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Russell, of Lexington, to the credit of St. Louis Depository-for Ger. Scriptures for Rev. J. Teasdale, 20; St. Louis Depos., 85 cts. 47 85 STATED MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. The Board of Managers meet on the Thursday after the first Wednesday of every month, at the Rooms, 350-Broome street, at 4 o'clock, P. M. The Committee of Publication and Finance, every Monday immediately preceding the meeting of the Board, at 4 o'clock, P. M., and the Committee of Agencies the next day, (Tuesday,) at 4 o'clock. CORRESPONDENCE. All pecuniary remittances, letters relating to accounts, and to the purchase and forwarding of Bibles, should be directed to U. D. WARD, Depository Agent of the American and Foreign Bible Society, New York. All other communications should be addressed to Rev. RUFUS BABCOCK D.D., Corresponding Secretary of the American and Foreign Bible Society, New York. HOLMAN & GRAY, PRINTERS, 146 WILLIAM STREET, N. Y. THE year just closing has been one of signal prosperity, so far as the material interests of our wide-spread communities are concerned. Never has so great a measure of worldly success attended all the varieties of toil and enterprize among us, as during the last twelve months. Agriculture and commerce, mining, manufactures, and the elegant arts, have all flourished abundantly. At such a time it is solemnly incumbent on all those who heed the danger against which our blessed Lord warns us-of laying up our treasures on earth, while we are not rich towards God-to consider in what way we may most effectually guard against this evil, and to what special duties this exuberance of the Divine bounty should lead us. The exhortation of the apostle Paul to the disciples in Corinth, (see 2d epistle, chapters 8 and 9,) will furnish the caution and encouragement which we now especially need. A few of these injunctions are here subjoined : "By an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for others wants. Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us. Wherefore shew ye before the churches the proof of your love." "But this I say, He that soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully. Every man as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you ; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." How simple and impressive, how just and reasonable, as well as beautifully adapted to our own circumstances, are these suggestions. Their force will be rather enhanced than lessened by the recollection that this liberality, to which the apostle was here exhorting, was for the supply of the temporal wants,-the mere bodily necessities of the poor in a distant city, for whose persecutions. sufferings and loss of all things, these later disciples of a common faith were now taught to exercise a lively sympathy, and extend a prompt and liberal measure of relief. If all this charity, in its noblest sense, could be thus appropriately called forth by the wants of the perishing body, much more may ours be challenged by the wants of the undying soul, and by the appeal which now once more we make to you, as is usual at this season of the year, to aid the Society of your own organization and choice, in the noble effort to give the word of the Lord, the true bread of life, to millions now perishing for want of it! The circumstances of our present appeal are in every respect auspicious. Not only have you, to whom it is addressed, the ample means of meeting it promptly and generously; but those also for whom it is made, in our own and in foreign lands, were never before so accessible to Scripture distribution. Think, for a moment, of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year landed on our shores, many of them coming from countries where they have been forbidden to possess or peruse the Scriptures. As they are about to be incorporated with ourselves, to share in the privileges and the direction of our self-governed Republic, who does not understand the indispensableness of early imbuing their minds with Bible instruction, and thus fitting them, safely for us, and wisely for themselves, to share with us our noble patrimony of freedom? The religious welfare of themselves and their children can in no way be promoted so successfully, as by the careful and early distribution among them of THE BEST OF BOOKS. Nor are they generally indifferent or opposed to its reception and its use. This very week we conversed on this subject with a very intelligent shipmaster, who, for years, has been accustomed to bring into this port hundreds after hundreds of German and other immigrants. He introduced this subject to us, and volunteered the remark that in no way could so much good be done among this class of incoming population, as by judiciously furnishing them the Bible, the Testament, and such tracts and books as are most fully imbued with Scripture sentiments. He represents his numerous passengers as very uniformly desirous of receiving from him such books; and he assured us, with tears of manly sympathy, that though not a professed Christian himself, he never felt more pleasure than in giving away, to these needy and hungry souls, the bread of eternal life. Our colporteurs at Hamburg, at Bremen, and other ports from which such emigrants in greatest numbers embark for this country, do a most important work in furnishing them with Bibles and Testaments ere the voyage begins. The colporteurs of our efficient auxiliary, the City Bible Society, meet them as they land at this port, to complete what has been so well begun. Or, if they fail of adequate supplies through both these channels,-the 150 Home Missionaries, with whom we are now sustaining intimate fraternal relations, and the Colporteurs of our Publication Society are instructed by us to seek out these pioneers in their frontier or other settlements, and see to it that they have the light of God's word in their humble dwellings. Through all these, and the channels opened to us by the increasing zeal of thousands of our Life Members and Life Directors in all parts of the country, who seem waking up to the duty and privilege of personal effort in this good work of Scripture distribution. We hope to do our part in the great enterprize of filling our own land with the knowledge of the Lord. But the greater portion of our efforts and expenditures now, as heretofore, will be directed to foreign lands. In several countries of Europe, particularly Germany, France, and Greece, nearly 10,000 dollars were last year expended by our Society in Scripture distribution; nor can the demands of the present year be met with a smaller sum. The recent reinforcements of our Mission in Africa, will call for the renewal of the expenditure some years since commenced for the translation, printing and distribution of the Scriptures for the native tribes of that dark land, while thousands of those who can read the English Scriptures must be supplied by us as heretofore. There remains for consideration our earliest and far largest Foreign Missionary establishments in Asia. Burmah, so long closed against us, is now widely open. Her difficult language has been mastered. The entire Bible has been translated into it, and repeatedly thoroughly revised. Our sainted Judson's appeal to us you saw spread out in our last Periodical Paper, calling for at least ONE GOLDEN LAMP to be hung up in every town, village and city, in that dark land. Well did he say, that this seems to be the least we can do for Burmah. While God's providence is so wonderfully opening the way before us to reach many millions hitherto inaccessible to us; and while the sacred Scriptures, fully translated, on which work a most laborious life has been expended, are now ready to be printed and distributed by thousands, shall we who are invited to enter into this labor remain indifferent and inactive? It cannot, must not be. Sure we are that those who have prayed for and sympathized with our beloved missionaries, enduring so much in mingling with all classes of the heathen, from their palaces to their prisons, on purpose to learn thoroughly as possible the difficult living language, into which they were to translate the living oracles of God-those of us who have truly made their case our own, will not now be backward in furnishing the means requisite, to render these sacrifices and toils available for the benefit of darkened, degraded Burmans! Now in this their transition state, just coming from under the rod of unchecked despotism, to enjoy a liberty regulated by law, how important is it that they should immediately be furnished with this blessed guide book—the holy law of God. Nor would we forget that other classes of inhabitants, the Karens and Peguans, a people eminently prepared of the Lord for the reception of the Gospel, may now be furnished with the Scriptures. Our esteemed Missionary, Mason, has successfully prosecuted the great work of learning, and reducing to written form, then enlarging from the most accessible sources the language of the Karens, (see his admirable letter in our last Annual Report, describing his method and extent of investigation for more than twenty years,) so as to enable that language to receive such a treasure as the Bible. Then with all this difficult preparation accomplished, he sits down to the herculean task of translating the entire Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. His work is done, and Bennett has for months been printing 'the great book,' far larger and more important than that language ever received before. In a similar manner, our Haswell has learned the Peguan or Taling language, and translated and printed the New Testament in it, before his recent visit to this country for the recovery of his health. Both these classes, the Karens and Peguans, are likely to be immensely benefitted by the recent transition of their country from Burman to British rule. Under the former they have endured a grinding and abject vassalage; henceforth they will share the ennobling influence of freedom. Shall we not put forth a mighty effort, and at this, so momentous a crisis in their history, furnish them with the means of self-improvement, of moral and religious culture? What can be comparable for this purpose, with the one only book which God has indited, designing it for all the human family and making it as good, as perfect and well adapted for its end as infinite power, wisdom and benevolence could make it? Then turning to the Kingdom of Siam, what a spectacle there meets our view. A bigotted, cruel, idolatrous King had long sat on the throne, hedging up the way of our Missionaries, and impeding at every step their benevolen efforts. Behold him, by the providence of God removed, and the place filled with one who had long evinced an intelligent interest in the religion of Christ, had studied our sacred books, and having learned their beneficial influence, he now says to the Missionaries, preach and publish as freely as you please. Religious liberty, such as even the Protestant world but little understood two centuries since, (and which so large a part of it has not yet learned,) seems dawning in Siam. What a motive does this furnish us, to put forth adequate efforts, without delay, to multiply by tens of thousands the carefully revised New Testament which Dr. Jones was spared to complete. This is now our work for that country. While our beloved Missionary lived, our appropriations were freely devoted to sustain him as a translator in his work. But now God is inviting us in another manner, to enter into his labors and scatter the seeds of a glorious harvest to the Savior's praise in that interesting country. Somewhat similar are our relations to Assam. The indefatigable Brown still toils on there in the 'good work of completing what he has so well begun, the translation of the Bible. Himself and the other Missionaries, seconded and aided in this work by nearly half a score of native converts, are now going abroad among the people, and while distributing the New Testament and such portions of the Old as are ready for use, they meet with such a reception as affords them ample encouragement. Among the Telogoos, also, a wide field is open. A most important part of the work, both of Missionaries and assistants at present, is the distribution of the Scriptures, of which one Colporteur circulated the last year 2494 copies and portions. Can we question whether He who declares that His word shall not return void, will crown such efforts with abundant tokens of His divine favor? There remains for our consideration the mighty work now being done in China. It is not claiming too much for our Missionaries, Goddard and Dean, that they are more successful than any of their predecessors, translating the Scriptures for the four hundred millions of Chinese. What a work is thus devolved on these beloved brethren! Well may we ask for them the prayers of all our churches. But they are not only translating. The New Testament, with import |