Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-12-11
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and who might be introduc s
ed, at once to knowledge Of the holy
and theWay Of salvation, which (
they alone reveal, if there was but a
countrymen.
If our fellow-c;tizens, who have the
means of supplying such wants, could
but see as we see, the readiness and GER
tainty with which these means might be
employed to enlighten the ignorant and .
guide the inquiring, we think they would |
not long remain unsu?plted.
Tbs AMERICAN sUNDAY-sCHooL UN-
ION is endeavoring to open schools in the
destitute parts of our country, where
children, youth, and adults may be taught
TO read, if they are ignorant, and where
they can receive elementary instruction
in the great truths Of our religion. The
Society is so constituted that we can Ia
Dor acceplably in those districts where
people Of various denominations reside ;
and we have already succeeded in esab
fishing many hundreds, if not thousands
Of schools on this plan, that are at this
moment wide V dffusing the blessings of
knowledge aud salvation Our last An
nua! Report, which We should esteem it a
privilege to send to any who will read it,
contains complete history Of our opera
! tons for the last fifteen years.
r To prosecute this benevolent work, we
= must employ suitable laborers, and to sus.
tain them at their posts, we must pay
them from four to five hundred dollars {
: year. If they establish fifty schools on
l. permanent foundation. what sum of tel
d dollars is better spent?
One OF our missionaries, who latel
died ia the midst Of his usefulness, estat
l. ished, In single year. siTty-serem school,
" and visited or revived siIty-sir. Th
humber of children embraced IN thes
schools is not less than five thousand
)" and in April last, he reported, as with
o. his knowledge, fire hundred and thirty
lie sic cases of hopeful conversions, durin
+. the preceding year, in connexion wit
. these schools.
10 Our Southern fund is now exhauste
IL Every dollar OF the Valley fund has bee
" expended for several months, and W
l. have borrowed ,fUe thousand dollars
-, keep our few laborers at their posts, al
en- must withdraw them from Michigan, Oh
h and Illinois, unless hel p arises from son
nd quarter in short time.
- Two or three collecting agents on
~ are employed, whose remittances a
he wholly inadequate to sustain even our !
me duced scale of operations. If pastors
- churches would present our wants
- their people, at some suttbIe time, the
~ ciety would then be saved the exper
tlsN and delay of sending for their contrib
mi tons, and thus the whole amount wo'
en- 60 directly to the supply of the destitr
+ is And we would earnestly entreat
= sympathies of private Christians and
VI cietjes, who appropriate their coIlectio
ate from time to time, as the providence
lea God may direct To say nothing of
re- claims which are urged on US from n
sonary stations abroad, we need for
- present domestic wants, at least, tire,
lner fee thousand dollars, and we venture
say, that this sum, judiciousy expen
at this time, would at least do as mucl
le"' advance the best Interests Of our coun
e on as the same sum invested IN any OF
" ba form which the wit Of man has ever
vised.
lug If il should be asked, why we do
1her make the sales Of our books paw
d missionar ies, we reply, that we are pl
orcb ed t. sell our books at the lowest pri
. and TO burden them with the expense
> III our missionaries, would be to tax
r BE- class of the Christian community foI
ocia, sake of exemptng another from conf
oem- tons. Our publishing department
- its own expenses, aud that is all we
OS"' or expect from it.
Donations are respectfully and ear
M. ly solicited, and may be remtted TO T
Beck, Jun, Treasurer. or to either oil
subscribers, at l46 Chestnut st, Phil
phia. ALEXANDER HENRY, Pr
( FREDERlcK W. PORTER, Cor. Sc
Isaac T. Hopper, the writer of the attcI
Cav. low, copied from the Youths Cabinet, IS the
or of q pamphlet entitled Thomas Cooper
ing narrative of fu gtiye slave. Any mar
@c0"d from the pen of Isaac r, Hopper, may be Ell
rcun- relied upon fer correctness point of fac.
N o,r haps there is not the living person who has
as many Individuals to escape from An
iio'' Slavery as Isaac T. Hopper. Truly the 81
ociety, of them that were ready to perish will rest
n this head. ,u-., ,,,,,rrr,o,
c. M. was a slave to Fl. Ga
Sec merchant of Baltimore. Understa
,apb. that she was to be sold to specula
slaves, and taken with others to the
,Ience, she left her masters service and
'untry the nelghborhood OF ttaddohhefd'
zen &C Jersey, and obtained stoatloh as
which mestic servant, In highly reSpe
branch family. c. M, had left an
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