New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-11

aid Of their numerous patrons also 10 variou, helpers
in the work to their Board of Counseors Building
Committee, legal advisor. auditors, physician TO the
Home, Missionary Committee. and particularly to the
several friends in the late New.York Legislature
whose influence was given in behalf Of the aPpropra
tion made for the erection of the Home Chapel.
PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT.
An average of 26 900 copies of the Advocate and
Guardian have been issued semi-monthly or 2oo,ooV
folio pages 5000 Annual reports, oO0 T4pga o .,
The Home Song Book and 600 copies OF The hsr'
woods Present issue Of The Advocate semi-Inontyy'
e. SEQ. .1 .ooo;,.aa
The number Of business letters. registered, received
through this department IL ZsC; Letter. In
. 100 The number of new subscribers teceNeu since
lat report 3 500 The number OF tracts paper &C,
distributed gratuitousy the past year amount 10 some
$50 600 pages. ~.
WboIe number Of Life Member
HOME FOR THE FRIESDLEss.
The work Of the Home has been prosecuted sue
cessfy the last year, its agencies and means of
fune-s being increased through various channels.
A new building has been erected upon the Home
premises at outlay OF some $3OO0O, which is now
nearly completed. This building contains conve-
nient chapel, nursery, gymnasium and publishing
roOps, adapted to the necessities of the institution.
$4,000 have been given by the Legislature toward its
erection Most Of the balance has been raised by
loan and private charity.
The statistics of the institution as follows:
Number Of children provided for in the Home, from May
1856 TO May l. 1851 SO
Number children removed by adoption and otherwise. 24
Number Of children remaining May looT...''.'' "
Adults admitted in the time 15i
adults supplied with the charity Of wages" ;..... 90
Children aided through the Home Industrial school 80
Whole number Of children received since the Institution
opened, including readmissions ~
"hoe number OF adults
~
The applications for children for adoption
indicative Of the wide spread interest enlisted in this
enterprise An agent Of the Society who has traversed
aggregate Of 1000 miles during the past year in
locating and visiting over 200 Home children and ind
ing parents and guardians for others, reports the
children generally well cared for and the prospect
good for providing for nm indefinite num-
Der on the prairies of the great West and elsewhere.
The teacher of the Home School reports III children
as having been in attendance during the year. The
pupils of the Home Industrial School, 30O-nearly
all of whom have been girls from the most destitute
and exposed classes of mendcants. Their marked i'm
proveDen has been matter OF surprise and encourage
ment.
The Home Chdren's Missionary and Visiting Com
mttee report having made 1000 calls and visits,
chiefly among the poor and suffering the widowed
and desOlate among whom has been discussed nearly
1900 garments, $50 quilts and comforters and over
$500 in money given in small to relieve those
found most worthy and necesstous.
Au1aiies and friends through the country at large
have exhibited undminshed interest, and the varied
aspectS Of the work indicate that prayer is being
tnualy heard and answered in it's behalf, and also
that the promise is being verified that He shall turn
" the hearts of the fathers to the children
The Rev. A. ID. GILLETTE, ID. d., pastor OF the
church. then preached the Anniversary Sermon TAX
ing as his text, God seeth the solitary in families
Psalm xvii. g. He said in brief The aim OF the So
ciety have the honor of addressing Is to rescue
neglected children from the control or abuse OF vicious
or Door parents gather those into this asylum who
have no homes and by cleansing wholesome food,
good discipline and sound education, prepare them to
be taken by worthy people into their own families to
be Industrious useful and happy. This, to my mind,
is an illustration of the text 1t is God in the hearts
and hands of this Society and its friends picking out
from dens of infamy, want, scenes OF distress and
cutters of filth, the solitary the lone child oil
sorrow and setting that child in a family II will be
my purpose to show that GOdist author of the fam.
y relation that this relation shattered by sin and
must be restored and the means by which this resto-
ration is TO be effected That God is the author OF the
family relation in the fact that he is revealed
to us as the head of family, great family. Angels
compose his elder children and men his younger, who
having been aliens by transgression are brought nigh
by the blood of Christ. The reverend gentleman
proceeded to illustrate his first proposition by refer
ring to the creation-Adam and Eve, and Gods com
mand to them to be fruitful and multiply and replenish
the earth and subdue it. The happy family of Eden
was scattered by sin and and shame and want
and woe had been mans lot from that time forward.
This family must be restored. God loved the world
that he gave His only begOen Son so that whatsoever
believeth in Him should not perish but have everlast
ing life. How is the family relation to be restored
God has revealed himself to be initiated by his nteli.
gent initiative creatures and women. One OF
the great agencies in this work is margagr Nothing
more aarmingy indicates deteriordtlng society than
loose views of marriage and growing neglect OF II
in community. Marriage is the bond and conserva-
tor of virtue; and there can be no family, no govern
ment, empire without It, Families make towns,
neghborhoOds, communities, states, nations. Fami-
lies form societies, churches schools asylums. The
family is the perennial fountain purified by religion,
supplying all good to mankind. Men and women
must estimate Gods plan Alright, and do all they can
to adopt it by marrying and forming families them,
selves-centers of life love, intelligence, virtue and
true religion. The speaker said he was sorry to per
ceve in certain classes of society more especially OF
the young growing disregard of the marital relation
Such indifference BODIED no good TO community
He then proceeded to apply the principles he had laid
down to the work of this Society and claimed for it
a generous and hearty support. In Gods hands 1t
was doing great work-reuniting tho scattered irag-
ments of Gods family-building up new circles Of
Intelligence and virtue from the most discordant and
vicious elements and drfusng the light OF Chris
tianty abroad over the darkest habita!ionS OF want
and woe, and wretchedness.
After the sermon the children sang hymn, acoiec-
ton was taken up and the congregation was dismissed
with benediction.