*Including 135 school teachers and 44 native preachers and exhorters.

II. Missions to American Populations within Annual Conferences.

THE DEPARTED.

THE year 1866 has been one of unusual mortality among the members of the Board, hence the list which follows:

HON. MOSES FOWLER ODELL, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, departed this life Wednesday, June 13, aged forty-eight. He was elected a member of the Board of Managers in 1852. Of his services in the cause of missions, as in all his relations to the Church of God, it may be written, "He was faithful in all his house."

MR. W. A. Cox, for seventeen years a member of the Board of Managers of the Missionary Society, departed this life on the morning of August 4. This good man, "always even, always mild," was ever, in the Board, and in his Church as a member of the Missionary Committee, a devoted friend to the cause. We are admonished by noticing that, of the nine officers of the Board who were in the service when Brother Cox was elected, but two are now living; and of the thirty-two laymen who were elected with him, at least twelve have departed this life.

MR. FRANCIS HALL, one of the managers, and long a VicePresident of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, departed this life on Saturday evening, August 11, in the eighty-second year of his age. At the organization of our Society, in the Forsyth-street Church, in the city of New York, on the evening of April 5, 1819, he was chosen clerk of the Society, and filled that office for twenty-five years. He was the first layman in our Church ever elected to the office of Vice-President of the Missionary Society, and sustained that relation up to the time of his decease. The fidelity with which he was found in his place in the Board was the least of the invaluable service which he rendered the Society through a period of forty-seven years. A man of unsullied fame in the secular and religious world, it was impossible to prevent

his name from being a tower of strength in such an association as that of our Missionary Society, which he lived to see increase in its resources, from $823 04 the first year, to $642,740 67 during the last year, 1865. Its expenditures for the first twelve months of his connection were less than $500, and for the first six months of this current year were more than $500,000! He has been greatly beloved in all his Church relations; and in consequence of his diligence and fidelity, particularly in the missionary cause, his name has been long known wherever the people called Methodists are known. "He was a burning and a shining light," and contributed to the measure of his ability in every way to spread the mission work all over these states and territories, as also into every foreign field which we occupy. He was the Chairman of our Committee on the Missions in India and Turkey from their commencement. He was also one of the original corporators of the North River Bethel Sosiety, for the preaching of the Gospel among Scandinavian seamen and residents, a mission originating under the patronage of the Parent Board, and he lived to see it spread its labors into all the Scandinavian territories and upon every sea in the world. He was, at the time of his decease, one of the only three of the original members of the Board remaining in its service. We have as a society a rich inheritance in his name and services, and can desire nothing better for ourselves and his surviving associates in this great work, than the happiness of being found as he was, "faithful unto death."

REV. SAMUEL Y. MONROE, D.D., was a member of the General Missionary Committee from the session of the General Conference of 1864 up to the time of his sudden and mysterious removal to endless life. The Church has not been so suddenly and painfully shocked since the startling announcement of the sudden death of Bishop Emory. No member of the General Committee could be more missed from its counsels than Brother Monroe. Though we are persuaded that sudden death to him was "sudden glory," we mourn the loss of a man whose public life in the Churches since 1843 has been as the "shining light."