Year: 1863

The first work of the Society was to procure Bibles
ment and place them where they could be readily obtained at


first cost and to supply at part of the cost or gutous those
unable purchase full price Members of the Society re-
ceved of the copies procured and sold distributed them as
opportunity demanded or offered the intention peing tnen as
now To place the Scriptures in possession of all From that
beginning the Society proceeded to employ agents Tor general d


buon the State has been repeatedly anvassed and all found
destitute who would receive supplied that report OF
the anniversary, Newark September II, lS6l
could say, the whole State has been carefully canyassed aud
the word of life offered to- and almost in every case gratefully
accepted by all found destitute of it We ought not 10 omit


statement in that report that "t painful to find many per
sons heads of families unable read " for it eaches Us truth
that ought to be universally thoroughly and painfully te


that social duties nexcusaby neglected Under the school
laws of State which the date Of that report had been IN
operation twengh years ought not to hayo been allowed to
be sad that many PERSONS heads Of families were found unable
| to read


This leads the consideration of the extraordinary negl
gence shoud rather say peyerseness through which
epudiate social obgaon-obgaton of neghbor to neighbor
OF school voters the youth OF their districts o citizens to their
State and especially because it occupies larger space and
directly home them, their nation But this neg


gence peryorseness we wish had expressive word
involves principle of retrbuon in Divine Providence, indie


uctbe and powerful though hidden and SILENT which at last
manlfets ITSELF now In this union exactng countless treasure
and delugng fields with blood


Let us explain You will scarcely listen to u.s. know from
the mortified experience of long life time when tell YOU
that your safety oparded by failure make pro


vision for the schooling of youth to unfold and exercise their
intellectual and moral faculties Without such provision they
can be neither capable enscontn aNd from the necessity
Of their condition tic t,tti upon life under





noranee. Every school district afford and with little
and exeron place within the reach of all its youth school
sufficient mpart education qualifying them to be good citizens
advancing themselves and benehtng the community by good
conduct and useful industry But how is it, in great part
Of State that willing to take such make
such exero In one of our counties men influence most
prominent FORM have refused take any part in the
popular educao the ground that the school law does not
their APPRECIATION and their objection when fully brought
CUT that the law will not execute itself without effort of the
people or expenditure of moneys and all must wait and the
youth consigned hopecssness till such law be framed


Hence many persons heads OF iames were iound unable to
read And to directly within our own province what effort
do by in their social capacity and relations for
eevatng their fellow beings their true standard rational and
immora We have the Bible the book made by God for
communicative to man all the true real knowledge which he has
have Of the God who has formed him all the true and
knowledge of the end for which he has been made and
held under tremendous responsibilities to all the real
and knowledge Of his soul its eternity and destiny its
present Duties and privileges and its final dread account and
yet when We propose as we have necessarily Done or years. ana
the proposal in plain and urgent terms into every school
district to form a Bible Society in each district, that
those interested in all these things shall unite in Bible Soce
ties nc help and counenance each other IN the reading OF
the e so that the better informed may contribute their quail
ifcaons supply the deficiencies Of the less normed we have
been ouqb like the prophet Of the former dispensaon 10
speak parallels Nor the Bible needed for the single purpose
Of communicating the knowledge which has been specified
spcaabe in Importance and Indispensable as is No
read history lie ought read and must read in order to be
benefited till he has mbbed principle of correctly phiosophiz
ing reading the histories of the Bible This principle leads
searching the origin Of events to gam wisdom from the
results How blind confused and alacous is human phioso
ply this process how sophstal how mischevous Who
compute the evil that has had its eedbed in umes history
the Stua THE nstied into the minds of upon
the interesting of all subjects that of civil and eccesiast
cal government But the Bible shews yivdy the incepve
causes and controlling influences under which in their free
moral selfish agency work the ways of Providence
hibts to us the High seeing the end from the beginning
guiding shaping where nothing but the
OF man Take the history of the of Gideon The
rences are remarkable One of them Abmelech the of
concube aided by the treahey of the Of Shechem


ered seventy of his brethren and regned Shechem Fol
lowing the course of events fnd Abmeech destroying
Shechem by the very power which the of it, through this
great wickedness united helping him to attain, and Abmeech
bold and able warrior he was destroyed the head OF his
army by How extraordinary would be the language
of philosophy In the bible have the soluon" Thus


God rendered the wckedness OF Abmeeeh which he did
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