The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association

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April 20, 1863.- Present, Messrs. Stebbins, Emerson, Hedge, Clarke, Brigham, Newell, Barrett, Hinckley, Winkley, Sawyer, Smith, and Fox.

The Committee on the India Mission reported in favor of appropriating the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars towards the expense of Mr. Dall's journey overland to Calcutta, that being the cost of a passage by water; and also of giving, for the use of his mission, books selected by him, amounting in value to about seventy-five dollars: which report was adopted.

The Committee on New-England Correspondence presented an application for aid from the society in Athol, Mass.; and, in accordance with their recommendation, it was voted to appropriate for this object the sum of fifty dollars.

A communication from Rev. J. G. Forman, offering to lend the Association the stereotype-plates of his "Soldier's Manual of Devotion," was referred to the Committee on Publications.

Two letters- one from Joliet, Ill., concerning the purchase of a church in that place; the other from Rev. John S. Brown, of Lawrence, Kan., asking aid from the Association were referred to the Committee on Western

Correspondence.

The Committee on Aid to Theological Students reported in favor of granting fifty dollars the income of the Perkins Fund for the present year, not yet appropriated — as a loan to a student at the Cambridge Divinity School, in response to his application.

The Treasurer called the attention of the Board to the expediency of fixing the time of making up his Annual

Statement, and of providing that it shall be audited before it is presented at the Annual Meeting; and after a brief statement of the reasons which, in his judgment, render a change in the existing system desirable, the following votes, offered by him, were unanimously adopted:—

Voted, That the Treasurer be, and he hereby is, authorized and requested to make up his Annual Statement to the 29th instant.

Voted, That the President be, and hereby is, authorized and requested to appoint two members of the Association to audit the Treasurer's accounts as thus made up, and that their report be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association in May next.

Voted, That the financial year shall hereafter extend from the 1st of May to the 30th of April next ensuing, both days inclusive.

Voted, That the foregoing votes be communicated to the Association for their approval.

The Board then adjourned to Monday, May 11.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

THE Annual Meeting of the American Unitarian Association will be held at the Arlington-street Church, Boston, on Tuesday, May 26.

The Association will meet in the vestry at nine o'clock, A.M., for the election of officers and the transaction of other business.

The public meeting will take place in the church at ten o'clock, when the Annual Report of the Executive Committee will be read; after which, there will be six or eight short addresses, by able speakers, on subjects presented in the Report.

Should the time allowed for the business-meeting, on Tuesday morning, prove insufficient, it will be adjourned to the afternoon of that day or the afternoon of Wednesday. All members of the Association are entitled to take part in this meeting; and the By-laws provide, that "an annual subscription of one dollar shall constitute a person a member, so long as such subscription be paid; and a subscription of thirty dollars shall constitute a person a member for life."

To make any one an annual member, however, the Executive Committee have decided that the dollar must be paid expressly for that purpose, either directly to the Association, or through some regularly organized auxiliary society.

The public meeting, all persons interested are cordially invited to attend.

INTELLIGENCE.

Rev. GILBERT CUMMINGS, Jun., has resigned the charge of the society in Westborough, Mass.

Rev. SYLVAN S. HUNTING of Detroit, Mich., having been appointed Chaplain of the Twenty-seventh Michigan Regiment, has accepted the position, and obtained leave of absence from his society for six months.

The NEW-HAMPSHIRE UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION held a meeting for organization, at Manchester, on Wednesday, Feb. 25; and the following-named officers were elected : President, Henry A. Bellows of Concord; Vice-Presidents, W. H. T. Hackett of Portsmouth, and George Tilden of Keene; Secretary, Rev. James De Normandie of Portsmouth; Treasurer, C. L. Richardson of Manchester; Directors, E. S. Cushing of Charlestown, Samuel Hale of Dover, John A. Baldwin of Nashua, John H. White of Lancaster, Rev. A. W. Stevens of Manchester, Onslow Stearns of Concord, Charles Burley of Exeter.

Mr. EDWARD I. GALVIN, a graduate of the Cambridge Divinity School in the class of 1862, was ordained as pastor of the society in Brookfield, Mass., on Wednesday, April 15. The order of services was as follows: Introductory prayer, and reading from the Scriptures, by Rev. Edward E. Hale of Boston; sermon, by Rev. Alonzo Hill, D.D., of Worcester; ordaining prayer, by Rev. George R. Noyes, D.D., of Cambridge; charge, by Rev. Nathaniel Hall of Dorchester; right hand of fellowship, by Rev. James Sallaway of Billerica; address to the people, by Rev. Francis Tiffany of Springfield; concluding prayer, by Rev. William A. Whitwell of Brookline; benediction, by the pastor.

Mr. HIRAM NORTON, a graduate of the Meadville Theological School in the class of 1860, was ordained as pastor of the society in Rowe, Mass., by the Franklin Evangelical Association, at their regular meeting, held in Northampton on Tuesday, April 14. The order of services was as follows: Anthem; opening prayer, by Rev. Samuel C. Beane of Chicopee; reading from the Scriptures, by Rev. William Silsbee of Northampton ; hymn; sermon, by Rev. Thomas J. Mumford of Greenfield; hymn; consecrating prayer, by Rev. Francis Tiffany of Springfield; charge, by Rev. John Murray of Northfield ; right hand of fellowship, by Rev. John B. Green of Bernardston; closing prayer, by Rev. James Henry Wiggin; anthem; benediction, by Mr. Norton.

Mr. EDWIN C. L. BROWNE, a graduate of the Meadville Theological School in the class of 1861, was ordained as minister of the society in Bolton, Mass., on Wednesday, April 22. The order of services was as follows: Anthem; introductory prayer, by Rev. Eli Fay of Leominster; selections from the Scriptures, by Rev. Henry H. Barker of Harvard; sermon, by Rev. William P. Tilden of Boston; prayer of ordination, by Rev. Thomas T. Stone of Bolton; hymn; charge, by Rev. George M. Bartol of Lancaster; right hand of fellowship, by Rev. William L. Chaffin of Philadelphia; address to the people, by Rev. Rush R. Shippen of Worcester; concluding prayer, by Rev. Richard S. Edes of Bolton; hymn; benediction, by the pastor.

Rev. JAMES HENRY WIGGIN has relinquished the temporary charge of the society in Montague, Mass.; and Rev. D. H. Ranney, of West Brattleborough, Vt., has accepted an invitation to supply the pulpit for one year.

Rev. EDWIN M. WHEELOCK, formerly of Dover, N.H., has received a call from the society in Concord, N.H.

The CORNER-STONE of the new church of the First Unitarian Society in Chicago, Ill., was laid on Thursday, April 9. The exercises consisted of a prayer by Rev. Robert Collyer, of the Second Church; and addresses by E. W. Willard, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Rev. Charles B. Thomas, pastor of the society; and David A. Gage, Esq., of the Building Committee.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

1863.

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