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able to aid it. Too much has already been done, and too great interests are involved in its realization, to think of suffering it longer to languish. Now, though it has a small capital in the building where our library is, it is not and cannot be self-sustaining or largely useful without a speedy increase of

resources.

Our Corresponding Secretary has given much time to the library in gathering valuable books and pamphlets; and now by the help of a valuable assistant in the rooms, who gives her whole time to this service, the hitherto reigning chaos among our increasing collection of serials, sermons, reports, essays, and the like, is giving place to order and system, and our garnered memorials are becoming accessible, and hence more useful. Our great wants are room, ROOм, ROOM, and money enough to bind more than seven hundred volumes now suffering to be bound, and also to secure by thorough search and purchase the thousands upon thousands of the yet surviving works on our polity and our history; the books which illustrate New England work, New England character, New England institutions; embracing our periodical literature, the richest in the language, but nowhere found in any one library; embracing local histories, especially of New England cities, towns, and churches; embracing the proceedings of all our great benevolent societies and the minutes of all our State associations and conferences, etc., etc. Church histories are more easily obtained, and, with a comparatively small outlay, this could be made the richest library in the country in ecclesiastical literature, now a great want; embracing not only the forms, polity, and principles of the different churches at different periods of the world, but their work as well. Something has been already accomplished in these different directions, but nothing compared with what is possible with suitable rooms and sufficient means for filling them. Many a private library, of careful selection and of great value, waits the evidence of our future life, and a secure fireproof building, to be freely donated immediately, as a testamentary gift. Our librarian is assured on all sides, that, when a suitable building is erected to receive these waiting gifts, they will be forthcoming.

During the last year there have been placed upon our shelves some books of great value, the direct gift of generous friends, or by purchase from a few dollars bestowed for that purpose, or arising from the sale of duplicates, or by exchanges. The increase of the Li

brary the past year has been more in the quality of the books secured, and in the order that is beginning to obtain in its general arrangement, than in the number of volumes procured. Still we can report progress in this respect. Our last report gave four thousand and ninety-eight bound volumes, and three hundred and twenty duplicates, making a total of four thousand four hundred and twenty-eight volumes, an increase of six hundred and sixty-seven volumes over the previous year. A more close examination of our books has brought to light quite a number of before unknown duplicates. These have been passed over to the duplicate department. A careful count gives us now four thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven volumes, and four hundred and ninety-one duplicates, affording a total of five thousand two hundred and fifty-eight bound volumes; and of unbound but valuable pamphlets, over fifty thousand.

There are wanting now only a few dollars from comparatively a few individuals to cause this beginning of a suitable monument to the memory of our Pilgrim Fathers to rise and be an honor to them and to us, and an inestimable blessing to posterity. Boston Congregationalists cannot afford to let this golden opportunity pass of making in this city, the only really fitting place, and Now, the best time that can be looked for, a Congregational home, center, "Exchange," which would be an invaluable help to the present and all coming generations. Massachusetts Congregationalists cannot afford to let the treasures already secured here, and within reasonable command, be scattered and lost; nor can they afford to fail of having at last an inviting and accessible resort in this center of their faith and Church polity, at this the Jerusalem of our brotherhood. A resort suited to the purposes of rest, of the freest, largest intercourse one with another; where our Church principles and practices may be studied; where our common trials, duties, and hopes, and plans, may be talked over, and measures devised for more extended Christian action; where the stranger, who should want to know more of the faith and order of those churches which have made New England the moral garden of the world, might be invited and enlightened. New England, nay, American Congregationalists, cannot afford longer to be without a place to which they may go and find not only a home, and rest, and social greetings, but instruction in all those points of doctrine and ecclesiastical usage which were adopted by the Fath

ers, and which are or are not received by their children living in and around the old homestead. The pioneer ministers, the frontier churches, the missionaries, home and foreign, very much want and must have these helps, available in no other way, and from no other source. The Directors are persuaded that an object so important, and now seemingly so easily secured, will not be suffered to elude our grasp. They can but urge upon pastors a duty in this matter. If they will take it in hand, and bring it before their people, and invite contributions, the object will be attained. It must be that out of our three thousand Congregational churches there are, at least, one thousand which could easily raise, on an average, one hundred dollars each. It must be that out of our three hundred thousand Church members, at least one in three thousand would give one thousand dollars each to secure an object so important, so eminently desirable every way. This whole subject is herewith submitted, in hope that measures will be speedily adopted which will secure the long-wished for, prayed for object, -a CONGREGATIONAL HOUSE, Secure from fire, and worthy of the city of Boston and of the denomination, and in the securing of which there shall be found abundant occasion for devout thanksgiving to Almighty God.

BUSINESS MEETING.

AGREEABLY to notice in the Congregationalist and Recorder, the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the American Congregational Association was held in the Old South Chapel, in Boston, on Tuesday, May 30, 1865; the President, Rev. W. T. Dwight, D. D., in the chair. Prayer was offered by Rev. Alonzo H. Quint. The minutes of the last annual meeting were read by the Recording Secretary, and adopted by the Association. The working of the first By-law for the present meeting was suspended. The Board of Directors presented a new draft of the Constitution and By-laws, which were adopted as follows:

CONSTITUTION.

ART. I. The name of this body shall be the AMERICAN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to secure the crection, in this city of Boston, of a CONGREGATIONAL HOUSE for the meetings of the body, the accommodation of its library, and for the furtherance of its general purposes; to found and perpetuate a library of books, pamphlets, and manuscripts, and a collection of por

traits and relics of the past; and to do whatever else- within the limits of its charter - shall serve to illustrate Congregational history, and promote the general interests of the Congregational churches.

ART. III. This Association shall be composed of members of Orthodox Congregational churches,— paying each one dollar, or more, into its Treasury.

ART. IV. The officers of this Association shall be a President, such a number of Vice-Presidents as the Association may from year to year elect, a Corresponding and Recording Secretary, a Librarian, Treasurer, and an Auditor. These Secretaries, Librarian, and Treasurer, with ten others, shall be a Board of Directors, charged with the general interests of the Association, five of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. These officers shall be chosen by ballot at the Annual Meetings.

ART. V. The Annual Meetings for the choice of officers, and for the other business appropriate to such meetings, shall be held in Boston, on the Tuesday preceding the last Wednesday in May, in each year, at twelve o'clock, M. Special meetings may be called at any time by the Board of Directors. The Annual and all special meetings must be called by published notice in the Orthodox Congregational weekly newspapers of Boston, at least one week previous.

ART. VI. This Constitution may be altered at any Annual Meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, public notice having been given of the nature of the proposed alteration, in the call for the meeting; but the third article shall be unalterable.

BY-LAWS.

ART. I. The exercises of the Annual Meeting shall be prayer, hearing the report of the Directors, and other officers having reports to make; action upon the same; the election of officers; and the performance of such other business as shall properly come before the meeting.

ART. II. The Directors shall prescribe their own times of meeting, as their judgment of the best interests of the Association may suggest, and the method of calling the same. All their meetings shall be opened with prayer. They shall also have power to appoint, and order, any public meeting of the Association for anniversary purposes, which they may think fit.

ART. III. At the first Directors' meeting after their appointment, a chairman shall be chosen by ballot, and a Finance Committee and Library Com. mittee by nomination, (each of three members,) to serve respectively for the year. Immediately after the opening of each meeting, the minutes of the previous meeting shall be read, and a docket of business, prepared by the Correspond. ing Secretary and Librarian, shall be presented to the Board for action, to which any member may add other items.

ART. IV. The Directors shall make a Report of their doings for the year at each Annual Meeting of the Association, and suggest such measures

for the action of the body as in their judgment its welfare requires.

ART. V. The Corresponding Secretary shall discharge the duties ordinarily belonging to that office.

ART. VI. The Recording Secretary shall make a full record of whatever business is transacted in the meetings, both of the Association and of the Board of Directors, in a book provided for that purpose, and kept at the rooms of the Association.

ART. VII. The Treasurer shall have charge of all moneys belonging to the Association, and hold the same at the disposal of the Directors,-paying only such bills as have the certified approval of at least two members of the Finance Committee. He shall report the state of the Treasury to the Association at their Annual Meetings, and to the Directors whenever desired by them to do so.

ART. VIII. The Librarian shall keep a complete catalogue of all books, pamphlets, manuscripts, periodicals, portraits, and other articles of interest belonging to the Association, with the names of their donors annexed; and shall have the general charge of the same under the Library Committee.

ART. IX. Previously to each Annual Meeting, the Library Committee shall examine the Library and all the property of the Association, and report its condition to the Board, who shall embody that statement in their Annual Report.

ART. X. No book, pamphlet, manuscript, or periodical, shall be taken from the Library, except on such terms, and for such time, as the Library Committee shall prescribe; nor shall visitors be permitted to make extracts from manuscripts, without the knowledge and consent of the Librarian.

ART. XI. These By-laws may be amended, at any regularly called meeting of the Association, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present.

The above were adopted in whole, and in detail, by the Association, and all others were repealed by unanimous vote.

The Corresponding Secretary read the Annual Report of the Board of Directors, which was adopted.

The Treasurer's Report was read and accepted. The following officers were chosen by ballot for the ensuing year, viz.:

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CHARLES STODDARD, ESQ., Boston.

It was Resolved, That upon the retirement of the Rev. Dr. Dwight, by his own action, from the position of President of this Association, which he has so long filled, the Association tenders him its hearty thanks for his faithful service.

It was Resolved, That the Directors be instructed to bring the objects of this Association before the National Congregational Council, in the manner best fitted to interest that body, and to secure the coöperation of its members on their return to the churches which they represent.

It was Resolved, That the Directors be requested to inquire whether it be expedient that this association should establish a National Commission for the promotion of Popular Christianization ; and also whether it is expedient that it should appoint a standing committee on new churches, and to take such action thereon as they may deem expedient.

After prayer by Rev. Dr. Dwight, adjourned.

H. M. DEXTER, Rec. Sec.

INDEX OF NAMES.

NOTE. This Index includes all the names of persons mentioned in this volume, except the names of
ministers given in the general statistics, which are all indexed alphabetically on pages 113-125, -and except
the Roll of Members of the National Council, as arranged alphabetically by States on pages 238-242.

The reader is reminded that a given name may occur more than once on the same page.

For general topics, see Table of Contents, pp. iii. and iv.

A full Index of the proceedings of the National Council will be found in the Table of Contents, under the
head "National Council."

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Bird, 217.

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Ballard, 223.

Boynton, 126.

Bancroft, 300.

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Dale, 212.

Damon, 424.

Fillmore, 52.

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Fisher, 50, 212, 223, 267, 293, 363,
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Fowler, 209.

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Freeman, 293, 361.

Hamlin, 147.

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Hanbury, 265, 396.

Harding, 311.

Harper, 29.

Harris, 126, 130, 208, 220, 264, 292,
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Harrison, 224.

Hart, 47, 221, 222, 293, 391.
Hartshorn, 223.

Harvey, 223.
Haskell, 243.

Hatch, 182, 183, 442.

Haven, 126, 184, 310, 348, 364, 369,
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311, 363, 391, 440.
Hawley, 223.

Hayes, 52, 440.
Hayward, 182, 183.

Hazard, 311.

Hazen, 125, 439.
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Helmer, 440.
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Henry VIII., 434.

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Frost, 224, 225, 443.

Froude, 434.

Fuller, 138, 143, 430.

Gale, 125, 293, 433.
Gallagher, 442.

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Heston, 441.

Hetherington, 251.
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Goodenow, 442.

Goodhue, 224, 891.

Goodrich, 4, 8, 10, 16, 59, 222, 439.

Goodwin, 223, 226, 348, 415.

Gookin, 31, 441.

Gordon, 363.

Gorrie, 26.

Gould, 58, 209, 217, 222, 432, 442.

Graf, 126.

Graham, 26.

Grant, 225, 444.

Graves, 58, 224.

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