The Hon. Samuel Hubbard, President of the Society, not being able to be present, the Rev. Enoch Pond, D. D., one of the Honorary Vice Presidents, took the chair.

The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. Orin Fowler, of Fall River, Ms. The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read by the Secretary.

The Report of the Treasurer was read by him, and as it had not been audited in the usual form, owing to the absence of the Auditor, was accepted on condition of its being duly certified, and ordered to be printed.

The reading of the Report of the Directors was postponed to the time of the public meeting, to be held in the evening.

The officers of the Society for the ensuing year were chosen.

The Society adjourned to meet at half past 7 o'clock, in the Marlboro' Chapel, for public services. The Rev. Professor Emerson, of Andover Theological Seminary, closed with prayer.

which has now been read, be accepted and Resolved, That the Report, an abstract of adopted, and be printed under the direction of the Executive Committee.

On motion of the Rev. Chauncey A. Goodrich, D. D., of Yale College, seconded by the Rev. Orin Fowler, of Fall River, Ms.,

Resolved, That the success which has attended the exertions of this Society in past years, encourages to continued and increasing effort.

On motion of the Rev. Asa D. Smith, of New York, seconded by the Rev. Silas Aiken, of Boston,

Resolved, That a deep interest in the object of this Society is a natural result of true and deep Christian experience.

On motion of the Rev. Thomas Brainerd, of Philadelphia, seconded by the Rev. David T. Kimball, of Ipswich, Ms.,

Resolved, That in supplying our country and the world with an educated and evangelical ministry, a special responsibility still rests upon New England.

Able addresses were delivered by the Rev. Messrs. Pond, Goodrich, Smith, and

Brainerd.

The meeting was then closed with the benediction, by the Rev. Mr. Kimball, and the Society adjourned.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE EN

SUING YEAR.

President.

Hon. Samuel Hubbard, LL. D.

Vice President.

Hon. Samuel T. Armstrong.

Honorary Vice Presidents.

Hon. John Cotton Smith, LL. D. Sharon, Ct.
Rev. Ashbel Green, D. D., LL. D. Philadelphia.
Rev. Jeremiah Day, D. D., LL. D. Pres. Yale Col.
Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D., LL. D. Pres. Union Col.
Rt. Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, D. D. Boston.
Rev. Joshua Bates, D. D. Middlebury Vt.
Rev. Henry Davis, D. D. Clinton, N. Y.
Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D. Newburyport, Ms.
Rev. William Allen, D. D. Northampton, Ms.
Rev. James Richards, D. D. Prof. Theo. Sem. Auburn
Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D. Pres. Lane Seminary.

Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D. Pres. Amherst College.
Rev. Nathan Lord, D. D. Pres. Dartmouth College.
Rev. Francis Wayland, D. D. Pres. Brown Univer.
Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D. Prof. Th. Sem. Andover.
Rev. James M. Matthews, D. D. New York.
Rev. Sereno E. Dwight, D. D. New Haven, Ct.
Rev. Joseph Penny, D. D. Pres. Hamilton College.
Rev. John Wheeler, D. D. Pres. Univ. of Vermont.
Hon. Theo. Frelinghuysen, LL. D. Chanc. N. Y. Univ.
Rev. Robert H. Bishop, D. D. Pres. Miami Univ.
Rev. Geo. E. Pierce, D. D. Pres. Western Reserve Col.
Rev. Bennet Tyler, D. D. Pres Conn. Theol. Institute.
Rev. Enoch Pond, D. D. Prof. Theol. Sem. Bangor.
Rev. Edward Beecher, Pres. Illinois College.
Rev. Justin Edwards, D. D. Pres. Th. Sem. Andover.
Rev. Thomas McAuley, D. D. New York.
Rev. Mark Hopkins, D. D. Pres. Williams College.
Hon. Thomas S. Williams, LL. D. Hartford, Ct.
Henry Dwight, Esq. Geneva, N. Y.
Hon. Charles Marsh, LL. D. Woodstock, Vt.
Hon. Lewis Strong, Northampton, Ms.
Hon. Edmund Parker, Nashua, N. H.

Directors.

Rev. Brown Emerson, D. D.
John Tappan, Esq.
Arthur Tappan, Esq.
Rev. John Codman, D. D.
Rev. Ralph Emerson, D. D.
Rev. William Patton, D. D.
Rev. William Jenks, D. D.
Rev. Ebenezer Burgess, D. D.
Rev. George W. Blagden.
Rev. Samuel H. Riddel.
Rev. Daniel Crosby.

Rev. Samuel H. Riddel, Secretary.
Hardy Ropes, Esq. Treasurer.
Hon. Pliny Cutler, Auditor.
Executive Committee.
Rev. John Codman, D. D.
Rev. William Jenks, D. D.
Rev. Joy H. Fairchild.
Rev. George W. Blagden,
and the Secretary.
Financial Committee.
John Tappan, Esq.
Hon. Samuel T. Armstrong.
Hon. William J. Hubbard,
and the Treasurer.

ABSTRACT OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH

ANNUAL REPORT.

The twenty-third day of August last completed a period of twenty-five years since the Society, whose Anniversary we now celebrate, was formed, and went into óperation. This has been a period of great interest in the religious history of our country and of the world. A spirit of

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Christian activity has been awakened, which, beyond all precedent in modern times, has brought the energies and resources of the church into requisition for the spread of the gospel, and for the more general and effectual enforcement of its truths in Christian lands. Researches of great minuteness and extent have been entered upon, and indefatigably pursued, in order to bring to light the depths of human guilt and wretchedness; and to find out the means by which the sovereign remedy appointed by God for all the miseries of our fallen state, may be universally and speedily applied. Many, during this period, have run to and fro; and the knowledge moral condition of the world has made no which has been gained in relation to the inconsiderable addition to the common stock of information and intelligence. The duty of devising plans for the most successful co-operation of the friends of the Redeemer in the great work of evangelizing the world has been felt to be of immediate obligation; and the great benevolent objects which we may regard as constituting the leading departments of evangelical enterprise, and which may all be characterized as essentially missionary labors, have been taken up, one after another, as they have seemed to be demanded by the emergencies of the case, and have been carried into systematic, harmonious and extended operation. The scene presented upon the theatre of Christian effort in our land, from the point of observation to which we are at length brought, is one which must excite in the bosoms of all such as are waiting, at this day, for the consolation of Israel, the liveliest emotions of mingled solicitude and hope.

Origin of the Education Society.—It was a most natural, and, indeed, a most necessary conviction, in the minds of those who were permitted the honor of bringing forward these plans for benevolent effort, that an indispensable branch of this grand instrumentality must lie in the sphere which this Society has been called to occupy. It was seen by those truly wise and devoted men, that the pressing demand for competent laborers in the vineyard of the Lord, which then existed even at their doors, and which would be much enhanced by the vigorous prosecution of those efforts for extending the means of salvation, which had been by them begun or contemplated, could never be met except by proportionably earnest and special exertions to raise up, in succeeding generations, a more competent supply of educated ministers of the gospel. With this important object in view, therefore, the American Education Society was instituted. And now, after the lapse of a quarter of a century, having come up to another Anniversary, to commemorate with praise to God, the great results which have