The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-05-27
publishing, and distributing the Scrip
lures in foreign lands.
Tract Distribution by Wholesale

publishing, and distributing the Scrip
lures in foreign lands.
Tract Distribution by Wholesale
The American Tract Society has been
at its useful work for sixty years Its
new publications last year numbered los.
Of these thirty were volumes. do not
think that figures help one to understand
the amount Of work accomplished. There
were issued, of one kind and another,
nearly sixty-nine million pages by this
Society during the year. These are large
figures but they do not tell, and no one
on earth can tell, how many souls have
been blessed by these millions of pages
1t surely would not be out of place to call
them leaves from the tree of life. They
certainly tend to the spiritual healing OF
the nations, and their publication and
distribution are fruits of truest Christi
anity.
Seventeen Hundred Sunday Schools
The American Sunday School Union
went over to Newark, New Jersey, to
hold its sixty-frst annual meeting
Among other accomplished facts for the
year, the Society records 1899 Sunday
Schools organized, with 1900 teachers
and 67,666 scholars 1t also distributed
7,179 Bibles and IL 100 Testaments.. The
visits to families numbered 3.707, and
the addresses delivered numbered 1882.
The National Temperance Society is Just
twenty years old. If this Society had
done all that has been done in the inter-
ests of Temperance during the period of
its existence, it would have accomplished
great deal. But although much has
been done independently of it, the Socie-
ty has accomplished very much. Its pub
locations are, as rule, very useful. Its
volumes have helped to permeate the
minds of many of our young people with
temperance ideas, and its tracts have
proved good seed. Neal Dow always
said that Maine had to be sown knee deep
with temperance literature before Prohi-
bition was carried. The National Tenn
peranoe Society has provided good liter
ature In large quantities at moderate
prices and where needed, for nothing
In the course of its history it has received
and expended round million of dollars.
Not a New Bible.
The Revision has made its appearance.
At minute before twelve o'clock, mid
night of Wednesday, Messrs. Harper &
tion from the Custom House. One can
not but contrast the receipt of the work
with that of the New Testament revision.
The excitement when the latter appeared
was very great. The new work has not
created tithe of the stir that the New
Testament revision did. The general
feeling here is that the Revisers have pur-
sued wisely conservative course. There
are few, if any, offensive changes, while
many ambiguous passages have been H.
Illuminated. Above all the Judgment of
so many able scholars, thorough experts
IN Hebrew all of them, has been virtual
ly given in favor of the general correct
ness, and therefore great worth of our old
version. That this needs so few and
comparatively unimportant changes is
proof that it is to be very heartily relied
upon as the Word of God. should like
to say in all seriousness, what some secu-
lar papers have limited at In what they
regard as humorous way, that evil doers
will find nothing to comfort them in their
wrong doing In the revision any more
than in the old version. The ten COM
mandments still abide, and we still learn
that the soul that sinneth is threatened
with death. On the other hand saints
may take comfort. All the skillful an
alysis brought to bear upon the Old Tes-
lament, as we have been accustomed to
read it, has not altered one promise of
grace divine. Nay more, sinners saved or
still unsaved, but wondering whether
there be mercy for them or no, alike still
hear the call to seek the Lord while he
may be found, to come and reason with
Him that their sins may be blotted out.
1t is well that the work has been done
it is cause for praise and Thanksgiving
that the old is proved to be so true, that
the new only confirms it.
MANHATTAN.