Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-05-22

Missionaries employ last year by by this socety. S5
CONF rrggstioDs sapIed with the Gospel s9i
Adsn members prssed the faith and joined churches
ether churches.
Gathered into SABBATH schools ...-...-.......e $4,000
Joined the Temperance Society 5000
Converted m67 districts ......... loss
The society has great cause to be thankful for the
first We months of this year exceeds those of the
last year in receipts; but the following three were
very dark months, and scarcely any body paid in
any money. At one time the society feared that
they could not pay the Missionaries draughts on
them; but in the last four months the churches at
home woke up, collected large sums, and also in
duced indv duals to subscribe literally,
The SscIety's expenses for the whole year were
SS75E. They have paid, and have money to pay
SSoSl2. Consequently they owe 50, 705 more than
they have money to pay. But the past year has
been year Of great revivals; indeed greater than
ever was ever known before These revivals have
been marked with solemnity and power beyond pre-
cedent; the missionaries had preached to the pur
pose the money had been well laid out, and both had
been blessed TO the salvation Of sinners.
The socety's principal auxiiaries to be found
in Maine New Hampshire, Vermont, Mass hu sets,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, the western part of New
York, the Philadelphia agency, Ohio, and the Cana
da Home Missionary Society The society had
only sent out six hundred and eighty young mission
aries the United States the last year. but
this was because of the commercial difficulties which
deprived them of funds sufficient for their wants.
The Report was adopted, and the Rev. Thornton
A. Mills Of CINCINNATI "a short, broad faced, stout,
strOnglun9ed, and very young man, moved the fol-
lowing resolution
Resclved-That the past success of the Ameri
Home Missionary Society affords great encourage
ment for more extensive and energetic efforts TO
supply our whole country with the gospel.
Mr.. Mills said stand here a son of the Great
West, and glad to have this chance to call
your attention to il. Ii is the first time l ever
here. and | am delighted with the sight of the many
smiling faces | see around me. We are badly off in
the west FOR aborers they are peculiarly needed in
Ohio: afraid our friends here don't regard our
case much. There don't seem to be much talk about
us in the newspapers; although there is "A good deal
of travel through Ohio. The facilities of commun
cation are as great ever they were. The great
west seems be much nearer TO you but still IL is
exactly where it was ten years ago We don't know
where it begins. nor where IT ends, nor what its
length or breadth be- but IL is there, and mis-
/ take CHEERS and aughter.)
came here with the curious eye of stranger, de
termined TO be pleased with and admire what saw;
but still YOU have got nothing this way that
resemble the great west. IL has its teeming mil
lions; its magnificent mountains and smiliHg beau
tiful vaies, its luxurious praries. its gIantlike
rivers and its noble noble men. (Cheers.) That's
my country that's the place that hail from and
that's the place want you to assist in making pous
and pure and full of holiness unto the Lord
But YOU must be quick about IL, If you odo
for the old devil Satan, the universal steam travel
| Ter, has been there before you. Beezebub il
was the most beautiful spot in creation, and so he
selected il for football at time and shanty at
another. He decided 10 take up his residence there
for a season, and he sent Fanny Wright and Robert
| Owen before him to make the arrangements, your
| great actors sead on an advance guard 10 prepare
,partmeuts and have sort Of supper got ready
siay their stomachs with first of
Well in that way Satan come there, and he
so delighted with the place, that there he has been
ever siaee. (laughtcrD And now we want to go to
work and rout him out we must grub him up by
/ the roots. We have srubbcdup Fanny Wright, that
is the old she Satan, but she hatched heavy brood
/ of Young she-Sceptics whom she left in her place
Yes the Great West l. beautiful place, but it's
/ monstrou. bad place. It's full ofsceptcism, and
unversalism. and errorism, and Untarisnism, and
/ Sociniansni, and rufhanism, and Deism, and adu-
terry and drinking, and fornicatien, aud sin, and
swearing and seduction. and shameful transactions
of every kind; all brought about by the blasting
examples Of Robert Owen and Fanny Wright.
| But still, there is much picty there and much
4 love there and much beauty there and much at
lection there and many tender hearts, and many
/ good men, and many fine women. There's no place
like the west For all the dashing, handsome, daring,
beautiful, enterprising, worthy, and wicked men
and women from all parts OF creation flock in there.
And they 20 ahead for little while but too many,
] am sorry to say, go the other way.
These strangers crowd in and crowd us we
become Heterogeneous set we have all sorts of
character. and all ssrts Of ereeds 20 contend with
Some believe thing some another and some
believe every thing and some believe nothing.
/ Ysu see, then, what an awful fix were in. The
north, SOUTH east and west, are crowding IN
that we have neither time, nor talent, nor room, to
| con vert them. Commerce comes and plants towns
at the same time adventurers and cultivate the
SOIL and grow grain Then science starts schools
in all directions. And then have all sorts Of lee
turers and philosopher and scu ptors, and teachers
We have balloons, that go TO the Atlantic Ocean,
and boats thatll go the Mediterranean, and hun
tiers thatl 60 TO the Oregon territery and wild
that'n 20 any where for love, or liquor, money.
We have steamboat travelling and railroad travel
ling and balloon travelling but very little travelling
| TO heavep'-(Cheers)
whe. was born, lived on the frontier; now the
frontier is 600 miles beyond; and itll be go
/ miles beyond that, If that distance don land us
in the Pacific Ocean. Well, we've got all the sim
ners on that corner of creation to convert and il
must be done. know you here in the East have
done much for us, but ysu must do more. You must
send no more tracts Bibles more missiona
more men, more money and more women-1 mean
pous women.
IllHois is better supplied with preachers than all
the rest Of the West and this the reason why she
more pious than any other part She owes al her
religion to the Home Missionary Society. So does
Indiana. Ohio owes much, too. But calls keep ON
ing from Iowa and Wisconsin. Give us your men,
then, and your women, pious people, and your mo.
new you can't give that give your prayers
and US from Satan
You owe ~ much, tso. We have wealth there
the rich gran-the treasures Of the soil. What
would you do here in New York for bread IL IL
wasn't for our wheat Then give us the bread Of
life We have mapy fine and women there,
from the East; but they've gone there to amass
wealth. and make fortunes, and not to get the grace
of God pat into EN-.
We don't vast the that come out there, and
saw "where can ] get landl" and who, when like
Lot who saw the plains before him. willing to
stay there, because the land was good. But we