The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-06-21
For the Spirit of Democracy.]
The Bible Cause In Eastern
Ohio.
The Annual Report of the Field--
This State I'm Advance of all 9th
ers--Receipts from lit $4,000
Report of the Fiscal Year.

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Report of the Fiscal Year.
The same system continues in operation
in Eastern Ohio, as heretofore, and with
increasing results for the year just closed.
In the twenty-five counties which COM
pose the eastern division of agency, there
are NOW thirty -six auxiliary and about
three hundred branch Societies, making
in all three hundred and thirty-six district
organizations. Connected with them are
about five hundred unpaid officers, and
thousand unpaid local agents. Nearly all
these Societies have good repositories of
Bibles, from which local agents have been
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 agency is $27, 1882, being an
increase of about $1,000 over those of
last year, or in the ratio of about 25 per
cent. This is much the largest sum ever
contributed from Eastern Ohio, and has
enabled all the auxiliary Societies to make
donations to the parent Society, besides
paying in advance for all books received
for domestic distribution. In this way
nearly Sic, 900 have been remitted on do
nation account alone. An unusually large
number of life memberships to the parent
Society have also been obtained during
the year. Out of 10000 families visited,
less than l, 100 have been found destitute
of the Scriptures, and all but Ga have
been supplied by sale or by grant. The
receipts from Ohio exceed those of anv
other State except New York and are just
twice as much as those of Pennsylvania,
being SS4,064, an advance of $15,53
over those of the preceding year, and
amounting to nearly as nuch as the entire
New England States together. We re-
joice in these increasing tokens Of Gods
blessing upon this noble work, and hope
that Ohio may still lead the van in the
years to come.
The work of the American Bible Soci-
ETY. for the year past exceeds in magnitude
that of any previous year in its entire
history. Its receipts from all sources
have been S677 ,851, and the number of
books issued is 1,720,569 The aggre-
gate issues of the Society for the last four
years, or since the breaking out of the
war, are :, 1904, 7o3 volumes. The number
of volumes donated by the Society during
the year is 64s,114 and their aggregate
value, together with monied appropria-
tions at home and abroad. is S245, 727, of
which S62,849 were apr opriated to mis-
sionary fields.
The military and naval supply effected
by the Society is truly wonderful in its
extent. Through the single instrument
tality of the H. s. Christian Commission
gratuitous distributions have been made
by the Society, during the year, of 49,
$40 volumes, and at an expense of $780,
740. To the freedmen 1854 volumes
have been granted; to Southern troops
5S, 800; to prisoners of war 33 ,694, and to
destitute Sunday Schools 21 ,887.
The above is birds-eye view of the
years work-and the Society now enters
upon its ffticth year of labor, with still
wider doors of usefulness opening up on
every side. II.