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 OF THE 
 
 LADIES 5 SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION 
 
 OF 
 
 EDUCATION AT THE WEST.
 
 HISTORY 
 
 or 
 
 THE FORMATION 
 
 OF 
 
 THE LADIES' SOCIETY 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 PROMOTION OF EDUCATION 
 AT THE WEST; 
 
 WITH 
 
 TWO ADDRESSES, DELIVERED AT ITS ORGANIZATION, 
 
 BY THE REV. EDWARD BEECHER, D.D., 
 
 AND 
 
 REV. E. N. KIRK. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 PRINTED BY HENRY MASON, 118 STATE STREET. 
 1846.
 
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 HISTORY. 
 
 The book published last summer, entitled " The 
 Duty of American Women to their Country," having 
 been read by ladies of different denominations, in Boston 
 and elsewhere, a simultaneous wish was expressed to 
 take immediate action on the subject of sending pious 
 female teachers to the West. 
 
 When the Mission Sewing Circle connected with 
 Mount Vernon Church and Society met, in October, to 
 organize for the winter, this subject was presented, and 
 a few ladies agreed to meet at an early day to converse, 
 and, if possible, lay some plan for a future society to be 
 organized. This informal meeting was held at Deacon 
 Safford's, October 22, and about twenty ladies were 
 present. All appeared deeply interested, and expressed 
 a wish to do something at once for the object, but no 
 one felt prepared to tell how to begin. However, before 
 they separated, the ladies chose one of their number a 
 committee to seek for the knowledge so much needed, 
 and, if able to obtain it, the Committee was authorized 
 to call a meeting and report. 
 
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 4 HISTORY. 
 
 The following week this Committee conversed with 
 several of the city pastors, and with a large number of 
 the most influential ladies connected with churches of 
 various denominations in the city. The pastors ex- 
 pressed an interest in the enterprize, and a willingness 
 to do all they could to promote it, but were not pre- 
 pared to mark out any precise course for the ladies to 
 pursue. 
 
 The ladies, also, expressed a strong interest in the 
 cause, and wished to make an immediate effort. At the 
 suggestion of one of the pastors, the Committee wrote 
 to Professor Stowe, of Lane Seminary, a member of the 
 Central Committee at Cincinnati. The Professor returned 
 an immediate answer, urging the ladies to make a 
 beginning with as little delay as possible. 
 
 Another informal meeting was soon called, and ladies 
 of several churches invited to attend it. Four of the 
 Congregational Churches of this city were represented. 
 After a very free conversation, it was unanimously 
 agreed to form a Society for selecting, aiding, and send- 
 ing pious female teachers to the West, as soon as suitable 
 preparations could be made. 
 
 It was not thought to be expedient to embrace all 
 denominations in one organization, as each denomina- 
 tion would be likely to labor more harmoniously and 
 efficiently by itself. 
 
 At this meeting the ladies instructed their former 
 Committee to write to all her acquaintance among 
 pastors, home missionaries, and Christian friends, at 
 the West, and request their aid in finding good loca- 
 tions for female schools, and a respectable home for 
 those young ladies who may be willing to go out as 
 teachers. 
 
 A large number of letters has been forwarded to the 
 West, and some answers, full of encouragement, have
 
 HISTORY. 5 
 
 been received, and it is presumed that many others are 
 now on their way. 
 
 A meeting, preparatory to the organization of a 
 Society, was held at Deacon Safford's, January 28, at 
 which eight Congregational Churches in Boston were 
 represented. This meeting was conducted with the 
 greatest harmony, and all its proceedings marked with 
 perfect unanimity. 
 
 Letters from Dr. Beecher, of Cincinnati, Professor 
 Stowe, of Lane Seminary, and others, were read ; and 
 some articles of agreement were presented, and very 
 closely investigated ; and finally a unanimous opinion 
 was expressed that a Society, embracing Congregation- 
 alists only, in New England, be organized on the 4th of 
 February, 1846. 
 
 The Rev. Edward Beecher, D.D., and the Rev. E. N. 
 Kirk, were invited to address the meeting at the time of 
 organization, and an invitation was sent to all the 
 Pastors of Congregational Churches in the city to attend, 
 and recommend the object of the Society to the confi- 
 dence and support of their congregations. The meeting 
 was then dissolved. 
 
 ORGANIZATION. 
 
 "THE LADIES' SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION 
 AT THE WEST" was organized, in the Mount Vernon 
 Chapel, in Boston, February 4, 1846. 
 
 The meeting was opened with prayer, by the Rev. Mr. 
 Blagden. 
 
 The history of the origin and progress of the Society, 
 and some letters from the West, were read by the Rev. 
 Mr. Kirk.
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 The annexed Constitution was then read and adopted, 
 and the following Board of Managers elected; after 
 which interesting addresses were made by Dr. Edward 
 Beecher and Rev. Mr. Kirk. 
 
 Mrs. SAMUEL HUBBARD, President. 
 Mra. WM. G. LAMBERT, Vice-President. 
 Mrs. HENRY M. HOLBROOK, Vice-President. 
 Miss CATHERINE SCOLLAY, Treasurer. 
 Miss SARAH TUTTLE, Secretary. 
 
 Park Street Church Mrs. WM. T. EUSTIS and Mrs. L. M. STIMPSON. 
 
 Bowdoin Street ,, Mrs. MOSES L. HALE and Mrs. J. BANCROFT. 
 
 Old South ,, Mrs. CHARLES STODDARD and Mrs. PICKENS, 
 
 Essex Street ,, Mrs. WILKINSON and Mrs. STEEL. 
 
 Pine Street ,, Mrs. ELIPH. KIMBALL and Mrs. WILLET. 
 
 Suffolk Union ,, Mrs. ALDEN and Mrs. WILKINS. 
 
 Central Union ,, Mrs. J. C. PROCTOR and Mrs. N. CAHRUTH. 
 
 North Union ,, Mrs. HOUGHTON and Mrs. WHITON. 
 
 Salem Street ,, Mrs. L. J. JARVIS and Mrs. J. B. BUCK. 
 
 Mount Vernon Mrs. G. W. CROCKETT and Mrs. D. SAFFOHD. 
 
 Committee. 
 
 Mrs. SAMUEL HUBBARD, Park Street. 
 Mrs. WILLIAM G. LAMBERT, Bowdoin Street. 
 Mrs. HENRY M. HOLBROOK, Old South. 
 Mrs. WILLIAM T. EUSTIS, Park Street. 
 Mrs. DANIEL SAFFORD, Mount Vernon. 
 Miss CATHERINE SCOLLAY, Mount Vernon. 
 Miss SARAH TUTTLE, Mount Vernon.
 
 DR. BEECHER'S ADDRESS. 
 
 I rejoice to see this day and this meeting ; for it is the? 
 first effort to take hold with system of a department too- 
 long neglected, the organization of females, and the 
 systematized application of female power in the great 
 work of Education, especially at the West. 
 
 I say too long neglected I mean by us Protestants, 
 for by the Romanists it has not been neglected. One 
 of the wisest and most powerful parts of that system is 
 the organized use that it makes of the female mind in 
 this great work. 
 
 I hold in my hands a full development of their system 
 in this particular in our country, as exhibited in the 
 Metropolitan Catholic Almanac for the present year, 
 from which I shall make some statements of facts as I 
 proceed. 
 
 Of all departments of benevolent enterprize at the 
 West, education is the most important. The end of all 
 our efforts should be to make the West a self-educating 
 and self-supplying community. It is in vain to think of 
 supplying them permanently with ministers and teachers 
 from the East. Unless, therefore, a complete system of 
 education is organized, all other efforts must fail. 
 
 Nor* is it enough to provide colleges, and theological 
 seminaries, to educate men the work is but half done 
 if the female mind is not elevated in the same proportion 
 as that of the other sex. And whose duty is it, if not of
 
 8 DR. BEECHER'S ADDRESS. 
 
 females situated as those of New England are, to see 
 that it is done ? 
 
 And yet no organized effort has ever been made by 
 them to do anything of this kind for the West. For 
 example : We have labored to establish a theological 
 seminary at Cincinnati, and a college at Crawfordsville, 
 in Indiana ; but no organized effort has been made to 
 sustain female schools. Meantime the Catholics have 
 been indefatigable. The results are as might have been 
 expected. The following extract from a letter to Mrs. 
 Stowe, taken from the ' New York Evangelist,' will 
 present the matter in a vivid light : 
 
 " I have j ust laid aside the volume entitled ' The Duty of 
 American Women to their Country,' and take up my pen to 
 address you on the subject. Our common schools in this 
 State are in a deplorable condition, and few competent teachers 
 are to be found among us. But I write especially to inquire 
 for teachers for a Female High School. J knmv of no Pro- 
 testant Female Institution in the State, where a young lady 
 can receive a thorough education. The Catholic female 
 institution at St. Mary's has a large number of young ladies 
 from this part of the State. A number of our students in our 
 colleges have sisters there ; but they are not satisfied, and only 
 go there because they know not where else to go to finish their 
 education. Had we only suitable accommodations and teachers 
 here, scholars would not be wanting." 
 
 Mrs. Stowe proceeds : 
 
 " A clergyman in Indiana states, also, that many of the 
 daughters of their most influential political men are at Catholic 
 seminaries, and that he could not prevent even the members of 
 his own church from doing the same thing, because, as they 
 said, ' there were no other good schools.' Thus the wives and 
 mothers of the future chief men of that state are being trained 
 by Catholics."
 
 DR. BEECHER'S ADDRESS. 9 
 
 Of what use is it now to go on and educate one-half 
 of the community, and then, by leaving the other half in 
 the hands of the Catholics, to undo all that we have 
 been laboring to effect? for it is impossible to rear a 
 Protestant nation without Protestant mothers. 
 
 I do not say that no efforts have been made by female 
 enterprize to establish schools at the West honorable 
 efforts have been made ; but they have been individual 
 efforts, and in a work of this kind the organized power 
 of the Roman Catholic Church will tire out individual 
 effort. 
 
 Look now and see what the Catholics have been doing 
 in this same State of Indiana, where there is not one 
 good Protestant female high school. Though the 
 Catholic population of the State is but 25,000, they 
 have four female seminaries established at the most 
 important points in the State: at Fort Wayne, and 
 at Vincennes, and at Jasper, Dubois Co., and at Madi- 
 son, and one near Terra Haute ; and this is but a 
 specimen of what they are doing all over the West. 
 Indeed, out of sixty-eight Catholic female seminaries, 
 forty-five are at the West. What does this look like 
 but a deliberate purpose to proselyte the West, by the 
 power of the female mind ? 
 
 Nor are such efforts to be despised. The power of 
 highly-educated female minds is immense. It is not 
 obtruded and forced on our notice as is that of men, but 
 it is real, deep, and all-pervading. I never enter a 
 female seminary without feeling that the ruling minds of 
 a nation are as really trained there as in our colleges 
 and theological seminaries ; indeed, without them we 
 have but half a system, and the power of every great 
 movement is paralyzed. 
 
 By the formation of this Society a great vacuum in 
 our plans is filled. It is the first organization of Eastern
 
 10 DR. BEECHER^S ADDRESS. 
 
 females to undertake the great work of education at the 
 West. May God grant that it be not the last. May its 
 influence extend, till all the Protestant female mind of 
 the East be organized, and devoted to the great work of 
 educating the West. It is all, and more than all, needed 
 to meet the efforts of our crafty antagonists. 
 
 We have very inadequate ideas of what they are 
 doing in this way. Females are organized into various 
 orders, bound together by sacred vows for life. In the 
 name of the order, an appeal is made to some principle 
 of imagination or sympathy, or sacred emotion as in 
 the order of the "Sacred Heart," or "Holy Blood/' &c. 
 There is a mother-house, and branches of this are esta- 
 blished all over the nation. 
 
 Thus near Emmetsburg, Maryland, is the Mother- 
 house of the Sisters of Charity, numbering at present 
 one hundred and eleven. Besides this, there are two 
 hundred and fifty-seven employed as missionaries and 
 teachers through our land. They have thirty-seven 
 establishments under their care. 
 
 What permanency and power is there in one such 
 organization! Nothing is left to individual enterprize: 
 each in every order is strengthened by the power of the 
 whole church. And what a place of power does that 
 female fill who is at the head of one of these orders, and 
 has her eye upon so wide a field of action, with power to 
 direct so many educated, devoted, and enterprising female 
 minds 1 
 
 There is, indeed, an element of. power in their system 
 that we reject as fraught with ruinous consequences on 
 the great scale I mean celibacy ; yet it is an element 
 of great power, as it renders their organizations inde- 
 pendent, permanent, and complete. 
 
 But organizations like this, if widely extended, and 
 vigorously used, by the Protestant female world, may be
 
 DR. BEEPER'S ADDRESS. 11 
 
 made more than a counterpoise to this peculiar Roman 
 Catholic power. To the Protestant females, then, of 
 these Eastern States I would say, Organize organize 
 and bring your combined power to bear on the educa- 
 tion of the West. It is a field that above all others calls 
 for your labors. 
 
 Two things there exist * a present inability to act for 
 themselves., and a great susceptibility of influence if 
 acted on. They are unable to act, because society is 
 new, the community weak, the materials heterogeneous, 
 and those who are fit to lead in the work of forming 
 systems of education are in the minority. Yet they are 
 susceptible of influence, for the prevailing spirit of the 
 age calls for Education, and the desire of local improve- 
 ment leads every community to favor efforts to establish 
 educational institutions. 
 
 If any suggest, Wait till they are able to establish 
 their own institutions, I reply, If we wait, the Papacy 
 will not. If we sleep, the enemy will sow tares. If any 
 still suggest, there is no religious danger from the educa- 
 tional efforts of the Catholics, read the following extract 
 from the article already referred to : 
 
 " Among the printed regulations of these schools we find 
 these : ' All the young ladies are required to conform to 
 the public worship of the house" (i.e., to join in worshipping 
 the Virgin and Saints), ' but no undue influence is exerted over 
 their religious principles.' ' All written communications are 
 subject to the inspection of the tutoress.'" 
 
 What is not undue influence may be learned from 
 Bishop Smith, and others who receive pupils who have 
 previously attended such schools. The influence there 
 exerted, they affirm, "ordinarily produces one of three 
 results either a change to Catholicism, or great con-
 
 12 DR. BEECHER'S ADDRESS. 
 
 tempt for Protestant opinions and practises, or reckless 
 infidelity and hatred of all religion." 
 
 But we do not need such facts ; the nature of the case 
 shows that the Catholic educational system is expressly 
 designed as a part of a great system of proselytism 
 and will it not be used for its real end ? In view of 
 these facts, it has been well said, " It is equally bad 
 taste and bad Christianity to revile and sneer as many 
 seem disposed to do at such efforts of the Catholic 
 church." A gentleman of intelligence recently remarked, 
 with regard to the Catholics and Protestants at the West, 
 " The Catholics work, but the Protestants scold : of 
 course the Catholics advance the quickest." Now this 
 is not true in every department of effort ; but, unfor- 
 tunately, in regard to education it is true. There is no 
 Protestant denomination, either at the East or the West, 
 that is even beginning" to do in this field what the 
 Catholics are doing, nor any that might not with great 
 advantage take a lesson from them. As long as this is 
 so, of course the Catholics will succeed, for the laws of 
 God's system are on their side. 
 
 But if Protestant females will take hold of the work, 
 in good earnest, they can easily surpass the Catholics. 
 True, the unity and centralization of their system, and 
 their principles of celibacy, give them for a time vast 
 power, but they will ultimately ruin the system to which 
 they belong. We have renounced and abhor them. 
 
 But we have unspeakable advantages over them if we 
 will use them aright. The nature and history of our 
 institutions are a constant force on our side, and against 
 them. There is great power of enterprise and action in 
 innumerable female hearts scattered through our land, 
 and it needs only to be called out and organized. For 
 us, too, and against them, are the Gospel, revivals, and 
 the Holy Spirit. The whole history, too, of the world is
 
 REV. MR. KIRK'S ADDRESS. 13 
 
 on our side. That system has been tried for ages, and 
 it has never touched a community but to wither, to blast, 
 and to curse. A full exhibition of its history by God 
 would bring on its day of judgment and bum it with 
 fire. Be strong, therefore, and fear not. Be strong 
 not in your own strength, but in the strength of God. 
 Count the cost, and aim at great things, and expect 
 great things. Your first beginnings may be small, but 
 they involve great principles; and future ages may 
 unfold, as the result of this meeting, consequences of 
 which you would hardly dare this day to dream. 
 
 REV. MR. KIRK'S ADDRESS. 
 
 If not pledged to express my views, I would add 
 nothing to this powerful appeal. You have now seen 
 the necessity of organization, if it were merely in self- 
 defence. Considered only intellectually, and in a prac- 
 tical point of view, Romanism is a perfect specimen of 
 moral machinery. Here is, indeed, a system of female 
 propagandism powerful enough to arouse the friends of 
 truth and freedom to vigilance and action. "Sisters of the 
 Sacred Heart ! " " Sisters of the Most Precious Blood ! " 
 watchwords to make Protestants smile, but to kindle an 
 undying enthusiasm in the hearts of women whose 
 religious sentiments have become as absorbing and 
 fervent as they are superstitious. A "Mother-house" 
 in Maryland! centralization, organization, system, and 
 tact, are ever in the Roman movements. Had they but 
 the truth and the Spirit of God with them, how resistless 
 would their efforts be ! And if the friends of truth mean 
 to maintain it against delusion and falsehood, they must 
 take lessons of their enemies. But this ground has been
 
 14 REV. MR. KIRK'S ADDRESS. 
 
 sufficiently explored to-day. I would call upon you to 
 glance at a still broader view of the occasion for such an 
 organization as we have now made. 
 
 I. The religious education of a large portion of our 
 country must at present be secured by the voluntary efforts 
 of the Church. 
 
 That we must be religiously educated as a nation, I 
 take to be a conceded point of our political creed. But 
 how is it to be brought about ? The Puritan spirit is 
 no longer in the governments nor the people. Education 
 does not hold the place with us which the Fathers 
 assigned it in the social system ; and Religion does not 
 now hold the place in Education which they assigned it. 
 The Western people, with some most interesting excep- 
 tions, are adventurous and enterprising chiefly in refer- 
 ence to acquisition and political power, and the immi- 
 grants from Europe are almost entirely an encumbrance 
 in this matter. Hence it is an ascertained fact, that 
 2,000,000 children are destitute of any education. Mere 
 compassion might induce us to furnish them the means 
 of mental culture ; but the Providence of God is appeal- 
 ing to us by yet higher considerations. The great 
 interests of Truth and Freedom turn, to a considerable 
 extent, on this point, whether the children of the poor 
 shall receive any, and what, education. Never was 
 there a better opportunity to make the experiment of the 
 value of a Scriptural education. But the opportunity 
 for the experiment must be embraced by us now, or 
 perhaps lost for generations to come. 
 
 Much has been said concerning the importance of 
 universal education in a republic ; but enough has not 
 yet been said. Our free institutions are resting on 
 20,000,000 people, of whom 1,500,000 cannot read, and 
 of whom 2,500,000 children have no school. In Ohio, 
 the most enlightened State of the West, one-third have
 
 REV. MR. KIRK'S ADDRESS. 15 
 
 no school privileges. What, then, must be the condition 
 of Indiana, Illinois, and others 7 In Virginia one-fourth 
 of the white population cannot write their names in 
 applying for the marriage license. In the whole South- 
 ern States one-half of the white children have no schools. 
 
 Now who is to look after this multitude of embryo 
 citizens ? The mere patriot ought to say, Things shall 
 not remain so. But Christians surely should deter- 
 mine to bring about a change. The evangelical churches 
 of our country ought at once to send forth two grades of 
 pious teachers, for the higher and lower branches of 
 instruction, to the number of 50,000, under a system as 
 complete as that of the Home Missionary Society ; ready 
 to compete with the best teachers that Rome can furnish, 
 and to give an opportunity to all the uneducated children 
 of our country to receive a Christian education. We 
 should support them among the poor, just as we sustain 
 our Missionaries, by helping those who will help them- 
 selves. And, besides these, we are deeply interested in 
 sending out a considerable number of the more accom- 
 plished teachers. This is much needed, in order to 
 remove the reason now assigned for sending the children 
 of the better classes to the Roman schools. The Western 
 people cannot yet furnish themselves with the higher class 
 of female schools, to compete with those of the Romanists. 
 
 II. But why should the women of New England, par- 
 ticularly, organize a Society for that purpose ? 
 
 Because there is, by reason of commerce and emigra- 
 tion, a surplus of nearly 20,000 females in New England, 
 who can never become the heads of families if this 
 disproportion continues ; and yet whose talents might 
 accomplish much for the world's good, if they could find 
 employment. Very many of them are longing for an 
 opportunity to do good, without seeing how they can 
 accomplish much. It seems to be a merciful provision
 
 16 REV. MR. KIRK'S ADDRESS. 
 
 for hundreds of well educated Christian young women, 
 whose sex forbids their adventuring as their brothers do, 
 and yet who, if such a Society will encourage them, and 
 send them forth, may go cheerfully and understandingly 
 right to the best spot for them in all that wide region. 
 Many may find themselves unprepared for the Foreign 
 Service, who yet would most thankfully accept your aid 
 and counsel in choosing the sphere of their labors in the 
 mission-field of the Great Valley. New England is con- 
 stantly elevating the standard of Female Education, and 
 sending forth a number of highly educated young women; 
 but many most of them are unable to meet the ex- 
 penses of a journey to the West. They must be furnished 
 with the means of making this long journey ; and all 
 need the aid which this Society may furnish, in selecting 
 their respective fields of labor. In fact, this is one of 
 the most interesting features of this organization, that it 
 selects the sites for establishing schools. The Papists 
 have laid out the West with the experienced eye of 
 generals : we can compete with them only by an equally 
 judicious choice of position and designation of labors. 
 
 And there is, moreover, a special propriety in sending 
 well educated and pious women. You see the Romanists 
 know what to do with female talent. I respect them 
 for their good sense in a bad cause. There are defects 
 (peculiar, at least in degree) in the Western character, 
 for which our Christian sisters may furnish a remedy. 
 There is a great lack of reverence, of the domestic 
 affections, of self-control, of faith in God and spiritual 
 things. No better substitute can be found for a correct 
 maternal and domestic influence in these matters than 
 woman's gentleness, exerted in the daily intercourse of a 
 teacher. No better aid to the faithful missionary and 
 colporteur can be sent than the pious teacher, who shall 
 be able to take even a maternal care of the little children ;
 
 REV. MR. KIRK'S ADDRESS. 17 
 
 who may impart many valuable lessons to poor families, 
 in domestic economy ; whose gentleness, and kindness, 
 and dignity, and good sense, and piety, may give her the 
 confidence and esteem of persons of all parties. 
 
 There is, moreover, another very cogent consideration : 
 the men could not be found in sufficient numbers to 
 do this work, while so many avenues to wealth and dis- 
 tinction are opening to the youth of this country. And 
 the economy of this movement must recommend it, since 
 woman either desires or needs a smaller compensation 
 for services than man. 
 
 Such is an unembellished statement of the considera- 
 tions which appear to me to commend this Society to the 
 favor of our churches. If any complain of the multipli- 
 cation of societies, they may complain of the whole 
 movement of Providence. God is calling to more effort, 
 and more sacrifice ; and the larger part of it can be more 
 effectively accomplished through organizations. The 
 very fact that Rome is so multiplying her machinery in 
 this country, is an indication that we must change our 
 tactics, and meet her on her ground, and adapt our 
 modes of defence to her attacks. 
 
 It may be suggested by some that this institution is 
 about to bring woman out of her sphere into too much 
 publicity. There is not a branch of all this business 
 that will require any ladies' speeches, or any other 
 appearance of ladies in public than is sanctioned by the 
 best usages of society. If a department of finance and 
 agency should be needed in the progress of the Society, 
 a sufficient number of competent men will be very ready 
 to constitute a committee for that purpose. In the West 
 the Home Missionaries, and other intelligent friends, will 
 doubtless do all that may be necessary in securing the 
 proper selection of places for your teachers, and their 
 proper reception and protection there.
 
 18 
 
 CONSTITUTION 
 
 The Ladies' Society for the Promotion of Education 
 
 THE WEST. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 This Society shall be called, " The Ladies' Society for 
 the Promotion of Education at the West." 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 The object of this Society is to send to the "Western States 
 competent female teachers, of unquestionable piety, belonging 
 to Congregational churches in New England. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 The officers of the Society shall be, a President, two 
 Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and Twenty Managers. 
 These shall constitute a Board of Directors, five of whom 
 shall form a quorum. From this Board an Executive Com- 
 mittee of Seven shall be chosen annually. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the President to call, and preside at, 
 Meetings of the Board, each of which is to be opened with 
 prayer.
 
 CONSTITUTION. 19 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 In the absence of the President, it shall be the duty of the 
 senior Vice-President to preside, and perform the duties of 
 President. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a record of all 
 the proceedings, and be the organ of communication with 
 Auxiliary Societies and with individuals ; and she shall perform 
 any other duties the Board of Directors may assign. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all subscrip- 
 tions, and donations of moneys or other property; to keep 
 account thereof, and make a report to the Society at the annual 
 meeting. She will keep a catalogue of members, life members, 
 and donors. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 The Board of Managers shall meet quarterly, to hear state- 
 ments from the Executive Committee, and give counsel on such 
 points as may be submitted to them. They shall collect funds 
 in their respective churches and congregations, and pay over 
 the same to the Treasurer, at the stated meetings of the Board. 
 They shall have power to fill any vacancies which may occur 
 among their members. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall have charge of the special 
 business of the Society, and shall have power to call their own 
 meetings ; to fill any vacancies which may occur among their 
 members ; to appropriate funds as shall be needed between the 
 quarterly meetings; and to make rules for the selection of 
 teachers, and for their transportation and location. Three of 
 this Committee shall form a quorum. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 Any lady may become a member of this Society by the pay- 
 ment of not less than One Dollar per annum ; and any person 
 paying, at any one time, Twenty Dollars shall become a 
 Member for Life.
 
 20 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 
 As the object of this Society is to send Female Teachers to 
 the West, from the Congregational Churches in every part of 
 New England, it will need and it invites the co-operation 
 of Ladies in the New England States ; and any Association of 
 Ladies formed for the same object with this Society, and annually 
 paying into its treasury, will receive an Annual Report of its 
 Proceedings. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 Alterations shall not be made in this Constitution, except at 
 the Annual Meeting of the Society, and not without the 
 recommendation of the Board of Directors.
 
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