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THIS CERTIFIES that the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES which is invited to assemble at Boston, in Massachusetts, on the 14th day of June, A. D. 1865, has appointed its representatives to a Conference of Churches to be held at for the choice of Messengers to the National Council aforesaid. Should the brethren above named be unable to attend, the delegates present from other churches are hereby authorized to act for this Church.

Dated at

In behalf of the Church,

1865.

Congregational Quarterly Record.

Churches Formed.

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Dec. 7. Mr. S. L. BLAKE, over the Ch. in Pepperell, Ms. Sermon by Prof. Edwards Å. Park, D. D., of Andover. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Pliny B. Day, of Hollis, N. H.

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Sept. 21. Mr. CHAUNCY GOODRICH, as Mis-
sionary of the A. B. C. F. M. to China, in
Hinsdale, Ms. Sermon by Rev. Moses M.
Longley, of Washington. Ordaining Prayer
by Rev. George W. Stimson, of Windsor.
Nov. 2. Mr. HENRY DURHAM, over the Ch.
in La Salle, Ill. Sermon by Rev. Martin K.
Whittlesey, of Ottawa. Ordaining Prayer
by Rev. Edwin N. Lewis, of Danby.

66 2. Mr. BENJAMIN T. JONES, over the
Ch. in Williamsburg and Genoa Bluffs,
Iowa. Sermon by Rev. S. D. Cochran, of
Grinnell. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Mr.
Barnes, of Newton.

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14. Rev. JOSEPH B. JOHNSON, over the
Ch. in Uxbridge, Ms. Sermon by Rev.
Andrew L. Stone, D. D., of Boston. Instal-
ling Prayer by Rev. Henry B. Hooker, D.
D., of Boston.

14. Rev. GEO, H. GOULD, over the 1st
Ch. in Hartford, Ct. Sermon by Prof.
Henry B. Smith, of Union Theological
Seminary. Installing Prayer by Rev. Joel
Hawes, D. D., of Hartford.

15. Mr. JAMES W. GRUSH, to the Gospel
Ministry in North Potsdam, N. Y. Sermon
by Rev. John Waugh, of Canton.

15. Mr. WM. T. CLAPP, to the Gospel
Ministry in Edinburg, Ohio. Sermon by
Rev. John C. Hart, of Kent. Ordaining
Prayer by Rev. E. C. Sharp, of Atwater.

21. Rev. CHAS. BROOKS, over the Ch. in
Unionville, Ct. Sermon by Rev. Horace
Bushnell, D. D., of Hartford. Installing
Prayer by Rev. Leverett Griggs, of Bristol.
21. Mr. J. H. LAIRD, over the Ch. in No.
Fairfield, Ohio. Sermon by Rev. John
Safford, of Bellevue.

27. Rev. JAMES M. PALMER, over the
Ch. in Biddeford, Me. Sermon by Prof.
Geo. Shepard, D. D., of Bangor. Installing
Prayer by Rev. Alvan Tobey, of Durham,
N. H.

27. Rev. EDWIN B. PALMER, over the
Ch. in Southbridge, Ms. Sermon by Rev.
Stephen H. Hayes, of South Weymouth.
Installing Prayer by Rev. Marshall B.
Angier, of Sturbridge.

27. Mr. LYMAN T. SPALDING, over the
Ch. in West Stafford, Ct. Sermon by Rev.
Chas. L. Woodworth, of Amherst, Ms.
Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Samuel I. Curtiss,
of Union.

28. Mr. EDWARD NORTON, over the Ch.
in Montague, Ms. Sermon by Rev. Artemas
Dean, of Greenfield. Ordaining Prayer by
Rev. Moses H. Wells, of Hinsdale, N. H.
28. Rev. MALCOLM MCGREGOR DANA,
over the 2d Ch. in Norwich, Ct. Sermon
by Prof. Roswell D. Hitchcock, of Union
Theological Seminary. Installing Prayer
by Rev. Hiram P. Arms, D. D., Norwich
Town.

Rev. AUGUSTUS CHANDLER, over the
Ch. in Strafford, Vt. Sermon by Rev. Jos.
Chandler, of West Brattleboro'."

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Rev. EPHRAIM N. HIDDEN, over the Ch. in Somersworth, N. H. Sermon by Rev. James T. McCollom, of Bradford, Ms. Installing Prayer by Rev. Eph raim W. Allen, South Berwick, Me.

11. Rev. WILLIAM GILL, over the Ch. in River Falls, Wis. Sermon by Rev. George Spaulding, of Hammond. Installing Prayer by Rev. Richard Hall, of St. Paul.

11. Mr. FRANK WOODBURY, to the Gospel Ministry at Olivet, Mich. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Hogarth, of Detroit.

11. Rev. JOSEPH W. HEALY, over the Hanover St. Ch. in Milwaukie, Wis. Sermon by Rev. Franklin W. Fiske, of Chicago, Ill. Installing Prayer by Rev. William D. Love, of Milwaukie.

11. Mr. EDWIN SMITH, over the Chestnut St. Ch. in Lynn, Ms. Sermon by Rev. Stephen Thurston, Searsport, Me. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. John Pike, Rowley.

66 14. Mr. J. A. JONES, over the Ch. in Foreston, Iowa. Sermon by Rev. Ephraim Adams, of Decorah. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. John W. Windsor, New Oregon.

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1. Mr. MARK WILLIAMS, to the Gospel Ministry in Indianapolis, Ind. Sermon by Rev. Henry M. Storrs, D. D., of Cincinnati, Ohio. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Horace Bushnell, of Hartford, Ct.

2. Mr. EDWARD A. RAND, over the Amesbury and Salisbury Mills Village Ch. Sermon by Rev. Albert H. Currier, of Ashland. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. George M. Adams, of Portsmouth.

9. Mr. GEO. F. MERRIAM, over the Ch. in Mason Village, N. H. Sermon by Rev. Geo. E. Fisher, of Ashburnham, Ms. Ordaining Prayer by Rev. Daniel Goodwin, of Mason Center.

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20. Rev. JOHN Q. BITTINGER, from the Central Ch., Yarmouth, Me.

21. Rev. PHILIP TITCOMB, from the So. Cong. Ch., Kennebunkport, Me.

29. Rev. HENRY B. WOODWORTH, from the Ch. in Hebron, Ct.

Jan. 2, 1865. Rev. LUCIEN H. ADAMS, from the Ch. in Petersham, Ms.

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2. Rev. ADDISON BALLARD, from the Ch. in Williamstown, Ms.

5. Rev. HORATIO Q. BUTTERFIELD, from the Ch. in Somersworth, N. H.

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11. Rev. OTIS HOLMES, from the Ch. in Elliot, Me.

16. Rev. GEORGE W. SARGENT, from the Ch. in Raymond, N. H.

31. Rev. ELIJAH C. BALDWIN, from the Ch. in Bethel, Ct.

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Feb. 7. Rev. ALVAH SPAULDING, from the Ch. in Cornish, N. H.

9. Rev. ALEXANDER H. CLAPP, from the Beneficent Ch. in Providence, R. I.

Ministers Married.

Oct. 19, 1864. In Jefferson, Ohio, Rev. A. D. OLDS, Chaplain in the Army, to Miss H. ADELIZA, daughter of Dr. A. Hawley.

Dec. 1. In South Amherst, Ms., Rev. L. T. SPAULDING, of West Stafford, Ct., to Miss ELVERTINE M. HAWLEY, of S. A.

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Ministers' Wibes Deceased.

Dec. 18, 1864. In Johnstown, Wis., MARY A., wife of Rev. J. K. Warner, and daughter of the late Rev. E. Platt, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Jan. 18, 1865. In New York, MARTHA A., wife of Rev. Henry B. Elliott, formerly of Springfield, Ms., and daughter of Rev. Thos. H. Skinner, of N. Y., aged 42 years.

Feb. 6. In Leavenworth, Kansas, FLORELLA B., wife of Rev. S. L. Adair, aged 48 years, 8 months, and 18 days.

Mar. 13. In Marblehead, Ms., SARAH H. B., wife of Rev. Francis Homes, of Lynn, aged 23 years.

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American Congregational Union.

RECEIPTS FOR DECEMBER, 1864, and JANUARY and FEBRUARY, 1865.

Maine-Rev. H. S. Loring, Monson,

New Hampshire - Col. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Plymouth,

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Rey. Alvan Tobey, Durham,

Vermont-Col. No. Cong. Ch. and Soc., St.

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Johnsbury,

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Col. So. Cong. Ch. and Soc., St. Johnsbury,

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Ascutneyville,

Charles Bowen, Esq., Montpelier,

"A few friends," Glovers,

Massachusetts-Col. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Leominster,

Col. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Marlboro' (additional),

Col. Cong. Ch. and Soc., East Ware,
66 Mt. Vernon Ch. and Soc., Boston,

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Connecticut - Col. 1st Cong. Ch. and Soc.,

Col. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Windsor Locks, 51 95

So. Cong. Ch. and Soc., New Britain,
No. 66
New Haven,
College st., Cong. Ch. and Soc., New
Haven, March and Dec., 1864,

Col. Center Ch. and Soc., New Britain,
Cong.
Deep River,

"Chapel st. Ch. and Soc., New Haven, 400 00

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No. Stonington,

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55 00

149 00

117 65

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Griswold,

Stratford,

Hartford,

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The receipts, as above, for the three winter months last past, are very encouraging. Another thousand would have carried them up to the figure that the "Union" ought to receive every three months, in order to do efficiently and economically the work it has undertaken. Two thousand a month, sure, would enable the Trustees to assure dependent churches, waiting to build, that help would be afforded. Now many a little Church struggles on in its feebleness, hesitating to begin lest help should fail just when help is indispensable to success.

Whatever reasons may have availed in the past for deferring annual collections in aid of this Church-building work, it is believed that now its claims will be heeded. A Congregational minister now preaching to the only Congregational Church in one of the late slave States, in a letter to the subscriber, says, "You are doing a great and good work for the West in building sanctuaries. You must be ready to come this way also, not only with hundreds, but with thousands; and dot the whole line of the Mississippi from Memphis to New Orleans." God is surely opening a wide door into a region where churches that carry with them the school, home, and the academy, where churches that breathe the spirit of Christian and civil liberty, have hitherto been unknown. For such churches there is already a call, and it is fast becoming louder and louder. Shall it not be heard?

During the period above indicated, the Treasurer of the "Union" has paid last bills on the following churches, viz.:- At Atkinson, Ill., $450.00; Arena, Wis., $500.00; Hannibal, Mo.,-the joint gift of Rufus S. Frost, Esq., and Rev. Isaac P. Langworthy, of Chelsea, Ms., -$400.00; Dunleith, Ill., $400.00; Redwood City, Cal., $500.00; Sandwich, Ill., $100.00; St. John's, Mich., $500.00; Union, Ill., $400.00; = $3,550.00. Let generous gifts come, and many a destitute and so far desolate place will be made glad, and the wilderness will bud and blossom as the rose! Direct to N. A. CALKINS, ESQ., Treasurer, 146 Grand Street, N. Y.; or if more convenient, to

ISAAC P. LANGWORTHY, CHELSEA, Mass.

American Congregational Association.

OUR readers have already been informed that measures have been and are being taken to secure a permanent working basis for this organization. Two public meetings have been held, and the subject has been thoroughly discussed; and the unanimous feeling was expressed, by formal vote, that at least one hundred thousand dollars should be immediately raised, for the purpose of procuring a suitable building for our library, and for its needed enlargement; for portraits, engravings, and other mementoes of the fathers of New England; for a Congregational "home," centre, resting-place, social "ministerial exchange."

A subscription has been started under favorable auspices, but not yet so filled up as to assure us of speedy success. A few more large pledges are now very much needed to secure the first twenty-five thousand dollars. If ten persons can be found who will give twenty-five hundred dollars each, the remaining seventy-five thousand will come. The effort will be a success, and this great want will be met. He who will be one of the first ten, or point us to such an one, will be a benefactor to be remembered and blessed.

In the meantime lesser or larger gifts will be most gratefully received. Let ones, threes, fives, tens, twenties, hundreds, and thousands come. They must come, and in great numbers. All over our free States we must have friends who will want a brick, or a beam, or a book, in this tribute to the Pilgrims. A pastor reported to his Church the doings at one of the public meetings above alluded to, whereupon one of his Church arose and commended the object, and moved that that Church should raise one thousand dollars towards securing a CONGREGATIONAL EXCHANGE, and said he would give one hundred dollars of that sum ; and the motion was unanimously adopted, and there is fair promise that the whole amount will be raised. There are hundreds of Congregational churches in New England, and many out of it, which are larger and better able to raise a thousand dollars each than this Church now doing it. Will not other pastors follow this example, and lay this subject before their churches, and obtain the needed thousand, or what they can? This is the time to move, and this move will be final, it is believed; final either in success or failure: and from the latter may the good Lord and his good people deliver us!

Before the meeting of the National Council, I wish very much to secure some very important Congregational books for the library. While any are useful, some are now very essential; some that discuss our principles, and some that illustrate their value by showing their practical workings. Such as Cotton's Power of the Keys; Hooker's Survey of the Sum of Church Discipline; Bartlett's Model of the Primitive Congregational Way; Trumbull's Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut; Hutchinson's Papers; Bogue's and Bennet's History of the Dissenters (the set, or only Vol. II.); Bacon's Manual; Goodwin's Church Government; Mitchell's Guide; Bradshaw's English Puritanism; Divine Institution of Congregational Churches, by Isaac Chauncy; White's Early History of New England; Young's Chronicles of the Plymouth Colony; Lobb's True Dissenters; Church Order by the Congregational Union of England and Wales; any or all of these, or any work of the Mathers, or Cotton, or Eliot, or Shepard, or Hooker, would be most gratefully received and duly appreciated.

I am very anxious to complete full sets of the Minutes of all our State Associations and Conferences, if possible before the meeting of the "Council," as they might be very useful. I still lack,

Maine, 1824, '25, '26, '27, '30, '31, '32, '34, '35, '43, '50.

New Hampshire, only 1812.

Vermont, 1811, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '43, '56.

Massachusetts, 1808, '10, '11, '12, '17, '20.

Rhode Island, 1824, '25, '26, '27, '28, '29, '30, 31, '32, '35, '36, '39, '40, '41, '42, '43, '44, '46. New York, 1838, '40, '42, '45, '46, '47, '49, '51, '54.

Michigan, 1844, '46, '47, '49.

Wisconsin, 1844, '46, '47, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '54, '55.

California, 1859, '60, '61.

Oregon, 1856, '59, '61, '62, '63.

Of some of our religious and secular serials I still lack certain numbers to complete sets for our shelves, but ANY numbers are helpful.

Of the North American Review I very much want Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22, 121, 122, 137, 193, 197.

Indeed, there is no number of any leading periodical, religious or literary, that is not valuable here.

Of Massachusetts Election Sermons, our set still wants ALL previous to 1710; also 1711, '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, 21, '22, '25, '26, '27, '31, '33, '37, '53.

Of Artillery Election Sermons, any will be helpful.

Of Sermons before the A. B. C. F. M., our set still wants those preached in the years 1815, '20, '21, '26, '28, '37, '39.

Let reports be sent here which are not really wanted where they are. To this library they are so much capital, more or less. The same is true of all pamphlets.

Of "local histories," as of towns, cities, or parishes, we want ALL that ever were printed in the English language, but have only a very few. Let them come. They shall have a large welcome.

ISAAC P. LANGWORTHY, Librarian,

23 Chauncy St., Boston, Mass., Room No. 10.

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