Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-10-12

The Fiftieth Annual meeting Oh tie atner-
lean Board Of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, began its session on Tuesday, the
"a inst. Rev. Mark Hopkins, D. D., Presi-
dent of the Board, presided at the meeting.
The attendance was unusually large, and the
reports and speeches of uncommon interest.
A summary oft the receipts and expenditures
gives the gratifying intelligence that the
large debt which rested on the Board at the
beginning of the financial year has been en-
tirely removed
The receipts for the last financial year
were as follows, to wit "Ordinary donations
$500, 443 So; logacies, S52,597 So; offer
ings for debt, S7O,798 20; other sources,
So, $50 50; making a total Of 1929 ,799 O8 ;
of which S12,7O4 03 come from foreign
lands. and S6,857 50 are the contributions
Of children for the EMISSION School Enter
prise" The current expenditures of the
wear have been 1882 1858 76. As the debt
at the beginning of the year was $66,374 ID,
the whole sum to be provided for was S420,-
1872 SO. Hence the balance in the treasury
| August l, 1860, was 81 ,466 %"
The Annual election of officers took place
on Thursday. The following arc the officers
for the ensuing year
President-Mark Hopkins, D. D., LII. D.
Wee Preadsnt-Hon. William Jes5up,
Ii. D.
Prudential Con,nitiee-Charles Stoddard,
Esq, John Tappan, Esq, Nehe miah Adams
D. D., Hon. William I. Eustis, Hon. John
Aiken, Henry Hill, Esq, Asa D. Smith D D.
Walter s. Griffith, Esq, Alpheus Hardy
Esq, Hon. Linus Child, W S. Southworth,
Augustus C. Thompson, D. D.
! Corresponding Secretaries-Rufus Ander-
son, D, D., Rev. Solah B. Treat To reside
in New York-George W. Wood, D. D.
Recording Sscretary-Samucl N. WOrces
ter. D. D.
! Treaswer-James NJ. Gordon, Esq
Auditors-Moses L Hale, Esq, Hon
Samuel H. Valley.
The Communion services of Thursday az
ternoon, were held in four churches, Parl
ST., Bowdoin St, Essex St, aud Mt Vernon
Church. Each house was filled to its ut
most capacity. The Board adiourne! Of
Friday.
The IRISH REyIrAL.-At the anniversary
] Of the Fulton St. prayer meeting, in New
I York, last week, Rev Dr. Murray said HI
( had been to Ireland and witnessed the won
derful religious movement there, 1T or
prayer meeting from 80 900 to 10000 per
! sons were present. He also said
''In Wales went into q slate QUAR-,
! where 1850 men were employed. Their
were 20 or so little huts where they tool
| their dinners. After dinner, all these hut
were turned into places of prayer. So tina
! every day there are from 20 to so praye
| meetings in that quarry. Formerly a piou
man could hardly live among them, nov
they are nearly all pious men themselves y
The Friend, Of August lst, brings the FOL
lowing intelligence from the Sandwich Is
lands, Of a most interesting religious awak
ening among the natives On the island O
Oahu. The work began on the northern
ide of the Island, where about one hundre
person were added to the church Subse
quentiy in other parts Of the island the in
habltants showed an unwonted eagerness t
hear the gospel. One of the old missiona
/ ries lately remarked that he had not wit
messed scenes like this since the days of tn
4 great revival. more than twenty years ago.