Biattlanetuo.
REFOET TO THE EVANGELIOAL ALLIANOE,
BY HENRY B. SMITH, D. D
[CONTINUED.]
The United States Christian Commission,
George 11. Stuart, Esq., of Philadelphia, Presi
dent.
was organized Nov. 15th, 1861, and con
tinued its work till Jan., 1866; its object was to
p rovide for the spiritual as well as the temporal
ants of the soldiers. Its total receipts in money
and other donations amounted to $6,264,607 ; its
commissioned delegates numbered in , all 4,859;
it distributed $3,700,000 in stores, over• a million
o f dollars worth of publications, including over a
half million of Bibles and Testaments, and a large
cumber of books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
Through its active delegates, the Go'spel Was
preached in all our armies, and its consolations
a dministered to the sick and dying. Aud all
this service, was in addition to that of the regular
chaplains.
Besides these larger organizations',lhere were
Ladies' Associations, Soldiers' Aid Societies, Sol
diers' Homes and Rests, Volunte erßdreshment
Rooms for Soldiers, scattered ,all. over the land.
In one such room 'in Philadelphia, 317,000 meals
were provided for soldiers in transit; in another
in New York, over 200,000. Voluntary. COntri:
butions at several hospitals amounted to-over two
millions of dollars. One lady in a Western town
'raised $20,000 in money and $309,00'0 in: sup
plies. Wherever battles were fturght the U. S
C o mmissions, and hundreds of volunteers, includ
ing often the best surgeons from. our large cities,
flocked to the field. Zealous evangelists and
preachers of the Gospels, and colporteurs without
u mber, labored constantly in the . nrmies both
North and South; and in many a camp, and
many a chapel, souls were born again, sometimes
in large numbers, into 'the kingdom of -God.
There were revivals of religion in tents and loy
the wayside. Many a soldier in battle saw, as
one of them said, "the figure of Christ in the
sky." And thus the horrors of war were mantled
ever by the veil of Christian charity: 'Fountains'
of charity and of Christian activity were opened
which have not yet ceased to low.
This heightened Christian benevoleoceAlso as
sume I, awl in the very midst of the war, another
and an almost unexpected form, which is full of
the best promise for -the-future ; and that `is, in
the voluntary contributions made, on. a 'larger
scale than ever before, for our higher institutions,
of learning. And thus the benevolence showed
itself to be not merely sympathetic, but' ar seeing
—not only a sentiment, but also a principle. Our
General Government has but •little to do directly,
with the cause of education; though it has re
cently established a Bureau for the' collection . of
facts, and three years since made , the offer of lib
eral aid in lands to all the States that should es
tablish agricultural schools. The States, indivi
dually, make laws and appropriations for - public
education ; and, at first, they established and aid
ed universities, colleges and other seminaries of
learning. But these higher institutions came
for the most part under' religious or ecclesiastical
control, and the Consequence — has benn,from the.
rivalry of the churches, that of late• years their
support has been chiefly dependent, as is that of
the churches, upon voluntary contributions and
donations. This change entails far-reaching re
sults, It seems to leave our higher instruction
dependent upon fluctuating influences. And it
!night well have been feared, that when the coun
try was absorbed in a vast war, laying strong
hands on all its resources, the more remoteinter
ms of education, (which is essentially a provi
sion for future needs and well being,) would at
least fur a time, be neglected. But the contrary
has been the fact. Never have our spontaneous
offerings for higher education been as large,
never have they increased in such proportion, as
during the years in which we were struggling
for national existence. And this is another evi
dence of the safety of the voluntary principle
among a people trained thereto. The total
amount thus given during the past four years,
can not be less than seven or eight millions of
dollars.* Among the amounts given are . over
* 4 150,000 to Yal College, Conn., (one donation
being of $150,000, one o $BO,OOO, one of $50,-
0 )0, ete.,) and over $lOO,OOO to the Yale Theo
lqical School ; Amherst College, Mass., $250,-
ode in ono sum, and Tufts College, in the same
• state, $400,000 ; Harvard College, $250 000;
Brown Univerglty, $160,000; Princeton College,
$161,000, and Princeton Theological Seminary,
$131,00); Rutgers College, $140,000 ; N. Y.
l'uiv., $160,000; Union Theol. Seminary, New
York, $150,000 ; Madison University, N. Y.,
$160,000; Chicago University, $300,000; Phil
lelphia Divinit;School, $200,000; Waterville,
Me., $150,003; Marietta, 0., $lOO,OOO, etc.
Mr. Cornell, of' Ithaca, N. Y., has given $500,-
000 for a college in addition to $lOO,OOO for a
polio library; Judge Packer of Bethlehem, Pa.,
is founded a college there with the same amount;
Mr. Vassar, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has also
given half a million to a Female College; Mr.
Crozer has founded a Baptist Theol. School in
Penn., with $270,000; Mr. Drew. a Methodist
of New York, has given over half a million to
education, the largest part of which is for a The
ological School. A college in Constantinople,
and one in Beirut, Syria, have been established
by New York merchants, at about $lOO,OOO each.
Mr. George Peabody, now of London, has given
over three million of dollars to various colleges
and literary institutions, besides the million he
r••eently funded for educational institutions at the
&nth. The Lutheran Church has raised about
$ 3 00,000 for its institutions during the past
three years; the German Reformed over $lOO,-
1)99 . The Methodist Centenary Collection
annunts to more than three or four millions of
dollars, a large proportion of which will be devoted
to education. It is becoming more the custom
of our rich men to bestow their gifts while living
s') that they may see and enjoy the results of
Cieir benefactions. This increase of private do
nations to our higher public institutions, in our
time of trouble, seems to indicate yet better pos-
*A summary of donations to collegiate and theo
logical institutions, alone, is given by Dr. Baldwin,
iii hii 21st, 22d and 2arct Reports of the Society for
Promoting Collegiate Education at the West. He
niake 3 the total to Nov., 1866, to, be over $6,500,
000 there has been quite an increase since.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1867.
sibilities in times of peace. And, in fact, hardly
a week passes without a good report of something
done in this way.
Meanwhile the public school system in the
several States also exhibits tokens of prosperity
and increase. A republic lives only in the intel
ligence and virtue of its citizens. It cannot pros-
per where the bulk of the people is ignorant, vi
cious and lawless. The education of all its youth
is a' primary condition of its well being and per
petuity. Education is but a name for the process
by which each generation trains its successors to
take its place, imparting to them, in an increased
measure, what it has received from the past and
itself accumulated, of knowledge and virtue and
religion, that thus the safety of the future may
be insured. It is a vital process: it hands down
the life, intellectual and moral, of , the present
to shape the , coming , times. It is , the most sa
cred trust and debt which each generation owes
to its successor; and no generation has played
well its part, that does not give's richer legacy
to its posterity than it received from its ances
try. The individual man is immortal, because
he can be educated, and because the possibilitiet
of his increase in Wisdom and virtue cannot be
And a nation cannot be free and pros
invited
perou4,-if it' neglects its primary duty of training
all its youth or the duties,' as Well:as the rights,
of ciiizenship.
The last Census of the United States, 1860 1
reports the whole number of collegies, academies
and schoOls in the country, at 113,006, in which
were'employed'l4B,742 teachers, with 5,417,880
pupils. The hnnual expenditures amounted to
$33,990,48/ Of these institutions, 445 were
called collegiate, with 54,969 students ; the,acad,
envies numbered 6,636, with 455,559 pupils: The
number of public schools was 106;915, with 4,-
91-7,552-scholars. The number of libraries 'in
the country was 27,730, with 13,316,379 volumes,
of which 8,149 were private, 6,205 Were - Sunday
School, and 213 were collegiate. The increase
between 1850 and 1860, was 26 per cent. in the
number of schools, 40 per pent..in the number of
teachers, 48 per cent, in de number of pupils,
and 110 per cent. in the income. -The average
number of pupils was one in Six of the •entire
population ; the average annual income for each
pupil $6,27 ; the total cost'of education was
$1,26, to, each "free white person" then in the
Union. The, income for public:schools was $22,-
297,865; an increase of 133 per cent. since 1850.
The largest grant made by any government at
a-single time ; for educational purposes, was that_
of our Congress, daring the war, of 30,000 acres
of land to each State, for each of its Senators
and Representatives in Congress, the proceeds to
be applied - to the founding of institutions:for the
promotion of agricultural and mechanical educa
tion. This grant was restricted to the loyal
States. Their Senators and Representatives num
bered 234; which would make a donation of
7;020,000 acres. At 1,25 per acre, government
price, the sum total would be $8,775,000. Ex
tended to the other States the total value would
be over eleven million of dollars.
In most of the States and large cities, reports on
the condition of education are annually published.*
From some of these we extract and condense va
rious facts to show the general condition of our
public schools. In the State of New York the
*inhers k fsphool-hoocies_is 111-,7Sl:Lifte
ten millions of dollars; these are furnisbid with
1,183,017 vols. in school libraries, valued at
$600,000. The number of children between the
ages of 5 and 21 is 1,364,967; the number at
tending public schools, (the attendance is volun
tary,) is 938,000; there are also 97,000 in aca6-1
mies and 1,541 in colloges. The number of tea- •
chers, is 26,469, 4,452 male, 22,017 female;
average salaries in cities $563, in the country
$169. The total amount raised for schools in
the State in 1866, was $7,378,858, or about eight
dollars for each pupil in attendance. In the 268
public schools of the City of New York, there are
219,000 pupils; the amount expended is $2,298,-
508. The New York Free Academy, (or Col
lege,) with 819 pupils, receives annually from the
State $125,000. The schools of the cities are
entirely free, the pupils being supplied with books,
stationery, etc.
In the State of Massachusetts there are 255,323
children; the attendance at Schools is 231,685; the
amount expended is $2.574,974—ab0ut $lO for
each child. The school fund is two millions.
In the City of Boston, $776,375 are expended
for schools, with 27,723 pupils. The primary
schools number 256, the grammar schools 78, the
high schools 3—with 703 teachers. The State
of Pennsylvania expended in 1866, $4,195,258
on public schools, with 478,056 pupils ; Illinois,
$4,439,238 for 614,659 pupils in- a population of
two millions; Wisconsin $1,190,289 for 234,265
pupils. Ohio has 11,256 school-houses, 728,990
pupils, 332,641 vols. in the school libraries, and
raised in 1866, $5,059,938 for instruction. The
State of Indiana has a school fund of over seven
millions. The State of Michigan, not yet 25
years old, has already the richesl i nniversity in
the country, with 1,225 studentirto whom the
institution is free. In Minnesota, still further
West, one eighteenth of the land in each town
ship is reserved for education; the school fund
is already over a million of dollars, and if the re
maining lands are sold at no higher rates, the fund
will be over twenty millions of dollars; its popula
tion is now 340,000. The City of St. Louis ex
pended (1866,) $340,770, on its excellent schools
with 16.228 enrolled scholars. California raises
or each scholar $6,58; the school children since
*Among the most voluminous and valuable of
these Reports for the current year, are :
The Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Ed
ucation, Massachusetts. Joseph White, Secretary.
pp. 528. Boston, 1867.
Annual Report .of the School Committee of the
City of Boston, by R. C. Waterston. pp. 850. Bos
ton, 1867.
Seventy-ninth Annual Report of the Regents of
the 'University of the State of New York. John V.
Pruyn, Chancellor. pp. 500. Albany, 1866.
Thirteenth Annual Report of the Superintendent
of Public Institutions in the State of New York, V.
M. Rice. pp. 306. Albany, 1867.
Report of Superintendent of Common Schools of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, J. P. Wick
ersham. pp. 334. Harrisburg, 1867.
Thirteenth Annual Report of the State Commis
sioners of 'Common Schools, Ohio, Jno. Norris.
pp. 174. Columbus, 0., 1867.
Sixth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of
Public Institutions of the State of Illinois, Newton
Bateman. pp. 240.
Annual Report of the Board of 'St. Louis Public
Schoole, for 1866. St. Louis '1866.
1863, have increased twenty-five per cent. These
are but the gleanings of a few facts to illustrate
the interest taken in our public schools and their
growth. During the war the number of pupils
and the expenditures constantly increased. Ac
cording to the Census of the U. S. for 1860, the
whole amount then raised for education, in the
six States of New York, Pennsylvania, -Massa
chusetts, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin, was $12,-
717,289; the Reports for these same States for
1866 give the amount at $24,838,555, or nearly
double. To make the system fully effective, two
things are still needed : one is, the compulsory
attendance of all children who are not elsewhere
taught : the other is that the system should be
extended into all the Southern and Southwestern
States and there embrace all the children both
white and black. . •
There has also been a like advance in the re
ceipts of our chief philanthropic and missionary as
sociations during the past few Years. Into all
the details connected With these Organizations it
Would be impracticable to enter.' I have compared
the aggregate receipts, of, about 25 of thorck as
given in the Reports of 1866, with,the amounts
reported in , 1860—the year after and the year
before the war. And the result is; that abbot
two and 'a quarter millions were even in 1860,
an something dyer five tnillions in the last , year.
Among these, Societies are the American Bi - ,
ble Society, 1724,089; the American Board
,of
Foreign Missions, 1446,942 ; the Fresbyterian
Boards of Domestic and Foreign .Miasions, to=
gether over $500;000;' the - Reformed Dutch
Board, $93,000—0f which $56;5.00 - was. from a
single donor ; the; Methodist Boards of Missions,
$686,386,, the American, Home Missionhry,,,So=
$212,567 the' Board. Of the Protetitlnt
FPiscopal Church $175,000 ; Baptist Home and
Foreign - Missions, $368,537;* the Tract Societies
of New York and 'Boston, $67.9,617; various
Education "Soeieties,, about 125;000; American
Sunday'SchOol Union, $ 27 ; Congregational
Union, $130,000;, Foreign and Christian Union,
$llO,OOO ; AmeriCan Missionary Associalion,
$253,000; Friends' Society,
Females9B,23o,'
Female Guardian Society, N. Y., $87,768, etc.,
*The Baptists have contributed over fifteen mil
lions of dollars, during the lak fitly,years, forevan
gelizing purposes, of which
,about" three millions
were for foreign missions. gee the Missionary Ju
bilee of the American BapOst Union, held in 1864 in
Philaiielphia pp. 500. New York, 1865.
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CZ/I' PMCII—NA.SPICLoWII33CI.EL,
S. E. COB. FOURTH & WALNUT STs
Insurers in thin Company have the additional gnarnntee of the
CAPITAL STOCK all paid up IN. CASH, which, together with
CASH ASSETS, now on hand amount to
$1,516,461 81.
INCOME FOR THR YEAR 1866,
$766,537 80.
LOSSES PAID DURING THE YEAR AMOUNTING
115288,4000 00.
Loma Paid Promptly.
Dp'IDFSDS' MARI AMNITALLY; thus aiding the insured to
pay premi um e. .
The last xaviDEND on all Mutual Polices in force, January let,
1867, was .
3Plirttr . per 4Pe•ank.t.
of the amount of PREMIUMS received during the year isep.
Its Trusteea are well'known citizens in our midst, entitling it
Manor(' consideration than those whose managers reside in distant
cities. -
Alexander Whilldin,
FZmir Thomson,
George Nugent;
Hon. James PolleCk,
L. M. Whilldin,
P. B. Mingle,:
Albert C. Roberts
ALEX. WMILDII+T, President.
GEO. NUGENT, Vice-President.
JOHN C. SINS, Actuary.
JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
CHARLES G. ROSIISON, Assistant Secretary
HOME
Life Insurance Colley,
258 Bivadways,,NQWYork.
Assets $1 500 000 9000 Policies in Force
Its Principles, Stability, 'Mutuality, Fidelity.
ADVANTAGES.
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An organization strictly first class.
-Assets proportioned to actual liabilities, as large as any company;
old Or new. • ' . ' '
• All the net profits go to the assured. _'
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Dividends are declared and paid annually. ,
All'its policies are non-forfeiting in the sense that its members,
under any circumstances, get all the assurances that they have
paid for. - ' "'
One-third the annual premiums loaned permanently on its poli
cies.
Its members are not limited as to residence or travel. No extra
premium is charged therefor or permits required.
All the forms of Life and Annuity Policies issued.
far The HOME has declared and paid dividends annually, to its
assured members since its organization. Last dividend 40 per cent,
applied immediately, which is more than 50 per cent. four years
hence.
Officers and Directors.
WALTER S. GRIFFITH, President..
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L H. FROTHINGHAN, Treasurer. •
GECk Cl. KEPLEY, Secretary,
W. J. 001'1"161, Actuary.
A.' A. LOW, A. A. Low & Bros., 31 Burling Slip, N. Y. '
L FROTHINGEWSti'Prest. Union Trust Co.,
Prost. Atlattic Dock Vie. _ _
THOS. te..t.OUtal
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SAMUEL SMITH, Ex-Mayor city cd firoalynT
HENRY E, PIERREPONT, 1 Pierrepont Place, Brooklyn
A, B. BAYLIS, Broker, New York.
PETER C. CORNELL, Merchant, 80 Wall street, N. Y.
WALTER B. GRIFFITH, President, Brooklyn.
D. Cons, Prest. Atlantic Ins. Co.
H. B. CLEFLLN, H. B. Claflin & Co., 140 Church street, N. Y
S. B. CHITTENDEN, S. B. Chittenden & CO., N.Y.
S. E. SOUTHWORTH, Prest. Atlantic Bank, N. Y.
C. DUNNING , Sec. South Brooklyn Savingsiostitution.
JNO. G. BERGEN, Police Commissioner:
LEWIS ROB ZITS, L. Roberts & Co., 17 South street, N. Y.
JOHN T. MARTIN, 28 Pierrepont street, Brooklyn.
JOHN HALSEY, Haight, Halsey & Co., New York.
THOS. CARLTON, Methodist Book Rooms, N. Y.
HAROLD DOLLNER, Doilner, Potter & Co., N. Y.
A. B. CAPWELL, Attorney and Counsellor, N. Y.
NEHEMIAH lINIGHT, Hoyt, Sprague & Co., New York.
EDWARD A. LAMBERT, Merchant, 45 John street, N. Y.
JAM.ESHOW, Prost Union White Lead Co., Brooklyn.
L. B. WYMANz.Merchant, 88 Burring' Slip, New York.
(}EO. A. JARVIS. Pratt: Lenox Fire Ins. Co., New York.
B. E. HOWARD. Howard, Sanger & Co., New York. - •
GEO. 8. STEPHENSON, Importer, 49 South street, New York,
CHAS.'A. TOWNSEND, Merchant, New York.
JOS. W. GREENE, J. W. Greene & Co., N. Y.
RUFUS S.SRAVE__ ,t 3 63 Wall street, New York.
J. W. FROTHINGHAM, Frothingham & Baylis, N. Y.
EDWARD D. DELANO;Now York - .
E. LEWIS, Jr.. Valentine & Bergen, Brooklyn.
AGENTS. IN PHILADELPHIA,
ESLER & COLTON, Cor. 4th & Library sta.
"jE,+6-ly Agents Wanted.
GIRARD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
PHILADELPHIA
CAME ASSETS, .
Office, 639 S. E. Cur. Chestnut and Seventh
DIRECTORS.
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Thos, Craven, • - ' Silas Yorks!, Jr.,
Furman ShepparSheppard ; ,....- Alfred S. Gillett,
Thos. Mac Kellar, . • N. S. Lawrence,
Jno. Sopplek ' Chas. I. Dupont,
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Jno. W: Claghorn, I.
Henry F. Kenney,
Joseph Klapp, M.l).
Income for the year 1866,
Locies paid and acertied,'
THOMAS CRAVEN, President
ALFRED S. GthiLETT, Vice-President. •
JAS. B. ALYORD, Secretary
STRICT ECONOMY IN MANAGEMENT.
PROVIDENT LIFE AND BEST CO.,
OB PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE No. 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET
- Commenced business . 7th mo. 24,1865.
Organized to extend the benefits of Life Insurance among member
of the Society of Friends. - * good risks, of whatever denomination
solicited. -
ROWLAND PARRY, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY,
Actuary. • President.
WILLIAM 0: LONGSTRETH, 'Vice-President.
THOMAS WISTAR, M.D., J. B. TOWNSEND,
Medical Examiner. Legal Adviser.
The Company, in addition to the security arising from the arc
mnlation of premiums, gives the insured the advantage of an setae I
paid up capital. AZ/ theprofitsof the Insurance are divided anwnu the
insured.
Life Policies and Endowments in all the most approved forms
Annuities granted on favorable terms. " fe2B-1y
OGELSBY &
PLUMBERS, GAB AND STEAM . 7/TTE.76I,
Iffo. 4 South Oerriath Street.
G. A. OGRLGBY,
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Gas Yirtjtres,ofotti,lttruMoruistied. , Country, work prompt I
atteiicted fo. "YdrwdrieWirrauted: Avr26
William J. Howard,
-Henry Bennett,
Isaac Hazlehurst,
George W Hill,
John M. Chestnut,
John-Wanamaker.
$300,000
Streets.
$103,954 72
47,094 00
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