Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-06-02
New York Anniversaries.
From the ". Y. Observer.

AMERICAN BIBLE sOCIE TY.
abstract of the Twenty -ffth Annual Report, pre-.
scented May 18TH l84l.l -
One quarter of a century has passed
away since this Society was organized.--
In the course of this period great chang
es have occurred both among its conduct
ors, and in the condition and aspects of
the world Three of its Presidents, TWEEN
ty.three of Its Vice-Presidents, and seven
teen of its Managers have, in this time,
been removed by death. Seldom has an
annual report been presented which did
not record the decease of some here asso-
ciated. During the year now closed,
Zechariah Lewis, Esq, of Brooklin, Sam
ueI Bayard. Esq, of Princeton, n. J., and
General Santander, of South America,
three ofthe Vice Presidents, have been
removed, together with Marinus Willett,
M. D., one of the Managers. Two of
the above, Messrs. Lewis and Willett,
were on the committee appointed TO pre-
pare for the exercises of this very occasion.
But their seats to-day are vacant, they
are called to participate in other and high
er festivities, even those of the upper tenn
pie. -
But while afflicted on the one hand by
the removal of valued coadjutors, the Man
ayers feel on the other hand, that they are
bound to be grateful for the many provi-
Dental facilities granted for circulating
the Holy Scriptures-the great object of
all here associated. In the course of the
Society's labors nearly 100000 of BIZ
bes and Testaments have been sent forth
directly from its depository, and means
furnished for publishing not less than
100000 copies more 10 foreign countries.
and foreign tongues They have been.
published in five Indian tongues, in seven
Of those spoken in Europe, in five ofthose
used in Asiatic Turkey, in seven of those
of India, in the Chinese, the Hawaiian,
the Sandwich Islands, and in the Grebo
tongue on the west coast Of Africa
| Means have also been furnished for the
purchase and distribution of the Scriptures
in as many as twenty additional tongues,
making something like fifty in which
they have directly and indirectly gone
| forth to the world.
| When it is remembered that these g.
900, 900 of copies have gone not to the
rich, the well supplied but mainly to the
poor, the neglected, and when it is re-
membered that this word is quick and
powerful, and is not to return void, we.
cannot but look for results great and glo-
rious beyond our present power OF COM
4 prehension.
A review of the Society, therefore, for
quarter of century, both by exhibiting
the uncertainty of life, and the many IA
/ voring providepces attending past efforts
to circulate the Scriptures, should stimu-
late all here assembled to increased exer-
tions for the future.
Life Directors and Members.
/ In the course of the past year, 400 in
diyiduals have become Life Directors and
Life Members. the names of which will be
Published in the Report.
i Nssc AnziLiariss. 80
i In the same time nineteen new Auxlli-
aries have been formed, mostly OF those
in the Western States. A good number
, of Ianguishing societies have been reor-
lganized. and have commenced anew Their
: Inappropriate work
Financial Secretary
The Rev. Edmund S. James, who was
: appointed to this Office Que. year since,
) will now devote his aohOle time to IFS du
Z les and aid by correspondence, by co-oPe
/ ration With agents aud By visitation to tht
f auxiiiaries, to increase the funds OF tht
b Institution so as to meet the growing
.-lwants of the times.