thly goods as of
little or no value in comparison with such a glorious end, they expend
them in printing editions of their Master's Word in all languages, and in
transporting them to the remotest corners of the earth, that their
benighted fellow-creatures may see the lamp of salvation, and enjoy the
same spiritual advantages as themselves. Such is their wish, such their
view, totally unallied with commerce or politics, hope of gain and lust
of power. The mightiest of earthly monarchs, the late Alexander of
Russia, was so convinced of the single-mindedness and integrity of the
British and Foreign Bible Society, that he promoted their efforts within
his own dominions to the utmost of his ability, and established at St.
Petersburg a Bible Society of his own, whose publications have been a
source of blessing not only to Russia, but to many other lands.

After the above statement it is unnecessary for me to dilate on the
intentions of the Society with respect to Spain, a country which perhaps
most of any in the world is in need of the assistance of the Christian
philanthropist, as it is overspread with the thickest gloom of heathenish
ignorance, beneath which the fiends and demons of the abyss seem to be
holding their ghastly revels; a country in which all sense of right and
wrong is forgotten, and where every man's hand is turned against his
fellow to destroy or injure him, where the name of Jesus is scarcely ever
mentioned but in blasphemy, and His precepts [are] almost utterly
unknown. In this unhappy country the few who are enlightened are too
much occupied in the pursuit of lucre, ambition, or ungodly revenge to
entertain a desire or thought of bettering the moral state of their
countrymen. But it has pleased the Lord to raise up in foreign lands
individuals differently situated and disposed, whose hearts bleed for
their brethren in Spain. It is their belief that ignorance of God's Word
is the sole cause of these horrors, and to dispel that ignorance they
have printed the Gospel in Spain, which they dispose of at a price within
the power of the poorest to command. Vain men would fain persuade
themselves and others that the Society entertains other motives, by which
uncharitableness they prove that they themselves are neither Christians,
nor acquainted with the spirit of Christianity. But let the most fearful
and dubious reassure themselves with the thought, that should the Bible
Society foster the very worst inten