SUMMARY OF RESULTS.

The number of ministers of the Gospel in the service of the Society the last year, whose names are found in the preceding General Table, together with those engaged in superintending the work, and whose names are mentioned in connection with the respective Auxiliaries and Agencies, is 1,054.

Of these, 804 were in commission at the date of the last Report, and 250 have been since appointed.

They have been distributed in 22 different States and Territories, as follows: in Maine, 92; New Hampshire, 45; Vermont, 97; Massachusetts, 38; Rhode Island, 8; Connecticut, 39; New York, 135; New Jersey, 12; Pennsylvania, 53; Delaware, 1; Kentucky, 1; Ohio, 77; Indiana, 29; Illinois, 93; Michigan, 65 ; Wisconsin, 102; Iowa, 102; Minnesota, 34; Kansas, 14; Nebraska, 4; California, 6; Oregon, 7.

This distribution gives to the New England States, 319; Middle States, 201; Western States and Territories, 534, including 13 on the Pacific coast.

Of the whole number in commission, 559 have been pastors or stated supplies of single congregations; 345 have ministered to two or three congregations each; and 150 have extended their labors over still wider fields.

The advantages of a permanent and an itinerant ministry are thus happily combined. The Society seeks to accomplish whatever is practicable by a general exploring agency, by the arrangement of circuits more or less extensive, where the circumstances call for them, for itinerant laborers, and by the encouragement of churches to secure, each for itself, the entire services of a pastor. From one eighth to one sixth of the missionaries, each year since the organization of the Society, have been employed in itinerant labors, preparatory to the more permanent establishment of gospel institutions.

The aggregate of ministerial labor performed is 810 years.

The number of congregations and missionary districts which have been fully supplied, or where the Gospel has been preached at stated intervals, is 2,125.

Ten missionaries have been in commission as pastors or stated supplies of churches of colored people; and 41 have preached in foreign languages-20 to Welsh, 18 to German congregations, and 3 to congregations of Swedes, Norwegians, and Frenchmen.