Excerpt from Sixty-Third Annual Report of the Board of Domestic Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America: Presented, May 1865 Payments - The amount paid, including the Presbytery of West Jersey, was The balance we were happy to report to the last Assembly enabled us to pay regularly the salaries of the missionaries as they matured. It is a matter of prime necessity to pay punctually the comparatively small sums we promise the brethren on the mission field. It gives them credit in the eyes of the communities amid whom they live, and adds to the dignity of their o ice. In legacies received there has been an increase of and in miscellaneous and individual donations a decrease of 3533. The most pleasing fact revealed by these statistics is in the increase from the churches; on these must ever be our main reliance. The legacies of the sainted dead, and the 03er ings of large-hearted individuals, must, of necessity, vary in the ever changing circumstances of human life. The interests of the Church, and the future of missions, re quire her people to be educated in this respect. It is the steadily increasing ow of the streamlets - the pittance of the poor, as well as the more princely Offerings of the wealthy - whicli makes the river of God, which is full of water. It is to be feared multitudes professing Christ realize not their duty in this respect - leave to other and warmer hearts the precious privilege, at once the measure of their piety and the means of its increase. It will not be, till every church member shall awake to the fact, that his connection with the church makes him a life member of the great mission family, that the advent of the millennium may be hailed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."