Excerpt from Address of the Managers of the American Bible Society, to Its Auxiliaries, Members and Friends, in Regard to a General Supply of the United States With the Sacred Scriptures: Together With Resolutions as to the Details of the Work

Bible Society therefore approaches the work, with a true sense of its magnitude, but with humble reliance, on Divine aid; and, con sequently, with the fullest faith that it will be accomplished. By God's blessing, we intend not to leave one family, in any acces sible spot within the United States or its Territories, unvisited, nor, if they Will receive it, unsupplied, with the good Word of God.

Our plan goes further. We design to supply all Sunday Schools and youths, with the New Testament at least. They are the hope of the Church. We must lay a good foundation for that hope, by giving them, liberally, the Gospel of Christ. Our plan still further includes the supply of seamen, boatmen, railroad hands, stage drivers, and others in like occupation, with the same blessing. We mean to take advantage of every avenue of commerce, external and internal, to extend a knowledge of the Scriptures. As our ships visit every foreign port, so our boats, our trains, or our stages visit every town and village, and hamlet, of our land. We desire that they shall carry every where a savour of the good Word of Truth. Nor less is it in our minds, that these neglected classes of our community, who, by the necessities of their occupation, are in great measure deprived of other opportunities of grace, shall at least hear God speaking to them messages of salvation from his own Book.

For the accomplishment of such a work we do not limit ourselves as to time 5 but with our present facilities of communication, we may well hope that our labour will be early completed. Yet if necessary, years must be given to it. God is never in haste 5 and having laid upon us the duty, He will require only that we employ all possible energy.

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