RELIGIOUS ANNIVERSARIES.
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These anniversaries were held at New York the last and the presena week, and as usual were the occasion of much interest.

 The PresLyte,fun BOasd ef Foreign .Mts- sions met in Rev. Dr. Philips Church. Three missionaries of the Board have died during the year, and ten have been sent out. Receipts $9l ,764 27; expenditures, $S9. 6l4 93. Rev. pr. Murray from Elizabethtown, N. J. deliver ed the the discourse.

 Foreign Euangsiical Society Rev. Dr. Cheever preach ed the sermon. Receipts the past year, $2o, ,145. .56-double those of the pre- vious year--of Which HaItf has given $500; New Haven, $S7oO; Albany S7O0: Providence, $50; Baltimore, $s9U0 Philadelphia, $l 500 i; New York and Brooklyn, $sl $50; Boston, $2,- 2uO. The expenditures have been $l9.969. leaving balance of $sls5. $2400 were sent to the aid of the Waldenses. .4mer,can Seamen's Friend Society.-The 18th anniversary was held in Broadway Taber- nacle, Capt Edward Richardson in the Chair. A nnmber of Bethel Churches and Sailors Homes, and other institutions for the benefit of seaman and their families, have been establish ed the past year. The number of sailors board- ed in one of the Homes, the past year, has been | 3,S26, and in four years, 14.S37. The receipts 

 expenditures $s2s ,290 62. MT. James Merrill

 from the Princeton Theological Seminary, has \ been appointed Chaplain for the important port of Canton in China. There have'been the past \ year, special session of refreshing among sea.

 men, especially in Charleston and Philadel.

 phia.

 4 American Tract S0cietg.-John Tappan Esq, of Boston, occupied the Chair, in the ab sence ot the President, Hon. Theodore Feeling

 huysen. The receipts the past year hay, h amounted to $153, ,9l6-of which $sS2, ,7s4 wer . ! the proceeds of sales The expenditures hay, .1 just equalledthe receipts. The donations shov ,i an increase of s 1925 over the previous year. .i Key. MT. T1rnbull of this city was among tn sl speakers. .l75 colportenrs have been at wor ii the past year, in almost every state in the Un

 lsn. During the five years the colportuer sys n tenn has been in operation, 400 ,00o families hay W been visited, and S7O, ,000 volumes circulated ,e1 There nave been p'inled during the veal

 36l. 100 volumes 1, ,y22 900 publications; 1l6 ,yl l73,ooo pages-and circulated, 366.006 vol ,n umes; 5.l5s, 1898 publications; 123, ,643 1893 pa

 | yes. Twelve thousand copies of Baxter'sNCa Id have been printed in large andtwenty .one thor ,yi sand in small type. during the year; 33,OCO

 the Sabbath Manuel; 2s,O0O volumes in Gel a. man; 5000 in French; 4.Oo0 in Welsh. Tn it. Society's monthly newspaper. the America

 | ay subscribers. The average eireuiat,on h- IrGcfs for several years has been about thif lee millions of pages.

 American Home Missionary Society,". of Two of the Vice Presidents of this Society. Hon. John Cotton Smith, and Hon. Jacob Sut 70, erland!have died during the year. The soc hs ety hadin its service the past year, 97l mini "' ters of the Gospel, in '26 different States al

 territories; 6S3 preaching in single conyreg on tions. Number of congregations supplied

 whole or in part, l453 The number of mi

 sionaries is.greater by 9s than in the ptecedi

 year, and POS more congregations and dis,ri, .o have been blessed with lhe ministry of theG G, n pei. The receipts of the society she past ye m m have been $i25,l24 7o-expenditures. $l2 he l93 IS. r..- se. .a,.pytcan Bible Society. 1.-The Hon. Th

 dore Frelinghaysen. the President was in { ect Chair. He made proper notice of the de ta- of his predecessor. Hon. John Cotton Smi ,- who died last December. The local auxlli ie- societies now nnmber over 1000 new Q 'n- J formed the past year. 67. The yeeeiPs of