Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-16
THR NKw YoRK AYNrvERsARIRs.-Th

THR NEW YORK ANNIVERsARIRs.-Ine
following facts and figures are compiled
from reports presented at the anniver-
sary meetings in New York City this
week;
BosroN TRACT SooIRrY.-Thee entire re-
ceipts of the society during the year,
were sl60,569 rs. The expenditures in
Guiding balance from last year, $751;
926 "a. Present balance o. the treasury,
S2,642 81.
A million and half Of tracts were
printed, averaging six pages each, and
389, 800 bound volumes and pamphlets
and over three million copies OF the
papers, Child at Home Christian Ban.
ner, Freedman's Journal and Freedman.
The gratuities amounted to the value OF
SAT 800; more than in any year before.
1t is the characteristic feature OF this
society, that its charitable funds are
wholly expended in the charitable oper-
ations; no part thereof being taken to
support the business department.
AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
The receipts last year amounted to
S2l2, ,567 So the expenditures were 1927
963 81, leaving balance against the So
ciety of $l2, All 79, and this is due to
missionaries for labor performed.
There has been expended in aid Of
feeble churches and establishing new
missions among the destitute, Sl9,152
79, more than the previous year. The
number Of missionaries exceed those of
the previous year by twenty-eight, and
is 846 in all. The pupils IN Sabbath
Schools number sixty.four thousand.
Forty-six new houses Of worship have
been built.
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY OF NRw
YoRK,-Donations and legacies received
$l59,8 81 sales, $384,35O 90 total,
$544, Isl 43; exceeding the receipts of
any previous year Sl06,473 16, and
making with balance in the treasury,
| $546,1H IS. Expended in manufactur-
ing AMI issuing, 389, ,402 81; colporteur
agencies and repositories and colportage,
$93, 1872 20; cash for foreign and pagan
land, 100000 all other expenses, as by
the treasurer's report, s51, ,458 80; total,
544,34$ "a balance in the treasury,
$787 s..
The colporteurs employed amount to
2l9; new publications, 1876; volumes
printed during the year, 837 ,676; publi-
cations, $50, ,646. A great opening has
been made for the work of the society in
the Southern States and Spanish America
The society reports 1881 Protestant
families habitually neglecting stated
preaching also 1867 Roman Catholic
families and 5,647 Protestant families
destitute of the Word Of God.
AMERICAN BIBLE SocIErY.-The an.
nual reports show new auxiliaries re.
cognized. Receipts from all sources,
S734, $50 IA OF which there were from
sales s43l ,658 88; from congregational
collections donations or auxiliaries and
individuals, ;174,855 SO from legscies
$l05, ,971 96 and from rents of stores
and Offices in one Bible House, s21,606.
96, Books printed at the Bible House
during the year, 935, 1853 volumes, and in
foreign countries 3l3, $780, making tota1
of 1,259,318. There were also pur'
chased abroad, at the expense of this
society, for foreign distribution, Al ,194
volumes, OF which 1927 were bibles
1910 testaments and 30,667 parts Of
bibles. Books issued from the Bible
House, l,106354 value, $525, 833 7G
viz: 324, ,2l5 bibles, 640,625 testaments
51,073 portions of the scripture, 424
volumes for the blind, and II reprints o.
the annual reports.
The books printed and purchased and
circulated abroad were in about forty
languages and dialects. Total issues
and irculation-domestic and foreign
during the year, 1857 $3.50 volumes
Books sold from the Depository, 843, III
volumes, valued at 443,387 08.