New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-11

speed, and beauty OF our snps, aau In tue Hcrca-cl
| number and improved character Of our scamen- Then
our tupnsge little over l0o00o0 our seanen le
than 5000; nov il Is nearly 100000, aud our ses'nsn
| more than 100000.
the temporal, moral and religious Improvement of sea-
| men, and the success OF these efforts.
The receipts Of the Society for the year ending Nay
from oil sources, including balance OF ss43 "a from
last years account were S1eoo %
| Expenditures for the y ar 2ott vi
An increase in receipts the last year Of s2s7o a.
This does not include the amounts raised aud ex-
pended by branches suxilisries, and other Sesmens
! Friend Societies seaboard, and on our Western
| lakes, rivers and canals.
The Society continues its missions in successful oper
alton in China, Chill the West Indies, France and
Sweden 1t has also sent during the year, chaplans to
San Francisco, to Panama TO Rio de Jsneiro, 10 Den
mark. snd has one under commission for s. Helena
and extends aid three chaplsincies in bur pDrs
There has been ess religious interest among
at nearly all the foreign stations and some re-
vivsls shipbosrd as well us in our own ports BIZ
bes and evangelical books in various languages, have
been extensively circulated seanlen OF almost all
| nations. The Sailors Home in NcwYors, under me
patronage of the Society prosperous Il has received
during the year. 1907 sailor -boarders 2ll OF wnoin
have become officers of ships 800 have signed the ten
perance pledge $40 of them apparently reior nsd H.
ebriates 2iS shpwrecked and destitute men and boys
have been relieved al expense of 1858 o. besides
considerable amount of clothing furnished by various
! Ladies' Societies The whole number which have en-
tered the Home ia ten years since was nrst opened
| 1887 The present condition and future prospects OF
extensive usefulness of this institution never more
esrering Under the udcious and careful management
of Capt Sayre and those connected with hin, 1t seems
gradually becoming selfsustning institution
Bosrders at the Home have deposited within the year
over Sill 900 in the Seamsns Savings Bank, in Wall st.
| This Bank has over s5,oO00O0 considerable por
ton which has been deposited by TIE fact
tells the story of their Improvement and of the produc
tiveness of the investment for their reformation The
pound" given to them for them, has gained more
| thsn ten pounds
| The whole number of ssamen who have boarded in
Temperance Houses in New York within the year. Is
about 1000, and ths number in the Homes and Temper
ance Houses in all ports, not far from 2o,OOO
while the number that enter these ports annually,
over 10000
The Report concludes with the assertion that though
great progress has made the works not yet done
and calls on the friends OF seen for continued and In
creased interest and patronage. till the abundance of
the shall be converted to Zion.'
Rev. G. LOOMS, late Seaman's Chap
lain in China in moving the adoption Of the report, de-
lvercd an eloquent address.
Capt. A. II. Foote, U. S. Navy, heart
lily endorsed the sentiments contained in the report
relative 10 the improvement that has taken place In the
condition Of seamen by means of sailors homes.
sailors savings banks Bethsls and Temperance board
ing houses Drunkards have been reclaimed, he said;
grograions have been voluntarily given up by many
but until the practice Is entirely forbidden BY Congress-
discipline never be properly enforced among
certain class of sailors, the property of mer
chants, and the honor of Navy, be preserved The
speaker dwe at some length on this subject and Illus
ratsd his argument by several incidents that occurred
In his own experience. He Insisted that no sprtuous
liquor should be furnished by the Legislature of the
Union-to the representative OF the people, to the
sailor and called upon every one to aid in the move
ment for the aboishing OF the liquor rations. Here
the audience loudly applaudedl He ridcued the
idea that there could not De sanity ON Sea- az
upon the Christian Church-and by that Church he
mesnts that Holy Catholic and Apostoliea Church.
free ard enlightened, composed OF all Christians ire
pectve of sects and enlarged in s hberality as the
wids wide world which the Sailor roams Loud
applause followed the termination of the gentlemns
address
The choir of the 14th-st. Presbyterian
Church next sang the Star of Peace to Wanderers
Weary"
The next address was delivered by Rev.
W. T. sproe, Chaplain at West Point Academy N. Y,
on the great influence which Sailors would possess in
spreading the light of the Gospel among barbarous
lands IL reformed He spoke highly of the character Of
the Seaman who otentimes carries in his bosom an A.
fectionate heart, cherishing fondy the memory of a
mothers love, &c, &C. We lack space to report him
fully.l
Rev. E. L. Magoon also addressed the
meeting He said, after general introduction:
All the active Of antiquity occupied the shores Of
he Mediterranean. It's maritime climate, blending
oceanic soitness yith continental rgor tsemed with the
denscst and most diversified population. Cities studded
its coasa fleets poughed It's pillows; mental and com.
mereial wealth coursed along It's mirror of all grandeur
for ages when yet the Pagan Olympus reflected 10 it,
depths, and the goddess of beauty emerged thereom
the only faith and hope those multitudes en-
loved. But q dawned with a sp.ndor that
scpsed Hydrologic fables and Jewish traditions At the
eastern extremity OF this central sea- at equal ds-
from the three continents and in the exact center
of the known world God raised the subimes curtain OF
His purpose, and unioded the glory of redemption The
promised land first selected the sanctuary of re
lgious truth during the reign of poytheism, and the
thester for the preliminary wonders of salvation, in
order to prepare its way from afar among men, and
subordinate to its service the most intellectual and active
influences of which history preserves a memorial and
mankind has enjoyed the fruits.
God and the whole destines of nations som.times
most maniicsty on board single ship, struggling with
adverse elements far out on the deep. Take we'll
knwon illustration About thirty years after the
sion of Christ vessel from the East csne into the har
Dor of Syracuse, and after delay of three days. pro
cesded toward the great western port of her desna
ton. Suppose there had been at that time an enter
prising commercial journal published at Putsoh Sup
pose newsboat were kept the lookout and
telegraph from Rhegum the southern city of the PENN
sula, transmitted every arrival to the editors chair
Word comes, Is put on the exchange bulletin aud pub
lished 10 the common eye Ship Castor and POllux
from Alexandria, Captain zebulon, ia coming up with
cargo Of wheat consigned to Barter, Gain Co., of this
city, and lot of prisoners under Colonel julius bound
to the imperial dungeons Of Rome" Probably there
might have been little talk about the wheat in the
Mark lane of that day, but who reflected on the real
import OF that simple and commonplace dspatchf VINO
bad the profound sagacty to see concentrated In that
single transient craft the wealth ofArics genius ASIA
and power Of Europe' In that hold lay the sifted
treasure OF the primitive university and granary Of
nations every seed Of which, 10 the ends of the earth
Is predestned to spring with potency and productive
ness that will shake like Lebanon That citizen of Tar
aus the central city of the central continent with letters
now corroding his flesh and eating ike aspcs 10 his
SOUL has absorbed into his magnificent nature the solid
lily of the North and the spendsr of the South sea of
glass mingled with ire all treasures that genu. can |
create or industry acquire, with the supernidon of
that infinite superiority which grace alone confers and
all Tbs aggregate of mental and spiritual endowment ne
pears IN bonds to the throne of the Csars that thence
be may rend the chains of the world Each separate
INK wet with ais tears or nged with his blood like tbs
iron that pierced his Lord scattered in fragments by tbs