The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-05-15
ANNIVERSARY WEEK IN NEW YORK,

Irav ner DER yon mountains height
See the glory beamng star
Waterman does its beauteous raw
Aught Of hope or joy foreteu ?
TRAVELLER yes, 1t brings the day,
Promised day Of Israel
Waterman tell us Of the n ght
TRAVELLER! blessedn "a and /!
Peace and truth, its course = .rtends
Waterman will its beams. Tone
Gid the spot that gave il an birth
Trav Her ages are its own
See, 1t bursts DER all the earth
Waterman tell US of the night.
FOR the morning seems to dawn
TRAVELLER darkness takes its fight
Doubt and terror are withdrawn
Waterman let thy wand ring cease
HE thee to thy quiet home
TRAVELLER 10 tho Prince of Peace.
Lo! the Son Of God IL come.
The Rev Dr. ANDERSON, the Secretary, gave a detail
cd statement OF the present condition finances of
the society The receipts he regretted to say did not
meet the amount of the expenditures In the course Of
his address, he Of the operations Of the
society for the last year, and was followed by
The Rev THOMAS l.. VERMILYE, d. D.. Of N Y city.
In his opening remarks he offered resolution which ex
horted the friends Of Missions to aid them in their abors
He pronounced high eulogy the character Of the
late DIR. Armstrong who wrecked in the Atlantic
He trusted that spirit might animate them the pre-
sent OCCASION to out the objects of the society
Zelda sphere for operation open for them which
would enable them to exercise ths efforts in the
of true religion time would come when all darkness
freed from sin when the bre Of purity would break
in on the pesential darkness The work arduous,
asp its venom, but the time would oome when such
would DO accomplished. The Lord had promised this,
us''' spirit had been now Infused into the church,
which fifty years ago would not BE- credited The facil
ty of intercourse between countries and nations gave
increased stimulus to their cxertons; conversions
were shaking the very centre Of the globe and they
should rejoice at the extension Of their progressthe
day had already comets light would penetrate the
deepest valleys, and every event, predicted was
taking place Daniel had spoken and John had spoken
and futurt v.is rrociame the truth OF their pre-
dictions John had told them Of the book which
should open but the lamb-this meant the Church of
Christ 1t was strange that Nebuchadnezar-a Cyrus
Alcxnnder-a Napoleon, should have been made in
in hand God carry the teachings
Of the gospel Then will the groves the valleys, the
the peary rvulet the feathered songtcrs join
in universal song Of praisehalleujah to the Lord
but they would all look down from heaven upon The re-
suit of their labors. Even the Lord looking
down upon them II heather could say it glorious
be to die for ones God?
The Rev. J. D. CoSpIr, Of Newark, next addressed
the meeting and offered resolution calling upon them
to aid the of missions The relation Of the mis-
sonary enterprise to Christ established when Christ
being The great seal Of the enactment was stamped
by the Saviour Their missionary boards went in the
name OF the Church OF Christ 1t was not like the
by God God SO loved the world that he gave it his
only begotten son Hence the inherent virtue Of
their plan. The quiet of the church sanctioned this
system What the voice that reached them from
the Sandwich Isandsrom Ceylon and every quarter Of
sionary labors of their society. He would ask what
hand was it at the last year had made the feeble
man powerful p it was the power of the Lord When
all their lnbors had been accomplished it would be graft
fving to look back upon the result He might show the
harmony Of the enterprise with the saving of God when
he gave the heather to his beloved Son redeem In
every stone of the edce they had raised the like
ness of the Saviour They mover would up 10 the
spirit Of the enterprise until they worked for the glory
of God The man who consecrates his money, his pro-
perry In the missionary cause would have his reward,
and would secure his crown. Demosthenes won his
crown from Athens but 1t Of gold, and they
who Joined in the missionary would bright
The following hymn was sung
feer my heart forget
Her welfare or her wo.
Let every JOY this heart forsake,
And every grief oerfow
For her my tears shall fall
For her my prayers ascend;
To her my and tolls be given.
Till tolls and cares shall end.
Beyond my highest joy,
prize her heavenly ways;
Her sweet communion. solemn VOWS
Her hymns Of love and praise.
The Rev. F. D. w. WARD, missionary from Madras
India next addressed tho meeting He said that
than ten years he had been sent out to India by tho
Missionary Society He would offer resolution in favor Of
the missionary in India In part India there
large shaft sunk in the earth and popular deluson
vaa prophecy that when the top would reach the level
of the EARTH their religion would be put an end TO- and
would be succeeded by another This religion they be
lieved to be the Christian religion. The Hindoos SEQ
that the missionary can go and establish himself eve
~ wherein every village and hamlet-and the religion
Of Christ they believe would eventually prevail There
they met and resolved that whenever the missionaries
should go in India, they would not allow them
Tbs Rev Mr. Poor the frst missionary that called
meeting of the natives there he did not first open
on the subject Of religion-he merely told that the
eclipse was not the result according to their Of
two large serpcns trying to eat each other that
the earthquake was caused by huge serpent, who
shook his head to the earthquake occur
He was actually, when he first preached thus them
pelted with stones-but new how changed whole vii
lagos had been converted and now believed in the eat
HindOOg be vi ded into
four classes first those who will embrace any sort of re-
iigon, that would give to them food good clothing
The second were the Brahmins, who selfish and
would not be converted because they wish to cling
the religion of their fathers There third
really like the females of every country religous-and
then there were others who were religious them
selves, but would not join He would give in
stance. A Hindoo had come to one Of their mis-
sionares, with his own son, and said, there is my
sonmtaks this sum-.(handng him at the time
10000 rupees, or $5.000) educate him-bring him
up in your own religion There many such in
stances as this to be found among the Hndoos He had
also known when sick Hndoo when DYING asked one of
MS brethren, when die where will my soul go? The
reply was 1T will go into some animal" And whore
next. he asked The reply was, Into another animal
and into another and another and another He then
asked, Aud whore then ~ Alas and where then! he
Uhs Rev MI W2 would say In conclusion, he exhort
ed them to aid the of missions in India which
their duty The following hymn was hereupon sung -
Roll on, thou mighty ocean
And rs thy pillows flow,
Bear messenger Of mercy
To every vale of wo
Arise. ye gales, and watt them
Safe to their destined shore;
That men may sit in darkness
And deaths black shade more.
The Rev. HENRY w. BEEcHER of Indianapolis Indi-
next addressed them He offered resolution to the
eject that there cessation ofchristianyfom
the beginning and had its progress been 1t
was eighteen hundred years since Christianity
first preached by tho disciples There was n great
hiatus in is history When the disciples preached the
people fell down before them like grass before
er Then why II that the progress of Christianity
since then had been slow The question was diff
cult to be sure to When Christ converted the
world it had existed for four thousand years with all
Its selfshness and all its evils God exercised super
human agency in converting the world but was CONVEX
sion the work OF time the work of day? That was
tho question Let them 60 down to the lowest ncghbor
hood IN the city take boy who had been brought up
In iniquy let him be washed and into Tristan
famiiy-let him be instructed in the truth--wnshed |
cleaned, and secured He would ask would that boy be
converted IN u day-in o twelve month |! No conyer.