The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-05-12
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The report proposed the publication Chinese
version Of the Bible stating that among the many
porant objects claiming the attention Of this Society
Is which, on serious contemplation looms up before
the mind in vastness of proportion that throws others
into the shade 1t Is the preparation of correct YER
sion of the holy scriptures in the Chinese language
From the length of time since the first attempt was
made by Marshman to translate the Bible into Chinese
and the successive efforts of Morrison Medhurst and
Gutzla many suppose that the Chinese scriptures
Mt least equal in accuracy and fidelity to the Bengal and
the Burnan. This however is very far from being the
British and Foreign Bible Society and the London Mis-
sonary Society have directed to it their most solictous
brought it most prominently before their missionaries
in China by transmitting to them with manifest appro
Of the British and Foreign Bible Society, October 18th
Is45.
The receipts Of the preceding from lst Of
from the LIST Of May, 1885, to LIST of May ls47, amount
to 39 a. being actual increase for similar Pc
The report in conclusion stated that the Board felt
called upon remind that thu OF all schemes of
benevoence however well planned discreety conducted
and theoretically sustained must constantly depend
upon the blessing of Him who knoweth the end from
pass. The American and Foreign Bible Society orisi
mated with prayer 1t had been fostered and
ged by the fervent applications of Gods people Hh-
arer than the retrospect its history But the soad
that nourshed amid the darkness of the night
wthered under the parchpg heat of noon and many
enterprise that had fourishsd amid difficulty and ad
versity had hrunk into nothingness after it had
rity II this Society required to be sustained by
the prayers of Christians It is at the present period
enlarged and when disposition of its numerous sup
porters appears coincide with the manifest regulations
Of duty greatly to increase its receipts and thus extend
its operations. Remember them ye who love the Lord
the Bible Society whenever you approach the throne Of
the heavenly grace make mention Of it in the month
ly concert-at the family atar-in the secret closet
and may the blessing Of jehovah descend upon II
in answer to your applications.
Rev. A. LArHRoP, of New York, hereupon addressed
the meeting They had met the present anniversary
to return God thanks for their past through the
congratulate them on the fact that past experience
would justify them in enlargng the field Of their abor
He would now conhue himself to the European field
The Society had done infinite service in the Asatc field
China afforded large field which would engage the at
tenton of the whole world 1t had been suggested that
barbarians besides this The condition of continental
Europe should engross the attention society The
caught hold of the nations that liberty is the birth
right of humanity. and this idea will create demand
for the word of God This idea is already beginning
operate under the accumulated rubbish Of Papa ages
This idea was springng and should operate for the
advancement Of Christian truth The times in which
they lived favorable to their labors The opera
tions Of the society in Europe had been confined to
Germany and the neighboring Kingdoms And he would
ton even now they had to contend with the same diff
cultics that beset them elsewhere The antagonism Of
bigoted Romanism, and equally bigoted Protest
antsm they had to contend with there They saw
mssionariers in every part of Europe who would act
their attention to the state of Italy Italy is not the
passive slave of the Pope that they had taken it
The people were determined to turn to the Bible and
emancpate themselves from the thradom Of oppression
that enslaved them. The Italians speak with enthusi-
assn Of the Bible-and the late Pope warned them
against reading the Bibeand in his letter to the faith
full he admonshed them not to read the Bible There
less than 900 Italians scattered through Europe
their conyry M ew od IN ~ 20
to France where little had yet been done ALSO
where there are no less than twenty nine cergymen
waiting to be installed bshopswho wished to get the
scriptures Spain, Also where the Bible sold In the
capital of Madrid In Southern and Central America the
for the propagation Of the Word Of God lrcady
paved He wond next advert to Mexico God often used
cannon ball and that he did hail storm, to satisfy
his vengeance. Whatever be their opinions upon the
subject Of the in Mexicoone thing was certain
the barrier that long since kept Mexico hemmed in,
bound down was now broken downbut let them rather
subdue Mexico by Bibles than by cannon balls
The great Baptist people of America the Christians Of
America, would not slumber upon such occasion
lie concluded by moving that the report be printed
. The Rev. MIR. ABBorT, Missionary to African, next
addressed the society He had been induced to offer
ganism has received blow upon blown This meant
blow from God, which enough They ap-
proach the Buddhist with their Bible and the Budd-
hist had his book before this bringing him through CEN
turtles and remote agcs revealing to him his godsthe
white elephant, the monkey dchcd. The Rev speaker
here detailed the manner in which the missionary had
to contend in endeavoring to convince the Pagan OF
his He would next call their attention to the Ma
hommcdan then the Hindoo. Their God was every
thing that was abominable He described the
dton Of the tribes where he had visited in lnda-the
wretched condition in which ne nso ,ouna ., the
under the Bible He had been listening one evening to
conversation between Of the native preachers
the subject of the cholera He had heard them speak
with cctacy Of the death bed scenes OF those whom
thew had attended In their dying moments
The Rev Mr.. TAYLOR next addressed the meeting,
and proposed resolution In favor Of propogating tho
truths OF the Bible II was n matter of wonder to
many the different TRANSACTIONS aud languages into
which tho Bible was translated He did not wonder at
it, and hoped 1t would continue It about the
beginning the present century he believed that tho
frst Bible society established How astonishing
that SO little had been done up to this period They
were too apt, however to disparage the efforts OF
their ancestors, and perhaps at future day they
would themselves In their turn receive for hav
ing done little in the nineteenth century. They
should forget that they had the Scriptures but they
should have the within their reach to enable
them to circulate It, Many codes ofurisprudencs have
been written, and have faed-many books have been
written and have all gone in the stream time the
Bible lived throughout, because 1t the word of the
Lord Without such agency, the moral night OF
would exist and leave him In darkness II was through
this divine word that man to he saved. There
Wilderness desoate that It would not convert into
paradise Hc regretted to hear to-day that there
not sufficient funds to work with Though not Baptist
himself he always looked upon them the friends of
civil and religious liberty He would exhort them TO press
on Ia this work God approved OF IL angels approved