Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-06-29
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
The Bible Cause i'm Eastern Ohio,


Ninth Annual Report Of the Field This
State in Aduance OF all Others Receipts
from 1t $S4,000-Report Of the Fiscal
Fear.
The same system continues in operation in
Eastern Ohio as heretofore, and with increas-
ing results for the year just closed. In the
twenty-five counties which compose the east
ern division of agency, there are now thirty
six auxiliary and about three hundred branch
societies, making in all three hundred and
thirty-six distinct organizations. Connected
with them are about five hundred unpaid Off
GERS and three thousand unpaid local agents,
Nearly all these societies have good depos.
itaries of Bibles from which local agents have
heen supplied for the Biblical wants of their
districts during the year. The number of
volumes distributed during the year, is about
eighteen thousand, and the amount of funds
received for the cause in this district of agen.
cy is twenty seven thousand eight hundred
and eighty-twQ dollars being an increase of
about seven thousand dollars over those of
the preceding year, or in the ratio of about Is
per cent. This ismuch the largest sum ever
contributed from Eastern Ohio, and has ena-
bled all the auxiliary societies to make dona-
tions to the parent society, besides paying in
advance for all books received for domestic
distribution. In this way nearly ten thousand
dollars have been remitted on donation &C.
count alone. An unusually large number of
life memberships to the parent society have
also been obtained during the present year
Out of thirty thousand families visited, less
than eleven hundred have been found desti-
tute of the Scriptures, and all but sixty-four
have been supplied by salsor by grant The
receipts from Ohio exceed those Of every 9TH
er State except New York, and are Just twice
as much as those of Pennsylvania being eig-
tyfour thousand and sixty-four dollars an ad-
vance of fifteen thousand five hundred and
thirty-seven dollars over those of the preced-
ing year, and amounting to nearly as much as
the eptire New England States together
We rejoice in these increasing tokens of
God 8 blessing upon this noble work, and hope
that Ohio may still lead the van in the years
to come. g ga
The work of the American Bible Society
for the yea. past exceeds in magnitude that
of any previous year in its entire history. It's
receipts from all sources have been six hun
dred and seventy-seven thousand eight hun
dred and fifty-one dollars and the number of
books issued is one millionseyen hundred and
twenty thousand five hundred and sixty-nine
The aggregate issues of the Society for the
last four, years Or, since The breaking out of
the war are five million three hundred and
four thousand seven hundred and three vol
umes. - &H ~ ~ yFyX
The number Of volumes donated by the So.
ciety during the year is seven hundred and
thirty-four thousand one hundred and fourteen,
and their aggregate value together with mon
led appropriations at home and abroad is two
hundred and forty-fve thousand seven hun
dred and twenty-seven dollars of which sixty
two thousand eight hundred and forty-eight
dollars were appropriated to missionary fields
The military and naval supply effected by
the Society is truly wonderful in its extent.
Through the single instrumentality of the U.
s. Christian Commission gratuitous distribu-
tons have been made by the Society during
the year of four hundred and fifteen thousand
eight hundred and forty volumes, and at an
expense of sixty thousand seven hundred and
forty dollars.
40 the freedmen. thirty-three thousand seven
hundred and 6fty-four volumes have been
granted; to Southern troops fifty-eight thous-
and five hundred; to prisoners Of war thirty,
three thousand six hundred and ninety-four;
and to destitute Sunday Schools twenty-one
thousand eight hundred, and eighty-six.e, The
above is but q BIRDS eye views Of the years
work, and the Soeiety now enters upon itg ff-
tieth year of labsr with still wider doors Of
nseininess opening upon every side Z H. +
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