, 1873-03-17
SPREADING THE GOSPEL,
Tliirty-5eco1d Meeting Of tho
Chicago Bible Society.
A Large Amount Of Good Work
Done Last Year.
Interesting Addresses by r. F. Queal,
Eaq., and DR.. Fowler.

Tho thirty-Bocoul annual 1nooting Of tho Chi
j cnGo Diblo Society was hold ycBtorday oyonl,,5
at tho Centenary Church Oil Monroe stroot, II. T.
. Queal, Esq., presiding. After the proliminnr,
religious eorvicoa woro ut an ond, and n collcc
tion had boon tahon up,
THE CHAIRMAN SAID,
they hal mot to Wow the work Of tho Society fol
tho past ycar, and ronow thor devotion to it
ltoonld not be doubted but tint tho work of al
such Aocioties constituted M epoch III tho his.
tory Of Christianity. Their world-embracna
purpose wnH to place tho thoughts Of God In the
shape of his word in tlo hands OF ali. II had
been dono to M astonishing oxtcnt. Tho Chica.
go Society Ind boon seolting out tho dos.
tlsnto tn Its field. During tho past yoar
a largo responsibility Ind rested on it, and over
12,0o0 families Ind been Visited. A largo Bun
day-achool work had also Leon done. In tho
coming yoar the society proposed larger efforts,
md was compelled to Gull for moro money Tho
general canvass Of the city by colportours was
to DO continued. EvorY room in tie 1lotela was
to DO supplied. A copy Of the Bb1o was to DO
put in nll tho dopots md passenger cars. and In
tho forccastlo and cabin OF ovory voaBo They
also proposed to continuo responding to tho calls
from needy Sunday-schools. Tho city vas rap
idly rebuilding; yico md crimo inoroased, aud
tho only hopo for It's moral future lay in tho
diffusion of Christian sentiment. It was
still truo that tho Blble was tho only
element to renovato aud save human society,
scienco and philosophy filled tho world With
hono bqt aset could not hot appeaao tho hunger Of tho
support man In his aorrowa, nnd give him o pat-
iHfactory assurance Of the great future.
1r. oss,,u aEonETAnx's sI;o us:su'.a nEronr. = PIT
it's organizations rcad his report, from which it
| appeared tlat during tho yoar Samuel Howe md
Jamos Reynolds, two ox-presislcnts, had diol,
Tho fire cano just n(tor tho ninth canYnsB* Tho
destitute by the fro. A careful canyaas was tlon
nude Of tho North Division by tllroe ecolportours
I!lo . number Of families visited was Il, ,722, and
Of thoso 3 165 were deatituto; 1,197 were a1lp-
for $3.50, and 691 donated, coating es2D7. Of tho
familics visited 2184 woro Catholics, OF whom
PIG were supplied. Olorgymen Ind distributed
5o7 copies, valued Mt s2sl. Branch Societies Ind
nomo other placer, which had visited 1,191 iami-
| lies, Of whom u were destitute. There wero 10
Of these socotios, which had drawn hooks to tie
amount of s82o, and paid i'll 52,o7a. Since their
Forty.ono schools Ind boon given 1.o2o Bibles
md Testamonts, costing 5502. There lad
! been On - ,dlispo1ed Of from tho Depository
9l2e @ Bibles M a1ld 2.575 Tcstnmonty coHtfng e2,~
30s.24. There wero now in tho Depository 2,07e
volumes, valued nt 31,S19 since the sociotv
started, 189, ,935 volumes Ind bcen given. Tho
receipts we're: Cash on hand, $4,000; Depoai-
tori saioB, s3,042. From auxiliary sociotios.
S2,o7G sanga1non INSURANCE Company, 81, $50
contributions from churches, s0,0os.G0. rho
expenditures wero :: Amorican Biblo Society,
S6|6lss agoat,s5 e. Sl5so c9mmasione, $685.
On ha,, d cents. Addtional SIM Suns t@l"iSe to 16e
amount Of e427.2C had boon collected, but not
yot paid over. '
wonN TO ne DONE.
&knn{ {IF.t1, Is.
in spite Of tho crippled condition Of society and
people, during the year. Tho Society had no
ondoNment, and could go only no far On tho
churchos assisted it. Tho need for its ministra-
months, tho North Sido would hayo to DO can-
,yassed again. About two thousand Bibles would
,,9 ne required for TIC hot9e and an additional sup
OF furnishing railroad cars was also to bp taken
up, provided the authorities of tho roads woul1 |
furnish racLs. It would cost about $500 nor
road. The work Of supplying the Lake Marino, |
neglected for q year or two, was also takon up
ADDRESS III DIR. FOWLER.
- an address WIS then delivered by DR.. Fowler. |
Ann was not fed by bread alonc, but by oyory |
word which caEno from tho mouth Of God. liz
shp sir aud Il ch a, WITH Tnn geue M
turlcH. Tho Word contained the fibre for all
aonls, and was tho inspiration Of oil soldiers,
70 they could not put too much ompllasiB on tlo
tho work OF tho Church would be essentially mot,
Once distributed, it would be tho foundation on
which the world could safely roAt Tyndall had
conceived tle iaoa of Bible Society, md lad
popo. That was the first impulse to tho move
1nent, whom ho said every p1ow-boy should
know moro of tho Diblo than tho Pope. Yarioua
editions wero burned, and finally tho translator,
but tho Bible idoa was rooted in the soil. II
this century the door was thrown wide omen.
In 1904 the British Bible Society was orIeanizzcd'
and in 18l6 thirty.six American societieB woro
co consolidated d into the American Society. year
In l777 tho Congress Ind takon steps to IMPORT
. Quantity Of Bibles, owingto tho scarcity caused
" the var, and individual enterprise not been
aoaadHts to the eaao The Bible Society
timo. aud oyelywhoro S q thars fans wera 3ass r6 n
Bpopsos. God brought great % tpstitutious Mtis ,os
and events into tho world with duo
Tho Society might well be- expect.
Y lad crowded itself into almost every depart
ment Of life. It had printed moro than 90, o01.-
luo blblen IN many languages, with the British
society, it had scattered !200,o00,000 yolumes,
$50 tongnca had boen onriclod by tho Gospol.
md they included nearly all tho poople of tba
'art!. @ Chinese and HinduHtall, tho tceming
nlnons ~ % OF AZ, Asia and M Europe wore Illuminated by
heworld: Itcontrol1otl the conquering aggressive
atioas. Ho was content with tho Bible as il now I
tood. Some words had grown old, but that did !
ot weaken it. He give . history OF tho WY In
'hich The TRANSLATION was made, and regarded It !
q tho power Of tho Elxou natlonalities. They | :
hould neo tho day whom tlloy should in sorrow
onent ,'e that any men put hanls on II; Ho COM
ormer cost, aud concluded with some romarkg q
II the moral anu socfal influences Of the book. =
The annual meeting for tho election of otllcors !
III 20 hoid tomorrow evening, in the chapel Of t
10 Second Presbyterian Church. t
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. :
Massaclusotts' fast dag: April 8. t
Tho receipts OF grain In Boston during the 3
ear , amount to 100000 buaAols and Of ilour, i
-Toledo turns up its imperial nose at infiuH. 3