ページの画像
PDF
ePub

object which must be gained; and our undertaking, in the full compass of its design, involves the accomplishment of this object. We would train up ministers of the gospel, not only for our own country, but for all the countries of the world. And if we have rightly estimated the social and civil influence of the Christian Ministry, it is such as must elevate man from any degradation, and invest him with all the honours of his being. We ask you then-is not our enterprise worthy of your respect ?-has it no claim on your sympathy ?-none on your efforts? You long to see the fetters of despotism broken. You long to see the darkness of ignorance dispelled. And do you despise-do you disregard an undertaking like ours?

Such is our plea with men of worldly benevolence and worldly enterprise. But "the strain I heard, was of a higher mood." There is another, and a nobler argument. And there are those before me, to whom it comes with a more impressive appeal. Infidelity may despise, or ignorance may ridicule the preaching of the gospel ;-yet it has pleased God by by this same foolishness of preaching to save the souls of them that believe. But how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?—and how shall they hear without a preacher? Look over the world, and reckon up how many there are to whose minds the high motives of the gospel have never been disclosed. And yet death is ever and everywhere at work. The pagan dies in the darkness of his utter ignorance, no less inevitably than the Christian in the brightness and fulness of his

hopes. Look forth on the world; and as you see the generations of men gliding over it like the phantoms of a dream, reckon up, if you can, how many of these immortal spirits pass to the retributions of eternity, impenitent, unholy, unforgiven. Our object is the salvation of these souls. And our efforts may not cease, till the messengers of salvation shall have gone to the most distant and desolate abodes of man. Our work will not be done, till we shall hear the song of praise to our God resounding from the uttermost parts of the earth. Our enterprise will not be consummated, till all the mountains and vallies of the globe shall ring with the shout of jubilee-" how beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, thy God reigneth."

Ye who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and the souls whom he hath redeemed with his blood, I need not ask if such an undertaking has no claims on you.

TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.

Auxiliary Education Society of Young Men of Boston, in account current with Aaron Woodman, Treas'r.

Dr.

Jan. to Dec. 1824. To Cash paid Sexton of Park Street Church, and sundry other expenses at Annual Meeting,

To Cash paid W. & J. Gilman for printing Sermon,

66

[ocr errors][ocr errors]

Mr. Seymour for the use of his Hall,
S. T. Armstrong's bill for printing notices,
Treasurer American Education Society,

Balance, Cash on hand,

$11.64 56 34 2.00

3 50

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Contra.

Jan. 1, to Dec. 31, 1824. By Balance from old account,

By Collection at Park Street Church, including net proceeds of

[ocr errors][ocr errors]

Gold Ring,

sundry other Donations,

1 Member for 1822,

4 66 "1823,

Cr.

[blocks in formation]

$100 each,

4 00

66

[merged small][ocr errors]

"1824,

[blocks in formation]
[ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

BOSTON, JAN. 5, 1825. We have examined the above account and find

it correct.

(Signed)

WILLIAM G. LAMBERT, Auditors.
GEORGE VINTON,

Amount of Cash paid Treasurer of American Education Society

each year since the formation of this Auxiliary.

[blocks in formation]

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.

THIS Society shall be called the Auxiliary Education Society of the Young Men of Boston.

ARTICLE II.

Any person, under thirty-five years of age, who shall subscribe, and annually pay into the treasury, a sum not less than one dollar, shall be a member of this society; and any such person, who shall pay, at one time, a sum not less than ten dollars, or who shall, within any one year, obtain fifteen new members to the society, and become responsible for the payment of their subscriptions for that year, shall be a permanent member.

ARTICLE III.

There shall annually be chosen, by ballot, a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, and such other officers as may be found neces

sary.

ARTICLE IV.

The society shall annually appoint, by ballot, seven directors, who, together with the president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, shall constitute a board of directors. It shall be the duty of this board to superintend the concerns of the society, and devise means to advance its interests. The directors shall meet quarterly, keep a record of their proceedings, and annually make a report to the society. The president, and, in his absence, the vice president, shall have power to call special meeings of the society, and of the board of directors.

ARTICLE V.

The treasurer shall collect the subscriptions of members, which with donations to the society, he shall annually pay to the treasurer of the "American Education Society."

« 前へ次へ »