New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-14
The Anniversaries.
American Bible Society.

After the reaOlns OF ScflPtNlpo y 'N''' 49, -
Cola, the President read bis Address, as follows
There has been no age Of the world when the innu
ence Of the Bible was more needu than the present a.
the standard Of sound principles
II csppo, be disguised tina, the ardent overturned
activity which urges forward the thousand useful enter
pr.es Of modern improvement has not left undi'uroed
the foundsto Of nth ard Of social and public order
Everything Ia now questioned and BY everybody Inc
good Old ways that never mended are disputed OF
dispsed and schemes Of association are put form
with presumptoous confidence, which II successful
would undermine all that ia sacred In principle ana
sound 10 morals New rules Of duty and properly are
,erously discussed and seriously maintained ahke re
nugnsnt 10 the dictates Of enlightened conscience aDc
hostile TO the lasting welfare OF society from al lhs
agitation that unsettes the public nina We urn az our
be and lat hope 10 the God Of the Bible and the word
of IN. truth We rejoice know that here are living
principles giving and preserving life In all the nsiin
tons Of men and among all the ranks OF exalted intel
LICENCES -,
deemed IL 10 be most valuable privilege that they coua
bring with them the law Of their own country
and d here the great basis OF our clvll ana po
cal institutions And with the blessing OF God ana ~
the vigor Of its principles our country mas grown "
high place among the nations 1,,s
Vybat then NAV we not hope for under the hslowed
and life giving energies Of the divine Jaws spreaolng
thelr influence among all the relations and responhoi-
ties nj human existence. Laws which meet man as an
individual citizen and Christian as ruler, states'
man and friend. The laws OF purity peace ana pey
and the handspring OF all true liberty tne freedom
that bows 10 law, and reyeres tne nsuuuons O
/ ordained 20 msintsn u.
The Bible lie the great book OF duty and rgnt aospteo
70 the condition and wants Of man In 81 the variety Oh
his relations He who fears God and honors the Gov
eminent has within him the elements OF good cnzen
20 where be msyhs patriotism 10 subordinate 10 ms
piety-and bis nights subservient TO his outes-sno
The fever of discomfort and the love OF change VIII nno
! hax. ,ha y Influence that happily resUaln anu
control them IL is full Of encouragement 70 perceive
that rs the increasing millions OF our people open tns
forests and occupy the vast soltuoes Oh tne esr n
bible the Tract and the Missionary are 81 ser IN puon
and meet a welcome Ia every hamlet and habitauon-
and although the supplies fail Tar short OF the demand
vet let US bless God that the want iet ana he cy io
belp Ia heard No sound 10 more cheering 10 the
Christian phaphropist unless II be The report OF me
elor6ed 0fhe word CT God, a. lie tunphs null
tply on the land.
Ths sacred volume It ia our honored privilege toprint
snd publish, that its message OF mercy may reach Inc
/ utmost boundaries of ignorance and SIN.
Nav God grant il prosperity and bring the nations Of
our fellow into willing subsection to lts power
Next followed the Treasurers Report read by Joseph
Hyde Esq Assistant Treasurer, the chief item Of which
was that the receipts of the year had been S2O506e be
Ing an advance of $500 % those OF the previous
year.
The Managers Report was then read By Rev DR..
BRIGHAM We here give It's main particulars
The number of Auxiliary Societies, recognized the
past wear il ITO and in nineteen different states and
Territories. The number OF new Life Directors and
Life Members is 64S. The number OF Bibles and iesis
ents printed is 81 500 in English German and French
beside imported in other foreign tongues The dis
trbutons of the year have been 625s1o copies an In
crease Of 3006 those OF the previous year and
an aggregate since the formation Of the Society OF
5I2fl43 These books have been scattered the past
year from the Eastern Counties OF Maine TO The
most Western of Missouri and Texas and from FLORIDA
ia the South 10 the Territory OF Minnesota 10 the
INT.
has not received portion. Il will be perceived that
increase in the issues OF books is much greater than
that Of the increase Of funds There is consequently
considerable now due for paper The Managers
have just published new Protestant Portuguese Bible
Ia language Is there more eager desire 10 obtain
the Word Of God than IN this particularly among Portu
guese seanen and whaemen, in American service
There have been employed through the year 10 Agents
and more for portion OF the year The aim is 10
procure for this service Industrious prudent men oil
catholic spirit and the Board have rarely heard any COM
plant ~ 10 the they pursue Some Of the local
Auxiisries employ Agents, and many employ Bible Col
porteurs under their own direction. Beside the Home
distribution Of books and the large grants for the Army
and for Seaen others have been sent the past year to
three of the Westlnds Islands 10 MaTacabo, TO East
ern Mexico to California TO Honduras, TO Brazil, 10
Buenos Ayres Chill 10 the Sandwich Islands, to Glib
rasr. 10 BremerhayeD in Germany, TO Western Africa
and e . M, s %, addition ni 70 n b are
grauts books already printed grants OF money have
been made publish other copies abroad-in France,
Switzerland Russia Mt Smyrna snd ConstsntinOplei al
/ OrOOma0 IN terels AT Bombay h1lu ~
India--making total Of $4,000 The Board have ase
appropriated $4,000 TO aid 10 the circulation Of new
version about be sued in China and nearly the same
amount toward publishing the Hebrew Spanish, Be
brew German and modern Armenian Scriptures in the
LevanL
Gov vRooM then moved the first Resolution, which
was in these words, and was adopted
Rs,oived, That the Report, abstract Of which has
been read be printed AID circulated under the decuon
Of the managers
Rev Dr. LEvINGs said he did not intend to make a
speech, hut Rev Thomas b. Sergeant of Baltimore who
have delivered address unfortunately de-
tanned at home by private slicton and 1t his duty
to apologize for him But the British and Foreign Bible
Society had not been unmindul of them That Society
represented by Delegate who would be heard at
subsequent stage of the proceedings He should move
| the following Resolution, which was adopted
Resolved That the thanks Of the Society DO presented
70 hose Aaxsres which have procured and circulated
usrly to such have been engaged in regular system
ac supply OF The destitute within their respective fields
operation
The President then announced that the third Resou-
ton would be moved by Hon. LUTHER BRApIsH, who
rose and spoke as follows;
| Mr. President: Ia such presence and on such an
casion might well shrink from the responsible and diff
fcut task assigned But occasion so interesting
as the Annual Meeting OF the American Bible Society
and with object incidentally important as that
which occupies your laoors, | may no. withhold any
effort which testify my sense of its character and
Importance Therefore rise in obedience TO the call
/ Resolution which will now read
Received That the universal dissemination Of the Bible
10 object that should The best feelings and
gage The hest efforts alike OF the phsnhropst and the
Chrstisn, for ii is less conducive the elbeng OF
man IN ths life than II 10 essential TO his happiness In IhaI
! which Ia To come.
Before the question is taken this Resolution have
10 ask the indulge OF the Society for few
while present In very cursOry manner some OF the
many thoughts which the Resolution IL calculated 10
suggest The general proposition embodied in the Re-
solution is not less true IN its application than It is COM
prehensve In its substance In the broad light Of the
present day few be found sufficiently inhde ques
ZION, and sun fewer to deny, It's truth IL truth not
only interesting in itself but Of practical consequence 10
all men.
As theoretical truth, also. it be deduced frem
the nature OF man, both individual and
Der OF society The OF the Sun in the progress
OF the Seasons Ia distinctly marked in inf
vegetable life than the progress Of the Bible in
its influence the condition of msn As an individual the
Bible has not only reclaimed him from superstition and
dolsty which obscured and his soul but has
rescued him from the strong natural tendencies which
tend aud more deprsve his character. Here he
10 taught the history OF his origin and his true relations
70 GoD and his fellow men, and the duties resulting
from these relations. Here be is instructed Ia those
Hesven-oorn prscepts Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thine heart and with Al thy soul and with
all thy might" and Do ye unto others As ye would
him 20 self government and has regulated his passions
while IL has cultivated snd extended every virtue.
And II such has been the effects of the Bible mans
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