The Association then adjourned to the chapel, and the church was occupied by the Woman’s Missionary Meeting under the auspices of the Woman’s Bureau of the Association.  Mrs. George M. Lane, of Detroit, Michigan, presided.  The report was made by the Secretary, Miss D.E.  Emerson, after which addresses were made by the missionaries:  On the mountain work, by Miss Hayes, of Tennessee; on the colored people, by Mrs. Shaw, of Georgia, and Miss Plant, of Mississippi; and on the Indians, by Miss Barnaby, a native teacher.

The Nominating Committee reported the following list of officers for the ensuing year: 

President,

  REV.  WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.

Vice-Presidents,

  REV.  A.J.F.  BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y. 
  REV.  F.A.  NOBLE, D.D., Ill. 
  REV.  ALEX.  McKENZIE, D.D., Mass. 
  REV.  D.O.  MEARS, D.D., Mass
  REV.  HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.

Corresponding Secretaries,

  REV.  M.E.  STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. 
  REV.  A.F.  BEARD, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

Recording Secretary,

  REV.  M.E.  STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

Treasurer,

  H.W.  HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

Auditors,

  PETER McCARTEE,
  CHAS. P. PEIRCE.

Executive Committee,

  For Three Years.

  S.B.  HALLIDAY,
  SAMUEL HOLMES,
  SAMUEL S. MARPLES,
  CHARLES L. MEAD,
  ELBERT B. MONROE.

  For One Year.—­ALBERT J. LYMAN.

A ballot was taken and the brethren named were elected.  After the benediction by the President, recess was taken until 7:30 P.M.

THURSDAY EVENING.

The Association was called to order by President Taylor.  “Stand up, stand up for Jesus,” was sung, after which Rev. Simeon Gilbert, D.D., led in prayer.

The records of the previous sessions of the day were read and approved, and the Secretary was instructed to complete the minutes.

The invitation to hold the next Annual Meeting in Northampton, Massachusetts, was accepted.

President George A. Gates, of Iowa College, addressed the Association, and was followed by an address by President Cyrus Northrop, D.D., of Minnesota, and also by President E.D.  Eaton, D.D., of Wisconsin.

The closing address of the Association was made by President Taylor.

The following minute read by Secretary Roy was then adopted: 

When, just eighteen years ago, this city was smoldering in the ruins of the great fire, which had consumed the holy and beautiful house of this New England Church and the homes of every family in it, the pastor, searching among the ashes within these walls for some memento, found a charred leaf of the pulpit hymn-book on which he was able to decipher these words: 

“Daughter of Zion, awake from the dust,
Exalt thy fallen head: 
Rebuild thy walls, thy bounds enlarge,
And send thy heralds forth.”