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XAMERIcAN BIBLE SccIKrY.-At meeting of the
managers, on Thursday last, many interesting state
msnts and communications were presented. Il being
the middle Of the twenty ninth year. II appeared thai
the issues Of Bibles and Tesaments for the 6rst six
months have been 2+079l COPIES being more than
tae issues OF the first six months of the previous
The receipts Of the hrst half Of this year also little
larger than those Of the period last year. though
they have not kept pace with the distributions and the
treasury is left several thousand dollars in debt


The corresponding secretary received communication


from the Rev Mr. Calhoun late agent Of the society, da.
ted Mount Lebanon Syr Aug a. Ie44 in which he
that during eight yeais Of bis agency in the Levant there
have been printed mostly at Smyrna and Beyrout
copies Of the Scriptures entire or in part that he had
chased the British and Foreign Bible society %
copies more, making in all $1,000 copies These
excepting 900 copies yet left have been put in
circulation, through missionaries and Others in sixteen
de en tongues, and usually received with joy and
thnnkfulness.