> JAN 19 1905 
 
 SERMON 
 
 DELIVERED AT AUGUSTA, JUNE 23, 1858, 
 
 BEFORE THE 
 
 MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY: 
 
 ANNUAL REPORTS 
 
 TRUSTEES AND TREASURER, 
 
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MOTIVES TO HOME MISSIONARY WOBK. 
 
 SERMON 
 
 DELIVERED AT AUGUSTA, JUNE 23, 1858, 
 
 BEFORE THE 
 
 MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY, 
 
 FIFTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY. 
 
 BY E. G. CARPENTER, 
 
 Pastor of the Second Congregational Church, Newcastle. 
 
 Augusta: 
 
 ELIAS G. HEDGE & CO......PRINTEES. 
 
 1858. 
 
SERMON. 
 
 Isaiah lviii : 12. And they that be of thee shall build the old waste places. 
 Nehemia.ii ii : 20. The God of heaven, he 'will prosper us ; therefore we his 
 servants will arise and build. 
 
 One of the happy effects of the reformation predicted by- 
 Isaiah, was the building up of the waste places in Israel. And 
 when God had wrought their deliverance from a long and sor- 
 rowful captivity, of which another prophet has given us the 
 history, the pious Israelites returned to the inheritance of their 
 fathers, not simply to plant their vineyards and lead forth their 
 teeming flocks, but to rebuild the walls of their beloved Zion, 
 and reinstate the temple service in the hearts of the Jewish 
 people. 
 
 The Lord has turned again the captivity of our own Zion. 
 His Spirit has lifted up a standard against the floods of world- 
 liness and infidelity that had come to mock all human restraints. 
 The Lord whom we sought has come to his temple, breathed 
 new life into our languishing churches, and wakened the song 
 of salvation in the tabernacles of the righteous. 
 
 But while we rejoice to see so many of Zion's captives re- 
 turning home, and so many converts crowding her temple gates, 
 and sealing their covenant vows at her altars, we cannot forget 
 the many more, of the lost sheep of the house of Israel, who 
 have not yet returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of Souls. 
 As we stand upon the heights of Zion, on these great Feast 
 Days, and celebrate the recent victories of our King, we re- 
 member the feeble bands of Israel, who are contending nobly 
 for a like precious faith, and with us striving to preach the 
 Gospel where Christ is not named. We cannot forget the 
 appalling fact, that the masses of the people of Maine are yet 
 unevangelized. They are not bowing to the authority of 
 God's Word, not keeping his Sabbaths, not reverencing his 
 
sanctuary, not serving his Son Jesus Christ, but are in bondage 
 to the god of this world. 
 
 Whether there be less or more than four-fifths of our popula- 
 tion, qot in attendance upon any evangelical worship — whether 
 there be less or more than seventy thousand children in Maine 
 receiving no Sabbath School instruction, we need not stop to 
 determine. Recent investigations by our brethren in other New 
 England States, go to show, that, in the most favored sections 
 of the country, there is a lamentable destitution of Gospel 
 ordinances, and a still more lamentable neglect of them, by 
 multitudes who are within their reach. A faithful investigation 
 and disclosure of facts in any State, would likely go far to 
 exclude boasting, and draw from every branch of Christ's 
 church, the humbling confession — Mine own vineyard have I 
 not kept. Our eyes have seen enough of the nakedness of the 
 land to pain our hearts, to humble us before God, and to arouse 
 us to christian action. The facts embodied in the valuable Re- 
 ports of the Secretary of the Maine Missionary Society, and of 
 the several Committees on Home Evangelization, are known to 
 you all. They have awakened inquiry at home and abroad, and 
 have already produced some good results. Faithful men have 
 surveyed our moral desolations, and like Nehemiah and his asso- 
 ciates, have spread out the waste places of Israel before the 
 churches. It remains for them to respond with ancient Israel, 
 " The God of heaven, he will prosper us ; therefore we his ser- 
 vants will arise and build." The ruins to be repaired, lie before 
 us. The work to be done, we know what it is. We know who 
 must go forward in it — God's own people. Men of the world 
 will not. We know what agencies will prove effechial in this 
 WO rk — viz : those of Christ's Gospel, a ministry, divinely called 
 and devoted to their calling — local, living churches, honored 
 by the Spirit as the light of the world. What now remains, 
 but christian benevolence and christian action; — the united 
 enlistment of our christian forces, in the work of reclaiming 
 to Christ, and for Christ, the perishing multitudes of our home 
 population. 
 
 To urge upon christians the importance of prosecuting this 
 work with renewed zeal and courage, is the practical purpose 
 of this discourse. 
 
I ask their consideration of the following series of 
 
 Motives to Home Missionary Work. 
 
 In it is involved, 
 
 First. — The life of the stronger churches. 
 
 The first great source of life is found in God. The life of 
 every christian church is hid with Christ its living head. All 
 christians, and all christian churches, love to say of him, "He 
 is our life." In an important sense also, it is true, that their 
 life is found in their kindly reciprocal action. Through the 
 play of the lungs, and the circulation of the blood, and the 
 action of the members, life is sustained in the human body. 
 Each organ, also, derives its life, in part, from the healthful 
 action of every other organ. The organs of respiration, cir- 
 culation, and motion, are mutually dependent. None of them, 
 not even those which seem to have more abundant honor, can 
 say, " We are self-supporting organs." Yet no man has 
 stopped us of boasting of our larger churches as " self-support- 
 ing." A church that does not need pecuniary help in sustaining 
 the Gospel, we are wont to call a " self-supporting" church. Is 
 it quite such, in fact ? The stronger churches can indeed build 
 their own sanctuaries, pay their own minister, and contribute, 
 as they do, largely, to the support of the Gospel among the 
 feebler churches. Upon their liberal donations, many a mis- 
 sionary church is dependent for its religious privileges. But 
 while the wealth and numbers of the stronger church raise it 
 above worldly dependence, its higher elements of strength, it 
 may be drawing from several feebler churches around it, who 
 yet revere it as their spiritual mother. However privileged 
 this larger church may be, it could poorly afford to be cut off 
 from the smaller churches which are continually furnishing 
 corner stones for its own palace. The strong church does not 
 generate within itself all the social influences which are tribu- 
 tary to its prosperity. Its ablest supporters, perhaps, have 
 gained the elements of character, which laid the foundation of 
 their prosperity, in their mountain homes, under the fosterino- 
 care of some missionary church. The members, too, of this 
 strong church, may have been drawn in part from the very 
 standard bearers of the feeble churches in its vicinity. Its 
 
growth has come of their decay, its life of their death. The 
 man whom they delight to honor as their religious teacher, may 
 have been the gift of some humble mother in Israel, whose 
 cares for her son brought her to an early grave, while in his 
 dedication to God she left the whole church a legacy of sancti- 
 fied intellect, whose memorial can never die, and whose worth 
 the money changers have no scales to weigh. 
 
 Oar missionary churches in New England, can point to emi- 
 nent professional and public men, to professors and teach- 
 ers of wide christian influence, to the occupants of many of the 
 first pulpits in the land, and say, "these are our jewels"; these 
 are the sons, whom we gave up from their birth, to whatever 
 post of duty or sphere of usefulness the Master should call 
 them. Says the Secretary of the Connecticut Missionary So- 
 ciety : " From one little church, a missionary retiring after a 
 ministry of seven years, gives a list of six ministers raised up 
 from it." The last years report of our own Secretary, among 
 other instructive facts, gives the following: "One church, 
 assisted almost from the beginning until now, has been the 
 mother of several other churches. A good missionary brother,* 
 now gone to his rest, reported thirteen young men as brought 
 forward for the ministry, by himself and his fellow missionaries 
 in one county, two of whom had carried the Gospel to the 
 heathen." 
 
 In helping the weak, then, we are, in the very best sense, 
 helping ourselves — preparing " living stones," to be brought 
 and laid, almost without " sound of hammer," in the temples of 
 our own churches. "VYe are raising up sons of Levi, to fill our 
 own pulpits, to guard the interests and guide the affairs of the 
 whole church of God. Let us not forget, that we have common 
 and inseparable interests with the feeblest of these sister 
 churches — that they and we are one body in Christ, knit to- 
 gether by common sympathies and energized by a common 
 spiritual life. That life is as truly lodged in the weaker as in 
 the stronger members ; indeed, that the excellency of that life 
 may be of God, and not of us, it often passes out of the 
 stronger into the weaker. The Lord of Life found friends at 
 Bethany when in all the palaces of Jerusalem "he had not 
 
 * Rev. Josiah Tucker, Madison and Bingham. 
 
where to lay bis head/' To this day, his uncorrupted Gospel 
 has not seldom been seen fleeing into the wilderness for a 
 refuge which it could not find in the high places of Zion. 
 
 Secondly. — The existence and growth of a large number of 
 feeble churches is directly dependent upon this missionary work. 
 
 The Historical Report of our Secretary, gives "one hundred 
 and thirty-two Congregational churches" in the State, with an 
 average of nearly forty, and a total of about four thousand 
 resident members, largely dependent upon the abler societies 
 for their religious privileges. They are, with us, " contending 
 for the faith once delivered to the saints." Many of them were 
 the school-mates of our childhood. We have walked to the 
 house of God in company with them. Together we have 
 prayed and sung the praises of God in Zion. We hope to 
 meet them in the pilgrim's final home. They have precious 
 dust sleeping upon our hills under our charge. They have 
 borne away precious memories of earlier years. They will 
 never forget the Zion which gave them birth, nor the friends 
 who led them to the Savior's feet. They took the cup of sal- 
 vation, and gave first themselves, and then their children to God, 
 at our altars. Has their removal to another and possibly a more 
 important field of labor, canceled our covenant vows? If we 
 had the power to dissolve these sacred bonds, how else can a 
 christian conscience be pacified, than by helping them bear their 
 burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ? 
 
 Thirdly. — The missionary churches are doing a good ivork 
 for the communities about them. 
 
 Look at the influence of one such church. What a work of 
 prevention it is doing ! How much worse the state of society 
 had been without it, who can tell ? How many flood-gates of 
 immorality its feeble hands have quietly shut down ! How 
 many sons it has saved from dissipation and shame ! How 
 many germs of poisonous fruit it has nipped in their budding ! 
 Prevention is better and cheaper than cure, the obedience of 
 the child than the sacrifice of the man. 
 
 Compute, now, if you can, the positive good this little church 
 has effected. How many minds it has quickened — how many 
 saved from inglorious action ! How many fountains of social 
 
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 influence it has purified, and Low many families it has raised to 
 a new and nobler life ! Its influence blesses every circle and 
 department of society. Around it, as a common center, all 
 good things crystalize into forms of living beauty. 
 
 But all this is incidental. In that little Zion, Salvation is 
 placed. She is made the mother of ransomed souls. Heirs of 
 glory are nursed at her side. She is a vine of God's planting, 
 and yielding fruit unto life eternal. 
 
 Multiply, now, this one an hundred fold, for we have more 
 than a hundred such vines, entrusted by the Lord of the Vine- 
 yard to our care. Give them timely culture and they shall 
 send out their boughs unto the sea and their branches unto the 
 river. "Destroy them not, for a blessing is in them." It shall 
 go well with the communities in which they are planted and 
 sustained. 
 
 Fourthly. — / plead the urgent necessities of our new and 
 growing settlements. 
 
 We have not only the waste places in our seabord counties 
 to build up, but an increasing number of villages and thriving 
 settlements in the new counties, where the institutions of the 
 Gospel should be planted at an early day — where, in fact, they 
 are at this very day greatly needed. The healthfulness of the 
 climate, the rich fertility of the soil, and the undeveloped re- 
 sources of wealth, to be found in these counties, will at no 
 distant day attract to them a large population. What shall 
 be the social and religious character of these rising communi- 
 ties ? Is it enough that they advance in agriculture and the 
 arts, that they provide themselves schools and academies ? 
 This they are doing with a commendable zeal. Is it enough 
 that their pastures be clothed with flocks and their garners 
 filled with wheat? Do they not need sanctuaries and compe- 
 tent religious teachers ? Who would live and die in a commu- 
 nity destitute of the Gospel ? It may be rich in ore, in lakes 
 and forests ; it may have the soil of Eden ; it may be " well- 
 watered as the plains of Sodom, and as accursed as they." It 
 will be, without the Gospel. 
 
 The wants of such a community we find eloquently pleaded 
 by the noble old Puritan, John Owen, more than two hundred 
 
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 rears ago. He was addressing the English Parliament in be* 
 half of " those parts of the empire which were destitute of the 
 light of evangelical instruction." 
 
 " No men in the world," said he, " want help like them who 
 want the Gospel. Of all distresses, want of the Gospel cries 
 loudest for relief. A man may want plenty and yet be full of 
 comfort as Micaiah was; but he that wants the Gospel, wants 
 everything that should do him good. A throne without the 
 Gospel, is but the devil's dungeon ; wealth without the Gospel, 
 is but fuel for hell; advancement without the Gospel, is but 
 Q-oinf high to have the greater fall. 0, blessed Jesus, how 
 much better not to be than to be without thee ! A thousand 
 perditions come short of this : eternally to want Jesus, as men 
 do who want the Gospel." 
 
 And this want of the Gospel is an urgent, present want, 
 Now, while the foundations of many generations are to be laid ; 
 now, while the institutions of learning and religion are to be 
 moulded into enduring forms, "let us arise and build." 
 
 We honor the faith and the foresight of our fathers, who 
 followed the tide of emigration from the mother State and 
 endured hardships, in laying the foundations on which we are 
 now building. A mission was given them to fulfill, and how 
 were they straitened until it was accomplished. We have our 
 mission, viz : to set the seal of Gospel institutions upon the. 
 brow of these youthful counties, which they shall wear for 
 centuries to come. It shall be to our shame, and our children's 
 shame, if we suffer such a golden opportunity of doing good to 
 pass unimproved ! 
 
 We should not forget that our home population can plead 
 prior and superior claims upon us. They have first, a common 
 claim with all men for whom Christ has died and provided 
 salvation. They must perish as certainly without the Gospel 
 as the men of Africa or China. Indeed, the doom of the 
 heathen will be tolerable in comparison with theirs, if the 
 Gospel is not brought near enough to them to save them. 
 They are at our doors. We have direct and easy access to 
 them. A common language offers itself as a ready medium of 
 christian instruction. They have common ancestral memories 
 with us- — a common christian literature, a common Bible. A 
 
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 common blood flows in our veins. Ties of social sympathy 
 and channels of social influence, closely connect us. All these 
 things give us a high vantage ground in urging upon them the 
 acceptance of the Gospel. Such opportunities of doing good 
 must impose on us obligations which we cannot lightly cast off. 
 Every principle of patriotism and christian wisdom, bind us to 
 care for them and seek their salvation. They are by special 
 assignment of Providence, left in our charge, and in the care 
 of other christian churches of the State. The people of Maine 
 can look only to the churches of Maine for help. No foreign 
 " Society for Propagating the Gospel" can now be expected to 
 send us missionaries. Indeed, our flocks that have been 
 increased with men, have become a prey to our appreciating 
 brethren abroad, and pastors, whose praise is in all our 
 churches, and who, as we thought, were dwelling among their 
 own people, are drawn, or driven, to other fields of labor. If 
 we are to honor such heavy drafts upon the consecrated talent 
 of our State, we have need to be looking to our "School of 
 the Prophets," and to be seeking from God, Samuels and 
 Elishas, who can come forward and take up the falling stand- 
 ards and lead on the armies of Israel. 
 
 Fifthly. — As we would hasten the day of the world 's conver- 
 sion to Christ, we must zealously prosecute this work of Home 
 Missions. Not only is there no antagonism — there is a beau- 
 tiful harmony between all the great enterprises of christian 
 benevolence. We would not place the work of Home Mis- 
 sions above or against any other good work, least of all against 
 the greater work of "publishing the Gospel to every creature." 
 "We would not, at this dark crisis in our Foreign Missionary 
 operations, divert a single dollar from any mission in heathen 
 lands. Our churches have not done too much for the field 
 which is the world, but too little for the field which is their own 
 home. We have not provided for our own household. It is 
 not enough for the christian mother to pray for the coming of 
 Christ's kingdom, nor yet with Mary to cast her choicest offer- 
 ings at his feet. She must see to it that her sons are not 
 coming up to dishonor her memory, and propagate an influence 
 for evil, all the wider for their christian parentage. It is not 
 enough, that a christian church observe its "concerts of prayer" 
 
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 and make its stated contributions for the spread of the Gospel, 
 the spirit of missions must live within her own bosom, and her 
 sons must be taught the blessedness of giving themselves unto 
 the Lord, as he hath need of them. The sacred fire must burn 
 steadily upon her home altars, and the light of a pure Gospel 
 shine from her home towers, if she would bless the nations that 
 " sit in darkness." 
 
 Let the christian churches of our State, each in its own way, 
 yet all upon Christ, as the common Corner Stone, arise and 
 build. Let them go out " two and two" from every church, 
 after the primitive mode of " Home Evangelization" — let them 
 carry the Gospel into every destitute district ; lift up the stand- 
 ard for the people ; gather the neglected children into Sabbath 
 Schools. Let them build chapels, costly or cheap, as they can ; 
 plant churches ; seek out and help forward to the Gospel Min- 
 istry young men of piety and promise, and thus provide pastors 
 who shall educate the churches to habits of benevolence, and 
 every home church shall become " a well-spring" of salvation 
 for the ends of the earth. Our heritage shall then be a seed- 
 plot and nursery of missionary vines. Our country shall be- 
 come, as one has well said, " a recruiting-ground for the armies 
 of Emanuel," where the soldiers of the cross are in training 
 for the conquest of the world. Our home work shall then be 
 prosecuted as a means to the great end, of the world's conver- 
 sion ; or rather, both be pursued with an eye single to the 
 Redeemer's supreme dominion and glory. The divine order 
 was to " begin at Jerusalem" — to make home the center of 
 operations for the universal propagation of the Gospel. Nor 
 did the chosen apostle to the Gentiles forget this divine order 
 by a neglect of his own kindred. His "heart's desire and 
 prayer to God " was for Israel's salvation. He sought the con- 
 version of the Jews as teachers for the Gentiles. The "ful- 
 ness" of Israel, he tells us, is essential to the perfected " riches 
 of the Gentiles." 
 
 It was in the spirit of a broad philanthropic patriotism, if we 
 may so say, that John Knox prayed, " Give me Scotland or I 
 die." For the sake of the British Empire, for the sake of the 
 world, he would have Protestant Christianity enthroned in the 
 hearts of his countrymen. For the same reason, looking 
 
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 through the salvation of our own to the salvation of every 
 other land, with the king of Israel, we may well devoutly pray : 
 " God be merciful to us and bless us, and cause his pace 
 to shine upon us : that thy way may be known upon 
 earth, thy saving health among all nations." 
 
 One other motive I must not omit. The text contains it. 
 The God of heaven, he ivill prosper us. 
 
 " Hitherto the Lord hath helped us." Maine has been, from 
 its first settlement, his inheritance. Savage passion, set on fire 
 by Jesuit craft, was not suffered to consume it. He gave it to 
 our fathers through a baptism of blood, which their sons ought 
 never to forget. To the praise of God, that "persecuting 
 power," which has been in his hand the scourge of the nations, 
 was baffled in every attempt to gain possession of it.* Large 
 portions of the older counties were settled by men of the 
 Puritan stock chiefly from the mother State. They quitted 
 themselves like men in the endurance of hardships, and devel- 
 oped a noble type of christian character. The churches planted 
 by them have held fast the doctrines of the cross. They have 
 been independent in their organization and adoption of creeds, 
 untrammelled in their government by any ecclesiastical author- 
 ity, yet efficient in discipline, and harmonious in their associated 
 action. Our ministry has been a brotherhood of peers and 
 bishops all, by divine appointment, having, as we think, the 
 spirit of Christ. They have been united in counsel, decided in 
 defence of truth and right, abundant in labors, and not unblest 
 with the tokens of the divine presence. And at this time do 
 we not hear, all unworthy as we are, a voice from the Excellent 
 Glory : " Be strong, all ye people, and work, for I am with you, 
 saith the Lord of hosts." With this divine commission in our 
 hands, sealed by the Holy Ghost, what encouragement have we 
 to prosecute our work. The Lord is working with us, con- 
 firming the word with signs even more convincing and glorious 
 than were those of apostolic times. 
 
 My brethren, is not the circle of motives complete ? What 
 other incentives to this great missionary work do we need? 
 
 As strong churches, our own sustained life is wrapped up 
 in it. 
 
 * Bancroft's History of the U. S.— Settlement of Maine, vol. 1, chap. ix. 
 
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 The existence and growth of the feeble churches is suspended 
 directly upon it. 
 
 The welfare of the communities into which these "arks of 
 God" are carried, is secured by it. 
 
 The necessities of our new settlements urgently demand it. 
 
 The multitudes wandering upon our mountains, as sheep 
 without a shepherd, plead for it. 
 
 A perishing world waits for its accomplishment. 
 
 More than all, the inspiring presence and overshadowing 
 glory of God, moves us to the work and gives us the sure 
 pledge of success. 
 
 If the God of Abraham leads our way, if the Mighty God 
 of Jacob is our strength, and it is his pleasure to give us the 
 kingdom, what more can we ask ! 
 
 In closing, I commend to your prayers and sacred charities, 
 Two Leading Agencies, for Evangelizing Maine; viz: The 
 Maine Missionary Society, and our Theological Seminary, 
 from which these missionary churches, with few exceptions, 
 must have their supply of pastors, or go without them. 
 
 In pleading for the first, I have already trenched upon the 
 ground of its Secretary, who is able to speak for himself and 
 the cause he represents. This Society is sustaining a noble 
 band of missionary laborers, in a good work, both ours and 
 theirs. They need, they deserve an ampler support. But this 
 institution has almost no other than an annual endowment of 
 loving christian hearts. It is simply the almoner of our offer- 
 ings, dispensing with one hand to the missionary churches what 
 we put into the other. Shall not our offerings to this cause 
 from this time be increased ? Could not many of us increase 
 them, the coming year, two or ten fold, and not exceed the 
 measure of our obligation to the Gospel ? Do christian men 
 take into the account the fact, that their ships and merchandise, 
 their farms and forests even, derive more than half their value 
 from the present partial diffusion of the Gospel ? Can chris- 
 tian.»men live under the peaceful protection of wholesome laws, 
 and have their persons and estates under insurance at the 
 Gospel's expense, and not feel the obligation to pay a just pre- 
 mium for such advantages? Can they possibly maintain a 
 cheaper police to guard their estates and homes than these 
 
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 Home Missionaries ? By their labors in part certainly, we 
 have our wealth and good estates. Is it economy, is it justice, 
 to suffer these faithful, self-denying laborers, as well as the 
 pastors of larger churches, to leave our State for want of 
 competent support? Let the churches judge. Neither our 
 prophets nor our prophets' wives live forever. One of these, 
 highly esteemed and useful, has just entered into rest. One 
 common ruin swept her and her dear children, eight in num- 
 ber, (leaving not one to bear up her name or bless a father's 
 eyes with her image,) into one common grave.* Our bleeding 
 hearts can hardly check the complaint, " Lord, if thou hadst 
 been here," in these churches of Maine, our brother's family 
 " had not died," and our brother's heart had not been broken 
 by this untimely and most sorrowful calamity! But '-'Aaron 
 held his peace," and so must we ! 
 
 Duty may sometimes call our missionaries away to the West 
 or to a foreign field. Then, we bid them go, and plant the 
 Rose of Sharon on the plains of Kansas or the shores of 
 Africa, and pledge them all needful aid in their work. But if 
 any of the needed, useful missionaries of Maine, in time to 
 come, are compelled to go out from us, for want of the meagre 
 support they are now receiving, what son of Maine, with the 
 heart of a man, not to say of a christian, will not pray, ; ' Lord, 
 let it not be I who shall keep back part of the price of such 
 missionary labor !" If Maine is to deserve the distinction of 
 being "the mother of men," she must show a mother's affection 
 for her own offspring ! 
 
 Nor can Maine be evangelized without men. You must have 
 men to command your ships ; to superintend your shops and 
 factories ; to hold the keys of your banks ; to teach in your 
 schools and colleges; to sit in your courts of justice; to enact 
 aud administer your laws. How prostrate and forceless are 
 all the arrangements of society, without living, competent, 
 working men ! And what are all our church arrangements, 
 our sacramental boards, our assemblings at the sanctuary, at 
 
 *I hardly need say that allusion is here made to the family of Rev. Horatio 
 Ilsley, who, for some fifteen yeats before leaving our State, was an accepted and 
 successful servant of the Maine Missionary Society. A testimonial of christian 
 sympathy for our afflicted brother may be found upon the Minutes of the General 
 Conference. 
 
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 our marriage altars, at the burial of our dead, if living men, 
 authorized and competent to officiate, are not present ? What 
 are all our missionary institutions, and collected funds, nay 
 our precious Bib es, if we have not the men to go out as living 
 teachers and ambassadors for Christ ! 
 
 And where but at home shall we find the men ? Our churches 
 are supplied only to a limited extent from the Theological Sem- 
 inaries of other States. Some from abroad we have whom we 
 honor and love. But the demands of the West and of the 
 world are so pressing, that we cannot get ministers for Maine 
 unless we educate them in Maine. No argument can be needed 
 on this point. The large majority of our pastors must come 
 from our own churches and our own " School of the Prophets." 
 The Congregational churches of Maine are then shut up to this 
 alternative, of sustaining their own Theological Seminary, 
 with its able and needed body of Professors, or of submitting 
 to the necessity of having pulpits without preachers, and flocks 
 without pastors ! 
 
 We have too much confidence in the churches of Maine, to 
 believe that they will suffer their beloved Seminary to languish 
 and die for want of a proper endowment. It is a child of too 
 many prayers and too many costly sacrifices, to be abandoned 
 at this late day ! It has received too many signal blessings 
 from on high, to be neglected now by the friends of Zion. It 
 has a corps of choice and faithful men filling its seats of instruc- 
 tion whom we cannot think of dismissing, and whose wide 
 christian influence we cannot afford to lose. They have stood 
 long and patiently at their posts, resisting repeated solicitations 
 from abroad, for our sake and for Christ's sake we cannot doubt. 
 They are respected and beloved by us all. But it is not our 
 commendations that they need — not our compliments that they 
 seek. They simply ask that we shall deal kindly and honestly 
 with them, and if we believe that we cannot do without the 
 Seminary, to " show our faith by our works." If the Congre- 
 gational churches of Maine will make an earnest and united 
 effort, the Seminary can be placed above embarrassment. 
 
 Brethren of the churches, suffer a word of exhortation upon 
 this matter. What better thing can you, whom God has pros- 
 
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 pcrcd, do, to secure his blessing on yourselves and your heirs, 
 than to set apart a generous portion of your worldly goods to 
 the Seminary of your own State ? What more commendable 
 method can you take to secure a remembrance by future gener- 
 ations, than to place upon your estate the seal of this institu- 
 tion, which is already honorably known, and represented by its 
 talented missionary sons in every quarter of the globe ? 0, 
 will you not reproach yourselves, ye christian men of wealth, 
 when called to give an account of your stewardship, if it shall 
 appear that you could afford to expend thousands on thousands 
 upon your own private mansions, and to maintain " the pride of 
 life," but suffered to perish this " School of the Prophets ?" 
 Through this agency you can send out, from year to year, a 
 succession of living teachers to win a countless number of souls 
 to Christ, in all the joy of whose salvation you may richly and 
 eternally share. Will you let others take from you that crown 
 of glory which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, has in reserve for 
 those who shall have faithfully used the talents entrusted to 
 their care for the salvation of men and the glory of God ! It 
 may appear that what you have tried to keep has been lost to 
 yourselves and your heirs, and only what you have given back 
 to God has been saved. Riches are not forever. Do good 
 with them while it is in the power of your hands to do it, for 
 that power will soon pass away ! 
 
 And will not every member of our churches deem it a privi- 
 lege to do something, and do it now, for this worthy object, 
 before death defeats the long delayed purpose of benevolence ? 
 Let us not wait to be called upon by an agent, but each one, 
 between himself and his God, determine what amount he will 
 devote to this sacred institution, and communicate his or her 
 decision to its Treasurer, at Bangor, without delay. 
 
 Come, one and all, ministers and people, let us lift this load 
 from the Seminary and from the hearts of its beloved teachers. 
 It is too much to ask of them, to bear this burden longer ! 
 The law of love, of gratitude, of justice, demands that we 
 should take it upon our own shoulders, and leave them free to 
 devote their unwasted powers to their appropriate and chosen 
 work. This they have long desired. May they live to realize 
 
17 
 
 their hopes, and after that, live long to bless the church and 
 train her sons to serve at her altars. Laclcn "with sheaves, 
 late may they be called to their reward. 
 
 And upon the hills of God above, may we all be permitted 
 to rejoice together, over the churches gathered, and the souls 
 saved, through these two agencies, so signally blessed of heaven 
 hitherto, The Maine Missionary Society, and " The Maine 
 Charity School."* Through these, and kindred institutions 
 sustained by our christian brethren of other denominations, 
 whom we love to hail as fellow-laborers in the same great 
 work, may God save the people of Maine. 
 
 ANNUAL REPORT 
 
 Of the Trustees of the Maine Missionary Society. 
 
 Fifty-one years ago, June 18, 1807, in the neighboring city 
 of Hallowell, the Maine Missionary Society was formed, on 
 motion of Rev. Kiah Bailey, then pastor of a church in New- 
 castle. He also was President of this Society from 1815 to 
 to 1822. Since our last annual meeting, the Master has called 
 him in a good old age to higher scenes. The same blessed 
 transition has, we trust, been made by Rev. Dr. Tyler and Rev. 
 Thaddeus Pomeroy, who for several years were Trustees of 
 this Society. Of those who had been for many successive years 
 its missionaries, the Rev. Nathaniel Chapman, one of the first 
 year's graduates of our Theological Seminary, and the Rev. 
 Isaac Carlton, long extensively known and highly valued, as 
 men of excellent spirit, good and useful ministers of Jesus 
 Christ, have during the past year rested from their labors. 
 
 *This, viz. " The Maine Charity School," is the corporate name of the Theological 
 Seminary at Bangor, and the title which should be used in leaving legacies by will 
 and testament to the Institution. 
 
18 
 
 Tabular "View. 
 
 The churches and settlements, assisted by the Society, with the 
 nanies of the missionaries, and other particulars annually reported, 
 will now be given in a tabular form ; to which will be added brief 
 sketches of the several fields of labor — of those more especially which 
 have been blessed by the reviving influences of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 TABULAR VIEW. 
 
 Churches and Missionaries. 
 
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 1. Acton, 
 
 Rev. Jonas Fisk, s. s. 
 
 June GC, 1857. 
 
 6 mo. 
 
 50 00 
 
 75 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 18 00 
 
 
 2. Albany. 
 
 Rev. Samuel L. Gould, j>\ s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 200 00 
 
 125 
 
 66 
 
 11 
 
 1 
 
 38 
 
 60 
 
 5 50 
 
 4 00 
 
 3. Alexander. 
 
 COOPEE. 
 
 Mr. Edward H. Buck. 
 
 July 28, 1857. 
 
 3 
 
 48 00 
 
 85 
 90 
 
 11 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 
 26 
 33 
 
 
 
 4. Alna. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Talbot, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 97 00 
 
 100 
 
 80 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 55 
 
 20 00 
 
 45 00 
 
 5. Amherst and Aurora. 
 Rev. Charles Soule, s. s. 
 
 Way 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 75 00 
 
 100 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 5q 
 
 5 00 
 
 
 C. Andover. 
 
 Rev. Mark Gould, P. 
 
 Juno 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 150 00 
 
 125 
 
 50 
 
 22 
 
 1 
 
 45 
 
 90 
 
 6 75 
 
 13 50 
 
 7. Baldwin and Sebago. 
 Hiram. 
 Rev. Cyril Pearl, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 75 00 
 
 125 
 75 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 1 
 
 
 3 
 
 60 
 85 
 
 10 00 
 5 00 
 
 
 8. Belfast, North. 
 Freedom. 
 Rev. J. R. Munsell, P. 
 
 July 31, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 200 00 
 
 175 
 150 
 
 58 
 21 
 
 6 
 
 1-. 
 
 10 
 
 85 
 50 
 
 23 50 
 20 00 
 
 14 13 
 
 9. Benton. 
 
 Clinton, (Hunter's Mills.) 
 Rev. Benjamin Dodge, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Jan'y 11, 1858. 
 
 3 
 9 
 
 50 00 
 113 00 
 
 150 
 100 
 
 11 
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 ch. 
 
 
 
 15 
 5 
 
 103 
 
 70 
 
 
 
 10. Blanchard. 
 Sangerville. 
 Abbot. 
 Guilford. 
 
 Rev. John A. Perry, s. s. 
 
 Juno 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 200 00 
 
 75 
 100 
 
 75 
 
 47 
 23 
 12 
 no 
 ch. 
 
 5 
 
 7 
 
 11 
 
 60 
 100 
 
 75 
 
 16 50 
 5 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 11. Bradford. 
 
 Rev. J. R. Tufts, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 200 00 
 
 150 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
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 8 00 
 
 
 12. Bridgton, North. 
 Harrison. 
 
 Rev. John Dodd, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 6 
 
 75 00 
 
 125 
 
 vs. 
 
 45 
 B2 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 45 
 62 
 
 5 50 
 16 00 
 
 6 35 
 5 00 
 
 13. Bristol. 
 
 Mr. Truman A. Msrrill, s. s. 
 
 Jan'y 11, 1858. 
 
 6 
 
 25 00 
 
 130 
 
 29 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 70 
 
 17 00 
 
 16 00 
 
 14. Brooksville, West. 
 
 Mr. Irani VV. Smith, s. s. 
 Mr. Benjamin D. Henry, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Feb'y 7, 1858. 
 
 7 
 5 
 
 58 00 
 42 00 
 
 125 
 
 64 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 65 
 
 12 62 
 
 12 28 
 
 15. Brown-field. 
 
 Rev. James Talton, s. s. 
 
 IJuly 28, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 100 00 
 
 '100 
 
 35 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 50 
 
 2 50 
 
 10 00 
 
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 TABULAR VIEW. 
 
 Churches and Missionaries. 
 
 16. Brownville. 
 
 Rev. William S. Bewail, P. 
 
 17. Burlington. 
 
 Rev. E. P. Roberts. 
 Mr. G. F. Claflin. 
 
 18. Bcxton, JVorth. 
 
 Rev. G. VV. Cressey, P. 
 
 19. Cakmel. 
 Kf.nduskeag. 
 
 Mr. Jonathan E. Adams. 
 
 20. Casco. 
 Naples. 
 
 Rev. J. P. Richardson, s. s. 
 
 21. Dedham. 
 
 Rev. James Wells, s. s. 
 
 22. Denmark. 
 
 Rev. Josiah T. Hawes. 
 
 23. Dexter. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Smith. 
 Mr. James H. Fitts. 
 
 24. Dixfield. 
 
 Rev. J. P. Richardson, s. s. 
 Rev. William V. Jordan, s. s. 
 
 25. Dixmont. 
 Unity. 
 
 Wr. James H. Fitts. 
 
 26. Durmam. 
 Lisbon. 
 
 Rev. Henry S. Loring, s. s. 
 
 27. Edgecomb. 
 
 Rev. Amasa Loring, P. 
 
 28. Falmouth, West. 
 
 Rev. Royal Parkinson, P. 
 
 29. Farmington Falls. 
 Chesterville, North. 
 
 Mr. Jonas Burnhain, s. 5. 
 
 30. Flag Staff and vicinity. 
 Kingfield. 
 
 Salem. 
 
 Rev. David Turner. 
 
 31. Frankfort Wills. 
 
 Wr. J. G. Roberts. 
 
 32. Fort Fairfield. 
 Salmon Brook. 
 Presque Isle. 
 
 Rev. Elbridge Knight, s. s. 
 
 33. Garland. 
 Atkinson. 
 
 Rev. P. B. Thayer, P. 
 
 Date of 
 
 Commission. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 12 mo 
 
 July 28, 1857. 
 July 28, 1857. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 July 28, 1857. 
 
 April 14, 1858. 
 August 1,1857. 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 Sept., 1857. 
 April, 1858, 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 May, 1858. 
 
 July 28, 1857, 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Jan'y 11, 1858.1 6 
 
 June 26, 1857. 12 
 
 June 26, 1857. 3 
 
 June 26, 1857. 12 
 
 1-2 
 
 4 
 11 
 11-4 
 
 1 1-4 
 1 1-4 
 
 June 26, 1857 
 Jan'y 11, 1858. 
 
 June 26, 1857, 
 Feb'y 1, 1858. 
 
 June 26, 1857, 
 
 12 
 
 11 00 
 62 00 
 
 96 00 
 
 33 00 
 
 100 00 
 18 00 
 
 40 00 
 40 00 
 
 133 00 
 29 00 
 
 75 00 
 75 00 
 
 100 00 120 
 25 00125 
 
 200 
 85 
 50 00 
 
 26 
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 9 3 
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 96 00 
 88 00 
 
 138 00 
 
 108 00 
 
 150 00 
 
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 9 35 
 
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 22 17 64 78 
 
 7 75 
 5 00 
 
 11 00 
 
 17 00 
 
 5 80 
 
 80 22 00; 
 75j 
 
 30 00 
 
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 TABULAE VIEW. 
 
 Churches and Missionaries. 
 
 Date of 
 Commission. 
 
 34. Gilead. 
 
 Rev. Edmund Burt, s. s. 
 
 35. GoULDSBOROUGH. 
 
 Mr. S. G. Norcross ) 
 Mr. Thomas Robie. ( 
 
 36. Gray. 
 
 Rev. Allen Lincoln, P. 
 
 37. Harpswell. 
 
 Mr. Thomas L. Ellis. 
 
 38. Isle de Haute. 
 
 Rev. Joshua Eaton, s. s. 
 
 39. Jackson and Brooks. 
 
 Mr. John Sewall. 
 
 40. KlTTERY POINT. 
 
 Rev. William A. Fobes. 
 
 41. LlMINGTON. 
 
 Rev. John Parsons, P. 
 
 42. Lincoln. 
 Passadumkeag. 
 
 Rev. Alvan J. Bates, P. 
 
 43. Lovell. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Smith. 
 
 44. Machiasport. 
 
 Rev. G. Bacheller. 
 
 45. Madison Bridge. 
 
 Rev. Thomas G. Mitchell, s. s. 
 
 46. Mechanic Falls. 
 
 Rev. William V. Jordan, s. s. 
 
 47. Mercer. 
 South Solon. 
 
 Rev. John Forbush, s. s. 
 
 48. Monmouth. 
 Fayette. 
 
 Rev. J. H. Conant, s. s. 
 
 49. Monson. 
 Greenville. 
 
 Rev. R. W. Emerson, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857, 
 July 28, 1857, 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 August 7, 1857. 
 
 June 26, 185 
 
 July 28, 1857. 
 
 Aug. 25, 1857 
 April, 1858. 
 
 June 26, 1857 
 
 12 mo. 
 2 1-2 
 
 12 
 2 
 
 12 
 1 1-2 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 1 1-4 
 
 100 00 
 41 00 
 
 E >• 
 
 150 00 115 
 32 00 100 
 
 100 00 
 48 00 
 
 100 00 
 30 00 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 June 26, 1857. 12 
 
 200 00 125 
 20 00| 75 
 
 1115 
 100 00 120 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Oct. 15, 1857. 
 
 50. Newfield, West. 
 Rev. Jonas Fisk. 
 
 51. ^ew Portland, West and North 
 
 Anson, South. 
 
 Rev. E. S. Hopkins. 
 
 52. Norway Centre. 
 
 Rev. Nath'l Richardson, s. s. 
 
 53. Norway Village. 
 
 Rev. Asa T. Loring, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 May, 1857, 
 
 Oct. 8, 1857 
 
 June 26, 1857 
 
 June 26, 1857 
 Feb'y 1, 1858. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Feb'y 19, 1857. 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 
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 Kev. Marcus R. Keep, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 6 mo. 
 
 100 00 
 
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 55. Oldtown. 
 
 Rev. Ebenezer Douglass, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Sept., 1857. 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
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 125 00 150 
 
 86 
 
 35 
 
 
 40 
 
 100 
 
 50 00 
 
 
 56. Orland, 
 
 Rev. Hiram Houston, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 125 00,110 
 
 36 
 
 
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 3 
 
 100 
 
 47 30 
 
 83 96 
 
 57. Orono. 
 
 Rev. St. L. Bowler, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 200 00 150 
 
 73 
 
 22 
 
 1 
 
 40 
 
 116 
 
 35 60 
 
 77 63 
 
 58. Orrington. 
 
 Rev. W. Newell, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Jan'y 11, 1858. 
 
 6 
 6 
 
 62 00 
 50 00 
 
 100 
 
 57 
 
 5 
 
 1 
 
 12 
 
 90 
 
 24 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 59. Oxford. 
 
 West Mtnot. 
 Rev. G. F. Tewksbury, s. s. 
 
 May 1, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 150 00 
 
 75 
 
 125 
 
 50 
 
 56 
 
 3 
 
 29 
 
 3 
 
 40 
 
 45 
 115 
 
 29 06 
 13 60 
 
 9 00 
 11 40 
 
 60. Patten and vicinity. 
 
 Rev. Ephraim Fobes, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 65 00 
 
 100 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 61. Perry. 
 
 Mr. J. J. Bulfinch, 5. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 4 
 
 33 00 100 
 
 66 
 
 
 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 62. Pittston. 
 
 Rev. Nathaniel Chapman, s. s. 
 
 March, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 100 00 100 
 
 32 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 65 
 
 6 50 
 
 
 63. Portland, 4th Church. 
 
 Rev. E. J. Adams, s. s. 
 Rev. Amos G. Beeman, s. 5. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Jan'y 11, 1853. 
 
 13-4 
 5 
 
 29 00 
 83 33 
 
 50 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 64. Raymond. 
 
 Rev. Luther Wiswall, 
 
 Oct. 27, 1857. 
 
 1 1-2 
 
 36 00 
 
 75 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 65. Rockport. 
 
 Rev. J. E. M. Wright, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 200 00 
 
 100 
 
 35 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 13 
 
 60 
 
 31 00 
 
 
 66. Rumford. 
 
 Rev. J. G. Merrill, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 12 
 
 125 00 
 
 110 
 75 
 
 01 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 40 
 
 10 00 
 
 7 30 
 
 67. St. Albans and vicinity. 
 Rev. Henry White, 5. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857.112 
 
 64 00 
 
 60 
 
 31 
 
 
 
 
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 11 51 
 
 
 68. Sanford. 
 
 Rev. Christopher Marsh, 
 
 July 9, 1857. 12 
 
 80 00 112 
 
 46 
 
 
 1 
 
 20 
 
 56 
 
 33 00 
 
 
 69. Searsport, East. 
 
 Rev. David Thurston, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 100 00 100 
 
 31 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 
 45 
 
 7 53 
 
 66 00 
 
 70. Sidney. 
 
 , Vassaleorough. 
 
 Rev. J. B. Wheelwright. 
 Mr. Henry V. Emmons. 
 
 July, 1857. 
 July 28, 1857. 
 
 3-4 
 2 1-4 
 
 24 00 
 43 00 
 
 100 
 100 
 
 26 
 49 
 
 11 
 
 17 
 
 
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 80 
 60 
 
 14 20 
 
 10 00 
 16 00 
 
 -71. Solon Village and vicinity. 
 Madison Mills. 
 Embden. 
 
 Rev. Sidney Turner, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 150 00 
 
 150 
 75 
 50 
 
 12 
 
 7 
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 ch. 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 
 2 
 
 •1 
 ■1 
 
 90 
 
 50 
 
 6 00 
 
 
 72. Springfield. 
 Lee. 
 Carroll. 
 Rev. Charles H. Emerson, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 275 00 
 
 150 
 
 •J; 
 
 9 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 60 
 
 16 00 
 
 
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 Rev. J. B. Hadley, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 6 mo. 
 
 75 00 
 
 70 
 
 50 
 
 
 22 55 
 
 30 00 
 
 74. Strong. 
 
 Rev. William Davenport, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 200 00 
 
 125 
 
 95 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 80 
 
 15 00 
 
 
 "US. Sumner. 
 
 South Hartford. 
 
 Rev. Benj. G. Willey, P. 
 
 Juno 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 75 00 
 
 150 
 
 79 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 90 
 
 23 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 76. Sweden. 
 
 Rev. Charles B. Smith, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 150 00 
 
 100 
 
 48 
 
 1 
 
 
 20 
 
 60 
 
 17 75 
 
 15 00 
 
 77. Temple. 
 
 New Vineyard. 
 
 Rev. Simeon Hackett, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 100 00 
 
 100 
 
 70 
 35 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 50 
 
 4 00 
 
 
 78. Turner. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Bowker, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Jan'y 11, 1858. 
 
 5 
 
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 62 00 
 70 00 
 
 140 
 
 106 
 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 90 
 
 40 65 
 
 24 00 
 
 79. Union. 
 
 Mr. Wm. H. Kingsbury, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 100 00 
 
 100 
 
 57 
 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 80. Waterville. 
 
 Rev. William B. Greene, P. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Sept. 20, 1857. 
 
 2 2-3 
 
 1-3 
 
 30 00 
 
 77 00 
 
 200 
 
 70 
 
 15 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 150 
 
 37 00 
 
 22 00 
 
 31. Weld. 
 
 Rev. Stephen Titcomb, F. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 75 00 
 
 80 
 
 40 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 13 
 
 B5 
 
 13 64 
 
 6 63 
 
 82. Westbrook. 
 
 Rev. J. B. Wheelwright, P. 
 
 Juno 26, 1857. 
 
 6 
 
 50 00 
 
 180 
 
 42 
 
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 3 
 
 5 
 
 75 
 
 40 00 
 
 40 00 
 
 83. Whitneyville. 
 Jonesbokough. 
 
 JNoRTHFIELD. 
 
 Rov. Joseph Peart, si t. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Nov., 1857. 
 
 4 
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 67 00 
 100 00 
 
 125 
 
 50 
 75 
 
 42 
 14 
 15 
 
 8 
 5 
 
 
 10 
 
 7 
 
 60 
 50 
 
 9 40 
 2 83 
 10 00 
 
 
 84. Wilton. 
 
 Rev. John Baker, s. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 Jan'y 11, 1858. 
 
 6 1-2 
 5 1-2 
 
 108 00 
 80 00 
 
 125 
 
 74 
 
 4 
 
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 L0 
 
 88 
 
 28 58 
 
 
 85. W. Mi not and Mechanic Falls. 
 Rev. G. P. TeWksbury, s, s. 
 
 May, 1858. 
 
 2 
 
 19 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 86. WlNSLOW. 
 
 Rev. David Sheploy, 5. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 150 00 125 
 
 62 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 
 25 00 
 
 87. Woolwich. 
 
 Rev. S. S. Drake, i. s. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 200 
 100 00 175 
 
 61 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 25 
 
 115 
 
 
 
 68. York, (Scotland.) 
 
 Rev. Morris Holman. 
 
 June 26, 1857. 
 
 12 
 
 100 00| 80 
 
 35 
 
 3 
 
 
 2 
 
 60 
 
 20 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 To the foregoing might be added a new missionary field in Washington county, of much 
 promise, consisting of Tofsfield and Ppinceton. The latter place, usually called Lewy's 
 Island, is tho present terminus of a railroad from Calais, and bids fair to be a populous, thriving 
 settlement. A Congregational chapel is now nearly completed, and religious meetings of late 
 have been occasions of peculiar interest. During the last year, six months were spent in the two 
 places by Mr. Edward Buck, who received one-half his pecuniary compensation from contribu- 
 tions to the Dome Missionary caase by the churches in that county. 
 
23 
 
 Details and Results, 
 
 1. Mr. Fisk's labors at Acton ceased at the end of 1857, and it is 
 not known that any effort to procure preaching has since been made. 
 
 2. " The first case of conversion occurred in October ; and the work 
 of the Spirit has been progressing ever since, up to the present time" — 
 early in June. " As to means, we have relied upon the services of 
 the Sabbath, and one weekly prayer meeting, together with personal 
 conversation with the impenitent. With one exception, all the con- 
 verts are in the morning of life. Two of them have commenced a 
 course of study, looking towards the ministry." During the three last 
 months Mr. Gould has preached a fourth of the time in North Water- 
 ford, where he has had " a large congregation, attentive and solemn." 
 
 3. Nothing of special interest reported from these two places. They 
 are about to be supplied for two and a half months by Mr. J. H. Mc- 
 Monagle, from the Union Theological Seminary in New York. 
 
 4. " In connection with the meeting of the County Conference in this 
 place last year, (June, 1857,) a hallowed influence was realized. The 
 renewal of covenant obligations, then made, has not since been foro-ot- 
 ten of us, nor unblessed of God. From that period, many have been 
 greatly refreshed, and all our meetings better attended, and pervaded 
 with more of the Spirit's influences. Recently, in connection with the 
 ordinary means of grace, it is hoped that some souls, perhaps ten or 
 twelve, have been renewed, and are expecting in due time to covenant 
 with God and his people here." 
 
 5. During the year, two families, including eighteen persons, two 
 of whom arc church members, have gone to the far West. " Two 
 hopeful converts during the year, both of whom have joined ther 
 church above. Other cases of more than usual seriousness." 
 
 6. Some account of the revival in this place was published in the 
 Maine Evangelist. Of the forty-five hopeful converts, not all can be 
 considered as belonging to the Congregational society ; but as they 
 belong to no other, and their conversion occurred in connection with 
 the labors of Mr. Gould and his people, they are included in his report. 
 It is expected that his pastoral relation to the church in Andover will 
 soon be dissolved. 
 
 7. A standing discouragement at Baldwin is, that the people have 
 been accustomed from the earliest history of the parish to rely upon 
 funds for the support of the Gospel. " We are encouraged by a very 
 marked and decided advance in the general state of education and 
 morals/'— At Sebago a new (union) house of worship was completed 
 
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 a year since. — At Hiram " meetings have been quite full (for the 
 place,) and the state of things is interesting and hopeful. Two or 
 three hopeful conversions have occurred in one family." 
 
 8. " The past winter has been a season of great trial to the church 
 in North Belfast. But just now (June 8) things are assuming a better, 
 appearance." — At Freedom, where Mr. Munsell preaches one-fourth 
 of the time, a new house of worship has been built, three men defray- 
 ing the expense, two of whom were not professors of religion ; a new 
 Congregational church has been organized, (including several persons 
 formerly connected with a Baptist church,) and a very cheering revival 
 influence has been experienced. " Some ten or more, as Ave trust, 
 have given their hearts to the Savior." 
 
 9. In Benton, where the church has been so much reduced, that but 
 one male member survives, and the event of one sinner repenting has 
 been for many years of rare occurrence, " God began to revive his 
 work about the 25th of March. Since then many family altars have 
 been erected, and several young men of much pi - omise have taken a 
 decided stand on the Lord's side." At Hunter's Mills also, much 
 interest has been awakened, and a Congregational church will soon, 
 probably, be organized. 
 
 10. An account of the revival in Blanchard has been published 
 (furnished by the acting pastor) under the heading of " Encourage- 
 ments and Discouragements." A peculiar feature was the fact, that 
 the three first instances of apparent conversion were in families not 
 accustomed to attend public worship. — The church in Abbot was 
 reported the last year, prematurely, as extinct. Five members re- 
 mained ; to these seven more have been added by letter, and arrange- 
 ments have been made to secure the services of Mr. Perry the coming 
 year one-fourth of the time. 
 
 11. The labors of Mr. Tufts in this place ceased the last February. 
 
 12. Mr. Dodd was obliged by ill-health at the close of the year 
 1857, to relinquish this field of labor, though he has occasionally since 
 supplied at North Bridgton. Arrangements have been made to secure 
 the services of Mr. Edward Hawes, after the anniversary in Bangor. 
 
 13. " Recently (June 8) increased interest — union prayer meeting 
 every evening for four or five weeks — the divine life deepened in the 
 hearts of church members — christians laboring with humble zeal for 
 the salvation of souls — about twelve hopeful conversions and others 
 inquiring — three or four newly consecrated family altars." The ordi- 
 nation of Mr. Merrill is expected soon. 
 
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 14. " Our young men, almost to an individual, arc enlisted with us. 
 Our sailor boys, though perhaps unable to worship with us half a 
 dozen times in the year, put their names on our subscription book, 
 and do well for their means. « We do want the meetings kept up,' 
 they say, ' for the sake of our mothers and sisters.' " 
 
 15. This feeble church receives liberal aid from friends in Portland. 
 
 16. "The younger members of the church, beside attending our 
 regular Wednesday evening meeting, have kept up one of their own 
 on Thursday evening for more than a year." Some improvement the 
 past year, in the matter of prompt payment. " The older members of 
 the church, who were the pastor's Aarons and Hurs, are dead or 
 moved away." 
 
 17. A few warm hearts and ready hands (in Burlington) to do what 
 they are able for the support of the Gospel. The congregation is as 
 large as it has been for years. A religious interest is now going on, 
 (early in June,) which has already resulted in the conversion of some 
 individuals." This church has been without a pastor for more than a 
 year. 
 
 IS. " This church during the winter was greatly revived. Of those 
 in the congregation who have indulged hope in Christ, ten have made 
 public confession, and others will in time. This work of mercy (June 
 3) appears to be still advancing." 
 
 19. During that portion of the year (nine months) in which these 
 places received no aid from the Maine Missionary Society, they have 
 been supplied in part, Kenduskeag one-half the time nearly, at then- 
 own expense with Sabbath preaching from the Seminary. For the 
 year to come, the Congregational church and society in Carmel " pro- 
 pose to unite with their Methodist brethren in support of their 
 minister." 
 
 20. These two places constitute a new missionary field. In Naples 
 a beautiful house of worship was completed and dedicated to God on 
 June 7, of the present year. It was a gift from a number of benevo- 
 lent individuals on condition, " that the pews should be sold, and the 
 
 proceeds invested in a fund, for the support of preaching" one-half 
 
 of the house and fund belonging to the Congregationalists, and one- 
 half to the Freewill Baptists. Attention in both places has been good, 
 and in Naples two cases have occurred of hopeful conversion, where 
 it is expected, that a church will soon be organized. 
 
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 21. Mr. Wells did not reside in Dedham, nntil in May last. Daily 
 morning meetings were then held, and were continued afterward, with 
 cheering indication of the Spirit's presence and power. In a neigh- 
 borhood, two miles distant from the village, a very pleasing interest 
 is manifested. Men now come to meeting, who had not been present 
 for years. " There is much to encourage." 
 
 22. There has been a revived religious interest through the town 
 the past winter, in which the members of this church have shared. 
 Two females have been admitted by profession, and more are expected. 
 Arrangements have been made to obtain Congregational preaching the 
 coming year one-fourth of the time. 
 
 23. The Congregational church in Dexter, after a long and earnest 
 struggle to support the institutions of religion, were so much en- 
 feebled by deaths and removals, that in the autumn of 1854, they 
 found it necessary to shut the doors of their sanctuary and to enjoy 
 what privileges they might in other houses of worship. Last Fall, 
 however, they made a new attempt, and after doing what they could 
 for themselves by a liberal subscription, they applied to the Trustees 
 for aid. Since then they have had ten weeks supply the whole of the 
 time, and one-half the time for six months. A special religious inter- 
 est commenced with the re-opening of their house of worship, which 
 gradually increased and extended until it became quite general. 
 
 24. Mr. Richardson's services in this place were very highly valued. 
 But when he considered it his duty to leave, the people were glad to 
 receive another minister of Christ, who had formerly been pastor of 
 the church for several years. 
 
 25. No Congregational preaching in these places during the year,, 
 but in the twelve weeks of Mr. F.'s mission. 
 
 26. "A little quickening in the church" at Lisbon, "and a few 
 souls converted." 
 
 27. " The past year has brought us an unusual amount of afflic- 
 tion" — in the death of " one of the best of deacons," and the removal 
 of several valuable members of the church and parish. " Still the 
 people have struggled through, and redeemed their pledges ; have 
 made some improvements on their parsonage, and increased their 
 benevolent contributions. We have enjoyed a precious revival, the 
 fruits of which we humbly trust will add greatly to the moral power 
 of the church, though it does not promise immediately, much addition 
 of pecuniary strength." 
 
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 28. The revival, with which this church has heeri blessed, occurred 
 during the last winter and spring. " The new converts (twenty-one 
 of whom, were expected to join the church on the 4th of July) are 
 mostly young men and women, the bone and muscle of the parish." 
 
 29. Daily union prayer meetings were commenced at Farmington 
 Falls in the month of May, when no minister was resident in the 
 place. About fifty individuals have expressed hope in Christ, belong- 
 ing to three denominations. Many of them are heads of families. — 
 * ; At Chesterville the indications (June 8) are very encouraging." 
 
 30. Nothing reported of special interest. 
 
 31. " Much greater interest in the subject of religion (June 4) than 
 for a long time previous. Twelve persons have been propounded for 
 admission into the church, and quite a number are inquiring. We 
 are still weak, but the good spirit of God is moving upon the hearts 
 of some, who will, I trust, be useful in the church and the world." 
 
 32. Mr. Knight's labors are divided in several places— at each of 
 which, save one, there is a flourishing Sabbath school. The churches, 
 where there are any, continue feeble, and without accessions. " The 
 tide of immigration" into the county of Aroostook, " is unusually 
 large, and we feel that some extra effort should be made to give char- 
 acter to our increasing population." Mr. Knight spent two Sabbaths 
 and ten days at Monticcllo, in the neighborhood of Houlton. That 
 church, reported last year as extinct, is in a very feeble condition, but 
 might, as he thinks, be built up, were there a laborer in the field. 
 The church in Hodgdon he visited twice, and received one member 
 into it. 
 
 33. The revival in Garland commenced with a church fast about the 
 first of April. Afterward, union prayer meetings were held, " charac- 
 terized by stillness and deep solemnity. The most skeptical were 
 constrained to admit that God was indeed in the place. From twenty 
 to twenty-five, we hope, connected with this congregation, have been 
 born again. A number have united with other churches. Many, we 
 think, (June 8,) are still more or less anxious. To God be all the 
 glory." 
 
 34. During the year, for satisfactory reasons, Mr. Burt has spent 
 eight Sabbaths in Coos county, N. H., in the employ of the New 
 Hampshire Missionary Society ; in consequence of which a part of the 
 sum, appropriated to him by this Socieiy, has been given up. It is 
 hoped, that during the coming year the adjoining town of Shelburne, 
 N. H., will be united with Gilead in the support of Mr. Burt. 
 
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 35. In some parts of this town, " there is a strong feeling in favor 
 of Congregationalism, especially in Prospect Harbor, where there are 
 three or four, who would unite with a Congregational church, if one 
 were organized. I have no doubt, but that the people would raise $3 
 or $4 a Sabbath for a part of the year at least, if the Maine Mission- 
 ary Society would furnish the remainder." 
 
 36. " Amidst all the opposition and hardship endured by pastor and 
 people, Congregationalism in Gray still lives. Prayer has been heard, 
 and a shower of grace has come down upon us. Since the first of 
 January last, twenty have made a public profession ; others are in- 
 dulging hope, and others still are seriously disposed. Our Sabbath 
 school is increased in numbers and in interest. More than one-half 
 of those connected with it are adults." 
 
 37. "A lay brother from Brunswick holds a meeting in this place 
 every Sabbath, (June 12,) and visits us two or three times a week. 
 His services are very acceptable, and he is evidently doing good. Our 
 Sabbath school is interesting, and some persons are thoughtful." 
 
 38. On this island a new house of worship was dedicated and a new 
 church organized in May, 1857. After the return of Mr. Eaton from 
 Deer Isle, Avhere he spent a few weeks in assisting the Rev. William 
 A. Merrill, during the glorious revival experienced there, more of 
 religious interest became apparent, and in April two young persons 
 united with the church. Since then, more than twenty persons have 
 given evidence of passing from death to life. Several persons have 
 left home for the fisheries in a very thoughtful state of mind ; and we 
 cannot but pray, that the Lord will follow them with His Spirit, 
 wherever they go." 
 
 39. The additions reported to this church are mostly the fruits of a 
 revival during the year preceding the last. Some instances of hearts 
 renewed occurred, however, last Fall, and others ore reported since the 
 late annual meeting. 
 
 40. This ancient church, still a little and feeble flock, has been 
 greatly encouraged, under the ministry of Mr. Fobes, by an accession 
 of new members, and by an increase of the congregation. 
 
 41. "The revival, winter before last, imparted an influence to the 
 church members, which was sensibly felt in our social meetings 
 throughout the year. Last spring, there was a decided quickening in 
 the church, and meetings were held almost every evening for about a 
 month ; but the results hitherto have not been such as were expected. 
 
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 42. "With sincere gratitude to God," (writes trie pastor of this 
 church, under date of June 9,) " and a deep sense of unworthiness, do I 
 make out this my tenth annual report. Never "before have I been ahle 
 to report a revival ; but God in his great mercy has visited us, as well 
 as others, and within the last two months hrought many of my dear 
 people to repentance. The work commenced about the second week 
 in April, in connection with two extra meetings a week, beside a Sab- 
 bath morning prayer meeting. The commencement and progress of 
 the work were so quiet, and so little opposition manifested itself, that 
 we can hardly realize, that it has actually been, only by the results 
 that we see. More than half of those, who have passed, as they hope, 
 from death to life, are heads of families. Some seven or eight family 
 altars have been erected, and I am no longer without help in my 
 evening meetings. Many, and sometimes very severe, have been my 
 discouragements for the past ten years. But this more than compen- 
 sates for them all I trust the Lord will forgive me for having had so 
 little faith, and will enable me from this time to lean more upon His 
 mighty arm." 
 
 43. " The whole of Fast day was spent in prayer, confession and 
 exhortation; and a more precious meeting I have seldom if ever 
 attended. The work of grace has been perceptibly deepened in the 
 hearts of many of the brethren, and the state of the church is de- 
 cidedly better than at any time before, since I came here. Some 
 seven or eight in connection with us, have already indulged hope, 
 (June 5,) and many others are apparently seeking after God." 
 
 44. " Since my last report the Lord has done great things for us, 
 whereof we are glad. The work has been still and solemn, and it 
 still continues (June 15). Not a week has passed, since it began, 
 without witnessing new cases both of seriousness and of hope. Most 
 of the subjects of the revival are from among the young. There is quite 
 a temperance movement here, which has already done much good." 
 
 45. No decided instances reported of hearts renewed.; but the 
 church to some extent revived, and " determined to succeed," and the 
 society on the whole in a healthy and hopeful condition. 
 
 46. Mr. Jordan left this place in May. 
 
 47. During the past year the meeting house in Mercer, owned by 
 Methodists and Congregationalists jointly, and occupied by the two 
 denominations on alternate Sabbaths, has been new modeled and 
 very much improved. Some thirty individuals have recently indulged 
 hope in Christ ; of whom seven or eight, who are heads of families, 
 have already expressed a preference for the Congregational church. 
 
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 48. Both in Monmouth and Fayette some individuals have, during 
 the year, given evidence of a good hope through grace. 
 
 49. Mr. Emerson's pastoral relation to the church in Monson has 
 been dissolved. At Greenville, where he continues to preach a part 
 of the time, indications are more encouraging than heretofore. 
 
 50. For nearly two years past this society, being without the stated 
 preaching of the Gospel, became scattered and enfeebled. But now 
 the people are coming together again, and evidence is not wanting 
 of the gracious presence of God. 
 
 51. "Good attendance and attention, and an increased desire, at 
 North New Portland, for Congregational preaching." 
 
 52. Mr. Richardson's ministry in this place began last November,, 
 and the congregation has been increasing ever since. It is believed 
 that the prospects of the church and society have not been so promis- 
 ing for years as they now are. 
 
 53. Of the precious revival of last winter and spring in Norway 
 village, some notices have already been made public. Of the whole 
 number of persons professing piety, fifteen were married people, and 
 six of these were males, who at once commenced family worship. 
 Owing to " the depression of business" in this village " a number of 
 those recently added to the church have already removed from the 
 place, and some older members, and families also, on whom we placed 
 much reliance, have been taken from us." 
 
 54. Mr. Keep has not been in commission from this Society for the 
 last six months, and no report has been received from his field of labor. 
 
 55. " The past year has been in some respects the most prosperous 
 in the history of Oldtown. For nine months of the twelve, souls have 
 been coming to Christ. In the judgment of charity there have been 
 one hundred and fifty conversions during the year. The Baptist 
 church has already received seventy-five on profession, the Methodist 
 twenty-five or thirty, and ours thirty-five. Our Sabbath school has 
 been greatly blessed in the conversion of several of its members. We 
 shall sustain this summer, four, and perhaps five, mission schools in 
 the village and vicinity." 
 
 56. " Meetings well attended. Three persons, we hope, have given 
 their hearts to God — others thoughtful. There seems to be a steady 
 growing purpose to sustain the Gospel." 
 
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 57. The special religious interest in this place commenced apparently 
 on the day of prayer for Colleges, and was continued and extended by 
 means of morning and evening prayer meetings, of female and young 
 men's prayer meetings. 
 
 58. " Within a few weeks past (June 7) an unusual degree of in- 
 terest in religious things has been manifest — chiefly among young 
 ladies, members of the Sabbath school." 
 
 59. Mr. Tewksbury's labors at Oxford ceased the 25th of April. 
 *' In West Minot, the church and people have been visited with a rich 
 and powerful refreshing from the presence of the Lord." Within 
 three months the number of church members was increased from 
 twenty-five to fifty-six members. " Some eight or ten of those 
 recently admitted are young men, who will probably be resident 
 members, and will add something in pecuniary strength, as well as in 
 christian graces." 
 
 60. " There has evidently been a revived state of religious feeling 
 among some at least of the professed friends of the Savior in this part 
 of his vineyard during the past winter and spring. Some sinners 
 have been awakened, and a few hopefully converted. As the popula- 
 tion is now increasing by immigration, there are more than heretofore, 
 who, without missionary labor, will be as sheep without a shepherd." 
 
 61. During the winter Mr. Bulfinch was absent, but has returned, 
 and will supply for several months without missionary aid. The state 
 of things at Perry has improved. 
 
 62. Mr. Chapman's illness and death occurred just at the time, 
 when arrangements were made for obtaining his services another year. 
 His place is supplied for the present very acceptably by Mr. P. Mc- 
 Vicar, from the Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. 
 
 63. " The number of colored people in Portland is about four hund- 
 red, and the most of them usually worship with us. The number of 
 church members is forty-five, of whom eight or ten are always away. 
 Within a few weeks (June 18) several, we trust, have been converted, 
 and will by and by unite with the church. Some of the members of the 
 church feel a very deep interest in their spiritual home, and hope to see 
 their children here trained up for the service of their blessed Redeemer. 
 A spirit of social and moral improvement is manifest among the peo- 
 ple, which promises well for the future, and the promise is sure that 
 Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God." 
 
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 64. " About ten persons, perhaps twelve or thirteen, have expressed 
 hope, (June 10,) in the most of whom I have confidence. As many 
 more were deeply interested, but no real progress was made, after 
 other denominations, Bullockites, Adventists, &c, took hold of the 
 work." 
 
 65. "At our church fast in February, a humble tender feeling 
 seemed to pervade all hearts, and an earnest desire for the salvation 
 of souls. It was agreed at this meeting, to unite at sunset each day 
 in prayer for the Holy Spirit, all retiring to their closets, or at least 
 breathing a silent prayer for this blessing. From that time the inter- 
 est gradually increased," and instances occurred of conviction and 
 hope. " The work from the first has been peculiarly silent and gentle. 
 The interest still continues" (June 12). Mr. Wright was installed 
 pastor of this church on the 29th of last September. 
 
 G6. " A year emphatically of trial" — of hard ministerial labor, but 
 of little apparent success. 
 
 67. Another devoted faithful laborer, so far as his physical strength 
 will permit, who does not as yet witness any ingathering of souls. 
 
 68. Mr. Marsh was ordained pastor of this church in June, 1823 — 
 was dismissed in December, 1827 — and now finds himself in the same 
 field, under an unanimous call to a re-settlement in the pastoral office. 
 " The past year has been one of great interest — members of the church 
 quickened, backsliders reclaimed, and sinners converted. A female 
 prayer meeting has been greatly blessed in commencing and carrying 
 forward the good work." This church, assisted last year by a grant 
 of 888, now ask for $50; but "have resolved to make an effort to 
 pay it themselves." 
 
 69. Very good attention by the young at meetings for prayer, and 
 in a class engaged in studying the Assembly's Catechism. 
 
 70. During the last eighteen months both these churches have been 
 blessed by reviving and converting influences, increasing the number 
 of members from twelve to twenty-six, and from twenty-eight to forty- 
 nine. They are expecting, for the year to come, the ministrations, 
 upon two successive Sabbaths alternately in each place, of Mr. Benja- 
 min Southworth. 
 
 71. " Our church at Solon Village is in a more hopeful state, than 
 it has been for years." A Congregational church has been organized 
 at Madison Mills, and " for months past there has been a growing 
 interest." 
 
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 72. The Congregational church scattered over these places is still a 
 " little flock," having but " little strength." But they are now blessed 
 with a very convenient and beautiful house of worship, wholly paid 
 for and entirely under their control. Thirteen have been added during 
 the past year, and a number more are expected soon to join them. Mr. 
 Emerson was ordained their pastor on the 16th day of December last, 
 the same day on which they first took possession of their new house 
 of prayer. 
 
 73. Mr. Hadley was dismissed the last winter. 
 
 74. " Last fall three individuals resolved to have a weekly prayer 
 meeting in our village, pledging themselves to stand by each other in 
 the attempt, whether many or few should attend. These weekly 
 meetings increased in numbers and interest until about the first of 
 March, when a union prayer meeting was established, (a new thing in 
 this place,) held at each meeting house alternately daily for fifteen 
 days, and afterward three times a week to the present time (June 4). 
 Many church members have been revived," and some ten or twelve 
 from among the impenitent are believed to have been made partakers 
 of renewing grace. 
 
 75. " A very precious revival, commencing with some extra meet- 
 ings about the first of April. No foreign help — simply a church effort, 
 and wonderfully blessed. The Spirit was so manifestly with us, that 
 no one doubted His presence. Such death-like stillness, such meltings 
 of soul I never witnessed before." 
 
 78. Mr. Smith's labors in Sweden were closed about the last of 
 May. Prior to that time the church had been quickened, and a num- 
 ber of persons had expressed a hope in Christ. Since then the interest 
 has very much increased. 
 
 77. Mr. Turner having been dismissed from the church in New 
 Vineyard, Mr. Hackett has divided his labors for some time past 
 between that place and Temple. The church in Temple has been 
 quickened and enlarged. 
 
 78. This church and society are represented as in a prosperous con- 
 dition, and their committee express the " hope that the day is not 
 distant, when they shall be both able and willing to assume the entire 
 support of the Gospel." 
 
 79. Mr. Kingsbury left in April last, and no permanent supply has 
 since been obtained. 
 
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 80. " The good work began to manifest itself the latter part of 
 January, and until recently (June 15) there have been cases of hopeful 
 conversion, and new inquirers every week. There had been marked 
 tenderness of feeling on the part of many during the summer previous. 
 The beginning of the new year witnessed a larger accession to our 
 Sabbath school, and a greater enthusiasm in the study of the Bible, 
 than had been before known." 
 
 81. During the past winter and spring the attention of the people 
 in this town was very extensively awakened to the subject of religion, 
 and many persons professed the Christian hope, including several who 
 attend on Mr. T.'s ministry. The Congregational society, however, 
 does not appear to have been strengthened. 
 
 82. This people have not applied for missionary aid during the last 
 six months. Recently the church has been revived, and accessions 
 have been made to it. 
 
 83. Since the close of Mr. Tewksbury's labors at Oxford, and of 
 Mr. Jordan's at Mechanic Falls, an arrangement has been made for Mr. 
 T. to preach alternately at Mechanic Falls and West Minot. 
 
 84. The gracious influence, so extensively felt, has reached two of 
 these churches. At Jonesborough our people have recently united 
 with the Baptists in hearing and contributing to the support of a min- 
 ister of their communion. 
 
 85. " Since we entered our new house of worship, our average con- 
 gregation has nearly doubled, and our Sabbath school quite so. 
 During the last winter an unusual religious interest of a quiet char- 
 acter has pervaded the community. Several young men of much 
 promise, some of whom are preparing for college, have been hopefully 
 converted. The interest (June 12) still continues." 
 
 86. " The church is in a good state as to spirituality and prayerful- 
 ness." For several weeks Mr. Shepley was taken off from his labors 
 by ill-health, and is still feeble. 
 
 87. When Mr. D. first suggested to the Baptists and Methodists of 
 W. the establishment of " union prayer meetings," he did not know 
 that there was such a meeting in the country. The measure, he says, 
 has proved a blessing to us. " Five were added by profession the last 
 Sabbath" — the first in June — " others will join at our next communion. 
 Hopeful conversions in the town, fifty or sixty." 
 
 88. This ancient church is still feeble, (though it has received during 
 the year some enlargement,) and is expecting soon to be deprived of 
 him who has been its pastor for thirteen years. 
 
SUMMARY. 
 
 The whole number of missionaries, in commission during the 
 year, has been eighty-nine — seventy-four of them ordained min- 
 isters, (of whom two have been installed as pastors, since our 
 last annual meeting.) and fifteen licentiates. Fifty-four have 
 been in commission through the year, sixteen for six months 
 and upwards, nineteen for less than six months. During the 
 year the connection of four pastors and of six stated supplies 
 with the churches, to which they ministered, has ceased; of 
 whom three have left the State, and six are employed within 
 the State in other portions of the vineyard. Four missionary 
 stations are supplied by men, who during the year have come 
 among us from other States. 
 
 The fields of labor, occupied during the year, have been 
 eighty-eight; comprising one hundred and six churches, and 
 twenty-five places where is no (Congregational) church. Of 
 these one hundred and thirty-one stations, forty have been 
 supplied with preaching all the time; fourteen, three-fourths ; 
 seventeen, one-half; thirty, one-fourth, and thirty less than one- 
 fourth. The number of persons added to the churches has 
 been five hundred and six; by profession four hundred and 
 six, by letter one hundred. The average congregations have 
 amounted to upwards of twelve thousand; of persons con- 
 nected with Sabbath classes and Bible classes to about seven 
 thousand. The sunT~total of contributions to this Society has 
 been $1,304.15 ; to other benevolent objects, so far as reported, 
 $957.27; in all, $2,261.42; being more than one-fifth of what 
 they have received from the treasury of this Society. The 
 amount of service performed has been equal to about seventy 
 years ; the part for which they have been remunerated by 
 this Society, has been about twenty-seven and one-third years. 
 
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 From six of the whole number of missionary fields, forty and 
 upwards of hopeful conversions are reported ; from two of 
 them, thirty and upwards; from thirteen, twenty and upwards; 
 from eighteen, ten and upwards ; from thirty, less than ten — 
 leaving but nineteen, from which none are reported. The 
 whole number reported is nine hundred and forty-four;* larger 
 by nearly one hundred and fifty, than has been returned in any 
 one year before, since the Society was instituted. 
 
 It is peculiarly delightful, in reviewing the history of the past 
 year, to find so many of the feeble churches blessed, and some 
 fishers of men, who for years had cast down their nets and 
 caught almost nothing, rejoicing at length in an abundant 
 draught. Now they learn the wisdom of holding on ; and the 
 blessed results of hoping, and in the path of duty waiting, for 
 the salvation of the Lord. So will it be with those, the few 
 comparatively, including however some of the ablest and best 
 men commissioned by your Trustees, who, at the close of this 
 year of Zion's prosperity, are not able to rejoice over one 
 repenting sinner in the congregations to which they minister. 
 
 Let them that sow in sadness, wait 
 
 Till the fair harvest come ; 
 They shall confess their sheaves were great, 
 
 And shout the blessing home. 
 
 Dark Spots. 
 In the sketches given by those of our brethren more highly 
 favored, there are some dark spots. One speaks of some 
 church members, as " holding back." Another, of a prominent 
 member in the church, as standing aloof from prayer meetings, 
 because unwilling cordially to unite with fellow-christians, mani- 
 festing on their part a fraternal spirit, of a different evangelical 
 denomination. Another says, " the hardness of heart, which our 
 blessed Lord was accustomed to rebuke in His disciples, and 
 which made them indifferent and unbelieving even amidst some 
 of His greatest miracles, — I never understood this source of 
 His sorrows, until now — when some of this church have ap- 
 peared to take no particular interest in the work of God, and 
 have manifested so little gratitude." It is distressing to hear 
 
 * Including all of different denominations, to whom our missionaries have preached 
 in union houses of worship, the number would very considerably exceed one thousand. 
 
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 such statements respecting any of the churches aided by this 
 Society. But we seriously doubt, whether there be many of 
 our self-sustaining churches, that arc not liable, in relation to 
 some of their members, to the same condemnation. We do, 
 however, rejoice in believing, that the spirit of prayer, and of 
 brotherly love, and of active effort in the cause of Christ, has 
 pervaded recently the evangelical churches of the State and of 
 the whole land to an unusual extent; and we cherish a confi- 
 dent persuasion, that the lessons thus learned will not soon be 
 forgotten. 
 
 Progress. 
 During the past year, the churches at Litchfield and Foxcroft 
 have been self-supporting. The church at Oldtown has signi- 
 fied its intention, and the church in Sanford its hope, to be such 
 in future. Two new churches have been organized at Freedom 
 and Madison Mills. Two others, it is expected, will soon be 
 at Hunter's Mills in Clinton, and Naples. Houses of worship 
 have been completed at Sebago, Springfield, Wilton, Naples and 
 Freedom. A new house of worship will soon be completed at 
 Princeton. One has been new modeled and very much im- 
 proved at Mercer. Important repairs have been made at North 
 Buxton, and a new bell has been obtained at Garland. 
 
 State of the Treasury. 
 
 In addition to the loan of $1,000, standing against the Society 
 at the beginning of the year, it has been necessary to borrow 
 $2,425 more. Of these several debts $1,900 have been paid, 
 and $1,525 remain due, $500 of which will not probably be 
 called for. 
 
 The receipts during the year have been, in donations from 
 individuals, congregations, and female societies, $8,960.24; 
 from legacies, $539 ; from dividends, interest on notes, &c, 
 I6S3.73. The whole amount, exclusive of loans, and of bal- 
 ance on hand at the beginning of the year, has been $10,182.97 ; 
 of which $204.80 are not available for the use of the Society. 
 The principal deficiency of the last year, in comparison with 
 the preceding, has been in legacies — amounting to $1,186. 
 
38 
 
 $1,000 have been bequeathed to the Society by the late Solo- 
 mon Thayer, Esq., of Portland, of which $300 have been paid. 
 The balance now on hand is $284.19. The amount, due this 
 day for services already rendered, is nearly $4,900. The 
 amount, which churches aided for a few months past have been 
 encouraged to expect, in completion of the year for which their 
 arrangements have been made, is about $1,200. 
 
 How far the pecuniary strength of the missionary churches 
 will be increased by the late revivals, it is not easy now to 
 ascertain. Probably not in any very considerable degree, 
 except as the increase of available means is connected with 
 enlargement of heart. In this way it may be confidently hoped, 
 that some of them will be strengthened to contribute more 
 largely, than heretofore, for the support of the Gospel. More 
 than a thousand individuals connected with these churches now 
 feel the value of christian institutions, as they have never felt 
 it before. And will they not more readily assume the obliga- 
 tions resting on them, who receive through the ministers of 
 Christ the richest spiritual blessings, to aid in supplying their 
 temporal wants ? An enlightened love to the Savior and His 
 Gospel, can scarcely fail of producing this result. 
 
 They also, who being connected with self-sustaining churches, 
 are able more fully to enjoy the blessedness of giving — will 
 they not evince the sincerity of their gratitude to Him who 
 having given Himself for them, and being by the right hand of 
 God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of 
 the Holy Ghost has shed forth this which we have now seen 
 and heard, by imparting more freely and abundantly of what 
 He has entrusted to their stewardship, in aid of His feeble 
 churches, for the support of His beloved ministers, laboring for 
 the advancement of His cause, and the salvation of souls for 
 which He died? How can they fail to regard this, as both 
 their duty and privilege ? By withholding more than is meet, 
 how can they satisfy either the dictates of a good conscience, 
 or the promptings of a loving heart ? 
 
 We do not maintain, that the claims of Home Missions are 
 the only claims upon our benevolence, that ought to be regarded. 
 We will not assert even that they are paramount to all others. 
 But we do contend, that this cause makes a very urgent demand 
 
39 
 
 upon the love of Christ, and upon the love of country. To us 
 it is obeying the command, to begin at Jerusalem. It is pro- 
 viding for our own in a matter of urgent necessity, of primary 
 importance. In looking attentively over this broad land, or 
 even over this eastern portion of it, even now, who does not 
 rejoice with trembling? Who docs not feel the need of 
 increased, untiring effort to stem the ever-swelling tide of 
 evil, and to deepen and widen the channels, and to do all that 
 man can do, for the progress and diffusion, of the pure river of 
 the water of life ? Surely the only conservative and reforming 
 influence to be relied upon is the Gospel of the Son of God, 
 its principles, its precepts, in all the length and breadth of 
 them, faithfully dispensed in every divinely appointed method, 
 and accompanied, in answer to the prayer of faith and of 
 intense desire, by the quickening influences of the good Spirit of 
 God. How unutterably important, then, is the more thorough 
 evangelization of Maine — and of our whole American homestead. 
 Blessed be God for the precious encouragement that he is 
 o-iving us by the glorious revivals of the last few months. Let 
 them be continued, extended, multiplied from month to month, 
 from year to year; then would glory dwell in our land, mercy 
 and truth, righteousness and peace would prevail in all our 
 borders. All is with Him. May our souls ever wait upon 
 God; and while we praise Him for all that He hath bestowed 
 upon us, and for the great goodness which he hath shown us, 
 according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of His 
 loving kindnesses, let our prayer be : Help us, God of our 
 salvation, for the glory of thy name, and deliver us, and purge 
 away our sins, for thy name's sake. So we, thy people and 
 sheep of thy pasture, will give thee thanks forever. We will 
 show forth thy praise to all generations. 
 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
 
 The fifty-first annual meeting of the Maine Missionary Society was 
 held with the South Congregational Church in Augusta, June 23d, 
 1858. The meeting was opened by the President with reading the 
 Scriptures and prayer. The Report of the Treasurer was read and 
 accepted. After the Sermon by Rev. E. G. Carpenter, the Report 
 of the Trustees was read, and on motion of Rev. E. Whittlesey, 
 seconded by Prof. Egbert C. Smith, was accepted and ordered to be 
 printed. Brief addresses were made by Drs. Adams, and Pomroy, 
 Rev. Messrs. Fiske and Marsh. A contribution was then taken up 
 of $161.11, and the public exercises were closed with prayer and 
 benediction by Rev. Dr. Vail, from Massachusetts. 
 
 At the meeting for business, the Secretary was instructed to express 
 the thanks of the Society to Rev. Mr. Carpenter for his Sermon, and 
 to request a copy for the press. 
 
 A nominating committee was appointed, consisting of Rev. E. 
 Whittlesey, Rev. G. W. Cressey, and Dea. E. F. Ditren, by 
 whose recommendation, the persons following were chosen officers of 
 the Society for the year ensuing : 
 
 PRESIDENT : 
 
 Rev. WILLIAM. T. DWIGHT, D. D. 
 
 VICE PRESIDENT : 
 
 Rev. JOHN" W. ELLINGWOOD, D. D. 
 
 COR. AND EEC. SECRETARY: 
 
 Rev. BENJAMIN" TAPPABT, D. D. 
 
 TREASURER : 
 
 JOHN HOW, Esq. 
 
 TRUSTEES I 
 
 Ret. WILLIAM T. DWIGHT, ex officio. 
 
 Rev. DAVID THURSTON. 
 
 Rev. BENJAMIN TAPPAN. 
 
 Rev. ENOCH POND, D. D. 
 
 Rev. JOHN W. CHICKERING, D. D. 
 
 Rev. DAVID SHEPLEY. 
 
 Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON. 
 Rev. ISAAC ROGERS. 
 Rev. GEORGE E. ADAMS, D. D. 
 Dea. SAMUEL ADAMS. 
 JOHN HOW, Esq. 
 
 AUDITORS ; 
 
 WILLIAM D. LITTLE, Esq. | WILLIAM C. MITCHELL, Esq. 
 
 The next annual meeting will be held at Skowhegan on the fourth 
 Wednesday of June, 1859. 
 
 PREACHERS I 
 
 Rev. JOHN MALTBY, First 
 
 Rev. WOOSTER PARKER. Second. 
 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 Receipts and Disburseynents of John How, Treasurer of Maine Missionary Society. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 Balance in hands ot the Treasurer on settlement of account, June 20, 1857, *$T,520 23 
 
 Income from Permanent Finn/ .- 
 
 Dividend on Hank Slock, 465 80 
 
 " on Railroad Stock, ...... 33 00 
 
 " on 5 shares Lewiston Falls Manufacturing Company, . 20 00 
 
 Interest on Notes Receivable, . . . . . • 27 00 
 
 » on City of Portland Bond, ..... 60 00 
 
 605 80 
 
 Miscellaneous ■. 
 
 Of Rev. Benjamin Tappan, D. D., for preaching, . . . 62 00 
 
 For rent of building in Kennebunk, and sale of stove belonging to the 
 legacy of the late Miss E. Sewall, . . • . 15 
 
 Loans ■■ 
 
 Of Mrs. L. S. How, ....... 
 
 Casco Bank, ........ 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Sewall, ...... 
 
 Cony Church Building Fund, for which I gave my note to Rev. D. 
 T. Dwight, D. D., Treasurer, , 
 
 Legacies : 
 
 Of Samuel Nash, late of Gray, 
 
 Mrs. Julia Pierce, late of Chesterville, 
 A Sister in Winter Street Church, Bath, 
 Mrs. Betsey Sweetser, late of North Yarmouth, 
 Solomon Thayer, late of Portland, in part, 
 
 Annuities, donations, life memberships, &c, . 
 
 500 00 
 ,000 00 
 500 00 
 
 77 93 
 
 2,425 00 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 Paid Elias G. Hedge, for printing 2000 Annual Reports, 
 For printing 600 Certificates of Life Membership, 
 
 Mrs. Narcissa L. Bourne income from Sewall legacy, . 
 Loan at Casco Bank, in part, .... 
 
 at Augusta Bank, .... 
 
 of Mrs. L. S. How, 
 
 Interest on Loans, ...... 
 
 Trustees' orders to Missionaries, .... 
 
 Postage and incidental expenses, .... 
 
 Commissions on Receipts, .... 
 
 Balance in hands ot Treasurer, 
 
 PERMANENT FUND. 
 
 5 shares in Lewiston Falls Manufacturing Company, 
 26 " Canal Bank, 
 20 " Casco Bank, 
 15 " Manufacturers and Traders' Bank, 
 
 9 " State Bank, Boston, 
 
 3 " P. S. & P. Railroad, 
 
 1 " A. & St. L. Railroad, 
 Scrip of the City of Portland, 
 Notes Receivable, ..... 
 
 Portland, June 19, 1858. 
 
 30 00 
 
 
 61 00 
 
 
 30 00 
 
 
 118 00 
 
 
 300 00 
 
 
 
 
 539 00 
 
 
 8..960 24 
 
 $14,128 20 
 
 175 00 
 
 
 11 30 
 
 
 
 
 186 38 
 
 
 204 80 
 
 400 00 
 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 
 500 00 
 
 
 
 
 1,900 00 
 
 
 98 30 
 
 
 11,123 08 
 
 
 16 25 
 
 
 315 20 
 
 
 284 19 
 
 Errors excepted. 
 
 $14,128 20 
 
 500 00 
 2,600 00 
 2,000 00 
 
 750 00 
 
 540 00 
 
 3J0 00 
 
 100 00 
 1,000 00 
 1,7C0 00 
 $9,490 00 
 
 JOHN HOW, Treasurer. 
 
 Portland, June 21, 1858. — We the subscribers, have examined the foregoing account, and find 
 the same correctly cast, well vouched, and a balance in the hands of the Treasurer, due the 
 Society, of two hundred and eighty-four dollars and nineteen cents. ($284.19.) 
 
 W. STORER, 
 W. D. LITTLE, 
 
 * Including §1,000 of borrowed money. 
 
 Auditors. 
 
DONATIONS 
 
 FROM JUNE 20, 1857, TO JUNE 19, 1858. 
 
 Aroostook Conference. 
 
 $9 35 
 
 17 00 
 
 13 00 
 
 16 00 
 
 7 59 
 
 Burlington — Coll., 
 Fort Fairfield— Coll., 
 Lincoln — Coll., 
 Springfield, tyc. — Coll., 
 Jiroostook Conference, 
 
 $62 94 
 Cumberland. 
 Auburn— Coll., 40 00 
 
 Baldwin— Coll. 5, don. 5, 10 00 
 
 Brunswick— Coll. 128.88, L. M.10, don. 5, 143 88 
 Cumberland— Coll. 22.08, don. 1, S. S. 2.20, 25 28 
 Durham— L. M. in part, 6 00 
 
 Falmouth— Colt?, 10 00 
 
 " West— Coll. 6.57, F. M. S. 15.60, 22 17 
 Freeport, 2d CA.— Coll., 14 46 
 
 Oorham— Coll. 28, F. M. S. 97, don. 3, 128 00 
 Groy— Coll., 
 
 Harpswell — L. M. in part, 
 Lewiston Falls — Coll. 145, 
 
 M. 40, 
 Lewiston — To compl. L. M., 
 Mechanic Falls — Coll., 
 Minot— Cojl. 10, aim. 10, L. M. 8 
 
 « West— Co\\., 
 Naples — Don., 
 
 New Glovcester— Coll. 40.50, F. M. S. 11.23, 51 73 
 North Yarmouth— Coll., 11 46 
 
 Portland, 2d Ch.— Coll. 107.35, F. 
 M. S. 100, L. M. 35, 
 don. 6, 248 35 
 
 " 3d Ch.— Fein. M. S. 100, 
 
 don. 2, 102 00 
 
 " Sigh Si.— Coll. 214, L. 
 
 M. 205, 
 " State St.— Coll., 
 " Union Church. — Coll., 
 " Union Mis. Circle, 
 
 -1089 55 
 
 Pownal— Coll., 33 00 
 
 Saccarappa— Coll., 20 00 
 
 Scarborough— Coll. 38.07, L. M. 20, 58 07 
 
 Standish— Coll., 22 55 
 
 Wcstbrook—2 L. M., 40 00 
 
 Yarmouth— Coll. 73.70, L. M. 60, F. M. S. 
 
 56.73, don. 2, 192 43 
 
 Cumberland Conf.— 35.80, 01.79, 40.37, 137 96 
 
 Hancock. 
 Amherst and Aurora — Coll., 
 Brooksville, West— Coll, 2.62, L. M. 10, 
 Bucks-port— Coll. 85, L. M. 35, m. c. 30, 
 
 don. 24, 
 Castine— Coll. 57, m. c. 23.80, L. M. 60, 
 Ellsworth— Vo\\. 39.54, L. M. 20, don. 2, 
 Isle de Haut — Don., 
 Moun. Desert — Coll., 
 Orland— Coll., 
 Hancock Conference, 
 
 $5 00 
 
 12 62 
 
 174 00 
 
 140 80 
 
 61 54 
 
 1 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 47 36 
 
 6 64 
 
 
 40 00 
 
 
 7 00 
 
 don. 21, 
 
 L. 
 
 
 206 00 
 
 
 7 00 
 
 
 40 00 
 
 M. 8, 
 
 28 00 
 
 
 13 00 
 
 
 5 00 
 
 $2,403 33 
 Franklin. 
 ChesterviUe — Coll., 
 
 Farmington—CoU. 25.26, m. c. 13.64, L. 
 M.29, F. M.S. 10.75, don. 5, 
 aim. 2, 
 " Falls— Coll., 
 
 New Sharmi—CoU. 17, don. 5, 
 Phillips — Don., 
 Strong— Coll., 
 Temple — L. M. in part, 
 Weld— Coll. 8.64, F. M. S.4, don. 1, 
 mUon—Co\\. 20, F. M. S. 8.58, ann. 2, 
 Franklin Conference. 
 
 5 00 
 
 87 05 
 
 7 75 
 
 22 00 
 
 4 00 
 
 15 00 
 
 4 00 
 
 13 64 
 
 30 58 
 
 11 07 
 
 $200 09 
 
 Kennebec. 
 Augusta, S— Coll. 223.44, m. c. 84.11, L. 
 
 $456 96 
 
 M. 60, don. 102, aim. 2, 
 
 
 471 55 
 
 Gardiner — Don., 
 
 
 1 00 
 
 Hallowell—F. M. S. 7, m. C. 
 
 13.15, Sab. 
 
 
 Sen. 2.30, don. 3.00, 
 
 
 25 45 
 
 Litchfield— Coll., 
 
 
 10 65 
 
 .Monmouth — Coll. 4, don. 10, 
 
 
 14 00 
 
 Pittston— Coll., 
 
 
 6 50 
 
 Richmond— ColL 11.04, Cent 
 
 Soc. 23.52, 
 
 
 L. M. 20, 
 
 
 55 10 
 
 Sidney — Don., 
 
 
 6 00 
 
 Vassalborough—Co\\. 11.20, don. 3, 
 
 14 20 
 
 It aterville— Coll., 
 
 
 37 00 
 
 mnthrop— Coll. 12.31, F. M. 
 
 S. 21.35, L. 
 
 
 M. 10, don. 50, 
 
 
 93 0G 
 
 Kennebec Conference, 
 
 
 11 00 
 
 $752 36 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 
 
 Alna— Coll. 11, L. M. 5, aim. 4, 
 Bath, Winter St.— Coll. 56.46, F. M. 
 S. 92.61, L. M. 50, don. 267, 
 ann. 18, 484 07 
 
 " Central Ch.—F. M. P. 38, L. M. 
 40, don. 85, ann. 2, 
 Don. from person unknown 
 
 Boothbay, 1st Ch.— Coll., 
 '< 2d Ch.— Coll., 
 
 Bristol, 2d Ch.— Coll. add., 
 Edgecomb — Coll., 
 Georgetown — Don., 
 Newcastle, 1st Ch.— Coll., 
 " 2d Ch.— Coll., 
 
 Rockland— Coll. 20.30, F. M. S. 20, 
 
 60, don. 8, 
 Thovmston — Coll., 
 Waldoborough, 1st Ch.— Coll. 20.19. 
 F. M.S. 18.01, don. 
 53.50, ann. 44, 135 70 
 " 2d Ch.— Coll. 11,34, 
 
 don. 10, 21 34 
 
 165 
 
 00 
 
 ,30 00 
 
 
 679 07 
 
 Id 
 
 00 
 
 4 
 
 00 
 
 
 14 00 
 
 
 1 84 
 
 
 26 00 
 
 
 3 00 
 
 3 
 
 15 
 
 136 
 
 00 
 
 
 — 139 15 
 
 L. M. 
 
 
 108 30 
 
 
 48 58 
 
 
 157 04 
 
 Warren— Coll. 12.21, F. M. S. 25, 
 
 37 21 
 
 Whitefield — Don., 
 
 1 00 
 
 Wiscasset — Coll., 
 
 25 00 
 
 $1,260 19 
 
43 
 
 Oxford. 
 Andevt r — Cull., 
 
 .; Ch.— Coll. 10.17, L. M.35, 
 Dixfield— Coll. ami m. c, 
 @Wea*-Coll., 
 Norway, 1st CA.— Coll., 
 " 2d Ch.— Coll., 
 
 Oxford— Coll. 9.06, don. 90, 
 Paris — Coll., 
 Rumford— Coll., 
 Sunnier— Coll. -JO, don. 3, 
 ZVnier— Coll. 22.65, P. M. S. 1C, 
 Oxford Conference, 
 
 Penobscot. 
 Bana-or, 1st Par.— Coll. 266 50, Sab. 
 
 Sen. 6.90, don. 3, 276 
 
 " 77am. St.— Coll. 199.75, Sab. 
 
 Sen. 40, L. M. 10, don. 5, 254 
 » Central CA.— Coll. 211.15, 
 
 L. M. 30, don. 3, 244 
 
 Brewer, West— Coll. 11.25, L.M.46, 
 
 don. 5, 62 
 
 « r^Z.— Coll. 20, L. M. 12, 32 
 
 
 $6 75 
 
 , 
 
 45 17 
 
 
 6 50 
 
 
 19 20 
 
 5 
 
 00 
 
 21 
 
 00 
 
 
 ,- % 00 
 
 
 29 06 
 
 
 16 Oil 
 
 
 9 10 
 
 
 23 00 
 
 
 33 65 
 
 
 10 00 
 
 $229 43 
 
 75 33 
 
 Corinna — Don., 
 
 Dedham— ColL, 
 
 Dixmont — Don., 
 
 Hampden — L. M., 
 
 Holden— Coll. 5.36, don. 7, 
 
 K, nduskeag—Coll. 24, L. M. 14, don. 1, 
 
 Oldtown — Coll., 
 
 Orono— Coll. 15.00, Sab. Sch. 20, 
 
 Orrmgton. — Coll., 
 
 Stetson — L. M., 
 
 Penobscot Conference, 
 
 94 25 
 50 
 25 00 
 2 00 
 20 00 
 12 36 
 39 00 
 50 00 
 35 60 
 24 00 
 20 00 
 45 63 
 
 Union, (Continued.) 
 Br own fi eld— Coll., 
 Fnji burg—L. M., 
 Harrison — Coll., 
 Hiram — ('out., 
 Lovt //—Coll., 
 
 — Coll. 29, ann.2, 
 Sieedi n — Coll., 
 U alt rford, J\ 'orth— Don., 
 
 Waldo. 
 BeJflwt— Coll. 69.33, Sab. Scb,20, 
 " North— Coll., 
 
 Camden— Coll. 36.81, F. M. S. 24.40, 
 Frankfort Mills— Coll., 
 Freedom—' b: M. 40, don. 1, 
 Jackson and Brooks — Don., 
 Rockport— Coll. 11, L. M.20, 
 Searsport — Coll., 
 
 " £<wi— Coll., 
 
 Swanvillc — Don., 
 Thorndike— L. M, 40, don. I, 
 {/?«'«!/ — Ann. 4, don. 4, 
 Waldo Conference, 
 
 Washington. 
 Calais— Coll. 55, F. M. S. 20, don. 5, 
 Cherryfield— Coll., 
 Eastport— L. M. 20, don. 17, 
 
 £o.s« Mac/lias — Coll., 
 Machiasport — Coll., 
 Robbinston— Coll., 
 J( o-7( i/i i' 6fl n Conference, 
 
 $2 50 
 20 00 
 
 16 on 
 
 5 00 
 14 00 
 31 00 
 
 17 75 
 10 00 
 
 $150 85 
 
 89 33 
 23 50 
 
 50 00 
 7 53 
 
 -112 83 
 61 21 
 11 00 
 
 41 00 
 
 1 00 
 
 31 00 
 
 57 53 
 2 00 
 
 41 00 
 8 00 
 
 17 00 
 
 $1,143 07 
 
 PlSCATAQL'19. 
 
 Blanchard— Coll., 16 50 
 
 Bradford— Coll., 8 00 
 
 Brown field— Coll. 26.12, F. M. S, 11.76, 37 88 
 
 Dover and Foxcroft— Coll. 15, don. 3, 18 00 
 
 Garland— Coll., 22 00 
 
 Jtfifo— Don., 2 00 
 
 Jtfbnson— Coll. 22, L. M. 5, 27 00 
 
 SangerviUe — Don., 5 00 
 
 Sebec—F. M. S., 3 00 
 
 Somerset. 
 
 Ansm, (North)— Don., 2 00 
 
 Bloom Held— Coll. 15.05, don. 9, 24 65 
 
 FotrJieW— Don., I 00 
 
 —Coll. 8, L. M. 20, ami. 2, 30 00 
 
 M reer— Don., 2 00 
 
 NorrUgewock— Coll. 20.58, L. M. 25, 
 
 don. 68 58 
 
 run — Don., 2 00 
 
 SoJon, South— Coll. 3, don. 2, 5 00 
 
 « Village— L. M. 5, don. 1, 6 00 
 
 St. Albans— Coll. 2.46, Cent Soc. 3.05, L. 
 M. 5, don. 1, 
 
 i / Conference, 
 
 11 00 
 
 11 51 
 
 10 00 
 
 Union. 
 
 Albany— Coll., 
 
 Bridaton— Coll., 18 60 
 
 .. North— Coll., 5 50 
 
 " South— Dun., 5 00 
 
 $162 74 
 5 50 
 
 * [Whitncyrillc— Coll., 
 Northfield — Coll., 
 Jonesborough — Coll., 
 A lew iriends, 
 
 York. 
 Acton — Coll. 14, don. 4, 
 Alfred— Coll. 20, L. M. 16, 
 Biddeford, 2d Ch.— Coll. 32, don. 7, 
 " Pavilion Ch. — Coll., 
 
 Buxton, South— Coll. 6.57, Cent Soc 
 Elliot — L. M. by coll., 
 Kennebunk — L. M. 12, don. 103, 
 Kennebunlcport, 1st Ch. — Coll., 
 
 " 2d Ch Coll. 20, L. M. 80, 
 
 don. 31, in. c. 5, 
 
 lottery— Coll. 16.25, don. 3. 
 Lebanon — Coll., 
 /. i mi n i 'tun — Coll., 
 Vyman — Coll., 
 Newfield— Coll. 9, don. 2, 
 Saco— Coll. 50, F. At S. 20, don. 25, 
 Sanford— Coll., 
 
 South Bi rvrick— Coll. 91, L. M. 40, 
 
 JVells, 1st Ch.— Coll. 47.78, L. M. 40 
 
 " 2d Ch.— Coll. 10, L. M. 10, 
 
 Fort, lrf CA.— Coll. 48, L. M. 30, 
 " 2d Ch.— Coll., 
 
 Fort Conference, 
 
 $25 73] 
 
 18 00 
 
 36 00 
 
 39 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 41 0" 
 
 . 8.50, 15 07 
 
 20 00 
 
 115 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 136 00 
 
 156 00 
 
 19 25 
 
 30 00 
 
 5 80 
 
 12 42 
 
 11 00 
 
 95 00 
 
 33 00 
 
 131 00 
 
 87 78 
 20 00 
 
 78 00 
 20 00 
 
 98 00 
 37 00 
 
 $984 32 
 
 * These sums are not included in the Treasurer's receipts, the Rev. Mr. Peart being authorized 
 to receive them as part of his salary. 
 
u 
 
 OTHER STATES. 
 
 Boston, Mass.— Two L. M. by Charles B. 
 
 Dana, Esq., 
 Bridgeicater — A friend of missions, 
 Framingham — Charles Williams, Esq., 
 Neioburuport — Two ann. and a don., 
 Rozburii — Rev. D. M. .Mitchell, to compl. 
 
 a L. M., 
 Worcester — Rev. Dr. Sweetser, 
 
 " Rev. S. Souther, to compl. a 
 
 L. M., 
 Orford, JV. H.— Rev. Enos Merrill and 
 
 wife, 
 New York — Mrs. C. Dummer, 
 " Miss Mary Cleaves, 
 
 40 00 
 
 2 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 6 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 Apalnchicola, Fla. — L. M. by A. P. Nourse, 
 
 Esq., $20 00 
 
 Sacramento, Col. — A few friends, 100 00 
 
 A lady in California, 1 00 
 
 Honolulu, Sandw. Isl. — L. M. by George B. 
 C. Ingraham, 20 00 
 
 Marask, Turkey— Rev. Geo. A.Perkins, 3 00 
 
 From donors unknown, 
 Annual meeting at Bath, 
 
 Amount of donations as above, 
 Legacies, 
 
 ,499 24 
 
 txit ittcmbcrs, 
 
 RECOGNIZED SINCE THE LAST ANNUAL PUBLICATION. 
 
 MAINE. 
 
 
 Perley, Mrs. Maria, 
 
 Dixmont. 
 
 Hersey, Levi, 
 
 Auburn. 
 
 Loring, Miss Hattie M., 
 
 Durham. 
 
 Monroe, Mrs. Julia A., 
 
 " 
 
 Perkins, Mrs. David, 
 
 Eastport. 
 
 Bradbury, Charles, 
 
 Augusta. 
 
 Holmes, Rev. Otis, 
 
 Elliot. 
 
 Hamlin, Miss Lucy W., 
 
 " 
 
 Sargent, Winthrop S., 
 
 Ellsworth 
 
 Hamlin, Miss Ellen, 
 
 cc 
 
 Abbott, Mrs. Mittie, 
 
 Fannin gton. 
 
 Atwood, Mrs. A. P., 
 
 Bangor. 
 
 Cutler, Nathan, Jr., 
 
 " 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Sophia, 
 
 " 
 
 Townsend, S. O., 
 
 " 
 
 Clark, J. G., 
 
 " 
 
 Robinson. Mrs. Mary H., 
 
 Frankfort. 
 
 Haskins, Miss Mary S., 
 
 CC 
 
 Roberts, Rev. J. G., 
 
 Frankfort Mill.-. 
 
 Havves, Levi L., 
 
 cc 
 
 Belcher, John, 
 
 Freeport. 
 
 Johnson, Miss Lettie E., 
 
 cc 
 
 Belcher, Miss Drusilla, 
 
 " 
 
 Johnson, Miss Lauraette P., 
 
 cc 
 
 Burr, John, 
 
 cc 
 
 Liltlefield, Dea. J. E., 
 
 cc 
 
 Soule, Rufus C, 
 
 " 
 
 Lord, Charles Veazie, 
 
 <c 
 
 Evans, Mrs. Mary C. D., 
 
 Frijeburg. 
 
 Metcalf, Eliab, 
 
 cc 
 
 Forbush, Stephen, 
 
 Gray. 
 
 Pearson, Pickering P., 
 
 cc 
 
 Nash, Mrs. Mary S., 
 
 " 
 
 Roberts, Miss Susan W., 
 
 " 
 
 Butterfield, Rev. Horatio, Q., 
 
 Hallowell. 
 
 Starrett, Mrs. Caroline L., 
 
 " 
 
 Butteriield, Mrs. Caroline A., 
 
 ' " 
 
 Thurston, John R., 
 
 c" 
 
 Wales, Benjamin, Esq., 
 
 " 
 
 Thurston, Ephraim, 
 
 " 
 
 Case, Miss Julia D., 
 
 Kenduskeag. 
 
 Webster, Mrs. Mary A., 
 
 cc 
 
 Lord, Miss Mary P., 
 
 Kcnncbunkport. 
 
 Wheelwright, George, 
 
 cc 
 
 Perkins, Mrs. L. W., 
 
 " 
 
 Harward, Miss Lizzie P., 
 
 Bath. 
 
 Partridge, Rev. S. H.. 
 
 Lebanon. 
 
 Harward, Thomas P., 
 
 " 
 
 Pickard, Miss Hannah P., 
 
 Lewiston Falls. 
 
 Merritt, Frederic, 
 
 cc 
 
 Stearns, Dea. Benjamin, 
 
 Love.ll. 
 
 Mitchell, Mrs. Aunettie, 
 
 cc 
 
 Weston, B. P. 8,, 
 
 Madison, 
 
 Newton, J. L., 
 
 " 
 
 Buzzie, Mrs. Hannah C, 
 
 JVewburg. 
 
 Bobbins, Mrs. Deborah, 
 
 cc 
 
 Merrill, Charles H., 
 
 Neiccastle. 
 
 Sprague, Charles E., 
 
 " 
 
 Robinson, James, 
 
 " 
 
 Guruey, Nathaniel, 
 
 Belfast. 
 
 Burbank, Rufus, 
 
 Jfeiofield. 
 
 Hayes, Mrs. Jane, 
 
 Bcrioick 
 
 Rowe, Mrs. Judith, 
 
 J\!"eic Gloucester, 
 
 Chapman, Mrs. Frances, 
 
 Bethel. 
 
 Douglass, Rev. Ehenezer, 
 
 Oldtown. 
 
 Grover, Dea. Leonard, 
 
 " 
 
 Silsbce, Mrs. E. M., 
 
 Orono. 
 
 Twitchell, Dea. Nathan F„ 
 
 cc 
 
 Goodale. Mrs. Eliza II., 
 
 Orringtiin. 
 
 Twitchell, Mrs. Roxanna II., 
 
 " 
 
 Newell, Mrs. A. L., 
 
 " 
 
 Packard, Rev. Charles, 
 
 Biddcford, 
 
 Sawyer, Dea. Lewis. H., 
 
 Otisfield. 
 
 Tatton, Rev. James, 
 
 Browiiftcld. 
 
 Brown, Miss Ellen G., 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Barnard, Enoch, 
 
 Bucksport. 
 
 Carruthers, Miss Sarah B., 
 
 " 
 
 Woodman, Theodore C, 
 
 " 
 
 Carter, Miss Sarah R., 
 
 cc 
 
 Clapp, A. L., 
 
 Calais. 
 
 Chase, William, 
 
 " 
 
 Sawyer, Thomas, 
 
 " 
 
 Chase, Win. N., 
 
 cc 
 
 Swan, Frederic R., 
 
 " 
 
 Cuminiims, Mrs. Mary A., 
 
 " 
 
 Chapman, Rev. Franklin P., 
 
 Camden. 
 
 Dana, Walter T., 
 
 cc 
 
 Hodgman, Dea. Joel, 
 
 " 
 
 Deane, Henry P., 
 
 " 
 
 Dresser, Miss Martha, 
 
 Castine. 
 
 Edson, Mis. Sarah, 
 
 cc 
 
 Ellis, Miss Phebe, 
 
 " 
 
 Fox, Mrs. Jane M., 
 
 cc 
 
 Vose, Miss Mary (I., 
 
 cc 
 
 Goodwin, Mrs. Maria, 
 
 cc 
 
 Cox, Mrs. Hannah C., 
 
 Damarkcotta. 
 
 Gordon, Aliss Margaret, 
 
 " 
 
 Weeks, Daniel T., 
 
 " 
 
 Greely, Miss S., 
 
 " 
 
45 
 
 Griffin, Charles S. D., 
 Holbrook, Mrs. Elizabeth, 
 Pood, Capt. Daniel, 
 Hulih, Capt. Alexander, 
 Lord, Miss Anno L. P. 
 Lunt, Mr. Henry C, 
 Sum, Mrs. Henry L'., 
 Mark, Godfrey, 
 Mitchell, Jeremiah, 
 Moody, Mrs. Lucy, 
 Moore, Rev. Henry D., 
 Munger, John \\'., 
 Pickering, Mauthano D., 
 Shirley, George II., 
 Steale, Miss Julia, 
 Thomas, Willhm'W., Jr., 
 True, Mrs. John, 
 Tyler, Miss Sally, 
 Weeks, Joshua T., 
 Foster, Mrs. Harmony, 
 Fales, Mrs. Man S.,' 
 Fogg, .Mrs Mary T., 
 Wallace, Rev. Findley, 
 Goodale, Alfred M., 
 Wheeler, Mrs. W. Dana, 
 Marsh, Mrs. L. G., 
 Garman, Mrs. John II., 
 Moulton, Miss Martha, 
 Thornton, Charles C. G., 
 Carver, Mrs. Clarissa, 
 Sauyer, .Mrs. Elsey, 
 Bodwell, Airs. Eunice P., 
 Goodwin, Miss Sarah, 
 Hayman, Miss Sarah, 
 Pliimmer, Miss Elizabeth M., 
 Barker, Miss Evelyn, 
 Hunter, Mrs. Rachel, 
 Cushman, Levi, 
 Woodbury, Hon. E. C. 
 Stone, Miss Gratia M., 
 Potter, Barrett, 
 Broad, Miss Mary H., 
 
 Port In n (I. 
 
 Presi/ue Isle. 
 Rockland, 
 
 Saco. 
 
 Sanford. 
 
 Scarborough. 
 
 Searsport, 
 
 Solon 
 South Berwick 
 
 Stetson. 
 
 Strong, 
 
 Sumner, 
 
 Sweden. 
 
 Tkorndike. 
 
 Topsham. 
 
 Unity. 
 
 Lightbody, Rev. Thomas, 
 Lightbody, Airs. Thomas, 
 Cobb, Pea. Jonathan, 
 Starrett, David, 
 Greene, Kev. Win. B., 
 Cook, Rev. Jonathan, 1!., 
 Maxwell, Warren B., 
 Rankin, Samuel, 
 Wells, William, 
 Wells, Aliss Hannah, 
 Bradley, Rev. Caleb. 
 Cheney, Airs. Alary D., 
 Gage, Airs. Almira. 
 Foote, Erastus, Esq., 
 Merrill, Airs. Henrietta, 
 Blanchard, Airs. Olive, 
 Bnrbank, Dr. A. II., 
 Drinkwater, Mrs. Alary, 
 Mitchell, Airs. Martha, 
 Prince, Aliss Sarah, 
 Hill, Deacon Henry, 
 
 Waldoboroiigh. 
 Warren. 
 
 /) aterville. 
 Wells. 
 
 Hilt,,,,. 
 
 Wiscasset. 
 
 York. 
 
 OTHER STATES. 
 
 Adams, Rev. Solomon, 
 Adams, Aliss Charlotte C, 
 Dana, Arthur Payson, 
 Dickerraan, Rev. Lysander, 
 Emerson, Airs. Martha W., 
 Kendall, Rev. R. S., 
 Page. Miss Annie F., 
 Souther, Willie T., 
 Plumnier, Airs. Elmira, 
 Chickering, Airs. Luciana, 
 Pond, Rev. J. Evarts, 
 Zelie, Airs. Caroline S., 
 Winn, William Jackson, 
 Thornton, Rev. James B., 
 Grout, Rev. Alden, 
 In graham, George B. C, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 Conway, " 
 Brookline. " 
 Gloucester, *' 
 Fitchhurn-h, " 
 Chelsea, " 
 Jluburntlalc, " 
 Worcester, " 
 Rollinsford, JV. H. 
 Ovid, JV. r. 
 JVeenah, Wis. 
 Santa Cruz, Cal 
 Ottawa, Can. W. 
 St. John. A\ B. 
 South Africa. 
 Honolulu, Sand. Isl. 
 
 Dr. Joseph H. Estabrook, reported at Bucksport last year, resides at Camden. Mrs. H. K. 
 Guernsey, of Bangor, as reported last year, should have been Airs. Susan K. Gernsej. 
 The complete list of Life Members must be again deferred. 
 
BX7146.M2A7 1858 
 
 Motives to home missionary work. 
 
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