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YBoard of Education of the General Assembly of the Y Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YPresbyterian churches Y 38,000 00Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YNorthern Baptist Education Society Y 4,681 11Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YBoard of Education of the Reformed Dutch Church Y 1,270 20Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Bible Society Y 88,600 82Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Sunday School Union Y 136,855 58Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YGeneral Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union Y 6,641 00Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YBaptist General Tract Society Y 6,126 97Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Tract Society Y 66,485 83Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Colonisation Society Y 48,939 17Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YPrison Discipline Society Y 2,364 00Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Seamen's Friend Society Y 16,064 00Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
YAmerican Temperance Society Y 5,871 12Y
+----------------------------------------------------+------------+
Y Y8,910,961 31Y
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Many of these societies had not been established more than ten years at
the date given; they must have increased very much since that period.
Of course many of them are very useful, and very well conducted. There
are many others: New England Non-resistance Society, Sabbath Observance
Society, etcetera; in fact, the Americans are society mad. I do not
intend to speak with the least disrespect of the societies, but the zeal
or fanaticism, if I may use the term, with which many, if not all, of
them are carried on, i