New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-13
BIBLES FOR THE BIBLELEsS.
Work Of the Union Society in Three States
for the Past Year.

Worcester Mass. Feb u (speciaD.-The ninet-
eth annual report of the Union B!Oe Society was
presented to the trustees OF that organization To-
day by the secretary Everett Burnett SJls2n. IN
II the following facts in regard to the work OF the
last year In Ma ssachusetts, New York and Michi-
gan were presented;
Knowing that no other Bible society had for
home work in massachusetts and some other sec
lions this society at its last annual meeting u.a
Within tho last twelve months the Union Bible
Society has had WORKERS IN GNc'y county IN ", fh,
smaller towns Ike Mashpee, Of Cape Cod, or
an,ar,or faJ uv 9nd Cav Head Of Dukes County
having thirty-eght families, largely Indians WoJk
for the society has been done IN 10 towns our OF
have been travelled by the society visitors in tho
year. There were 22.562 homes Visited represent
church-eong, and 3,1S4 children We're found and
school There were $40 Protestant homes destitute
Of tho Bible searched out and supplied ana 80
Recently the Union Bible Society has taken up
scented the cause in different churches there, and
long neglected systematic home to-home Visitation
OF that commonwealth. There is great need OF the
work in many portions Of that state where no
Bible work has been done for twenty-five Years.
states that In Clinton County. remote from any
large city. there are more adults who cannot read
ana ot alone The foTejrner's cIdre1 Tor Tie
percentage OF Nliterate among the sons OF native
IA rents Is nearly three times as great as among
A few weeks ago after careful consideration.
there organized in Detroit by some OF Mchi-
gan's most honored business men and clergymen,
branch OF the Union Bible Society to carry forward
work throughout Michigan, Your secretary has
presented the cause before the churches OF Michi-
gan's rapidly growing metropolis. and the system
alto visitation y that city is now in progress No
more needy field can be found upon this continent
than In the great coal copper iron and lumber
camps of Michigan. Among the thousands OF men
are some college graduates who have gone down
under strong drink one of these men writes OF
how he transformed by means of a Testament
in one or these lumber camps me mo" 6!4le
Society has Just made to the Emma Mason MIS-
Bibles FOR personal distribution there ana workers
from our Michigan branch win take up work I'm
thousands Of small farmers who are pouring into
the newly cut-over Woodlands Their children are
In Michigan where there is not a church or any
tained.
It is folly TO. suppose the Bibleless will be sup
made to pastors and churches already overbur-
dened with Christian service. Experienced work
ticai expenditure Of funds This Society believes
gifts Of Bibles. like other gifts, should be made
We are told that Bibles cheap there
is longer any need of such work. There are
cloth bindings, selling for Il and IS cents. The
in NeM York Of SIZE bTev
leather binding. sells there to-day at go cents
Thirty-flve years ego the same size Bible leather
binding, sold for the price The published
price list shows this book AQld in New York in 1S4S
R Re same as today be %o sizes s9 s saer
Of the limo nonpareil type, leather binding sells
this same size book in leather binding sold for 80
cents, or 10 cents less than to-day The price list
published in 1924 or eighty three years ago shows
ing. sold in New York for % cents. sixty-four
bindns sold for cents, and in cloth for cents
To-day the cheapest Testament that can be bought
cents and In cioth asnts ''''''