Morning herald., 1839-05-10
Sl0,O0e,0o0

For sundrie,. about 900
For etseteras, abeut 5000
Balance Of debt s5,0e0
sioos5 900 slooa5OOO
Society Number unknown
Here, then, was holy work-a great undertaking;
millions have been collected, and only 1000 be-
hind. What other society earth could say so
muchl The prayer of the report and the burden of
the resolutions, therefore, was that the S35, 900
might be collected as possible, and paid into
the treasury and to God be all the glory, for
and ever, Amen.
Considerable enthusiasm pervaded the meeting at
this stage of the proceedings, and every one seemed
delighted at the prosperous state OF affairs Cover
Seward, however, thought the debt was too tri-
fling to give responsibility to the proceedings. How
il ascertained that il could be easily in
creased to keep pace with the spirit of the state and
the age, and the march of internal Improvement
The Rev. Mr.. Ayres said il was ccessary that all
the world should know they were in debt, and there
fore moved the printing of the report. Gods first
great gift man was lovely woman his last and best
gift to man was the blessed Bible If the Bible was
better than beautiful woman, how necessary the hea-
then in the Sandwich Islands. &c, should have it.
enough women there, enough of everything but bles
sed bibles. And S35,OO0 would supply the South
Seas and all the savages. The aboriglnes sometimes
starved for want of human bread, but hat that
compared to starving for want Of the bread Of life
the blessed Biblel This one truth should tell like
thunder that So, 900 is wanted Immediately. Shall
the wheels of the chariot Of Christ stand still for
want of $751; 900 to grease theml Never! Never,
Tell il not in Chrstendom Let il not be heard upon
Manhattan island! Those that dont pay, must have
hearts as hard the neither milestone; as cold as
the cebsrgs which carried away the cutwater Of the
Wcstchester. Oh! then, subscribe! PayuP prompt
Iy, and the Sandwich Islands will bless you. Pour
out money! Like the tremendous molten lava that
rolls down the sides Of vesuvus let your household
gods be molten, and pour your silver and gold red
hot with religion aud charity nto treasury open
your hearts, especially open your purses, and God
will open the gates Of salvation to your souls.
The Rev. Mr.. Holmes then moved the following
Resolved That ten years elapsed the pre-
vious effort 10 supply the United States with the Bible, and
population has greatly increased since that period, it be-
hoovs the Aursrss section Of the country
second supply and Prosecse the same with rigor
He said, we naturally idle; we want TO do
enough work in dav TO allow US to idle one
Look nj families on a Saturday night; what confu-
sion they in; look at the psrson; he is in the
fix; the sermon not ready, the shirts not ready,
the Sunday dinner not ready, the sleeping room not
ready. Three things only can keep Nv going neces-
sty love Of nc cquiring and love Of doing good The
inclination to be idle runs through men more than
women; wsmen love excitement more. Suppose all
the praying OF life could be done IN one day, we
should never have any praying any more. Suppose
every thing could be done in a day, should never
work afterwards. fos gave money last year; you
must give IL this; YOU worked last year. YOU must
work this: you ate and drank last year, and you
must eat and drink this; eating begets eating, drink
ing begets drinking, money begets money and bibles
beget bibles. Ten years ago we supplied the world
with bibes-thcre IL not one quarter Of them left;
we must supply them again. The bible is not
iron bible that will last mans lifetime; IL properly
used, and read often Il soon wears out, and want
Great talk had been made about gold bible;
every bible bible Of gold to them that believed.
We must have new supply Of bibles for the tens Of
thousands Of emigrants hourly arriving from poor,
dark, bcnighted Europe, or we shall be the Botany
Bay of the world We have good laws, COED news
papers to teach emigrants their duties, but there
nothing like the bible 10 naturaze and civilize
the poor benighted strangers from foreign lands
People would say, have kept paying mo-
ney, and like the horse leech you cry, "gve, give"
Well all the rivers into the sea- and yet il is
full, and i keeps crying give, giye"-and the Bi-
BILE Society is sea Of salvation-the Bible is the
boat-Chrst is the pilot-we are the sailors, and
poor sinners are the passengers; and all we ask 10
work the vessel into safe harbor is $3.50 In
ten years population has increased from three
FIVE millions; we have 100000 salt and fresh water
sailors; go up the Hudson, along the canal and the
lakes, down the Ohio and Mississippi, and we have
10000 miles of navieab water: this space there
are N 900 vessels manned by 10000 men and 900
cities and villages their banks and all to be sup
piled with Bibles, and all sprung up in 10 years In
my town. New Bedford there are 5000 men in the
whale fishery; of these 1900 die of disappear from
us every year; and these sailors are not born be-
tween high and low water mark, but born all over
the country, and shall they 60 without Biblesl ne;
and send six Bibles out with every ship. Once
IN 10 years is not often enough for a new supply of
Bibles; generation dies of in less than that time
beautiful anccdoe about the Bible occurred in In
danapolis; a name was subscribed AT a meeting to
the Bible Society that ops knew for Ss5 The
speaker had asked all TO subscribe according the
estimate they placed on the Bible; next day poor
boy called on the Bible agent and paid e5 for he
said he thought his Bible worth that much. lie
had poor mother; he worked in brckyard al a
shilling day. and he saved this sum for the society
Shall you be oudone by a boy in an Indiana brick
yard That boys 5 came to this city, and is blessed
10 his salvation 900 souls have come here hsw
all Is day IL all did like this boy, the $3.50
we want would be paid. Verify, say unto you
that boy will be saint in heaven, when some Of you
viii be sinners in hell. You say you have never
done paying. That's not our fault the world has
not done rolling; population has not done increasing,
4 and work Is never done. A sweet girl had bro
ther murdered by the savages st the Mslgrsve Isl
ands told her Of IL. Could you have heard what
she said, and her sweet face bathed in beauty
and tears and love of the bible, you would let us
be behind s350oo; mol we should have our treasury
cup u running over and have to get baskets 70 put
the balance I'M she said All, sir, had there been