Resolved-That devout gratitude to our Lord Jesus Christ, the Great Head of the Church, is due for the revivals of religion, and the general success in many of our missionary stations, which have come of His blessing.

4. The Rev. Thomas De Witt, of Fishkill, N. Y. in the name of the Committee of the Convention held on the 10th inst. presented the Constitution approved by that body, and also their resolution recommending that the United Domestic Missionary Society adopt the same, and become the American Home Missionary Society,

5. On motion of the Rev. Benjamin B. Wisner, of Boston, seconded by the Rev. Donald McIntosh, of Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio,

Resolved-That the recommendation of the Convention be adopted, and that the United Domestic Missionary Society now become the American Home Missionary Society, under the Constitution recommended by the Convention.

6. On motion of His Excellency, De Witt Clinton, Governor of the State of New-York, seconded by the Rev. Wm. R. De Witt, of Harrisburgh, Pa.

Resolved-That the Life Directors and Life Members of the late United Domestic Missionary Society, be now recognised as Life Directors and Life Members of the American Home Missionary Society.

The American Home Missionary Society then proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing year, and made choice of the following.

President.

Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, LL. D. Albany.

Vice-Presidents.

Hon. John Cotton Smith, Sharon, Connecticut.

Samuel Hubbard, Esq. Boston.

Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D. Prof. Theol. Sem. Princeton:
His Ex. De Witt Clinton, Gov. of the State of New-York.
Rev. J. H. Rice, D. D. Prof. Theol. Sem. Virginia.

Robert Ralston, Esq. Philadelphia.

Hon. Jonas Platt, New-York.

His Ex. David Lawrence Morrill, Gov. of New-Hampshire.

Rev. Leonard Wood, D. D. Theol. Prof. Andover, Massachusetts: James Richards, D. D. Theol. Prof. Auburn, New-York.

Hon. William Phillips, Boston.

James Kent, LL. D. New-York.

Rev. Calvin Chapin, D. D. Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

His Ex. Albion K. Paris, Gov. of the State of Maine.
Hon. John Woodworth, Albany, New-York.

Rev. Ashbel Green, D. D. Philadelphia.

Richard Varick, Esq. New-York.

Rev. Ebenezer Porter, D. D. Theol. Prof. Andover, Mass.
Samuel Blatchford, D. D. Lansingburgh, New-York.

His Ex. Cornelius P. Van Ness, Gov. of the State of Vermont.
Henry Rutgers, Esq. New-York.

Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D. Prof. Theol. Sem. Princeton.
David Porter, D. D. Catskill, New-York.

James P. Wilson, D. D. Philadelphia.

Nathaniel W. Taylor, D. D. Theol. Prof. Yale-College.
John Chester, D. D. Albany.

His Ex. John Murphy, Gov. of the State of Alabama.

Directors.

Rev. Asa Hillyer, D. D. Orange, New-Jersey.

Henry Dayis, D. D. President Hamilton College, New-York.
Thomas Dewitt, Hopewell New-York.

John H. Church, D. D. Pelham, New-Hampshire.

Charles Coffin, D. D. President of College, Tennessec.

Conrad Speece, D. D. Staunton, Virginia.

Eliphalet Gillet, D. D. Hallowell, Maine.

Jeremiah Day, D. D. President Yale College, Con.
James Carnahan, D. D. President Princeton College.
Joshua Bates, D. D. President Middlebury College.
William Neill, D. D. President Dickinson College.
E. W. Gilbert, Wilmington, Delaware.

Samuel Miles Hopkins, Esq. Albany.

Rev. J. J. Janeway, D. D. Philadelphia.

William Allen, D. D. President Boudoin College.

John Tappan, Esq. Boston.

Rev. Philip Milledoler, D. D. President of Rutgers College.
Justin Edwards, Andover, Massachusetts.

B. M. Palmer, D. D. Charleston, South-Carolina.
Thomas McAuley, D. D. New-York.

Roger Minot Sherman, Esq. Fairfield, Connecticut.
Roswell Colt, Esq. Baltimore.

Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, Philadelphia.

Eliphalet Nott, D. D. President Union College.
John M'Dowell, D. D. Elizabethtown, New-Jersey,
Joel Hawes, Hartford, Connecticut.

Mr. Howe, Savannah, Georgia.

B. B. Wisner, Boston.

Jacob Van Vechten, Schenectady.

Wm. Maxwell, Esq. Norfolk, Virginia.

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

Hon. Charles Marsh, Woodstock, Vermont.

Rev. Alexander Proudfit, D. D., Salem, New-York.

Theodore Frelinghuysen, Esq. Newark, New-Jersey.

Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D. President Amherst College.
Bennet Tyler, D. D. President Dartmouth College.
C. C. Cuyler, Poughkeepsie, New-York.
James Blythe, D. D. Lexington, Kentucky.

William Ropes, Esq. Boston.

Rev. Nathan Lord, Amherst, New-Hampshire.
Nathan S. S. Beman, Troy, New-York.

Wm. R. De Witt, Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania.

Garret Smith, Esq. Peterborough, Madison county, New-York. Rev. John Knox, D. D. New-York.

S. V. S. Wilder, Esq. Bolton. Massachusetts.
Rev. Edward Payson, D. D. Portland, Maine.
Thomas Bradford, Jr. Esq. Philadelphia.
Rev. H. Reid, Abbeville, South-Carolina.

Robt. G. Wilson, D. D. President of the Ohio University, Ohio. Mr. Henry Dwight, Geneva, New-York.

Treasurer.

Peter Hawes, Esq. New-York.
Auditor.

Arthur Tappan, Esq. New-York.
Corresponding Secretary.

Rev: Absalom Peters, New-York.
Recording Secretary.

Stephen Lockwood, Esq. New-York.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

At a meeting of the Directors on Saturday, May 13, 1826, the Executive Committee were appointed, viz.

John D. Keese, Chairman.

Rev. Gardiner Spring, D. D.
James M. Mathews, D. D.
Elihu W. Baldwin.

Matthias Bruen.

Mr. Thomas Webster.

Mr. John Nitchie.

Mr. Archibald Falconer.

Mr. Knowles Taylor.

Mr. Eleazer Lord.

Members, ex-officio.

Peter Hawes, Esq. Treasurer.

Rev. Absalom Peters, Corresponding Secretary.
Stephen Lockwood, Esq. Recording Secretary,

FOURTH REPORT.

THE Executive Committee of the United Domestic Missionary Society, in presenting their Fourth Annual Report, come before the friends and patrons of the Institution with the voice of thanksgiving. The point at which we have now arrived in the progress of our benevolent enterprise, is one which calls for new and devout praise to God. And if we do not mistake the spirit of this assembly, there is an emotion stirring in the heart of every friend to the growth of the Redeemer's kingdom now present, which warrants us to presume that our own feelings of gratitude and joy are reciprocated by all those whose sympathy is a blessing, and in answer to whose prayers the Head of the church has preserved our lives, and prospered our efforts another year.

The duties assigned to this Committee, though arduous and responsible, have been such as to command our liveliest interest. It has been our endeavour to discharge them with fidelity and effect. The providence of God could not have assigned us another field of labour on the earth; there was not a good work to be done under heaven, upon which we would have entered with more cordiality and zeal.

And with our daily progress, both our interest and encouragement have increased. The coincidence of our object with what we know to be the will of heaven, and the constant indications of the divine favour, which have attended all our measures for its accomplishment, have left us no reason to doubt that the hand of God is with us in this enterprise, and that, through his blessing, we are effecting, in some measure, what He would have us to do. We are

not aware that any portion of the public charity, committed to our disposal, has been diverted from its specific design, or expended to less effect than was anticipated. Much has been accomplished through the beneficence of this Society. Our own hopes have been more than answered in what God has wrought by us.

In the discharge of our trust this Committee have been governed by the following principles:

It has been our endeavour, with the least possible expenditure of means, to furnish the blessings of the Gospel ministry to as many churches, and as large a number of individual souls, as we could hope permanently to benefit, by the most wise distribution of the funds of this Society.

Under a deep conviction of the prime importance of a stated ministry, and in conformity to the usage of this Society from the beginning, we have expended the income of the year to aid feeble churches and congregations in the support of ministers, who were already settled over them as Pastors, or who had the prospect of being permanently employed to watch for souls, as they that must give account.