Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1818-09-15

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In Asia, the whole number Of mis-
sicnaries, not including native preachers,
is l02. The population, it is supposed,
falls but little short of 100000, 900, fur
nishiDg an average Of about 100000 for
each missionary. According to this es-
innate, were the United States situated
10 Asia, and now cropping in pagan dark
ness, our proportion would be less than
the missionaries. o how much is to be
done! How vast is the fieldl How pIen-
teous is the harvest and how few, how
very few are the labourersl
Anothcr Extract.
In pleading for the destitute millions of
our own land, and for the heather abroad,
/ shall content myself, at present, with
merely asking for what you eau spare,
and never feel It, except in the exquisite
pleasure of doing good, and the rich and
varied blessings which your offerings will
bring down upon yourselves and your
children, from heaven. 4" Honour the
Lord with thy substance, and with the
first fruits of all thine increase, SO shall
thy barns be filed with plenty, and thy
presses shall burst cut with new wine
Without presuming toetouch single
bank share, or foot of land, or note or
bond, or flock, or herd, 10 the County,
could easily show, by the mere alphabet
of arithmetic, how every call for charity
might be met with surprising liberality.
1t would only require a little extra exer-
ton, with few trifling retrenchments
and sacrifices, to produce charitable
fund of eighty thousand dollars annually.
Could my voice reach every ear in the
county, / would say, Give us only what
you can spare, and still be richer than if
you gave nothing, and We will become
obligated to pay at leasttwenty thousand
dollars into the Lords treasury. Nay,
save and give us what is a thousand times
worse than thrown away, and we will en-
gage to support loo pious INDECENT young
nen in their collegiate course. Make no
retrenchments 10 the expences of your
tables, 60 on joining house to house and
adding field to field, provide for your
children and for the wants of old age !;
withhold nothing from the poor give us
barely the avails OF three hours extra la
bonr 10 each week, and it viii amount, in
this single county, to more than $4,000
annually. Give lis only fifth part OF
what the lawsuits of the county annually
costs the inhabitants, and it will handsome
I y support 100 young men in college.
Allow us but siugle 1.-THE of what is now
most mischievously laid out for ardent
spirits, and it will maintain at least 100
more. Nay, let us have merely the sim
lpie interest of what it annually costs this
County, or any other Of equal population,
to make sots, and beggars, and maniacs
to purchase dropsies, gouts and fevers,
early graves and everlasting contempt
give us barely the interest of the money
which is thus expended, and we will en-
gage to support thirty pious young men.
in their preparations for the ministry.
These estimates may appear to some
quite enormous but a few plain calcu-
lations will show that they are extremely
moderate. The population of Berkshire,
according to the last census, is about
$4,000. 1t appears from official returns
to the Secretary's office, in 1910, that
more than 100000 gallons of ardent
spirits are annually consumed in the
United States. The average proportion
for this county is, within fraction Of 60,
900 gallons. We will suppose, however.
that the Inhabitants of Berkshire drink
one third less than their full share, or only
100000 gallons, amounting, at rs cents
per gallon, to 10000 dollars. Certainly
not one fourth part of this expence for
liquor, can be necessary. More than
$4,000 dollars must be thrown away.
But we will make another deduction of
one third, from the last estimate, in favour
of the County; and then we shall have a
saving of 10000 dollars, in the single
article Of spurious liquor. This may be
put down as our first item in the charita-
BILE fund Of the county.
Secondiy.-Making every reasonable
deduction for childhood, sickness and old
age, there must be, in population Of
$4,000 souls, 5000 persons of full strength
to labcur, who might, upon an average,
devote the ayails of three hours labour
each week, to charitable purposes. This
would amount, in a year, to no less than
thirteen days. The earnings Of each day
could not surely be less than twenty-five
cents, or three dollars twenty-five cents
per annnm. Multiply three dollars
twenty-five cents, the earnings Of one
person, by 5000, and you have an aggre-
gate of 10000 dollars. This is our
second item.
Thirdly AS many as 5000 persons in
Berkshire, from fifteen years old and up
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