The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-12

needs They are not the men Who can claim anytnsug
hike Apostolic succession, lsppuse for when we coaie
70 see men in the ministry, who are not ready 70 Welcome
the A.sricAn tact colporteurs those men are living
men shsud 90 back 10 their work their trades and TO
their farms No want them 10 go WI ere ministers
60 and where they would 60 bur they dare not be-
came they have strength Or time go. In book
that have frequently upon study table, written by
DR. Spring and entitled the poser OF the Pupn there
Is chapter to the comparative merits OF the modern
training OF the minister with the training OF their
fathers, Now The American Tract Society is precisely
heard gentlemen say he wished he could ind, ADD
that The proiessorsbip Of common When col
IoIteur comes 10 The American Tract Society if he has
not sense it VIII sork il into hun. and should a man
come from the seminary he will find that he il among
men, and must learn how 10 be man. The American
Tract Society brings strongly before the mind Of the
student that II he wishes to be succe sfu he must
work Ike a man. (Applsuse) When go out into the
country and find field in which tn labor 10
this Ubiiei States what do meetY Why, meet
with men who all in aste who ha their upon
their watch and their feet ready and their hands
ready to work. Now such demand more than sleep
ing ministers. They demand watchful ministers, and
the American Tract Society when il these hun
ha,y, will send them Just such This theological
seminary may be called, in Standardization to many
With regard, then, TO this society auxiliary to the
Christian ministry there are several WAYS in which It
does this work, and thus becomes auxiliary. One TO- it
provides with the books want for there is pub
lie department In this world where procure books
wish 10 circulate readily from this society There
times when do not want to tell people how they
be good Fpscopalans. bat 1t frequently that
wish to tell how they can safely walk the path way
to heaven The American Tac. Society does not supply
that can come under my ministry. They give
me M books, SO that when hen, 20 to the house
except to .ay, "let pray" can leave behind me
little book, which, when the friends have wiped their
them and pray and be eomforted; and when 20 into
household csn take with me scrptura facts and few
Of the socieys tracts 80 that when have departed,
they remember the minister speaking not only to
the parents but to the children 1t would be impossible
for me- now anayze and present the characteristics
Of the books to show you how deeply feel the value Of
the ciety Auxiliary to the ministry The church
has been too long divided for to take down our
walls We have too long separated ever to hope
under one worldly Denominations; but, sir wish
could put up lattice work. instead Of having these walls
Of separations / wish we could be one united, but
glorious band (appsute) and like unto Napoleon when
he moved around his troops and looked at the enemy
and could look Ike h-he looked at his army
ane said, 1--WE ba gained the bate' though they bad
marched step want to look upon the wants Of the
wol ID ard if the spirit of the Tract Society go into
Churches We look and say not in the spirit o. Napoleon
Christ preached and the tread Of the church would be
as the Iesd of mighty army II would be fair As the
moon clear as the sun, and terrible army with
banners such sir regard the spirit OF these great
compina ns-bble societies. tract societies, and Sun
Of God under il for the conquest Of the world The Rev
gentleman his remarks by eulogizng the col
poreurs of The society for their unceasng devotion in
the cause Of Christianity.
The Rev. Dr.. SMITH, t. of the Presbyterian chnreh
Of Charleston s G., seconded the resolution, which,
The audience then sang the following hymn -
Der the gloomy hills of darkness,
Cheered by no celestial ray,
Sun Of righteousness. arising
Bring the bright, the glorious day;
Send the Gospel
To the esrth's rem0test bound.
Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness,
GIart them, Lord, the glorious light
And from eastern coast to western,
Nay the m orning chase the night
And redemption,
Freely purchased, win the day.
Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel
May Why lasting wide dominions
Multiply and stin increase;
Sway the sceptre,
Saviour, all the world around
The Rev N. KIRK, Congregational church, Boston,
hen came forward and proposed the following resou
Resolved That, in view of the food Of immigration,
bringing TO country tens Of thousands speaking TO-
reign tongues eontemnng the Sabbath nsglectng the
preached gospel rejecting the Bible blinded by SUPER
ston the advocates Of in6dety socialism and other
destroying errors occasion of joy that this
society has now nearly hundred German, French,
Irish, Welsh and Norwegian colporteurs laboring to
1t Is most desirable that the number Of faithful and qua
lifted lsboIers for foreign population be increased
Which was seconded BY the Rev. A. Rams chenbusch,
Assistant Secretary for the Germans and carried unani
The Rev. J. p REv1, Moderator of the walaensian
.huIsh Piedmont next presented himself and proposed
Re-, olved, That the society rejoice that the Of
Geo has been raised the past year. and RENTED to
thirty nine Stations In Confidential Europe in Western
Asia in Northern and Southern India, Burmah China,
ard the Islands Of the se and that God is blessing the
Christian press in than hundred languages in
the hands Of faithful pastors celporteurs missionaries
and native assistants in publishing salvation through the
upon benRhed nations the dawn Of vital Christianity.
Mr.. President (said be,) ask the permission of the
audience to allow me to address them in English, the
to undertake. he did yesterday To act in the
pacity of interpreter. and trust you will my
Alpine mountaineer should address an American audi.
ence with 6uency and correctness. When heard Of the
good that had been effected by the American Tract So
and further thank Him that He has enabled to
visit these shores to present to the feelings graft
AND to y 1s ss
into immediate and personal communication with the
churches in America. During the thirteenth and four
same work which is now being carried out on great
scale in this country for at that period had copor
emf Of Italy to the other No doubt many Of you have
heard bow these plain and simple mountaineers ira
yelled f town to town with little boz on their shout
ders, containing few articles of ladies' apparel for SALE
and at the bottom of which was Bible and tracts.
During many centure, little church prescribed
church, but during the last twenty thirty years you
would 6nd in many houses Bible selection Of psalms
in verse, and frequently Bunyans Pilgrims Progress:
but ether books than these could be procured
ether works allowed to pass through the custom
house. But since 1848, however, We have had the |
liberty Of the press, and we use it as much =: We
this country Through the fundamentally Of DR.. Baird
fifteen little libraries for fifty churches have heard 1t
stated that priest perusng Of those tracts the
purpor which that Scriptures should be read BY
every person. exclaimed II do not knew IL that book
from heaven hell but IT Is good and excellent and
produces strong impression on my mind and heart"
We cannot Of course have so many coporteurs y,u
but have men going about from town to town, and
singing hymns and the people wish To hear the
Bible read, they do So and scatter among them religious
tracts The orator concluded his remarks by expressing
bope that the time not far distant when the entire
Italian States would epjoy the blessings OF religious free
dom, and that such result would in great measure be
owing to the indefatgable exertions Of the American
people.
The doxolory was then sung. and benediction pro-
nounced and the audience dispersed.
Nineteenth Anniversary Of the American Fee
male Guardian Society.
The nineteenth anniversary meeting of the American
Female Guardian Society held yesterday morning. at
half past ten o'clock, at the Church Of the Purtans
The chair was occupied by the Rev. Isaac Ferris