Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-06-09
, VIRGINIA BIBLE SOCIETY.

We have been favored with copy Of the 29th
Annual Report Of tho Bible Society Of Virginia,
from which VIC grained TO learn that There
has been an increased interest manifested q, rough
out the greater portion Of the State, in the Bible
cause during the past year, and that the Society
arc encouraged to anticipate an era Of greater
prosperity and usefulness. General meetings in
behalf Of the Society have been held in several Of
our cities and larger towns, which were united in
by the Clergy of all Protestant denominations,
and the receipts have exceeded those Of the pre-
vious year, 81 1851 80.
The total disbursements Of the Society during
the first twenty-eigh, years Of is existence have
been S73,9S9 80. The issues from the Deposi.
tory during the same period, 1880 Bibles. and
32,SsS Ttstaments. The issues during the ,wen-
,y-ninth year, $40 Bibles, and 1906 Tcs,a.
ments.-Total number Of Bibles and Tes,aments,
lli,43o. Now in the Depository, l,l67 Bibles,
and i,345 Testaments. Families supplied dur
ing the twenty ninth year 4,l27-of these, 1000
were Of the poorest class, and were supplied era.
'uitousy. Balance Of money on hand at the be-
ginning of the year, $l,l94 4s-receipts Of the
year, si,s6a 75-'rotal, &6,057 %. Disburse-
ments, S4,079 so-Balance in Treasury, 81 ,977
43. Debt due American Bible Society for hi.
bles and Testaments, 81, 2O6 95-vaue Of same
on hand, $1,000 80.
In addition to the large grants made during the
year tor graiuitous distribution, the Society sup.
pied the State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
fully with Bibles, and have ordered ten comics
OF the New Testament, in raised letters, now in
press at New York. for the Blind Institution.
The labours of the General Agent, the Rev. Mr..
McELRoy, were confined principally las. year 70
Eastern Virginia. He reports several points in the
Eastern as in the Western portions of the State,
which ne found deplorably destitute of the Sacred
Volume, and but little favored with the ministry
of any OF the churchos.
Some interesting extracts are given from the
reports Of Distributing Agents employed in our
mountain regions. They show remarkable des-
tifuiion, as we'll as most laudabe zeal and self
sacrificing spirit on the par. of the Agents in their
endeavors to supply it. One of them reports 22O
families who were found utterly destitute of any
portion of the Scriptures-anothcr, 1870 families
"a third, between three and four hundred, &c.
Honorable mention is made in the report of the
exertions Of the Auxiliary society at Crab Bottom.
Pendieton county. They have found $50 f,mi.
lies destitute, and have supplied go Of them with
the Bible.
The Board remark that they will need a large
annual income to meet the expense of supplying
the home destitutiOn; "but, as the work is the
70 ord's, and, in the estimation Of the patriot
.'himsef, indispensable to the prosperity Of the
State" they say they "cannot doubt but tina,
''means to accomplish it will, in due time, be |
The following gentlemen are the Managers Of
The Society for the present year REV. Philip
Courtney, President, Rev. George Woodbridge, |
Rev. William S. Plummer, ID. D., Rev. A. d. |
Pollock, Rev. William Norwood, Vice Presi
dents, Samuel Reeve, Corresponding Secretary, !
William Williams, Recording Secretary, Will
liam Allison, Treasurer--Rev. Adam Enpic, d.
d., Rev. William ]. Waller, Rev. George w.
Motley, C. G.. Griswold, Geo. Hutchinson, Ho-
race l.. Kent, John ID. Munford Spencer Wood
bridge, William Willis, Peter Van Deuersen,
Samuel Putney, John Williams, Michael Gre,,er,
Edmund G. Tompkins, DR.. James Bolton, DR.. F.
II. Deane.-Genera! Agent, Rev. James Mel
roy.