Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-05-23
have been, without a great loss on err

! have been, without a great loss on ex-
change
New stersotype plates have been pre-
pared during the past year fora French. a
Spanish aud a German Testament These
books are now nearly ready for delivery.
A new pocket Bible of diamond type IS
now in press. and will be ready for deliv.
cry insthe course, Of two or three months.
Bibles and T'estaments have been inn
ported, to the number oe 975 copies, m
Portuguese, Italian. Welsh, and other
foreign tongues. - re--..
The number Of Bibles and Testanenss
printed in the course Of the year were, in
| all $4,000 copies. The number issued
amounted to l5s,2os copies, in eighteen
different tongues: This number. is less
than that distributed last wear by some
thousands. In some sections of the coun-
try, owing in part to the times, very few
orders have been made by the Societies.
The Board cannot but hope that such
Societies will double their diligence the
coming year. a.
The entire series of the Society'sre-
ports, from the beginning, is now reprints
ing, and will be sold in one large volume
at cost. - =
The managers have caused a, careful
collation. of their present Bible with the
first edition of King James, in 1911. The
departures are foundlto be of trivial char
acter, relating to punctuations, ilalicwords.
&c, not affecting the sense. =
Distribution of the Bibles OF Tesla
ments have been made the past year, not
on v in all our different States and Ter
ritories, but in Canada, Texas, Mexico,
New Grenada, Brazil, at Havre in France.
in Greece, and at the Sandwich islands,.
They have also been furnished (for use
of the missionaries and mission schools,
to the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions. TO the Protestant
Episcopal Domestic and Foreign Mission
airy Society, to the Baptist Board for For.
eign Missions. 10 the Methodist Episcopal
Missionary Society, and to the Reformed
Presbyterian Board of Missions. -. i
The managers have paid out 8 II, 600 :
towards publishing and circnlating the
Scriptures in Foreign countries; namely.
in Germany, Russia, Syria, Africa. BONE
bay, Madras. Siam, CevIon and the Sand.
wich Islands. They have Appropriated
Sl7,50O, which they have not yet been
able to pay. They have requests before
them for still larger amount than the Z
latter for which no appropriation isinade.
1t is earnestly desired that the auxiliaries
may ponder these facts Fifty thousand
dollars at leas, will be required for the
foreign field next year.
The Board have now seven agents in
the home field, and one in Syria. They
are earnestly entreated 10 send an agent
to Texas, and one to Singapore Inqui-
rles are Instituted for a suitable man for
each station.
In conclusion, they say that while their
labors have been temporarily retarded by >
the pecnnlarv embarrassment Of the times,
the friends of the Bible cause were never
more nume' Gus, and the prospects 3or.
circulating the word of life at home and
abroad We're never brighter. They call;
on the auxiliaries 10 assemble their re-
spectlve Boards as early as they can, TO
prosecute the work of supplying destitute
families with the Bible and children with
The New Pesta m, Mt, and also to contrib.
ute, as far as they are able, the coming
year, towards the work OF Fore ign distri.
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