are foreign Germans, and but two are unable to speak the German language. These, however, are engaged in the study of it.

These statements may serve to illustrate the truth of the representations given in our first application. Our Institutions are Anglo-German. Although created and sustained by the Synod of Ohio of the German Reformed Church, in which the English language prevails extensively, yet her mission respects mainly the Reformed portion of the American and Foreign German population, and her Institutions are designed chiefly to prepare pious young Germans of American or European birth, not only to preach the Gospel to the destitute, but also to hold direct personal communion with different classes of society through the medium of two languages. Already it is the case that in some of our cities and larger towns, and at some places in the country, the children of foreigners require religious instruction to be communicated in the English language. Thus the Gospel is preached, the Church of Christ is sustained, and extended among our foreign population in a manner that the genius and progress of our country demand. The German Church keeps pace with the powerful assimilating process that is going forward irresistibly both East and West. We feel convinced that an exclusively German education cannot in the end meet the wants of our country, of the church, nor of the Germans themselves. Our Institutions, we think, present a reliable medium through which you can aid in accomplishing a momentous work.

Inasmuch as our first application was printed in the Appendix to your Tenth Annual Report, and you are all therefore acquainted with the facts stated respecting the history of the German Reformed Church in America and her Institutions at Tiffin, as well as with the reasons urged to sustain our application, I judge that any repetition in this paper would be both out of place and unnecessary. I would only add, therefore, that those reasons still exist, and could be urged with more convincing force. Our sphere of influence has widened; our success is encouraging; but our wants have become greater and more urgent.

The attachment of the German Reformed Church to her original order and doctrines as set forth in the Heidelberg Catechism, of which the Rev. Dr. L. Bacon speaks decidedly in his "Report," has not diminished, but is steadily increasing in our midst as the different narratives of the state of religion by the classes abundantly testify. Simultaneously with this, an intelligent aversion to the errors and abuses of the Roman Catholic Church is strengthening. Ministers and people seem generally to embrace their precious Reformation Exponent of Bible Truth with the freshness of a first love. The system of Catechetical instruction is practised with growing fidelity and zeal, as a mode of preaching the Gospel to children and youth, that has been found by experience to be the most efficient and reliable means, under the blessing of God, to produce godly sorrow for sin and lead them to the exercise of true faith in Jesus Christ.

Trusting that you may feel justified and be able to grant our Institution an appropriation, this application is respectfully submitted in behalf of the Board of Trustees, and Faculty of Heidelberg College.

The foregoing exhibitions, as well as the previous history of these Institutions, make it obvious-1. That they are as a body under judicious and efficient management, and have a steady and healthful growth in all that fits a College for its appropriate work. 2. That the conductors of these Institutions are faithful and persevering in their efforts to develop

to the utmost the resources of their own fields. Evidence of this has ever been regarded as an indispensable condition of aid. 3. That with united and persevering efforts, East and West, they may ultimately, one and all, be placed upon a permanent basis. 4. That in consequence of the rapid growth of the West, and the accumulation of wealth, of which at periods not remote they may largely avail themselves, the method of aid adopted by the Society is likely to make the least draft upon Eastern resources, while Institutions are kept in efficient operation from the very infancy of the communities with. which they are surrounded. 5. That in consequence of their number, and the urgency of their wants, the distractions among the Churches caused by the presentation of the conflicting claims of Institutions, which led in a great measure to the formation of the Society, would be very much increased, should it be now dissolved. 6. That notwithstanding all the care exercised by the Board in the reception of new Institutions, and the guards against an unnecessarily protracted dependence upon the Society on the part of those which are aided, the number upon its list and consequently the demands upon its treasury are steadily increasing. A peculiar urgency, therefore, exists for pushing forward its operations with all practicable vigor, that it may finish its work in the older States, and employ its full resources for the benefit of Institu tions further on towards the Pacific. It is an encouraging fact that, with the exception of what may be given to Heidelberg College, some $5000 would be sufficient to take the Society out of the State of Ohio.

REVIVALS AND CONCERT OF PRAYER.

We record the fact with devout gratitude to God, that sev eral of the Institutions aided have been blessed with the effusions of the Holy Spirit during the year.

Marietta College.

The term which has just closed, has been marked by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in this Institution, and it is our duty to record our gratitude to God for his good hand upon us, and to his people for the petitions which they have put up in our behalf.

The Annual Concert of Prayer for Colleges in February, was anticipated by many Christians here with earnest prayer for the College. The day itself was one of unusual interest. Soon after we began to hear the inquiry, What shall we do to be saved?" from that time until the close of the term, near the last of April, the work continued quietly and without excitement. No foreign help was called in, no extraordinary means employed in the work, yet the College has never witnessed a more signal manifestation of the power of Divine grace.

At the beginning of the work only about one third of the whole number of students were the professed friends of Christ. At the close of the term from twenty to twenty-five having decided to choose Christ for their portion, about two thirds of our beloved pupils are numbered and we trust in very deed among the friends of the Redeemer. I know that the friends and patrons of your Society will rejoice with us in this great blessing, and that they will unite their prayers with ours at the throne of grace that it may be continued.

Illinois College.

[Prés. SMITH.]

You will join with us in thanking God that Illinois College is again visited with a revival. It seems quite as general and quite as hopeful of great results as the revival of last winter. It began in College with no special effort or interest in any of the churches, about one week before the fast for Colleges. That day was one of great interest and power, and the work received a new impulse. It is now (March 3d) extending itself in the Congregational and N. S. Presbyterian churches and in the Female Academy..

Of the number of converts in College I cannot speak, but it is already considerable. We have a prayer-meeting in one of the recitation rooms for three quarters of an hour before morning prayers, at which near fifty students are generally present. They are seasons of the right hand of God. One after another of our young men there come out and declare themselves on the Lord's side. Pray for us.

The revival of last winter seemed to be cut short by the burning of our College building and a Christmas vacation. Pray that this may continue till all are brought in. I notice this year the same bringing up of the claims of the ministry and of the missionary work as last year. Indeed the work commenced seemingly in connection with the visit of the Rev. Mr. Munger, returned Missionary from India, who spent a Sabbath here in behalf of the American Board. He is a good man and full of the Holy Ghost, and if we can only send enough such Missionaries I believe God will convert all India. The Lord blessed his simple and pious plea for missions in India as the means of converting some of our young men and greatly waking up our praying students to prayer and Christian activity. Again I say, pray that the blessing may be poured upon us as long as there is any room to receive it.

[Pres. STURTEVANT.]

In a subsequent communication he states the number of hopeful converts at "eight or ten," and says that of their last graduating class, consisting of ten, nine were members of Christian churches.

Beloit College.

The Fast Day was an occasion of much solemnity and interest; and we record with gratitude some tokens of the presence and work of the Divine Spirit in the College. The students' meetings have been well sustained during the year by the constant attendance of a large part of those who profess religion, and there have been three or four cases of hopeful conversion. Still there are lamentable signs that we need a more copious effusion of the Spirit's influence, to deepen the tone of piety among us and secure the highest success of our work.

[Pres. CHAPIN.]

Knox College.

The College has grown steadily in the confidence of the public, and we have not been left the past year without direct tokens of God's favor in the conversion of souls. We hope and trust however that another year may not pass over us without more multiplied instances of conversion than we have to report the present year. Changes are going forward, in connection with a rapid increase of population around us, of a nature to absorb the attention, and chill the piety and zeal of Christians among us. We hope and trust that in answer to the prayers of the friends of evangelical education in the West, God will arrest the current of worldliness and turn us again to himself.

Wabash College.

[Pres. BLANCHARD.]

The concert of prayer for Colleges was numerously and very seriously attended. The Divine Spirit was evidently present. A deep seriousness followed. Daily prayer-meetings were well attended. Several hopeful conversions occurred and several were admitted to the church. For thirteen years there has never been a concert of prayer for Colleges without special solemnity and special proofs of the presence of the Spirit.

Wittenberg College.

[Pres. WHITE.]

The session which has just closed (March 21st) was more numerously attended than any previous one. In connection with the death of one of our students we held special meetings, preaching every night in the chapel, and five or six young men professed a change of heart, and the state of piety in the whole Institution was greatly improved.

[Prof. CONRAD.]

During a season of three or four weeks last winter, we enjoyed special spiritual influences, and more than ordinary interest was manifested by the unconverted. Several individuals professed a hope whose conduct since has adorned their profession, but we feel greatly the want of a general revival. We cannot but lament this. One reason of it no doubt is, that the President and Professors in the Collegiate Department are so burdened in consequence of the deficiency in their number, with too much labor merely in the way of daily teaching, that they cannot exert that moral influence over the students by private intercourse which they otherwise would. There are thirty-four candidates for the ministry in the Collegiate and Preparatory Classes.

[Pres. SPRECHER.]

We are happy here to announce that the premium of $150, offered in our Ninth Report for the best Essay on Prayer for Colleges, has been awarded. Of something more than thirty manuscripts submitted to the Committee, the one written by Prof. W. S. Tyler, of Amherst College, was deemed best adapted to the end in view. From the ability with which it is written, the scope and thoroughness of its discussions, the fulness of its details, its adaptation to awaken the conscience, move the heart, and inspire confidence in the power of prayer

-together with the spirit of prayer, which seems to breathe through every page-it cannot fail with the Divine blessing to become a most effective instrument in arousing the churches to the importance of the subject of which it treats. It is now in press.

ENDOWMENTS.

In our Ninth Report it was shown that the leading and most effective method adopted by the Church in different ages, in order to secure a properly qualified ministry, was the establishment of Institutions of Learning. We will now call attention to the provisions which have been made at different periods by endowments, or otherwise, in order to secure the leading object of such Institutions.

We might go back in our review to the Schools of the Prophets, which were evidently in a great measure sustained by charitable contributions. We know that such contributions were made for the benefit of the one over which the prophet Elisha presided at Gilgal, of which the "sons of the prophets,' or students, availed themselves in a season of famine; and the argument used by Gehazi, the avaricious servant of Elisha, with the departing Naaman, in order to secure a gift, was the affirmation that two indigent students had just then arrived from Mount Ephraim to join the School of the Prophets.

But we need not search the records of the past for scattered and incidental notices which might indicate the views and the practice of the Church in each successive age. By the latter part of the second century, we come into the comparatively clear light of history. The question is not yet settled by ecclesiastical historians, whether previously to the days of Constantine the Alexandrine teachers enjoyed any public stipends.

There seems to be evidence that when Constantine embraced Christianity he made public provision for the payment of regular salaries to the teachers of Christian schools, and gave his assistance in sustaining poor scholars. On the authority of Mosheim, schools were established by him and succeeding Christian Emperors in many of the towns. Libraries were also formed, and literary men encouraged by stipends, by privileges, and by honors.

While cathedral schools flourished from the fifth century onward, vast sums appear to have been placed at the disposal of the Bishops, by means of which they could educate charitably a competent number of men to fill the sacred offices of the Church. The Convent of Iona, to which allusion was