Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-07-06
Correspondence of the Chronicle.
Eighth Annual Statement of OPP
eratiOns and Receipts OF the
Bible Cause In Eesfern Ohio.

As your readers take a lively interest
in the Bible cause the following exhibit
of its results in Eastern Ohio the past
year will be read with pleasure. There
are in the twenty-five counties which
compose this district of agency thirty-fve
auxiliary and three-hundred Branch or
Township societies, making an aggregate
of S25 organizations each furnished with
a depos; DRY of Bibles and Testaments.-
Connected with these societies, there are
in all 2,12S local or unpaid agents whose
fields of operation usually comprise a
school district each, and whose duty it
is to supply the destitute with the word
of God from year to year, and assist the
travelling agent in securing funds for the
cause. These branch societies have all
a board of officers. hold annual meetings
appoint collectors, and distributors, and
prepare and transmit their reports annu-
ally.
The number of families visited upon
this field during the year is about %, 900,
of whom owing to the previous and
thorough distribution made from year to
year, only six hundred were found Who'll
ly destitute of the word of God. The
number of volumes distributed during
the year is about 10000. The receipts
from the % counties amount to 81, 628, 90
during the year just closed, being an
excess of about 1000 over those of the
preceding year, and the largest sum
ever contributed from the same field in
a single year. Of the above amount
SIS, 900 have been RENTED in cash to
the parent society, only s.. 800 being ex-
hausted in the use of all the machinery
employed, and the expenses of agency,
incident 10 the important work of sup
plying the destitute, and canvassiDg the
field.
1t will certainly be gratifying to the
numerous friends of the cause to know
that SO little expense has been incurred
in securing the results obtained. In the
remittances thus made, nearly every aux
Hilary society has made some donhtion
besides the remittances for the purchase
of books. Several have donated as high
as $500, while none, with perhaps an ex-
ception Oh two, have contributed less than
500.
Besides the donations made through
the ordinary channels of auxiliary So
c~ieties, $2.446 have been transmitted
in the form of personal donations for
constituting life memberships of the
parent society. 1t is an encouraging
fact that Ohio has contributed more the
past year than any other state in the
Union 1.-THE wealthy and populous state
of New York of course ~excepted) and
then her receipts are largely in advance
of those of any previous year amounting
TO upwards of $4,000.
With respect to the present society
the present year has been the greatest
one in its whole history. It's total receipts
have been S596,27s of which amount
1920, 600 were from sales of books, l33, 900
from donations, and S12l, 900 from lega-
cies.
The number of volumes printed du-
ring the year are 1892, LOG of which
1,473,7 100 have been issued from the BIZ.
BILE house and 1ls,4s7 have been printed
in foreign lands.
The aggregate issues of the society
since the breaking out of the war are
SITS, los volumes exclusive of foreign