New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-11

give The Bible 20 your people 10 read; help ~ 10 'e
I, 10 tb.u: and Will guarantee tia; in very few
,enrs there will be G sufficient number Of intelligent
Caiholics quite able 10 manage the hsca matters %
the church, and TO manage you 100 Laughter am
applousel. knew Of a female child that was stoen
from Virginia by the Indians. Prom TIE burning
ruins Of her fathers house she preserved two small
volumes and ca.ried them with her into bondage
Years afterward she rescued and restored "
civilized LIE, and became the honored mother OF la.sc
family. Seven Of them became hopefully piousi hYe
Of them became ministers Of the Word; ana ~nea
oeked how il that their religious vent was iv,-
tered they replied that the voice OF their moheT Iesl
ing her Bible at early dawn had often awakenei men,
and that thus the seeds were sown which npened mo
holy fruits.
The Rev. Prof HAVEN of michigan University offered
the second resolution He said that nothing short OF
the truth Of the sentiment expressed IN the resolution
would Justify the operations of the Society; but the
sentiment were true stupidity could be greater than
tina. which would limit the circulation Of Gods Word
This Society has published than one copy OF the
Word dictated in heaven for every family in the United
Statcs But though thece books contain the germ OF
life eternal they ore in Themselves Pershable and as
Jehovah gives the successive sunshine and showers,
the blessings Of Hs revelation should be renewed over
the land. ] would lsa.d Prot. IL. take the least
attractive Bible-reeding community that ever lVcd,
compared with the most attractive heather or nom
Bible-reoding, and confidently ask any man Of true
philanthropy which class he would Ike to see the
whole World re8enble. Abstract the Bible and human
history would be a failure. Let the wreath that ~
ccst around the name of Socrates not De removed
Christian hearts have woven il, and let 4 reInen;
there ore few such names among the Pagan, aa1
even those who bore them were but cuttc.j OF
the sinews of Their own hopea. 1t has been
seen ugain and again that Blhle-cmasculatng ianOn-
aliim has sapped the foundations Of morality; 1t Ia
been seen from Sodom and GomoTah downward, and
fear il will be again ia one or two nations OF la
rope. Remove the Bible, trus. only TO human laws
and Red Republication, or rather not repubhcanAsn
Tho xrs0Tih q
On the other hand the Bible has been tried and wner
ever tined It's power TO heal evils and produce good ha
been found ine1haustibe. Its external evidence be
comes every day stronger by the new process CT u
adaI blity to the wants of men. Ancient CIVILIZATION
was las many monuments show the result OF an anlent
Revelation, which taught God, Savior, and Holy
Spirit; but the want Of written Revelation caused
de- eleracy into sCmon-worship Let the same practl
eel effect be now produced, let the Book Of Life be
kcp. from men, lot tie designs of God be frustrated
by which he provided for mans salvation by giving
him an mpeishable Book with full means of propa-
eating and circulating it throughout the world, and
you NAV look for a decadence into condition a. la
inevitable as that of the ancient heather world Our
enterprise is for all the world and all time and
hone that shall long fit TO change the exer
cises of our anniversary into jubilee a day Of re-
iocing over the factrhat the Bible has been offered to
every family and every individual throughout the
world.
The Rev. Dr. BLACK read the third resolution. lie
said that the resolution took it for granted that in
countries the free use of the Bible not by some
thought expedient None said that ought not to be
read, but they said that ought not to be read by the
masses Because the masses did not understand the
elemental principles of air should philosophers say that
they should not use it-that they should not breathe
He did not know but there hard passages in the
Bible but at any rate commentaries were still harder
TO be understood. clergyman who had published
an edition of the Pilgrims Progress with many ex-
MI
read that edition. She told him that she had, and I'M
dcrstOOd the story well enough but that the notes al
the bottom of the pages she did not understand All
men could find the great doctrine of salvation IN the
Bible. and that was enough. The Romsh Church sail
that every body might read the Bible but they must
read il just as the Church commanded 1t was like the
freedom of suffrage i'll the French army which made
Napoleon I. Emperor Marat told his command that
pleased, but he added, 6y why oS explanation, at ;f
ANYBODY voted against Napoleon he should he shot.
He proceeded at considerable length TO urge the claims
Of tie Bible and closed by expressing the hope that II
would room become universal and universally trl-
umphant.
The Rev. J. r. THOMPSON read the fourth resolution
The translation of the Bible a. TO new tongue, he
said, was always an object Of interest but when thai
language was coeval with the Chinese and cognate
with the Hebrew, and had been the language of the
masters Of half the world it became subject for no
ordinary congratuloton. He gave description
the Missionary establishment at Beyrout and the study
in which slender, saIow careworn man sat for long
hours every day, translating the Bible into
the Arabic First of all, native schola
well versod in Hebrew and Greek well in Arabic
made the translation. Then this man, Dr. Smith, the
flst Arabic scholar of the world revised that rasa
ton Then profoundly versed Arabic scholar, whose
ear had no, been vated by any forei diom, revised
again. and the revised revision again revised by
DIR. Smith The New Testament was printed, and
considerable progress had been made IN the GA
Testament. small steam engine had been set mp az
the ssion, which drove the prnngpress that printed
that Bible Ii to be printed al the expense Of this
Society. He proceeded 10 consider the character OF
the various tribes among whom this translation would
be distributed, and detailed the superstitons of the
Greek and Latin churches at Jerusalem. An adhe
rent of the Latin took him side after he had been
looking at what is claimed by the Greeks to be the
hole in which the set and said TO hun, mat
as all Greek humbug; | VIII show you the real
"oncm and took him back about twelve feet, where
the Latin hole was drilled in the rock 1t would be Of
little use 10 convert the Arabs from Islam 70 the Greek
Church; il would be only changing from one super
siition TO another. But this Bible to them would DC
living book Their habits were those OF Moses when he
tended the hocks of Jehro they the fragments Of
the cities against which Christ lad pronounced the
wees. II would come 10 them with power which II
could come TO people who did not inhabt the lands
of the Bible. The Arab who was accustomed TO spread
his nets on the old mole OF Tyre would know the
Ing of tie prophecy that It's palaces should be burned
and the fslemon should spread tier net thereon. His
faith would he knded Of The visible roofs OF the truth
OF the Divine Word. Ard was not God preparing the
way for tie establishment of the Gospel in the land of
the Koran Whether the Allies should take Seyasio-
pol or not was not God batcring down the
preiudiccs Of that Mohammedan race which He
had invested round about and against which
he was preparing TO wage war for the tri-
umphs of Ills kingdom and His goryi The ira
dtons of that people seemed to point 10 it. They had
tradition that Ninrod, their ancestor, offered TO his
three eoIs three separate vases. The first vase was
of gold, and on il written Empire. The second
Mas an Ter and II bore the nsc-lpl.on Glory.' TIC