The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-07-02

No of Auxiliaries and branch
Societies visited rs
Z" Bible meetings attended rs
Z" Sermons and Addresses
delivered 102
Miles travelled E49l
&c Letters sent out 6. G
q Circulars sent out 6,2e5
Amount paid TO the Parent
Society donations S2.152 81
3" % :" book account II 299 50
Total sIa,452 10
Amount of subscription secured s2,634 II
We have pursued the same mode of
operating the Bible Cause in Wisconsin
| as the one used the previous year, and
where it is fairly carried out the results
show it to be the most successful in sup
plying the destitute with the scriptures,
and advancing the Bible Society's inter-
ests, of any known to us. The constant
y increasing population by immigration
to this state, with the changes occurring
make it necessity to keep up the effort
t. supply the masses with the scriptures.
One pleasant, and interesting feature In
our work the past year has been, the in
creasing demands for the'' Word of Life -
And although, as will be seen by the
statement presented above, we have re-
ceived 1853 less than the preceding
year. Yet from the facts which have
come to our knowledge, we are justified
in saying, there have been more copies
circulated In the state than any previous
year.
The following illustrations of the work
the past year, may be of interest to the
reader
213 found destitute, 1875 supplic' In Brown County
s73 families visited II found destitute % sup
Piled In Dane County, l.975 families were visited
SIS found destitute, Sc supplied. In La Fayette Coun
supplied.
From letter received about the first of
April, | give the following extract: ''In
seven townships, in Richmond County,
the local Agents have one quarter of all
the people destitute" Alarming as are
the facts, we learn from the public prints
that in ali probability from data furnish
ed to the State Agents of Illinois, that
half of million of people or 100000
families in Illinois, are without the scrip
lures.
Our Local Agents have done noble
work, although some have been inefi-
Gent yet III tle aggregate, they have
visited 7,lS4 families. Many of them
are among our most intelligent and use
tul christians IN the land one illustration.
A lady IN Walworth County, soon after
her appointment visited all of her dis
trict, some fifty families, and also obtain
ed twenty-one subscribers for the Bible
Society Record. If every family in the
state would subscribe for this paper and
read it, it would be time and lno1aey, well
srent.
The number of persons that have tax
en- Llfe memberships In the American
Bible Society, $4,000 each) the past
year, paying either the whole amount at
once, or in annual installmcnts of $40
ca IS, has been 40, amounting to 81, 200
This does not include Life Members CON
stituted by donations of Churches and
AuXiliaries, of which there has been
quite an increase. Thus it will be seen
that there has been an advance in most
all OF our work, except in the receipt of
Bibles and Testaments sent to Wiscon-
sin
The plan adopted in Wisconsin is to
have one Auxiliary in a County, one
branch In Township, one Local (volun-
tary) Agent in each School District or in
villages, dividing by certain geographical
lines to fix in the constitution of the
Auxiliary Society, regular time, for the
auxiliary meeting, and to hold the meet
lngs OF the branches previous to the an
nual meetings Of the auxiliary, and thus
make efforts everywhere, every year, both
to circulate the scriptures and raise funds
With a few exceptions, this plan has
been carried out In a few cases the
au2lIiaries only embrace township, or a
city, but In all cases have adhered to a
regular time for our Auxiliary Society
meetings. Order aud regularity are es-
sential elements of success, and the in
crease Of the past year, may in part, be
traced to this course
But this system requires some paid
agency, and there have been few tray
cling agents, whose duties have been to
organize branch societies, appoint local
agents visit and supply the destitute so
far as time would allow, supply. deposi
tories, settle accounts, etc 3; yet these
agents have been so few, and their fields
so large, that the cost has been only
about one cent and half to each person
on their fields, and as stated above, these
agents are doing, in no small degree,
missionary work, which should be per-
formed even if not dollar was received
by them as contributions. These state
mentS are made because, some persons
seem to think, all an agent has to do
is to take collections, and judge of the
YORK from an erroneous standpoint, and
come to wrong estimate of an agent S
usefulness.
The following brief summary will show
a portion of the labors of our County
Agents: The entire amount of service
performed was l $40 days, equal to five
agents the whole year, and one agent for
FIVE months They visited l3, 1874 fami-
lies, and of these they found GAG families
destitute; and of the destitute, they
supplied 407 by selling at Cost, or dona
ting to those unable to purchase In the
prosecution of their work, they travelled
1863 miles and delivered 964 sermons
and addresses. They attended 500 Ami
versaries of Auxiliary and Branch Soci-
cites. They secured on new subscription
50. sos So.
They collected personally as Dona-
They received of Local Agents and
Treasurhrs Donations 96S 50
of Local Agents
and Treasurers
from sales :osS At
cash for books sold
personally 957 IS
Maing their cash receipts S12723 o2
They donated Bibles and Tesla
m9nts, in qalue 1877 40
The number of volumes circulated bv
them by sale was 4l6 Bibles, 497 Tesla
ments. By Donation, 303 Bibles, 26S
Testaments. Thus 719 Bibles and 765
Testaments were circulated by their per-
sonal labors.
1t gives me pleasure to bear testimony
to the faithfulness of the men thus asso-
ciated with me the past year in the Bible
work. They have proved themselves
well qualified fol the work, and have
been cordially received in the
work assigned them, by the officers of the
within whose bounds they have