New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-12
THE ANNIVERSARIES.

VOTING MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSoOiaIioN
The ffh annual meeting of the New-iork iouhR
Mems Christian Association was heiu iaS' e''n'ng AZ
the Calvary Baptist Church Inc a''eiuance was mol
- uov,c, WEBSTER was on the platform
After prayer BY Or. GILLETTE, there was reading o.
.is Sc,i,,pres by the Rev. Dr.E r. HATFIELD, and
-, ..,hd,, was chauted. The Annual Report Of the
President, s. NJ. Stebbns esq, was then read by the
p.v Mr. MARSHALL. II stated that want of har
oory had been experienced in the Association for two
or three months past which, however, it is hoped Is
st an end The Boarding House Committee and En-
ploymen, Committee are supposed to nave done much
good, aud the Lecture Committee has succeeded IN
getting up q course Of lectures Three hundred and
fifty volumes have been added to the library making
1900 and classes in the languages and gy1nnas-
tics fOrping. Financial embarrassments are hoped
TO be surmOunted, but there are SOO members leit'
and Prof Howard CrOsby's Bible Class Is dong d
great deal Of good. The report closes with some very
general remarks on the utility of the Association
The Report Of the Treasurer Mr. RICHARD brown
shows that the expenses have been iOr the yeai
Rent, 81 073; fitting up new rooms, s'9o salarlss'
1855 printing and stationery $40 and sundry DINERS
making up a total of So 9E. To meet this are: Mem
bers' dues, 81 ,453; life members, siS1; collections
s3l donations, s69o loans s'9o ana E sS 'i"
The Rev DR. STURTEyASr, President OF Illinois
College gave an address He thought that the Evan
geleaI Church could not be objected to as morose aud
mates Of the green-rOom. There was no play in cards,
or going TO the theater where you hired other people
10 Dlsy Tor YOU This latter was dangerous matter
to the peasure-nonger as well as the peasure-buyer
What was the character Of this pleasure-mOngerng
The man who got his living in this way must ap
proach on their weak sides, which always were
their wicked Sides He warned young men not only
against the theaer aud the circus aud all that but
ssO of pulpits whose oil ect was TO entertain men.
The Rev. X. NJ. HATFIELD followed in some gen
eral remarks on the depth to which the pulpit had
fallen IN vindicatiOn OF the stage.
The Rev. Il. l.. CUTLER was the last speaker. Aftera
nautical illustration of the condition of the Association,
he spoke Of its recent difficulties. Though excellent
men had seen fit TO withdraw, he meant 50 much the
more TO stick by the old Association He denied that
they had joined hands with fanatics and radicals. They
had but asserted the doctrine Of free speech within the
limits OF Christian courtesy. Ii had been said that the
Association interfered with the weekly meetings OF the
churches, but IL was not So The young men who dld
not attend the weekly meetings were not to be found
in Wayerley-pace they dressing for Mrs. Poti-
phars ball or the Opera House. or bushng IN the boxes
at the representation OF some indecent french PiaS
Ike Camille which ought TO be Kissed back from New
York TO Paris and from Paris back to PlygatOry,
whence il came. Mr.. Cuyler thought that the man,
hood OF this Association was yet TO come they had
learned in their difficulties to do their duty careless OF
outside pressure Boldness was the best policy;
Christians ought to carry this out in their religion For
Themselves he hoped that an amnesty would De pro-
claimed now in the Association Mentioning father
J,eecher he won golden opinions by saying that we
might well call him Father Beecher for he father OF
more brains than any other man in the country.
collection was then taken up and the exercises
were concluded with DoxolOgy and BenedctIon;
The rooms of the Association are at No. 81 Waver-
ley place They are open daily Sundays excepted
som u a. IN. to lOI p. nj. The collection OF religious
aud secular papers and periodicals embraces p"bhoa
lions from all quarters OF the world. Inc stated meet
tings are as follows viz: Monthly on the fourth Mon
day evening of each month"; devotional, every
Wednesday evening at - o'clock, and every Sabbath
at O'Clock p. m. Bible class, every Sabbath at A
O'Clock 70. IA.