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bull, information " which might be useful to them in regulating future missions," and save others from the embarrassments he had experienced from his "ignorance of the country," and from not meeting a person who could give him " any extensive description of it." The labor of the missionary seems more strange than it was needless, in preparing for the use of such a committee a rude map of this region, now filled with populous towns, and even cities, which were then of too recent origin to have a fixed name. A year later, Utica was composed of "a log tavern and two or three other buildings." On this map it is called " Fort Schuyler ;" and on a later one by the same missionary, has still the alias, "Old Fort Schuyler ;" while Rome is called " Fort Stanwix."
The fields entered by the missionaries from Connecticut, during this period, were chiefly in Vermont and New York. The western part of New Hampshire was also visited.
LIST OF MISSIONARIES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION,
FROM 1774 TO 1798 .*
1774-Rev. Messrs. Taylor, Waterman, Bliss.
1788 -* Rev. Jeremiah Day.
1793-Rev. Messrs. David Huntington, Ammi R. Robbins, *Sam- uel J. Mills, *Cotton M. Smith, Jos. Vaill, Samuel Eells, Theodore Hinsdale, *John Shepherd.
1794-Rev. Messrs. Theodore Hinsdale, Aaron Kinne, *Moses C. Welch, *Jeremiah Day, *Asahel Hooker, Azel Backus, Cyp- rian Strong, William Lyman, *David Higgins, and Mr. Benjamin Wooster.
1795-Rev. Messrs. * Kinne, Robbins, Knapp, *Hart and Justus Mitchell.
1796-Rev. Messrs. * Joel Benedict, Nott, *Rexford, Vaill, *Mitch- ell, *McClure, W. Lyman, *Prudden, and John D. Perkins.
1797-Rev. Messrs. Solomon Morgan, *David Huntington, P. V. Booge, Alexander Gillet, Simon Waterman, *Jesse Towns- end.
1798-Andrew Judson, Ammi Lewis, Seth Williston, Walter King, Zebulon Ely, Amos Bassett.
*Those marked thus * are known to have gone on missionary tours; others, doubtless, did the same, but the scanty documents do not show the faet.
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APPOINTED BY THE COMMITTEE.
1795-Rev. P. V. Booge, Rev. * Lemuel Tyler, (Huntington,) *Rev. J. D. Perkins, (Plainfield )
1796-Rev. John Gurley, (Lebanon,) Rev. Mr. King.
At the meeting of the General Association, in 1797, Rev. Messrs. Levi Hart, Joseph Strong, and Samuel Miller-the last a delegate from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States-" were appointed to draft an ad- dress to the several associations on the subject of a Missionary Society" for the state. "Drs. Dwight, Dana and Trumbull were appointed a committee of correspondence" on the same subject. At the meeting of the General Association, at Hebron, in 1798, Rev. Messrs. Hart, Edwards, Nathan Strong and Nathaniel Irwin-the last a delegate from the Presbyterian General Assembly-were appointed to draft a constitution of a Missionary Society, which, " after due consideration," was adopted. The General Association is the " Missionary Socie- ty of Connecticut," the objects of which are "to Christianize the heathen in North America, and to support and promote Christian knowledge in the new settlements of the United States,"-" both to be pursued as circumstances shall point out, and as the trustees, under the superintendence of the General Association, shall direct." The trustees, twelve in number, six clergymen and six lay brethren of our churches, were to be appointed by ballot. In 1802, the trustees were incorpo- rated by the General Assembly, with power to hold property not exceeding $100,000. Collections, authorized for some time by the state, were made annually in our denomination, on the first Sabbath in May, from 1798 to 1830, except in the years 1809, 1810, 1811. The whole amount contributed is $77,223.29.
A Narrative of Missions was published annually by the trustees. The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine devoted no small share of its pages, and all its profits, amounting to $11,- 520.07, to promote the interests of the society. This socie- ty is among the oldest of the kind in the country, in respect to organization ; and in effect it is the oldest, the General Associa- tion having begun to act by a committee in 1792. For many
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years, its operations were more extensive than those of any kindred institution in the land. Its resources were, perhaps, as well proportioned to the wants of that period, as the larger resources of national societies are to the existing wants.
" To Christianize the Heathen in North America," is the first object mentioned in the constitution to be accomplished by the society, and several of its early donations were for that specific purpose. In 1800, Mr. David Bacon was sent to ex- plore the condition of the Indian tribes south and west of Lake Erie. On his return, he was ordained at the close of the same year-and taking his station at Mackinaw, established a mission among the Chippeways. Here, he continued labor- ing faithfully in hardships and sufferings, till 1805 ;- when the enterprise proving more expensive than the limited means of the Society could bear, consistently with the increasing de- mands of the white settlements, the mission was discontin- ued. He returned to New Connecticut, where he is still held in grateful remembrance.
With the exception of a small grant ($100) to the Wyandott Indians in 1809, and the more recent aid to the Mohegans in supporting a minister eleven years, in Connecticut-no further attempts have been made for the conversion of the natives, through the medium of this society. The whole amount it has expended on account of Indian missions, is $3,665.61.
At the beginning of the present century, missionaries sent out by the Board, were found among the granite mountains of New Hampshire-on the beautiful hills of Vermont, then covered with woods, or sparsely dotted with log huts or lowly cottages-among the scattered settlements of middle or north- ern New York, and a little later, along the delightful borders of the Seneca Lake, and in the rich valley of the Genesee. They searched for "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" on the pine-clad acclivities of northern Pennsylvania, and wended their solitary way through the dense and lofty forests of New Connecticut. This region the society began to cultivate when its whole population was less than twelve hundred.
In 1812-13, the trustees, in connection with the Missionary Society of Massachusetts, sent out Rev. Samuel J. Mills, with an associate, to explore the valley of the Mississippi, which
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was then almost a terra incognita, in regard to its religious con- dition. Their report was widely circulated, and had more influence, probably, than any measure of the period, in awaking public attention to the bearing of that valley on the future destinies of our country. The trustees soon after established Kentucky, the Missouri Territory, and Louisiana as missionary fields.
In 1816, the venerated Giddings, a missionary of this socie- ty, organized a Presbyterian church in St. Louis, the first, it is believed, in Missouri. In 1817, Rev. Elias Cornelius, also commissioned by the trustees, laid the foundation of a church in New Orleans, of which the lamented Larned soon after became pastor.
The Missionary Society of Connecticut, has, it is reckoned, organized not far from 500 churches-some of them now among the most flourishing in the land. Its receipts from 1798 to 1859, have been $252,512.83.
In 1799, the trustees began to procure books for the new settlements-and in 1803, a committee, among whom were his Honor John Treadwell, Chief Justice Ellsworth, and Rev. Drs. Strong and Perkins, was appointed to prepare a " Sum- mary of Christian Doctrine," for distribution among the des- titute-of which 6000 copies were published in 1804, as a first edition. Before societies were organized specially for this part of the work, the trustees had expended, in 1820, more than $6000 for books-beside distributing large numbers presented by authors and benevolent individuals.
At first, the missionaries of the society were, of necessity, itinerant-as there were no churches, and the population was scattered. Afterwards, the trustees availed themselves of the services of local pastors, for what time these could spare from their own congregations. For many years, their grants have been chiefly confined to aiding in the support of pastors over one or two churches. Not a few of the missionaries were set- tled in churches which they had organized. The whole num- ber of missionaries employed by this society is 277.
To prepare the way for a change in the mode of conducting our home missionary operations, the Missionary Society of Con- necticut, in 1830, ceased to solicit annual contributions from
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the churches-though still acting independently in expending the income of its Permanent Fund, and such legacies as now and then come into its treasury.
MISSIONARIES EMPLOYED BY THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTI- CUT FROM 1798 .*
Rev. Walter King,
New York and Vermont.
Rev. Amos Bassett,
New Hampshire.
Rev. Publius V. Booge,
New York.
John Spencer,
New York.
Alexander Gillet,
Andrew Judson,
New York.
George Colton,
New York and Pennsylvania.
Seth Williston,
New York.
Thomas Punderson,
New York.
Henry Chapman,
Yew York.
Salmon King,
Vermont.
Sylvester Dana,
Pennsylvania, (probably.)
Aaron Kinne,
New York and Vermont.
Royal Phelps,
New York.
Jedediah Bushnell,
Vermont.
Holland Weeks,
Vermont and New York.
Marshfield Steele,
Vermont and New York.
Silas Hubbard,
New York.
Amasa Jerome,
New York.
William Storrs,
Vermont.
David Bacon,
Indians.
Robert Porter,
New York.
David Huntington,
Vermont.
Josiah B. Andrews,
Pennsylvania and New York.
Joseph Badger,
Western Reserve.
Jeremiah Hallock,
Western Reserve and Vermont.
Western Reserve.
Abraham Scott, Job Swift,
Vermont.
* It was intended that the names of the missionaries in this list should be arranged in the order of their appointment. Only an approximation to chronological order however has been attained, and it must be acknowledged that the list in this respect is very defective. It is a matter of regret also that the specifie dates of the commis- sions given to the missionaries cannot be added ; but to do this would require a review of the Records of the Board, and of the Committee of Missions, the annual narra- tives of missions, the books of accounts, and to a great extent, the reports of mission- aries, from the beginning. This would be "renovare dolorem," for which time is wanting.
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Simon Waterman,
Thomas Barr,
Hezekiah May,
Ezekiel J. Chapman,
James W. Woodward,
New York.
New York.
Daniel Higgins, Solomon Morgan,
Vermont.
William Wick,
Western Reserve.
John Willard,
Vermont.
New York.
William F. Miller, Samuel Leonard,
Vermont.
Samuel P. Robbins,
Ohio.
Western Reserve.
New York.
New York.
Vermont, New York and Penn.
Timothy Harris,
Ohio.
Oliver Wetmore,
Vermont.
New York and Pennsylvania.
New York.
New York.
Israel Day,
Calvin Chapin,
Western Reserve.
Joseph Vaill,
New York.
Asa Carpenter,
Vermont and New York.
Ebenezer J. Leavenworth, New York.
John Hough,
Vermont.
Israel Brainerd,
New York and Pensylvania.
Archibald Bassett,
New York.
Aaron Cleveland,
New York and Vermont.
Jonathan Leslie,
Western Reserve.
John Denison,
Vermont.
David Harrower,
New York and Pennsylvania.
Mark Mead,
New York.
Nathan B. Darrow,
Western Reserve and Ind.
Joel Byington-
Vermont.
Silas L. Bingham,
Vermont.
Enoch Burt,
Western Reserve.
Erastus Ripley,
Vt. and N. Y., Penn. and Ohio.
Chauncey Lee,
Vermont and New York.
Daniel Wałdo, Joshua Beer,
New York and Pennsylvania. Western Reserve.
Samuel Sweezey.
Samuel Baldridge,
New York. Illinois.
Thomas Robbins,
Thomas Williams,
Ira Hart, Calvin Ingalls,
Ebenezer Kingsbury,
Eli Hyde,
William Graves,
Vermont.
New York. Western Reserve. New York and Pennsylvania. Western Reserve.
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Oliver Ayer,
New York and Pennsylvania.
Reuben Porter,
Pennsylvania.
Abner Benedict, Jr.
New York.
Lemuel Haynes,
Vermont and New York.
Eleazer Fairbanks,
New York.
Joseph Avery,
Vermont, New York and Penn.
Jolm Bascom,
Pennsylvania.
James Boyd,
Western Reserve.
Salmon King,
Vermont and New York.
Hubbel Loomis,
New York.
Elihu Mason,
New York.
Israel Shailer,
Western Reserve.
Giles H. Cowles,
Western Reserve.
Cyrus Nichols,
Missouri.
William Lockwood,
New York and Pennsylvania.
Alvan Coe,
Western Reserve.
John F. Bliss,
New York and Pennsylvania.
Daniel G. Sprague,
West of Alleghanies.
Joseph M. Sadd,
Missouri.
Asahel Gaylord,
Vermont and New York.
Vermont.
Vermont and New York.
Asa Johnson,
Missouri.
Benj. F. Hoxey,
Jonathan A. Woodruff,
Illinois.
Caleb Pitkin,
Western Reserve.
Worthington Wright,
Pennsylvania.
Ebenezer Fitch,
New York.
John Matthews,
Missouri.
Simeon Parmelee,
Vermont and New York.
John Lawton,
Vermont.
Samuel Royce,
Louisiana.
Alfred H. Betts,
Western Reserve.
Joel F. Benedict,
New York and Pennsylvania.
Caleb Alexander,
New York.
Daniel Miller,
Western Reserve.
John Field,
Western Reserve.
Nathan Waldo,
New Hampshire and Vermont, Vermont.
Pennsylvania.
Vermont.
Vermont.
Western Reserve.
David H. Williston, Lucas Hart, Moses Elliot,
Jonathan Hovey,
Ephraim T. Woodruff,
Missouri.
Henry Frost,
New York.
Ammi Nichols,
James Parker,
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Nathaniel Cobb,
John Seward,
Flavel S. Gaylord,
Western Reserve. Western Reserve. Western Reserve. Pennsylvania and New York.
M. M. York,
Samuel J. Mills,
Mississippi Valley.
Orange Lyman, Orin Fowler,
Indiana.
William Shedd,
New Orleans.
John F. Schermerhorn,
Mississippi Valley.
David D. Field,
New York.
Joel Davis,
Vermont.
George C. Wood,
Missouri.
Elias Cornelius,
Louisiana.
Harvey Coe,
Western Reserve.
Oliver Hill,
Pennsylvania and New York.
Asaph Morgan,
Vermont and New Hampshire.
Abiel Jones,
Western Reserve.
Joel Goodell,
Missouri.
Simeon Woodruff,
Western Reserve.
Simeon Snow,
New York.
Eli Hyde,
Charles B. Storrs,
Western Reserve.
Harvey Coe,
Western Reserve.
Isaac Reed,
Kentucky and Indiana.
Joseph Treat,
Western Reserve.
Comfort Williams,
New York.
Orin Catlin,
Illinois.
Josiah Hopkins,
Vermont.
David M. Smith,
New York.
William Hanford,
Western Reserve.
Ard Hoyt,
Pennsylvania.
Hezekiah Hull, John F. Crow,
Indiana.
William Williams,
New York.
Eliphalet Austin, Jr.
Western Reserve.
William Wisner,
Pennsylvania.
Ahab Jineks,
Indiana.
Chester Colton, Amos Chase,
Pennsylvania. I
Ohio.
William R. Gould, Warren Swift,
Western Reserve.
Luther Humphrey,
Western Reserve.
Justin Parsons,
Vermont.
New York.
Louisiana.
New York.
New York.
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Timothy Flint,
Ohio and Missouri. Western Reserve.
Daniel W. Lathrop,
Daniel C. Banks,
Ohio and Kentucky.
Salmon Giddings,
Missouri.
Matthew Taylor,
Ohio.
Amasa Loomis,
Ohio.
Cyrus Kingsbury,
Tennessee.
John Sanford,
Virginia and Tennessee.
Dexter Witter,
Western Reserve.
Stephen Mason,
Kentucky.
Stephen W. Burritt,
New York.
Hervey Lyon,
Western Reserve.
Jason Olds,
Western Reserve.
Herman Halsey,
Kentucky.
Henry Cowles,
Illinois.
Dewey Whitney,
Kentucky.
Luther G. Bingham,
Ohio.
Prince Hawes,
New York.
William Fisher,
New York.
Joseph HI. Breck,
Western Reserve.
Horace Smith,
Missouri and Illinois.
Lot B. Sullivan,
Western Reserve.
David Smith, Eli Smith,
Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.
Elbridge G. Howe,
Illinois.
Daniel Gould,
Illinois and Missouri.
Edson Hart,
Western Reserve.
Jesse Townsend,
Illinois.
Isaac W. Warner,
Western Reserve.
William Boies,
Ohio.
Luke Wood,
New York and Pennsylvania. Tennessee.
Myron Tracy,
Western Reserve.
Randolph Stone,
Western Reserve.
Lyman Whitney,
Kentucky.
Ludovicus Robbins,
Western Reserve.
David C. Proctor,
Illinois.
Noah Smith,
New York.
Caleb Burbank,
Western Reserve.
Alfred Wright,
Missouri.
Asa Johnson,
Missouri.
Nathaniel Cobb,
Western Reserve.
New York.
Edward Hollister,
Illinois and Missouri.
William W. Niles,
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Benjamin Fenn,
Western Reserve ..
Thomas H. Rood,
Wisconsin.
William Johnson,
Western Reserve.
· O. Parker, Gideon C. Clark,
Michigan.
Illinois.
Jonathan Sampson,
Western Reserve.
E. I. Montague,
Wisconsin.
L. H. Parker,
Illinois.
Benj. Walker,
Western Reserve.
James Langhead,
Western Reserve.
John L. Seymour,
Western Reserve.
John Wilcox,
Western Reserve.
J. B. Parlin,
Western Reserve.
Franklin Maginnis,
Western Reserve.
Joel Talcott,
Western Reserve.
Ansel R. Clark,
Western Reserve.
Calvin Porter,
Western Reserve.
Z. K. Hawley,
Illinois.
Eldad Barber,
Western Reserve.
Nelson Slater,
Western Reserve.
George Schlosser,
Western Reserve.
Warren C. Fiske,
Wisconsin.
Edward C. Betts,
Western Reserve.
A. G. Hibbard,
Illinois.
Anson Gleason,
Mohegans.
Octavius Fitch,
Pennsylvania.
Erastus Cole,
Western Reserve.
D. R. Miller,
Illinois.
William Whittlesey,
Illinois.
James Nall,
Michigan.
Luther Shaw,
Western Reserve.
Ithamar Pillsbury, S. S. Brown,
Michigan.
Sherman B. Canfield,
Western Reserve.
Christian Sans,
Wisconsin.
John W. Beecher,
Western Reserve.
Mark Gould,
Western Reserve.
Elery Curtis,
Western Reserve.
Lonis F. Lane,
Western Reserve.
Josephus Morton,
Western Reserve.
M. P. Kinney,
Wisconsin.
Western Reserve. Minnesota.
Jonathan W. Goodell, H. H. Morgan,
Illinois.
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Solomon Stevens,
Western Reserve.
Philip Everleth,
Western Reserve.
Enos H. Rice,
Michigan.
Hiram Smitlı,
Western Reserve.
A. L. Leonard,
Iowa.
E. N. Bartlett,
Michigan and Iowa.
Charles Morgan,
Wisconsin.
Urban Palmer,
Western Reserve.
Benson C. Baldwin,
Western Reserve.
Frederic H. Brown,
Western Reserve.
William Carter,
Illinois.
William Kirby,
Illinois.
Thomas Riggs,
Western Reserve.
William F. Vaill,
Illinois.
Samuel Lee,
Western Reserve.
Xenophon Betts,
Western Reserve.
F. E. Lord,
Michigan.
W. T. Bartle,
Illinois.
Aaron K. Wright,
Western Reserve.
Stephen C. Hickok,
Western Reserve.
George D. Yonng,
Western Reserve.
J. H. Dill,
New York.
Warren Taylor,
Western Reserve.
William Wolcott,
Michigan.
O. IIosford,
Michigan.
M. W. Fairfield,
Illinois and Michigan.
J. H. Payne,
Wisconsin.
W. B. Atkinson,
Iowa.
Joseph C. Cooper,
Iowa.
J. O. Knapp,
New York.
J. A. R. Rogers,
Illinois.
Burdett Hart.
Minnesota.
DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT.
For a long period after the settlement of the colony of Con- necticut, there was within its borders no call for that form of home missions which consists in aiding existing churches. The civil government, which was virtually a home missiona- ry society, provided against such a contingency, by refusing to incorporate a town, unless there were inhabitants enough to support a minister-by taxing for the support of religious as well as other institutions-by allowing winter privileges to
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those too far from the place of worship to attend meeting con- veniently at that season of the year-by fixing the limits of new parishes when a division became necessary, and suffering no church to be formed " without consent of the general court, and approbation of neighboring elders."
At length, however, from a variety of causes which this is not the place to detail, the churches became weakened, and it required some outward impulse to secure their existence. In 1783, the " Eastern Association of New London County " pro- posed to the General Association, sitting in Lyme, the question -" What shall be done respecting our destitute churches and congregations whose re-settlement in the enjoyment of Gospel ordinances is improbable ?" The General Association resolved in substance, at its next meeting, that a church guilty of "a faulty neglect to settle a minister"-if on conference and ad- monition it continued its neglect-should be cut off from the consociation ;- a measure which would rather aggravate than cure the disease. The evil continued to grow in magnitude, until it was said, in 1814, in a sermon which had no small share in hastening the application of a remedy-" 'There are, in this state, districts as far from heaven-and without help, as hopeless of heaven-as the pagans of Hindoostan and China .* "
At the meeting of the General Association in 1815, Rev. Messrs. Bassett, Nelson, and James Buchanan, the last named, a delegate from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States-were chosen a committee to report on the request of the New London County Association, for the formation of a Domestic Missionary Society.+ The result was
* Beecher's Sermon on Waste Places in Connecticut. Among the means suggested in this sermon, for building up these wastes is the formation of a "general society for the special purpose."
+ " When I was ordained here, (New London, ) in 1806, I was the only pastor of a Congregational church, on a territory in Connecticut, of fifty miles in length by twelve in width. Eleven large contiguous parishes, stretching from Sterling to the sea-board on the line of Rhode Island-thenee to the western boundrey of East Lyme; thence northward to the southern line of Colchester, were, except New London, destitute of Congregational ministers. In 1808, the Rev. Ira Hart took charge of the church in Stonington, and in 1811, the Rev. Timothy Tuttle be- came the pastor of the church in Groton-an event better than our hope. In all the residue of the wide waste, nothing indicated resuscitation or improvement. Wealth cnongh there was ; people enough there were ; a meeting house stood in every parish ; but men of energy, influence, and device, to step forth and regain the minis-
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the choice of a committee to consider the subject and report at the next meeting of the body. On their report, at its next meeting in New Haven, it was resolved, unanimously, to form "a Domestic Missionary Society, for Connecticut and its vicinity."
At their first meeting, the directors voted that 17 churches of our denomination in this state needed aid. Six more were soon added to the list, while others seem not to have had energy enough to attempt recovery. Annual contributions were taken up, in September and October. By circulars and other meas- ures, the directors endeavored to awaken interest in the object -but the receipts of the Society seldom exceeded $1500, and sometimes were less than $1000, annually,-a sum entirely inadequate to the wants of the feeble churches. The whole amount of contributions, from 1816 to 1830, was $20,386.69.
During the 14 years of its independent action, 50 churches sought its aid. Two or three of these are extinct, and but for its aid, others now self-sustaining might have shared the same fate.
In 1831, this Society became auxiliary to the American Home Missionary Society. The terms of union secure to the Auxiliary the control of the raising and application of funds, the selection and appointment of missionaries within this state-and the right to nominate for appointment by the Ex- ecutive Committee of the American Home Missionary Society, missionaries out of the state, to the amount of its surplus funds ; such missionaries to be commissioned by the American Home Missionary Society, and to report to the Auxiliary whenever required by its directors.
The result of this union has been eminently happy. The treasury of the Auxiliary has never wanted means to minister
try, were not to be found. The few pastors, who were at length established on the outposts of this waste, were impatient of this rapid and constant degeneracy toward a state of heathenism, in a land of Christianity. At the old parsonage of this parish, one evening in 1815, the Rev. Ira Hart and myself conversed on the subject, and form- ed a project for a county missionary society, to restore the dilapidated churches and societies. The project, after a few weeks, was referred to the association ; who, after consultation resolved to forward a petition to the General Association of the State, soon to meet at Farmington, that a Home Missionary Society might be instituted for repairing the waste places of Connecticut and its vieinity."-McEwen's Half-Century Sermon.
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to the necesities of our own churches, and for liberal supplies to the destitute in other portions of the field. Very little has been expended for foreign agencies-the services of local pas- tors and churches having proved sufficient to place Connecticut among the foremost, in proportion to its population, resources and number of churches, in the amount devoted to home missions.
The receipts by the treasury of the Auxiliary to June 1, 1859, are $176,785.91. The treasury of the A. H. M. S. has received directly from Connecticut, $342,427.95-making in the whole, as the contribution of our churches and congrega- tions to Home Missions, since the union of the Domestic Mis- sionary Society of Connecticut, with the American Home Missionary Society, $519,213.86, of which $401,791.57 were for missions out of the state.
The Auxiliary has aided about 80 churches in this state, of which 42 became self-supporting under its patronage. Three or four of the number have found it necessary to re-apply for aid, which will be only temporarily needed, it is hoped, except in a single case. It has aided several other congregations where no church has been organized.
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