The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-22
THE STATE BIBLE SOCIETY
ITS WORK GOES FORWARD WITH
 ACTIYL1Y UNABATED.

An Important Ouestion-How to Reach
 the Multitudes Who Hear Not the Cos
 pel-The Society's Worlx-Increase in
 Efficient Workers-A Forward Move-
 Inent.
 Notwithstanding the business depres- sion and the absorbing political crisis, the Connecticut Bible society is press- ing forward it's work with unabated ac- tivity and an enlarged corps of work CTS. While not indifferent to pending issues, yet believing that the source of one national danger lies deeper than any specific measure proposed or advo- cated for our relief, and that whatever policy may prevail, we can never be se- cure against the enactment of ruinous laws so long as there are so many mil- lions of our citizens who either repudi- ate Christianity or are ignorant of its efforts to carry the gospel into every home in the community.
 We do not indorse or reject the state ment that forty million of the people of this land do not hear the gospel preached. But we know that the pro- portion is very large, and that these constitute the dangerous element. It is men who are alienated from the churches who so easily confound dis functions of right and wrong and who are easily tossed to and fro and car ried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of mere and cunning craftiness. whereby they lie in wait to deceive" (Eph. 4: 14)
 How to bring these people under the influence of Christianity Is the great problem of churches and philanthro- pists to-day.
 It is nearly twenty years since this society started a system of labor de- signed to meet this want and which it has since been developing. There is growing evidence of the value of the plan i'll the success which attends it, in the approximate adoption of it by oth- CT organizations and in the fact that some persons. working earnestly at the problem of reaching the unevangelized, have been led into almost precisely the same methods, without concert with us. An instance of the latter kind recently occurred in one of our cities resulting, as soon as the fact became known, in the brother taking the commission of the society and identifying himself with us.
 Never was there greater need of wise and we'll directed effort in this direction than at this time, and the society is en- deavoring as far as possible to meet the demand. We have six visitors now in the field-a larger number than usual. But there are more than fifty towns where. if we had the requisite workers and the means to sustain them, we should open the work at once. Not only Is the need very great, but the conditions are favorable. Some of them have been waiting for wears, hoping we should reach them.
 There is an encouraging increase in the number of trained and efficient workers We greatly need the means to employ them.
 A recent conference of the visitors of this society was held at the house of the secretary for the purpose of mutual helpfulness and encourage ment, for consulting about methods and meas ures, and gaining new inspiration. Besides narrating experiences In the field each visitor opened topic for dis cussion. The topics discussed were: "The Inspiration of the Bible Visitor" "Our need of Faith that souls we are trying to help, however entrenched in sin, may really desire to become Chris tian;" How to convince Unbelieyers; What constitutes success in the Bible visitor?" "How to attain success;" What the Churches have right to expect of a Bible visitor and what the visitors have right to expect of the pastors and churches"
 The experiences related by the visi- tors in their different fields were of deep interest. One brother, for score of years scholarly and successful pas tor, but impelled by a longing desire to bridge over the gulf between the churches and the unchurched world, evincing his true "Apostolical success sion," by taking no scrip for his jour- ney," nor looking for any providing source but the Lords covenant, had given himself up to the work of house to house visitation in one of our manu- featuring cities. Burdened with mes sage of good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people," he had gone forth into the highways and by ways scattering the good seed. Here he unfolds the way of salvation to a blind soul There he breaks the bread of life to one long hungering for it in loneliness and neglect Again he has the blessed privilege of bringing peace to the home discordant through way ward children or, a besotted husband. In other houses he finds sharp preju- dice against the church which he soft ems or dispells Again he finds himself by the sick bed of one who needs the service of the Great Physician or in the house of sorrow where the comfort he brings distills its precious dew upon the giver as well as the receiver. Again it is the house of poverty that taxes his wisdom and his care. An! what service this ambassador of the King of Kings finds himself set to do! Indeed what revelations of actual life are open to him, not granted to men in any other calling, and which not alone the minis ter of Christ should know in order to help; but the statesmen as well, and every lover of his country and it's truest welfare. What terrible temporal and spiritual want; what dangerous igno- rance, folly and vice hidden under | seemingly respectable exterior! What hideous skeletons in closets what nests of brooded iniquity to be sent out on