HOME AND FOREIGN RECORD

OF THE

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

In the United States of America:

BEING THE ORGAN

OF THE

BOARDS OF MISSIONS, EDUCATION, FOREIGN MISSIONS, AND
PUBLICATION.

VOL. IV.-1853.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLICATION HOUSE, 265 CHESTNUT STREET.

ANDOVER-HARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

7.4-5 1853-1854

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RECOMMENDATION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The following action was taken at the General Assembly held in Cincinnati, May, 1850, in regard to the Home and Foreign Record.

Resolved, As the action of the last General Assembly has resulted in the establishment of the "Home and Foreign Record," that paper is hereby recommended, and the Ministers and Churches are urged to exert themselves to place it in every family, as the organ, indirectly, of the Church, on many important subjects.

And in the Assembly held in Philadelphia, in May, 1853, it was

Resolved, That it be recommended to all our pastors to endeavour to increase the circulation of the "Home and Foreign Record," the organ of the Boards of the Church, in order that our churches may be better acquainted with their respective plans and operations, and be induced to contribute more liberally towards their support.

INDEX

TO THE

HOME AND FOREIGN RECORD, 1853.

BOARD OF DOMESTIC MISSIONS.

Abstract of the Annual Report, 195.

Annual Report, 227. Its Circulation urged, 259.

Arkansas, Letters from, 357.

Board, Present State of, 259.

California, a Voice from, 100. Present Condition and Ob.

ligations of Protestantism, 163. Letter and Appeal in

behalf of, 197. San Francisco, 295.

Church Extension, 101, 229, 358.

Churches gone off the Board, 6, 38.

Ministers needed, 164.

Minnesota, House of Worship in St. Paul, 101, 227.
Missionary Toils, 358.

Work in our large Cities, 4.

Missions, Objection to, 165.

Monthly Reports, 67, 324.

Movements, 261.

Musgrave, Rev. Dr. G. W., Election and Acceptance of,

as Corresponding Secretary, 323.

Clothing, Thankful Acknowledgment of a Missionary for New Mexico, Interesting Letter from, 99.

a Box of, 6.

Deaths of Missionaries, 291.

Domestic Missions, 292.

Dying Gift, 355.

Testimony to the Gracious Doctrines of the

Church, 165.

Elizabethtown Presbytery, Extract from the Minutes, 6.

Encouraging Report, and an Appeal for Aid, 355.

Frontier States, Condition and Wants of, 260.

Fruits of Missions, 358.

New Year, a few Thoughts on, 3.

New York, Letter from, 262.

North Carolina, Letter from, 230.

Northern Indiana, Letter from, 230, 262.

Objection to Missions, 165.

Ohio, Synod of, 35.

Oregon, Presbyterian Colony to, 5, 133. How they go to
Presbytery in Oregon, 36. Overland Journey, 295.
Pittsburgh, Synod of, and Missions, 356.

Poor, How some Ministers are kept, 260.

General Assembly, Action on the Report of the Board of Presbyterian Church, Growth of, 131.

Missions, 195.

Georgia, Letter from, 231.

Giving, Thoughts on, 327.

Grace, Interesting Work of, 7.

Gracious Influences, 35.

Growth and Comparative Growth of the Presbyterian

Church, 131.

Indiana, Encouraging Letter from a Missionary in, 355.

Jones, Rev. Dr. C. C., Resignation of, 323.

Lake Superior, Region of, 37, 293.

Letters from Missionaries, 230, 262.

Limiting the Lord, 37.

Louisiana, Call from, Who will go? 291, 326.

Married, Do not get, 71.

McKinley, Rev. Daniel, appointed Agent, 3.

Michigan, Letter from, 230.