The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-11-29
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Bible opeFaiinnsia this country. Every press
II In motion, every effort Is making to meet
the increasing demands upon their DepOsitO-
~. The issues Of Bibles aud Testaments
dnring the first half of the present year, reck.
oning from tn" LIST of May, amounted to ST.
gao copies being an increase of more than
: 60. 900 above the issues Of the same months
in 1899. The receipts into the treasury, dl,-
ring this period were last year g24,6o5; this
year. SS7, 492. Increase. 8l2, 7O7.
Such an advance must be truly gratifying
to every lover of the Bible. Yet we are in
formed, and are happy to say it, that if the
present excitement in favor Of the Bible con-
finues, the Society will be compelled to en-
large their House, or provide other means for
multiplying copies of the Sacred Volume.
Would that it might be so; for the signs Of
the times clearly indicate, that enlarged, and
still enlarged accommodations will he requir-
ed, for years to come. When the 10000, 900
of our country are supplied, the $4,000, 900
of South and Central America will urge their
pressing claims. And when these are sup
piled, the 100000 of Africa, and the 34O.-
600, 900 of Asia will rise up and demand that
Gospel from our hands which we originally
received from them. Do we think to leave
this mighty population to the charge of the
British and Foreign Bible Society? That So
ciety is the glory of the world: and yet, the
whole of its issues, from its origin to this day,
scarcely exceeds 100000 copies. Calcula-
ting at this rate. and making due allowance for
the wear and waste of time, at what period
of the Christian era will the world be suppl
ed ?-when undoubtedly the increase of FAM
lilies while this work has been going on, has
far exceeded the number of copies issued.
Reader more is at this moment to be accom-
plished, in order that the world may be sup
piled with Bibles, than was required before
the British and Foreign Bible Society, or any
other Bible Society, was formed
N. Y. Observer.
From the AMERICAN Sunday School Magazine.
THE CONTRAST, OR THE INFIDEL AND
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The village of--was the occasional res
idepce of the most celebrated infdel the
world ever knew. Its delightful situation on
the bank of one of the noblest rivers, first al
lured him from the neighboring city to reno
yate constitution impaired by vice rather
than age, and the benefit derived from one
visit induced him to resort again and again to
the same salubrious retreat,
Unfortunately for the inhabitants Off,.
no presage of approaching evil awakened
their caution. The Deist came in the pre-
possessing garb of patriot. His talent had
enabled him to render him some essential SER
vices in the early days of our revolutionary
contest and although he had never gave the
slightest proof that he was actuated by love
of his adopted country, or generous regard
to the rights of man; ne yet shared in the
demonstrations of gratitude which were free
" awarded by liberal nation. There was
even more in this case to ensure him partial
reception. He aSounded in anecdote, had
great fund of humor; and when it was re-
qn:site to obtain his object, he could accom-
modate himself with peculiar felicity. to the
varying character of his associates, and change
cameleon readiness,
'From grave to gay, from lively to severe.'
Such character would be dangerous in any
society, and here there were few obstacles to
the complete ascendancy ofits deleterious in
Auence. The profane joke and the impious
sheer were soon followed by vices of broader
proportions; the violation of the holy rest of
the Sabbath and an open contempt for the
commandments and the worship of God. Pa
rents did not, indeed, systematically teach
their children to despse the laws of their Gre
ator, but their example poisoned them as ef-
fectually and more deeply. But we cannot
0Wei on Lnc UlcIdCuOty eANtDILlOH "a I0IUFf
leading his offspring into the chamber of death.
The tints of the picture are too dark and SOM
bre to be viewed with steady nerves, even by
him who pcrpetrated the unnatural deed.
We pass to other times. The sons now
\ occupied the places of their fathers. The
/ Infde Deist, and most of hls deluded VIC
Tins, had alike gone to their dread account.
But not so speedily passed away the bane-
full consequences of his example and his soph-
istry. The deadly Sirrocco sweeps not over
the Levant, without marking emphatic traces
of its visitation. The West India hurricane
leaves vestages of its progress more intelligi-
BILE to the traveller, than the records of the
sufferers. But If these terrible scourges in
the natural world, are of character more
Immediately appalling, they are not on that
account, to be deprecated, like the contageon
of inidel example. Vegetation quickly re-
wives from the effects of the whitening blast,
and the works of art may quickly be repair
ed; but long and late are the wanderings Of
those who have resOlutely turned their backs
upon the ordinances of God.
In the contemplation of such scene, there
appeared little room for aught else but SYM
pathy and sorrow and Christian benevolence
examined almost with hopeless dependency,
the armory, which Heaven had furnished for
her noble enterprises. The Bible had long
been discarded, and its solemn messages seal
ed up. Missionaries and Tracts presented
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