Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-05-16
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The May anniversaries commenced on the
9th, in New York, and have fully occupied
the week. They have been very numerously
attended this year, and present features of
great interest. We can but allude to the
more prominent of them. The anniversary
of the Tract Society held on W Wednesday was
perhaps the most interesting oc ALL 1t was
held on Wednesday. The business meeting
WIS very numerously attended, and was ex-
cited ,-almost turbulent at times-in tone,
but ended in nearly entire harmony. Those
Of the members who iancied that there was
an organized plan on foot to turn out the ad-
ministration and " abolitionize" the society,
found out their mistake. Those who dis
approve of the past course of the publishing
committee in declining to publish tracts on
some of the great and acknowledged evils
Connected with slavery, were found united
with the Executive Committee in a call for
an investigating committee to report on the
subject at some future meeting either annual
or special. A resolution requiring the APP
pointment Of such a committee. of fifteen, by
the chair, was adopted almost unanimously,
and the regular conservative ticket for
Executive Committee was elected without op-
position, The annual report mentions the
following facts.
New publications in los different languages
whole number of publications 2,0j3, circulated du-
ring the year, 7ss s6i publications, 2s3 692, 7O4
pages total since the formation Of the Society,
l6s,lOs,276 publications, or 4,22o,4t ,0sl pages.
sratmtous distribution for the year, g., s220iS pages,
amounting to upwards of $685. 900. Receipts in do
nations, including S26,i2l II in legacies, Sl5s,-
535 Os, being 240 co larger than in any previous
ysar. Seals s257.l7l 81 total sil5, 600 So Total
expended. S4l5,ol0 IL. The number of colpor-
tours aboring during the whole part of the year,
labored among emgrants. They visited 63s, 1898
families. Of the families visited 9i93l habitually
neglected evangelical preaching 51,lsl were ko-
man Catholics 46,2l6 destitute of all religious
books except the Bible. and 3d. 2s7 households des
stitute of the Bible. There have been RENTED to
Foreign and Pagan lands by the Society during
the year, $l7,500 in money.
On the slavery question the Report says
1t seems to have been understood by the whole
community that the subject of slavery, in its as
poets of political, national and sectional strife,
could not be discussed by this Society. Yet there
are other aspects Of the subject and of duties and
evils connected with it. in which it might he hoped
that Evangelical Christians, North and South,
would agree and if Tracts of this description,
breathing the love of Christ and promising useful
ness should be presented, the Committee know no
reason why they should not be approved and pub
lished.
The American Home Missionary Society
held its thirtieth anniversary Wednesday
evening, the It'll. The report gives the fol
lowing statistics.
The number of Ministers in the service of the So
natta al Attrt no. ha1k .aY
CSC. Added to the churches. 1925 on profession
and 1917 by letter Fifty missionaries report revi-
walls in their congregations, and 362 report zoos
hopeful conversions. Fifty churches have been
ganired by the missionaries, and fifty others that
had been dependent assumed the support of their
own ministry. Forty-eight houses of worship have
been completed, 80 repaired, and Sc others are in
process Of erection. Ninety young men, in connec-
ton with the missionary churches, in prepara-
ton for the ministry. The receipts have been 1885,,
5is, the liabilities Sl96,lt2, and the payments
SlS6,Gll, leaving 1851 still due to missionaries
for labor performed towards cancelling which,
there is balance in the treasury of s23,7i2. The
receipts exceed those of the proceeding by $751;
All. With diminished number Of missionaries in
commission, there has been increase of eSpendi-
turc of So S9i, The Society in the 30 years Of its
existence, has gathered and disbursed S3,l02,0iS
and 1924 souls have been gathered into tho
churches receiving its aid. About thousand
churches of it, planting have already become indie.
pendent, among which some of the stron gest in
the land.
The American Bible Society, anniversary
wa, held on Thursday. The receipts Of the
year amounted to 1898, 1925, being an in
crease of S46,355,6' over the former year
OF this amount Sl6l, 0G0 As are gratuitous,
and 1892, LOG II from sale OF Bibles and Tes-
taments. The number of volumes issued is
Cos ,22i, Since the organization of the society
ll,32l,9l2. Many more than formerly of
the larger and better bound books have been
issued.
Mr.. LEMUEL WHITNEY of Nottingham, has
specimen of the " home products of Yer