The New York herald., 1849-05-27
Religious IntclIixence.

Religious Intelligence.
| CALENDAR FoR MAv.-27th Whit Sunday; 18th, Mon
day Ia Whitsun week; 18th, Tuesday In Whtsun week
30th Ember Day
The cornerstone of the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
will be laid with appropriate exercises on Monday az
We observe from the report made at the 25th anni-
verssry Of the American Sunday School Union held
Philadelphia May nth that its receipts during the past
year, have been $164 024 At; II Sunday School mis-
sonary colporteurs have been employed in % Ststes
700 new schools been have been
revved 88 publications have been issued; and he
reading matter put in circulation nearly
100000 volumes The total value of publications dis
trbuted during the year is Sl3O643 49, larger
than been by the Society in any one
year since it's organization This is certainly praise
worthy and valuable institution. appearing by this
statement Of statistics to be efecting
| good
The New York State Colonization Society are endea-
vorng to collect works for the formation Of library
illustrative OF the history Of Africa.
| The annual meeting of the English Baptist Mission
ary Society was held at Exeter Hail. Thursday tho
26th Of April, 8 NJ Peto, Esq, NJ. P, in the chair
into the treasury during the year were only fl9742
while the expenditures f23 $40, making the ex-
cess of expenditures income f3 S07 which, added
to the old debt makes total balance against the
cety Of Since S45 there has been every year
of expenditures receipts and the commit
tee have at last with regret to the
to equaixe the two by reduction Of their expenses
In India including Ceylon and other islands, the So
ciety has Al missionaries, 107 native preachers and
teachers, more than 800 members, and lO2 schools
containing about 1000 scholars In 1887 the society
teachers. The number Of volumes of the Scriptures
which had been printed up to 1887 was only 24o 065
have written and published IA grammars and diction-
aries mostly Of languages which previously had such
elementary works In Jamaica, tho minister's and
bers churches formed by the agents the society
have doubled in number since 1887 and the number OF
members is now about "a 900 In the Bahamas there
are three missionaries, and about $500 members.
In Africa, Hayti Trinidad, France, and Canada mis-
sons have been commenced within the last years
In several of the African languages the New Testament
has been printed in Canada 10 ministers have been
aided in preaching to the dostitue and in France the
New Testament in the Breton language been COM
pleted and printed In 1887, the society had only
the general printing establishment since then others
have been established In Africa and Trinidad.
PILGRIMS OF FMARYLANp-CELEBRArIoSA AT Sr INIGoHs.-
The following prayer oered,by the Rev c. c. Pse,
d. D., officiating clergyman in ST. Peters Church, New
York the occasion of the recent celebration Of St.
"Begin we to tho Lord with timbrel sing we to tho
Lord with cymbals, tune unto him new psalm, extol
and call upon his name' yea this spot, rendered
memorable and halowed by the landing of the Mary
land pilgrims on the margin of this bright and majestic
geous valleys, wesadore thee omnip tent and eternal
Father! God most high and eminent who inhabtest
eternity and dwelIest in the holy place. God of the
land, to whom belong the poles OF the earth, upon
which the world Is set who didst inspire thy
Columbus with the design, and grid him with the
regions, behind whose mountains the rolled down
his gorgeous chariot, by the eye Of civilized
peril the tempests Of deep in Quest Of haven Of
safety and which they found
von they reared their first altars and spread out
their peaceful tabernacles God Of freedom in whose
is right to proclaim liberty every to his bro
ther,t whose omnpotence did endow mans will with
freedom, and seat In his breast conscience holy and
lty amid the triumphant recoectons of the event we
are, this day, commemorating. We praise thee for
having guided our catholic pilgrims to these western
Shores teeming with plenty and smiling with welcome,
where they planted the cross, unured the banners of
toeration and advanced the progress Of civilization
We thank thee for all the blessings since showersd
upon our beloved country; for having raised up
Washington in the day Of her need for the indepen-
for having destined her in thy providence to become
the asylum OF the and the hope Of future
ages for having winged the eagles of her forests to
the extremtes of the earth the dngs of great
joy the olive branch Of peace, and the trophies Of
natons liberty. We thank thee for the propagation
Maryland pilgrimsIso eminently and numerously re-
presented here, by her prelaes her clergy, and her
tiously upon our country perpetuate her liberties
and fill the of her prosperity and greatness
We pray for the President of the republic, the
querred hero Of many battles; inspire him with
tional solicitude and give steady direction to the
patriotism which anmates his breast. Grant him
health strength light and protection In his exalted
but arduous position, that he may be wise in tho
cabinet he brave in the camp. We pray for the
army that it may continue be in peace,
buckler in war; for the navy that, while national
mariners go down in ships to the deep to protect
pagate to the ends of the EARTH the principles of
Christianity and eternal truth We pray for all public
functionaries that they may discharge, with fidelity
heir duties towards our common country; imprint,
indellibly their minds the awful truth that they
to be arragned the last day. before thy dread
tribunal, to for the trust committed to their
care We pray for the preates of the church in tho
United States that they be animated by the pi
Of their venerable in the that
in all their legislation, while they keep their eyes hxed
upon the institutions Of the country and the exgen
cies Of the age theylmaywth unremitting soicitude
guard the ancient deposit entrusted to their keeping
a
ther of the Faithful! with prudence, moderation, and
clemency, while thou newest their arms with justice,
zeal and power We pray for all our brethren and
fellow citizens that they may bs enlightened guided,
blessed by thy holy providence and while enjoying the
unprecedented temporal blessings which thou hast
bestowed upon them here below, let them be mindful
of those impershabe rewards thou hast in store for y
faithful servants in the kingdom Of heaven We most
iervently mplore thy protection upon the venerable
head OF the church, holy father, Plus Xthe exile
brows pluck we beseech thee the crown of thorns with
which the ngratitude of his people have pierced them
while the veneration and homage of the civilized world
have encircled them with glorious and inextingush
able halo lnfuse into his breast the courage Of his
saned predecessors; his arms, that they be
enabled to hold with firm grasp the helm Of Peter s
bark, amid the fury of the raging storm. Lead him
back in safety to the tomb of the apostles the chair
of the vatican the throne of the Roman pontifs-the
capital Of the Christian world Under his paterna
reign, may Rome be blessed again with prosperity and
peace and during his glorious pontfcate may he be
enabled untrammeled by impediments, and with per-
feet security and freedom to preside the universal
church Finally. God of the living and the dead
Deseecn thee In conformity Win the doctrine ana usage
of thy holy church. to remember the souls of the faith
full who have gone to their final repose of the catholic
pilgrims and their children, of whom the mortal re-
mains Of some may have moudered beneath the green
sward of this memorable spot And grant that We,
who have come hther from remote parts-some of us
back to our natal soil-may be impressed with the
conviction that we are but pilgrims in this valley of
time and that true country lies far away beyond
the eternal hills. Grant that may continue firm in
the doctrines of ancestors aud initiate the virtues
which have rendered them immortal and deserve to be
united with them in those bright and eternal habta
elect before o
the earth were laid. All which implore by the in
tercession the ulate virgin Queen of Heaven
through the merits and death of Lord Jesus Christ
thy who with thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and
| regneth, one God, world without end Amem.-Cathc-
| Ec Magazine.
THERMOMETER IN BosroN.-Ihe thermometer in
this city on Thursday, at IL p NJ, 80 Friday, at
sunrise as Z Rarnmeter mt sunrise % Il wind