The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-04
SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
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 gregational Education society; Rev Dr. w. F. Barton of Boston on the work os that society, and by Rev. Dr. W, H. Whittlesey on Ministerial Re lief" both of which follow in other col umns.
 The following committee 9n the re- port ot the executive committee was elected for the ensuing year. Rev. w. F. Park of New York, Rev. J. w. Blk Ter of Connecticut, w. l. l.. Adams of New Jersey, Rev David Benton of Illinois and G. Henry Whitcomb of Massachusetts
 THE EVENING SESSION.
 The attendants on the Home Mission ary meetings are made up of the stay ing kind of people. After day filled with meetings the large audience last evening stayed through long session of two hours and half till the last word had dropped from the eloquent lips of the Rev, A. J. Lyman, the last speaker
 The meeting was opened at 7:3o by the Rev. pr. Blake of New London, as Vice President Webb had been called out of the city. The audience sang So Let Our Lives and Lips Express" While the singing was going on Gen eral o. o. Howard, president of the so- ciety, arrived and presided the rest ot the evening. The presence of this brave one armed soldier and Christian gentleman was constant source or inspiration to the meeting.
 After prayer by Dr. Blakeslee the re- port of the committee on elections was received and accepted. The following are the officers elected:
 President-Major General Oliver O. Howard of Vermont
 Vice Presidents--Joseph R. Hawley of Connecticut, Rev. John K. Mclean of California, Jeremiah H. Merrill or Iowa, Rev. Edwin B. Webb of Massa- chusetts, William H. Alexander of Ne braska, Nelson Dingley, jr., of Maine, Rev. Edward P. Goodwin of Illinois, Cornelius D. Wood of New York, Rev. Edward D. Eaton of Wisconsin, H.. Clark Ford of Ohio.
 Recording Secretary-Rev. William H. Holman of Connecticut.
 Auditor-Caleb B. Knevals.
 Executive Committee-To serve from 1894 to 1897 to fill vacancy, John F. An derson, jr, of New York; to serve from 1896 to 1899, Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D. D., of New York, Joseph William Rice of Rhode Island, Rev. Thomas B. Mcleod, D. D., of New York, Rev, Henry A Stinson, D. D., of New York
 A motion was carried resembling the vote making Michigan the place for the next meeting, and a supplementary mo- tion was also passed leaving the selec- ton Of the place for the next meeting to the executive committee.
 A resolution of congratulation from the Hartford Theological seminary was received and referred to the secretary to acknowledge.
 Mrs. Moore (colored), one of the jubi- lee singers, sang very appropriately, "Holy Bible"
 Next a forty-minute paper was read by Secretary Washington Choate on "The Seventieth Year"
 In 1886, he said, when this society had wrought for but one decade, and the volume of it's work was represented by $92000 of expenditures and 750 mission aries; and now, after three-score more years have gone by, within which the whole land has been compassed the volume of work has increased so that it is represented-in its most rigidly com pressed form-by $700,00O of expendi- lures and more than 2,000 preachers of the word of life, commissioned in the name of our one body of churches
 The seventieth year opened with a demand for $114,000 beyond the respon- abilities which the executive commit tee ventured to assume
 Outside of the auxiliaries and of the large cities of the west, 75 per cent. of the work of this society is in fields where no other evangelical church ex- ists.
 The means have been inadequate tc carry on the work owing to the rapid increase in population and all the ne cessities which arise from such rapid shifting of population.
 Financially, the seventieth year has been the Severest of all. In these months the effects of drouths, fires, low market prices, interruption of mining industry, prolonged stagnation in the business world, seem to have culminat- ed.
 In the nine months between the an nual meeting and the close of the fsca year more than 700 names were writer W and ss0, ,493 inclusive of special gifts outside the roll of honor, put into the treasury for the extinguishment of that debt.
 The years facts and figures are these Two thousand and thirty-eight mis- sionaries under commission, at All points the gospel regularly preached 1213S added to our aided churches, 0. these two-thirds of 8,153 on confession of faith in Christ, 123 churches organ ized, "A brought to self-support. From these missionary churches 126 young men have come who are preparing fol the Christian ministry.
 This paper was followed by an ad dress by Rev. c. H. Patton of Duluth Minn., who sketched the needs of tha vast region of the west and the charac ter of the work which is being done there.
 A survey of the home missionary work in Michigan was given by Score tary W. H. Warren. Both of these las two speakers were red-hot with enthu siasn1, as become workers just iron the front, and they made eloquent ap peals for help from their brethren il the east.
 The closing speaker of the evening was the Rev. A. J. Lyman, D. D., o Brooklyn, N. Y. He held the audienc constantly interested by a very elo