New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-09
NETWORK suSDAY-sCHooL UNION.
EVENING MEETING.

day School Union was celebrated las, evening ~ inc
Broadway Tabernacle. The Tabernacle was nearly
half filed
The exercises commenced with music by the choir;
after which the Rev. DR.. TrSG offered a prayer.
The President Dr. Ferris spoke OF the pleasant
scenes to which that Society could look back. He
doubted not but that the details which would be gvca
in the Report to be read by the Secretary would sur
prise many The year past had been the most event
full one in the history of the Union He alluded to tho
death of one of their truest coadjutors, j. C. Mecks
N.Y. McELIIoorr then read the Report. II states
that the whole number of schools is 1872 of which ii6
sent in their annual reports in time for the annual
statement There were ,ii3 male teachers, and 50T
females 1880 in all. The number Of pupils was
% 80, az which lo,s06 were males and ls0js re-
males The average attendance for the month OF
March was isi. Commissions during the year 400.
The whole sulnbcr Of pupils as nearly as could be AS
ccrianod. 80, SOL Of teachers i,29i Whole num-
Der volumes in Sunday School Libraries, 5222l Sew
eral new Mission Schools have been established, some
thing over 900 children have been brought into the
schools by direct visitation. Something also has been
done in Brooklyn. The whole amount raised wns
sl9375 of which about one-third came from tho
schools themselves. IL estimated that $4,000
children in this City without religious instruction
of any kind, either Protestant or Catholic iho 81 oos
volumes in the Libraries of every variety calcu-
lated 10 interest the young they were not confined 70
strictly religious subjects. The report dwels with ex
ataiicn upon the number of conversions and CLOSES
with the hope that the Union may continue 10 Pto-
| gross il had done.
| The Rev Dr. BAKER Of Wiliamsburgh was then in
| troduced He spoke OF the deep obligations under
which he was personally to Sabbath Schoos- lie
learned the New Testament by heart in a Sabbath
SCHOOL, he traced his course and his progress in grace
until he concluded to remove from England to llli-
noa He went to Illinois and settled at Alton, where
re wns soon licensed To preach by the Baptist Church
He detailed at length the circumstances under when no
founded the first Sabbath School, which became tho
foundation of Mission Church. lfeyer he had been
of any avail in the Lords service il was because OF ne
teachings of his mother and what he 'ad learned az inc
| Sunday School.
Music followed, after which
The Rev BYRON SUNDERLAND was introduced. he
said that he believed that Sunday Schools Gods
economy for the salvation of children. The Church
was not vet fully awake to this great insrumentality
They must think not only of the a. 900 children the
schools of the City but of the $4,000 who were not
cared for He liked this institution because It was
grand educational fundamentally. He knew that IN
fdels sneered this, saying that the mind should %
left fee 10 choose for itself But this was tho toofs
reason. Compare the Girard College with the Sunday
Schools of this City Into that College no Christian
minister permitted to enter, while there IN ms IL
brary were the works of Hume and Bolingbroke, OIL
NcIinire and Rousseau nfdelity enough 10 faint tho
yery archives of heaven But he believed the Bibc
was there. The Institution could not exist without
IL, II nas his mighty treasury of wisdom that
tcv wanted to stow into the heads and hearts OF the
rising generation. lie liked Sunday Schools too, be-
| n Il
took things IN the nick Of time and got ahead OIL the
devil. II was 10 to try 10 control the tide o.
human life which flowed through Broadway rom
I'uon-squsfc 10 the Battery than TO attempt TO sound
the Niagare 10 control it they mus, go to the source
of tie Iyer--,o tie childhood Of the sea- lie liked
tie Sunday School because II was preventive inshtu
4n a o asn ~ aa"o1.i;on II was the
gy nnsum of the Church; all the instrumentstes OF
the Church hero combined. IL WA the
recruiting and drilling agency OF the host OF Code
elect. How many churches would have died
2 out had il not been for Sunday Schools For
the happiness alone Of people he would that they
rose to tie check and the SPARKLE 10 the eye OF tho
young lady who was now suffering from ennu; It
would give the young who found pleasure only IN
driving fast horses something 10 do. Sunday schools
were the John The Baptist of the religion, the coulter
in advarce Of the plowshere, the supper aud miner
company of grace the flying artillery of the church.
, and moi only that, but the small arms. Let them go
on; God would not end until He had found all His
oi ildren, which He dong by this insrunentay
iLen the old Earihs day would be over and then she
would under the weight OF ages into ne" ana
another dispeusatioD.
The Rev. Dr. TYING, delegate from the parent So
cety, was then introduced. The Sunday School
Union was a means of very temporal benefit TO tho
country Where was the great wealth OF our iandF
ST Guild we point 10 the ships which hoated on tho
mighty deep to the treasures Of en and srchitecturef
They indeed were the clements OF prosperity, bug
th re was something behind them they were securing
the temporal prosperity OF me Iihu III TIC cA.",io'v
Of intelligence and religion. lie common oGnson
were doing great work but from those schools had
| been banished that book which had been me grano
educator Of the human heart. This world, this cont
ueut this lend this generation were what they were
Lecausc Of that glorious Bible that God sent down
the gift Of His love. The future Of the country do
pend,d upon the religious character Of their country
men. Far deeper than the eye Of DE Tocqueyiile
reached lay the grand secret of American free
dom: it was the American conscience. Tney
were what they were because they we're q
religious people. They had become what they
were because their fcrefathers were brought up In
tie truths II the Gospel and because rather than sur
render that which ri The knees # mother and from the
Beck Of God they had received, they would brave the
reyis of The deep find home in the wilderness, and
rsife ND a land which God would have az heritage
for his pure md glorious GOSPEL. Through there
American Sunday Schools was sccurod The moral re-
igirrs aud con- :enii0us trimming which was To
raise up aw-abiding hDcny-loving, pcace-scek-
no American citizens. There was, however, q
fer higher aspect 70 tbs subject. Sunday
schoois furnisLed the Of q religious education,
md became the pioneers of the Gospel aud the founda
ions Of elurcl.es. Some might stand up and AJAX
whit fort Of churches they were going TO be. He
cnred not what Kind Of churches they going TO
be if they we're Evangelical Christian churches, IL
thew only held to the glorious fundamental truths
that were contained in the books of the American
sunday School Union. II was well that there was
common, central bond that could draw hearts to-
geker end make feel that there union in Canaan
II had been objected that there 10 be stipulated a..
snce &c 10 doctrines. Would to God that O stipulated
silence might prev all throughout the Christian Church
in regard 10 these dogmas. He thought that the num-
her Of conversions wa but smelonly 400 in great
metropolis as his. II was because there was want
Of faith in the great agency which God had pa, INFO