The Congregational Quarterly

American Congregational Union.

THE American Congregational Union still holds on its way. While attending, from year to year, to the more general objects which it was organized to accomplish, such as diffusing information in regard to our doctrines and polity, promoting unity and fellowship, and stimulating to Christian effort, it has expended a large portion of its labor on the pressing and most important work of aiding the feeble churches in all parts of the country to supply themselves with suitable places of public worship. This work is growing steadily on its hands. Prominent points at the South have called for and received aid, and other places, notwithstanding difficulties, are likely soon to need it. The number of Congregational Churches that are springing up in the States that used to be called "the West," but are hardly to be called so now, such as Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, — and in the vast regions which for mining or agriculture have recently been opened, is very great, and very many of them urgently need assistance. If they have help at the right moment, they will become well established, and will give a right direction to society from the first. If they are left to struggle on alone, till able to build, without aid, the Christian sanctuaries which are needed, the best opportunities of giving ascendency to the gospel and to Christian education will, in many communities, be irrecoverably lost. At the same time it becomes more and more apparent that our doctrines and principles are wanted in all parts of the country; that they commend themselves, when fairly presented to those who have not known them, and are dear to those who, educated in them, have gone out from their loved New England homes. By the indorsement of the National Council, and the effort made by its recommendation to raise, last year, two hundred thousand dollars, although this was but partially successful,- -a deeper and wider interest, it is hoped, has been awakened in the great churchbuilding work. There is need, however, that this interest should be increased yet more. As the collections of last year are now nearly all appropriated, the trustees are becoming anxious as to the answer to be given to the numerous and earnest calls that are reaching them from week to week. In some of the border States, where especially there is strong encouragement as regards the prospects of our cause, it will be unfortunate indeed not to be able to respond promptly to the applications made. Will not the Pastors and the Churches see to it that the means of meeting them shall be liberally furnished? To more than two hundred churches appropriations have been already paid, on the actual completion of their sanctuaries; and some thirty-five or forty more have been voted, and wait only till the edifices are finished. Who can measure the good which has been thus accomplished, or calculate the results of it in the future? It is devoutly to be hoped that the churches will on forefather's day, if not before, the present year, cheerfully pour another hundred thousand dollars into the treasury of the Union. It is for Christ's cause in our own beloved land; it is for our own churches, and our own children and kindred, and for generations that shall come after us, that we are called upon to give generously what is needed.

American Congregational Association.

OUR readers will want to know, first of all, as to the prospect of the long-talked-of "Library Building," or "Congregational Home." While grateful mention is made of the fact that there is light ahead," it must still, in truth, be said that there is a great want of a due appreciation of this now very important object. Noble, princely gifts are made here and there by life-long Congregationalists to educational institutions, already largely endowed, though needing more, doubtless, and yet not one is found among all the brotherhood of our churches who, with his ample means, is ready to say, “this building must arise." Few seem to realize how much such a structure, with its affiliated purposes, is needed as a foundation to

our literary institutions, to give them the right tone and character, to cast in the right elements, to keep more in the foreground the great principles of Christian and civil liberty, upon which our free institutions are based, and upon which alone they can be perpetuated. While in theory multitudes, perhaps the great majority, would freely assent to this statement, almost none comprehend the necessity of some visible embodiment of this fact. A great idea has power with a class. The object which commanded the life-blood of the heroes of the Revolution, as an idea, has not the influence over the great masses of New England that Bunker Hill monument has. They demand a symbol of the idea, something that appeals to their senses suggestive of the idea. Our proposed building itself would be a standing and visible argument for civil and Christian liberty, always addressing itself to every beholder. And this would be constantly enforced by the high purposes to which it would be devoted. Our valuable books, increasing week by week, demand more room, better room, safer room; and when having it, their number will be much more rapidly increased. This library is now, and is to be, unlike any other in the country; its speciality being denominational, yet catholic; New England, yet national ;] religious, yet civil and political; indeed, so far as the largest range of local histories will make it so. Such a library is now a great want here in the metropolis of New England; and is wanted now as our polity and doctrines are going forth into the regions lying beyond Mason and Dixon's line.

Fifty thousand dollars have been reliably pledged, and this gives hope of more. The needed building, at all suitable to our great purpose, can not be erected in a proper place for twice that sum. Rev. A. P. Marvin is still in the field soliciting funds in aid of this object. He will gladly visit any Church or individual who will encourage the hope of a hearing with the view to a giving. Funds can also be sent, as below, in any amounts, and will be sacredly devoted to their legitimate purpose.

This library has recently received from the A. B. C. F. M. house the back numbers of many of our religious papers, which, with those on hand, nearly complete some entire files. Where is the generous giver who will place the means at our disposal for binding them, cheaply, suitably for our shelves and for use? Scarcely anything here is more often called for than back numbers or volumes of some of our weekly religious papers. I specify the deficiencies which have already been ascertained, and any one that can help us complete these files will do us a good service.

NEW YORK OBSERVER, vol. i. (1823), Nos. 1 to 26, inclusive; vol. ii. (1824), No. 7; vol. iii. (1825), Nos. 2, 3, 29 to 48, inclusive; vol. vii. (1829), Nos. 9, 32, 33, 43; vol. xxxvi. (1858), Nos. 1, 9.

NEW YORK INDependent, vol. ii. (1850), No. 97; vol. v. (1853), Nos. 218, 231, 234. CONGREGATIONALIST, vol. i. (1849), Nos. 4, 8, 9; vol. ii. (1850), Nos. 18, 19; vol. iii. (1851), No. 52.

NEW ENGLAND PURITAN, vol. i. (1840), Nos. 1, 29, 33, 44; vol. ii. (1841), No. 41; vol. iv. (1843), Nos. 23, 25, 31, 34, 39, 43; vol. v. (1844), Nos. 4, 12, 17, 46; vol. vi. (1845), Nos. 4, 8, 16, 18, 20, 21, 30, 32, 34, 40; vol. vii. (1846), Nos. 1, 5, 6, 34, 45; vol. viii. (1847), Nos. 36, 37; vol. x. (1849), Nos. 38, 39, 47, 48, 52.

IOWA NEWS LETTER, vol. i. Nos. 2, 7.

We very much want to complete our set of the Piscataqua Evangelical Magazine. We lack vol. ii. (1806), Nos. 3, 4, 5; vol. iii. (1807), No. 3; vol. iv. (1808), No. 3, and all after it Our North American still lacks Nos. 3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22. Direct to

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ISAAC P. LANGWORTHY.

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INDEX OF NAMES.

NOTE-This Index includes all the names of persons mentioned in this volume except the names of min-
isters given in the general statistics, which are indexed alphabetically on pages 109-121; except also names
of students in the Theological Seminaries on pages 293-297, and of ministers in Maine Conference, pages
309, 310.

The reader is reminded that a given name may occur more than once on the same page.
For general topics, see Table of Contents, pp. III. & IV.

Abbe,
24, 28
Abbott, 42, 123, 124, 125, 126, 316
Adair,
313
Adams, 27, 122, 123, 126, 226, 233,
237, 240, 306, 313, 314, 321, 325,

Beard,

125 Buckman,
Beecher, 25, 42, 124, 130, 211, 232, Buckingham,
302, 303, 313, 316, 359, 360, 361,
362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, Budington,
Bulkley,