Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-03-29

hSHfvkksARY MEETING OF THIS ANGLICAN
IEACr SocIkTr.--Ltst night the third annual
meeting IN behalf OF the American Tract SD
cl-y MAS b. Id ~ the Congregational church,
corner OF II nth and q str-sts. Csi-f Justice
Cnsse presided and heartily commended the
great and good work Of the S5ciety.
After the devotional exercises conducted by
Kew. Prof. Nourse, the meeting was addressed
by Rev. q. L. SheaIer, one OF the Society's
secretaries, giving the following facts LIN
forty. four years THIS Society has issued . 00,-
90 volumes, 2e5.oc0,'oo tracts, li2p0l,0u0.
per iodicals, and per formed i,S5J years OF Union
Missionary Uoiportage. II mas N ade grants of
and cash appropriati.ns for the press abroad
of S57J1@ IL issues at home 3,9c1 different
publications, of which 375 ara in the German,
l54 in the French. and l37 in the Spanish lsn-
guage. 1t issues abroad 3,SH di fferent publica
Ions in 1&l LANGUAGES. The Socie;ys business
department sustains itself. Douatisns are
needed only for its benevolent worx. Daring
the past year 2t3 coiporteursS have been EN-.
ployed, OF " hich lO1 have labored in the South
These visit from house to ouse, dong general
missionary work, and by organizing prayer
meetings and Sabbath schools and the distribu.
ton of books and tracts are supplying the des.
htutIons caused by the war. This Is especial
~ emcient IN Supplying by Sabbath and night
SCHOOLS the cnlidre OF the poor " nItes and Ihe
freedmen among whom 3O0,DOU United States
Primers have been distributed. So coIporteurs
were needed for thar section alone
Rev. }. T.. Fletcher next address, the meet
ing in eloquent language, giving detailed ac-
count of his obser vatIons while travelling
through Europe. In Span, he found tina
Coos power was being felt, aud a great refor-
nation was now going on, expressing the hope
that at no distant day the Spauiards would ba
converted TO the evangelical religion. Ia 1852,
great commotion was cTeaied IN Southern
Spain from the tact that a SpanIard, namAd
Natamoras was discovered reading toe Bible
ana md need others to do the same. THIS man
and his followers We're thrown INTO dungeons
where they remained fourteen months, when
they were sentenced TO the gallIes, one of the
most degrading of punishments TO a Spaniard
but through the kind Offices OF the Ministers
PlenIpotentiary of the leading powers of Eu-
rope, their sentence was committed to thar of
banisbment from the country. The speaker
afterwards met Matamoras in Bordeaux,
France, and they found him reading his Bible
to the people and making conversions. He
was Spanish gentleman of wealth aud edu-
cation, aged twenty.seven years, and was also
an officer OF the regular army, and now,
through the fundamentally of the Bible. Mat.
amoras and his followers have converted thou.
sands OF his couptrymen to the evangelical
faith. He next alluded to Matamoras death in
SwitZlabd. In Europe. he said ne found I'M
mistakabie evidence of reformation, in persons
abandoning the faith and prejpdices of centu.
rles ago and embracing the light and love of
God. This change he attribut ted to education.
freedom OF press and religious liberation. The
remarkable thing about the Spanish revolution
is that the people have demanded separation
between Church and State. He advocated the
sending of thousands OF tracts in the Spanish
Language to Spain as their effect woul1 be more
efiicacious than the sending CT so many dollars
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Fletcher's address,
the Hon. Mr.. Ferry, of Michigan, mot Kelly
as morning paper has i) spoke In warm
PRISE OF the labors OF the American Tract So
clety, whose held OF labor Is the wsrld, aud
the man or woman who contributed his or her
mite TO the cause would receive the blessing.
of God.
Mr.. Ferry having concluded. a very liberia,
collection was AIKEN up, after which the meet
ing adjourned.