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DAY MISSIONS i THE tB R A R V BAPTIST MISSIONARY MAGAZINE. Vol. 16. June, 1836. No. 6. &mertcati baptist ïîoarîr of jForefgti J&tsßtoHS. TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. H artford, Con., April 27, 1836. I Resolved, That ministers of the Gos pel present, who are not members of The Board met, at JO o’clock, A. M., the Board, be invited to take a seat, and at the meeting-house of the First Bap participate in the deliberations. tist Church.—Present, The following brethren reported their Rev. D aniel S h a r p , D. D., First Vice President. n am es: Rev. N a th a n iel K exdricic, D. D., Sec Henry Archibald, Jacob H. Brouner, John ond Vice President. Cookson, D. D. Piait, F. A. Willard, J.H . Rev. F rancis W a vlakd, Jr., D. D., Baker, Horace Seaver, Sidney S. Carter, Fourth Vice President. B. Cooke, A. Gates, B. Manning, C. O. Rev. W illiam T. B k a stlv , D .D ., Sixth Kimball, I. T. Hinton, D. Ives, M. Bolles, Vice President. John Paine, G. Phippen, Gibbon Williams, Rev. B asil M anly, Seventh Vice Presi J. M. Graves, Erastus Denison, S. S. Cut dent. ting, F. Bestor, H. Wooster, S. S. Nelson, Rev. Lucius B o lles, D. D., Correspond Frederick Wightman, William Bentley, B. ing Secretary. Stow, R. H. Neale. J ames D. K n o w les, Recording Secre tary. The Annual Report was then read by H eman L incoln, Esq., Treasurer. the Secretary. L evi F a r w e l l , Esq., Assistant Treas’r. Resolved, That the Report be accept Rev. S p e n c e r H. C o ne, ed ; and that it be referred to the Com Rev. A rch iba ld M a clay, mittees, which shall be appointed on the Rev. J ohn L. D agg, Rev. J onathan G oing, D.D., several missions, and other subjects Rev. E lon G alu sha , mentioned in the Report. Rev. N a th an iel \V. W illiams, The Treasurer read his Annual Re Rev. R obert E. P attison, Rev. H enry J a c k s o n , port. Rev. I rah C h a s e , Resolved, That the Report be accept Rev. E li B a ll , ed, and published. Rev. J ames H. L in sley , Rev. J oseph A. W a r n e , A letter was read from the Rev. Mr. Rev. C h a r l es G. S om m ers, Brigham, on behalf of the Board of Rev. B arth o lo m ew T. W e l c h , D. D., Managers of the American Bible So Rev. W illiam R. W illia m s, ciety, communicating certain resolu Rev. J ohn W a yland, tions recently adopted by that Board, Rev. O r b s T racy, Rev. E li B. S m i t h , in regard to translations of the Scrip Rev. D uncan D u n b a r , tures, and informing the Board of an Rev. G ustavus F. D avis, D. D., appropriation of $5000. W illia m Co lg ate, Esq., Resolved, That these communications Mr. C h a r les L. R o berts. be referred to a Committee oi seven The President of the Board being members. absent, Rev. Dr. Sharp, the First Vice Adjourned till half past two o’clock. President, took the chair. Dr. Brantly prayed. Rev. Dr. Kendrick prayed. 16 122 Annual Meeting of the Board. Wednesday afternoon. ted by the Board, and crowned with the The Board met.—Rev. Mr. Smith blessing of God.” The Committee on the communica prayed. Resolved, That a Committee of three tions from the Board of Managers of the be appointed to make arrangements for American Bible Society, made the fol the devotional services of to-morrow lowing evening ; and that Messrs. Davis, Bolles R e p o r t : and Lincoln be the Committee. The Committee, to whom were referred The following Committees were ap the communications from the Board of pointed : Managers of the American Bible Society, Committee on the Burman mission— unanimously report: Messrs. Kendrick, John Way land and That these communications present two T raiy . subjects, for the decision of the Board: Committee on the Indian stations— 1. Mr. Brigham, in his letter, dated Messrs. Dagg, N. W. Williams and March 25, 1836, states, that “ on the 17th Smith. inst, at a meeting of the Managers, the sum Committee on the African mission— of five thousand dollars was appropriated to Messrs. Maclay, Ball and Linsley. the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, to Committee on Publications— Messrs. promote the circulation of the Scriptures, in Welch and Pattison. foreign tongues.” Committee on the Siam mission— This appropriation, however, was made in Messrs. Galusha, Ball and W. R. W il accordance with certain resolutions of the Board of Managers, adopted Feb. 17, 1836, liams. one of which resolutions declares, “ that, in Committee on the Assam mission, and appropriating money for the translating, on new stations—Messrs. Going, Warne printing, or distributing, of the sacred Scrip and Sommers. tures, in foreign languages, the Managers feel Committee on the missions in France at liberty to encourage only such versions as and Germany—Messrs. Chase, Jackson conform in the principles of their translation and Roberts. to the common English version, at least so Committee on the communications from far as that all the religious denominations the Board o f Managers o f the American represented in the society can consistently Bible Society—Messrs. Cone, Manly, use and circulate said versions in their sev Colgate, Fanvell,Brantly, Knowles and eral schools and communities.” —Another F. Wayland, Jr. resolution declares, “ that the several Mis Adjourned till nine o’clock, to-mor- sionary Boards be informed, that their appli rew morning.—Rev. Mr. Maclay prayed. cations for aid must be accompanied with a declaration, that the versions which they In the evening, the annual sermon propose to circulate are executed in accord was delivered at the First Baptist meet ance with the above resolutions.” ing house, by Rev. Elon Galusha, from The Committee recommend to the Board Luke x. 2 : “ Therefore said he unto the adoption of the following preamble and them, The harvest truly is great, but resolution : the laborers are few ; pray ye, therefore, Whereas this Board, at their Annual the Lord of the harvest, that he would Meeting, held in Salem, in April, 1833, send forth laborers into his harvest.” adopted the following resolutions : Thursday morning, April 28. “ Resolved, that the Board feel it to be The Board met.—Rev. Mr. Ball pray their duty to adopt all prudent measures to give to the heathen the pure Word of God ed. in their own languages ; and to furnish The Committee on the Indian stations their missionaries with all the means in reported, that they had examined those their power to make the translations as ex parts of the Annual Report, which re act a representation of the mind of the late to the Indian stations, and had no Holy Spirit, as may be possible. suggestions to offer. “ Resolved, that all the missionaries of Resolved, That the report be ac the Board, who are, or who shall be, en cepted. gaged in translating the Scriptures, be in The Committee on the African mis structed to endeavor, by earnest prayer, and sion reported, “ that they highly ap diligent study, to ascertain the exact mean proved of the plans adopted by the ing of the original text ; to express that Board for spreading the Gospel in Hayti meaning, as exactly as the nature of the and W estern Africa. They find nothing languages into which they shall translate left for them to suggest, and they wish the Bible will permit; and to transfer no only to express their earnest desire, words which are capable of being literally that the same course jnay be prosecu translated.” Annual Meeting of the Board. And whereas the Board still adhere The Committee on the Siam mission firmly to these resolutions, as expressing, in made the following their judgment, the only true principle on which translations can be made ; and as R e p o r t : uttering what they believe to be the decided The Committee to whom was referred so opinion of the great mass of the denomina much of the Annual Report as relates to the tion whom they represent: Therefore, Siam and Arracan missions, and those to the Resolved, that the Board of Managers of Chinese and the Telingas, believing it to the American Bible Society be respectfully have been the intention of their appointment, informed, that this Board cannot,consistently that they should not bring again in review and conscientiously, comply with the con before this meeting the various subjects of ditions on which appropriations are now that document, unless some change should be made, and cannot therefore accept the sum deemed by them advisable, as to the plans appropriated by the Board of Managers on suggested in the Report, or in its form, h a v e thtHW th of March, 1836. accordingly examined all that portion of the 2. Mr. Brigham further informs theAnnual Report thus entrusted to their con Secretary of the Board, that “ it is in con sideration,and would report, that they find no templation to send Bible agents to several changes which it seems desirable to suggest, of the large missionary stations abroad, to as to the shape which the Annual Report take charge of the interests of the Bible has already received, regarding these fields cause so far as the American Bible Society of missionary effort.