The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-22

o,ner Cbeiitdble institutions 3,27l volumes The
vessels Of the u s. Navy have also received a ann.
Py-also the Army. The Sunday schools have had
80, Blpies and 1886 Testaments; and the new hotel
,hasa nhessr ING enslre number dispersed through
AZ See enarheis mh % 367.Blbes, $3.50; Testamens,
81 ave, Inc expense of this work has been nai, in
tc Inc receipts exceed those of last yaar bp about
xoOoo. Inc sales of hccSsaas uurinr the nrevious
year amGnted to over 81 900. This year, up to the
rS.a CO. o' june the sales reached 34,762 Volumes.
cnoruy aiter our removal to the new Bible House
our operations in this department were suspended.
hev. +. X. + MERcENE, OF Morrsania was then
INTRO !uced, and addressed the meeting. He had been
requested, be SAID to move the adoption Of the re-
port and abstract, which had just been read twas
remarked by gentleman that the simple dignity of
| the cause was sufficient to sustain them amid all
viclssltudes. Among all societies around them it
higher dignity; that it was W. foundation Of them
all. 1t is but q simple book that we are to send
forth yet who does not feel that in the centre of all
action there IS some vivid thought of God When
that thought is clothed in language and that Ian
guage printed IN book, then has it its greatest
power. -Four hundred years ago trath stood
III tbe world praying for freedom and dissent.
hhaen hsr s,snd and COD heard the prayer and made
should lear. 1t is grand thing to send forth
the mob est thought OF mans heart couched in
tne hoblest language. But the Bible is the thought
OF God, al tsnsfuses with its own heavenly glow
whatever there II in human action that can be con.
secra'ed to God. Speaking thus Of it as book,
leads to the reflect that the great object of this
ooeiOtJ WdS w Uc dchlcVeu Dy tnlS DOCK as book
| independent of all connections. The first great
work o. the first three four turies was to take
away the book from Pagan superstitions. The re-
! FORMERS worked to eliminate other superstidoss IS
purify j: rom the errors left by tia reformers, In
Japan there IL q population equal to that q the,
United States, and more people can read and
write in it in proportion than they can in the
Statc OF New York So, too, with the Chinese.
When q people is taken not accustomed 10
pnI ~ off hQ pntaV
edge OF the empire; but when they are accustomed
TO read and think then bring this divine influence of
them aud it will saturate throughout. Speaking on
that book, he would ask them to notice how it must
be that if the Bible is universally circulated, it must
bring every heart to acknowledge its divine autho-
rity When the simple truths Of the Bible take hold
on the mind they asen on it so that they cannot be
loosened. The human mind could not originate
any thing more than the fact of Gods being; but
when they are once given they cannot be dis
missed, they are SO exactly fitted to the spiri-
tual wants of the mind. Other ideas may fit lilly
over them, but they remain there, gem of the
soul. False systems may be brought to bear, but
sitter all their contradctDg truth exerts lis influence
ana brings the mind back to something bester.
These truths are but simple; they are but few; but
when once fixed in the mind, they drive off from
them every false system. Ii the Bible be universally
circulated no system of error can retain its holj
the simple application of those truths cracks them
Into spnnters. In the early ages of the church the
principle OF faith was the one entire principle which
governed the world; ard three centuries ago the
Bible snapped that and left thought aud reason to
its own W de domain. 1t is for the Bible now again
to undo that work. it will shlke off system after
system, and the worlds thought will come back
again to the simple Biole Then may expect q
eraaual and easy oevelopement OF the kingdom Of
God over the earth. But il ths dark day should
come when spos'a'e iu6delitg should be eahroned,
and religion cast DOM, then there shall come
forth voice :" King Agrippa, believest thou the
prophets know that thou beevest.' And inf.
deity shall shrink back abashtd before that light
from God.
After the speaker retired, the choir perforated
soNs sacred music.
n. RUSSELL HAZE. OF pbiIadelphi.. was nexs ia.
tro6seed, and addressed tb, audience Hs deemed
en honor, be sa d. to have heen invited to addres
the society. 1t IS true It'll called the New York Bi
bic Society and its sphere is in this great meiropo
lis, but be should fom very poor coDce tion Of the
sOcisty who thought that this labor restrained to
this city. Ths sailor the soldier the eaigrlnt from
the old worc, tic atizan il hs rkshop, tie labor
er in the field and il the unires, may thus b.
brought under the influence of .hs sacred SO
ciety. The philosopbic jes, of Archimedc
becomes solemn tru'b. fnlcrum has been
The lever IS tie Word Of COG; the fulorum is the
energy and activity which we bring to bear upon its
circulation. There is view of this matter which,
lie thought must have struck the mind of every man
who read The report OF 1862 with peculiar force. 1t
is therein shown that, during the year ending lst
November, 1852, the number of emgrants arriving
in this city reached 500 900 souls. 1t is truly and
eoqueny said that the steady tramp of that host is
New York and America to meet this danger. That
it is met is shown by the fact that rs 900 Bibles have
been distributed among those emigrants. On nothing
does the perpetuity of free institutions and tho
stability of our republican government SO much
depend as upon the general dissemination and
general acceptance ftte truths Of the Bible Many
plants grew In Eden, but God fit to plant there
but one tree of life and 80 he has revealed to man
but one path to virtue, and that is shown in the
Bible. That nations cannot exist without morality
|: the primal truth of history written alike in the
destruction of constitutions snd in our time in cha
Iacters hideous and grotesque on the walls OF every
capital in Europe. How Important then does 1t be-
come, not only in religious point of view, but 10 re-
terence to the maintenance CT our civil government,
that emig grants should be provided with that book
which teaches those high aud virtuous principles,
without which it Is impossible TO become good cti-
zeDs. If we would defen1 ourselves from the immor
aty fEurope, and from the agarianisn and nf6elty
which makes war on the very throne ofGod, we must
zee to it that disseminate the holy truth contained
in the pages Of the Bible. He might not speak of
the great position which the Bible Society of New
York occupied. She is the gateway of This cont.
nent through which this tide Of emigration is con-
stantly setting. Here in this great gateway, like
Millions srcbeugel standing between world destroy
ed and q world renewed, STANDS the New York Bible
Society, cbrisiiapizng the masses. She has right
to appeal to religion, to morality, and to patriotism
to aid her in carrying out the great purpose she has
in view. New York has the honor Of having essab.
lisbed the first Bible society in America. 1t was
founded by the Baptsts In 1904 The active opera
rtDs ofthe N. Y Bible Society and the interest felt in
them, gives the world assurance that New York has
not departed one ot from her ancient faith Its plat
form was strong enough and broad enough for all
Christian men to stand upon. Such work as this
prosecuted with sucha zeal, and stan ding on such
foundation, cannot be but eminently successful.
TIE President then announced that . collection
would be taken up.
The audience was next addressed by Rev. Jon N
TopD, Of Pittsfeld, Mass IL was little remarkable,
he said, that the church Of God was originally an
emigIapt. He set his face to eastward, He had not
come so far as they but he went to Palestine. Since
then, the church has been travelling east wsrd and
tonight are assembled as part Of this emigration
Poor humanity started from Eden in the centre Of ASIA
3nd has now reached the Pacific; whether she
will make another circuit is yet a problem. 1t is
mournful, in locking the pathway our race has
trod, to see what they have left behind them. There
are the pyramids and Babylon, and Nineveh, and
the past bas little left but graveyard and graves,
and buried nations The light that came from