Annual Report of the American Bible Society, Volume 1American Bible Society, 1838 List of the members are included in reports from 1828 to 1874; lists of new members in reports from 1875 to 1965. |
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... families have been found destitute of the Scriptures , while there are only about 22,000 souls in the whole county . By another Society , a County Society in the state of New Jersey , the Board have been informed that " several persons ...
... families have been found destitute of the Scriptures , while there are only about 22,000 souls in the whole county . By another Society , a County Society in the state of New Jersey , the Board have been informed that " several persons ...
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... families were found without the Scriptures , and then all the village had not been examined . In another county in the same state , after a large distribution in the course of a number of years , it is officially stated that from 1,000 ...
... families were found without the Scriptures , and then all the village had not been examined . In another county in the same state , after a large distribution in the course of a number of years , it is officially stated that from 1,000 ...
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... families in its district destitute of the Scriptures , of which 4,403 were unable to give any thing as the price of copies . In the diocess for which the Linkoping Bible Society was established , there was a population of 250,000 , and ...
... families in its district destitute of the Scriptures , of which 4,403 were unable to give any thing as the price of copies . In the diocess for which the Linkoping Bible Society was established , there was a population of 250,000 , and ...
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... families , and in their various stations in civil society . The efforts of the Bible Societies are calculated , by means of the Holy Scrip- tures which they circulate , to produce inestimable advantages to the care- less , the ignorant ...
... families , and in their various stations in civil society . The efforts of the Bible Societies are calculated , by means of the Holy Scrip- tures which they circulate , to produce inestimable advantages to the care- less , the ignorant ...
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... families and only 60 Greeks, the remains of a large population. I had the pleasure of giving a Greek Testament to two of their priests. I gave a third to a shopkeeper, who received it with much thankfulness, kissing the book, and ...
... families and only 60 Greeks, the remains of a large population. I had the pleasure of giving a Greek Testament to two of their priests. I gave a third to a shopkeeper, who received it with much thankfulness, kissing the book, and ...
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Page 48 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 356 - Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 82 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 81 - And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
Page 77 - This Society shall be known by the name of The American Bible Society, of which the sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment.
Page 157 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Page 158 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Page 284 - The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Page 496 - THE God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great. Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant ; Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight ; through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 116 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt.