The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-03
bennington.

The 9TH anniversary of the Bennington
Bible Society was held at the Methodist
church. Sunday evening, June LIST. The
objects of the society are the same as those
of the American Bible Society, of which it
is an auxiliary, namely, TO afford an oppor-
tunity to our citizens to purchase Bibles at
the lowest figure, and if not able to buy, to
obtain them ''without money and without
price, and for that purpose, the society
have repository at the store of f. l..
Blake, ON Main street.
The exercises of the evening were opened
BY the reading of the 55th chapter OF
Isaiah by Rev. DR.. IIawley, followed by
prayer by Rev. c. ii. Hubert, pastor of
the ID Congregational society After
which the choir sang the G70th hymn. The
President of the society then announced
that as this was the regular meeting of the
society any business proper to come before
the meeting was then in order
Mr.. +. l.. Blake made the following re-
port Number of volumes on hand, at
last anniversary, IA sold since that time,
80; value. sos. 10, given away, including 36
given to missions, 43; value, $500; Civ
en- 20 life members, 2; value, S1.00.-
Number of volumes now on hand, as;
value. SG945. The treasurer reported,
amount on hand, at last anniversary, S11O,-
05 received since, from Methodist and
Congregational Societies, $57.32, disbursed,
Aug. %, 1872 sent to American Bible So
ciety, $3.50.
The following officers were then elected
for the year ensuing; President, Hon. w.
S. Southworth vice President, Rov. Bost-
wick IIawley, d. d.; Sec Geo. A. Wattlcs !;
Treasurer, L. A. Cobb, and a board of five
directors. After reading Il portion of the
10th psalm, commencing with the 10Th
verse, the choir sang the hymn. ''llow pre-
cious is the book of divine"
Rev. r. NJ. Luther, delivered the annual
address before the society, taking his text
from psalms, 110-130th verse. The SER
mon was Que of the ablest and most capa-
bic arguments in support of the Bible
that we ever had the pleasure of
listening to. lie took several of the
different assaults that have been made
against the bible, and showed their entire
lack of argument and strength He COM
pared individuals who are in the habit of
reading the book with those who are not,
and showed the superiority of the former
over the latter. He compared heather
ciples laid down in the good book. Showed
the great advances made towards civiliza-
ton in foreign lands since missionaries
made their advent among them, and closed
with bailliant appeal in behalf of the so
cety whose anniversary was this night
celebrated.
He was followed by the Rev. Mr.. Car
pcnter, agent of the Vermont Bible society
who explained the operations of that so
ciety, and gave a proof that such organi z;
tons were needed, that out of 997 families
visited by agents of the society during the
past year, 1913 were found without bibles
and in one town of 1900 families, 1870 wert
found destitute of that book. After sing
ing, benediclion was pronounced by RS
Mr.. Carpenter, an the audience dispersed
H. w. Putnam and family have returned
from New York, and will spend the sum
mer in their fine residence in this village.
The trustees of the village of Benning
ton seized the liquors of one of its exten
sive dealers, on Wednesday. A heavy fin,
will undoubtedly be the result. b.