The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-09-10
Celebration of the Thirty-Sixth Anniversary
OF the American Board OF Commissioners
for Foreign Missions MT Brooklyn.


Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, wa
celebrated yesterday afternoon in the First Presby
terrain Church, Brooklyn Considerable interest wa
manifested, and the church was filled with tn
curious and religious from all quarters.
The meeting opened with prayer by the Rev
DR.. De Witt after which the Rev Mr.. Duifel
was appointed Assistant Recording Secretary, an
| read the minutes of the last annual meeting. TIL
Rev. Dr. Cox now made report from the COMMITTEE
of Arrangements.
The following is the programme of services TO
the week
This afternoon, ati o'clock, the communion of
the Lords supper, will be administered in The
Second Presbyterian Church. AT the same place
IN the evening" there will be devotional exercises
There will also be meetings tor prayer, this morning
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, from
eight TO nine O'clock IN the First Presbyterian anG
Central Reformed Dutch churches, and public mis-
sionary and devotional exercises IN the First Pres
byterian and South Presbyterian Churches on Wed
nesday evening. The Rev. DR., piquantly remarked
/ that the brethren who intended speaking at the
morning meetings would much obge by occupying
the attention of the audience but two or three
minutes at time. Short prayers-short singing
| short sermons was his motto
A number of letters now read from g. nj
Lee, ESQ Rochester; d. II. Little, Cherry Valley;
Rev Professor Goodrich of Yale College, and Others
regretng their inability attend the anniversary.
| .SNow followed the rreasurers Report.
The whole amount received into the treasury of the
oard from all during the year ending with the
3st Of July last, sa55 l2 90 being sls7ls SO more
than the receipts from the during the pre-
cedng year and exceeding those of any former year
except that ending with July 1872 The payments for
sal6sl 81 bang s27 $50 SO less of the pre-
ceng year and s3s 2e3 81 less than the income for the
which the treasury was indebted at beginning of
| year Sl7 ,295 SO in the hands of the treasurer.
The great Waldo Legacy, however is not included in
An abstract of the Thirty Sixth Annual Report, rea-
ting to the Domestic Department, read by DR..
Armstrong, by which it appeared that
One corporate member of the Board, the Hon Mills
Ocott of New Hampshire has deceased since the last
Nine missionaries and assistant missionaries have been
removed by death viz Rev B. Griswod, Rev. g. H.
Lennep Mrs. Dole, Mrs f. u. Thomson, Mrs. Ball and
Miss Pierce.
The ordinary labors for the cultivation of the
airy spirit in the churches have been pursued and the
results both in obtaining missionaries and collecting
fun for their support, have been encouraging But
there has been such manifestation Of increased inter-
est in the denotes an era in the progress OF the
friends of Christ toward entire conservation to the adj
vancement of His king dom IN the world
Eight missionaries and assistant missionaries have
been released at their own request from their connec-
ton with the Board
Fifteen have entered on the work, in connection with
the missions to the Armenans and the Choctaw In
dams, and that in Western Africa.
Thirty three have been appointed and five who had
received appointments have been at their request
released.
Twenty.four now remain under appointment large
proportion Of these have been designated to the missions
of the Board among the Mahratas and the Tamil people
of Western and Southern India, and expect to embark
for their fields OF labor at an early day.
There has been increase OF missionary feeling in
some OF the theological seminares to which the Board
has been accustomed to look for missionaries.
The number now under appointment and the number
who known to have formed the purpose to preach
the gospel among the heather but who have not yet
completed their studies is larger than it has been for
some years.
In the department of agencies, the Committee have
sought to make such arrangements as to more
regular presentation Of the claims of the to all the
churches for which the Board acts.
In pursuance of this pan the oversight ofthe agencies
in New England has been committed to Mr. Greene.
Rev. c. L. Mills has been associated with Mr.. Cowlcs as
an agent in Southern New England. Rev.. w, Wood
has been appointed an agent Of the Board in Eastern
New York. Rev. c. w. Torrey to labor year in the
Valley OF the Mississippi and Rev A. s Wells in the
The contributions to the Board from the Boards of
Foreign Missions OF the Reformed Dutch Church. and
the German Reformed Church. have been larger than
they were last year and the circulation OF the Msond
ry Herald about the same.
Dr. ANDERSON read an abstract Of the report rela-
tive to missions.
Under the of the Board twenty six missions,
l3l ordained missionaries eight OF whom ysican-,
six physic not ordained, fourteen schoomasters,
eight printers and bookbnders eleven other male and
Isl female assistant missionaries in all $50 persons sent
forth from this country with whom associated in the
missionary work seventeen native preachers and II
other native helpers; raising the whole number OF labor
at the several missions and dependent principally on
the Board for support to 4SS.
Under the pastoral of these missionaries and
gathered by them sixty.fve churches, embracing
4 21566 members Thirteen printing establishments
connected with these missions having five type and ste
reoty ounderies twenty presses thirty foun OF type
and preparations to print in than thirty different
Languages. During the year under review l74,s2l CO.
pies OF various works have been printed for the
amounting TO 349307l0 pages and raising the whole
amount of printing executed at the mission presses
otherwise, for the missions to AIS 795 ,25a pages.
Six mission seminares for educating native preachers
and other helpers have 440 pupils and twenty-seven
other boarding schools with 1908 pupils, make the
Der of boarding scholars 445 The free schools ncu
ding those at the Sandwich Islands mainly support
ed by the Hawaiian govern ment though commenced and
carried forward by the mission and still receiving much
from it, Gle, with 2Ss7l pupils making the
whole number of pupils to be 30,l97.
In the evening Rev Dr. Hopkins preached an excellent
from Psalms 55, 22d verse :-"Cast thy burden
upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee He shall
suffer the righteous to be moved"
The ceremonies during the week will be of a very in
erestng character and will doubtless be well tended
SINGULAR AFFAIR.-THE RECENT SUICIDE IN
PHIr.ADELpHIA.-On Sunday morning last, re-
ceived through the Post office, the following singu
lar letter. which then laid aside, thinking it had
| been written by some one who had little else to dc