Asa Cummings, D. D., Editor of Christian Mirror. Portland. Roswell D. Hitchcock, Collins Professor in Bowdoin College. Bath. Brunswick. Marcus R. Keep, Missionary in Aroostook Co.---- No. 11 Aroostook. Freeman Parker._ H. A. Merrill. Wiscasset. Windham. Enoch Pond, D. D., Prof. in Theological Seminary. Bangor. Lincoln Ripley- John Sawyer-- - Waterford. Garland. George Shepard, D. D., Prof. in Theo. Seminary-- Bangor. D. Talcott Smith.. William Smyth, Prof. in Bowdoin College. D. Turner, Agent Am. Tract Society‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ Isaac Weston___. James Weston__ Henry White.. Bangor. Brunswick. Fryeburg. Portland. - Standish Foxcroft. Leonard Woods, Jr., D. D., Pres. Bowdoin College. Brunswick. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. The Committee of Conference appointed to visit the Theological Seminary at Bangor, reported in substance as follows: 1. THE EXAMINATION.-This was commenced by Prof. Smith in the department of Sacred Literature, in the Hebrew of the old Testament, and in the Greek of the New-in the forms and philosophy of language, and in the various principles of Interpretation in general. It showed that there had been faithful attention on the part of the Professor in his instructions, and on the part of the Students in their application, in all the several branches of study concerned. In systematic Theology, the examination was conducted by Prof. Pond. The Committee were gratified with the evidence afforded, of the knowledge and tact and skill of many of the Students in disposing of difficulties, and in defending the truth. Professor Pond also conducted the examination in Ecclesiastical History, in which the Students showed that they had made respectable attainments. In the department of Sacred Rhetoric and Homiletics, together with Pastoral Duties, the examination was by Prof..Shepard. It showed that there had been effectual teaching and successful learning, and gave pleasing promise of acceptableness and usefulness on the part of the young brethren in the opening labors of life. In view of the examination as a whole, the Committee express their confidence in the good and sound condition of the Seminary. 2. THE ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES.-These were decidedly creditable, and some of them of a high order, evincing more than ordinary maturity, both as to knowledge and the power of thought and expression. What added to the interest of the occasion was the ordination of one of the graduating class, Mr. Wm. C. Pond, son of Prof. Pond, as a Missionary to California. 3. THE GRADUATING CLASS.-This consisted of 16. Of these, 3, it is understood, are settled Pastors in Maine; 2 have calls to settle in Maine, and will probably be ordained soon; 3 are laboring in Maine, as stated supplies; 1 has been settled in New Hampshire, one is expecting soon to be settled in Mass.; 1 is a Missionary in California; 1 a teacher in Jacksonville College, Ill.; 1 an assistant teacher in the Seminary at Bangor; and 3 are Resident Licentiates in the Seminary at Andover, Mass. The class seemed to embody much talent and piety; and it may be hoped that their influence for good in the world will be extensive and powerful. 4.—THE GENERAL STATE OF THE SEMINARY.--The Faculty remains the same, though it is earnestly hoped that an additional Professor may be added in the department of Ecclesiastical History; and the funds for the endowment of such a Professorship, are among the urgent wants of the Seminary at present. The number of Students the current year is 41; 8 in the Senior Class; 19 in the Middle; 13 in the Junior; and 1 Resident Licentiate. The buildings of the Seminary underwent thorough repairs last summer, and are in good condition. More and more urgent need is felt of a Chapel-a building for purposes of devotion and recitations; and most of all as a place of deposit for the valuable Library of the Institution--a treasure which ought not by any means to be kept continuously in so exposed a condition as it must necessairly be, until such a building shall be provided. Among the wants of the Seminary besides a Professorship of Ecclesiastical History, and a Chapel building, there is the filling up of the Fund for the relief of Indigent Students. About three or four thousand dollars have been contributed for the object, by a liberal friend in Bangor, but under such conditions that as much more must be added, before it can be available to the purposes designed. Of the usefulness and importance of the Seminary, there is no occasion to speak. What would have become of Maine, as to a supply of ministers, had not God, in his Providence, raised up our beloved Seminary. Of the 268 Alumni, and of nearly half as many more who have shared in part the privileges of the Institution, how few would have had any special sympathy for Maine. Nor have the good influences of the Seminary been confined to Maine. Its Alumni are now lifting up their voices abroad in almost all the world-in California and Oregon-at the Sandwich Islands and in Micronesia-in India and in different parts of the Turkish Empire, as well as in our own Western States. The churches have the strongest reasons for making all they can of the Seminary for which they have already done so much, and from which they, and the churches nearly the world over, have received, and are receiving so much. NEW HAMPSHIRE. The General Association of New Hampshire assembled in the Congregational meeting-house at Littleton, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 1853, at 10 A. M. The meeting was opened by a sermon, by Rev. Amos Blanchard, from 2 Kings, 4: 13. After the sermon, a collection was taken up in aid of the Widows' Charitable Fund. The Association was organized by the choice of Rev. Jacob Scales, Moderator, Rev. Jesse Page, Scribe, Rev. Rufus Case, Assistant Scribe. Narratives of the state of religion within the bounds of the District Associations, and corresponding foreign bodies, were presented, with devotional exercises. The following Delegates to foreign bodies were appointed : To the General Conference of Maine, Rev. L. White, Primary, Rev. E. Adams, Substitute. To the General Convention of Vermont, Rev. W. Wright, Primary, Rev. J. P. Humphrey, Substitute. To the General Association of Massachusetts, Rev. N. Barbour, Primary, Rev. E. H. Greeley, Substitute. To the General Association of Connecticut, Rev. Austin Richards, Primary, Rev. Wm. Clark, Substitute. To the General Consociation of Rhode Island, Rev. G. Leach, Primary, Rev. A. Jenkins, Substitute. To the General Association of New York, Rev. J. Richards, D. D., Primary, Rev. S. T. Abbott, Substitute. |