The New York herald., 1875-11-29
EPISCOPAL MISSION SOCIETY.
:. v,v,D or usrvuLsEss- TEARS WORK

,ra vrwTD or UsEFULHEss-LAsT YEAR . WORK
snRMoN By RKv. DR. DIX
At Trinity chapel last evening Rev Dr. DIX preached
a. avocacv Of the New York Protestant Episcopal City
Mission Society Before the sermon kev Mr Wood
ward superintendent OF the Mission read extract
from the forthcoming report reviewing the abors Of
the society for the past year In describing the field OF
ia usefulness said that Il goes among the poorest
md most ignorant; IL visits the sick in Bellevue,
Charity Roosevelt, the Womans and Wards Island
hospitals; II goes 70 the Tombs the County Jail
Ihe Essex Yorkville and Harlem prisons 70 the
Colored Home and the House Of Detention,
90 the Pententary and Workhouse, and
speaks In all OF repentance and hope;
il seeks improve the condition OF tho inmates Of the
Almshouse the Lunatic, Orphan and Infant Asylums;
il teaches the children in the Leake Waits Orphan
House; at Bethlehem chapel IL relieves the destitute
and instrucs the Germans at St. Barnabas' House II
shelters homeless women and children and is contin-
ually aborng 10 lift up the fallen.
TO accomplish this work il needs $50 600 yearly The
receipts from AL sources-colectons in churches col
lectons by the financial agent and voluntary contrbu
tionsreceved for all purposes outside OF ST. Barnabas'
House $l2 172 10, and for ST. Barnabas' House,
IS s2s 90; total SIS oOl 80 To sustain seven mis-
sionaries to keep open Barnabas chapel for regu-
lar sunday and daily services and its Sunday school OF
800 children; TO provide regular Sunday services at
Bethlehem chapel for the German population west Of
Central Park and for It's Sunday and day schools; to
pay the expenses OF the Day Nursery in No. 3os hul
berry street. required SIS l5l 81 70 meet the OF
ST Barnabas' House required IS 05T 40 TO pay inter
bonds 81 6l0 10 pay the Incidental expenses OF
repairs insurance, printing, burias, &c 81, 567 ~
making total Of So SS6 50, and leaving deficiency
of xll, 9s5 IA
To meet the deficiency they were obliged TO draw
upon the building fund reserved for No 800 Mulberry
street In consequence OF previous dehcencies, they
have been obliged TO mortgage portion OF the socetys
real estate, now valued AZ $52 600 The following IS
summary of the results Of
THE soGETYs WORK
for the yearrhere we're 49S public and private serv
ces with an aggregate attendance o106e persons holy
communion administered 70 S6S distinct individuals 34l
baptisms, 65 persons confirmed, 2g7 bodies received
Christian burial an average attendance OF l45 in the
Sunday school IN St Barnabas' chapel and OF ~ in
Bethlehem chapel average of 81 present in the day
school Of Bethlehem chapel and Of Is In ST.
Barnabas' house and the Day Nursery an
average OF 1l2 girls present in the Industrial
held in St. Barnabas' chapel and of 90 in Bethlehem
chapel an average Of Al women supplied with sew
ing weekly by the St Barnabas' Industrial Assoca-
ton 200 families visited; sos individuals visited
and relieved If destitute, in tenement houses and in
sttutons an average OF 3O5 books drawn weekly from
the libraries Backwells Island end aggregate of
16, 436 papers distributed there; average OF so
books weekly drawn from the Gilbert Library in the
Tombs, and papers and magazines without count scat
tered weekly in all the Institutions OF the city.
The number of women and children received into St
Barnabas House 665, and the number Of children
into the Day Nursery l02, making the whole number
J. 1863 l06, S65 meals and 20, 545 lodgings were fur
nished being increase last OF II 507 meals
and 1927 lodgings
After the reading of the report the Rcv. DR.. Dix
commenced his
SERMON
The occasion which they were gathered, he said,
of little interest--the first Sunday Of Ad
vent, the New YEARS. Day Of the Church AT such
time presented TO them the claims and needs OF
this missionary society. Ii was society combating
the vice and ungodliness OF great city. On great
cities the events of nations turn they the symbols
OF power and the expression OF misery The extreme
conditions OF HE are seen in them The spiendor OF
the rich, the squslor Of the poor Crime reaches its
extremes in great cities. There are found men most
advanced in letters we'll as those who cannot read
write one word To the city come the conquerors,
the reformers; there religion first planted, and
there, too, found the restless spirits that would
RELIGION
This mission work Is not minlstraton TO the soul
alone Like the Church. 1t seeks to body and soul
alike II has not been forgotten that In the Last day
Christ will reward alone those who save the SOUL
but those well who Him in every poor creature
needing bodily comfort The work OF the Mission So
cety of the hardest works to which lay
his hands, and also OF the most inviting Of worka
best and the worst of everything IS here. Il Ia the
pride Of its ctlzens and IL is also their disgrace But
reality, the good and evil mingled together-the
good being very good and the evil very evil Here
must pass through approaches where dwell together
the vilest Of the earthman and beast Here the pub
hc records show appalling pictures OF crime, blood
shed and vice side by side with monu-
ments Of noble charity This city cannot
be called American city. II Is the third
German city in the world The native born ctizena
unceremoniously pushed out Of the way The pub
lie offices hlled with foreign born officials. On the
public works found laboriug with foreign
cent and the most powerful religion here has foreign
head The city presented, too, great field, q grand
opportunity to improve and Chrisanize thousands OF
its Inhabitants
In concluding the preacher warmly recommended to
the charitable the claims and needs OF the Mission So
cety and reviewed its Iabors already referred
The report read