S64,764 IS
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 It is worthy of remark, that more than one-flth of the entire income has been re- ceived within the last month and this ac- counts for the fact, that balance remains unexpended; there not having beon time, in tlis short interval, to employ all the means which have been furnished. The Directors express hope that they shall be able to commence the ensuing year on broader scale of operation, and do some- thing more than ever before, towards sup- plying the destitute millions of our fellow men with the word of life. The amount of expendituresis $56,522 33.

 - Debt on Societys House Cowncelled.-On SC, eral of the proceeding anniversaries the Board have adverted with some anxiety to the unpaid debt on the Society's House. Ac- cording to the last Report, this debt amount ed to S8,72O: and a pledge had been given that no part of the ordinary receipts of the Society should be applied to it's extinction. This embarrassment is now completely re- moved. A meeting of individuals friendly to Bible operations having been called few weeks since, about hundred of whom at tended, a subscription was oppened at their own suggestion, sufficient amount subscri- bed on the spot to diminish the debt one half. A committee from their number. in the course ofa few subsequent days, obtained from O. ther citizens subscription sufficient to extin guish the debt entirely. Many of them are already paid.

 By this munifcent act the Society is now left in possession of an establishment worth at least S25,OOO; where, without rent, it can carry forward it's sacred work of providing the Scriptures for our own and other lands.

 Number of Bibles printed.-Within the last ] year there have been printed at the Society's \ establishment. or are now in press, 45,5OO Bi- bles and S5,7OO Testaments. There have been purchased I'll German and Dutch Bibles,and SIS German Testaments. Total 76,7S4 which added to 5S2,9O before reported make grand total of sir hsndred Gnd nin. thonsandsir hundred and thirty-sir. printed ol purchased by the Society since its formation in 1878.

 In the last report if was announced that a set of stereotype plates were in state of pre- parAticp. These plates have since been fin 2 Ashedy and first and second edition, of 9OOO each, printed from them and seldom per. haps has . Bible of this class been more iegi DleOr complete.