They contribute to the support of foreign and domestic missions to Bible and tract societies, etc.

In the city of Philadelphia alone they have more than fifty associations for moral and intellectual improvement.

In fact, they are rising up, even with mountains of prejudice piled upon them, with more than Titanic strength, and trampling beneath their feet the slanders of their enemies.

A spirit of virtuous emulation is pervading their ranks, from the young child to the gray head.

Among them is taken a large number of daily and weekly newspapers, and of literary and scientific periodicals, from the popular monthlies up to the grave and erudite _North American_ and _American Quarterly Reviews_.