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The New Zealand Evangelist

Bible Society.—

Bible Society.—

This Society has been instrumental in bringing into this settlement during the last two years about 900 Bibles and 1200 New Testaments; 800 Bibles and Testaments have been sold here and at Nelson, mostly within the last year. There is on hand at present a large and well assorted stock, a large portion of which has been lately received. About 1000 copies of the Religious Society's publications, varying in price from 8d. to 5s., have also been introduced into the settlement; upwards of 500 copies of these have been sold here and at Nelson. The price of the Bibles sold amount to about £50; of the other publications about £25. Add to these 7000 copies of the Evangelist, that have been put into circulation, and it will be seen that our Evangelical Alliance has not been without manifest favour from on high. Bibles and religious publications have been extensively introduced also by individual enterprise. Mr. Lyon has sold about 150 page 428 Bibles and Testaments with Scotch Psalms, a number of which were elegant and expensive Church Bibles.

These are apparently small but really important elements in the moral statistics of the settlement. They are like the first teeth of the infant, or the first words that he articulates, of no importance to the great world, but events of infant history carefully chronicled in the memory of the mother or the nurse and reported to all the inmates of the family with. feelings of delighted interest. The money expended on Bibles and religious books is comparatively small, but who can number the new thoughts, the good impressions, and the healthful moral influences thereby diffused through the community?

Our Society and the community at large are deeply indebted to Mr. Lyon for so cheerfully allowing a portion of his well-known, elegant, and commodious premises to be used as a depositary for our Bibles and religious publications. The Lord blessed a public spirited man of old because he received the ark of God. Our prayer is that the same blessing may rest upon our Depositary for the facilities he has afforded, and the attention he has given to the circulation of the Word of God.