of translating the Bible has been carried on with very great success. The Bible has there been translated, or is in the course of translation, into _twenty-five different_ languages. The New Testament has also been translated, and is distributing in the language of _China_, which is said to be spoken by three hundred millions of people. The income of this society has of course been very large, to meet the expenditure which has been necessary to these vast operations. This income has every year been increasing, but as the supplies are made, the wants of the world are more known; and the demand at this time, seems almost to be infinite. I will now lay before you, some of the cases in which the wants of the world have been remarkably shewn. In the _province of Georgia_, where a Christian church has existed about one thousand four hundred years, and where there are about half a million of inhabitants, there have not been found, in two thousand churches, two hundred copies of the Scriptures; i.e. not one Bible for ten churches. In _Iceland_, five silver dollars have been offered in vain for a copy of the word of God; and the case of a clergyman is presented, who had sought in vain to obtain a copy of the Scriptures, for the long period of seventeen years. In many parishes were found two Bibles, in others none at all. Whatever country has been searched into, whether catholic countries, where the Bible has never been fully circulated; or protestant countries, where once the fire of religion blazed with a pure flame, and spread a warmth around, which even reached, and animated our own shores, the Bible is now scarcely known, or known only as a monument of departed piety, as a relic treasured up, of other, and of better times. Europe has not suffered more political, than it has religious convulsions. Whatever may have been the effect of the one, all the changes of religion seem to have been for the worse. The Bible, which had been the support of the only pure religions, has been taken away, and now these fabrics have fallen, or decayed. I will only mention one more fact concerning the wants of the world, which is that of _our fellow subjects in India_, and which may serve to give us an idea of heathen nations in general. Although, says the correspondent of this society, “_we have ten presses at constant work_, _we have not had a copy of the Bengalee and Hindoostanee New Testaments the last six months_; _and we are obliged to give away a single copy as soon as it leaves the press_; _yet_ we have demands from every quarter for copies.” In this state of want and anxiety, are fifty millions of our fellow-subjects.