Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-07-12
n tH6 ytdI OF OUT bO1U. 100,
JEREMIAH DOW. u.s1
NATHAN NUITER. II. 81
IdI1f EMERSON, IL 81
JohN =. PLUMMER, Il. 81
ASA BAILEY, Il. ST.
JOHN READ, IL. s.
" ENDELL T. SMITH, Coroner, L.. 81
For the Eastern Times.
Bible Statistics-No.

The Bible contains sixty-sx books, one
thousand and eighty-nine chapters and thirty
one thousand seven hundred and thirteen
verses. 1t was written by fifty different au-
thors, in a period of about fifteen hundred
years. 1t was first translated into the English
in the city of Zurich this was the first com
plete translation of the Holy Scriptures ever
made in that language. Since that time il
has been translated into about two hundred
languages and dialects. Twenty-Five of these
translatiOns have been made at the expense of
the American Bible Society, and TWENTY-FIVE
more have been made partially at the expense
of that society.
The time has been when the Word of God
was the most expensive book in the world -
MADDOX, in his History of the Exchequer, saws
g that in 1910, the building of two arches of
London bridge cost eight pounds less than the
estimated value of single Bible" In 1912
1t is said, " that laboring man was obliged
TO lay aside the wages of fourteen wears in
order to buy single Bible'' In 1899. the
Bishop of Winchester borrowed a Bible from
convent in that city, and was obliged to give
his bond drawn up in the most solemn manner.
for its return at a certain specified time. The
British Bible Society was formed in London
in 1904. The American Bible Society in
New York in 1916, since which time other
institutions of the kind have sprung up in DIFF
ferent parts of this country and Europe,
through whose means the Holy Scriptures
have been published and distributed in almost
every part of the world accessible to Christian
benevoence, and the prices are consequently
much reduced. The American Bible Society
at New York, and its auxiliaries, sell their
Bibles at the first cost of publishing. The
expenses of distributing being paid from dona-
tions of churches, individuals, and leaacies
bequeathed to the Society. A good plain
quarto Bible with family register, is now sold
by the American Bible Society for 50 ,25; an
octave, for Sl,00; minion SO cents and a
nonpareil for 25 cents while the New Tesla
ment Is purchased for 6 IA cents. The book
OF Revelation, infinitely the best of all books,
has now become, also, for its size, the lowest
OF all In price. The business of the Society,
done at flrst IN a room nine by twelve feet
square, is now done in a building six stories
in height, seven hundred feet in length by fifty
feet In width, covering three-fourths of an
acre, erected at the expense of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. They issued the
hrst year but six thousand Bibles and Tesla
Inenls, now about nine hundred thousand
ihe'r receipts the first year, only $37 900,
now ABOUT 100000. The first year it had
seventy auxiilaries, and now, after lapse Of
lniriy-eignt years, it has upwards of three
tnousand' The number of Bibles and Tesla.
ments In the world when the British Bible
society was formed was but nine millions
now there is upwards of fifty millions. Of
which twenty-eight millions have kao, ;ss,o5
by the British Bible Society, and the rest by
| other societies and individuals. The nnmb.,
Of Bibles and Testaments ISSUED from RI.