The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-13

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GREAT RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES CoNTIN-
UED.
We this evening continue our abstracts of the
proceedings of these interesting associations at their
late annual meetings. in the city of New York
The AMERIc AN PRorEsrANr SocIErY held their
meeting at the Dutch Reformed church, and their
report shows that they had received S672l 0S, and
expended s6726 50 for salaries, publishing tracts,
&C., within the year. The report further shows,
that they have done little with regard to one great
object Of the association, viz: towards the CONVEX
sion Of Roman Catholics. All their missionaries
and colporteurs have been raised in the Roman
Catholic church, or educated for its priesthood, or
acquainted with its principles since their childhood.
They have published and disseminated tracts and
Testaments in the Portuguese language The Rev.
Drs Gridey, Of Vermont, and Bowling, Of New
speeches upon she Importance of converting the
Catholics of the United States to Professionalism.
The SocIErY ron AMELIoRArINo THE CONDITION
OF jews celebrated their anniversary also, the
9th instant in New York city, and entertained
with an able and interesting address from the Rev
DR.. Miledoler, in which that gentleman took up the
history of Judaism from the days Of Heber the an
cestor of Abraham, and traced il down to the pres
ent time; showing the remarkable manner in which
the prophecies Of the Old Testament, concerning the
Jews, have been fulfilled, and also giving short
summary of the political history of that strange
and doomed people. Our limits will not allow us a
more extended notice of the DOCTORS remarks, but
we trust they will be published at length under
his own supervision, for they will prove great a
treat to the general reader as those who are in
quirers in theological studies.only.
The report of the society represented their affairs
to be in very fourishing condition.
THE AMERICAN BIBLE SocIErY assembled to cele-
brate their twenty-nnth anniversary at the Taberna-
Gle, at 10 o'clock, on the morning Of the 8th
A large and highly respectable audience always at
tend their meetings, but at this the crowd was real
ly immense. Their report is so full of interest to
philanthropsts and Christians Of all denominations,
that extract the Hcrald's account of it in full as
follows:
Seventy auxiliary societies have been added the
majority Of which county societies. four hundred
seventy Ave life directors and members had been add
sued oaa Bibles and rom the deposory not
including those printed at the expense Of the society
abroad being an q sso over ne issue Of the
ming Of the socety abo 4os $50 copies Of the word
These books haze gone into state and Territory Of
Brazil, Bnenos Tyres and Greece Fifteen hundred mod
Greek New Tesamsns and $500 worthcf other books
have been granted to the Baptist mission there new
bugeos Bible new French and Spanish Testament have
been published and Bible in raised letters for The blind
going TO press to which the Massachusetts, Bible Society
ESQ., Of Long Island TRi. edition i undertaken
1--WE quarto volumes and printed only on one side.
seventeen agents have been employed by the society
and eight for part Of the year. The number
only sent where their services indspcnsa
BILE The Rev H. Calhoun has closed his agency in the
Levant and started az missionary Mount Lebanon
During the period Of the bo Of this gentleman in those
bles and Testamentx have been circulated.
The total receipts from all $l6s6sa; being
sa Sssa sSS %
other liabilities has been contracted Among the various
Scriptures abroad France Turkey switzerland syria
Persia, Northern India and the Sandwich Islands'
One of the reverend gentlemen who addressed the
meeting spoke most feelingly of the want of Bibles
in the West. He told Of queer state Of things in
settled township of six miles square, where, for
many years, there was not copy Of the Bible
among the people. The minister Of the township, set
tied there for years, had owned but Testament
in all that time. He said that 500, 900 Testaments
required in Ohio alone, to supply every reader
now without one. Many eloquent addresses were
made bearing on the importance Of the continued
popular reading of the word Of God, both as to
mans spiritual and temporal welfare. II was truly
said that our republican government is based upon
the Christian theory that man is rational creature,
who knows right from wrong, and is expected to
control his own bad passions.
yearly meeting in the Tabernacle on the evening of
the 9Th, where a vast throng congregated, who
proved, by their responsibility and quiet earnestness,
that this great and good cause had taken deep root
amongst the most influential portion of the people
of New York city. Their report presented very
cheering condition of things, more especially in
England and Ireland. II states that in England FIVE
and half per cent Of its immense population had
joined their ranks of whom one hundred thousand
were reformed drunkards; and also that the
manufacture Of ardent spirits in that country had
decreased in proportion to the increase of the popu-
laton. There were FIVE millions Of tetoallers in
Ireland where not one in FIVE hundred had back
slidden. The cause is most fourishing throughout
the globe, wherever their efforts have been brought
to bear upon the evil Of drunkenness They re-
commended strenuous and combined efforts to
procure changes in the license laws throughout the
Union.
We close our notices of the New York anniver-
saries for this evening, by short summary of the
proceedings of the GRAND NATIONAL REroRM Cow
vENrIoN, which likewise assembled in New York
city on the 9Th instant.
This is society who combine to improve the
moral and social condition Of the people of the Uni
ted States. Their object is praseworthy, and the
Herald's report of their proceedings shows that
"Kinkeyp men have ceased to render themselves as
conspicuous in their meetings as at former times.
Sill, however, Fourerism, socialism, ant-rentsm,
and indeed almost all the other 'ismsn with which