TABLE OF RECEIPTS,

Exhibiting, as far as known, the amount received from each State and Territory into the Treasury of the American Home Missionary Society during the year, and the amount expended by each larger Auxiliary within its bounds constituting also a part of the receipts of the Parent Society.

PRINCIPAL AUXILIARIES, AGENCIES, AND MISSIONARY FIELDS.

MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Rev. WILLIAM T. DWIGHT, D.D., President; JOHN HOWE, Esq., Treasurer; Rev. BENJAMIN TAPPAN, D.D., Secretary. Office at Portland.

The receipts of this Society, for the year ending March 1, were $10,854.12. There were paid from the State into the Treasury of the American Home Missionary Society, during its financial year, $35.32; making a total of $10,889.44,-less than the preceding year by $228.72. The expenditures within the State were $10,709.57.

Ninety two missionaries have been in commission during some portion of the year, whose fields of labor comprise one hundred and six churches, and twenty five stations where no churches exist. The average number of souls in attendance on the Sabbath instructions of these missionaries is twelve thousand; and the members of their Sabbath schools and Bible classes number seven thousand. The last year has been one of uncommon religious interest. At the date of the last returns to the Auxiliary, five hundred and six had been added to the churches; and nine hundred and forty four reported as hopefully converted to Christ,-a larger number than in any one year before since the Society was instituted.

The Home Missionary cause loses none but that interest increases year by year.

of its interest in Maine ; "We do not maintain,"

We will not assert even But we do contend that

say the Trustees, "that it presents the only claims upon our benevolence that ought to be regarded. that they are paramount to all others this cause makes a very urgent demand upon the love of Christ, and upon the love of country. To us it is obeying the command to "begin at Jerusalem." It is providing 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 does 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 !"

NEW HAMPSHIRE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Hon. WILLIAM HAILE, President; Rev. BENJAMIN P. STONE, D.D., Secretary and Treasurer. Office at Concord.

The receipts of this Society for the year ending March 1, were $5,976.20, of which $347.87 were designated by the donors for the Parent Society. There were also received, from individuals and churches and in payment of legacies, into the Treasury of the National Society, during its financial year, $356.97; making the total to the cause $6,333.17-less than last year by $307.56. The expenditures within the State were $6,696.85; and the amount paid into the Treasury of the National Society was $704.84.

Forty five missionaries have been in commission during some portion of the year. Rev. WILLIAM CLARK has also prosecuted the work of a general missionary agency in the destitute portions of the State. Forty five churches, and ten congregations where no churches have been gathered, have received the benefit of these missionary services; and three thousand one hundred and forty children and youth, in connection with the congregations, have been instructed in Sabbath schools. Showers of divine grace have greatly refreshed a large portion of the field, and made it more fruitful in the conversion of souls than in any other year since 1843. Revivals of greater or less power and extent have been enjoyed in twenty six churches and congregations; and the number of hopeful conversions reported from them is three hundred and ninety five.

These rich blessings from on high greatly encourage the Society to go forward in their endeavors to sustain the preaching of the Gospel wherever it is needed among them, though they know not whence the pecuniary resources are to be derived for the accomplishment of the work. "God has blessed the labors of the New Hampshire Missionary Society," they say, "these fifty seven years; and his blessing has always been the most abundant when its necessities have been the greatest and its conductors and friends have most felt their own helplessness and their dependence upon the throne of his grace. To lose confidence in the God of our salvation now, and to become weary in our work, would be a dishonor to his name, unfaithfulness to our divine Master, and an unnatural and cruel withholding of our sympathies and charities from the destitute and perishing. * *The victory is sure—a victory measured by our faith and devotion. Gods calls us to be instruments, not to be inventors nor creators. He alone has the residue of the Spirit. We have no apology for observing the wind or regarding the clouds, but should go forth in the morning sowing the seed, and in the evening withholding not our hand, for we know not whether shall prosper either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good."

VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Hon. ERASTUS FAIRBANKS, President; C. W. STORRS, Esq., Treasurer; Rev. JOHN F. STONE, Secretary. Office at Montpelier.

The receipts of this Society for the year ending March 1, were $8,673.42. There were also received into the Treasury of the American Home Missionary Society, during its financial year, from individuals and congregations in the State, $156.61, and in payment of legacies, $860.45; making a total for the cause of $9,990.48, which is $405.25 less than the amount reported last year. The expenditures within the State were $9,098.12; and the amount forwarded to the National Society, $1,317.06.

The number of missionaries employed is ninety seven, including forty seven licentiates, whose course of theological study was not completed, but who rendered short terms of service during their vacations. Thirty three churches have been aided in the support of pastors or stated supplies, and forty two towns and communities besides have received the benefit of these missionary labors. Not far from three thousand children and youth have been instructed in Sabbath schools. Many of the missionary fields have been scenes of more than usual religious interest. Churches have been quickened and rendered more earnest and prevalent in prayer; congregations have improved in respect to numbers and punctu ality in attendance; and two hundred and fifty one souls are reported as having hopefully passed from death unto life-a larger number than has been returned in any one year before since the missionary work in this State began, and twice the number that has been reported in any year but one for the last ten years.

The Secretary of the Society says of the service rendered by licentiates whose course of preparation was not fully completed, "Though the period of it has been brief, they have generally performed more labor, in the way of visiting the people at their homes, conversing with individuals, and lecturing in different neighborhoods during the time covered by their commissions, than they, or even older and stronger ministers would be able to perform on an average as permanent laborers. This plan was never thought of as a substitute for more permanent supplies, but mainly as a temporary expedient to be adopted where no better arrangement was immediately practicable, and with a view of preparing the way for a settled ministry. And among the results of such labors we are happy to find, not only an increased desire for preaching, but a strong wish to secure a permanent ministry. And not less than ten churches which have been destitute, most of them for years, previous to being visited by these laborers, now have stated supplies or settled pastors."

MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Rev. RICHARD S. STORRS, D.D., President; BENJAMIN PERKINS, Esq., Treasurer; Rev. HENRY B. HOOKER, D.D., Secretary. Office in Boston.

The receipts of this Society, for the year ending March 1st, were $31,207.63. The expenditures within the State were $5,957.91; and the amount forwarded from the Treasury, to the American Home Missionary Society, during its financial year, was $26,000. There were also received into the Treasury of the Parent Society: from legacies, $20,610.91; from the Hampshire Missionary Society, $1,298.08; from congregations and individuals, $5,445.90in all $26,904.89; making the amount to the cause from Massachusetts, $58,112.52. The total of receipts exceeds the amount of the preceding year, by $12,938.69, and of any previous year, by $629.45. The whole amount expended through the Parent Society, is $52,904.89,-exceeding the amount of the preceding year by $11,848.64, and of any previous year, by $2,645.66.

The number of missionaries in the service of the Society, is thirty eight; the aggregate average attendance on their public ministrations, is over four thousand, while more than three times that number come more or less under their religious influence. The churches to which they have ministered, contain one thousand three hundred and eighty seven members, and the Sabbath schools connected with them, more than two thousand children and youth.

"An important event," says the last Report of the Society, "has marked the missionary year. While the churches have been straitened in pecuniary matters, they have not been straitened in regard to spiritual blessings. We are permitted to record, and rejoice over the fact, that the land, and almost the whole land, has been blessed with a more bountiful effusion of the Spirit of God, than has been granted, in the same time, and over such an extent of country, since the world began. And while our strong churches have been in such numbers strengthened, our feeble churches have had gracious visits from the Infinite King, fulfilling gloriously ancient prophecy: 'He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, for he shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also, and him that hath no helper.' Many of the mission churches of our own particular field have been greatly blessed. In proportion to the numbers in the congregations, there have not been elsewhere greater manifestations of the Spirit's power. From these churches we have reports of the conversion of one hundred and fifty five individuals during the year, and revivals are yet in progress among them. Thus have these neglected corners of the Lord's vineyard been objects of his special kindness and care, and when his servants had toiled on, disheartened and desponding, they have had occasion to say, 'The Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel."