The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-15 00:00:00

THE SOCIETY in SCOTLAND for PROPAGATING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
EG leave to state to a benevolent Public, that the.
..L.) Edition of the Old Testament Scriptures in Gaelic,
-which with theaid ot Charitable Contributions they formerly
caused to be translated and published, is now nearly ex-
hausted. The demand for this part of the Bible, ill the High-
lands and Islands, where multitudes, .-by means of the So-
ciety's Schools, -have been taught to .read the Scriptures in
their own Langulge, .is loud and urgent. In the year 1796,
the Society published an Edition of the New Testament
consisting ofzo,ooo copies. 1 t will yield them great,-satin'
fadion to be 'enabled also WI publish another .Edition of the
id Testament, and.trusting to the aid of a generous Public
'they propose to print 'it in a neat portable size, to be
buted among their Schools gratis, and to be spld to purchasers
at a very low price. The objed is so important, and so im-
mediatali Connected with the interest of Religion, that they
. .
-cannot entertain a doubt of its obtaining the serious attention
of the benevolent and well-disposed.
lf the Funds of the Soeietyt were equal to the expellee, they
would never have thought of thus- applying for public aid:
Legacies, it is true, of great magnitude, and with great grati-
tude publicly acknowledged, have not many years ago been
bequeathed•to.theSociety. Of the appropriation of the in-
terest of these sums, to the enlargement ot their Establish-
ment, and a much needed increase ot Salaries to the Teachers
employed by them, they have given repeatedly most particu-
lar accounts to the Public; they have no concealments, and
earnestly wish, that the Statements which from tune to
,time they publish,- were to be read by all who take an inte-
rest in the subjects of them—the truth is, that they are re-
strained by their Charter from encroachment upon their
Stock, and that their annual revenue is stretched to its ut-
most extent, in supporting their large Establishment, they
'ate therefo:e totally disabled from meeting the extraordinary
demand•which this Work will occasion; to this, it is hoped,
the Public xvill.readilY give credit,-when they are toll, that
the number of Teachers, Catechists, Missionary Ministers,
and Bursars, whom they - maintain, amounts to 317, at the
annual expense of. ; that of Scholars attending the
Schools of Society, for the. instruction in the first prin-
ciples of Literature and Religion, to 13,44, and ot those
who attend their Schools for Industry, to zoz; —in all, 15,7 t 9.
• The multitude of people,who receive instruction froM their
Missionary Ministars and Catechists, they cannot compute.
The supplyins to the Inhabitants of the Highlands and
Islands, the Scriptures, in their own language, and at a small
price, cannot but appear to every reflecting mind an o'ljed
most benevolent and important.. To furnish them, gratis,
to so great a number of poor children as are taught at the So-
ciety's Schools, will, it is hoped, be deemed one of the best
-direded of all Charities.

Donations, or Subscriptions, will be received in London by
Charles Grant, Esq. M. P. ; at Messrs. Down, Thornton,
and Co.'s; and at Messrs. Lefevrc, Curries, and Co.'s,
Treasurer of the Corresponding Board ;_ and Messrs. Coutts,
and Co. Bankers, in the Strand. In Glasgow, by Messrs.
Scott, Moncrieff, and Dale. In Edinburgh, by Sir William
Forbes and Co. Bankers ; and by any of the D;rettors, or
Grincipal Officers of the Society. In the other Towns of
reat Britain, it is hoped that the Ministers of the Gospel
will not decline to take upon them this trouble. ,
By Order of the Society, ,
JO. KEMP, U.D.
One of the Ministers of Edinburgh, Secretary.