The Executive Committee can only delay to enlarge these missionary operations in Africa on account of the too limited amount of means in the Treasury of the Association.
Your Committee present the following Resolutions:
1. That we recognize with heartfelt gratitude to God, His evident approval of the plan of attempting to evangelize Africa by the sons and daughters of Africans born in this country, brought out of slavery under the Proclamation of Emancipation of President Lincoln, and here converted and educated for this glorious work in their fatherland.
2. That we cannot do otherwise than lay on the churches the responsibility of increasing their contributions in aid of this Association, so as to enable it, at once, to enlarge its operations connected with the Mendi Mission, in the hope of sending from this, as a centre, bands of laborers into the interior of the continent.
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Rev. Geo. A. Oviatt. Rev. Franklin Ayer. |
Rev. John C. Labaree. Rev. G. D. Pike. |
The resolutions were adopted.
The report was discussed by Rev. G. D. Pike, and was then accepted, and the resolution adopted.
Rev. George M. Boynton presented, as the report of the Nominating Committee, the following nominations:
PRESIDENT.
Hon. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.