Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-22
PASTOR sLocUM DESCRIBES
 PUBLICATION SOCIETY
Conducted by Baptist Denomination Spoke at Bible Day Exercises of Sunday School!

At the Central Baptist church Sun gramme of Bible day exercises was carried out by members of the Bible school. The programme opened with the organ professional when the school filed into the church auditorium and this was followed by the invocation, all standing The rema inder of the pro- gramme was carried out as follows:
 Hymn, Love to Tell the Story; introductory remarks by the superin- tendent, James l.. Case; History of Bi- ble Day, Miss Marion Palmer; Some Interesting Facts About the Bible, Miss Gladys Rice; hymn, My Dear Redeemer; recitations, The Bible, five boys, Louis Covey. Clifton Bush,. Ar mold Smith, Robert Rice and Charles Hagberg; The Blessed Light, Benja- min Covey; The Light for All the World (exercise). seven girls, Ethel Adams. Francis Kessler, Gladys Rice, Elizabeth Williams, Lillian Bellert, Freda Moves and Helen Vergason; ad- dress, The American Baptist Publica- tion Society. Rev. Joel B. Slocum, D. D.; offering; closing hymn, Tell Me the Old, Old Story; prayer and bene- diction. The regular church music was augmented by the Bible school orchestra.
 Rev. pr. Slocum's address on the American Baptist Publication society, brief but highly interesting, was as follows:
 The home of The American Baptist society is in Philadelphia The build oughly modern. On the first floor is one of the finest bookstores in the country. On the second floor are the offices, the editorial rooms, and a hall where pastors may meet and other meetings may be held The other five stories are rented and the money thus obtained is used for the cost of run ming the building and paying the in terest on the money invested in it. In the basement are the shipping de- partmeRt. the heating and the light ing plants. The society has another building in Philadelphia which Is it's printing house. The building is six stories high and is fitted with every convenience. There is no better equip ped printing establishment in the world.
 It is estimated that during the ss years of it's history, the society has issued considerably more than seven huT Ted million periodicals. The is- sU for single year of one of these pf iodicals, if stacked in a single col U an, would reach three times higher tAan the Washington monument, which is 555 feet high. Another of the peri odicals, similarly stacked, would reach nearly three times higher. than the Eiffel tower, which is 1000 feet high. Just the copies for one year. Then they say that to get the paper from the paper mills to the printing house for the production of our periodicals for a single year would require four hundred two-horse wagons. and make line three miles long. Two million pounds of paper a year. Eight thou sand pounds of printers ink for that much paper. Seven hundred tons of coal to make the wheels go round long enough to print a years supply. They have. there. fine rotary press, with a capacity of 75, 900 impressions a day. turning out the paper colled Young People, from a continuous roll of white paper printed on both sides, folded and ready for mailing. If that roll for one year alone were extended in a continuous line, it would reach from Philadelphia to London, a dis tance of more than 5000 miles, The item of postage for mailing these pe- riodicals Gall that the society issues) for one year alone, requires $25, 900. There are a good many days when the Philadelphia postoffice handles from seven to ten tons of mail going out from this society to the ends of the earth. .....
 Besides the Philadelphia headquar- ters, there are three branch houses, one in Boston, one in Chicago and one in St. Louis. There is no. society in
 
 trade in Bibles than our Publication society. The quantity of literature that has gone forth from the presses of the society since Its organization can be measured by imagining a book of three hundred pages in the hands of every one of the more than eighty million inhabitants of the United States. The society is constantly pro- ducing new books. pamphlets, and tracts which contain the best thought of our thinking men.
 The field of the society is the United States, but as a matter of fact, 1t goes into insular possessions and foreign lands. The life of the society is bound up with thefwork of our other great denominational agencies. It works with them and through them. There is no state or territory that it does not reach. It operates in the south as we'll as in the north The society has never recognized any boundary lines or race distinctions. Its service has been of great value to the colored people from the dawn of their freedom till now. The society is in close touch with the various state conventions both north and south. The Swedish Mission, which has been so successful, was organized by this so- ciety, and is now doing a large work among the Swedes- Danes and Nor wegians in this country.
 As to the administration. The so- ciety has general secretary, an as-