over the finances with care and took a leading part in the work of the Executive Committee.
Throughout the 1830’s and late into the next decade Dr. Kendrick continued as Corresponding Secretary. After 1840, administrative duties occupied so much of his time that he had turned over to Professor Maginnis. most of his work as professor of systematic and pastoral theology. The Reports of the Board, circulars, and other articles from his pen in the hospitable pages of the Baptist Register and other denominational journals were perhaps the Society’s most effective advertising. Of all the members of the Board, he had the most thorough understanding of its activities and problems.
Financial questions proved by far the most serious and trying with which the Board had to deal. From 1833 to 1846 annual expenditures