Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-06

in place such as this association provides.
The influences thrown around them at
these rooms cannot fail to have beneficial
effect. They will be found more regularly
at the church and Sunday school, and grow
up to he honored and trusted in any posi-
tiOn they may be called upon to fill.
Rcvcrting again to the general secre-
tary's report, We find that there were also
held during the year, under the direction
of the devotional committee, forty -four
prison services, the attendance ut which
was about six hundred forty young mems
meetings, with an attendance of three
hundred and fifty; thirty-tive meetings
for the study of the Bible, with an attend
ance of about four hundred; fifty-two
gospel meetings. attendance two Thousand
two hundred and seventy-One; twcnty-six
five hundred and fourteen. There were
also held during the year sixty misceila-
neOus meetings, embracing business, lee
lures, social, &C., at which there was III
attendance of two thousand, one hundred
and eighty mine.
We thus find that during the year 1879
there was an attendance at the rooms and
the various meetings of about IS, jS2.
There were also fourteen hundred an.l
thirty religious papers and five thousand
five hundred and ten pages of tracts dis
tributed at the prison and elsewhere.
Twenty six thousand copies of the Bulletin.
a small paper setting forth the work and
objects of the association, were printed
and distributed. Five persons secured
work through the employment bureau.and
twenty-six secured board by means OF the
boarding house register.
BY reference to the treasurcrs report.
, We find that the receipts from all sources.
including a balance OF s6sO.6O on hand
January 1, 1879, were 81 ,61GS:5.
Some of the principal items of receipts
were !: From membership dues and sub
scriptions to library, s:Ol.11 From rent.
s241.G7. FeOm excursions, $40. Dona-
tions, al1.
The main items of expense were for
salary of general secretary and assistant,
1852 paid notes of indebtedness and
interest, s5S4.32 interest Oh mortgage.
s3O2.5O; binding books, s15; gas bills.
S12.32 papers and magazines, s63G i'll
surance premium. S25 coal, &c, a25, and
i number Of sundry bills not deemed nee
essary to enumerate, leavin. a balance i'll
the hands of the treasurer on January |,
1880, of $780,
The library committee, with great care
and labor, have had prepared and printed
a very complete and comprehensive cata-
logue of the books of the library. ap-
pended to which is an alphabetical list of
authors.
would take occasion before Close oh
behalf of the association, to return our
sincere thanks to the public generally for
their assistance during the past year; amt
it shall be our aim to so conduct it's affair
as to merit their cO-OpratiOn in the future.
| also feel indebted to the various officers
of the association. who SO cheerfully as
sisted me in the charge of the duties i'll
crmbent upon ME Is president. To the
efficiency of our general secratery CIR.
| llerr) is due the improved condition OF the
| spiritual work of our association. To tn.
officers and committees would only say.
let us strive to do even better in the future
than we have done in the past.
have thus briefly given you an outline
of the doings OF the association for the
past twelve months. Our labOrs with the
year that is past are done, our record has
been made, and we have no desire what
ever to recall it, unless, indeed, it We're for
the purpose of correcting our own errors
and shortcomings. Some of the results, |
trust. are written in the book of eternal
rewards. The present is ours to provide
for the future. Let us do this with tn,
consciousness that We are engaged in u
good work. and that God will bless us ac-
cOr,ling to our works and the measures OF
our faith.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
report the following exercises were given
Music, On Jorlan's Stormy Banks Stand. etc.
Address. BY j. Howard Seal. of Philadelphia
Music, sic,..:..:...::..-.....By the Mozart Quartet
| Basket Collection.
| Singing, Wonderful Words of Life. etc.
DOxOlOgy and BenedictiOn.
The address by J. Howard Seal. general
secretary of the Philadelphia ;issG
citation, was an able effort, Oc-
cupying about forty minutes in its
delivery, his subject being the general work
of the association. Rev. Il. W. IIutiord.
who was booked for an address, could not
be present. The music by the Mozart Quar-
tet was finely rendered. The collection
lifted was liberal one.
THE MORAvIAN SUPPER.
Handsomely Arranged ROOm-Excellent