The New York herald., 1849-05-10


families destitute of all religious books, except
the Bible; 27474 families destitute Of the Scrip
| lures; and 3S,2l9 families were Roman Catholics.
| The waking mind Of millions in France, Germany,
| Austria, Hungary and Italy, and other lands their
struggles for freedom and their in securing the
liberty Of the press have laid claims upon the Society
greater than before; and at foreign mission sta
tions connected with various Boards the press Is
unusually prosperous and active. The evidences of
conversions and of the diffusion of gospel
missionaries and native converts in foreign and pagan
| lands, are greater than in any previous year Many
very striking facts have occurred In view Of the
state and wants of all the foreign stations, the follow
ing grants of money have been transmitted, and dis
tributed so as best to meet the immediate and more
| pressing necessities, namey:-For the Sandwich
| Islands, 500; for China Missions of the American
Board Of commissioners for Foreign Missions Canton,
$780, Annoy 500, Fuh- -chau $780, Missions of the Ame.
| rican Baptist Missionary Union, Hongkong $780,
Ningpo 500; General Assemby's Board, $500; South
| ern Baptist Convention, Canton $l00 Shanghai 5000
| Siam, Baptist Mission 5000; Burmah $780, Mssiens IN
Northern India 50 600; Orissa 5000; Teoogoos Luthe
500; Bombay 5000; West Africa, Gaboon Sloo; Hes-
| torans $500; Syria $500; five Armenian Missions in
Turkey Greece sae Rv pr King sgoo $780, Italy
Baptist Mission for Central Europe 500: Lower Saxo
ny Tract Society 5000 Calw for Hungary 5000 Basle
DR.. Marriott $780, of which $50 for Dr. Maan, of &C.
neva; Belgium $3.50; France Paris Religious Tract So
siety, slooo Baptist Mission s4oo Toulouse $780,
Bishop MEAD, of Virginia, appeared, to offer the fol-
| lowing resolution
which has now been read be adopted and published,
under the direction of the Executive Committee; and
|
Spirit the enterprises of the Society in this and
other lands recognised with devout gratitude to
| God.
| lie said that he found himself most unexpectedly
and yet most gladly at this anniversary meeting the
first of any kind old as he he had the privi
lege of attending life member, and strong advo-
cate Of the Society he had been from its earliest esab
lshment yet he had been able to attend any of
its anniversaries He had been asked to offer that
resolution and make few remarks in connection with
it, TO the first request he had cheerfuy assented to
the last ~ had made at once n sincere and positive
| ref a
now offer few remarks. He wished to express his
tire approval of the Socieys designs and operations,
its formation, strongly to his head and heart He re-
garded its operations, as seen in those twelve bound
volumes Of tracts, Offering decidedly tho very best
practical and if he might 50 express it, the most un
answerable answer to most plausible objection oft
| reverend gentleman characterized, in substance
being the difficulty of arriving at true Christianity,
from the wide and often bitter differences of opinion
teraincd among the most learned men great points
Of religious doctrine These twelve books Of Society
in his opinion the result Of the labors of thousand
different minds fully refuted that objection With oil
their wide differences of opinion it had shown that
upon which all Christian minds might rally And how
this effected! Was 1t by making religion mere
important doctrines! Was there a denomination in
Protestant hristendom-applyng to 1T their own
to be justly charged the Sociey and that any
truths held necessary to savation omitted in the
volumes alluded to! Granted, there some things
omitted it but those that not essential and
which were influenced by decent regard for variant
opinions questions which were not distinctly settled
in the Christian world The best Christians in every
! age. had disputed in regard to them; and they
not indispensable to religion Such spirit OF compro-
mise must necessarily prevail in order to
in an enterprise Of this kind. With few illus
trations on this point, Bishop Mead concluded
and % a%eed IN the eysed world had COPY Of these
tracts and all able to read them in their own language.
The resolution offered by him was then adopted.
Rev. Professor RAYMOND, of Madison University, was
then introduced to the audience and remarkng that
one hundred and six students, connected with twenty
three universities colleges and theological seminares
of ten different denominations having been employed
as coporteurs for their vacation during the past year.
he offered the following resolution -
"Resolved That the society regard such labors with
deep interest affecting the future usefulness of the
the prophets and the spiritual condition of the tens
of thousands reached by the sefdenal OF the copor
teur students'
The Professor confined himself to the single point of
colporage, regarded branch Of ministerial cduca-
tion and which he held to be all but indispensable
one. 1t had long been problem how they to in
fuse into that system Of education that of the
practical element felt to be indispensable at the pre-
sent time, without at the same time lowering the
standard and mpairng the efficacy of that intel
lectua education felt to be just indispensable
and Just as earnestly demanded by the exgencies of
the times The college and seminary system we'll
adapted to the latter and their secluson and
ed attention to study that most exclu intercourse
Of series of years among those engaged in the
pursuits, reems most essential condition to secure
that strength comprehensveness and balance of in
| tcllect that makes the true scholar But such men
must also acquire, from such habits, want Of sympa-
thy with the world outside and want of sympathy
|
modification of, addition to the system which would
enable them to turn out, not only scholars, but
| The people required them, and it Of to
quarrel with them that account. As the world
grows older 1t will grow wiser Indeed, 1t was demand
ed by the very nature of the sacred Office itself,
and by the immense and sublime character of the
labor spread before it. What the remedy 3!
that was the problem The young minister
needs of this practical education than any other
profession for his business to men-to teach
and convince them-to interest and convert them.
Yet he is educated in system which affords him the
least Of this kind Of education Theawyer is educated
in the Office Of practitioner, and the young
physician. Both prepared by Of practical
experience in the profession they pursue. How
it with the minister! While yet covered with the
verdancy the schools placed the retirement
of the cloister what is in the green giving sad
of what is to be done In the drying There he is
walls Of relaxation. Heaven save the mark! as though
it was not enough to exhaust man. to cause him to
labor fourfths Of his time without relaxing him all
the rest What could be expected the result of such
a system! Certainly great evils as they For
tunatey, there was generally in youth recuperative
principle which combats the effects Of this system;
and the result is that it is generally the case, that
years of painful ill-devoted abortve efforts must be
constant poring over books, and strength exhausted
regains enough of his native healthfulness and
lures to look on and see them they areto re-
such. This was not necessary and there must be n
cannot be done by abbrevating the of study
to make the student sciost, in age Of science to
make him half educated, when men are full of educa
ton A resieent of New York, years ago, in connec-
tion with this subject, suggested remedy the
establishment Of a Professorship Of Religion and Com
mon Sense. But this remedy wou1 not do. Put the
pety common Of students into the hands of
professorship, and what will become oft! 1t can
not be taught impaired it must be first i'm
parted in the germ by the Giver of all good,
and confirmed, strengthened, brought out, and
perpetuated. by actual experience by actual collision
with the duties of life and in no other way The pro-
vdence Of God had, however provided solution of
this problem. That coiportage, that wonderful
system whose infant tread shakes the nations, and
which, like every other divine idea Is TO accomplish
results stupendous just in proportion to the pcity
Of the idea. 1t has already begun to work revolution
in ministerial education and students for the ministry
might well take of their coats and to work at
| once on the improved plan. The time coming
| when few would hold up their hands in "a Christian
church for a candidate for the ministry who had
during his course Of education accomplished six
tours successful coporteur. MIR r. dwclt on the
importance Of such tours to the student claiming that
he would learn thereby not only the laws Of his Ihysi-
cal constitution. and how take care of IT, but
the physical exercise felt TO be SO necessary to the