The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-13

70 ts great object-the permanent estseishnsas
prsscned to congregations ciord people; and 90 In
foreign Welsh and ~ to German con-
1870 Sv.s Mollanders and Frenchmen. The mum.
her of congregations supplied In whole or In part
iss and the TS =, nn -
amount to 66.soo. There have been added to the
churches SO, viz $50 on profession and SOTO BY
reports OF revivals Of religion in their congregations
and $40 missionaries report 2643 hopeful conversions
aries during the year and forty two that had been
dependent have assumed the support Of their own
ministry Sixty five houses Of worship have been com.
pleted fifty five others repaired and the building Of
sixty others commenced Ninety young men, in con.
necton with the missionary churches in preparation
for the gospel ministry.
Receipts Slc0c coz 25; liabilities, S174263 II; pay
ments $lcoS31 l4-leavinc 81 432 g. sti due to mis-
sionarics for labor performed towards canceng which
There is balance in the treasury Of SeeoI 10.
With the same number Of aborers as were in commits
sion the preceding year eighteen have been EN-.
poycd in the Western States and territories nine
years Of missionary service have been perform cd one
hundred and twenty eight congregations have been
blessed With the preaching Of the Gospel one hun
ded ana more individuals have been added
TO the churches The receipts exceed those of the
cedine year by $9l2he greater part of the increase
being from the regular contributions of the churches
The history of the last missionary year is rcplee with
TINS work havea JOY that no man taeth from them-tha
they have not labored in vain spent their strength
for naught The yearly summing up results confirms
our confidence in the adaptation adequacy of the COS
pei as the means Of national regeneration The chief
source OF encouragement in reference to the evangelical
ton Of this country is be not so much in the
ture Of opposing influences In their multitude II Ia
not infdety merely. nor Romanism. any particular
o. ianaticism that we have to dread but it s the
VAST aggregate of worldness and sin Like the lands
desolate by swarms Of locusts danger Of
oeng by the numbers rather than by the
o our enemy New waste places opening even
where IT was supposed to BIZ done: the peo
pe are breaking firth on every side the column of
emigration pushes on beyond all previous limit but
never recedes The process Of supplying the preached
word to these multitudcs must be carried on stimuli
t tssnsousy at thousand different points. But all
THESE causes afford no reason to despair of sue
cess, PROVIDED the church be aroused 10 the mac
tode OF the interest at stake and to realize that
more rHpu rate OF progress Is needed than formerly
to prevent her from falling behind the age such has
been the impulse communicated to the human mind by
proviocnt changes by recent discoveries and inyen-
lions that TO retain and especially increase its relative
influence the Gospel must with more intensity must
be more earnestly applied must be seen more clearly md
,e. more deeply or muitudcs will break away from its
influence altogether This emergency there is danger
.hat the church will not sufficiently appreciate There
Ia danger that her wealth will be locked up in worldly
enterprise and that her will be d. voted to trade TO
art and 10 ambition rather than the ministry of re-
conchntion Let not this apprehension be realized but
Jet al who have named the name of Christ forth
IN the strength OF honest and entire devoement and
Immanuel's.
The Rev. JOSEPH F. TuTTLE of Rockaway. NJ.
moved the first resolution
Resolved That the reports presented DO adopted
Committee.
He commenced by abiding to the Western States.
and asked what was the West! 1t was an empire
Of g. 600 miles in length, by 1000 miles in breadth
and contained sufficient area to support two hundred
millions Of people. The West was made on natures
grandest scale; she had forests undisturbed equal
in Dimensions TO many empires Of the Old World
Trace the Ohio river 200 miles up the Missis-
sippi and Missouri rivers. The West had a course
Of rivers 30 600 mile long, flowing through valleys
as rich as those of the Nile. The political progress
OF tho West was immense. West Of the Ohio wa
had four Suites and ten territories. The progress
OF the West was ut railroad speed; in Jan, 1893 the
hrst legislature Of Ohio assembled and its dele
gates travelled from two to four hundred miles,
swimming the rivers and penetrating forests; and
now il had four fine cities Yesterday the savage
was there; to-day it resounded with the voices Of
civilized millions Yesterday it was a dependent
nursery; day young Ohio crying out crccsior,
and graspiDg the banner Of the Empire State He
had looked with amazement at her progress, and he
had enthusiastically said that the West was ssthe
world. (Applause.) Let them save the West and
she would mako her power felt in Russia; but let
Jesuitlsm gain the ascendency and the consequences
would be terrible. The unitariansm of New Eng
land, the transcendentalism Of Germany. and tho
religion of Rome. at this Momest seeking to re-
duce that territory the latter Of which was also
prosecuting the eAiles Of Hungary and Italy. Let
any one go to to the cities of the West and witness
the Papnl immigration. Foreign population was
rolling in upon us and would be ruin or saliva
ton. We must sink or rise with it. The progress OF
evangelical religion in the West was the result of
Providence. In 1852 Ohio had 600 Presbyterian
Congregational ministers, and 200 churches exactly
the number belonging to the free Church of Scot
land, all sprung up within sixty-four wears In
Illinois, in 1870, there was not single church: in
1879, the first was formed with seven members; in
that year above st. Louis there was not a single
church, and since that time $50 churches had been
erected, aud hundreds of ministers were now hold
ing forth. These fair illustrations of the pro-
gress Of religion in the West which had been nc.
complished by the Home Missionary Society New
\ ok had COO; Indiana. $50; Illinois, 200; Iowa
l09; Wisconsin, l,500, and altogether there were
3,OOO churches. 1t was necessary to preserve and
to carry this work; they must employ tho living
minister, as in the days of Luther. Without an
enthusiastic and pious ministry their efforts would
be in vain The Bible alone, without such aid.
would be productive of but little good-the liy-
ing creature was absolutely necessary. There
was not family In whom he minis tered, but that
some member Of it had gone to California-men
gone out TO a parallel community-and he charged
them togive TO that country their anxious attention
The pety Of our fathers prevented the execrable
despotism and fanatcism OF Austria by their excr-
tons in the cause of the worship of God The
sublime clement was the Home Missionary Society.
Let the living preacher approach every family and
eradicate iDhdeity. and the West would DO saved
sor the rest of tho world. CA pplause)
Rev JOHN L. CULVER, Of Norwich. Conn.
moved the next resolution, in address which ex.
kibited considerable talent &c That the cause of
civil and religious liberty throughout the world can
be most eilectuay promoted by the future evangeli
zation Of the country" He observed that all that
we acquired OF national greatness reacted on this
cause. 1t was but few years since the object of
the society TO supply few ncghboring churches,
and then the West was heard of then came the
domain on tho Pacific shore and it seemed that then
this cause had reached its highest point: but that
evening they occupied still higher position Ame-
RIGA had become "a power in the earth" not by
arms, wealth or literature, but our example of a
people refosng beneath democratic institutions
free and hDppy. One of the heroes of late conflict
had been among us, and proclaimed that wo were n
power in the earth. There were no questions sunk
into the hearts of the American people so deep as
who was to make the nations free. and who was
to be the agency He answered, Christianity,
through the fundamentally of this country Poll
teal institutions the product of the people,
and must be created by them, and not for them.
There are nations who could live only under a des.
potic form Of government-some preferred an arsto-
cratic form, Others republican form-and these
adaptations were unalterable. il was in reference
to the religion of people. What gave permancncy