demands but these will not be very difficult either of apprehension or of execution; provided proper regard is paid to the present voice of Providence and the teachings of history in respect to the Education cause. PUBLICATIONS. There have been issued during the year: of the Annual Report, 2,000 copies; Abstract of the same, 4,000; Annual Discourse by the Rev. Dr. Peters, 1,000; Address at the Anniversary, by the Rev. E. N. Kirk, 2,000; Address by the Rev. Dr. Hopkins, delivered at Boston, 2,000: in all 11,000 copies. Also, the individual whose generous contribution called out the Premium Essay on the Educational System of the Puritans, as compared with that of the Jesuits, has furnished the Society during the year with the means of circulating gratuitously 500 copies of that work. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. From the Treasurer's account, it appears that the balance in the Treasury by the last Report was $369 25. By a vote of the Board at the last Annual Meeting, the present financial year closed on the 15th of October, thus making the year consist of only eleven and a half months. The amount received during this period was $20,617 89. This includes the amount raised under the arrangements existing between the Society and the Central American Education Society, together with the Western Education Society, by which in certain sections, joint collections are made, under the agencies of this Society, and divided in accordance with principles agreed upon by the respective parties. Amount raised in connection with the Western Education Society, $2,374 88, of which $445 75 were disbursed by this Society for the benefit of Western Colleges, and the balance, after meeting expenses of agency, was paid by the former Society to beneficiaries under its care. Amount paid Central American Education Society from joint collections, $2,445 23, less $500 for expense of agency. Salary and travelling expenses of Secretary, compensation to Treasurer and Financial Agent, Office rent, fuel, postage, stationery, expense of public meetings, &c., $1,913 17. Sal aries of other agents and expenses connected with their agencies, including $266 82 incurred during previous year, $3,347 77. Printing Annual Report, Annual Discourse, and other documents, $420 24. Balance in the Treasury after the disbursements of the year to the several Institutions aided by the Society, $646 17, and in part specifically designated by donors. CONDITION AND WANTS OF INSTITUTIONS. Marietta College. Two years since an effort was commenced to secure for this Institution the sum of $18,000, on condition that whenever this amount was realized, the College should relinquish all further claims upon the Society. At the last Anniversary $11,434 45 of this amount had been secured, exclusive of 280 acres of land, the gift of two individuals in New Haven, Conn. Since that time, $2,255 75 have been added. A donation of $50 by Joseph Battell, of New-York City, was omitted in the last Report. This added to the above makes the present total $13,740 20. One subscription of $500 in addition has been made payable on condition that the whole amount is realized. The land as yet remains unsold and without valuation. Of the donations and subscriptions thus far obtained, there are two of $1,000 each, one of $600, eight of $500, one of $250, one of $220, two of $200, one of $150, and twentyseven of not less than $100 each. It is of great importance both to the Institution and to the Society that what is lacking be made up as speedily as possible. When the whole is realized, it will barely make the income of the Institution equal its outgoes on the present scale of expense. One of the Professors writes: "The Society has aided through dark days, and we would remember the aid with unfeigned gratitude. The new year has opened finely, the Institution was never more prosperous than at present. We have the sons of some of the first men in the State, and we believe the reputation of the College is constantly advancing." The following description of the Institution is from the pen of an Eastern traveller, who attended its last commencement: A little more than sixty-four years ago, Gen. Rufus Putnam led his band of New-England colonists to the shores of the Ohio, and landed them at the mouth of the Muskingum. They were met by a company of friendly Delawares, under the command of the celebrated Capt. Piper. Dr. Hildreth, the indefatigable historian of the pioneers of Ohio, and the accomplished naturalist, has had a painting executed of the landing of the colonists. Some of the portraits are taken from paintings now in existence. The scene is a thrilling one, and as you look at nature in its wild luxuriance, for the first time visited by actual settlers, the mighty contrast rushes upon you. Now the very place where Gen. Putnam was greeted in so friendly a manner by the Indian warrior, is one of the most beautiful towns in the Western country, and occupied by a vigorous, intelligent, and highly moral people. The scenery is surpassingly beautiful, not so bold as that in Old Berkshire or among the Highlands, but placid, and picturesque in a degree rarely found. The Ohio, ever flowing on in solemn majesty, together with the Muskingum, elegantly fringed with grand old forest trees, lend a beauty to the scene which it would not otherwise possess. The highlands in the vicinity are somewhat broken, and are contrasted with the monotonous levels of the interior of the State. The means of education have from the first been prominently before the minds of the people. Perhaps no body of colonists can be named which had so large a proportion of intelligent and influential men as that which settled Marietta. These men made general education an object of such importance, as led them to make large provisions for its promotion. Always in the front rank in this respect, the town is now second to none in the State. Its Union Free Schools, with the High School, to which those desiring it are admitted after proper preparation, are now accessible to all who wish to avail themselves of their privileges. The buildings for these schools are substantial and well arranged, and are really ornaments to the town. The principal attraction of Marietta for intelligent strangers is found in the College. About twenty years ago a few individuals determined to erect a large building for the accommodation of students, and purchased for its site a lot which commands a splendid view of the town and surrounding country. With a liberality which cannot be too highly praised, the citizens of Marietta and vicinity have not only erected this building and a beautiful chapel, with library, society and recitation rooms, but they have also contributed many thousand dollars towards the permanent endowment of the College. With the aid of generous friends in New England, the Institution has very nearly attained to independence. With reference to the provisions made for the instruction of young men at Marietta College, I shall depend upon the statements just made to me by a professional teacher, who is a graduate of one of our first Eastern colleges. This gentleman has been in constant attendance for several days on the examination of the College classes. He says that the examinations were of a kind to test the attainments of the students, and to prove how thorough and patient had been the attentions of their instructors. The exercises of the graduating class on commencement day were of a manly and independent character, evincing great attention, not merely to rhetoric and elocution, but to thought. I do not wonder that the founders of Marietta College feel proud as they see the noble institution, built by their liberality, bearing such excellent fruit. The society, the beauty, and salubrity of the location, and the extensive facilities afforded for mental improvement, point out Marietta College as one of the most hopeful institutions north of the Ohio. It deserves, and it should continue to enjoy increasing patronage and confidence from all who take an interest in the education of young men. The President, Rev. Henry Smith, D. D., is now absent in Europe, to expend ten thousand dollars in books to add to the library. This sum was furnished by a few individuals. The two literary societies have each an extensive library, to which additions are constantly making. Illinois College.-$50,000 effort. The President, in behalf of the Trustees, makes the following earnest appeal: We are under the necessity of applying to the Society for the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars, for the ensuing year. This is more by $250 than our estimated deficit for last year; but the result has shown that this deficit was then estimated too low by fully that amount. I would also request in the name of the Trustees, and in accordance with their deliberate instructions given after a careful examination of the whole subject, permission to solicit under the direction of the Society, from the field of its operations, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in completion of the proposed endowment fund of Illinois College. A little more than three years ago the Trustees engaged in an effort to raise fifty thousand dollars for this purpose. This work has been prosecuted thus far entirely in those portions of Illinois which are in the vicinity of the college, and in the city of St. Louis. Very nearly thirty-five thousand dollars have been subscribed, but as most of the subscriptions are on long time (though bearing interest), the actual value of the subscription cannot be estimated at more than thirty thousand. In order therefore to secure a substantial fund of fifty thousand, it is deemed indispensable to raise twenty thousand more, and so far as we are at present informed we must look for this sum to the friends of learning in the Eastern States. We believe that we have done all or nearly all which can be accomplished for some time to come in this field. It is indeed but simple justice to say, that the success of the effort in the community around the college has far exceeded our most sanguine expectations, and will be remembered in after times, if the college is sustained, as a noble liberality to the cause of learning. To us it appears that there are reasons of no small force and cogency why this college should without further delay be placed on the basis of a substantial and sufficient endowment: 1st. It is the oldest Protestant college in existence west of Ohio and north of the Ohio River. It was begun in the very infancy of this State and of the whole North-West, and for twenty-three years has stood up amidst the thousand conflicting and heterogeneous elements as the representative of liberal learning. Here it stood when the population of the State, now swelled to a million, scarce numbered a hundred and fifty thousand. Here it stood while the wolves were howling through the beautiful grove which forms its background. Is it just to the sacred cause, that an institution which has so long represented it, and in such circumstances, should simply live on in feebleness and inefficiency? The past history of this college places it in relations to the cause of learning which no new institution can sustain till years have passed over it. The friends of learning cannot suffer it to languish and decline, without inflicting a deep and sensible injury on the cause over a wide extent of country. It would be conceding a victory to that spirit of superficialisin, mammonism, and materialism, which is the greatest danger that threatens our country. If the cause of learning in this State deserves support-if it is worth sustaining, then does this institution deserve the comparatively small addition we ask to its resources as necessary to render it permanent, respectable, and efficient. 2d. The relations of this college to our religious history give it a peculiar claim to the fervent affections and efficient support of all who love our glorious Home Missionary enterprise. It is the direct offspring of that enterprise. It owes its existence and its present growth to the felt neces 1852.] NINTH REPORT. sity of providing from our churches and our own families those supplies Thus has this college been looked to for almost a quarter of a century by our feeble churches and struggling pastors as a day-star of hope-a precious token of coming prosperity and power to the church of Christ; and can it in such circumstances be longer allowed to languish in feebleness and want, without weakening the hands and discouraging the hearts of God's people? Will it not also give their enemies a direct advantage, somewhat like the defeat of Israel before the walls of Ai? Will not the I enemies with whom we contend take fresh courage, and gather fresh strength, from our weakness and inefficiency? For myself I can say, have for years felt the depressing influence of our weakness in the midst of such growing elements of strength as those by which we are surroundWe are attempt- · ed. We are behind the times, and are known to be so. ing mighty results with resources obviously inadequate. It is high time this college be placed on the truly respectable footing for which I am pleading, or be abandoned, that it may no longer represent a sacred and holy cause which it can neither adorn nor defend. 3d. The only remaining consideration which I will adduce, to show the necessity of the speedy completion of our endowment, is the new relations in which we are placed to the more venerable seats of learning in our land, by recent changes in locomotive arts. Probably in three years from this time, the spot where I am now writing will not be removed more than three days from Princeton or Yale, Union or Harvard. The consequence is obvious, our best efforts in the course of collegiate education can, for a long time to come, have no other effect on these and other venerable institutions of the older States, than to increase their patronage from the very fields in which we are operating. In this effect of our labors we rejoice. It brings us into the position of fellow-laborers with those venerable seminaries where most of us were first introduced to the walks of learning. But it is too obvious that in such a juxtaposition as the different parts of our country are destined to stand in to each other, no college can live in a state of feebleness and languor. It must be rendered truly liberal in its system and its appointments, or it will be regarded with |