New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-20
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To tAe Editor Of The fF1o'He'
From Rev. w. NJ. Livelys fifteenth annual re-
mort | CLEAN the following facts The labors oil
The last term are nearly included within the de-
,cribed boundaries. namely: North by Seventy
fifth St. east by SheriH.st. west by Hudson-s1'
south east by South ST. and southwest by Leon
ard st. He kept a regular Journal OF all the inter
mediate streets He was daily visiting families
from house 70 house exhortlng and preaching the
Gospel. By this method be reached many nun
dreds. Every possible means was used to get
children into Sabbath Schools. 1t is painial TO
saw that he found the state Of religion low the
disnositon manifested, however, Tor receiving ana
reading tracts was admirably good. There were
not two persons found within the WnOie Hnts
who refused to take tract, nor not one VINO hesi'
tsted IN receive in any way instruction hls
,;.;ts we're everywhere received by marks OF
kindness and respect. he distributed between
so 600 and 10000 pages Of valuable reading high
Iv calculated 10 instruct and enlighten the mind.
Now let as suppose, for the sake OF argument,
that all those families within the described oOun-
diaries are among the most abandoned oil the hu-
man species, which supposition is not only pre-
MYSTERIOUS and daring, but an absolute islseho0d,
because number OF those families compose tne
most respectable part Of the community. W nat
does il teach US Why, in the economy oil the
religion Of the cross, it teaches us that tney are
the reTv objects of the ministers OF God-lust such
as our Heavenly Master came 10 seek and 70 save
from q lost and ruined cOnditon-just sucn as nc
told his disciples 10 go and teach and to turn rom
darkness to marvellous light-for such he suffered,
for such he died. Since it is right just and prop
er TO teach aud preach the Gospel to the most
erudite and refined, persons possessing WeaiIn
and grandeur who have every opportunity lOr tue
pursuit Of moral and intellectual improvement,
surely it follows of necessity that 1t IS right Just
and proper to teach and preach the OosPei 10
those who are illiterate and who have not the
means within their reach TO improve their mOral
and mental condition. In order TO afford an op
portunity to parents and others to send their chill
drep TO Sabbath School, and likewise 70 attend on
religious worship, room for some time past has
been kept in reserve, and no pains has been
spared in trying to get the parents to send their
children out on the Lords Day and 10 come out
themselves. After having labored from house TO
house, from Monday morning until Saturday night
as above stated, he has stood firmly at his post on
the Sabbath to receive and teach all who came IN
1t seems, in my own opinion, however, that to
teach and preach the gospel are among the last
meansto raise the character and improve the con
dtion of our population. One. OF the best plans tG
maintain and secure good safe, happy and well
regulated Government is to educate all its const
tuents. A permanent edihce, durable iounda
ton rightly fitted TO the building. During his tour
in the East part of the City he visited the lnstl
tuition of 1.-The Coored Home and preached
several times to them. His fourteenth Annu
al Sermon was preached in the Mount Zion
Church, Brooklyn, LII; text; Therefore beingjus
tilted by faith we have peace with God, though our
Lord Jesus Christ Ro. vi. On the 18th day oil
Dec 1850 he delivered discourse founded upon
the first eight verses ofthe 18th chapter of Romans
The doctrine involved in these verses seems to re-
quire the best cultivated mind and the .puresi
heart to do Justice to it, after writer has de
vested himself Of the principles which he may
have imbibed from an early education, of public
opinion, of prejudice, OF the influences OF the cir
c1mstances in the midst of which he is placed, o
sorded interest and of every other selfish and cur
rupted principle of which the human heart is pos
sesed the subject:then remains inexhaustable.-
Whatever comesfrom God is right, tending Away
to the good of his creatures and his own glory,