8.

Rev. S. C. BARTLETT, from the New England
Ch., Chicago, Ill.

10. Rev. T. S. NORTON, from the Ch. in Sullivan, N. H.

10. Rev. CHARLES W. TORREY, from the Cong. Ch. at East Cleaveland, Ohio.

Rev. WM. CLAGGETT, from the Cong Ch. at
West Hartford, Vt.

Rev. ASA F. CLARK, from the Ch. in Peru, Vt. 17. Rev. WILLIAM E. BASSETT, from the Ch. in Central Village, Ct.

29. Rev. CHARLES JONES, from the Ch. at Battle Creek, Mich.,-connection to end with the last Sabbath in May.

APRIL 4. Rev. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT, from the Ch. in Westbrook, Me.

5.

Rev. JOHN LAWRENCE, from the Ch. in Car-
lisle, Ms.

Rev. CHARLES A. AIKEN, from the Ch. in
Yarmouth, Me.

18. Rev. JOSEPH BLAKE, from the Ch. in Cumberland, Me.

Rev. EDGAR J. DOOLITTLE, from the Ch. at
Chester, Ct.

19. Rev. HARVEY ADAMS, from the Ch. in Farmington, Iowa.

19. Rev. S. J. AUSTIN, from the Ch. in Mason Village, N. H.

20. Rev. DAVID EASTMAN, from the Ch. in Leverett, Ms.

20. Rev. GEORGE RICHARDS, from the Central Ch. Bostou.

MAY 4. Rev. WM. DAVENPORT, from the Ch. in Strong, Me.

10. Rev. THEODORE WELLS, from the Cong. Ch. in Barrington, N. H.,- connection to end May 29. 16. Rev. JAMES M. HOPPIN, from the Crombie Street Ch., Salem, Ms.

17. Rev. JAMES H. DILL, from the Ch. at Spencerport, N. Y.,-to go to Chicago, Ill.

18. Rev. WM. B. CLARKE, from the Ch. in North Cornwall, Ct.

Ministers Ordained, or Enstalled.

FEB. 11. Mr. ROBERT G. BAIRD, at Toronto, C. W., over the Cong. Ch. at Port Sarnia. Introductory services, Rev. James Boyd; "Usual questions to the Pastor elect," Rev. William Hay; Ordaining prayer, Rev. Daniel McCallum ; Charge to the Pastor, Rev. Edward Ebbs; Address to the People, Rev. John Wood, on the words" Encourage him."

16. Mr. QUINCY BLAKELY, at Rodman, N. Y.; Sermon by Rev James Douglas, of Rutland; Ordaining prayer by Father Spear," of Rodman. [Married, Dec. 9, 1858, in Dorset, Vt., to Miss Gertrude Sykes, of Dorset.]

MARCH 8. Rev. E. E. WILLIAMS, over the Cong. Ch. at Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N. Y. Right Hand of Fellowship by Rev. J. Edwards of Rochester, N. Y.

9.

Rev. HENRY BATES, over the Ch. in Almont,
Mich. Sermon by Rev. II D. Kitchel, D.D, of
Detroit. Installing prayer by Rev. E. T. Branch,
of Canandaigua.

10. Rev. NATHANIEL L. UPHAM, over the Ch. in Manchester, Vc. Sermon by Rev. Henry E. Parker, Concord, N. H. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. A. Walker.

22. Mr. GEORGE T. WASHBURN, at Lenox, Ms.; an accepted missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. to the Madura Mission.

30. Rev. EDWIN A. BUCK, late of Bethel, Me., over the Cong. Ch. at Slatersville, R. I. Sermon by Rev. H. D. Walker, of Abington, Ms. Instailing Prayer by Rev. O. F. Otis, of Chepachet, R. I.

APRIL 13. Rev. HENRY G. LUDLOW, late of the 1st Presb. Ch. in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., over the Cong. Ch. in Oswego, N. Y. Sermon and Installing Prayer by Rev. Dr. Ray Palmer, of Albany, N. Y.

13. Rev. C. E. FISHER, over the Lawrence St. Ch., Lawrence, Ms. Sermon by Rev. E. B. Foster, of Lowell. Installing Prayer by Rev. C. W. Wallace, of Manchester, N. HI.

13. Rev. ELBRIDGE G. LITTLE, over the Cong. Ch. at North Middleboro', Ms. Sermon by Rev. E.

Maltby, of Taunton. Installing Prayer by Rev.
M. Blake, of Taunton.

14. Mr. JAS. F. CLARKE, at Holden, Ms. to the Missionary work in Turkey. Sermon by Rev. A. C. Thompson, of Roxbury. Ordaining Praver by Rev. W. P. Paine, D D, of Holden. The Charge was given by Mr. Clarke's father, Rev. Mr. Clarke, of Winchendon. [See, also, Marriages.] 20. Mr. CHARLES C. SALTER, over the Cong. Ch. at Kewanee, Ill.

20 Rev. G. BUCKINGHAM WILLCOX, late of the Lawrence St. Ch., Lawrence, Ms., over the 24 Cong. Ch. in New London, Ct. Sermon by Prof. Park, of Andover, Ms. Installing Prayer by Rev. Dr. Bond, of Norwich.

20. Mr. JOHN S. SEWALL, over the Ch. in Wenham, Ms. Sermon by Rev. J. B. Sewall, of Lynn, (brother to the first named.) Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Jotham Sewall, his father.

Rev. HENRY D. KING, over the Ch. in Magnolia, Harrison Co., Iowa. Sermon by Rev. John Todd. Installing Prayer by Rev. G. Rice. 28. Prof. F. W. FISK, recently of Beloit College, but then Professor elect in Chicago Theological Seminary, was ordained at Chicago, Ill., without pastoral charge. Sermon by Rev. Z. M. Humphrey, of Milwaukee, Wis.

MAY 3. Mr A. D. CHAPMAN, over the Ch. in Seward, Gleason's Ridge, Ill. Sermon by Rev. E. B.

3.

Turner.

Rev. WM. S. SMITH, late of New York, over the
1st Ch. in Guilford. Ct. Sermon by Rev. R. S.
Storrs, Jr., D D., of Brooklyn, N. Y. Installing
Prayer by Rev. O. H. White, of Meriden.

5. Mr. HILLYER, by the Presbytery of Cleveland, over the Cong. Ch. in Brecksville, Ohio. Sermon by Rev. Thomas 11. Goodrich. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Wm. Day.

11. Rev. A. F. CLARKE, recently of Peru, over the Cong Ch. in Ludlow, Vt. Sermon by Rev. J. D. Wickham, of Manchester.

11. Rev. LEWIS BRIDGMAN, late of West Hawley, Ms., over the Ch. in Middlefield, Ms. Sermon by Rev. R. Foster. Installing Prayer by Rev. W. C. Foster.

12. Mr. STEPHEN S. MERRILL, over the Cong. Ch. in Malden, Ill. Sermon by Rev. J. Blanchard, of Galesburg Ordaining Prayer by Rev. D. Todd, of Providence.

12. Mr. HENRY LANGPAAP, of Muscatine, Iowa, at Wilton, over the German Ch. Sermon by Rev. George F. Magoun, of Davenport. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. J. A. Reed, of Davenport.

17. Rev. S. B. GOODENOW, late of Saugerties, N. Y., over the 1st Cong. Ch. at Rockville, Ct.

18. Rev. W. B. DADA, over the Cong. Ch. in Jackson, Mich. Sermon by Rev. Dr. H. D. Kitchel, of Detroit.

18. Mr. AUSTIN WILLEY, over the Ch. at Anoka, Minn. Sermon by Rev. D. Burt, of Winona. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Royal Twichell.

18. Rev. STEPHEN FENN, over the Ch. at South Cornwall, Ct. Sermon by Rev. L. Perrin, of New Britain. Installing Prayer by Rev Dr. Joseph Eldridge, of Norfolk.

Mr. J. E. CARTER, as an Evangelist, at Greenport, L. I. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. J. H. Francis.

19. Rev. MARTIN S. HOWARD, late of West Yarmouth. Ms., over the Ch. in South Dartmouth, Ms. Sermon by Rev. J. H. Means, of Dorchester. Installing Prayer by Rev. W. Craig, of New Bedford.

19. Rev. C. M. TYLER, late of Galesburg, Ill., over the Ch. in Natick, Ms. Sermon by Rev. J. M. Manning, of Boston.

25. Rev. STEPHEN ROGERS, late of Northfield,

over the Ch. in Wolcott, Ct. Sermon by Rev. James Averill, of Plymouth Hollow. Installing Prayer by Rev. Austin Putnam, of Whitneyville. JUNE 1. Mr. EVARTS SCUDDER, over the Cong. Ch. at Kent, Ct. Sermon by Rev. Dr. N. Adams, of Boston. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Dr. J. Eldridge, of Norfo.k.

1. Mr. HENRY LOOMIS. Jr., over the "Union" Ch. at Globe Village, Southbridge, Ms. Sermon by Rev. Dr. E. N. Kirk, of Boston. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Eber Carpenter, of Southbridge. 2. Mr. WILLIAM A. McGINLEY, over the Ch. in Shrewsbury, Ms. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Seth Sweetser, of Worcester. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Dr. W. P. Paine, of Holden.

2. Mr. JOHN G. BAIRD, over the Cong. Ch. at Centre Brook, Saybrook, Ct.

8. Mr. D. N. BORDWELL, over the Ch. at Le Claire, Iowa. Sermon by Rev. G. F. Magoun, of Davenport. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. William Porter, of Port Byron, Ill.

8. Mr. LORING B. MARSH, at South Scituate, R.I., as an Evangelist. Sermon by Rev. A. H. Clapp, of Providence. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Dr. Leonard Swain, of Providence.

8.

Rev. CHRISTOPHER M CORDLEY, late of West
Randolph, Ms., over the Ch. in West Brookfield,
Ms.
Sermon by Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs, of Brain-
tree. Installing Prayer by Rev. M. Tupper, of
Hardwick.

8. Rev. E. D. MURPHY, over the Cong. Ch. at Avon, Ct. Sermon by Rev. Prof. Hitchcock, of New York. Installing Prayer by Rev. Dr. Porter, of Farmington.

9. Mr. CHARLES REDFIELD, of Elizabethtown, N. Y., as an Evangelist. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Kay Palmer, of Albany, N. Y.

9. Rev. BROWN EMERSON, late of Montague, Ms., over the Ch. at Westminster, Ms. Sermon by Rev. E. B. Foster, of Lowell. Installing Prayer by Rev. J. C. Paine, of Gardner.

Rev. WM. A. BARTLETT, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mi-8 CHARLOTTE A. FLANDERS, of Milwaukee, Wis.

APRIL 6. At Topsfield, Ms., Rev. MARTIN MOORE, one of the proprietors of the Boston Recorder, to Miss SUSAN CUMMINGS, both of Boston.

14. At Holden, Ms, Rev. JAMES F. CLARKE to Miss ISABELLA G., daughter of the late Thomas Jones Davis, Esq.. [See "Ordained."]

19. At Cheshire, Ct, Rev. DANIEL MARCH, of Woburu, Ms., to Mrs. ANNIE L. CONTE.

28. At Bangor, Me., Rev. FRANCIS PELOUBET, of Lanesville, (Gloucester) Ms, to MARY ABBY, eldest daughter of Sidney Thaxter, Esq., of Bangor.

MAY 5. At St. Johnsbury, Vt, Rev. C. L. GOODELL, of New Britain, Ct., to Miss EMILY, daughter of Hon. Erastus Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury.

11. At Albany, N. Y, Rev. STEPHEN HUBBELL, of North Stonington, Ct., to Miss HARRIET T., daughter of the late Ezra Hawley, of Catskill, N. Y.

12. At Springfield, Ms., Rev. THOMAS JORDAN, of Springfield, to Miss ELLEN WOODS.

16. At Burlington, Vt., Rev. SPENCER MARSH to Miss SARAH ANN WHEELER, both of Burlington.

At Brookline, Ms., Rev. HENRY LOOMIS, Jr., of Southbridge, to Miss FANNIE E. CRAFT, of Brookline.

Ministers Deceased.

MAY 12. In Boylston, Ms., Rev. WM. D. FLAGG, aged 30.

OUR STATE STATISTICS.

The Statistics of the Orthodox Congregationalist Churches in Massachusetts have been collected for the past year, although not to be published in full until after the session of the General Association. This year, for the first time, reports are had from every Congregationalist Church in the State. We gather from the tables the following items:

There are, in Massachusetts, 485 Orthodox Congregationalist Churches,-a gain of two. There are 27 Associations of clergymen, and 18 Conferences of churches; the Associations embrace the bulk of the clergymen in active service; the Conferences include 343 churches, (perhaps a few more.) The entire membership is 76,876, (of which almost precisely one third are males;) that of the preceding year, 69,432,-showing a net gain in 1858, of 7,444. The admissions in the year 1858, were, by profession, 8,811; by letter, 2,497; total, 11,308. The removals were, by death, 1,172; by dismission, 2,416; by excommunication, 78; total, 3,666; and there were three or four hundred losses of names by revision of Church lists,-a work going on for some years past. The number of baptisms were, of adults, 3,094; of infants, 1,721. The number of persons in Sabbath Schools were 79,760, -a net gain of more than 6,000. There appear to be no Orthodox Congregational Churches in 27 small towns; but there is evangelical preaching in all of these, and in most of them are Orthodox persons, members of our churches in adjoining and easily accessible places.

The admissions to the churches for a few years past have been as follows:

A LITTLE ADVICE.

Brother-you who have been appointed to publish the statistics in your Ecclesiastical Association or Conference,

Unless you want your issues to promote sin on the part of your readers, please

1. Insert Associations, and towns in Asso

ciations, in strictly alphabetical order.

2. Give an index of clergymen, arranged alphabetically.

3. Give an index of towns or other localities where your churches exist, arranged alphabetically.

4. Insert in some conspicuous place the names of the officers of the General Association, and the time and place of next meeting.

5. Remember that the sole value of these

publications is in the information they afford. Please don't be afraid to inform people, nor to give them facilities for easily ascertaining what they want to know. The things which you know, are the things they don't know.

6. When your issues are printed, be liberal. Send four copies to this Congregational Quarterly; three more to the Congregational Library Association; one to every permanent Library in your State; two to your State Historical Society; two to each Secretary and Statistical Secretary of each General Association; one to each of the Congregational newspapers in the United States; one to Harvard College; one to the Massachusetts Historical Society; two to each of our Theological Seminaries; and then make arrangements for exchanges with every other Secretary sufficient to give one to each local Association, which means that Massachusetts needs and wants twenty-seven, and will give in return to every State body, enough to supply its local Associations with one apiece. Do all this, and generations yet unborn shall call you blessed.

Through inadvertence, the valuable article upon "Churches and Ministers in Windham County, Ct," was printed without the author's name. It was prepared by Rev. Robert C. Learned, of Berlin, Ct., and will be continued.

THE Sixth Anniversary was held in the New Broadway Tabernacle, New York, on Tuesday evening, May 10, 1859.

The President, Rev. LEONARD BACON. D. D., was in the Chair, and opened the meeting with prayer.

The following Annual Report of the Trustees was read:

The Trustees of the American Congregational Union, herewith present their SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.

The closing, like the past, has been essentially a year of preparatory work; consequently our necessary expenses bear still too large a proportion to our receipts. In this respect, however, our experience

is not different from that of other benevolent organizations which have been compelled to work their way into public favor. That ours will ere long receive the confidence and support its intrinsic importance demands, there is every reason to believe. But too many yet stand aloof, merely looking on, affording us good wishes instead of generous gifts; waiting to see the result of an experiment, which indeed would be no experiment, were there that co-operation on all hands, for the withholding of which, there does not seem to be a sufficient excuse. Hence the field, which denominational affiliations assign to us, is not ripe unto the harvest. There are prejudices yet to be overcome, some ignorance of the wants of our own brotherhood to be enlightened, and many do not comprehend the fact that ours is a most needy, as well as promising missionary work. And it has been somewhat difficult to secure a place and a response among so many claimants of the charities of our churches, for a new object, especially during such financial embarrassments as the last eighteen months have witnessed. Still the past has been a year of decided, and on the whole, gratifying progress. Our Secretary has found many more pulpits open

to his appeals, and more contributions have been pledged and received, independent of his labors, than hitherto. And there have been more kindly sympathies expressed, and assurances of remembrance before our common Father's throne, from those who could only do thus much, than ever before; and these have cheered us not a little in our just-begun work.

Moreover, this year, for the first time in our brief history, have individuals assumed the responsibility of securing the erection, and paying the last bills upon a house of worship, each one ranging in amount from one hundred to three hundred dollars. More than twelve men have already assumed, and some have discharged this pleasing responsibility; and in no way is it apparent how, with so little money, so much good can be done, so quickly, to so many, for so long a time. Has not the Saviour yet many more stewards who will imitate an example so worthy of imitation? Let a hundred be found to say, each, as one recently said"Hold me responsible for one house of worship for some feeble, but promising Congregational Church,"—" and the wil derness and solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose."

Our treasury has been overdrawn nearly the entire year. As our appropriations are usually much in advance of the completion of the houses to which they are devoted, our liabilities may be much greater than our actual and present receipts with comparative safety. But there is a point in this direction beyond which it is unsafe to go. Up to that point we have been compelled to linger. Needy churches by scores have been dissuaded from applying for aid, and many asking have been deferred until their hope has

died out; and at times the question has been asked with a solicitude not easily described, "will this church-building enterprise be sustained?"

On the 27th of March last that question was, at least in part, answered. An appeal was made by our Secretary, to the Church of the Puritans, in this city, under the disadvantage of having been immediately preceded by other and significant calls for pecuniary aid, which had been readily afforded; but to our appeal there was a response, so spontaneous, so unexpectedly bountiful and free, that it has marked an era in our history. It was a God-send indeed. Our star of hope arose at once above the horizon. A contribution more than six times as large as we had ever received from any church in one year, was pledged before night. It brought up our receipts at one bound to a living and moving figure. And it has opened the way to other treasures never before accessible to us, and is provoking, and will provoke both to love and good works in various directions. All thanks to the pastor and men who came so cheerfully and nobly to our help in this extremity. There are now some pleasing assurances that other churches, of greater and less resources, will place this object upon their calendar, and help this cause in its turn. May God in infinite mercy incline them to do so!

There were fourteen hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-five cents in our treasury at the commencement of the closing year, all of which, and much more, had been appropriated. During the year there has been ten thousand six bundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-two cents collected, which, added to the amount on hand, has made our available resources twelve thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy-seven cents. Of this amount, two thousand four hundred and eighty dollars, have been paid to nine churches, to complete and pay the last bills on their houses of worship. And appropriations have been made to twenty other churches, which are now in a process of erection.

There is an appropriated balance on hand of four thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-eight centsfalling five hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-two cents below the sum already pledged. But on the other hand there is about two thousand dollars guaranteed by responsible men for the erection of houses of worship, which will be paid as soon as the buildings are completed to which the appropriations have been made. There are, moreover, fourteen hundred and two Year Books on sale at more than thirty places, from which returns have not yet been made; and we have on hand five hundred copies of the present volume, and ninety unbroken sets of the six volumes published. The latter can not fail to be valuable in every Theological and Ecclesiastical Library for all time, as they embrace the only reliable history of our denominational statistics and ministerial necrology during that period. And their speedy sale would be a material help to our funds. We have also about two hundred dollars still due for alvertisements, or invested in maps and books in payment for the same.

A proposition was received in February last, from the editors and proprietors of the "Congregational Quarterly" to make scine arrangement by which our Church building, and their denominational publishing and Library plans might be mutually promoted. After full and repeated interchange of views, a connection was formed, upon a firm and gratifying basis, by which, henceforth, the Congregational Quarterly becomes virtually and sufficiently the organ of the Library Associa tion, and the American Congregational Union; and is published under the sanction of both, and both sustain the same relations to it. The Secretary of each is an editor, associated with the Reverends Henry M. Dexter of Boston, and A. H. Quint of Jamaica Plain, neither organization being responsible for either its editorial matter, or its pecuniary liabilities, though reserving the right to pur