corresponding Secretary, Synod's Rooms, 103 Fulton Street John 
 R. Smith, Treasurer, 141 Broadway, who receives all moneys for 
 Domestic Missions, for the Church Building Fund, and for Sabbath 
 School Missionary purposes. 
 
 BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.— Rev. John Mason Ferris, 
 D.D., Corres. Secretary, Synod's Rooms, 103 Fulton Street. Gama- 
 liel G. Smith, Treasurer, 342 Pearl Street, 
 
 BOARD OF PUBLICATION.— Rev. John A. Lansing, D.D., 
 Corres. Secretary, Synod's Rooms. Peter Duryee, Treasurer, 215 
 Greenwich Street, who receives contributions for the ordinary pur- 
 poses of the Board, and such funds as are designed to aid in publish- 
 ing Sabbath School Books, etc. William Ferris, Depository Agent, 
 Synod's Rooms, 103 Fulton Street. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERINTENDENTS OF THEO. SEM.— Rev. 
 Paul D. Van Cleef, D.D., Stated Clerk, Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 PARTICULAR SYNOD OF NEW YORK.— Rev. Paul D. 
 Van Cleef, D D., Stated Clerk, Jersey City, N. .J. Theophilus A. 
 Brouwkk, Treasurer, 85 Worth Street. 
 
 PARTICULAR SYNOD OF ALBANY.— Rev. Anson DuBois, 
 D.D., Stated Clerk, Schenectady, N. Y. Wm. McElroy, Treasurer, 
 Albany. 
 
 PARTICULAR SYNOD OF CHICAGO.— Rev. J. W. Beards- 
 lke, Stated Clerk, Oonstantine, Mich.