bly earnestly recommend to all Judicatories, Ministers and members of their communion, to favour and support all efforts and endeavours to suppress this abominable vice.

"3. Failure in duty on the part of Professing Christians. Under this head we class lukewarmness, formality, carelessness and neglect of regular attendance upon the public and private ordinances of worship.They who are chargeable with this failure, have the strongest reason for suspecting the sincerity of their profession, and apprehending the reprobation of their Master. To them strictly is applicable the fearful threatening denounced upon the Laodiceans. "Because thou art neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm, I will spue thee out of my mouth." They who are so far influenced by this spirit of lukewarmness, as to forsake the assembling of themselves together for the service of God on his own day, and do not offer up to him the morning and evening sacrifices in their families, nor partake of the Sacraments of his covenant, particularly, neglecting the Baptism of their children; subject themselves to the discipline of his house; impair their own spiritual state; and if repentance be not granted, can look for nothing but condemnation from their Judge in the end. To hear that such gross defection in practice had appeared in any of our Presbyteries, was as painful in the extreme to our feelings, as the fact is disgraceful to the christian character of those who are thus violating their duty, and injuring their own souls, together with the souls of the members of their families. To all these we address the words of Christ, "Remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy first works: or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent."

"The Assembly having unfolded the causes for sorrow, which the past year has produced, proceed to state those which call for thankfulness and rejoicing. These are,

"1. The regular and faithful preaching of the Gospel and administration of the ordinances throughout our bounds. We have heard of no instances of negligence on the part of Ministers and officers of the Church. They

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appear to have discharged their duty, both in the work of teaching and of exercising discipline, in an enlightened, conscientious and diligent manner. The youth receive stated catechetical instruction, and in some of our Presbyteries, particular attention is paid to baptized children. "In addition to this we mention with particular pleasure the various Religious Institutions which have been established during the year, or having been established before, are progressing with success in their operations. are Bible, Missionary, Tract, Sunday School, Moral and Praying Societies; Bible Classes and the Theological Seminary in Princeton, together with the Monthly Concert of Prayer for the spread of the Gospel. Originating in the spirit of true Religion, they are sedulously used for its advancement far and wide. Between them there exists no collision of interests, for they have but one object in view, the promotion of human happiness by the power of the truth of God. Bible Societies in our day are related to Missionary Societies, as the gift of tongues was related to the commission of the apostles in the primitive Church. We therefore rejoice at the increase of the former, because they furnish to the preachers of the cross sent forth by the latter to every nation, the word of life in their own language. The circulation of Religious Tracts is calculated to awaken attention to and produce enquiry after the way to salvation. In the silence of the closet in the assemblage of the family-nay in the social circle, they present to the thoughtless and disobedient, subjects deserving their examination and arresting them for a season in their downward way to ruin. Throughout our bounds Religious Tract Societies as well as Bible and Missionary Societies have increased. In a large majority of our churches Bible classes have been formed and instruction is dispensed to pupils from the Bible. Praying Societies have become more numerous -few, if any formerly existing being abandoned, and new ones in different places being formed. The monthly concert for prayer is generally observed, and promises a blessing. Sunday Schools have been established in most of our Presbyteries, and are affording to multitudes the means of instruction for their present and eternal wel

fare. In these Schools, as well as in Bible and Missionary Societies, we have heard with no ordinary satisfaction, that the female sex have taken an active part in promoting their success. They thus manifest their gratitude to that religion which in christian lands has elevated them to their proper station, and qualified them for discharging its duties with honour and usefulness. Last but not least we state the flourishing condition of our Theological Seminary at Princeton, which promises to send forth streams continually to make glad the city of our God. More than fifty preachers of the Gospel have already gone forth from it, to labour in the Master's vineyard; many of whom are engaged on most important missionary ground.

"2. The beneficial results of the efforts of these Institutions. They appear in the success of Missionary exertions-the increase of our Churches-a growing disposition to give liberally of this world's goods for the cause of Christ-a melioration of public morals and revivals of religion.

"1. The Missionary field which we occupy is almost as extensive as the boundaries of our country.

"For many years past the reports of the Missionaries, who have laboured under the direction of the General Assembly, have been highly gratifying and encouraging. But in no year hitherto have these reports been so animating to the friends of the Redeemer, as in the present. Not only have many new congregations and churches been formed by the labours of our missionaries; not only have those who on the frontier and in the destitute parts of our country mourned their silent sabbaths and their dearth of spiritual refreshment, been cheered by the evangelical messages they have heard; but in several instances revivals of religion of the most important kind and interesting character, have followed the faithful preaching, and been fostered by the pious zeal of our missionaries. The demand for their labours is most urgent and importunate, particularly in the western and northern parts of the state of New-York and throughout the western states.

"2. During the past year God has been pleased to add

largely, not only to the number of our churches, but also to that of our members. In many of the presbyteries new congregations have been formed. And in those churches which have not been blessed with special revivals, the accessions to the communion in most have been numerous, and in many, more than usual. God has not forgotten to be gracious to them, but has accompanied his word and ordinances with power to the salvation of sinners.

"Throughout our churches also a spirit of harmony and brotherly love prevails, which we trust will be cherished in all time to come. The existence of such a spirit, where it is not connected with the dereliction of principle, is a decisive evidence of increase in the divine life. "By this shall all men know that ye are my dis

ciples," said Christ, "if ye have love one to another." We are constrained to add, that a very large portion of Sunday School teachers in different places, especially in Philadelphia and New York, have had their work blessed to their conversion.

"3. We rejoice, as one of the fruits of Religious Institutions amongst us, in the growing disposition on the part of professors to give liberally of their worldly substance for the promotion of the Redeemer's cause. We are persuaded that where religion is experienced in its power, there wealth will always be considered as granted with the express provision that a portion must be devoted to the Lord. They who do not act according to this provision, clearly prove that they love their money more than their God and Saviour.

"4. Public Morals are decidedly better than they were some time back, throughout the Church—but particularly in the Presbyteries of Niagara, Onondaga, Bath, Albany, Long Island, Lexington, Transylvania, and the cities of Philadelphia and New-York. In these the improvement has been specially observed-though in other Presbyteries and places it is progressing. We feel constrained here to mention, and we do it with pleasure, that in those states where slavery unhappily prevails, the negroes are treated with more attention than heretofore, and increasing exertions are made to promote their

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comfort and correct their vices, which are the natural result of their state of bondage.

"5. God has been pleased to grant unto several of our Congregations, a time of refreshing from his presence. The Assembly feel considerable difficulty in selecting, from the number of revivals which have occurred, those especially deserving notice; for they are not furnished with statistical information, as it respects the population of the different places. Whilst they desire to mark with peculiar attention all the gracious dealings of God towards our fallen race, they feel it to be their duty to discriminate between those which partake of an ordinary character, and those which are more than ordinary. Inattention to this rule, they are persuaded, is calculated to reduce all God's gracious dealings to a level, which must have a corresponding effect upon the thanks and praises of his people. The Presbyteries which have been blessed with revivals are, Cayuga, Champlain, Columbia, Jersey, West-Lexington, and Concord. Of these, the most extensive have occurred in the first, where, out of twenty-six congregations, seventeen have been visited with the outpouring of the Spirit, and nearly 600 added to the Church on confession. Of these seventeen, the trophies of divine grace have been most numerous, in the congregations of Ithaca, Lansing, Aurelius, but chiefly Auburn.

"In the Presbytery of Jersey, the congregations of Bloomfield, Connecticut Farms, Newark, Elizabethtown, Orange and Patterson, are gathering in the fruits of the revival of last year. The congregation of Rockaway, and the second church in Woodbridge of this presbytery; the congregations of De Kalb, Malone and Russel, in the Presbytery of Champlain; Mount Pleasant, Stoner-Mouth, Paris, Concord, Hemingsburg and Smyrna, in the Presbytery of West-Lexington; Bullock's Creek, Salem, Beersheba, Bethesda, Bethel-Olney, in the Presbytery of Concord; Pittstown and Bolton, in the Presbytery of Columbia, have been favoured with special revivals. The character of these revivals, has been such as to prove them divine. The subjects have conducted