ments were thoroughly and decidedly or-wealth lived and died in this country who thodox, or evangelical. These, he firmly has in proportion to his ability, done so believed, after diligent, prayerful, and much for the cause of charity. It is to be long continued study of the scriptures, remembered also, that he was educated, are the truths which God has revealed for the renovation and sanctification of men. He deeply lamented the prevalence of opposite opinions, especially a denial of the atonement of Christ, which he was firmly persuaded is the only ground of hope for sinful men." "His faith was not a mere speculative, ✓ inoperative principle; it worked by love, -love to God, and love to men. A regard to the will and the glory of God, was the principle which shaped and ruled all the considered actions of his life. What does duty to God require? was the question which controlled, not only those actions which are more appropriately denominated religious, but those also which arose from the varied relations and circumstances of life. Few men were more habitually actuated by the fear of God; few have aimed more constantly to do all things to the glory of God." The following account of the views, and feelings, and actions of this truly excellent man, in regard to the various works of benevolence which distinguish the present day, is worthy of being recorded on the memory and heart of every man to whom God has entrusted the important talent of wealth. "Of his deep and lively interest in the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom, it is universally known that he has long given the most substantial evidence. His property, he habitually felt, was a talent committed to him, to be used for the glory of God, and the good of his family and of the world. Deeply, I have had the most satisfactory evidence, did he feel the responsibility involved in its possession; and earnest was his solicitude that he might be found faithful in his trust. His charities have been long continued, munificent, widely extended, and applied to every variety of proper objects. The poor have lived upon his bounty. Many are the widows and the fatherless children whom he has rescued from want and wo. Many are the friends whom his liberality has aided, and comforted. Very many are the souls which his beneficence has enlightened, and sanctified, and saved. He did not indeed give as much in proportion to his means as some in more moderate circumstances. This, whatever may be thought of the question of duty, was not, at least in the present state of the church and the world, to be expected. But there has, I believe, no man of and his habits formed, when, in this country, liberal benefactions were unknown. With him, it may almost be said, began that spirit of liberality, which has sprung up, and spread so rapidly in our community. It is also to be recollected, that most of the measures and associations now in operation for extending the blessings of education, of civilization, and of religion, were formed after he had passed the meridian of life; and that he was, from his habits of thinking and feeling, rather averse to new and untried expedients. Yet scarcely a measure has been adopted or an association formed, in this city and vicinity, for the improvement of the physical, the intellectual, the moral, or the spiritual condition of men, which has not received his co-operation and his liberal support. Nor did this proceed from an ostentation of charity, or a blind impulse of generosity. No man was ever farther from ostentation in his charities; and in reference to all new applications to his bounty, he always took time for deliberation, consultation, and prayer. Of the numerous plans which have, with in a few years, been adopted for the promotion of evangelical religion, I know of but one to which he wholly refused his co-operation, and it is a remarkable fact, that that one is now generally regarded as having entirely failed. God "I confess that when I consider all these circumstances, I look with wonder, -and I hope with gratitude to whose grace made him what he was,at the variety and the amount of his charities. They have been, for a series of years, from eight to eleven thousand dollars a year. And by his will he has contributed to various benevolent objects, most of them religious charities, sixty-two thousand dollars."* In a note in the appendix to the sermon it is stated that "During the last three weeks of his life, he contributed to different charitable objects above $5000; an amount which would have been nearly doubled, had he lived a few days longer, and been permitted to attend the religious anniversaries held on the week of General Election." Thus did this good man The donations of Mr. Phillips to the American Education Society, exclusive of his annual contributions, which probably amounted to more than a thousand dollars, were as follows: In the year 1818 a donation $1,000 1826 to constitute a scholarship 1,000 1827 a legacy 5,000 ! 1827. ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 11 go down to the very gates of death, With these leading principles, for distributing, like a faithful steward, their guide, they aim to exercise the bounty with which his Lord had great caution in selecting candidates entrusted him; and leaving behind for patronage; preference is given him a name which time, that casts to those who seek a thorough educathe mantle of oblivion on many a fa- tion; assistance is rendered in the voured son of wealth and distinction, will serve only to brighten. way of loans, and not as a charity; a pastoral supervision is extended over all who are patronized; scholarships are founded, instead of placing the whole dependence of the society up the qualifications specified in the constitution. Each of these topics is fully illustrated in the Report. O ye men of wealth, to whom God has committed a talent of unspeakably higher value than that of silver and gold, the power of doing good to on contingent funds; and patronage is thousands of your fellow men for time extended to young men of different and eternity, behold here an example denominations, provided they possess worthy of your imitation! The property with which you are entrusted cannot descend with you into the grave, nor be carried with you into eternity. But, if used for the glory of God, to promote the cause of piety and benevolence, it will follow you in the good which it will accomplish, from other intelligent men, both minthrough the dark valley of the shad-isters and laymen in different parts ow of death, and be felt and enjoyed of the country, who have had opporwhen these heavens and this earth are no more. -000 Eleventh Annual Report of the Directors of the We notice this Report, which has been published several weeks, and is already in extensive circulation, merely for the purpose of inviting attention to it from those who wish to have a general view of the principles and operations of the American Education Society. For this purpose, it is a more complete document than any which has before been issued by the Society. The Directors state three "fundamental maxims," as forming the basis of most of their measures for promoting the interests and objects of the Society. These are, -" That the good which the Society is to accomplish must depend under God upon the character of the men whom it patronizes; that the enterprise is under Written testimonials are given in the appendix from nearly all the Presidents of Colleges in New England, and from some out of it, and tunity of forming a correct opinion on the subject, all approving, in decided terms, of the system which the Society has adopted. We subjoin the following from President Tyler, Dr. Spring of New York, and Jeremiah Evarts, Esq. as specimens. "I have ever regarded the American Education Society as one of the most important and useful of those benevolent institutions which are the glory of the present age; and the recent changes which have been adopted in the conducting its operations appear to me to be great improvements, and preeminently adapted to secure the confidence of the public, and to extend and perpetuate the usefulness of the Society. The establishment of scholarships, by means of which a permanent fund is created, is calculated to give stability to the institution; and while it will enable the Directors at all times to redeem their pledges, and to reduce their operations to system, it will save them from the embarrasament, to which they must often be subjected, if dependent solely on occa sional contributions. taken and should be prosecuted with The plan of converting their benefac tions into loans, possesses many advantages. While it operates as a stimulus to the young men to do all in their power for their own support, and relieves them reference to the entire wants of our country and of the world; and that the Society is destined to continue for generations and ages to come." from many of those unpleasant associa tions which their dependent situation | doubting that in case experience shall suggests, it lays the foundation of an ac- suggest modifications, they may easily be cumulating fund, which is destined to in- adopted. crease with the increasing wants of our growing population. The organization of Branch Societies in different sections of the country, is peculiarly adapted to awaken the interest -and call forth the resources of the whole Christian community; and at the same time gives the most ample security against the future perversion of the funds. But there is no part of the present plan of operations with which I am more highly satisfied, than that system of supervision and close inspection which has been adopted, and which will enable the Directors to become intimately acquainted with the character, standing, and habits of every one of its beneficiaries, and which lays the surest foundation for public confidence that no unworthy individual will be patronized. BENNET TYLER." "I have perused with no common interest, a brief view of the present system of operations pursued by the American Ecucation Society; and with a still deeper and gratified interest, have I listened to the details of the plan, as developed to me in a personal interview with their respectable Secretary, the Rev. Elias Cor nelius. To furnish young men of piety "Two excellent traits in the plan I conceive to be these: the thorough supervision of the education of the young men, during the whole course of their studies, and the establishment of scholarships to such an extent, as shall exempt the Directors of this weighty concern from extreme embarrassment, and constant apprehension, as to the means of carrying forward the beneficiaries whom they have taken under their patronage. The last of these objects, I conceive to be indispensable in order to the attainment of the other; for there can be no time for superintending the education of young men, while the minds of the Directors and executive agents are engrossed with the perplexing question, how they are to provide for pressing exigencies. "I am not willing to close this certificate without expressing my entire confidence in the Board of Directors of the American Education Society, and in their present Secretary. JEREMIAH EVARTS, Cor. Sec. of the A. B. C. F. M. Boston, Dec. 26, 1826." The following letter was received by the Secretary, from the President of Waterville College in Maine, and talent with a thorough Education the pulpit-to relieve them from the mortifications of mere pensioners on charity, after the above were published in and perpetuate the resources of the Society, by the appropriation of monies loaned, rather than gratuities bestowed-and to test the character of young inen, by the methods proposed by this Society, appear to me to be a most judicious improvement upon all the plans hitherto adopted by Education Societies. The establishment of scholarships, as proposed by this Society, strikes my mind, as one of the noblest the Annual Report. "I am happy in being able to say, that the officers of this College unanimously apprave of the plan of operations adopted by the American Education Society, stated in the remarks made by yourself when you were at my house, and in the "Brief View" which you then had the charities of the age. The business of ed- goodness to put into my hands. ucating young men for the sacred ministry, I do not believe can be successfully carried on without it. Though I am not one of those, who distrust the bounty of Heaven through future generations, yet am I persuaded, that the cause of this Society needs a permanent fund, as really, as any institution of learning in the land. I trust the efforts of the agent in this most important concern will receive the favor of all the friends of God and GARDINER SPRING. man. New York, December 25, 1826." "These lines may certify, that I have for some months been acquainted with the principal features in the plan of the American Education Society, as presented and explained by the present Secretary; and that I cordially approve it, not Yours respectfully, JER, CHAPLIN." MISCELLANEOUS FACTS. as Important means of multiplying ministers. The Secretary of the American Education Society has frequent occasion, in discharging his official duty, to become acquainted with the early religious history of the young men who are under the patronage of the Society. These interviews often disclose interesting facts. Among them the following are peculiarly noticeable. The young men in many cases acknowledge themselves indebted to the influence of a pious mother; and they generally refer the time of their conversion to a season of Revival. This combined influence is doubtless the source, from which the church is to look for a large propor- | of civilized nations against the slave trade tion of her ministers. Let mothers, in are little more, therefore, than a dead letview of this fact, early consecrate their sons to God, and spare no pains to train them for his service. Let the friends of Revivals keep it in mind, and labor and pray for the continuance of these power ful instruments of regenerating the world. An intelligent gentleman who has long resided in Ohio, was recently in New England, and, to show the rapid growth of the population in the state where he belongs, which already exceeds 800,000, stated to another gentleman that he had ascertained, after careful inquiry, two facts of great interest on this subject; one was, that there is not a native born citizen in the state as old as himself, and he is but 45; and the other, that Ohio is, at the present time, the greatest emigrating state in the Union. Yet this is but a specimen of what is taking place in the Western states generally: 37 years ago the entire white population beyond the Alleghany amounted, by actual enumeration, to scarcely one hundred thousand; now it is more than three millions. At the same time the Atlantic states have been steadily increasing. The present ratio of increase is at the rate of one thousand a day, or nearly 400,000 a year. An addition is thus made to the nation, every twelve months, of a population equal to that of - the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island! What a prospect is this for the Patriot and Christian to contemplate! Who can predict the future safety and happiness of the nation, if the means of moral influence are not greatly increased ? It is no time to be idle. The generation has not lived, which was charged with a more 'responsible duty to posterity, than the present inhabitants of the United States. The Slave Trade. The Directors of the London African Institution give a list of 218 vessels which, during the year 1824, were engaged in this infamous traffic. These it is estimated carried away one hundred thousand miserable human victims. How many others were carried off, by vessels which escaped the vigilance of British cruisers, no one can tell. At the commencement of the present year, a vessel arrived in England which had boarded 30 slave ships under different flags, during a single short cruise; ter. Nothing can stop the enormous evil, but the establishment of Christian colonies along the coast. The influence of the British colony at Sierra Leone has been already extensively felt. A short time since a tribe, from whose shores fifteen or twenty thousand captives had been annually embarked on board of slave ships, put themselves under the protection of the colony, and are now no longer trou bled with the dealers in human flesh. The late Gen. Turner recently wrote from the colony and stated, that he had but little doubt that the slave trade would be speedily abolished for a thousand miles around Sierra Leone. Our settlement at Liberia already guards 150 miles of the long haunted coast. Twenty such colonies as Sierra Leone and Liberia spreading along the western shore of Africa, at suitable distances, would put an end to the slave trade forever, and diffuse the light of Christianity over a large part of the African continent. What friend of humanity, or of religion, will not, then, bid such a Society as the American Colonization Society, God speed, in its noble undertaking; be the degree of its influence in mitigating the evils of slavery in America, what it may? Benevolent Societies. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions have forty three stations among the heathen, and about the same number of ordained ministers. These would supply one county of 50,000 inhabitants, with Christian institutions, at home. The annual receipts of the Board are greater than those of any benevolent Society in the United States: and yet there are individuals in the country whose yearly private income exceeds those receipts, and who could therefore, if disposed, do more for Foreign Missions, than the Christian community now do. The American Bible Society has been in operation nine years. It has published half a million of copies of the Scriptures. Three millions of people are estimated to be destitute of the Bible in the United States, and twenty millions more in Spanish America and Brazil. Hundreds of millions are destitute in other portions of the world. The American Tract Society at New York has printed in two years 44,000,000 of pages of tracts; less than one million of which have crossed the Alleghany mountains. Four millions of tracts have twelve millions. The London Society publishes ten millions of tracts annually. and it was believed that 30,000 slaves been published, while the population is were ready for embarkation at the different stations along the coast. The laws The American Home Missionary Socie-suing quarter. But little can be expectty employed last year 169 ministers, and ed previous to that time, from the income paid on an average one fourth of their support. There are, of the Presbyterian denomination alone, one thousand churches which have no Pastors. The American Sunday School Union, embraces 2,415 schools, 22,291 teachers, and 159,000 scholars in 28 states and territories. The number of children in the United States, of an age suitable to attend Comparative receipts of British and American Br.& For. Bib. So. $356,622 Am.B.C.For. Mis. $67,401 Let the people of the United States give to religious charities three cents, for every dollar they now spend for ardent spirits and the pauperism occasioned by it, and a greater sum would be raised of scholarships, or from auxiliary societies. The friends of the Society must step forward and replenish the treasury, by fresh donations and contributions, or the Board have strong apprehensions that they shall not be able to meet the demands which will then be made upon them. They earnestly request that their wants may be remembered, and that without waiting for further solicitation every friend of the cause will forward his free-will offering to the General Treasury, or to either of the treasuries of the Branch Societies, as may be most convenient. The pledge has been given, and must be redeemed, that no young man who is worthy of being patronized for the Sacred Office, shall ask for aid in vain. But for the means of redeeming this pledge the Board have no where to look, but to the community, whose aWe would ask ministers gents they are. than the above societies, in England and America put together, now receive. of the Gospel, to keep in mind the wants What a fund, then, might this favored nation possess for works of benevolence, should the monster, Intemperance, be de stroyed, as there are at length some rising hopes that it will be! INTELLIGENCE. Quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors. The Directors of the Am. Ed. Soc. hold a meeting regularly, on the 2d Wednesday of January, April, July, and October, to receive the returns of those under the patronage of the Society, to make appropriations, to attend to the cases of new applicants for aid, and to transact any other business which the interests of the Society may require. of the Society, and before the period which has been mentioned arrives, to address their congregations, and to solicit a contribution, or subscription, in aid of the funds. We would especially ask those ministers of the Gospel who once stretched forth their hands to this Society, and received its kind and timely aid, not to forget its claims now that it comes to them, and asks for help. Other youth are struggling with the same difficulties which they had to encounter. By return The Board held their quarterly meeting into the treasury of the Lord what ing in Boston on the 11th inst. Sixteen new applications for aid were presented, and fourteen young men were received and placed on probation for the usual term. This is a larger number than has occurred for nearly 2 years past at a similar meeting. $2,369 were appropriated to 149 young men, belonging to 11 Colleges and as many Academies. $332 33 were voted to the Branch Society in Connecticut, and $57 to the Branch in New Hampshire, to complete appropriations in those states. The treasury of the Society is entirely exhausted, and twenty five hundred dollars will be needed in October, to meet the appropriations for the en they once received from its sacred funds, many a heart will be made glad which is now sad, and many a heavy load will be lightened which is pressing upon the indigent youth, with all the weight with which it formerly fell upon them. Remember, Brethren, the days of want and despondency; and "all things whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so unto them." It is also desired, that females will make their Pastors members for life, of the Branch Societies formed within the States or districts where they reside. This will not only give their pastors an opportunity of extending an influence, |