New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-10
MAY ANNIVERSARIES.

MILLIONS OF PAGES DISTRIBUTED BY THE TRACT
socETY-wORK AMONG THE FRIENDLEss.
The ifty-eighth anniversary meeting Of the
American Tract Society took place yesterday morn
ing in the chanel of the Collegiate Reformed
Church, at FIfth-ave and Twenty;ninth-st. Elk
Judge William Strong presided Religious exer-
cises conducted by the Rev.. Or. Thomas
Armitage Reports were read as follows: The
treasurer's report, by o. r. KingsburX; report Of
the publishing department, by the Rev. W. w.
Rand the financial secretarys report, by the Kew
G. L. Shearer; and report on colportage, by the
Rev. Dr. j. NJ. Stevenson
locations had been issued during the year,
while the whole number of volumes issued, new
and S waf total Of of ra9 ESQ
pages The aggregate circulation OF the seven
periodicals issued by the society was 100000
copies for the year. Reading matter amounting to
30 900 900 pages sent gratultously to all parts
of the world. The l47 colporteurs, OF whom 70
were students distributed In thirty states and
Territories in the United States and in Ontario
They made 130,90S family visits, found 23,7S2
Protestant families who attend no gospel service.
and S,226 Of the Church OF Rome; 1888 were des-
tItute of all evangelical literature, and 1873 with.
out the Word of God. They circulated i3l,93T
volumes, and addressed 1924 social or public re-
igous meetings, occupying 595 months OF working
lime for man, and at an exendlture or
1884 700 so. The receipts and expenditures or
money were as follows: Contributions aud legacies.
SIG 951 49, sales 1921 54l 81: rents, 5,24O 10;
interest on temporary loan, sos 80; total Of
1858 94l 49, which, with return of temporary loan
and balance in the treasury April L, 1852, makes
total of 1884, O66 II. There expended in manu-
featuring and issuing publications, $211,945 IL;
cOpOrtage and cOporteur agencies and repositories.
SjS 1873 80; foreign cash appropriations SS366;
services and expenses of district secretaries,
81, 743 SO interest and taxes from rent fund,
S12 206 81 q reduction of mortgage on the So
cetys premises, $780, 600 paid loans e., 332 40;
loaned temporarily, $4,000; investment of trust
funds and funds for investment, $1,000 all other
expenditures as per items III ITeasureTs report,
$24 052 S4, making total OF S3s62sO 49, aud
leaving a boance in the treasury OF S7,7S5 40.
Short addresses were made by the Rev. DR.. Will
lam Ormiston, the Rev. NJ 5. CutlsS, secretary Of
the society for w-England; the Res, Dr. Gulick,
of SaragOssa, Spain; and by the Rev, Dr. George
Sebert editor of the sOcetys German publications.
The following Executive Committee selected for
three years Publishing Committee, the Rev. DR..
Talbot W. Chambers. the Rev. DR.. L. W. Bancroft;
Distributing Committee. Gamael G. Smith, Titus
Il. Meigs: Finance COMMITTEE. Peter Donald, John
T.. johnson; and for the unexplred term of Ge6SA
n. Titus, General Wager Swayne,
The American Female Guardian Society aud
Home for the FrlenGless celebrated its forty-nnth
anniversary yesterday In the Home Chapel, at NO.
20 East Twenty 7nnthssh All the officers were re-
elected, the annual repOieWere read and brief adj
dresses made u several managers and friends
published III The TRIBUNE on Monday. All the
ent and the children of the Home School gave an
means of the Kitchen Garden. Their work was
highly appreciated by the ladies. The chapel re-
Gently erected at Oceanport, n. j., is to DO dedr
afaHo on