Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-03-01
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
Bsptist General Trae. Society.

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Extracts from The lath- AaaudI Report.
Irritating and Issaes.-The number of
copies Of tracs printed during the year, is
r27s,472, being an increase over the preced-
ing year Of 1912. The number Of pages
printed is s, les, 300, and the number issued
from the Depository Is 1905, 800, leaving
3,les,6oo pages on hand.
.s GratGitoGs Distribution.--The free
gvants Of tracts which have been made dur
ing the year, amount to Ss5s,27. They
have been distributed as foIlows:-In the
Mississippi Valley, 665,416 pages; Bur
nah, $3.50; Germany, 37,14O; Africa,
1880; Nova Scotia, 4s,o46; Jamaica
26,634 American Indians, 5000; Georgia,
7l,23e; South Carolina, |, aga N. Carolina,
lf,Sl6; Virginia, $1,000; Delaware, H.
Te; Pennsylvania, 65,454; New Jersey,
22,s6o; Newly rk, 1924 other places,
loS,96o. A communication has lately been
received from one Of the Secretaries of the
American Baptist Home Mission Society,
soliciting free grant for Canada, repre-
senting that field to be as large, important
and necessitous as any other which receives
our labors.
Effort in behalf Of Gernldny.-The
amount received for publishing tracts and
Mrs. Judson's Memoir in Germany in 1885,
was S23060. The amount received for
these objects during the past year is 1852, s4,
making the total amount received for both
objects $752.s4. OF this sum, 1851 ,29 has
been paid TO Mr.. onckeh, at Hamburg, Ger
man, leaving balance now due, Of 1901, Sc,
which will be paid over the earliest oppor-
tunity. Several tracts have already been
published and circulated by Mr.. oncken, by
whom the translation of Mrs. Judson's Me-
noir into the German language, has proba-
bly, ere this been commenced.
Burnah.--T The funds forpubhshing tracts
in Burmah, received since the last Trienni-
al Meeting of the General Convention,
amount to $1s4,25. Of these the sum oil
S49,56 has been paid, leaving balance in
the treasury for Burmah Of $134,79.
$4,000 Plan for distributing the pub
locations Of the Society in the Mississipp'
Vdlley.-It was proposed BY the Board in
April 1885, to raise one thousand dollars
or more, annually, for FIVE years, for thi:
object by subscription Of FIVE dollars each
provided that two hundred subscribers coulC
be obtained during the year. The numbe
Of share holders in December 1885, was 254
The present number is 275. The FIVE dol
lar instalments paid in by the close Of tn
first year, amounted to $662,50. Th'
amount received the past year, is $ll2O
making the sum Of S17s2, so, which has beeI
received in eighteen months. .Considerin,
the extent Of the field, and the increasin,
demand tor tracts, not only in the West, bu
alsoin Canada, the Managers have resoly
edhto call this noble enterprise, in future, tn
ten thoHsand dollar, plan, and to endeayc
to increase the number Of subscribers fror
200 400 twill be understood, OF cours,
that those who now subscribe FIVE dollar
per annum on this plan, do 50 with the e,
press understanding, that they endeavor I
pay this amount for fivc years. tits great
needed for tract distribution in the abov
mentioned regions, and the Managers pledg
themselves to see Il fairly applied to that d,
sirable object. Will not our friends in di
ferent parts Of the country hasten to enrt
their names, and forward their subscription
for-ahe furtherance Of this blest design 2 Y
In. addition 10 the above, there has bee
received into the treasury the past year f
the. Valley Fund, the sum of $25,s9. 10
ApriliGries,--From "A auxiliaries ther
has been received into the treasury, chief
donations, the sum Of $3.50, .includir
S226,s SO from abe Female Union Tract s
ciety Of Philadelphia. ~ tiszs--@ .'s[
Deposisorfess-The number Of the d
positories Of the SocietY's publications.
forty-fout5 OF these twenty are owned
the Society," and the others BY Au1iliarie
Associations and individuals.
Ssate Of Ae Find. There has been !
ceived into the Treasury during the ye
ending January 3, 1887, the sum of$92i5,7
being m increase beyond any precedi
year Of, Sl2i5,3o. The amount Of don
lions Tor general purposes and special .
iccts is S2o90,7s. trse.s y - Y zgt'r''