The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-15
IHE DAILY DlSPATCH.
Frtiay oIorn,us. May rs, 1887.


American Tact secteC.
rhe Annual Business Meeting oil 'he Au'e''
.,n Tr.e, Society. WAS held in Dr. hutton
chrrch In University place. New YORK. WEI
,s,d.v Aorn;ne our readers VIII re"emo''
the ssot3 u meeting of last year , .ne 'f,sN
C,,M Justice Williams. President os-
o1. raj, After prayer by DR. spring
..p's. ~. ~ the Investigating Committee was
..e ~. Hon. Judge Jessup, Of Pennsyivan'A'
eo ~ ont the line of discrimination between
-. 81. American Tract Society, according 10
~. .on .,i,u,ion, may aud may not puohsh'
resolved. Thst the American Tract Soeiey we.
s.,.b ,hed for adeinite purpose namely 10 go w..
sno~ Of .inn.n. and 70 promote the interests OF
vital aodness and round morality, by the eitcuia"
Of religious tracts calculated to'receiVe the apPio
hstiou Of all evangelical Ch:lstana" g.,
That thi, 30 dety csunot therefore, with pro
priety allow itself 10 be made special oresn o'
any one system Of religious or moral reform SUE
Temperance, peace, anti-Popefy, ant,slave's mid
while within its proper spheue its infuence sh2u'u
sustain the cause Of truth and rishteou'aes' !" al
their departments.
s. That in sndesvorins to accomplish its d sno
holy mission the Society should deal overland diy
and bear impartial Testimony against all 'orms oil
fdndsment al doctrinal and practical nmoraay'
prevailing In any ana every par. o, 0 Committse the
political aspects Of slsvary lie enurey ~ithout Ine
proper sphere OF this Society, and cannot oe discuss
ed in Its publications; but inst those o,ai OUT,
a. thos moral evils and vices which It ano~n 60
promote and W hch are condemned in scripture, ano
80 much dsplorsd BY evangelical Z ,i:tians nnaouot
can and ought to be discussed in fraternal and mrs
tisn spiiit.
The report was unanimously adopted. The fol
lowing an extract Of the business report of TIT
last year:
Circulated during this year 996 $50 volumes, 10
t726t6 pubsations or 2S2 S99 no pages total sna,
the formation Of the Society, u 35o,l69 volume S
l69 $50 1922 public 'tons 45o5 S4o85I pages Ora
fuitous distribution f5r this year. In S65 dstinc
giants, s. 2Ss 325 cages, and ll,lS25 95 to memb r
thousand dollars. Month circulation of the Amer
lean Messenger about 1876 000; sotschaftsr or Ger
man Messer gar, % 900, Child's Paper. $4,000
Receipts in donations including S22, ia 96 in leg
aces l55 985 95 for sales including peroli:ss Co.
500 AZ total, 4la,585 So Expenditures for Issuing
boots and periodicai. 2!66t4 OF; for colportase
5097; RENTED to foreign and IAN lands Is ote
total expended, 4i8 929 So.
CoLPoRTAGE.-Eight principal Colporteur A gen
cies, each with Superintendent of Coipoftsge anl
cooperating agencies are locate a. Rochester, Phil
adel phia Richmond. Charleston, New Orleans ct
Louis Cincinnati. and Chicago The efficiency o
the coiporteur work has probably exceeded THAI o
any previous year in its successful extension the
destitute, especially in hitherto unoccupsd psrts O.
the southeru and southwestern States Tue hundred
and thirty copsrteurs and students have Lahore
the whole part of the year in the northern ano
middle States; one hundred and eighty three in the
western aud northwestern States and three hundred
and fnenty in ihe southern and south western States
total in the United States and Canada, fire hundred
and eighty colporteurs and ia students from 43 COL
Ieges or theological ssmi2sries; Ia q 754 Of rh,
coiporteurs ISL besides number OF students, labor
ing for the Germans, Swedes, Norwe giar $, Dance
Welsh, French, Spanish Irish, and In iiars, chief
among the Germans.
All the old officers were re elected except Rev
r. s. Cook who declined and whose place wa
filled BY the election of Rev. Mr. NJ Stew, nson
D. D., of Indiana