THE American Home Missionary Society held its Fifth Anniversary in the Murray-street Presbyterian Church, New-York, on the evening of Wednesday, May 11, 1831. The Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, LL. D., President of the Society, took the chair, and the meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. Samuel Fisher, D. D. of New-Jersey.

The President made an appropriate Address, presenting briefly the plan and objects of the Society.

The Treasurer's account, with the certificate of the Auditor, was read by Mr. Knowles Taylor, Treasurer.

The Rev. Absalom Peters, Corresponding Secretary of the Society, read the Fifth Annual Report; after which the following resolutions were adopted, viz. :

1. On motion of the Rev. Mark Tucker of Troy, N. Y., seconded by the Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, of Albany, N. Y.

Resolved, That the Report now read be accepted, and printed under the direction of the Executive Committee.

2. On motion of the Rev. D. C. Carroll of Brooklyn, N. Y., seconded by the Rev. John Breckenridge of Baltimore, Md.

Resolved, That this Society has great occasion of gratitude to God for the liberality which has sustained its extended operations the past year, and still more for the influences of the Holy Spirit, which have blessed with numerous revivals the labours of its missionaries.

3. On motion of the Rev. Theron Baldwin of Illinois, seconded by the Rev. D. C. Lansing, D. D. of Utica, N. Y.

Resolved, That in view of the present pledges of the Committee, and the widely extending wants of our country, there is a special call upon the friends of missions for united and redoubled exertions.

In support of the foregoing resolutions, addresses were made by the Hon. Mr. Butler, the Rev. Messrs. Tucker and Baldwin, and the Rev. Dr. Lansing.

The congregation then united in singing the Christian doxology, after which a benediction was pronounced by the Rev. Benjamin H. Rice of New-York.

The Society then proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing year, and unanimously made choice of the following, viz. :

PRESIDENT.

Hon. STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER, LL. D., Albany.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D., Prof. Theol. Sem. Princeton.
Rev. Calvin Chapin, D. D., Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

Rev. Thomas Cleland, D. D., Harrodsburgh, Kentucky.

Rev. John Codman, D. D., Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Rev. James Hoge, D. D., Columbus, Ohio.

Hon. Samuel M. Hopkins, Albany, N. Y.

Hon. N. W. Howell, LL. D., Canandaigua, N. Y.

Hon. Samuel Hubbard, Boston.

Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D., Theol. Sem. Princeton, New-Jersey.

Hon. Benjamin Mills, Frankfort, Kentucky.

Hon. David Lawrence Morrill, Goffstown, New-Hampshire.

His Excellency John Murphy, Alabama.

Hon. Jonas Platt, New-York.

Rev. Ebenezer Porter, D. D., Theol. Sem. Andover, Massachusetts.
Rev. David Porter, D. D., Catskill, New-York.

Rev. Alexander Proudfit, D. D., Salem, N. Y.

Robert Ralston, Esq., Philadelphia.

Rev. J. H. Rice, D. D., Prof. Theol. Sem. Prince Edward county, Va.

Rev. James Richards, D. D., Theol. Sem. Auburn, New-York.

Hon. John Cotton Smith, Sharon, Connecticut.

Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor, D. D., Theol. Prof. New-Haven.

Rev. John Thomson, Springdale, Ohio.

Richard Varick, Esq., New-York.

Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D., Theol. Sem., Andover, Massachusetts.

DIRECTORS.

Rev. William Allen, D. D., Pres't. Bowdoin College, Maine.
Rev. Joshua Bates, D. D., Pres't. Middlebury College, Vermont.
Rev. Nathan S. S. Beman, Troy, New-York.

Rev. Robert H. Bishop, D. D., Pres't. of Miami University, Ohio.
Rev. Gideon Blackburn, D. D., Versailles, Ky.

Thomas Bradford, Jun. Esq., Philadelphia.

Rev. James Carnahan, D. D., Pres't. Princeton College, N. J.
Rev. John H. Church, D. D., Pelham, N. H.

Rev. Charles Coffin, D. D., Pres't. of College, Tennessee.
Roswell L. Colt, Esq. Baltimore.

Rev. C. C. Cuyler, D. D., Poughkeepsie, New-York.
Rev. Henry Davis, D. D., Pres't. Hamilton College, N. Y.
Rev. Jeremiah Day, D. D., Pres't. Yale College, Conn.
Rev. William R. De Witt, Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania.
Rev. Henry Dwight, Geneva, New-York.

Rev. Justin Edwards, D. D., Boston, Mass.

Rev. Ezra Fisk, D. D., Goshen, Orange county, New-York.
Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, Newark, N. J.

Rev. E. W. Gilbert, Wilmington, Del.

Rev. Eliphalet Gillet, D. D., Hallowell, Maine.

Rev. Samuel L. Graham, North Carolina.

Rev. E. D. Griffin, D. D., President Williams College, Mass.

Rev. Joel Hawes, D. D., Hartford, Conn.

Rev. Asa Hillyer, D. D., Orange, N. J.

Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D., President Amherst College, Mass.

Rev. Gilbert R. Livingston, D. D., Philadelphia.

Rev. Nathan Lord, D. D., President Dartmouth College, New-Hampshire. Rev. Thomas MacAuley, D. D. LL. D., Philadelphia.

Rev. John McDowell, D. D., Elizabethtown, N. J.

Rev. William A. M'Dowell, D. D., Charleston, S. C.

Rev. William McMurray, D. D., New-York.

Hon. Charles Marsh, Woodstock, Vermont.

Rev. William Neill, D. D., Philadelphia.

Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D., President Union College, N. Y.

Rev. B. M. Palmer, D. D., Charleston, S. C.

William Ropes, Esq., Boston.

Hon. Roger M. Sherman, Fairfield, Conn.
Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, D. D., Philadelphia.
Garret Smith, Esq. Peterborough, N. Y.
Rev. Conrad Speece, D. D., Staunton, Virginia.
Rev. Benjamin Tappan, D. D., Augusta, Maine.
John Tappan, Esq., Boston.

Hon. N. B. Tucker, St. Charles county, Missouri.
Rev. Bennet Tyler, D. D., Portland, Maine.

Rev. Jacob Van Vechten, Schenectady, N. Y.

S. V. S. Wilder, Esq., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Rev. Robert G. Wilson, D. D., President Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
Rev. B. B. Wisner, D. D., Boston.

Rev. Andrew Wylie, D. D., President of College, Bloomington, Indiana.
Rev. John C. Young, President of Centre College, Ky.

TREASURER.

Mr. KNOWLES TAYLOR.

AUDITOR.

Mr. ARTHUR TAPPAN.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

Rev. ABSALOM PETERS.

RECORDING SECRETARY.

Mr. ABIJAH FISHER.

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