culation. The first edition has also been adopted as one of the series of the American Baptist Tract Society; and the stereotype edition, with some alterations, has been adopted by the Committee of the American Tract Society. Another Tract, called "Duty to the Heathen" was compiled by members of the Committee. This tract has been stereotyped, and 33,000 copies circulated. It has also been adopted by the Baptist Tract Society. Correspondence with Foreign Missions, which before the organization of this Committee, had been conducted in the name of the whole Society, now very naturally devolved chiefly on this Committee; and it was voted to open a correspondence with each Foreign Mission Station of the American Board. Much interest is given to the meetings, by these communications. The Committee now consists of 28 members. Its officers, like those of the other Committees, are a Chairman and Secretary, who also constitute a Committee of correspondence. Every meeting is opened with prayer. COMMITTEE ON SEAMEN. Instituted August 18, 1829. The moral condition of Seamen scarcely attracted the attention of the Society of Inquiry, before the year 1829. No dissertation had ever been presented on this subject before the Society. No one seems to have thought of Seamen. Nor was the apathy on this subject limited to the Society of Inquiry. In the language of Summerfield at the first anniversary of the Bethel Union in New York, in June 1821, "almost no favorable notice was taken of Seamen by the Christian world, except that they were included in the prayer of the church of England, under the petition for all who travel by land or by water." But the claims of this long-neglected portion of the community to our sympathies and our prayers began to be felt; and August 18, 1829, the Board of Managers recommended, "that a standing Committee on Seamen be in stituted." The recommendation was followed, and a Committee of three appointed, with power to nominate all who should become members. A correspondence was opened with the Editor of the Sailor's Magazine, and with different Theological Seminaries. This Committee, like each of the other standing Committees, presents an annual Report before the Society, calling its attention to this highly interesting class of the community. The Committee consists of eleven members, and is organized with a Chairman and Secretary, who form a Committee of Correspondence. Its object is, to obtain information respecting the number, character, temporal and moral condition of Seamen, together with the efforts which are made in their behalf, in this and other countries. In accomplishing this, a correspondence is carried on with Seamen's preachers in our own and foreign ports, with sea-captains, and others acquainted with Seamen. The Committee also endeavor to awaken in the community an interest in their behalf; and by all the means in their power, to promote their best interests. The regular meetings are held once in three weeks, and are opened with prayer, At each meeting a dissertation is read by some one of the members previously appointed for the purpose. This is followed by conversation and inquiries on the same subject. PART II. A LIST, WITH BRIEF NOTICES, OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY WHO HAVE BECOME FOREIGN MIS SIONARIES. The following list is designed to include the names of all members of the Society of Inquiry, who have ever gone on Foreign Missions. The column next to the names, shews the college at which the individuals graduated, and the year of their graduation. The other column of figures, shews the year of their leaving the Seminary. The remaining column, indicates the mission to which they respectively belonged. An asterisk (*) prefixed to a name, shows that the individual died in the field of his missionary labors. |