The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-05-14

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The most curious feature Of tho anniversaries
which have been held by the religious societies this
week. and that which has been looked for with more
than the usual anxiety Ia the exhibit Of the state of
their finances. What would be the result shown In
these regular budgets of the panic and of the rev
vals-how far the one would oOunterbalance the
other-are points of vital bearing upon many COM
Portable salary and as it now appears, may yet press
pretty hard upon the great mass Of the religious Or
CARNATIONS. There is, however, general feeling Of
relief, on the ground that matters are no worse and
the timely success of the revivaIs is found to have
saved the various religious concerns from an extent
Of bankruptcy, suspension" and disaster even ex-
oeeding that of the railroads, banks dry goods
houses and all the other rotten concerns overturned
in the late financial tornado.
It IL frankly conceded that the various religions
organizations have even more keenly experienced
the terors of the panic than any others of our es
tablshed institutions. Whilst the commercial houses
the corporations and the banks were going by the
board, the religious concerns were simply stunned
and Supplied for the time. They could make no
sort o. exertion and the prospect of utter desruc
ton seemed inevitable. Their regular income was
suddenly stopped, just at the season when it usually
begins to be available II Is from the middle Of the
fall to the LIST of May that threefourths of the mo-
ney Of these organizations is gathered. As the
spring approached there seemed to be prospect of
revenue whilst the salaries rents, contracts for
teria, and the various expenses, were expanded be-
yond all hope of practicable retrenchment. The
operations Of these Institutions directed by annual
conventions, are peculiarly unsuted by their mode
of management, their sources of revenue, and their
channels Of outlay fer meeting anything like a
crisis. Threatened with general ruin, it was natu.
raj that their attack of the financial epidemic should
be the more acute as they happened to be the more
helpless. II not necessary to assume any artificial
efforts to set foot the late great awakening" in
view of these facts. These religious organizations
have their ramifcations throughout the whole COM
munity, and their unaffected financial fright had its
legitimate expression in the revivals. Their
ledgers, at least point unerrngy to this inference,
as the monty amounts show, by the rapid geometri
cal progression which they almost uniformly made
as the revivals progressed The cashbooks of some
of the societies show differences in the amounts of
their monthly receipts for the past two or three
months a. large as $4,000 increase per month.
On the whole, il Is nov thought that the storm
was weathered in o mastery manner Indeed, the
result for several Of the religious bodies would APP
pear to show considerable margin Of financial gain
over their receipts Of previous years. A much
greater number however, Of the organizations have
been rather famed. In the matter of their expend
lures, especially, they would seem to be considera
bly, disorgsnized. The amounts in this connection
are in frequent instances withheld from publication
as good deal Of grinding down salaries, patching
up leaks and keelhaulng generally is in active dis
CUSTOM with view to the altered state Of SO many
of the old stereotyped ledger balances. The fol-
lowing table will show at glance the condition of
things in nearly all the church propagating and
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