SOCIAL REUNION.

THE Twentieth Social Reunion was held on Thursday evening, the 8th of May, and was, as usual, an occasion of deep interest.

By special invitation from the Broadway Tabernacle Church in New York, the meeting was transferred this year from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the splendid audience-room of that church, recently remodelled. Although the evening was severely stormy, a large and intelligent audience assembled and remained to a late

hour.

At the appointed time, the chair was taken by the Rev. Henry M. Scudder, pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn. Prayer was offered by the Rev. George H. Hepworth, of the Church of the Disciples. The music, by a choir, including Miss Antoinette Sterling, Miss Edith Abell, Mrs. Emma W. Doty, Mr. G. S. Rockwood, and Mr. J. S. Lumbard, accompanied on the organ by Mrs. Marion Christopher, organist of the Tabernacle Church, was of rare excellence, and was greatly enjoyed by the audience.

Rev. Mr. Scudder, the presiding officer, made the opening address. He was followed by the Rev. Dr. Taylor, of the Tabernacle Church, Congregationalist, the Rev. Dr. Robinson, of New York, Presbyterian, Rev. W. T. Sabine, of New York, Episcopalian, Rev. Mr. Buckley, of Brooklyn, Methodist, and the Rev. Mr. Behrends, of Yonkers, Baptist. The addresses were full of rich thought and genial humor, and held the audience in fixed attention throughout. Altogether the meeting was regarded one of the best.

THE ANNIVERSARY AT BOSTON.

THE seven co-operative Congregational societies held a united convention this year, as last, instead of having separate anniversary meetings. This convention was held in the Tremont Temple on Thursday, the 29th of May, occupying the morning and the afternoon.

The Hon. Amos C. Barstow, of Providence, R. I., occupied the chair. The morning was devoted to The Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education, The American Education Society, The Congregational Publishing Society, and The American Missionary Association; the afternoon, to The American Congregational Union, The American Home Missionary Society, and The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

In the evening, the hospitalities of the Congregational Club, of Boston, were extended to their Christian friends from abroad. A bountiful repast was provided in the room designed for the Library, in the new Congregational House, and an intellectual feast was afterwards enjoyed in Pilgrim Hall, in the same edifice.

The portion of the day devoted to the American Congregational Union was occupied with a statement of the work of the Union by Secretary Cushing, and with a suggestive address upon "The Meeting-house, as the place for meeting God," delivered by Rev. Edwin B. Webb, D. D., of Boston.

All the exercises of the day were attended with happy results.

BUSINESS MEETING.

THE Twentieth Annual Business Meeting of the American Congregational Union was held at the Lecture Room of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, on Thursday, May 8, at half-past three o'clock, P. M. Alfred S. Barnes, Esq., occupied the chair. Prayer was offered by the Rev. Alexander H. Clapp, D. D., of New York.

A summary of the Annual Report of the Board of Trustees was presented by the Rev. Ray Palmer, D. D., Corresponding Secretary. The Treasurer read a summary of his Annual Report for the year ending May 1, 1873. On motion, it was

Voted, That the Annual Report of the Board of Trustees, and also that of the Treasurer, be accepted and published, under the direction of the Board of Trustees.

On motion, the President appointed a committee to nominate officers of the Society for the ensuing year.

The committee reported the following named gentlemen for the several offices of President, Vice-Presidents, and Trustees, all of whom were duly elected.

OFFICERS FOR 1872-73.

President.

Rev. RICHARD S. STORRS, JR., D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Vice-Presidents.

Rev. WM. IVES BUDINGTON, D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.

ALFRED S. BARNES, Esq., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rev. HENRY M. STORRS, D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Hon. BRADFORD R. WOOD, Albany, N. Y.
Rev. O. E. DAGGETT, D. D., New London, Conn.
Hon. Wм. A. BUCKINGHAM, LL. D., Norwich, Conn.
Rev. EDWARDS A. PARK, D. D., Andover, Mass.
Rev. MARK HOPKINS, D. D., Williamstown, Mass.
Rev. ISAAC P. LANGWORTHY, Boston, Mass.
Rev. J. M. MANNING, D. D., Boston, Mass.
Hon. EMORY WASHBURN, LL. D., Cambridge, Mass.
Hon. REUBEN A. CHAPMAN, LL. D., Monson, Mass.
Rev. JOHN O. FISKE, D. D., Bath, Maine.

Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., Manchester, N. H.
Rev. H. D. KITCHEL, D. D., Middlebury, Vt.

Rev. C. L. GOODELL, St. Louis, Mo.

Hon. AMOS C. BARSTOW, Providence, R. I.
Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Jacksonville, Ill.
S. B. GOOKINS, Esq., Chicago, Ill.

Rev. JULIUS A. REED, Columbus, Neb.

Rev. GEORGE F. MAGOUN, D. D., Grinnell, Iowa.
Rev. TRUMAN M. Post, d. D., St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. ANDREW L. STONE, D. D., San Francisco, Cal.
Rev. SAMUEL WOLCOTT, D. D., Cleveland, Ohio.
Rev. GEORGE L. WALKER, D. D., New Haven, Ct.
Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., New Haven, Ct.
JAMES SMITH, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.
Hon. MARSHAL JEWELL, Hartford, Ct.
A. S. HATCH, Esq., New York.

Trustees.

Rev. WM. IVES BUDINGTON, D. D.
Rev. DAVID B. COE, D. d.
Rev. ALEX. H. CLAPP, D. d.
Rev. CHARLES P. BUSH, D. d.
Rev. H. Q. BUTTERFIELD.
HENRY C. BOWEN, Esq.
ALFRED S. BARNES, Esq.
JAMES W. ELWELL, Esq.
WILLIAM ALLEN, Esq.

SAMUEL HOLMes, Esq.
ROBERT D. BENEDICT, Esq.

Rev. T. J. HOLMES.

Rev. GEORGE B. BACON, D. D.
Rev. HENRY M. SCUDDER, D. D.
Rev. C. H. EVEREST.

Rev. G. B. WILCOX.

Rev. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR. D. D.
S. NELSON DAVIS, Esq.
JAMES H. STORRS, Esq.
WM. HENRY SMITH, Esq.
DWIGHT JOHNson, Esq.
J. B. HUTCHINSON, Esq.

Rev. S. B. HALLIDAY.

Rev. GEORGE M. BOYNTON.

Officers appointed by the Board of Trustees:

Corresponding Secretaries.

REV. RAY PALMER, D. D., 69 Bible House, New York.

REV. CHRISTOPHER CUSHING, D. D., 20 Cong. House, Boston.

Treasurer and Recording Secretary.

N. A. CALKINS, 69 Bible House, New York.

The meeting then adjourned.

N. A. CALKINS,
Rec. Sec.

ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE TRUSTEES.

MAY, 1873.

DURING the year which we now review, the Rev. Milton Badger, D. D., late senior secretary of the American Home Missionary Society, and for many years a trustee of the American Congregational Union, has finished his useful life, loved, honored, and lamented by all who knew him, and especially by all who had lived in close relations with him. His virtues and services have been already publicly and fully commemorated, and we need not speak particularly of them here. We recall, with tender memories, our long association with him in the business meetings of this Board, from which he was almost never absent, and how much we were refreshed by his genial and Christian spirit, instructed by his wise counsels, and encouraged by his faith. During his protracted illness we have missed him; and now that we are sure that we shall see his face no more, we desire to place on record our testimony to his exalted worth. He was eminently a good and able man, and accomplished a noble work, and he has left a name that the. Congregational churches will hold in enduring veneration.

With the present anniversary, the American Congregational Union completes the twentieth year of its existence. Originating in a want widely felt, especially by the young churches out of New England, of a centre of intelligence and intercommunication in relation to common interests, and an agency for various forms of service connected with the multiplication and increased activity of our churches, it has wrought steadily on for a score of years. It has put into successful operation the system of effort originally projected. Its office in the Bible House has been a rallying point, to a certain extent, to the Congregational ministry in New York and vicinity, and to those who have come to the city from the remote parts of the country. Its annual reunion during anniversary week, by its example of Christian catholicity, has attracted no little attention even from the secular press, and has done something, it may be hoped, to promote a fraternal acquaintance and a spirit of mutual respect and sympathy among those of different names who are actuated by a common devotion to the divine Master. It has borne an important part in the organization of those new movements among our churches which have characterized the period covered by its existence, and have rendered their co-operation more effective; and above all, it has carried for