THE PROFESSORS IN THE SEMINARY ARE AS FOLLOWS: ROBERT J. BRECKINRIDGE, D.D., L.L. D., Exxeg., Didactic, and Polemic Theol. Biblical and Ecclesiastical History. North-West Theological Seminary. THE Seventh Annual Report is as follows, viz.: During the year fifteen students were admitted: W. B. Chamberlain was received from Princeton Theological Seminary. Table of FOUR Students, having finished their Course, Graduated. NAME. McDonald, John M. C.. Peck, Harlan P.... Rabe, M. D., W. Louis. Waldecker, C. F......... Westminster College, Mo.............1863...... Chicago. The whole number of students during the year was twenty-nine. Resolved, That the thanks of the General Assembly are due, and are hereby tendered, to Willis Lord, D.D., for the able and faithful manner in which he has discharged the duties of the chair of Didactic and Polemic Theology, in addition to the regular duties of his own department, during the vacancy in that chair in the Theological Seminary of the North-West. Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to Dr. Lord by the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly. E. D. MacMaster, D.D., was elected to the "Cyrus H. McCormick" Professorship of Didactic and Polemic Theology. THE PROFESSORS IN THE SEMINARY ARE AS FOLLOWS: E. D. MACMASTER, D.D., "Cyrus H. McCormick" Prof. Dida. Pol. Theol. LE ROY J. HALSEY, D.D., Historical and Pastoral Theology. Board of Domestic Missions. THE Sixty-fourth Annual Report is as follows, viz.: The whole number of Missionaries in commission during the year was 599; churches and stations supplied, 797; admitted to the churches on profession, 2,330; by certificate, 1,602; membership of churches thus reported, 22,506. Sabbath-schools, 379; teachers, 3,203; scholars, 23,062. RECEIPTS from all sources, $144,291.34; clothing valued at $18,005.66. THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD ARE AS FOLLOWS: THOMAS L. JANEWAY, D.D., Cor. Secretary, 907 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. SAMUEL D. POWEL, Esq., Treasurer, 907 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Board of Education. THE Forty-seventh Annual Report is as follows: CANDIDATES:-Number of candidates received during the past year, 83 Entire number received from the beginning (in 1819). Whole number on the roll during the year. 66. in their theological course in their collegiate 66 3400 296 168 84 44 296 The total receipts of the year, $46,751.00. Payments, $45,428.00. THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD ARE AS FOLLOWS: Rev. WM. SPEER, D.D., Cor. Secretary, 907 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. THOS, MCCAULEY, Assistant Secretary, 907 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. WILLIAM MAIN, Esq., Treasurer, 907 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Board of Foreign Missions. THE Twenty-ninth Annual Report is as follows: NEW MISSIONARIES.-Nineteen missionaries and assistants were sent out, seven of whom were ministers and one soon to be licensed. Three native brethren have been ordained to the ministry in India and one in China, and another has been licensed, and several are soon to be. Leaving out Europe, the Board have under their care seventy-five ministers, seven licentiates, four physicians, and two hundred and thirty-two teachers, colporteurs, catechists-in all, 318. There are thirty-seven organized churches, with a membership of 1200. More than 25,000,000 pages of tracts and of the Bible have been printed and circulated. THE RECEIPTS from all sources have been $207,526.65; expenditures, $210,376.38; leaving a balance against the treasury of $2,849.73. THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD ARE AS FOLLOWS: WALTER LOWRIE, Esq., Corresponding Secretary, 23 Centre Street, N. Y. JOHN C. LOWRIE, D.D., Corresponding Secretary, 23 Centre Street, N. Y. DAVID IRVING, D.D., Corresponding Secretary, 23 Centre Street, N. Y. WILLIAM RANKIN, Jr., Esq., Treasurer, 23 Centre Street, N. Y. Board of Publication. THE Twenty-eighth Annual Report is as follows: During the year sixty-six books, one Hymnal, one Question book, one 18mo. tract, one French publication, three sheet hymns, four 12mo. tracts were published. Of these 66 new books issued 69,500 copies were printed; 1 Hymnal, 7,000; 1 Question book, 1,000; 1 18mo. tract, 1,000; 1 French publication, 1,000; 3 sheet hymns, 6.000; 4 12mo. tracts, 6,000. The reprints of former publications have been of books, 139,000; of tracts and catechisms, 206,900; of packages of tracts, 1,000; of sheet hymns, 120,000. Total number of publications during the year, 558,400; total number since organization, 12,707,788. In addition to the above there have been printed, during the year, of the Sabbath-school Visitor, 805,000; of the Home and Foreign Record, 129,300; of the Annual Report of the Board, 3,500; of the Report of the Disabled Ministers' Fund, 2,500. During the past year 52 new volumes have been added to the Sabbathschool Library of the Board, which now amounts to 434 volumes. The Sabbath-school Visitor is increasing in favor, the monthly circulation being 68,000. The sales in the Depository have been 221,022 volumes, and 388,100 pages of tracts. Distributions by the Executive Committee have been 21,476 volumes and 225,831 pages of tracts. COLPORTAGE.-The Board has had 129 colporteurs during the year. They have sold 59,246 volumes-distributed gratuitously 72,505 volumes, and 1,892,102 pages of tracts. The total of distribution, sold and given away, during the year, 374,249 volumes; of tracts, 2,506,073 pages. The Treasurer has received from all sources during the year, exclusive of the balance on hand at its beginning, $129,498.90. THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD ARE AS FOLLOWS: W. E. SCHENCK, D.D., Cor. Sec'y and Editor, 821 Chestnut St.. Phila., Pa. W. SARGENT, Business Correspondent, 821 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. PETER WALKER, Publisher of Periodicals, 821 Chestnut St., Philà., Pa. Board of Church Extension. THE Eleventh Annual Report is as follows: During the year applications were received from ninety-six churches, asking aid to the amount of $65,484.07-an average of $682.12 each. Appropriations were made to sixty-nine churches. The amount granted was $34,121.33—an average of $494.51. Payments were made to 54 churches, amounting to $25,439.43. TREASURY.-Balance on hand at the beginning of the year, $51,521.82. The receipts during the year, $35,870.28. Total $87,392.10. Payments, $28,390.89. Balance, $59,001.21. THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD ARE AS FOLLOWS: HENRY I. COE, D.D., Corresponding Secretary, St. Louis, Mo. Fund for Disabled Ministers. THE Eleventh Annual Report is as follows: The first effective measures of the General Assembly for the relief of disabled ministers, widows and orphans in need were adopted in 1849. For the first three years, the little money contributed for this object was disbursed by the Board of Publication. In 1852, this service, at the request of that Board, was transferred by the Assembly to their Trustees. During the first year after this change, the Trustees received applications for the relief of only eight persons-two ministers and six widows-among whom were divided six hundred and fifty dollars, or an average of about eightyone dollars and seventy-five cents to each. In 1854 less than one thousand dollars were distributed, and only ten persons were recommended for aid. For the first six years too little was done to be deemed worthy of a formal statement to the Assembly, and the first report of the Trustees was not made until the year 1855. Hitherto no one had been specially charged with the duty of visiting the churches and of procuring contributions. It was naturally presumed that a cause with such a design would be liberally sustained by their unsolicited co-operation, and for this reason it was thrown at first upon their conscience and heart for their spontaneous support. The experiment of six years proved, by its limited success, the necessity for an active supervision in this department of Christian duty, but for the want of funds to sustain such an agency no appointment was made. This lack of service was supplied, as far as practicable, by the Trustees through the Chairman of their Committee for Distribution. The labor of this post was performed in connection with the duties of a pastor until 1861, when the former had so increased that the two became incompatible, and the latter were resigned. For five years, since the spring of 1861, the whole time and attention of the Chairman and Secretary of the committee have been given to this cause. In the meanwhile, churches have been visited and collections made from Peoria, Chicago, Buffalo and Rochester, in the West and North; to Boston, in the East; and the District of Columbia, in the South. The amount contributed has increased every year sufficiently to meet the increasing number of applicants for relief, giving a proportionably larger sum to each. The cause is now so well systematized, so generally known and understood, it has such a hold on the affections and confidence of the churches, that it is not only well inaugurated, but may be regarded as firmly established as are the Boards. Within the year ending April, 1866, the Trustees have granted assistance to forty-nine ministers, sixty-six widows, and to five families of orphans. The children and invalid adults connected with these one hundred and twenty families will doubtless enlarge the number of recipients to more than four hundred. The amount asked by the Presbyteries has varied from fifty dollars to four hundred. Most of the ministers are aged, several of them more than fourscore. A few have reached their second childhood in mind and helplessness. Among them are cases of consumption, paralysis, and other incurable diseases. Two have died. Numerous letters have been received, which describe touching cases of suffering from ill health, the ravages of war, and manifold causes. THE OFFICERS OF THE FUND ARE AS FOLLOWS: JOSEPH H. JONES, D.D., Cor. Secretary, 524 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. GEO. H. VAN GELDER, Esq., Treasurer, 320 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTIONS, &c. LOUISVILLE PRESBYTERY.-On the first day of the session of the Assembly, D. V. McLean, D.D., of Monmouth Presbytery, offered the following resolution: |