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have also supplied with lessons, schools in fachools with great pleasure; for though St. Alban's, Pittsford, and Pawlett, in the they believe that "union is strength,” and State of Vermont. This association further that more good is done by combined than state, that the system is extending to many by divided efforts, yet they rejoice in seeing of the towns and villages adjacent to Troy, the great work of educating the poor proand that there is little doubt of its soon per-ceeding in every society of Christians. If vading every part of that populous neigh-the object be but accomplished, they are bourhood. The Trustees of Tarrytown not solicitous by whom it is done; for they Sunday Schools, report their having admit-who are not against us, are on our side. ted 236 scholars, and give, at the same time, Though no other reports have reached the most pleasing accounts of the improve-your Committee, yet they are well informed ment of their pupils, both in literary and that numerous schools, besides those menreligious knowledge. The school in Utica, tioned, have been established in various after having met with many discourage- parts of the country. In obscure and rements, has increased both in number and mote villages, personal observation has regularity. In Poughkeepsie, a Society made some of your Committee acquainted has been formed, but your Committee are at with several schools under the superinten present unable to report upon their progress.dence of pious individuals, who are silently The school which commenced at Rockaway. performing their duty in training up youth N. J. in June, 1816, still flourishes, and one for immortality. The fruits of these labours has recently been formed, under every will soon appear in the moral and intellechope of success, at Shrewsbury. tual improvement of myriads, who will gratefully bless that benevolence which has thus snatched them from vice and ignorance, and brought them into the paths of virtue and truth.

The "Female Sunday School Union" of the city of New-York, still proceeds in its laudable course. Your Committee have marked its progress and its improvements, and rejoice in its success; and they call the attention of the public to an object of no ordinary interest, when they present to them this Society, exhibiting numerous individuals who are devoting the flower of their youth to the instruction of the destitute of their own sex. When it is considered that it is the FUTURE MOTHERS who are to form the habits of the successive generations; who are to be the corrupted or the purified fountains of moral life through an extensive part of our community, your Committee hail this Society as one of the principal means by which vice is to be checked in its carliest stages, and virtue made to blossom in its most lovely fruits.

It would extend this Report too much, did your Committee notice, at length, the progress of Sunday School instruction in other countries. They will therefore but briefly state, that in Great Britain, whence it originated, it still remains in full vigour, and has already obtained a footing in France: that its branches are extending to the remotest part of the earth. The Continent of Asia, the island of Ceylon, the interior of South Africa, and the coasts of the West; in at least five towns adjacent to Sydney, in New South Wales; and in the new settlements of Van Dieman's Land, are schools established and flourishing. How cheering the idea, that wherever our lanIn the city of New-York, also, five schools guage is heard, it is the harbinger of truth; have been formed under the care of the and that wherever the feet of our common Episcopal Church, besides those which are ancestors, or of our countrymen tread, they attached to the "Union Society." These carry with them the means of enlightening schools contain about 800 scholars of both the ignorant, of raising the depressed, and Your Committee mention these of civilizing the most barbarous.

sexes.

Your Committee, in bringing their Report for the last year to a close, cannot but indulge in one or two remarks.

port of their agent to the Carolinas and Georgia, congratulate the friends of missions on the liberality which the people of the The Reports which have been received southern section of our country have evinced are uniform in their testimony as to the be- on this occasion; and on the proof which nefits resulting from the plan which has this liberality gives of a growing interest been adopted of committing Scripture to in favour of the United Foreign Missionary memory. Indeed your Committee consi-Society-a Society organized under the pader it to be impossible, if this is persevered tronage of the general assembly of the in, but that incalculable good to the indivi- Presbyterian Church, and the Synods of the duals instructed, and to all who are con- Reformed Dutch and Associate Reformed nected with them, must be the consequence. Churches; but open to, and we think deserv God will own his word. Fixed in the me- ing of, the patronage of all who sympathize mory, it will find its way to the heart. The with their benighted and deluded fellowfruit will appear in holy obedience to his men. They also hope that the friends of commands; in reverence for his day; in abhorrence of evil, in whatever shape it may appear; and in that order of deportment, and piety of feeling and of conduct, which are the distinguishing characteristics of unadulterated Christianity.

Christianity in other parts of our country, bearing on their hearts the destitute condition of millions of their fellow-creatures in respect to gospel ordinances, will imitate the example set them by the people of the south, and casting their contributions into

The system which your Society is now this Missionary Treasury, be instrumental called to commemorate and applaud, ap-in hastening the time when "the kingdoms proves and exults in one principle-the of this world shall become the kingdoms of principle of the Bible-that "God has our Lord and of his Christ." made of one blood all the nations of the

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By order,

ROBT. B. E. M⚫LEOD, Sec.

"To the Committee of Missions of the United Foreign Missionary Society, the undersigned reports:

earth, and that he is no respecter of sons." Hence your Society, in the distribution of its benevolent intentions, knows no distinction of colour, no invidious separation. It looks only to the individual, as a moral and an accountable being, and in That in fulfilling your commission, I first offering its humble endeavours to shed the visited the city of Charleston, in South-Carays of light on the regions of moral dark-rolina, where, on application to individuals, ness, it recognizes the doctrine of the Apos- and taking up collections in two of the tle Paul, "That there is neither Jew nor Greek, Scythian nor Barbarian, bond nor free; but that Christ is all, and in all."

JAMES EASTBURN,
Chairman of the Standing Committee.

New-York, 12th May, 1818.

churches, I obtained subscriptions and donations to the amount of $1083 35. This sum, considering the repeated applications which had been made to the friends of Chris

tianity in Charleston during the last winter, was more than I expected, and is an additional evidence of their liberality. Besides the countenance which I received from distinguished individuals, I owe it to the officers of the First Presbyterian Church, and to the First Independent Church, under the pasThe Committee of Missions of the United toral charge of the Rev. Dr. Palmer, to Foreign Missionary Society, in giving pub-state, that on my application they promptly licity to the following abstract from the re- and cheerfully gave me the use of their re

UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY

SOCIETY.

spective places of worship, for the purpose of preaching and taking up collections in aid of the funds of our Society and if those collections should appear small, it must be recollected, that during the preceding week liberal donations and subscriptions had been received by me from individuals belonging to both those congregations.

On Edisto Island, in the vicinity of Charleston, I received donations to the amount of $422. It gives me pleasure to state, that the Rev. Dr. M'Leod, pastor of the Presbyterian Church on that island, treated me with the greatest politeness, and furnished me with every facility for the prosecution of my object.

In Savannah, State of Georgia, I obtained, principally from the people belonging to the Independent Presbyterian Church under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Dr. Kollock, $432.

In Columbia, S. C. the place I next visited, I obtained $303. Of this sum, $100 was given by the Session of the Presbyterian Church, out of moneys which, previous to my arrival, they had collected for missionary purposes. The remaining $203 were the contributions of individuals.

At Fayetteville, in North Carolina, I obtained by a collection in the Presbyterian Church, under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Jesse H. Turner, $78 90; and from 17 ladies of his congregation a contribution of $40, for the purpose of constituting their pastor a member of our Society for life.

At Raleigh, in North Carolina, I obtained by a collection in the Presbyterian Church, under the pastoral charge of the Rev. William M'Pheeters, and by subscription $68. After I left Raleigh, I received no further contributions to our funds, except an annual subscription of $5 at the city of Washington. From the above statement you will per

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While at Savannah, I addressed a letter to John Whitehead, Esq. of Waynesbo-ceive, that the subscriptions and donations I rough, Geo. enclosing a copy of our consti- received at different places are as follow:tution and address, and respectfully requestCharleston, S. C. ing him, if he had any thing to bestow toEdisto wards the important object of our institution, Savannah, Geo. that he would forward it to the Rev. Mr. Augusta Joyce, for me, at Augusta, or to some one Columbia, S. C. of our board at New-York. It affords me Fayetteville, N. C. pleasure to be able to inform the Commit- Raleigh tee, that Mr. Whitehead has forwarded to Mr. Joyce, and through him to the Rev. Dr. Milledoler, our corresponding secretary, $100.

Washington, D. C.

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At Augusta, on applications to individuals, As the whole sum received under my

The following is a list of the persons from whom the above amount was obtained :

Charleston, South Carolina.

and by a collection in the Presbyterian agency.
Church, the use of which was cheerfully
granted by the Session, I obtained $343 37.
Part of the sum collected in the church was
obtained in a manner peculiarly gratifying
to my own feelings, and highly honourable
and praiseworthy on the part of the donors. Nath Russell
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gusta, and of the object of my visit, the pu-
pils in one of the schools raised among them-
selves a contribution of $10, which was giv-
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All which is respectfully submitted,

STEPHEN N. ROWAN.

SECOND REPORT OF THE AMERI- contained in the following report of a Com

CAN BIBLE SOCIETY.

ENCOURAGED by the increasing testimonies of public favour to THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, and especially by indications of the Divine blessing upon its efforts, the Managers entered with alacrity upon the labours of their second year, which they have been enabled to complete with unimpaired harmony.

mittee appointed to digest a plan for that purpose, which they feel it to be their duty to give at full length for the satisfaction of the members of the Society.

"The Committee appointed to report a plan for the location and management of the stereotype plates belonging to the Society, respectfully report, That they have bestowed upon the subject referred to them that deliberation to which its great imporIn the infancy of an institution so great in tance entitled it. In the opinion of the its object, so comprehensive in its plan, and Committee, the stereotype plates, if judiso varied in its relations, difficulties are to ciously located and placed under proper rebe encountered and experiments made, gulations, cannot fail of being powerful înwhich require much counsel, caution, and struments in spreading the knowledge of the zeal, while yet they occupy but a compara- Scriptures. But on the other hand, should tively small space in its visible operations. local jealousies be excited by the distribu Many of those which are most essential are tion of these plates, or should they, by an least observed, because they are only pre-inconsiderate location, interfere with the paratory, and therefore do not furnish, ex-issue of Bibles from the Depository at Newcept to the skilful examiner, a satisfactory York, they would counteract that great test of its real progress.

Such has been the experience of the Managers hitherto. They have been employed in laying foundations on which a fabric, not unworthy, they trust, of its noble inscription, may rely for its future eminence and stability; and they have had no time to spare.

principle of unity of efforts on which the American Bible Society is founded, and from which its fairest hopes of success are derived. Hence it becomes important to ascertain the general principle which ought to influence the location of these plates; and this principle the Committee think they find recognized and explained in the Address of One of the first measures which engaged the Convention to the people of the United their deliberations after the Anniversary States. On consulting this Address, we Meeting of the Society, was the proper dis- find that it was the intention of the Conven tribution of their stereotype plates. On tion that the Society should "furnish great this subject there existed an anxiety which districts of the American continent with welldemanded prompt attention, accompanied executed stereotype plates, for the cheap by circumstances involving questions of and extensive diffusion of the Scriptures some delicacy. The Managers were fully throughout regions which are now scantily convinced of the importance of affording supplied at a discouraging expense." If, every possible aid to the circulation of the then, the principles thus recognized by the Scriptures in distant parts of the country; Convention be adopted by the Board, we are of guarding against whatever might excite next to inquire how many sets of plates are local embarrassments; and of preserving to be disposed of. It is presumed that the unimpaired the unity of the National So- Board will choose to retain for the use of ciety and the freedom of its agency through their own Printing Establishment the plates all its ramifications. presented by the New-York Societies, and at least one set of the octavo and duodecimo plates executed for the Society. One duo. decimo set has already been promised to the

They, therefore, adopted as the basis of their proceedings with regard to the locafion of their stereotype plates, the principles

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