128 American Bible Society.-Poetry. By Mr. JAMES EASTBURN.-The Holie Bible, faithfully translated into the English, out of the authentical (vulgate) Latin, with arguments of the books and chapters, annotations, tables and other helpes, for better understanding of the text, for discoverie of corruptions in some late translations and for clearing controversies in religion. By the English College of Douay. Printed at Douay, by Lawrence Kellan, at the sign of the Holie Lambe-2 vols, quarto, 1610. NEW AUXILIARIES TO THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. The following Societies have lately become auxiliary to the National Institution: viz The Bible Society of Fredericksburgh,' (Va.), Rev. E. C. M'Guire, Cor. Sec'y. The Vermont B. S.' ‹ The Aux. B. S. of Ashville,' (N. C.), Francis H. Porter, Cor. Secretary The B. S. of Columbia County,' (N. Y.), Rev. James Strong, Secretary. The Female B. S. of Wilkesbarre,' (Pa.), Mrs. Mary Bowman, Secretary. The Female B. S. of Dutchess County,' (N. Y.), (formerly the B. S. of Amenia); become auxiliary 1st Oct. 1817-Mrs. Sally Hyde, Principal; Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, Sec'y. The above additions make the number of Auxiliaries knownone hundred and eighteen. LINES ADDRESSED TO AN ONLY DAUGHTER ON THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVER: SARY OF HER BIRTH DAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1816. "The King's daughter is all glorious within, her raiment is of wrought gold.” Let the unthinking crowd admire By earthly princes worn; Be it my EMMA's wish to shine Than the rich tints of orient light O Or rank, or towering fame; And leave an empty name. Will place upon their head THE CHRISTIAN HERALD. VOL. IV.] Saturday, November 22, 1817. [No. 9. 13TH REPORT OF THE BRITISH AND Foreign BIBLE SOCIETY. (Continued from page 118.) The field opened in Russia for the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, expands to an almost unlimited extent. Of the number of copies required for supplying the subjects of that immense Empire, who are of Russian origin, and speak the Russian language, it is scarcely possible to form an estimate, as the Committee of the Auxiliary Society at Moscow state, that they alone could distribute one hundred thousand Bibles. "Entire governments, whole dioceses, and circles of Bible Societies, raise their voices to the Committee at St. Petersburg, entreating them to supply the spiritual hunger of millions, which has been excited by the distribution of the Oracles of God. Whenever an edition has been published, another has been almost immediately required; and, notwithstanding the utmost exertions of the Russian Bible Society, whose monthly expenses now exceed the whole expenditure of their first year, they are unable to satisfy the demand for the Scriptures, not only in the Slavonian, but even in the German, Finnish, Esthonian, Lettonian, and various other languages. Such is the description of the spiritual wants of Russia, as given by the noble and pious President of the Russian Bible Society: the sphere of its operations must also be considered as comprehending the countries to the east of the Black Sea; Anatolia, to the south of it, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, Tartary, and others. But however great and various the claims on the Russian Bible Society may be, claims which its active benevolence has invited; it is pleasing to remark, that the disposition to meet them is adequate to their magnitude; and if a judgment may be formed from what the Society has effected in the four years since its establishment, there is every reason to anticipate the highest degree of succèss from its future exertions. The measures which have been adopted to make known the existence of the Institution, to excite a permanent interest in its object, to augment the number of its members and friends, to procure correspondents, and effective agents for the distribution of the Scriptures, together with the establishment of new Branches and Bible Associations, prove that nothing has been omitted which zeal could suggest or industry accomplish, for extending the benefits of the Institution in every possible way. With these views, and with credentials from Prince Galitzin, in the name of the Committee of the Russian Bible Society, the Rev. Mr. Pinkerton was deputed in March, 1816, on a tour through the Southern Provinces of the empire; comprising, with the Germanic part of his journey, an extent of nearly 7,000 English miles. As extracts of his correspondence have been published for the 130 13th Report of the Bri, and For. Bible Society. information of the members of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and will also appear in the Appendix to your Committee's Report, they will only briefly advert to some few of the most material occurrences in his interesting narrative; blending with his information that obtained from other sources. : The formation of new Branch Societies at Cronstadt, a naval station; at Charkof in the Ukraine, Tula, Sympherpole, Odessa, Wilna, Moghiley, Witepsk, and Bialystock, claims the first notice. One general statement may, with little qualification, be applied to the whole that the meetings convened for the establishment of these Societies were attended by many of the principal persons, of all confessions, cordially uniting for promoting the temporal and eternal welfare of their fellow-creatures, through the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, according to the liberal principle of the British and Foreign Bible Society. This harmonious co-operation was a striking feature in the original institution of the Russian Bible Society; it has been since preserved and imitated by all its Branches. At its third and last Anniversary the noble President was supported on either side by a most respectable Archbishop of the Greek Church, and the Metropolitan of the Catholic Clergy; and the meeting, as on former occasions, exhibited an assemblage of the clergy and principal persons of various nations and confessions, animated by one spirit of zeal, concord, and mutual benevolence. In numerous instances, the Dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church have taken a distinguished part in recommending the object of the Institution. The Report of the Rev. Mr. Paterson, who with the Secretary of the Russian Bible Society made a tour into the East Sea Provinces, is equally favourable with respect to the Branch Societies at Dorpat, Mittau, Riga, Revel, and Arensburg; and from the information presented at the Anniversary of the Russian Bible Society, it appeared, that the divine blessing had accompanied, in an eminent measure, its efforts for the distribution of the Holy Scrip tures. A letter from the Vice-President of the Riga Society communicates the thanks of 300,000 inhabitants of Livonia, for the assistance afforded by the British and Foreign Bible Society towards completing the Lettonian New Testament, It also adds, that during the last three years more Bibles have been demanded and distributed than, probably, in the thirty preceding. Applications have been received by the Moscow Committee for copies of the New Testament, from Diocesans in the innermost recesses of Siberia. At Voronez, it has been determined to institute Bible Associations in the thirteen district towns of the province; and numerous copies of the New Testament have been issued by the Committees at Moscow and Voronez, as well as by others, for the use of the schools. Among the information collected by Mr. Pinkerton in the course of his journey, that relating to the disposition of many of the Jews 13th Report of the Bri. and For. Bible Society. 131 to receive the New Testament, is particularly interesting. The late wars and commotions on the earth, with the present wonderful exertions to spread the Holy Scriptures among all nations, seem to have made a deep impression on the minds of many of that people. Your Committee, most anxious to gratify every such disposition, have procured from the Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews copies of the Gospels and Acts in Hebrew; and dispatched supplies to the Russian, Polish, and Frankfort Bible Societies. At a humble village in the midst of the extensive desert of Little Tartary, Mr. Pinkerton had an opportunity of showing the first sheet of the Turkish Bible, and also a part of the Tartar New Testament, to several Effendis and Mollas, titles which designate them to be of the Mahomedan faith. One of the former solicited these sheets; and having obtained them, read them aloud to a number of the priests and people who followed him. Many entreated to have a copy; and the scene was so striking, that the Count de Maison, Chief Governor of all the Tartars in that quar ter, before whose house it had taken place, remarked to Mr. Pinkerton, "Indeed, Sir, these people are prepared for you." The Persian New Testament has been eagerly sought for, both by Persians and Tartars, and the Calmuc Version of the Gospel is in great demand. In the whole course of his tour through Russia, Mr Pinkerton seems every where to have found dispositions most favourable to the object of it; and on his return to St. Petersburg, he was most cordially welcomed by Prince Galitzin, who conceived that he could not gratify him more than by the information, "that His Imperial Majesty was more than ever interested in the cause of the Bible Society." This illustrious Monarch has entered into the views of that Institution with a zeal most honourable to his patriotism, benevolence, and piety. He has bestowed on it substantial, and even munificent proofs of his regard; and the Committee of the Russian Bible Society have their depository and printing office in a large and commodious house, the gift of His Imperial Majesty. Whatever aid is wanting to render the blessings of the Bible universal in his wide dominions, he has shown himself on all occasions ready to grant; and he has in particular urged augmented expedition in completing the translation and printing of the whole Bible in the Vernacular Russian, with the most liberal offers of support and assistance. The following brief statement will exhibit the progress of the Russian Bible Society in printing the Holy Scriptures. The num、 ber of copies which had issued from the press at the period of its Third Anniversary, was 87,100. The calculation for 1817, amounts to 69,000 copies, that for 1818, to 105,000; and it is hoped that this number will be increased in proportion to the skill acquired in stereotype printing, and the demands for copies. The Holy Scriptures are now circulating in twenty-five differ ent languages; and among the new dialects in which it is proposed to print them, are the following: a Turkish edition of the New Testament in the Armenian character, for the use of Armenians, 132 13th Report of the Bri. and For. Bible Society. who read only Turkish; a Wallachian Bible, and a New Testament in the Bulgarian, into which it is to be translated. It is also in contemplation to procure a Version of the New Testament into the dialect of the Burjats, (which is that of the Mongolian Tribes in general,) at the particular request of that people, accompanied by repeated subscriptions. Your Committee cannot conclude this branch of their Report without adverting to two documents which have been published. The first, a letter addressed to the President of the British and Foreign Bible Society by Prince Galitzin, which will be perused with sentiments of the highest esteem, veneration, and affection, for the illustrious writer. The other, the Address of the Archbishop of Moscow, at its Third Anniversary, in which he displayed in striking colours "the wonderful love of God to our generation, who, when infidelity, with all its train of iniquities, and wars, and confusion, and desolation, had deluged the land of Christendom with the blood of its inhabitants, was pleased, amidst this awful scene of human wo, to raise up shining witnesses to the truth, by the establishment of Bible Societies in so many different nations, and to crown their exertions with such distinguished success, in disseminating the glorious Gospel of mercy and peace." It would be injustice to the merits of the Rev. Messrs. Paterson, Henderson, and Pinkerton, to pass over without particular notice their labours in the three northern kingdoms of Europe. Nothing can more satisfactorily prove the sound discretion which has always accompanied a zeal which never relaxes, than the cordiality with which their services are courted and received, and the esteem which they acquire wherever those services are employed. They have all laboured most successfully in Russia, as well as in other countries. The letters of Mr. Pinkerton exhibit his indefatigable exertions, both in Russia and Germany; to those of Mr. Henderson, much of what has been accomplished in the Danish dominions, particularly in Iceland, in the Duchy of Sleswig-Holstein, and the North of Germany, is to be attributed; and the active services of Mr. Paterson in Sweden as well as in Russia, in various depart ments, have been equally distinguished, and will long be grateful-* ły remembered. Without entering into a more specific detail of services which cannot be too highly appreciated, your Committee bave only, in conclusion, to repeat the obligations of the Society to these zealous colleagues, and to offer them the just tribute of their highest esteem and affection. The situation of Malta has proved very convenient as a depôt for the Scriptures, from which they have been extensively disseminated in various languages. Copies of the Modern Greek New Testament have been circulated by the Bishop of Janina among his own people, and at Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, and other places; and many applications for them have been received by him from distant parts. "It never happens," says the Bishop, "when we meet on the Sabbath Day in our place of worship, that |