ce bound together, they are, not to be
broken. In America religion severs the community, but these societies
are the bonds which to a certain degree reunite it.

To enumerate the whole of these societies actually existing, or which
have been in existence, would be difficult. The following are the most
prominent:--

_List of Benevolent Societies, with their Receipts in the Year 1834_.

+====================================================+============+
Y YDolls Cts. Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign MissionsY 155,002 24Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Baptist Board of Foreign Missions Y 63,000 00Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YWestern Foreign Mission Society Y Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
Yat Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Y 16,296 46Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YMethodist Episcopal Missionary Society Y 35,700 15Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YProtestant Episcopal Foreign Y Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
Yand Domestic Missionary Society Y 26,007 97Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Home Missionary Society Y 78,911 24Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YBaptist Home Missionary Society Y 11,448 28Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YBoard of Missions of the Y Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YReformed Dutch Church (Domestic) Y 5,572 97Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YBoard of Missions of the General Assembly of the Y Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YPresbyterian Church (Domestic) estimated Y 40,000 00Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Education Society Y 57,122 20Y
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