New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-11
American Bonrd OF ON missioner. for Foreign
Missions.


The Au,iversary meeting IN behalf Of the Board
was held yesterday morning il the Tabernacle
The attendance was very large. After Prayer BY
D.. Hammer Of Baltimore, the Congregation sung
the following Hymn, under the lead Of Professor
Hastings:
G-eA:G,d! he nations o. the earth
Are OF erosion thlne:
And n 10y works, ty al beeeld
Thy power and glory shine
But Lord. thy gres'sr love hiss senI
Thy Go.p-l 70 MANKIND;
Unvsiling whai rch stores OF grsoe
Are treasured IN my illnd
On when shsl these 4 "a tdngs spread
TIE spacious earth aro M,
TIL every uiOe-srS every SOUL
Shall heSr The j.! fal sound
Smile Lord on each divine attempt
t. spread tne Glep-Fs rays
Ard build on sins demolished hrone
A temple 10 thy praise
Hon. THEODORE FRELfSGHUYsES, the president
e the Board then made the following address
The American Board OF Foreign Missions IS one q
important way in which the providence OF God IL
| lustrates the great purpose for winch he mas eA
slted our country TO such distinguished place ahd
! ;nenepce among the nations OF the eafth
She ia To learn for herself, and teach Il 70 others
| thot II was not for her alone that GOd aWaheheu
in he bosom Of the Puritan an unquenchaoie thnst
after liberty and the rights OF conscience 1hat !,
grex 40 strong as to break away from home and
! c,1ntrv and Christian privileges, and prefer these
Il
| Erbidding shores the lncemences OF stern Gu
NATE the vast gs OF disease and the penis OF a
SAVAGE neighborhoOd 10 any abode on the whole
| earth where conscience was not Tree. IL was Tor
the glory of His name and the spread and triumph
of his truth that He has given US toys elevation
srd for this he watched over the plgrim-covered
his head with his own bucker and f. the light he
kindled on the Plymouth Rock until its ill1mina
tiona have made these whole heavens bright as
the morning star with The glory OF His Gospel
And now this favored people are to reflect It upon
the Old World We are to scatter the seeds OF
truth among all the kindreds OF men.
And it lot only becomes US, as Professedly
Christian people, but We are bound by peculiar
blessings The Obligation springs from all our his
tory Blessed in our Origin, Liberties, our sue
cessul enterprise pros perity and our influence,
# not insensbe to the first promptings OF graft
tude n God, we must remember our Gracious Ben
efactor, thus in making known His will, and per
suading our fellow men 10 acknowledge and fear
Him
And in this aspect we perceive too, the fitness
OF our agency. How il fortiies the humblest mis-
sonary TO invest him with this national character.
To enable him TO say t. the heather world, come
as the almoner of American kndness, as the repre-
sintative Of American counsels. and 10 tell you,
who and what has made us TO differ That all YOU
admire AID love in our country, We owe TO the God
Of the Bible. And we exhort you 10 turn to the
IHTlhllhu bOf' hui nc VIII htlAfNi sDH hchA viz
blindness and misery under which You groan
This is our vocation and bless God that it IS so,
and that in the B BILE, the Missionary and other As
sOcations of American Christians we are fulfilling
this high destiny. That with the mighty Influence
given ss the fruits ol eur political end CONNER
cial relations we are not content to be Known DULY
Ia the calculations Of Il aGe and the negotiations OF
policy. But that we wish a.o TO bear our testimo-
ny to all the tribes Of our fellow that concerns
OF surprising moment lie beyond these, far rs eter
mtg exceeds this brief seasOn, this day dream oi
time.
We are to stand by the truth to help on lis pro
gress and to hail its trumPhs Should it, as 1t may
Nv. rturn thrones IN its course, should sceptres and
potentates fail before it, willie We would not exult
a. human woes, yet if it please God, by works oil
dreadful righteousness, to accomplish HIS purposes
of mercy, we must rejoice Ia the issues.
The wrongs Of suffering humanity, and the career
o. outrage ard crime have period. The Judge Of
all the earth will light the wroneed and raise upon
the ruins Of unhaowed power the dominion OF the
| Prince OF Peace. Who will not unite In the desire
| Let IL come-even so
The next was the following statement of the
Missions of the Board, by Rev. d. B. Coz, Score
tary for the New.York District;
Since we assembled in this place year ago
| Hon. Samuel T. Armstrong for Il ears member
and for six years the Chairman OF the Prudential
| COMMITTEE OF tue AIutliCdu DOdIut hhe DctH it
| moved by death. On the evening OF the goth o.
March, having spent the very last hour Of his life
la presiding over the delibe rations Of the Commit
| tee he was suddenly called from his labors to hI'
rest and his reward.
During the year, two ordained missionaries ant
| five assistant missionaries have also rested iron
| their labors.
Four ordained missionaries and eight assistant
miss onares have left this country for the foreign
| field and eight assistant missionaries have joined
| the several missions among the Indians OF TIM
country.
Three missionaries and two assistant missiona
ries " no were in this country year ago, have re-
| turned 10 their stations.
Five missionaries and one miss ionsry physician
| are now under appointment, and VIII soon ente
| upon their labors
| Eight months have elapsed since the Prudential
Committee sent forth, in their annual report ap
peal for thirty eight new laborers to sustain exist
ing MISSIONS and these six individuals all wh'
have yet responded to that appeal BY the offer o
| themselves for this service.
The receipts to the Treasury of the Board durins
the nine months which have elapsed OF the curren
financial year. have been sls7 ,6u9 50, which ex
ceeds the receipts of the corres spending months o
the previous year by 1881 49, A proportional,
increase during the remaining three months, vii
make the tota receipts OF the present year $500 s9
g. II this amount should be received and the ex
penditures should be equal to those OF the last
the debt at the close OF the year will amount t,
s34, 924 II.
Several Of the missions have enjoyed during H..
year seasons Of refreshing from the presence OF th
Lord.
The mission in Southern Africa, which for man,
wears encountered the most disheartening obsta
ces and which was once actually abandoned, ha
at length enjoyed gracious visitation Of the Spirit
| and n larger number OF accessions to the Church
have been made during the last year than durin
the thirteen previous year,, since the mission wa
established. The iaiDting hearts OF our missionar
brethren have been revived, and they say in thei
las, report just received: THE day, we believe
il dawning. The shadows that have been Ion
and so gloomily hanging over this land, shall 500