for one year is $2,500; the Assistant Secretary, $2,000. In addition to that, early in the year the Executive Committee appointed the Rev. Mr. Livermore an Assistant Secretary, to conduct the correspondence, and attend to a certain portion of the office duties. He was paid for a portion of the year, at the rate of $1,000 per year, $983.33. Near the middle of the year, I think in October or November, the Executive Committee thought it expedient to appoint a financial agent to take charge of the collections in November. They accordingly appointed Mr. Baldwin, who has served for seven months in that capacity. During the first six months, when there was active work for him to do, his salary was fixed at the rate of $2,500 per annum. Subsequently, when there was less work to be done, but sufficient, in the opinion of the Executive Committee, to occupy a considerable portion of his time, his salary was fixed at the rate of $1,000 per annum. He has therefore been paid at the rate of $2,500 a year for six months, and at the rate of $1,000 a year for one month, making an aggregate of $1,333. In addition to that, it is found necessary to employ in the rooms of the Association a young lady, and a young man as porter, who are paid, in the aggregate, for their whole time, $768. The other expenses include stationery and fuel, of which a considerable amount is required for heating the building, postage, express charges, telegraphic messages of one sort and another, wrapping-paper, of which a very large amount is used in sending out our books, printing circulars and other matters, water rates, gas, taking care of the building, sprinkling the street, repairing furnace, expenses of the annual meeting, and all other charges which in business are ordinarily put under the head of "expenses;" in all, $1,789.74; the aggregate making the amount which is printed in the Treasurer's statement, $9,374.40.

I have not heard that there is any inquiry with regard to any other item. If there is, I shall be most happy to give the desired information.

The Secretary called attention to the recommendation, in the last paragraph of the report of the Executive Committee, respecting the appointment of an Assistant Corresponding Secretary. After remarks by Dr. HEDGE, Rev. J. F. Lov

ERING, and Mr. Lowe, it was agreed that the Nominating Committee be instructed to propose a name for such an officer in their report.

Rev. Mr. HALE then presented the following resolutions, which, after discussion, were adopted :·

Resolved, That the pressure of sectarian education requires the greatest care for preserving colleges and academies free from sectarian influences.

Resolved, That the Executive Committee be requested to devote special attention to measures for securing such freedom, and that the appeal of Humboldt College be respectfully referred to their examination.

During the discussion of these resolutions, Rev. Dr. HEDGE, by way of explaining his reluctance to refer to the Executive Committee matters of important general interest, criticised their action last year on the subject of a denominational review.

The meeting then proceeded to the business next in the order of assignment; viz., the question of placing women on the Executive Board.

After some remarks by Rev. J. T. SARGENT, Rev. Dr. J. F. CLARKE offered the following resolution :

Resolved, That, in the opinion of this body, it is eminently proper that women as well as men should be elected on the Executive Committee of the American Unitarian Association.

The resolution was discussed by Rev. Dr. J. F. CLARKE, C. C. SMITH, Esq., Rev. J. A. BUCKINGHAM, Rev. A. D. MAYO, Rev. E. E. HALE, Rev. JOSEPH OSGOOD, Rev. Dr. C. PALFREY, and was passed with but few opposing votes. Rev. W. J. POTTER then submitted the following:

Resolved, That the Committee to nominate the officers of this Association for next year be instructed to act in accordance with the resolution just passed.

Rev. A. P. PUTNAM moved as an amendment, which was accepted by Mr. Potter,

That the Committee on nominations be instructed to withdraw and reconsider the ticket of officers they have presented, and nominate a ticket on which shall be the names of ladies as well as gentle

men.

Rev. Dr. S. G. BULFINCH suggested a practical difficulty in the way of Mr. Putnam's amendment, and the discussion was continued by Rev. ROBERT COLLYER, Rev. G. W. STACY, Rev. A. P. PUTNAM, Rev. E. H. HALL, Rev. W. H. SAVARY, Rev. T. B. FORBUSH, Rev. Dr. SHELDON, Rev. CLAY MCCAULEY, THOMAS GAFFIELD, Esq.; and the resolution, as amended by Mr. PUTNAM, was lost.

Rev. Dr. J. F. CLARKE suggested that, inasmuch as no constitutional objection existed to placing women upon the Committee, and inasmuch as the meeting had so clearly expressed its desire to have them there, it would be competent for any member to vote for women to-day, if he desired; and since it was too late for the formal nomination through the Nominating Committee, he would present two names that had occurred to him as suitable for such a position, in order to facilitate the desire on the part of any to vote for women this year.

A discussion grew out of this, conducted by Rev. Dr. CLARKE, Rev. A. D. Mayo, Rev. C. E. GRINNELL, Rev. H. W. FOOTE, and C. C. SMITH, Esq.

A Committee was then appointed to collect, assort, and count the votes, consisting of EBENEZER CLAPP, Esq., Rev. Messrs. S. B. FLAGG, and C. Y. DENORMANDIE; and it was agreed that the check-list should be used in receiving the ballots.

The meeting then, by special assignment, proceeded to listen to an Address, by the SECRETARY, on the Unitarian Position and the Policy of the Association.

Address of Rev. Charles Lowe.

An earnest discussion has been going on in our denomination, respecting the principles on which this Association ought to be conducted. It has been declared in various quarters that there is too much liberality in the administration of its affairs, as regards differences in theological opinions.

One of our most esteemed brethren, who has been a prominent exponent of the feeling of dissatisfaction with the course hitherto pursued in the Association (J. W. Thompson, "Monthly Magazine," February, 1870, p. 119), not able otherwise to reconcile his supposition of the general disapproval of this course with the fact that there never has been, since the founding of the Association, so universal a contribution to its funds as the present year, says this was only because "by tacit understanding these issues were postponed."

Another, equally esteemed and prominent, says of our position, "How long can any one suppose that contributions will flow largely and spontaneously into the treasury of the Association or the Conference, from churches that stand squarely on their covenants, while such a state of things is suffered to exist." (E. H. Sears, "Monthly Magazine," April, p. 323.) Deference to such men, and others with them, makes it proper to review carefully a policy to which they thus object.

Two years ago, when a similar exigency seemed to require it, I made a statement which was published in the "Monthly Journal," for June, 1868.

And here let me say, in reply to those who have sometimes spoken of our course as indefinite, that the views of policy which I am about to present have been held and adhered to steadily and consistently ever since my own connection with the Association; for which period alone I have a right to speak. And they have been, at various times

Rev. A. P. PUTNAM moved as an amendment, which was accepted by Mr. Potter,

That the Committee on nominations be instructed to withdraw and reconsider the ticket of officers they have presented, and nominate a ticket on which shall be the names of ladies as well as gentle

men.

Rev. Dr. S. G. BULFINCH suggested a practical difficulty in the way of Mr. Putnam's amendment, and the discussion was continued by Rev. ROBERT COLLYER, Rev. G. W. STACY, Rev. A. P. PUTNAM, Rev. E. H. HALL, Rev. W. H. SAVARY, Rev. T. B. FORBUSH, Rev. Dr. SHELDON, Rev. CLAY MCCAULEY, THOMAS GAFFIELD, Esq.; and the resolution, as amended by Mr. PUTNAM, was lost.

Rev. Dr. J. F. CLARKE suggested that, inasmuch as no constitutional objection existed to placing women upon the Committee, and inasmuch as the meeting had so clearly expressed its desire to have them there, it would be competent for any member to vote for women to-day, if he desired; and since it was too late for the formal nomination through the Nominating Committee, he would present two names that had occurred to him as suitable for such a position, in order to facilitate the desire on the part of any to vote for women this year.

A discussion grew out of this, conducted by Rev. Dr. CLARKE, Rev. A. D. Mayo, Rev. C. E. GRINNELL, Rev. H. W. FOOTE, and C. C. SMITH, Esq.

A Committee was then appointed to collect, assort, and count the votes, consisting of EBENEZER CLAPP, Esq., Rev. Messrs. S. B. FLAGG, and C. Y. DENORMANDIE ; and it was agreed that the check-list should be used in receiving the ballots.

The meeting then, by special assignment, proceeded to listen to an Address, by the SECRETARY, on the Unitarian Position and the Policy of the Association.