Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-14
From the Christian Waterman.
N. b. EDUCATION SOCIETY.
Extract from the Annual Report.

The Board Of Directors of the North
ern Baptist Education Society, beg leave
to'submit their twenty third Annual Re-
port.
Through the Divine favor, the Board
have been permitted to prosecute, during
another year, the work entrusted them
The degree of success which has attend
ed their labors, may be learnt in part,
from the facts hereafter to be submitted.
STAT1sT1Cs-Th instructions given
TO the Board by the Society to receive eve
nv deserving applicant have been complied
with. The whole number assisted by the
Parent Society during the year which
closes this day, is one hundred and thirty;
received during the same period twenty
seven; dismissed fourteen leaving the
present number one hundred and sixteen.
Of those dismissed eight had completed
their course of education, all Of whom
have since received ordination three as
foreign missionaries, three as pastors and
are settled in Massachusetts, two as evan
gelists, the one under an appointment as
a home missionary in the State of Mlssou-
ri, and the other under an appointment as
a Professor in Shurtlet' College, ILL.,
Four have been dismissed having obtain
ed other means of support; one has been
dismissed in consequence ofiIl health, and
one for the want of suitable promise.
The whole number on the respective
Branches is seventy, increasing the entire
number under patronage to one hundred
and eighty-six. Ofthose underpatronage,
thirty-sIx are in Theological Institutions ;
seventy-seven are in College; and seven
ty-seven in various stages of preparatory
studies The Society's benefci1ries are in
the following institutions Newton The
illogical Institution, Mass ; Hamilton Lit
and TheoI. Institution, N. Y; Brown
University, R. l.; WaterviIle College,
Me; MiddIebury College, VT; Amhers
College, Mass. Dartmouth College, N
f H. Granville College, Ohio; Cumber
land College, D. c.; Shurtlef College
Ill. ; New Hampton Literary and The
illogical Institution, N. H.; Brandon Lit
erary Insti luton, VT; Connecticut Bap
fist Literary Institution; Horton Institu
ton, Nova Scotia; and also in the fol-
towing High Schools and Academies; j
WaterviIIe, China and Hampton Acade
mics, Me -; Worcester County Manua
Labor High School, Mddleboro, Frank
lin and Philips Academies, Mass. I'll,
young men are from Massachusetts, sixty
=, Vermont, twenty-four; Connecticut, ff
teen; New Hampshire, twenty one -
Y Maine, twenty five; Rhode Island, nine
), the State of New Y ork, fifteen; the Prov
# ince of Nova Scotia, FIVE; District of Co
s lumbia, one; Wales, &C. b. two; on
|. from New Jersey; five from Ohio an
n two from Illinois.
We would mention it, with gratitude t
l. the Preserver Of men, that no instance {
j.. mortality has occurred among the youn
Y men during the past year During tn
e two preceding years no less than five {
g your bene6ciaries were numbered anon
e the dead.
1t STATE OF THE TREAsURY-The cor
J, dition Of the treasury is less prosperou
j. than at the time Of our last annual NEE
v ing We were then permitted to repo,
: a small balance in the Treasury, afte
n having satisfied all claims against il fo
the current year. Our Treasury. is no,
" in debt S1Ol9 o. The amount receive
ID into the Treasury Of the Parent Societ
s. during the past year is $685. 81. TIL
a. amount expended is S6,7o5 %. Expen,
to ed by the several branches is S2,6s5 II
10 making the whole amount expended 90
IS 800 Sc, and leaving balance against Ii
b. Treasury ofthe Parent Society ofs $1,000
le This embarrassment, from which th