dialects, viz. the Calmuc, Armenian, Finnish, German, Polish, French, Sclavonian, Dorpatian-Esthonian, Reval-Esthorian, Lettonian, Persian, Georgian, Samogatian, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Moldavian, and Tartar. Considering the extent of the empire, and its present political influence upon the old world, it is a matter of thankfulness and joy to all who love the Bible, that the operations of this Society are carried on with so much zeal and success. With the BIBLE SOCIETY OF THE NETHERLANDS their correspondence has embraced no public business, and extends, as yet, only to expressions of kindness and good will. The BRITISH AND Foreign BIBLE SOCIETY has transmitted a complete set of its versions; a detailed view of which is hereunto annexed. The thirteenth Annual Report contains an astonishing variety of matter, including intelligence from all quarters of the globe, demonstrating the extent to which its beneficial influence has reached; introducing to our knowledge and notice associations of every kindred, and nation, and tongue, rising up to lend their aid in the mighty work of subduing, by means of the Bible, the whole World to the obedience of Jesus Christ. The managers are at a loss to express themselves with propriety in regard to this stupendous Institution. Resistance adds new strength to its operations, and expenditure new contributions to its treasury. It goes on with increasing vigour in diffusing its blessings; and the managers of the AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY can only subjoin their hearty GOD SPEED. A selection from its printed correspondence they cannot refuse themselves nor the Christians of the United States the pleasure of appending to their present Report. ABSTRACT OF THE TREASURER'S ACCOUNT. $3656 93 On the 1st of May, 1817, the balance in his hands in cash was $40221 23 Per Contra, The Treasurer had expended for the account of the Society, for United $15141 85 For paper, printing, and binding Bibles, and incidental expenses, up to the 30th April, 1818, inclusive, 23891 16 Balance in cash on the 1st May 1818. 1188 22 840221 23 The funds of the Society in the hands of the Treasurer on the 1st May, 1818, were as follows: 100 shares in the Bank of America, equal, at par, to 10 half shares of Stock in the Marine and Fire Insurance Company of the city of Savannah, in Georgia, at $25 each 10,500 dollars of New-York State six per cent. Stock, which cost 4,500 dolls. of six per cent. funded debt of the United States, which cost A draft on the Western Reserve Bank, Ohio, forwarded for collection, by A balance in the Merchants' Bank, in the city of New-York, Cash in the bands of the Treasurer. $10,000 00 . SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. It has not been in our power to obtain all the Speeches delivered at the late Meeting of this National Institution. The following are all that we have as yet procured.* ADDRESS OF THE HON. ELIAS BOUDINOT, L. L. D. President of the Society. Brethren and Fellow-Christians, of ignorance and sin-to enlighten the WITH grateful hearts let us hail this darkened understanding-and to irraauspicious day! A day wholly unex-diate with the beams of the Sun of pected by me; and which a kind provi- Righteousness the regions of superstidence has been pleased to add to a tion, the recesses of Mahometan delulong life, to cheer and brighten its set- sion and heathen idolatry. What ting sun. Christian can contemplate, without the most delightful emotions, this union of professors of the religion of Jesus of every denomination, co-operating in sending the glorious Gospel of the Son of God to every part of the habitable globe! Is it not a surprising providence, that on this blessed principle, (till lately untried by the children of men,) the rich and the poor, the male and the female, the child and the grayheaded, the master and the servant, and indeed every one who is deeply affected with the fallen state of mankind, and can command a cent a week, are made preachers of the Gospel of salvation and eternal life to a guilty and sinful world. This is an exact compliance with what our Saviour foretold," and this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." Matt. xxiv. 14. John, the beloved disciple, seems to have had a beautiful figure of it in view when he represents "the angel flying in the midst of Hea ven, having the everlasting Gospel in his hands to preach unto them who dwell on the earth, and to every na-. tion, and kindred, and tongue, and people." This indeed, added to the trans When I look about me, and realize that I am surrounded, in this place, by you, beloved brethren and fellowworkers in the Lord's vineyard, whose faces I had long despaired of ever seeing in the flesh, though I ardently desired it, I am filled with unbounded gratitude to our Divine Master. It was to be feared, that my shattered and feeble frame would not have been able to support the keen and lively sensations which this affecting spectacle affords; and it is through the unspeakable mercy of the God of my life, that I have been brought from the confines of the dead to preside, even once, in this august Society, to congratulate you, beloved friends, and in a special manner, the excellent and worthy officer who has presided in all your councils with such indefatigable attention, from the commencement of the institution to the present day-with such unassuming dignity-with so much patience and well-tempered zeal-and in a manner altogether so creditable to himself and so useful to the common cause-I say, to congratulate you all on the peculiar honour done you, in your being made instruments to open the eyes of the blind-to cheer the melancholy abodes Two of the authors of these speeches have desired us to intimate their request, that the editors of papers in which imperfect sketches of the same have appeared would have the goodness to pub lish them entire, as copted in this publication from the original manuscript. So lating of the Scriptures into all the lan-lieve, not before the council of Laodiguages of the civilized earth, is em-cea; and even then, a copy was so phatically preaching to all the world. difficult to be obtained, that few, very This is one of those remarkable signs few people could purchase one. of the times, which unerring authority late as the year 1272, a copy of the has assured us should usher in the se-Bible cost in London £30 sterling, at cond advent of the Son of Man, when the very time that two of the arches "He shall come in his own glory and of London bridge were built for £25. in the glory of the Father." But the New Testament, in its The blessed Saviour preached the present state, is a book without glad tidings of salvation wherever he a parallel and to use the words went. Night and day was he engag- of an intimate friend, "There is ed in this all-important work. He not a book in the world which condelayed not a moment. He made use tains such strong internal evidence, or of those means appointed by God. so many characteristical traits of an He preached salvation to a dying ingenuous undesigning honesty, as are world. His language was short and to be found in the Evangelical Mepithy. He saw a world perishing in moirs. They are their own unanswersin. He cried aloud: "God so loved able proof: and though, blessed be the world that he gave his only begotten God! Christianity is supported by a Son, that whosoever believeth in him great mass of external testimony, yet should not perish, but have everlasting if every particle of that testimony had life. For God sent not his Son into perished; if not a single page of the the world to condemn the world, but that ancient Fathers had reached us; if all the world, through him, might be saved. the Christian and heathen authors, He who believeth on him is not condemn-whose writings confirm in any manner ed; but he who believeth not is condemn- the truth and genuineness of the Gosed already, because he hath not believed pel history, had been utterly lost in the in the Name of the only begotten Son of wreck of time, yet the memoirs of the God." The Apostles followed their life and doctrines of Christ, as written Master's great example, and confined by the Evangelists, would have, of themselves to the Gospel he had com-themselves, (under the influences of the municated to them. Souls were in- Spirit of God given according to his calculably precious-no time was to promise,) afforded a satisfactory proof be lost. The Old Testament, though of the truth of revelation. If, then, the equally of divine authority, was not so internal evidence be so convincing, and essentially necessary under the pres- if, moreover, that evidence be (as it prosure of that occasion, till the clearer videntially is) illustrated and strengthTight of the Gospel had laid the solid ened by a copious variety of external foundation of knowledge and of hope. argument and testimony, how shall we It was a considerable time before the escape if we wilfully neglect so great salGospels were written. The instruc-vation? Or when we behold so many tions of the Saviour, with the personal of our fellow-men, not only speculaknowledge and miraculous works of tive unbelievers in Christianity, but the Apostles, were the principal means of salvation to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. The assurance to them, "that God had made that same Jesus (who had then lately been crucified) both Lord and Christ," was the The Old Testament is of equal ausubstance of their preaching on the day thenticity and importance: and unitof Pentecost. The Gospel of Matthew ed they form one perfect and divine was not written till about the year 62; system of revealed truth, for proand the other Gospels and Epistles moting the circulation of which we were afterwards written at different are associated, and are desirous this periods and sent to the Churches, with day, under the divine superintendance, orders to have them read in publick; to send to every part of this our sinful but it was some years before they world, by the united exertions of all were collected into one volume; I be-the friends of the crucified Jesus. Our scoffers at its usefulness, active and strenuous opposers to its propagation, how can we think of their perverseness without dismay, or their blindness without a sigh.' object is, the universal happiness of Are not your hearts on fire at this mankind-the salvation of the souls of blessed summons? Again, then, I say, men, and, of course, the glory of God. take courage. Rejoice in your exalted Thus, the American Bible Soci- undertaking. Let no sectarian jeaety, animated with the most catho-lousies enter or prevail among you. lic principles of Christian charity, This is Satan's last and great depend offers these records of eternal life to ance-his strong hold-the most danbond and free-to heathen and Chris-gerous arrow in his quiver-his only tian-in the earnest hope that they hope. But do you, my brethren, never may become "a lamp to their feet and forget that he who is for us, whose a light to their path." Psal. cxix. 105. cause we espouse and promote, is Take courage then, my brethren; stronger than he who is against us, and be not weary in well-doing. You are came with the express design of desserving a kind and gracious Master troying his kingdom and his power. who will finally reward you with a May the best of Heaven's blessings crown of glory which shall never fade be ever upon you, rousing you to the away. Can you desire a greater ardent desire of the Apostles. When honour? Can you ever repay such sent on the like errand, they thus en condescending love, as thus to be found couraged each other, "As we have opworthy of entering the Gospel vine-portunity, let us do good unto all men, yard, and, though at the eleventh hour, especially to those who are of the houseshowing forth the glory of our Im- hold of faith." What is it, my brethmanuel in his expected approach to ren, that you have in view in all these this our world? In this world on his mighty exertions? Is it not the glory first advent, he was treated with con- of God? Is it not to pour the oil of tempt, scourging, derision, condemna- joy and consolation into the wounded tion, and death: in this world he must spirit of the repentant sinner, bowed yet see the travail of his soul and be down with affliction and distress-to satisfied. In Heaven he was always lead him, weary and heavy laden, to honoured and glorified by the whole the compassionate Physician who angelic host. John says, (Rev. v. 11.) alone can give him rest? Is it not to "And I heard the voice of many angels send the bread and water of life to the round about the throne, and the living wandering prodigal, who has been tacreatures, and the elders: and the num-king up with the husks and the swine ber of them was ten thousand times ten in a dry and parched land where no thousand, and thousands of thousands, water is? Remember we are united saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the in one body—we have but oné cause→→ Lamb that was slain to receive power, one object in view-one Mastér to and riches, and wisdom, and strength, serve-one end to accomplish-the and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in Heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are Again I repeat it, with inexpressible in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and pleasure, rejoice in your present glohonour, and glory, and power, be unto rious privilege. The numbers of those him who sitteth on the throne, and unto who shall, in the great day of account, the Lamb, for ever and ever. And the attribute their first knowledge of refour living creatures said Amen: and deeming love to your perseverance the twenty-four elders fell down and and zeal in sending the Gospel, against worshipped Him who liveth for ever and ever." salvation of our brethren of the human race, since we are assured that Christ tasted death for every man. Heb. ii. 9. all opposition and rebuke, through good report and evil report, throughout the In this world, therefore, and from world, will be an unspeakable recom those very creatures who crucified him pense to you in the presence of an asand despised him, must he yet receive sembled universe; and even at the prehonour and glory and power. But this sent moment, the contemplation of so same Jesus, now exalted to his throne ineffable and heart-consoling a pros of glory, calls this day upon us to en-pect of reward, for all that you can gage with him in this contest, and to now do or suffer, by yielding to each come out against the mighty. other and bearing each others burthens, and at all events, sweetly agreeing to tion to, and sincere regard for you all. differ, must make you joyful even in In doing this, I have risqued much. tribulation. But should it be my last effort, I will May the love of Christ constrain rejoice to conclude a long life with the you to continue in an indissoluble bond words and in the spirit of good old of friendship and peace. Let all dis- Simeon, on the Saviour's first coming cordant principles be banished far from in the flesh, "Lord now lettest thou thy your councils and deliberations, that servant depart in peace; for mine eyes you may accomplish the one end and have seen thy salvation, which thou hast hope of your calling, even a speedy prepared before the face of all people; a preparation for the second coming of light to lighten the Gentiles and the our Divine Redeemer. Persevere unto glory of thy people Israel." the end, and you shall most assuredly Finally, brethren, farewell. May receive the blessed plaudit of "well you continue united as one man, by done good and faithful servants, enter the spirit of our God. May the broad ye into the joy of your Lord. hand of the Almighty continue to cover My brethren, however little I have you, and direct you in all your counsaid to any valuable purpose on this cils, and make you gloriously triumoccasion, I hope you will not forget phant in destroying all the wiles and my great age, my long confinement, schemes of the wicked one for deludand extreme weakness both of mind ing the souls of men; and may you and body. My earnest desire has be most successful in the re-establishbeen, in the discharge of this labour of ment of the kingdom of righteousness love, to manifest my respectful atten- and peace through the world. Amen. MR. JOHN MURRAY, JUN. Of the Society of Friends, supported his motion to print the Annual Report by the following Address: In rising to speak on the present so- | Book they are so assiduous and zealemn occasion, I feel my mind hum-lous to circulate; as it must be granted bled and it is with diffidence I at-"that example speaks a louder lantempt to offer a sentiment before this guage than precept." I rejoice in the very respectable assembly. In mak- hope, that the efforts of Bible Socieing the motion which I have done, I ties, and other associations and means have two considerations in view: the for enlightening the human understandone is, to approve of the proceedings ing, and improving the heart, will be of the Board of Managers; the other, blessed in an eminent degree, not only to avail myself of the opportunity of in our own country, but in regions far communicating a few sentiments, in more remote. I also indulge the conrelation to the highly important na-soling hope, that they will tend to disture of this society, formed for the ex- pel prejudice and bigotry, and to batpress purpose of promoting a general ter down that wall of partition which diffusion of the Holy Scriptures-a ignorance and illiberality of sentiment work of stupendous magnitude, con- has raised up between the different retemplating incalculable good to the ligious denominations. I am glad in human family; more especially when believing that I am no bigot, and that we connect with it a practical obser- I can with great sincerity adopt the vance of those moral and religious du- language of the Apostle Peter, whose ties which they enjoin, and with which mind, like many others, had been bi the Scriptures of the Old and New assed and warped by the prejudices of Testament are replete. Hence it is, in education and the force of tradition; a peculiar manner, obligatory on the but when his understanding became members of a society so noble and enlightened by the rays of Divine light dignified as this is, to be careful and he could then bear testimony to the solicitous to square their lives and con-universality of the love of God, utterduct by the precepts contained in the ing the following memorable expres |