We approach the conclusion of this Annual Convention of the
American Missionary Association with grateful hearts for all
the way by which God has led it from the day when it crossed the
brook with its staff of testimony to this time of extended
influence and usefulness, with humble rejoicing both in the
intellectual and spiritual fellowship of this meeting, and also
with a special sense of responsibility under the burden of
obligation which God has placed upon us by this unprecedented
enlargement of our stewardship. We wish to express our devout
thanksgiving for the grace of hospitality which has been
bestowed in such abounding measure upon the churches of Christ
and the good people of this city of Providence, with whose name
in its divine significance we are to associate this peculiarly
impressive anniversary.

We recall the delightful welcome which greeted us at the
opening of these services, only to be impressed with the
assurance that this Union Congregational Society and the other
churches of the city were not at all forgetful to "entertain
strangers." Their love indeed, made us at once to feel at home
in their households, and in the midst of their delightful
families.

_Resolved_, That to the local committees, especially the
indefatigable Secretary, to the pastors of all the churches,
to the choir and leaders of the services of song in the house
of the Lord, to the local and metropolitan press for its
generous reporting of these meetings to the large congregation
outside by its multiform and winged processes, and to the lines