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From the preceding details it appears, that the whole number of missionaries and agents employed by this Society, during the year, is 509; and the number of congregations and missionary districts, aided in their support, 745. Of the missionaries and agents enumerated, 351 were in commission at the commencement of the year; a large proportion of whom have been reappointed, and are still in the service of the Society. The remaining 158 have been new appointments, during the year, making, in all, 509. EXTENT OF FIELDS, AND AMOUNT OF LABOUR PERFORMED. Of the whole number, thus employed, 347 are settled as pastors, or are employed as “stated supplies,” in single congregations; 131 divide their labours between two or three congregations; and 31, including agents, have been employed on larger fields. Thus distributed, the missionaries of this Society, during the year, have probably preached the gospel, with more or less frequency, to more than 700,000 people, and to a large portion of these, their ministry has been constant. The amount of ministerial labor reported as performed within the year, in the service of this Society, is 361 years and 5 months. AMOUNT OF EXPENDITURES. To sustain these extended operations, even on the strictest plan of economy, has required a large pecuniary expenditure. To diminish as much as possible this amount, the Committee have made their appropriations with the utmost caution; and, on a review of their doings for the year, they are convinced that, in most cases, their grants have rather been below than above the righteous claims of the needy upon the bounty of the Christian public. Their invariable rule has been, to appropriate, in each case, the smallest sum, which, after due inquiry, has seemed sufficient to enable the congregation aided to sustain the minister of its choice; and so strict has been their adherence to this rule, that the support afforded to most of the missionaries, in their arduous labors, has been such as would have been complained of, as inadequate, by any but self-denying men, who count it a privilege to make sacrifices to preach the gospel to the poor. But notwithstanding the studied economy of the Committee, the increase of missionaries has required a correspondent increase of expenditures. The amount actually paid out from the treasury during the year, including office rent, Secretary’s salary, and all the incidental expenses of the Society, is $52,808,39, which is more, by $5,550,79, than the payments of the previous year. Yet, this amount, distributed among 509 missionaries and agents, would divide the average sum to each of only $103; and, deducting the amount paid to several agents, and to a number of missionaries in distant and frontier stations, who derive almost their whole support from the Society, it affords not more than about $100 for each year of ministerial service actually performed. The amount expended, therefore, though large in comparison with the payments of former years, is small in comparison with the increased number of missionaries employed, and of congregations aided, and smaller still, when viewed in connection with the glorious results of which we shall speak in the sequel of this Report. STATE OF THE TREASURY, AND THE MEANS OF REPLENISHING IT. In view of so large an expenditure, it may be asked with interest, whence have been derived the means? This is a question important to be answered, not only for the satisfaction of the friends of the Society in relation to the past, but both for their instruction and encouragement in regard to the efforts and sacrifices which the future exigencies of the cause may demand, at the hands of those who are pledged before God and the American public to sustain it. The answer of the Executive Committee is contained in the following statements, which they commend to the careful attention of all who desire to feel, as American Christians, the full weight of their responsibilities, in relation to the great work to be accomplished by this Society. At the commencement of the year, May 11, 1831, there were in the Treasury $877 13. This was the whole amount of our stock in hand for the enterprise before us. At the same time, the Committee were under engagements to missionaries and agents, then in the field, to the amount of $36,785, which they were bound to fulfill within the year. Thus destitute of resources. Excepting in the confidence of the cooperation of the Christian public, and the manifested favor of God, they entered upon their work, as they had done in former years, trusting only in the blessing of him who is head over all things to the church. That blessing has not been withheld; but the Committee are constrained to report, that, during the whole progress of the year, their faith has been more severely, and they hope, more profitably tried, than in any former year, in relation to the pecuniary means of sustaining the enlarged and constantly increasing operations of the Society. From the 11th of May to the 1st of December, the disbursements from the Treasury were $20,236.67, and yet, during that whole period, its receipts were only $8,616.79. This left the treasury, at the latter date, overdrawn $11,619.88; for which individuals of the Committee had become personally responsible, that there might be no failure in the prompt payment of the drafts of the missionaries. In the meantime, efforts had been used to procure agents to engage permanently in the business of collecting funds for this Society, and with some success. Four agents had been appointed in the New-England states, in connexion with the Auxiliary Societies of those states, viz.: Rev. R.S. Storrs, in Massachusetts; Rev. C. L. Watson, in Connecticut; Rev. A. Rankin, in New-Hampshire, and Rev. D. O. Morton, in Vermont. The Rev. D. Porter, D.D., Rev. M.P. Squier, and Rev. O. P. Hoyt, were also actively engaged in the state of New-York, and the Rev. D. W. Lathrop, in Ohio and Michigan. These agents, however, had yet made but small returns to the treasury; and our invaluable agent at Cincinnati, the late Rev. R. Cushman, whose influence was telling most happily upon the cause in the states west of the mountains, had been cut down in the midst of his labors; and though the savour of his triumphant death, like the memory of his devoted life, will long live and act upon the cause of peace and piety in the great valley, his lamented removal was a loss to the pecuniary and other interests of this Society on that field, which no other appointment could immediately supply. Thus embarrassed and afflicted, the Committee were constrained to pause and deliberate, whether they ought not to withhold further appropriations, until they should be possessed of the means of going forward in their work, without the necessity of increasing their own pecuniary responsibility. But even under the pressure of this apparent necessity, they dared not to curtail, in any important measure, the operations of the Society. The spirit of the enterprise forbade it. Every lesson of their past experience, and the accumulating and extraordinary blessing of God upon the labours of the Society’s missionaries, forbade it. They therefore commended the cause to the mercy of the Saviour, and determined to go forward. They invited a meeting of a number of the friends of the object in the city, before whom they exhibited the financial condition of the Society, and were much encouraged by their liberal pledges and subscriptions. They also addressed the public through the religious newspapers, and issued a circular to individuals in different parts of the country. These were answered by a few liberal returns to the treasury, and the agency of the Corresponding Secretary, and the efforts of the agents before named, began soon to be more productive; and we report, with gratitude, that the result of a continued and laborious effort, to the present time, has relieved, in some measure, the responsibility of the Society. The Committee on the receipts of the Society, during the last year, as appears from the Treasurer’s Report, have exceeded — those of the preceding year $2,174.52, and the expenditures have increased $5,550.79. This leaves the treasury over-drawn, at the present time, $2,509.14; and In addition to this, the Committee are under engagements to missionaries now in the field $36,644.50, making the whole amount, a part of which is now due, and the whole of which is pledged to be paid within the coming twelve months, $39,103.64. REMARKS ON THE STATE OF THE TREASURY. This is a state of the treasury, which, we are aware, would be discouraging, were it not for the increasing evidence, in the results of its operations, that this Society is owned of God. But, that that observes the wind shall not sow; and he that regards the clouds shall not reap. What, then, are these shadows of discouragement, while the eternal sunlight of the divine favor to his own cause is falling upon the eye of faith, and will certainly, in due time, ripen the fruit of every labor of love? It cannot be, that the present deficiency in the treasury, of $2,509, will be permitted to retard the steady advancement of an enterprise, which appeals so directly to the interest of our whole country, and to the heart of every American Christian. The responsibility of this sum, it is true, together with the pledges already made, and the additional amount, which must be provided in the course of the coming year, to sustain, with vigour, the operations of the Society, is too large to be assumed by the individuals of the Committee, if they might not depend upon the more liberal cooperation of the Christian public. But this dependence they feel that they have a right to cherish. There are pecuniary means enough in the hands of the friends of this Society, and ten times more than enough, to push on this enterprise to the full extent of the wants of our country; and if we have not entirely mistaken the spirit of our holy communion, in the several denominations who have combined to accomplish it, there is piety enough to contribute all that may be needed. And the grace of God, in the progress of the work, will confer more piety. It is in the nature of the enterprise itself, to gather strength as it advances. The cause increases the effect, and the effect, in its turn, increases the cause; and to stay the onward progress of such an enterprise, would be to change those immutable principles, which secure the perpetuity and extension of the Christian church. The Committee, therefore, should they be longer entrusted with this work, will not hesitate to go forward. In making this announcement, however, they rest upon the confidence that the facts already stated, and yet to be communicated, in this Report, will impress deeply upon the minds of the Christian public, that the cause of Home Missions has not yet awakened half the sympathy, nor called forth half the efforts and sacrifices, which its importance and prospects demand. The sources of the Society’s receipts, as stated in former Reports, have been numerous and diversified. Donations from individuals have been received from almost every section of the country, accompanied with the most animating expressions of interest in the cause. Several small legacies have also been collected; but much less has been derived from this source than in the preceding year. Collections by missionaries and others, and contributions and collections in churches, have constituted a considerable item in the receipts of the Treasurer. But much the largest amount received from any one of the general sources of income, has been derived from Agencies, Societies, Associations, and Churches, regularly organized as auxiliaries. These have increased, during the year, from 385 to 416. The following, on account of the efficiency and extent of their operations, as well as the amounts which they have severally contributed to the Parent Society, demand a special notice in this Report, viz:— I. THE WESTERN AGENCY IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. The results of the operations of this agency, the last year, have surpassed those of any former year, and it continues to hold its distinction as the most efficient of the auxiliaries of the Parent Society. Its missionaries, including the agent on that field, have been 64, who have preached the gospel, and administered its ordinances, from 70 to 80 congregations and missionary districts, 18 of which never before enjoyed stated preaching. Ten congregations, formerly aided, have, within the year, signified their ability and determination to dispense with further aid; and on more than half of the whole number, the Spirit of God has descended in great influences, gathering sinners by twenities and fifties into the fold of Christ. The receipts of the agency have been $5,749.21, and the payments on that field have been $5,100; leaving a balance in favour of the treasury of the Society of $649 at, which has been expended in regions of greater destitution. [See Report of this Agency, in Appendix.] 2. THE CENTRAL AGENCY IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. The number of missionaries employed on the field of this agency, within the year, is 50, and the congregations supplied, in whole or in part, by their ministry, 69. The receipts of the treasury, through this agency, have been about $3,000, and the prospect is encouraging for a larger income the next year. On that field, also, as on others, the blessing of God has been richly enjoyed, in revivals of religion. [See Appendix.] 3. THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF AGENCY FOR HOME MISSIONS IN THE WESTERN STATES, ESTABLISHED IN CINCINNATI, OHIO. This agency was organized in the autumn of 1830, and was reported at our last anniversary as in successful operation.— The Rev. R. Cushman had been appointed on that field as General Agent of the Society, and Corresponding Secretary of the agency, and was prosecuting his labours with great industry and discretion, and with very encouraging success. His efforts were continued, and had already accomplished much in commending the Society and the cause of missions to the favor of the western public, when he was suddenly called from his labors by the hand of death, August 27, 1831. By this mysterious and afflicting providence, the affairs of the agency were thrown into some confusion; the business of collections for the Society was arrested, and from other causes, (which are perhaps sufficiently known to the public,) the operations of the Committee, on that interesting and important field, suffered loss, until November 28, 1831, when the Rev. James W. Douglass, late of Virginia, having been appointed General Agent, &c. as successor of Mr. Cushman, entered upon his labors. Mr. D. has been usefully employed, in conducting the business of the agency, in collecting funds, and otherwise promoting the cause of the Society; and though his labours have been much interrupted by ill health, they have not been in vain. The amount actually collected by that agency, during the year, for the treasury of the Society, has been $416.26, while their correspondence has been highly important to the Executive Committee, in directing its appropriations in a large section of the west. CONNECTICUT MISSIONARY SOCIETY. This Society, which has become formally auxiliary to the A. H. M. S. within the last year, stands first among the Auxiliary Societies in the New-England states, in the amount of its contributions to the treasury of the Parent Institution. The number of its missionaries in the state of Connecticut, appointed under commissions from the Parent Society, including the agent in that state, has been 23; in addition to which, it has assumed the support of 7 of the missionaries of the A. H. M. S. in the state of Missouri, at a probable expense of not less than $1,800. Their receipts during the year, from April 1, 1831, to April 1, 1832, have been $3,792.47. O. MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The annual returns from this auxiliary are of an animating character. Its receipts have been $3,530.14, and the number of missionaries sustained by its funds, in the state of Maine, has been 56. In addition to this, the Parent Society has aided in the support of 11 missionaries in that state, by the appropriation of funds pledged for that purpose by the ‘Massachusetts Missionary Society,’’ making the whole number employed in Maine, during the year, 67. VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY. This Society continues to prosecute its work with vigour, and is an efficient helper of the Parent Society. The number of missionaries sustained by its funds in the state of Vermont, since our last Report, including the agent in that state, has been 29. NEW-HAMPSHIRE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The amount of receipts, through the treasury of this Society, during the last year, has been $2,915.17, and the number of missionaries supported in that state, under commissions from the Parent Society, including the agent, 41. The efforts of the agent, now labouring in that state, promise much for the cause hereafter. This Society, embracing the principal part of the old county of Hampshire, Mass., has raised $790.96 for the treasury of the Parent Society, which has been appropriated, as directed, in the support of 5 missionaries in different states. WESTERN RESERVE DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The field embraced by this auxiliary, is the northern part of Ohio, and the whole of Michigan Territory, and is co-extensive with the Western Reserve Synod. The amount of contributions through its treasury, and the hands of the agent on that field, has been $1,430.02, and the number of missionaries sustained by its funds 8; in addition to which, the Parent Society has employed 46, making in all, within the bounds of that Synod, 54 missionaries. Among the auxiliaries in single congregations, the following have contributed the largest amounts, during the last year, viz.:— The Cedar-street Presbyterian Church, New-York, $1,924.00 including the Sab. School M. §.,  Y., - - - 1,089 35 SABBATH SCHOLARS’ ASSOCIATIONS. These Associations, in several congregations, have rendered important aid to the Society. The oldest and most efficient of these, is that which has been in operation five years in the Sabbath Schools of the Cedar-street Presbyterian Church, New-York, embracing a male and a female branch, whose contributions, the last year, have reached the sum of $600, which has been appropriated to the support of 5 missionaries. The Sabbath Scholars’ Missionary Association, in the Scotch Presbyterian Church, Cedar-street, has contributed $50, and supported 1 missionary; that in the South Dutch Church, has raised $100, and supported 1 missionary; and other similar Associations have followed these interesting examples of youthful activity and enterprise in the cause of God. Such have been the sources of the Society’s income, while its appropriations have been extended to 22 states and territories of the United States, and to the adjoining province of Upper Canada. The following TABLE, Exhibits the amount of receipts from each state, the number of congregations and missionary districts aided, and the number of missionaries employed in each state within the last year, and the amount pledged to each state for the year to come. Cong. Mission- States and Territories. Income. Miss. Dist. tariffs. Pledged. New-York, $14,832 23, Do. City, 10,592 14...$25,424 37....204... 156...$10,013 75 2, Ohio..... Rt aA 877 D3 cnc 132. oc. “WA pte ORDO Bi MAINE wea ts Weis ce ee Des S STOEL ee NG sos OMe 601 90 AoViermont 4245.65 detics. sae 1,668 94 x. ASM. os Boas 5 New-Hampshire.......... 2,870 21.... 46.... 40,... 500 00 Galndiana sss shane eens: 152.5403. 53.4.0 sean ee COGS 7_Connecticutrees sce tec eee 5,984 38 21.5 -26walne LOO 8: Tindis 42) SoS He ae. 27 56:. Se AGie. ce Osuna. Goan 9 Michigan Territory....... 350 00.... 35.... 16.... 1,458 00 10 Pennsylvania.............. 1,718 97..,. 14. 5. Wsses, 1004550 11 Kentucky...... Rio saste shege vie 45°00..." 20. lOnatre eee OO A MISSOURI siese wee es Hh ASG weve Q2D.e6— Tee eee mop 13 Tennessee.......0..0-506+ 742 QO. 5.6110. ¢.'e: Tee eee 14 North Carolina.......... 118.00). sje: 2566 152 ee 15 Rhode-Island...........- Pere opecee ser ln 16 South Carolina.......... An 67 O00 Fa.. Save e)  ee 28 District Columbia......... 162 83.... —..6. eee Septland sie a tarp oatwakerns 20, 00... 6. ——a 25, ee ‘Home Missionary,” &c.... 1,206 70.... —.... eee Miscellaneous........... 119° 12. 0 Se oo Se 5,179 00 From this table it appears, that while the operations of this Society have encouraged and strengthened the efforts of its Auxiliaries in the older states, to aid the needy within their own bounds respectively, the Executive Committee have not failed to concentrate as much as could be obtained of the resources of the older states, both in men and in the means of their support, to supply the wide spreading wants of the western and southern sections of our country. The state of New-York, for instance, has contributed $14,159.88 more than has been expended in sustaining the missionaries and agents within its bounds; and each of the New-England states, excepting Maine, has supplied something to our treasury, besides the amount required for the support of their own missionaries. This has been appropriated to the newer and more needy states and territories. In the southern states, it is true, we have planted comparatively few labourers. The reason is obvious; but few labourers have been found, of suitable qualifications, disposed to remove to those states. The Committee, therefore, have regarded, with deep solicitude, the claims of their southern brethren, while, for the lack of labourers to be employed, they have done far less for their supply, than they have ardently desired. But, in regard to the western and northwestern states and territories, their endeavours have been much more successful. A much larger number of the rising ministry of the land have been allured to those inviting fields; and the operations of this Society, it is believed, more than all other causes, have contributed to the annually increasing emigration of ministers in that direction. During the last year, the Committee have sent a larger number to those states, than in any previous year. The whole number aided by this Society, west of the Alleghany mountains, since our last anniversary, has been 177; and the whole number employed there, since the organization of this Society, has been 240; which is nearly one half of the Presbyterian ministers on that extended field, embracing eleven states and parts of states, with a population of nearly 4,000,000, in several sections of which, nearly their whole supply has been derived from this Society. In Missouri, there are now 18 Presbyterian ministers, and 13 of them have been sent there, or aided, by the A. H. M.S. Illinois has now 32 Presbyterian ministers, and 23 of them are, or have been, missionaries of this Society, and 19 are now in commission in that state. Michigan Territory has 18, and 15 of the same have been sent there, or aided from the same source; and in other large sections of the west, the proportion is nearly as great. RESULTS. But the number of missionaries employed, of congregations aided, and the amount raised and expended in their support, though items of interest and importance to be embraced in an Annual Report, compose but a small part of the material of our rejoicing and encouragement at this anniversary. The Committee are aware, that the friends of this Society desire most of all, to be told of results accomplished by their contributions, and of good effected in answer to their prayers. In answering this desire, it is impossible to speak with entire accuracy. If we had time to communicate all that has come to our own knowledge, of the blessing of God upon the labours of 509 ministers of Jesus Christ, in 745 congregations, and other fields, we should even then have occasion to pause, and exclaim “Lo! these are parts of his ways!” But the length, and the breadth, and the height, and the depth, of those eternal results, which are beginning to flow from these causes, must still remain unfathomable, and unfathomable by finite minds. There is probably not one of the whole number of the Society’s missionaries, who has not been the instrument of originating, or of keeping in operation, during a large part of the year, at least one Sabbath School; while most of them have secured the intelligent and faithful instruction of from two to ten of those blessed institutions, on the respective fields of their labours. The number of Sabbath Schools actually reported, has been 544, embracing 19,690 scholars. The whole number of children and adults thus instructed, under the care of the missionaries, has probably exceeded 30,000. Bible Classes, also, have been gathered in the congregations aided, almost without an exception; and many of the missionaries have had under their immediate instruction, from two to six of these nurseries of biblical knowledge and of spiritual influence. The number of such classes reported has been 239, embracing 3711 pupils, and more than 7000 have probably been thus instructed. These institutions, with the care of Sabbath Schools, have become so identified with the ministerial work, and have been so signalized as the scenes of the display of the divine mercy in the conversion of souls, that they require no eulogy; and we need only add, that their importance and happy results were never more delightfully manifested than on the whole field of this Society’s operations during the last year. The cause of temperance has also been promoted by our missionaries, and by most of them, with a degree of zeal and success, which affords the most animating prospect of its entire triumph, on most of the fields occupied by this Society. Temperance Societies have been organized in most of the congregations assisted, and 36,402 subscribers to the principle of total abstinence from intoxicating drinks, have been reported. More than 60,000 have probably been thus enrolled, within the field of our labours. Benevolent efforts for the circulation of the Bible and religious tracts, and in aid of education for the ministry, and of foreign missions, have been sustained by many of the poor to whom it has been the privilege of this Society to minister. Thus there have been planted by our missionaries, and are growing up under their culture, many trees of righteousness, whose leaves are, even now, for the healing of the nations. But these results of the Society’s expenditures, it may be said, are only preparations for doing good; they exhibit no souls converted, no sinners saved; and this is an age of the world, when, if the churches give, and Christians pray, and ministers labour, they look for the grace of God which bringeth salvation. To attain this result, to secure the salvation of the increasing millions of this land, and through them to act upon the destinies of man universally, is the grand purpose, and the single ultimate aim of this Society, and of the kindred institutions in harmony with which it labours; and it is with devout gratitude to God, that the Committee report a more rapid advancement towards this glorious consummation, since the last anniversary, than in any previous year. One hundred and eighty-seven of the churches reported have been blessed with special revivals of religion, which have resulted in the hopeful conversion of more than 8000 souls. The whole number of conversions reported, under the ministry of our missionaries, is 9432, of whom 6126 have been reported already added to the churches, on profession of their faith. The number reported as added by letter has been 1364, making the whole number reported as added to the churches aided, during the last year, 7490. But these reports have been necessarily very defective. The probable number added to the churches aided, since our last anniversary, has been more than 8000, and the number of hopeful conversions, under the labours of our missionaries, not less than 10,000. Such are the results of a single year of this Society’s opera- tions, already visible, upon the cause of salvation. Considered alone, and apart from those attendant and consequent blessings, which are more than we can number, they are great beyond expression. But, viewed in connexion with the small amount of Christian effort and expenditure by which they have been effect- ed, they are greater still; and in comparison with the results of the labours of former years, they afford the most animating proof that this Society, likethe “ righteous, shall hold on its way,” and, like him ‘‘that hath clean hands,” is destined to ‘be stronger and stronger.” The following is a brief 58 ae SIXTH REPORT. [May, TABULAR VIEW Of the results of the last year, in several particulars, compared with those of the preceding years. et eee Sec. year)Third yr.|Fourth yr.|Fifth year./Sixth yr. Receipts...ccecccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc Time, there have been reported as added to the churches 13,295 souls, and more than 20,000 have probably been converted under their ministry. And this Society has labored not alone. Other causes have been in operation in connexion with this, to produce still greater results; and other organizations connected with different denominations of Christians, in our land, have put forth their efforts, and ‘we forbade them’ not, ‘‘because they followed not with us.’ It is ours to rejoice in every effort which tends to salvation; and if by the operation of all these causes, the American churches have been blessed with 2,000 revivals of religion, and 100,000 souls converted, within the last year, we will rejoice and praise God the more, because the results of our own efforts, great as they truly are, are rendered comparatively small, by reason of this accumulation of blessing and of glory which excelleth. One hundred thousand souls is nearly one third part of the whole increase of our population, in the same time, and probably more than one half of the annual increase of adults in the United States. What an influence is thus provided, to act on the other half, and to gather the children and youth of the land into Sabbath Schools and Bible Classes; and thus train them up to know and fear the Lord! How many of this hundred thousand may soon become heralds of salvation, while each of the whole number will exert an individual influence to convert others. And if God works by means, he will bless each of these individual influences, and thus the work of salvation will advance in a general ratio; and in less than half a century the people may all become righteous, according to the prediction of the Prophet of Israel, ‘Violence shall no more be heard in thy Land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders." Let, then, every influence that tends to salvation prosper, and let every opposing spirit die. 