Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-16
THE LEADER LEADS.
The ReHgIous and Benevolent SOeie-
Ties of the Nation.

Dated Cleveland, April q, 'ss. o. s. Assessor.
The Rengious and benevolent sOeie-
ties Of the Nation.
Last week was "anniversary-week
inNew York city. During it were held
the annual gatherings of the religious and
benevolent organizations of the country,
and the reports and statistics of these as
semblages present, in brief, a digest of the
work Of the nation, in its various benevo-
lent and religious channels, during the
past year. They have been very largely
attended, and the interest taken in them
annears to be on the increase. The war
has taught our people liberality. The
habit of giving, in which Sanitary Com
missions, Christian Commissions, and the
like have instructed the nation, will not
be laid aside as these institutions die out,
Int will be turned into new channels.
Thus we find not only the personal at
tendance on these anniversaries larger
this year than ever before, and the inter
est shown greater, but the financial ez-
bibits of the various associations display
much larger receipts and consequently a
much wider field of usefulness than on
n previous anniversary. A resume of
the financial condition of these societies
viii be of interest 70 many Of our readers
First. then, as to the associations whose
work is directly of a missionary character.
OF these the American Board of Commis-
sioners for Foreign Missions holds the
most prominent place, if we take its total
amount of receipts and expenditures as
the measure. They report their exPen-
ditures during the year as S53zoOo, and
their receipts for eight months, ending
April sOth, at $24s,6Ol. The a%ppropria-
tons for the current year amount to
100000. .
Next comes the American Home Mis-
sionary Society, which, during the year
ending the slst of March, received $22l,-
isl.s5, and expended ~$2Os,s1l.ls. 1t has
in its treasury ssO,955i employs sls
ministers, supplying 1884 stations in %
states, and has organized 45nev churches
during the war.
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions report their receipts as amount
ing to S2O7,52 and its expenditures at
s2Io,s76, of which nearly $4,000 is lost
by the high rates of foreign exchange. 1t
employs BIS missionaries, colporteurs and
teachers, and has a foreign church mem
bership of LOO. 1t ordained for its pc
culiar work twenty-five ministers during
the last year.
The American MissionsryS society which
is now devoting most of its labor to the
freedmen, employs $40 missionaries and
teachers. Its cash receipts for the year
ending March 3lst were sl49,9o2i the
expenditures Of the year were sI4e 1897 !
and arrangements are making which
promise to double its revenue and activity.
The American and Foreign Christian
Union, now sixteen years old, reports
s92, 247 received, and e balance of $4,000
on hand. The New York Sunday School
Union. which also held its se~mi-centenni-
al anniversary last week reports ::eontrbu-
ions amounting to SCI, 100.
Turning from the distinctively mission
ary societies to those whose work is of a
general religious or benevolent nature,
attention is first attracted by the re-
ports of the Tract Societies. 1t will be
i. remembered that the subserviency of the
American Tract Society to the Southern
and pr~o-slayery interest caused a division
in that body some years before the war
into the American Tract Society of Bos-
on, which spoke out boldly against the
national sin, and the American Tract So
ciety of New York, which was muzzled
on that great and vital subject. 1t is
probable that, as the war hiss swept sla-
veryout ofexistence and thus removed the
cause of difference between the two or
CARNATIONS, they will soon be reunited.
TheArst reports its total receipts, for the
wear ending March 2lst, 1866, at Sls5,55O,
and the expenditures at Sl64, 534. Its
field of operations has been widely ex-
tended BY the suppression Of the rebel
lion. and it has distributed 79l 900 pages
amoung the freedmen. The New York
organisation reports the receipt of sI24,-
s27 from donations and legacies, and s3l3,-
$50 from sales; to this is added the sur
pluss of last year, making s4ss, e46. This e1
ceedgthelreceipts of any previous year. Its
expenditures for the year were S43s, s6s.
The American Bible Society, of the
Oldest and most efficient of our religious
benevolent societies, celebrated its fitch
anniversary during the last week. It
has printed 2l,AOs,Oss Bibles in the hall
century of its existence, and received con-
trfbutions during the same period to the
amount of SIo,4s4,s5S. The receipts fcr
the year closing March 81, 1856, exceed
those of 1861 by s25s,os4 II. It has Is
sued curing the past five years s,555,2sl
books, whereas during the first thirty
three years of the society's existence the
entire issues numbered but 6,S47,I4o.
The receipts n expenditures OF the
minor benevolent societies who held an.
niversaries last week may be put in tabu-
lar form as follows:
Society," R.oeipis. EzPeaditsrs'
Howard Mission, SS5,SS5. S34,2aS
Five Points House of Ind, 46,420. -
Home For the Friendless, S,Is5. So, rs
sesmAn's Friend Society, 5I,759. 4S,T43
The total receipts of the religious So
cieties which held their anniversaries dur.
ing last week foot up to nearly two mil.
lions of dollars. 1t thus appears that
these organizations are more effective and
fourishing than ever and have brighter
prospects of wide usefulness opening be-
fore them than at any previous time
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ster, Massachusetts,, of droPsy, after hav-
ing had 100 pounds Of water removed
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