The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-05-10


Mr. COFFIN then read his report of MS agency IT. this
State which was highly cheering And after mu-
sic from the Band the benedction was pronounced and
the meeting separated highly pleased with the evenings
entertainments
Anniversary OF the American
Bible Society.
Large is always the attendancel at the annIyer.
sarles of this important Society, an increased au-
dience ofthose of former years. attended the annual
Thursday. This took pace at 10 O'Clock,
A. M, in the Tabernacle, which became entirely full
several minutes previous to the tune OF COM
In short time after the business begar,
the vicinity of the platform and evety commodious
point ofthe house, became lnconveniSnty thronged,
ana the untavoraDe position OF me sep5rtci asscs
placed as it was the platform, in the rear OF the
speakers rendered what said frequently inaudl-
BILE. -,
ing prayer and reading the scriptures, by the Rev.
MI MURRAY. The Presidents address snet heard
the reporters table, owing as well to the low voice
in which he addressed the assembly as to the bad
position OF the table.
The report, in taking a review of the past pro-
ceedings Of the Society, alluded in feeling terms to
the amened demise Of the Rev. DR.. Minor, and
John Pntard, Ii. d., both OF whom had acted in
the capacity Of Secretaries of the Society Seventy
new auxiliary societies have been added, the majors
ty Of which are county societies; four hundred and
seventy-fve new life directors and members had
been added also. In the course OF the year, there
have been issued 429 092 bibles and testaents from
the depository not including those printed at the ex
pense OF the Society abroad, being an increase q
1l4,5lO over the issue Of the year preceding, and
magkin aggregate, since the beginning Of the So
cietys labors 40l3 352 copies of the word. These
books have gone into every State and territory OF th
Mexico, Brazil, Buenos Ayres and Gfeece. Elites
hundred modern Greek new testaments, and -$M
worth of other books have been granted to the Ia
fist mission there. A new bourgeolse bible, ne
u 81 IT, koos1 vNk
hshed, and a Bible in raised letters for the blind
going to PRESS to which the Massachusetts Bb
Society has contributed five hundred dollars, -aa
George Douglass, Esq, Of Long Island, a like sum-
This edition is undertaken to supply the wants Of
the blind at large expense, being In hive quarto
volumes and printed only on one side. J
Seventeen agents have been employed by the So
ciety of which nine have been in that capacity 70,
the whole, and eight for part of the year. The
present number is fourteen and only sent where
their services are Indispensable The Rev. 5. y
Calhoun has closed his agency IN the Levant am
started as a missionary on Mount Lebanon. During
the period of the labors of this gentleman in thos
countries where the word of God was first given
$1,000 Bibles and Testaments have been circulated
being an increase of $l2,2l2 over the. precs
year. All this has been expended, and
$ii ,ooofor papers and other liabilities hash
| tracted. Among the various items Of expe>>
abroad-in France, Turkey, Switzerland, Sytfa|
! Persia, Northern India, and the Sandwich Islands
! The Rev. DIR. BLACK of Pennsylvania rose
! offer the first resolution, which reads:
Resolved, That the report, abstract Of whicl
| has now been read, be adopted
| He observed that God had provided means
! which sinners are to be saved had revealed heT
God can be lust and the iustitier of those VINO be-
| lieve in him. Under the auspices of the secsl
| this news had been conveyed to distant lands d
people who sat in darkness had seen great -lgh
and to those dwelling In the RECON OF the shadow
death, life is sprung up. The Bible is Of God, and
the time is coming when II will travel to the utmos
ends of the earth ; and when the whole of the Eas
and of the West will feel its influence and be blessed
| with its perisal.
| The Rev. Mr. SHELDON, Of the Society Agents
seconded the resolution One point in the report was o
paramount importance, and that was the efforts making
in the West to promote the circulation of the
to their brethren in the West that all their thoughts and
struggles should be directed to sustaining OF religion
by the propagation Of Bible Societies Yet there was
some ground for saying that this not done. There
yet great lack OF the Holy Scriptures in the We'
in county alone, containing forty thousand inha
tants, he knew to be fact, that there hu
drcd protestant parishes where during the past year
the preaching of the word of God only sermon
been preached in favor of the Bible cause and only one
dollar in that county less than five
could read them He had been engaged in the work
and onerous was the burthen that he almost
crushed by the various duties devolvng upon him in
relation. He wished to acknowledge his gratitude on
behalf This brethren the valley the Mississippi and
OF the West in general for the aid lent them by this So
not be lost for already they had begun to raise
they could go on and Notwithstanding the efforts of the
much be DONE He had aborcd in the missionary field
and knew that to face the foes of religion without being
armed s WIN the Tota o. 900 was IKE the act o. host,
arms ammunition. The word of God Is the only
munition for the West Argument might do at the East
perhaps-argument such philosophic mind and clean
intellect could produce-but in The West, Gods word
alone is fit to accomplish what happily alluded TO
last night by venerable frend-the evangelization Of
the people He knew township of six miles square
where the preacher had been laborin5 for
and did so all the time without copy of,uK -
ked q a 10 y u
took it from the New Testiment, unless he coul
member one from the Old How could the We
of God be preached in such circumstances The Of
versary Of souls abroad turning these thing
to account great deal of the preaching in the Yves
home and read the Scriptures For the of $4,000
granted to the of Ohio for which they had not ye
made any acknowledgment, he thanked them, and ven
tured prayer that they would not their assist
for whatever was done for the West done
the OF society well religion and pledge that
in the had fear OF their iron hand Before
taking his seat he begged to state they wished at the
more Testaments, in order to give each reader one
When he heard them talk Of enemies and obstacles that
mighty Babel Rome, Of which they heard much talk
in their city was but one of the patoons they had to
pose the field of struggle The devil is not yet dead
in the West: he is much alive and rampant in the
days Of the Apostle Paul who said he went about like
Popes with all their iAops Cardinals and subord
Mates half nothing in comparison to the
other foes which were to be vanqashed Human nature
there-Satan was there-and there was strong
cessiy for union OF all the friends OF Jesus Christ in the
spreading OF his word
Rev Mr.. DE- WIrr proposed the second resolution as
follows
Resolved, That experience has shown the feasibility,
well as practical Importance of united effort among
Christians OF different names in circulating the Sacred
Scriptures.
In support of the resolution DR.. B. observed that he
took the place of the Rev. Mr.. Todd of Mass. who
could not attend. There perfect christian union
in heaven, where gathered all the redeemed from
among OF tribes kinircds nations, tongues and
the different forms Of religious association
and ecclesiastical organization dwelling in pure light
and eternal life, and serving their divine author in full
holiness. They had passed through0thc wilderness
they had gone from the different departments Of
Israel and there they gathered not into tents but
into the temple not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens But the elements of christian perfected
heaven the elements of christian character here
earth devclopes the character Of the possessor
and shines and unto the perfect day Israel
may have troubles and perpexites in travelling onward