New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-14
SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE SOCIETY.

NJ N1EMAllC BENEFlCENCE SOClEII.
The first public meeting Of the American Systematic
| Benevoence Society was held yesterday afternoon in
the Presbyterian Church in Broomo street. This is
new society, organized for accommodation Of those
who desire to carry business habits into benevolencc.
1t always ready to receive and the receipts to
be given to any Evangelical csuse which seems worthy
of assistance. In this way intended to be auxl-
larry to every benevolent society in the land They
quote the Apostolic injunction:
Upon the day Ia. eye,y Of you lay BY
him IL store ~ God bath Prospered his,'
And the example Of Lord ChiefJusce Hale the
Rev. DR.. Hammond, Baxter and Doddridgc who
gave . 1.-THE of their income; Of Dr. Watts, who
gave half; of John Wesley, VINO, when his income
was thirty pounds, lived twenty-eight and gave
two, and when his income rose to sixty, and alter
ward to one hundred AID twenty, still lived ON twenty
eight aud gave the remainder; and Of anonymous
shoemaker who, being asked how he contrived
10 give 30 much, IL earn" said he, Que
day with another, about a dollar a day, and
can without Inconvenience to myself family lay by
hve-cents Of this sum for charitable purposes tho
amount is thirty cents week. MY wife takes in
sewing and washing, and something like two
dollars week, and she lays buy ten cents Of that
Ny children each Of them shilling or two, and
glad to contribute their penny; that altogether
we IaV " an store forty cents week. And if We
have been unusually prCsperod, contribute
thing more. The weekly amount il deposited every
Sunday morning IN a box kept for that purpose and
reserved for future Thus by these small
lpgs, have learned that il is blessed to give
than to receive The yearly amount saved in this
way about ttceHt ytrc dollars and distribute this
among the various benevolent societies, according
tho best of my Judgment
The exercises were opened with prayer by the Rev
Mr.. ARM Of Norwich after which the President NJ
W. BALDWIN, esq., gave account of tlie objects
and history OF the Society. The Rev W. J. Il. TAY-
LoR Secretary OF the Society followed with the An
nual Report, which gave rather fuller account of its
history and objects. The receipts from the systemst-
icaly benevolent have been 81 40 and the cxpenses
sl,C6l. Nearly all the expenses have been contrib
uted by few officers and members of the Society
and no sslared agent has been employed. The i'm.
ncnse amount Of labor u be performed however,
will soon involve the necessity Of employing general
agent The Report Gays that many people cannot see
the advantages of giving for beneyOlence sake, and
il il often difficult to convince them that it is better
foy them to give through the Systematic Benevoencs
Society than directly 10 the end desired. clergyman
whose salary sos concluded to give one-tenth Of
biz income The result Of the. year that his e1-
penses were $3.50, be gave away 800 aud had 800
eft. His wife earned 500 by teaching. and the rest
proyidsntially added. man in Ohio who had
never given than s. or - year, but after hear
ing sermon ON systematic beneyoence concluded to
devote tenth Of his earnings to charity. La two
three months he brought his pastor So and told him
that he gave that easier than no Sod to s. or 81
year He was in moderate circumstances, had eighty
sores OF land and large family. Various other in
stances OF the same sort were related.
Inc keN. DuDLEl A. TrSG, of the Episcopal
Church IN Philadelphia vas then introduced. He said
'ne'e were Two ways Of estimating an audience. by
qaan'iiy aud by quality only about hundred people
were presents he preferred the lat;or in this Te
audience was decidedly select After sn silusion to
me aPostohc INJUNCTION. he spoke Of the necessity of
rms secrecy he Ssid that everythng Gods and it
was our duty to give to objects that was
Gods law. We wee but stewards sdmini,terirg on
Gods property and We must deal .ys.om in our
btneIoiep' account. Why should not the TrAc.
society increase tbs busness froS $500 900 to
81 WD 3D. Why saoad tbs hissos.rr societies