Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-09
THE GOSPEL UNION.
Details of the Work as shown at the
 Annual Meeting Last Evening.

Details of the Work as shown at the Annual Meeting Last Evening. The annual meeting of the Gospel Union ! was held last night in English Hall. The | attendance was small Hiram Camp pre- sided. The treasurer's report showed that | the receipts during the year have been $3,- 211 86 and the expenditures $3, ,227. 54, mak- ing a deficit of $15.6S, which is increased by unpaid bills to about one hundred dollars. The following auditors statement was sub- mitted:
 Ihave examined the books of the treasurer of the
 GSspel Union for the year ending septe@m5ber @ be se and the disbursements, with vouchers on the same, have been $3,227.54. JULIUS IWIss. The report of John c. Collins, the general superintendent, showed that the works carried on at English Hall now were Sunday evening gospel meetings, a free reading room for young men, which has been visited dur ing the post winter by over eight hundred young men, penny savings bank for ch1l- dren, Wednesday evening meetings for Chris tians only and pastoral visiting among The average attendance of children
 in the Sunday school, which meets
 on Sunday mornings in English Hall,
 has been about 125, with 1855 on the rolls of
 the school. The penny savings bank, which
 is open on Saturday afternoons, has received
 $930.86 since it's organization in 1879 from
 327 children. Of this sum $697 .49 has been
 withdrawn, leaving $233. 37 at present in the
 bank. One hundred and fifty-six dollars and
 sixty-seven cents ($156.6O has been deposited
 during the past year. Mir Collins stated that
 there were not more than five hundred Prot estaat children of school age not in Sunday
 school in New Haven, while the number
 DS 1y,o1, ahi x1hn Emo ISh
 Sunday school was started was about 2,O0O
 About ], 500 different children have been
 members of English Hall school since it's
 organization with three children October
 15, 1876.
 There have been number of remarkable
 conversions in the Sunday evening meetings during the year. The good work will be
 prosecuted more vigorously and earnestly than ever during the coming year.
 The following officers were chosen: Presi- dent, Hiram Camp; secretary, F. o. Sher-
 man; treasurer, F. w. Benedict; directors, dict, Thomas R. Trowbridge, jr., Rev. New man Smyth, DID,, Rev. John E. Todd, DID,,
 Rev. George T. Ladd, DID,, Charles E.
 Graves, John c. Collins.
 The following are the contributors and members of the Gospel Union for the past year; receipts have been sent to each con tributor for the amount of contribution re- John D. Wheeler, Mrs. T. M Dexter, Mrs Thomas R. Trowbridge, Miss E. M. Prich- ard Mrs: : T. D. W9Gl4ey, Mrs; M M L. skia- Davies, Mrs. Henry Farnarn, Miss M L.. Bradley, Rev. Dr. s. Harris, Mrs. E. c. Scranton, H. P. Shares, Mrs. William Fitch, Mrs. F. H. Gaylord, Professor E. E. i Salisbury, Hon. James E. English Mrs. E. B. Bowditch, MT. T. Ketcham, President Franklin Carter, Mrs. M. H. Robertson, Miss oA E' O. Kingsley, A. Van Name, Professor J. D. Dana, Professor H. A. Newton, Rev. Dr. G. E. Day, Mrs. 0. F. Winchester, Hiram Camp, E. B. Bowditch, Miss E. w. Davenport, A. E. Rowland, F. E. Morgan, Thomas R. Trowbridge, H. P. Hubbard, E. Sheffield, H. H. Benedict, s. H. Barnum, President T. D. Woolsey, E. Heaton, F. W. Pardee, Miss Nellie H. Benedict, President Noah Porter, N. W. Hine. F. c. Sherman, F. B. Bunnell, Eli Whitney, jr, R. M. Ever it, Prof. J. M. Hoppin, Mrs. Edward Stevens, E. Loomis, Sylvester Smith, G. G. Thom- son, Mrs. E. 0. Read, Eli Whitney, G. H. Watrous, Prof. F. B. Dexter, F. H. Hart, H. F. English, Miss N. c. Bowditch, M G. FL Iott, Miss E. s. Hotchkiss, Miss S. P. Boss1 Bo5Sak'" william s H Atwdtsr M9sslGy g A. BsiG win, H. M. Welch, General F. D. sloat, J. H. Foy, Mrs. s. P. Bolles, Henry Hale, Lyman Osborn, s. A. Stevens, Chamberlain & Co.,, H. P. Frost, Frank Pot ter, H. w. Stow, P. Armstrong, James Freme, Mrs. H. N. Lyman, Charles A Shel- | don, Mrs. E. M. Clifford, Charles E. Graves, William Paterson. Mrs. D. c. Collins, Prof. l H. P. Wright, Mrs. H. w. Benedict, Mrs. l James Hadley, Dr. J. J. Crane, l E. P. Merwin, P. N. Welch, Professor A. w. l Wright, Prof. G. T. Ladd, Prof. T. D. Sey- 1 mour, Charles L. Mitchell, Nelson Hall, P.B. 1 Foster, Charles G. Hart, S.. E. Merwin, jr., | This list does not include contributors to spe- | cial objects, such as the Christmas festivities l and the picnic