The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-05-27
The May Anniversaries.
"A synopsis or the Years Operations
=. of tho Societies..

Of the Societies.
Inc anniversaries of the various benevolent
anu ie'igious societies were held in New York
last week. The public mind being so much
occupied with the war, they occasioncd much
less interest IMAM usual, and their proceedings
are not fully reported. We give the following
brief notices OF the principal organizations:
The American Tract Society reports the an.
gregate of its receipt for the past wear from
donations, legacies and sales. AZ sax Az
making, with the balance in the tre,svr,,
1863 8l9. The expenditures amount to sad
612. leaving balance to the credit of the So.
ciety of So 237. The entire amount expended
in publications for the army during the war ia
set down at $76. 351. There have been dis
tributed during the year in traces 996, 800
copies; of volumes, including pamphlets in
stitched covers, 579 O08 copies, and of religious
journals 3,699 900 copies. 3"
The American Home Missionary Society
shows an expenditure during the year of
S149325. against $195, 537 of receipts 81, 814
are still due for missionary labor. The report
states that twenty seven new churches have
b ZEN organized during the year, and twenty
have become seltsuppOrting Thirty houses
vi worship have been completed fOrty-three
repaired, and twenty-six others are In process
of erection. The number of ministers of tue
Gospel in the service of the society," in twenty
one different States and Territories is 1856
The cumber OF missionaries would have been
greatly increased if suitable men could have
been obtained for the important posts where
their services were needed; hut this was i'm
possible, from the fact that the war had made
large drafts on the society's missionary supplies
in furnishing chaplains for the field and hOspi-
tails. and also In services connected with the
Sanitary and Christian Commissions, and in the
care and instruction of freedmen
The American and Foreign Christian Union
claims to have balance of 50 la left after
defraying all expenditures for the year, the
receipts being S72 1873, and the disbursements
S70,503. Glowing accounts are given of the
progress OF the sOciety's missionaries in South
America and on the European continent, bus
more especially in italy. At Athens the Rev.
Mr.. Constantine. q native Greek is stated to
have commenced his labors with good pros
poets. He has Bible class and Sabbath school
OF between twenty and thirty pupils The
American chapel in Paris has proved decided
success, being at present. through the labOrs of
its late excellent pastor, DR.. McCiintOck, en-
tirely selfsupporttng.
The American Bible Society received f. m
all sources during the past year S56O,57o
of which the legacies amount to $121, 239. The
donations of the society in grants of money
and books are set down at $181 LA, and the
expenses of foreign work at $50 065. The to
tai issue Of books is estimated at $S48 $50.
The army and navy have been supplied through
the agency of the Cnristian Commission, with
766 O75 volumes, while the total issues to the
army and navy have been about two millions
of volumes. 18 494 volumes have been issued
to the freedmen of the South and to the Sc
coded states 217, 1924, besides sales of 50,054
volumes forwarded under flags of truce. The
society publishes books both at home and
abroad, in about forty six languages and dia-
lects
The Board of Foreign Missions Of the Pres
bvteran Church reports the years receipts ut
1922 O82, and the expenditures at 1921 600.
The number of missionaries and assistant mis-.
sonaries sent out was> thirteen, of whom six
are ministers two of them returning to their
fields of labor. Three native missionaries have
been licensed to preach the gospel in India
and six in China by Presbyteries in those coun-
tries. Over II 600, 900 pages of the Scriptures
and tracts have been printed during the year
at the mission presses, and nearly five thous-
and youths have been taught in the schools.
The Methodist General Conference has had
an encouraging statement laid before it. The
report of the Book Committee of New York,
showed SO great a degree of prosperity during
the past four years that it has enabled the
agents not only to pay the awards to the Church
South, together with all the salaries and apprO-
priatiOns ordered by the Conference, but to
declare dividend of $4O0 to each If the annual
conferences in 1868, and make it advisable to
do the same in 1864. The receipts OF the past
year were $500, 57S.