Evening star., 1900-07-16
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.
General Conference to he Held 1,
New York


New York.
call has been issued by the officers of
the American Bible Society for a confer
ence at an early day of all the auxiliaries
throughout the United States of the body
in the city of New York. Washington has
an auxiliary and will be represented at the
meeting
1t is understood that among the matters
that will come up for consideration at the
conference will be the business relations Of
the local societies with the national organi-
Zation, the most economical and efficient
method of supplying the destitution still
existing IN this country, and the arousing
of new interest and obtaining of larger
gifts commensurate with the greater op-
portunities before the society.
The eighty-fourth annual report of the
board of managers, which has just been
distributed to the members states that dur
ing the year which recently expired nine
teen life directors We're constituted by the
payment of $40. and 80 life members We're
constituted by the payment of $50 each
The receipts were S2s6, 6,u29, and the balance
IN the treasury at the close of the fiscal
year was SlS,265 At the same date there
We're drafts of the society outstanding to
the amount of $50, ,S64 to meet obligations
in foreign lands.
foreign work during the current year
amount to S192.2G0. The invested funds
We're increased by legacies and gifts during
the year S43.'Do, and the total amount at
the date of the report was S4sy,952 The in
come from these permanent funds during
the preceding twelve months was S1S12
Ihe society has other assets which are
available for its general purposes, and their
par value is estimate ed at nearly S1tO 900
The report further states that it is In con-
sequence of some uneXpended balances of
legacies received in previous years that the
society has funds Immediately available to
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s1onary correspondents for the work which
they are authorized to do. One of the ear
nest legacies received by the society was
the gift of Its first president, Mr.. Elias
Boudinot, and amounted to $4,000. From
Mr.. Augustus Tabor who was for a long
time chairman of the committee on distri-
button, bequest of $500 was received about
a year ago. Secretary Hunt left $4,000 to
the society as perpetual trust, of which
only the income is to be expended, and the
late general agent, Mr.. c. T. Rowe, made
the society his resEduary egatee with a
slmiiar provision concerning the income.
With the New York society and the
Brooklyn city society special arrangements
have been made for the furthering of the
common work The payments by the So
c1etyS auXiliaries for purchase account dur-
ing the fiscal year amounted to s62 499. In
addition to this they remitted on donation
account in cash $3io65 and authorized be-
sides transfer from their credit balance
to donation account of 81. 716.
The total issues of the year at home and
abroad, amounted to 1.406. S01 copies OF
these So, 497 were distributed outside of
the United States, very remarkable pro-
portion. More than one-half of the issues
We're manufactured at the Bible house. and
OF the residue large part We're printed in
China, Japan, Syria and Turkey The total
issues of the society in eighty-four years
amount to 81. .3O6 copies
After about ten years of service in Siam
Rev. John Darlington is spending some
months in California, experimenting the
printing Of a new version of some Of the
Scriptures in Cambodian.
Twelve agents are serving the society IN
other lands. Under the oversight of these
agents and of other correspondents of the
society in foreign lands 2S6 persons have
been employed during the year in distribute
ing the Scriptures. the average time of
actual service being little less than eight
months.