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

On Tuesday evening the proceedings opened
by prayer by the President, appropriate to the
feelings which had brought the meeting together
hymn by the choir then chanted, after which
the President read the annual rsport, from which we
extract the following summary
The officers elected by the society for" tho year
1862, are-President, Rev. Isaac Ferris, and six
Vice-Presidents /; Corresponding Secretary, James
n McElligott; Recording Secretary, N. Lane
Treasurer, William Libley. The whole number of
schools belonging to the society is I4 the fourth of
them being missionary schools, 81 only having re-
ported in time for the anniversary; total number of
teachers, 1884, of whom POS are male and ,l79
female; the total number of pupils is IOo,6S5, of
whom 90,436 are females The whole number of
volumes in the library is 1929. Grants to the
school during the past year:-fnc Bibles, 2O6; ree-
renee Bibles, "a; plain Bibles, lO7; fine Tcsaments,
40; plain Testaments, 49, Union Hymns, 779;
Union Questions, 2,73; class books, 1923; minute,
receiving, aid, and roll books, 1876; first, second
and third reading books, l,7o7 Coz alphabet cards
and ten Commandment cards; Union Bible Die
tionaries, 5S; church and hymn books, Of various
kinds, l0l; anniversary hymns, $4,000; library
forms, 1852; arrangement of lessons, $500; proof
slips, 2l6,0O0; proof books, $500
On concluding the reading of the report, the PRE-
sIDENT proceeded to address tho meeting Ilo
thanked Providence for the blessing he enjoyed
in common with the friends Of the Society-in being
considered worthy of assisting in the great work,
with our Divine Master, of bringing little children
into the fold Of Christ. He first attached to
the society as teacher in 1917, in the Franklin
street church, when the society had only two
teachers, male and female. Starting from that
date. tho society has gone on growing and
expanding, until it is now second to none in the
great work which it has set before it. He called
the attention of the meeting to the wants of the
German population regarding the benefits arising
from this great work OF love. Thousands of the
German population grow up without knowing God,
without knowing Christ and in every respect infdels
and atheists Let us remember if we do not come
TO their help they will be utterly lost. Great masses
of German emigTants have no consciousness Of keep
ing the Sabbath. You must go among them as
they land upon cur shores, and protect them from
the landsharks whose object is to keep them in
darkness When members of this society do 90
amongst them they are met with insult and with
violence, without the least interference protection
from police or Mayor The German press of this
country makes light Of Christianity, and denies the
existence of God and the Immortality of the soul.
The German Sunday papers--in one of which we
have seen the republication of the works Of Paine
and the German press generally, hold up to rdicule
those omigrants who led tosrespect the Sabbath
i take this statement from the Christian Examiner
that through the German press reasonable doc
trines are boldly declared, and through which the
people have been led to violent deeds. Let us, in
our task Of love, counteract Che evil effects of such
doctrines Let us plant the good principles Of tho
church in the hearts Of the children Through
them we may win many parent; many mothers
will thus be touched and blessed results will cnsue
While doing good to them we shall be doing good
to the entire community. This shall be our great
and special work Many like to 60 into the foreign
field OF missionaries but here is field among them
selves greater than any foreign field. He recon-
mended this work to the society, and prayed them
to enter upon 1t with strong hands and good hearts,
and that noble results would follow.
Singing BY the choir-" There's an hoW 0f bal-
lowed peace"