QUARTERLY RECORD. CHURCHES FORMED. BLACK HILLS. CALAHAN, Mo., Jan. 11. CLINTONVILLE, Wis., Feb. 25, 10 mem. bers. CROTON TOWNSHIP, Mich., Feb. 7, 33 members. DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 7, 17 members. EAST SAGINAW, Mich., 28 members. GOOD INTENT, Kan., Jan. 20, 15 members. GROVE HILL, Dak. Ter., Mar. 3, 18 members. HIXTON, Wis.. Mar. 18, 48 members. HUDSONVILLE, Mich., Feb. 11, 32 mem. bers. LINCOLN, Neb. (German), Mar. 4, 21 members. LYONS, Ill., Jan. 14, 16 members. MASON CITY, Ill., Mar. 25, 25 members. MELVILLE, Ill., Feb. 13. MILLBROOK, Mich., Feb. 25, 6 members. NORTH FORK. Kan. NORTH LEONI, Mich., Jan. 4, 23 mem. bers. OXFORD, Mich., Mar. 1, 38 members. PLEASANT VALLEY, Kan., 11 members. RICHARDSON CO., Neb., 1st Ch., Feb. 25, 30 menihers. RUSH CENTRE, Kan, Mar. 18, 5 members. SCATTER CREEK, Kan., Jan. 14. SOUTH BOSTON, Mich., Jan. 17, 40 members. SOUTH GUIDE ROCK, Neb., Feb. 24, 10 members. HEADLEY, I. H. B., to the work of the Ministry, in Rowley, Mass., Jan. 4. SMITH, GEORGE H., over the Ch. in Rio Vista, Cal., Feb. 2. Sermon and ordaining prayer by Rev. George Mooar, D. D., of Oakland. SMITH, JOHN E., over the Chs. in Andover Centre, and West Andover, ., Jan. 3. Sermon by Rev. Samuel W. Dickinson, of Jefferson. Ordaining prayer by Rev. George W. Walker, of Guy's Mills, Pa. STICKLES, PETER. to the work of the Ministry, in Vienna, Kan., Mar. 27. Ser. mon by Rev. Roswell W. Parker of Manhattan. Ordaining prayer by Rev. John Scotford, of Louisville. TENNEY, HERBERT M., over the Ch. in Wallingford, Ct., Feb. 27. Sermon by Rev. Nathaniel J. Burton, D. D., of Hartford. Ordaining prayer by Rev. John E. Todd, of New Haven. UTLEY, WELLS H., over the Ch. in Pontiac, Mich., Mar. 1. Sermon by Rev. A. Hastings Ross, of Port Huron. Ordaining prayer by Rev. Minor W. Fairfield, of Romeo. WILSON, HENRY, over the Chs in Wyanet and Providence, Ill., Jan. 4. Sermon by Rev. George W. Boardman, D. D., of Chicago. Ordaining prayer by Rev. William T. Blenkarn, of Dover. MINISTERS INSTALLED. 1877. COLWELL, JOHN W., over the Ch. in Ch. in Suffield, Ct., Jan. 31. Sermon by Rev. Charles R. Palmer, of Bridgeport. Installing prayer by Rev. Lyman D. Calkins of West Springfield, Mass. EATON, Rev. JAMES D., over the Ch. in Bound Brook, N. J., Feb. 13. Sermon and Installing by Rev. Jeremiah E. Ran. kin. D. D., of Washington, D. C. GIBSON, Rev. E. K., over the Ch. in Way. land, Mich. Sermon by Rev. J. Morgan Smith, of Grand Rapids. GREENWOOD, Rev. WILLIAM, over the Ch. in West Haverhill. Mass., March 13. Sermon by Rev. Lyman Blake, of Me. thuen. Installing prayer by Rev. John C. Paine, of Groveland. HELMER, Rev. CHARLES D., D. D., over the Tompkins Avenue Ch. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Mar. 28. Sermon by Rev. Henry W. Beecher, of Brooklyn. Installing prayer by Rev. Joseph Wild, D. D., of Brooklyn. HOOD, Rev. GEORGE A., over the Pilgrim Ch. in Minneapolis, Minn., Mar. 28. Sermon and installing prayer by Rev. Delavan L. Leonard, of Northfield. MCLEAN, Rev. JAMES, over the Ch. in West Boxford, Mass., Feb. 28. Sermon by Rev. George E. Freeman, of Abington. Installing prayer by Rev. Calvin E. Park, of West Boxford. MERRILL, Rev. GEORGE R., over the 2d Ch. in Biddeford, Me, Jan 2. Ser- Winona, Minn., March 1. Sermon by WELLMAN, Rev. WHEELER M., over the Ch. in Cora, Kan., March 8. Sermon by Rev. Robert Samuel, of Cawker City. Installing prayer by Rev. J. R. Eckman, of Osborne. MINISTERS DISMISSED. 1876. DE FOREST, Rev. HENRY S., from the 1877. BALDWIN, Rev. JOHN A., from the Ch. CURTISS, Rev. GILBERT A., from the HALL, Rev. GEORGE E., from the Ch. in HARDY, Rev. DANIEL W., from the Ch. HUNTRESS, Rev. EDWARD S., from the Ch. in West Springfield, Mass., Mar. 28. Ch. in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Mar. 20. MINISTERS MARRIED. 1876. CLARK-KIMBALL. In Lowell, Mass., Kan., Dec. 14, Rev. Henry C. Scotford, 22, Rev. Augustus G. Upton, of Windham, to Miss Lucy H. Metcalf, of Elyria. WILKINSON-CUTLER. Nov. 10. Rev. Thomas R. Wilkinson, of Union Grove, Minn., to Miss C. L. Cutler, of Irving. BERRY 1877. RICHARDSON. In Lowell, Feb. 13, Rev. Zephaniah S. Holbrook to Feb. 7, Rev. Henry D. Kutz, of Findlay, to Mrs Clara G. Lathrop, of Wauseon. OLMSTED-ADAMS. In East Avon, N. Y., Jan. 10, Rev. Franklin W. Olmsted, MINISTERS DECEASED. 1877. BATES, Rev. JOSIAH, in Santa Barbara, PAINE, Rev. SEWALL, in Montgomery, · Mass., March 28. in his 74th year. WHITING, Rev. EWARD P., in DeWitt. MINISTERS' WIVES DECEASED. 1876. MERRILL, Mrs. MARTHA A., wife of the 1877. BUCK, Mrs. ELMIRA W., wife of Rev. E. A., in Fall River, Mass., Feb. 16. CARRUTHERS, Mrs. CLARISSA M., wife of Rev. John J., in Portland, Me., Feb. COLE, Mrs. ANN F., wife of Rev. Samuel, WALDO, Mrs. LUCY ELIZABETH, wife of Rev. Levi F.. in Franklin, Mich., March 3, in her 61st year. CHANGES IN POST-OFFICE ADDRESS OF MINISTERS. Adams, George C., Alton, Ill. Allen, Ephraim W., No. Middleboro', Mass. Bacon, William F., Chelsea, Mass. Barrows, William H., Stacyville, Io. Bradford, Benjamin F., Madison, Fla. Caldwell, William E., Pent Water, Mich. Crawford, Otis D., W. Bloomfield, N. Y. Dame, Charles, Newburyport, Mass. Eggleston, Nathaniel H., Williamst'n, Mass. Foster, Addison P., Jersey City, N. J. Geer, Heman, Tabor, Io. Kaley, John A., Irasburgh, Vt. Kimball, George P., Austin, Tex. Mann, Asa, Raynham, Mass. Merrill, J. Lewis, North Chelmsford, Mass. Osmun, William T., Champion, N. Y. Page, Henry, Harvard, Neb. Paine, Bernard, Boston, Mass., 28 Milford St. Perkins, Benjamin F., Sterling, Mass. Tenney, Herbert M., Wallingford, Ct. Van Wagner, James M., Paris, Tex. Waite, Hiram H., Jersey City, N. J. Wolcott, John M., Saugerties, N. Y. Wood, Charles W.. Middleboro', Mass. THE AMERICAN CONGREGATIONAL UNION. Quarterly Statement. APPROPRIATIONS have been paid since those reported in the Congregational Quarterly for January, as follows: : The church-building work of the Union has one peculiarity which should com. mend it to the favorable consideration of the churches. The money which is devoted to the house of worship is a permanent investment. At the end of the year the money is not consumed, it does not disappear, but remains, in an important sense, unexpended. We speak of this as a peculiarity. In the missionary work, at the end of the financial year, the money is gone. It has been consumed in the support of living men,-judiciously expended, no doubt, but literally expended. There is no property to show for it. Is it said that there are moral results to show for it? This is true. So there are moral results from a house of worship, which will go on accumulating from year to year. But in the case of the church-building work there is also the property itself, unexpended, a permanent investment. Thus it is not improbable that the church property now existing as the result of the investment made by the Union for the last twenty years is worth to-day all and more than the original cost. Including the Albany and the Forefathers' funds there have been devoted to the churches directly $650,000. Some of the houses built have passed out of our hands or been given over to decay; but others have been replaced with more costly edifices, which would never have been built had not the more humble structures preceded them. It is no insignificant consideration in favor of this work that it involves the establishment of this permanent fund for the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom. The money given to the churches every year remains as a source of influence for many years, or, it may be, for all time. Those who labor for permanent results will appreciate this peculiarity in our work. The present condition of the treasury makes its own appeal to the churches. The officers of the Union do not make an outcry as to debt. They are the almoners of the churches, and dispense only what is committed to them as a trust. The treasury is empty and the work is pressing its claims. It is for the churches to say how much shall be done. RAY PALMER, Cor. Sec., 69 Bible House, New York. |