THIRTY FOURTH REPORT

OF THE

AMERICAN

HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY,

PRESENTED BY THE

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

AT THE

ANNIVERSARY MEETING, MAY 9, 1860,

WITH AN

APPENDIX.

New York:

JOHN A. GRAY, PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND BINDER,

CORNER OF FRANKFORT AND JACOB STREETS,

FIRE PROOF BUILDINGS.

1860.

Number of Missionaries, their distribution, and the aggregate of their

Additions to the Churches-Revivals, .

Churches organized Houses of worship completed,

THE TREASURY-Resources-Liabilities-Payments,

Embarrassments of the year

Progress,

GENERAL COMPARATIVE RESULTS,

Table of Receipts, Expenditures, Number of Missionaries, years of labor,

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THIRTY FOURTH ANNIVERSARY.

THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY held its Thirty Fourth Anniversary in the Church of the Puritans, on Union Square, New York, on Wednesday evening, May 9th, 1860.

Rev. ABSALOM PETERS, D. D., of New York, one of the VicePresidents, occupied the chair, and the exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. HENRY B. HOOKER, D. D., of Boston, Mass.

The Treasurer's Report was read by Mr. CHRISTOPHER R. ROBERT, the Treasurer of the Society.

An Abstract of the Annual Report of the Executive Committee was presented by Rev. DANIEL P. NOYES, one of the Secretaries.

On motion of Rev. HORACE JAMES, of Worcester, Mass., seconded by Rev. BENJAMIN P. STONE, D. D., of Concord, N. II.,

Resolved, That the Reports now presented be adopted, and published under the direction of the Executive Committee.

On motion of Rev. THOMAS S. HASTINGS, of New York, seconded by Rev. ISAAC N. SPRAGUE, of Caldwell, N. J.,

Resolved, That in such a work as that which engages this Society, discouragement is presumption, and only confident energy is humility.

On motion of Rev. JACOB M. MANNING, of Boston, Mass., seconded by Rev. JOSEPH EMERSON, Professor in Beloit College, Wis.,

Resolved, That we thank God for what the American Home Missionary Society has done already; and that we should be filled with grief and alarm, were we apprehensive that it is to be at all crippled in its work, till it has published the Gospel in every valley and on every hill-top throughout our country.

On motion of Rev. RUFUS W. CLARK, of Brooklyn, N.Y., seconded by Rev. SAMUEL D. BURCHARD, D. D., of New York,