Young Men's City Bible Society, Auxiliary to the American and Foreign Bible Society. At a meeting of the Board of Managers on the 4th April, a Committee was appointed to adopt measures preliminary to the organization of a Young Men's Bible Society. A meeting of young men of the Baptist denomination was accordingly convened on the 3d of May, and after free and dispassionate discussion, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That it is expedient to organize a Young Men's Bible Society for the city of New-York, Auxiliary to the American and Foreign Bible Society. A committee of eleven was then appointed to carry the above resolution into effect, and to draft a constitution; to nominate a Board of Managers, and to call a public meeting, with a view to the formation of a Society. On the evening of the 12th inst. representatives from every Baptist church in the city, convened at half past seven o'clock, in the meeting house of the Baptist church in Oliver-street. Brother Nathan Caswell was elected chairman, and H. W. Scott secretary. The interesting services of the evening were introduced with prayer by Rev. Jacob H. Brouner. After which the minutes of previous meetings and reports of committees were read and approved. The following Constitution was then presented, and after a second reading, unanimously adopted. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I. This Society shall be called the "Young Men's City Bible Society of New-York, Auxiliary to the American and Foreign Bible Society." ART. II. The objects of this Society shall be to assist in the distribution of the sacred Scriptures, and to raise funds for this purpose, and in aid of the funds of the parent society. ART. III. The Bibles and Testaments distributed by this society, shall be purchased of the American and Foreign Bible Society, and its surplus funds shall be paid over to that institution. ART. IV. All annual contributors to the funds of this society shall be members and every person contributing fifteen dollars or more, at one time, shall be a member for life. ART. V. The business of the Society shall be conducted by a Board of Managers, consisting of a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, and sixteen other members, each of whom shall be a member in good standing of a Baptist church in the city of New-York, and not less than eighteen, nor more than thirty-five years of age. ART. VI. The annual meeting shall take place in the month of April, at which time the annual report shall be read, and Managers for the ensuing year elected. ART. VII. The Board of Managers shall meet once every month; shall fill their own vacancies; make their own by-laws; call their own meetings, and with a majority of two-thirds, call a special general meeting of the Society. ART. VIII. Twenty members shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Society; and seven managers shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Board. ART. 9. The Board shall have the power of constituting such persons as they deem proper, honorary members of the Society. ART. X. The President of all societies auxiliary to this, shall be considered ex-officio, members of the Board. ART. XI. The constitution shall not be altered without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present, at a regular meeting of the Society. The following brethren were elected officers and managers of the society for the current year. President. WILLIAM H. WYCKOFF. Vice-Presidents. 1. THOMAS P. DEVAN, M. D. First Baptist Church in New-York. 2. N. C. PLATT, Baptist Church in Oliver-street. 3. R. F. WINSLOW, Bethel Baptist Church. THOMAS S. SOMMERS, South Baptist Church, Corresponding Secretary. G. N. BLEECKER. do. George M. Colgate, Amity-st. Recording Secretary. George H. Andrews, Bethel Church, Robert Thompson, Laurens-st. H. W. SCOTT, Secretary. Appropriate and animating addresses were delivered by Rev. I. L. Hodge, Pastor of the Baptist Church in 16th street; and by Rev. Spencer H. Cone, President of the American and Foreign Bible Society. Our limits preclude extracts from those forcible appeals to the judgment, and to the hearts of the audience; but we believe that an impression was made, which in its moral tendencies will survive any record we could make, of the spirit-stirring remarks by which it was produced. After taking up a collection, and subscriptions in aid of the funds of the new Society-the services were closed with prayer by the Corresponding Secretary of the Parent Institution. INTERESTING FACT. A poor cripple, supported by charity, having saved 50 cents, travelled four miles to the house of a Christian man, and offered them for a copy of the Bible. The holy volume was of course given to him; and the amount, his earthly all, which he had thus employed, to gain the blessed book containing the knowledge of salvation, was promptly returned; and silent but earnest prayer was daily offered, that "the pearl of great price" might be made his own for eternity. Within four months he read the $26 00 17 00 290 00 50 00 115 00 30 00 30 00 1050 00 3.00 1 00 24 00 15 00 Wm. Williams, N.York, per S.H. Cone 30 00 142 79 sacred book through, not less than five times; and previous to his death, which occurred within a year after receiving the Bible, he became deeply impressed with the following passage in Revelation, "Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him." Shortly after this, having obtained "a good hope through grace," he terminated his earthly course in the triumphs of faith. If such be the blessed results of a single copy of the Scriptures, when accompanied with the fervent prayers of a Christian, what may we not hope for, when the four hundred thousand Baptists in the United States shall be furnished with copies of the Bible, to be bestowed on the poor and destitute of our land, and the gift be accompanied with their fervent prayers? Moneys received by WILLIAM COLGATE, Treasurer of the "American and Foreign Bible Society," 1838. April. Bible Society of New Market-street Cash, &c. of J. Jones I. K. McIlwain, Phila. per I. M. Allen Courtlandt County Bible Society, per Female Bible Society of First Baptist Orleans Co. Bible Soc. W. Metcalf, Tr. Stamford Bible Soc. per C. G. Sommers A. C. Smith of Savannah, on account 30 00 Baptist Church in Reading, Pennsylva- 20 00 5 00 300 00 do 50 Seneca Bible Soc. per J. M'Lallen, Tr. Stamford Bible Society, Ct. pr H. Little 57 07 Rensselaer County Bible Society, per 240 00 3 40 52 00 70.00 750 13 75 Hopkinsville do do do 75 50 Cumberland-street Church, Norfolk, Bowlinggreen do Virginia, per Rev. T, Hume 40 00 Jason Corning, New-York 15.00 Bible Society of the South Baptist Church, New-York, W. Tracy, Tr. Seneca Bible Soc. per J. M'Lallen, Tr. Solomon Peck 141 00 30 00 5 00 Female Baptist Bible Society, Lower 30 00 Burlington Bible Soc. pr Rev. S. Aaron 90 00 Seneca Bib. So. N.Y. pr J. M'Lallen,Tr 10 75 32.00 40 00 390 00 27 75 3.00 A. P. Lacoste, Cheraw, on account of 333 33 Mrs. Mary Thompson do 1.00 Mrs. Esther 'I hompson Mrs. Sally Garnsey Charles Babcock, per Daniel Hascall 1.00 E. Belden W. H. Wharton, Tuscumbia, on acc't New-Hampshire and Foreign Bible So- Alleghany and Cataraugus Co. Bible make Rev. A. Minor a L. M. $30 00 28 56 2000 00 500 00 454 50 37 00 22 00 Friendship Church 10 00 1 00 First Otto Fem. Benev. Society 9 48 do 50 6.50 1 00 Greenwood and Andover churches 3 75 Rev. CHARLES G. SOMMERS, Corresponding Secretary, 82 Madison-street, N. Y. This publication is periodical, contains a half sheet, and the postage for any distance under 100 miles, is 1 1-2 cents; for any distance over 100 miles, 2 1-2 cents. LONDON, 6th September, 1838. F My very dear brother; I HAVE great pleasure in conveying to you a copy of the Resolutions unanimously passed by our Committee at their meeting this day. It afforded us all a high gratification to see you in the midst of us, and I trust your kind visit will do much to strengthen and cement the bonds of brotherly union which connect us with our fellow Christians in the United States, as well as to extend and invigorate the various efforts in which we are respectively engaged for the enlargement of our Heavenly Master's Kingdom. I am happy that our beloved brother Pearce has arrived in town just at this juncture, because he is far more competent than myself to furnish you with those details of information respecting the progress of translations which you are anxious to obtain. I trust he will have no difficulty in replying to your communication in time for the packet to-morrow. Allow me to subscribe myself, My dear brother, Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, JNO. DYER. Extract from the Minutes of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society, London, 6th September, 1838. Read a letter from Wm Colgate, Esq. dated New-York, 24th July, intro ducing the Rev. Charles G. Sommers, and enclosing bills, value £1041, 14, 2, being the amount of a third donation of $5000 from the American and Foreign Bible Society towards our Translations, on which it was Resolved, That this Committee have much pleasure in receiving their esteemed brother, the Rev. Charles G. Sommers, accredited to them as Corresponding Secretary of the American and Foreign Bible Society, and a member of the American board of Baptist Missions, and are happy in the opportunity, through his medium, to express their desire of increased friendly intercourse with those bodies. They beg each to accept a copy of each of the publications of this Society, to be placed in their library, and respectfully request a similar grant from them. That this Committee acknowledge, with much gratitude, the renewed kindness of their brethren, the Committee of the American and Foreign Bible Society, in forwarding a third liberal donation towards the Translations carrying forward by our Missionaries in India. |