New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-09
THE ANNUAL SERMON.
AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

AMEhItAN uOBE hISNlONAhl OOClEiI
The Thrtieth Anniversary of the American Home
Missionary Society was beld at the Tabernacle on
Wednesday evening. Despite the unpleasant state of
the weather the Tabernacle well filed and great
interest was manifested in the proceedings of the
evening. Many distinguished cergyInen of this city
and from abroad occupied seats upon the PLATFORM
The Hon. WV. JE,srP, L. D., of Montrose, Pa, one
of the Vice-Presidents having taken the Chair, the
exercises Of the evening commenced with prayer by
the Rev. JOEL HAYES, ID. d., of Hartford, Conn.
Abstracts Of the Reports of the Treasurer and the
Executive Committee were then presented by WIN.
c. GILMAN, esq., Recording Secretary, and the Rev
MILTON BADGER, ID. d.. OF which the following are
the most prominent features:
The Society has been called to mourn the deeease,
during the year, OF two Of It's Niee-PIeslden,s the Rev.
Robert II. Bishop, ID. ana the Key. Thomas A.
Merrill ID. D.; one Of il Directors, the Rev. Artemas
Bullard, D.. and fourteen Of its Missionaries The
number of of the Gospel in the service OF the
Society in "a different States and Territories, during
the year, has been $50. or the whole number o-'
have been the pastors stated supplies of srge con-
gregaons; 3l5 have minsered in two or three con-
creations EACH aud l43 have extended their la6ors
over still wider icds Ten missionaries have preached
10 congregations If coored people, and SO in foreign
| languages-23 to Welsh. and 81 to German congrega-
tOns and to congregations of Norwegians, Swedes,
! Swiss and Frenchmeu. The number ct congregations
and missionary stations supplied IN whole or IN part,
965 The aggregate of ministerial labor performed
is equal to us years. The number of pupils In Sab
bath Schools is 10000. There have been added to the
Churches 0,tVS, VIZ. EO-O pH pIOlCrolVH "
letter. Fifty missionaries make mention, in their re-
ports Of revivas of religion in their congregational and
$50 missionaries report zoos hopeful conversions
Flty churches have been organized by The mssiona-
rie during the YEAR and 80, that had been dependent,
have assumed the support of their own ministry For
weight houses of worship have been completed, 80 re-
paired and SO others in process of erection Ninety
Young mep in connection with the missionary churches;
are in preparation for the Gospel Ministry Receipts,
| Sl93,5is 81; liabilities, Sl96,l62 6s.
Paymerfs-sls6, Gil %, leaving 9,55l &C still due
to missionaries for labor performed toward canoeing
which, and meeting the further claims on commissions
not vet expred-amountiDg In all to sl27 67-there
is baance in the treasury of s23 742 ls the greater
part of it received in payment Of egacies near the
| close Of the year.
The receipts exceed those of the preceding year by
sl3 al 6s The number Of missionaries il less by 40,
| and the years of labor by 40. The dimnution in the
number Of missionaries is not equal by Is to the num-
Der whose support has been assumed by their people,
| added TO the number removed by death; and it has
been chiefly in the older States while in several of the
newer States and Territories there has been marked
increase. There have been issued Isl commissions TO
men, not in the service OF the Society at the date OF
the last Report TO supply vacancies and occupy new
fields anu yet there is increasing and painful evidence
that the supply of laborers for the harvesfeld falls
| far short of the demand With diminished number
in commission, there has been increase of expendi
tnre amounting to ss 1913 6s showing continued prog
ress in raising the standard of missionary support The
average cost Of years labor TO the Society has in
consequence advanced the last year 10 per cent IN 10
years, IS per cent; and in 10 years, 81 per cent.
Resul. IN 7Rirty FORTHWITH this record closes
the ihtieth wear Of the labOrs of this Society. The
fields il has cultivated in nearly every State and
Territory and extend from the ST. Croix to the Golden
Gate OF California. Nearly half of the existing churches
| of New. England have been indebted TO rs fostering
| care. In Central and Western New York, the same
may be said Of more than 600 churches, comprising
about five Sxths of those that synpathize with the So
| cety. On the Western Reserve, in Ohio nearly every
church has been planted or nurtured by It's husoandTy
During IFS fret year il sustained the only minister OF
| these DENOMINATIONS who was laborng in Michigan,
where now points TO zoo churches the trophies of
| its lAbon. Twentythree years ago 1t erected the
| Gospel standard at FOr Dearborn, now Chicago and
within circle Of 80 miles radius drawn from that
pace more than 400 churches have since been planted
Less than twenty years have elapsed since the st
missionary entered the greal wilderness of Wisconsin,
| where now il counts 10 public affairs reared by its
hand. In Missouri It's abOrs have been less successful
yet every Of the Presbyterian churches of that
state out Of -. Lons has shared it's bounty. Ii fol-
lowed the tide of emigration II swept the prai
res Of Iowa; ard now, ster the lapse OF less than
twenty years, finds nearly 100 churches in that State
which are the offspring Of Its benehcence 1t has
cended the Mississippi, and planted the standard of the
| Gross along It's hoWnipg bluffs and verdant slopes,
10 the dark forests that shade its upper streams.
lie messengers the first standard bearers Of that
ptactpl army that claimed, and, by the grace Of God,
| Will hold, the virgin soil Of Kansas and Nebraska for
| truth snd Freedom. Ii has even embarked upon the
Great and wide sea ard borne the ark If salvation 10
| our new born empire or the Pacific Coast.
la the prose CutiOn of IL work. II has gathered and
6shursed in thirty wears, 50, O2 04S - The number
# It's missionaries has increased from l69 TO $50; its
,cailv income fom sisl40 &c 10 1923 $40 81 and The
humber Vi lis aCds ot !ab0G AVN 10 " .s9V. Vn9et