The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-08


several variations composed BY Herr. This young
lady, We understood, Is about to graduate from the
institution. That she viii prove living monu- |
ment Of its usefulness Is certain for she 10 accom-
plshed, in every sense Of the word.
Other exercises followed, and then this most de-
lightfu andsoal inspiring exhibition was concluded
Tweaty-saxsh Anniversary Meeting Of the
AmsEssaa Tract Society.
The twenty-sixth annual meeting of this society
was held yesterday morning, at 10 o'clock, at the
Broadway Tabernacle, and was attended, as is in
variaby the case, by very numerous and fashiona-
BILE assemblage, the building being quite filed.
WILLIAM B. CAosBY, Esq, the Vice President,
took the chair, and the exercises were opened by
prayer by the Rev. L. Woops, d. d.
Letters Of apology were read from the President,
Chief Justice JONES, as also from Judge MCLEAN,
Of Ohio, and Judge GREEN, in which they severally
expressed their regret for their inability to attend
and their sympathy in the objects Of the-society.
The Trcasurer's report was read by MOSES ALLEN,
Esq, by which it appeared that the receipts Of the
year, in donations, sl09 97 To- for sales $780,,
720 80 balance in treasury last year, $ll0 25-to-
tai f3l0,72s 81. Expenditures for paper, printing,
binding, engraving, copyright, trans .ating, and
revising, Sl79,9Si As; for colportage, 1929 70;
RENTED to foreign and pagan lands, s2ooo0 other
expenditures as by items in the Treasures report,
S37 1856 SO; total, S3l0 dig 50; balance III the trea
sury, Sl07 OF. Due for printing paper, TO be paid
within six months, So, sNS 6i.
An abstract Of the annual report vas then read
by DR.. HALLocK, one OF the secretaries. BY this
document learn tina. the operations OF the society
within the past year, have resulted III the pub lea
ton in nine languages, of a. new works, OF which ~
/ are volumes, including the Family Testament, with
brief netes and nstrue lions, the Riches OF bunyan,
! Afflicted Mans Companion, Life Of Summerheld,
Hannah More's Cheap Repository Tracts, eight
! volumes illustrated and Ii volumes ID German The
total publications the societys list are ,J9o, o.
which aZ7 are volumes, besides 2,54 approved for
foreign stations in about III languages ald dialects
There were circulated during the year, $50 .a2 vols,
1887 ,692 publications. 2OS,9ci6lo pages-total in
26 years. Coz 795 volumes, lis o20.So1 Publications,
27l7, SCI, i0i pages Illustrated Family Christian
Almanac for is5l, $4,000 copies; American Mes
senger, $4,000 monthly; Ger man Messenger, ls,oJJ
The gratuit0us distributions Ii zo5. distinct grants,
to missionaries at home anu abroad, the army aud
navy, seamen, humane and criminal institutions,
Sabbath schools aud individuals, by colportedcs,
and to life members and directors, amounted 10
So, G3o, 5i3; yalue, s37,.5s Us. Twenty general
agents and superinte ndonts Of eolportge mai
been employed in large districts They had remisted,
during lie year, to foreign AID pagan lands, - pro-
posed at the last an adversary, S@jUUJ, when nn'i
been appropriated to North American Indians 800;
Toulouse, South Of France, 500; Paris Religious
Tract Society, $500; Baptist Mission, France, 500
Belgium, 500 Basic, Dr. Marriott, Sal0; Hun
gary, si00; Barmen, for Allenes Alarm, xi00; Ma
Temberg Evangelical Society, Bavaria, 800; Ham
burg baptist Mission, 500; Lower Saxony Tract
Society, part for Bohemia, 1905 Berlin, for Poles
and Lithuanians, 500; Denmark, 500; SWEDEN,
Slo0; Russia, for army AMI navy, Si-Ooo; Italy.
through the Italian Society at Geneva $500 Greece,
Mission American Board. 100; Episcopal Mission,
5000 Armenlans Of Turkey, II ,oOO syria, Sjtj;
Salonica, 800; HISTORIANS, 800 South Africa
Mission, 800; Bombay, 800; Ahmednugger, 500;
Madura, 81 eco; Ceylon, $1,000; Madras, 81, 3oJ;
Teloogoos, Baptist Mission, 800; Teloogoos, Lu-
theran Mission, 500; Or.ssa, 500; North india
Missions $4,000 Bur nah and karcns, 400; Assam,
500; Siam, Baptist Mission. $500 China, Mission
General Assembly's Board, $50; Canton, Mission
American Board, 500; southern Baptist Board,
800; Hong Kong, Baptist Mission, ( 9l Shanghai,
Southern BAPTIST Board, 500 Shanghai, Protest
ant Episcopal Mission, 500, transferred from Mis-
SION in Tulkey) Sandwich Islands, si,ovo-totai,
$4,000.
The report contains sketch Of the rise and the
progress Of the colportage system Tor ten years
The statistical results are most cheering. No less
than l. $50 different persons, in all, have been IN
commission as colporteurs. including 53i theologi-
cal students; the number Of families visited has
been Its, l3 equal to nearly half our entire
population, OF whom 37i,520 were destitute Of all
religious books, except the Bible ES.,iit we're
without the scriptures, of whom ,>i,'ol were sup
, Piled; and 22i,siS families were Roman catholics.
. Within the past three years. 2sl ,3I5 families have
been visited, who were habisaal negecters OF the
> sanctuary. The colporteurs conycsed or prayed
with ,l03,3i4 families; held prayer meet ns:, o.
addressed public meetings, to the number Of J,57s
sold 42i $50 books, and granted eJ2 COS volumes
/. 10 poor and destitute families.
. The statistical account Of The coportagc branch
Of the association for the past year, showed taGt
including lS5 students from 10 colleges OF scmln'
! ries for their vacations, Joy eopOreurs have been
employed for the whole part Of the year, a. TO-
lows;-vermont, 3; Rhode Island, ?: Connecticut.
z; New York, ~; New jersey, =; FennsylSania.
~; Maryland, 10; Virginia, 81; North Carolina,
:; South Carolina, IL; Georgia, -; Florida, 2;
Alabama, ~; Louisiana, II; Toxss, u Arkansas.
4; Mississippi, 4; Tennessee, 20; hentueky, l.;
| Ind tg3n
Wisconsin, IA; Iowa, 8; Michigan, IL; Niurcsota.
i; California, /; Canada, 4; Mexico, z. SiAty
seven eolporteurs not included above have been re-
Gently commissioned. or the whole number los
were for the German, French, irish. spanish,
Welsh, and Norwegian population. The whole
number in commission Aprii l. wa Dis. Ihe sta
tistcl tables show thai the porteurs have visit
cd sos, l22 families, OF whom G,U.a were destitute
of preaching; 6S,027 were without religious books;
"a ,6si without the bible, aud Ji,I.l families were
Roman Catholics. They have converted or praye |
with 81 sol families; sold iJI .J volumes granted
to Che destitute l27,s-i books; held prayormect.
ings, or addressed public meeting. 10 the nnmbc-
Of 1896 and distributed l4,2)l Bibles and Tosta-
ments.
The Rev. JoHs L. EDwArrs, Or Norfolk. Va,
moved that the annual report b adpyfcd and pub
lshed under the direction Of the executive commit
tee, and that the signal proofs Il Rltrd Ul tho pros
perity aud usefulness OF The society call foe graft
| tude and praise to the great Head 81 the Church
| The reverend gentleman had intended 10 make =
silent motion but having heard the report read, L
was easy matter TO be silent; yarous were the
thoughts that crowded upon the nicl when they
learned that the success hsd been such chat they
longed to give them utterance. iut he would cum
fine himself to few points, 10 ahich b. bcgg a g.
call the attention 81 the audience. Fret, the br0ad
basis on which the society stood. he thought could
not be too much kept ia view nor l0G frequently
peatcd. The wisdom Of Iod hat 3i lied thc Chris-
| tians into many Sccts; ana though w. could NOS
divine the cause, We mlsht Be assured chat thor
was wisdom in 1t, or the fact would not exist.
That there wisdom Ia it. ~1rld III good time D.
developed in ts full extent; aLd thC day would
come when the Church 81 Christ would b.
one great family, and the di, sion. oC forgotten.
The society had almost cJUnUoa ID ms. lyC a the
publication of tracts; bet ta.y you'd greatly in
crease their sphere Of usetulacs III thny Wore pro.
yided with small Libraries, etCa 90 tnc value o. ION
dollars, ior the poor mlni-teI whose fearful de.t
tuition IN The rtspcct, in remote la.4tie-, was IN
known. and almost inconc. iYabs d persons rosid.