Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-25

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January :. ss4,27O 90
" Total receipts from Aug. to Jan31. sl19s64 10
The table shows, very conclusively, the in
fusnces of different institutions ON the relig-
ious and moral enterprises of the age. 1t will
be seen that the amount contributed
by the Slave States was only one-thirty-
fifth part as much as was contributed by the
Free States that it was less than one-twen-
ty-third part as much as was contributed by
the New England States; less than one-tenth
of the contribution of Massachusetts, and less
than one half that of either Vermont or New
Hampshire. VIII the people permit an insti-
tuition having such tendencies, to monopoize
all the unsettled territories of America?
MISSIONARY 1NTELL1GENcE-Rev. Charles
F. Preston, and DIR. J. G. Kerr and wife, have
sailed for the mission of the Presbyterian
Board at Canton, and Mrs. Way has returned
to the Ningpo mission of the same Board
DR.. 6. w. Burton and wife, daughter of Rev.
Cephas Bennett of Burmah, have sailed for the
mission in China connected with the South
ern Baptist Board. Rev. Messrs. E. G. Lord,
and M. J. Knowlton and their wives, have
sailed for Ningpo, under the care Of the Am.
odpIlSb - n1OHs INeN. .. L. w OlCOIl, ana MT.
A. P. Hills and their wives, and Miss Lucy
Woodcock, Rev. George Thompson, and Rev.
]. Condit, of the Am Missionary Association,
have sailed for Africa. Rev. Hervey E.
Knapp of the Arracan mission, Burmah, I'M
der the care of the Am. Baptist Union, died
on his passage from Calcutta to the Cape of
Good Hope. Mrs. Rev. A. I. Rose, of the
same mission, Mrs. Rev. H. B. Shermer, and
Mrs. Rev. w. G.. Croker of the mission of
the same board to the Bassas, West Africa, re-
Gently died.
Premium OF $500 FOR WoRK ON PEACE.
"A premium of $500 is offered by an aged
friend, to be awarded to the author of the
best approved treatise Of not less than 800 nor
more than 400 pages, on "The Right Way, or
the Gospel applied to the Intercourse of Indi-
viduals and Nations" Manuscripts may be
presented until January l, 1866, and may be
addressed (post paid) to Rev, Seth Bliss, %
Cornhill Boston, or to William A. Hallock,
25O Nassau-street, New York.
The CATHOLIC PREss.-There are now ff-
teen Roman catholic journals in circulation in
this country, whose united circulation may be
estimated at about 10000 weekly.
REV. DR.. JUSTIN EDwARDs.-A memoir of
this devoted servant of Christ, author of the
perance Manuals, is in prepsration and we
cheerfully insert therequest that all who have
letters OF documents from his pen, will send
them without delay by mail, to ''Mrs Justin
Edwards, Andover, Mass So far as desired,
all will be safely returned.
NOBLE MUN1FcENcE.-Samuel Wilkes, a
member of the Wesleyan church in England,
resolved two years ago to give guinea day
through the year to the Missionary Society,"
Last year, having prespered in his business.
he gave seven guineas a day to the same cause.
During 1854 he has resolved to give fifty
guineas, or too hundred and fifty dollars day,
or more than ninety three thousand dollars a
year to the missionary cause. Mr.. Wilkes
began business with very small capital, loan
ed him by friend. He has accumulated q
fortune rapidly, and as his means have enlarg-
ed his contributions to the cause of Christ
have increased.
DEATH OF A VENERABLE DyINE.-Rev.
William Jay of Bath, England, known
| throughout the world by his useful writings,
died December 81, in the eighty-ffth year of
his age. He preached in Surrey chapel when
sixteen years old.