The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-06-09
For the Jeffersonian Democrat
The Bible Cause in Eastern Ohio 9th
Annual Report of the Field.

1his STATE ~ AdUauce of all oMers- Recejpts
from 1854 OoO-7R,port IF tie Fiscal Ttar.
:, The same system continues in operation in
Eastern Ohio as heretofore, and with increasing
results Tor The year just closed. In the twenty.
Two counties which compose the eastern division
oi agency, Were are now tllir;y-sx auxiliary and
ABOUT Three 1hund red branch societies, ma king in
all three hundred and thirIy.six distinct orqSni
Zations Connected with them are about 6ye
hundred unpaid officers and three thousand nm.
paid local agents. Nearly all these societies
have good repositories Of Bibles, from winch, io.
cal agents have been supplied for the Biblical
wants OF their districts, during the yeur The
number o volumes distributed du ring the year
is about, eighteen thousand, and The amount of
funds received for the cause in this district of
agency is fWeRty.serem Monsond, eight huudyed
and e,ghty.fwo collars, being an increase of
about seven thousand dollars over those OF
the preceding year, or in the ratio oi about 25
per cent. Tins is much the larges, sum ever
contributed from Eastern Ohio, and has enabled
all the auxiliary societies TO make dona tjons TO
the parent society, besides paying In advance
for all booksreceived tor domestic distribution
In this way nearly ten thousand dollars lrly
been RENTED on donation aecoum alone An
unusually large number Of lie memberships to
the parent society have also been obtained dur.
ing The yenr. Out Of thirty Thousand families
visited, less than eleven hundred have zen
found destitute oil the Scriptures, and oil but six.
ty.lour have been supplied by sale or by grant
The receipts from Ohio exceed those OF every
othe. Stale except New York, and are Just w ice
as much as those OF Pennsylvania, being eighty,
Iour thousand and sixty-four dollars, an udvance
of fifteen thousand, FIVE hundred and thirty seyeo
dollars over those OF the preceding year, and
amounting 10 nearly as much as the entire New
Eng land Sta es together.
We rejoice in these increasing tokens OF Gods
blessing upon this noble work, and hope lhat
Ohio may still lead the van in the years to come
The work OF the American Bible Society for The
year pnst. exceeds in magnitude that OF any pre-.
vious year in its entire history. Its receipts from
all sources have been six hundred and seventy
seven thousand, eight hundred and fifty, one dol.
lars, aud the number OF books issued one nI.
lion, seven hundred and twenty thousand five
hundred and sixty mine. The aggregate issues ol
the Society Tor the last lour years. or since The
breaking out OF the war are five millions, three
bundled and four thousand, seven hundred and
three volumes. The number Of volumes donated
by the Society during the year, is seven hundred
and thirty -four thousand, one Hundred and four.
teen, and their aggregate value, together with
monied appropriations nj home and abroad, is
two hundred and forty five thousand, seven hun.
dred and twenty seven dollars, of whict sXty.
two thousand, eight hundred aud forty eight DOL.
lars were appropriated to missionary fields
The Military and Naval supply effected by
the Society during the year is truly wonderful in
its extent. Through the single nsrumenialily
OF the u. S, Christian Commiss ion gra ,uitousdis.
uibutions have been made by the Society, during
the year, OF four hundred and fifteen thousand,
eight hundred and forty volumes, aud at an ex
peuse Of sixty thousand, seven hundre, and forlv
dollars. To the Freedmen thirty three thousand
seven hundred and fifty four volumes have been
granted; to Southern troops, fifty eight thousand,
five hundred; to prisoners OF war, thirty three
thousand aix hundred and ninety four; aud TO
destitute Sunday Schools. twenty.one thousand,
eight hundr ed and eighy-sx
The above is but birds eye view OF the years
work; and the Society now enters upon It's ff-
,ieih year Of labor with still wider doors of use
tulness open upon every side.