The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-18
American Sunday school Union.

THIRrIJH ANNIVERSARY.
The thrtieth anniversary OF This institution whose
les at the foundation OF all religious charities,
was held in Philadelphia, May TO- 1854
Prom the exhibit made on the OCCASION II appears that
the principal receipts and expenditures Tor the year
Receipts 5000 6c4 esof which SIS s4s 40 were dona-
TONS and $40 GIT IL legacies size 1916 90 for sales and
pay mcnt of debts &c from tenants renting rooms of
the society 2,l67 49, loans received, $780, donations
for the building 80 04S 30 from ale Of the building
LAG Chestnut street, S5 900 ess S20913 6i mortgage
and interest paid Balances from last year, 4iO &C.
and twenty two missionaries and sixteen agents. and do
nations Of books to destitute Sunday schools &c,
sosss2 2a for stereotype plates, $1,000 so copyrights
and editing 49, 1877 o. engravngs, So 1872 52 paper,
SEQ, oe3 SO; printing $1,000 65; photographic and cop
per plate printing s2oal 49, b nding, $4,000 g.; BIZ
bles and Testaments bought and miscellaneous books
purchased to fill orders 3sl 90 interest on loans
s1455 29 salaries OF secretary superintendent Of book
store, bookkeeper salesman, clerks and laborers $40
freight boxes, postage, Sc GAL %; advertising so
tionery, fuel, &C. ,36I 80; taxes, Insurance., &c
Chestnut street for oeetys business &c. loans
paid, 2So; miscellaneous items, $50 81 balance cash
The Society is indebted for paper, binding, &c,
$3 ITO 49, which adddd to the amount of loans bearing
interest, $37 1872 co. exhibits total indebtedness of
49, The amount of stock Of paper and books is
SUNDAY SCHOOL MIssIoSARIEs--Three hundred and
twenty of these aborers have been employed for
Territories These Sunday School missionaries have
tabshed 2ol2 schools and have visited and revived
and 975 scholars They have distributed by sale
and donation, S47,707 OF worth Of religious books.
chiefly for children and youth.
The missionary abors of the Society are entirely dis
tnc from the publishing department Indeed the lat
ter is quite subordinate TO the former As missiona ~
institution, the Society las two chief objects-1 To
open Sunday schools in the neghborhoods and set
Elements where they would not otherwise be established
visiting and revving old Sunday schools and To sup
ply them with books for carrying the schools
fully, when thus begun.
Gratuitous distribution Of books, tracts, &C.. have
been made (ncuding 81 06i 49, the details which are
not yet reported) to the value Of sci 2 and thesc
with the charges to the donation account specified in the
general report Of receipts and expenditures makes the
amount expended in missionary and agency abors and
donations in books during the year, ending March
1854, SOS, SS2 20.
All donations made to the Society, are scrupuously
applied to the objects designated by the donors In
they applied to carry the publication de-
rartment of the Society's operations
PUBLISHING DEpARrMESr.-The value of publications
put into circulation during the past year, $17204 80
The number of publications ffty-one of which for
ty are for libraries. OF the whole number thirty
two original works and nineteen reprints.
The Society now publish complete library for Sun
day chools containing 192 volumes, and three seec
tons from the general library Of 100 vol INES EACH for
S1o and Is volumes for S. resides large variety Of
elementary books, cards, hymn boo..s, &C.
The Sunday School Journal and Youths Penny Ga
cete published formerly and in order to ncroas
the usefulness of the latter and to bring 1t within the
reach Of ALL the price of subscription has been reduced
to ten cents per annu where one hundred copies and
over taken.