This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1864 Excerpt: ... VALPARAISO. We have been favoured, through the kindness of one of our friends, with a most interesting Annual Report of the Valparaiso Bible Society. We give an extract from the Address of the Rev. Mr. Trumbull. There is much in it to encourage us in the work in South America. We leave it to speak for itself. It does so powerfully. The incoming year has brought us together again, to take te of the progress of this Christian enterprise. It is our third annual meeting. The society, w about entering on its fourth year, is passing from the period of infancy to the more advanced growth of childhood; and apparent reason exists why there may t be predicted for it a thriving youth, a igorous manhood, and a robust age. Sanguine it may be, but there are persons who indulge the expectation that this enterprise, w in its n-age, will yet grow to be a stalwart and gigantic man, that shall stretch its benevolent arms from one er.d of the coast to the other, and utter a cheering voice which shall be heard beyond those mountain barriers where rest the perpetual frosts of the Andes. Many of you are aware of the doubts and anxieties with which our work commenced. When this society was born kwing people shook their heads, declaring it would never come to any good; some said the child would t live to be raised; others that it would sot survive the birth; while others, legal minded folk, averred that it actually had right, under the circumstances, even to be born beneath these skies;--and it was generously as well as sagaciously intimated by these men, falsely so called, whose courage compared with that of many an aged matron was infinitesimal, that some ecclesiastical principality or power would straightway seek and compass the death of the infant society...