During these thirty years over $640,000 have been contributed for ecclesiastical and benevolent purposes, and about $700,000 for the maintenance of the sanctuary, its worship, and its work.

Over a million and a quarter of dollars have passed through these two channels.

The successive boards of trustees have managed our financial affairs carefully and efficiently.

The architecture of this noble edifice is not disfigured by any mortgage.

I hope it never will be.
There is one department of ministerial labor that has had a peculiar attraction to me and afforded me peculiar joy.