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 What Can the Young people 
 Do For the Bible Cause ? 
 
 BY WILLIAM SHAW, 
 
 Treasurer, United Society of Christian Endeavor* 
 
 T HIS is a practical question, and deserves 
 a practical answer. I might confine my¬ 
 self to referring to the’ need of cultiva¬ 
 ting a personal love for the word on the part 
 of the young people, or speak of plans and 
 methods of securing better results from Bible 
 study. But the Spirit does not lead me along 
 these lines. As a business man, I have been 
 thinking of the business side of the question. 
 
 The American Bible Society is the recog¬ 
 nized agency for the publication and circulation 
 of the Bible. It was dear to the hearts of the 
 fathers who gave to it largely both of prayer 
 and money. But for some reason it dropped 
 out of sight while the claims of other forms of 
 missionary work were pressed upon the churches. 
 Some months ago, I heard Mr. Colton (the 
 special Agent for Eastern Massachusetts) de¬ 
 liver the first address on the needs of the Bible 
 Society that I have heard for more than fifteen 
 years. A generation has grown up that “ knows 
 not Joseph,” and to whom the story of the mag- 
 
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 nificent work done by this old Society is as fresh 
 as the latest novel. 
 
 Therefore, in answering the question I have 
 asked, I would say : 
 
 i. Let the young people inform themselves 
 concerning the work that must be done by this 
 Society, if it is to be done at all. The work is 
 fundamental. Before any real progress can be 
 
 made in mission lands, the people must have the 
 word. If I had to choose between the mission¬ 
 ary without the Bible, or the Bible without the 
 missionary, I would choose the later. God’s 
 word shall not return unto him void. But I 
 need not say that I prefer both the man and the 
 Book. 
 
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 2. By furnishing a score or a hundred such 
 splendid fellows as Captain Carrington, the ear¬ 
 nest Christian Endeavorer, who is scattering the 
 Bible in Siam. No better missionary work is 
 being done by any man in any land. 
 
 3. The most important service the young 
 people can render to this and every other good 
 cause, is to make their business a branch of the 
 King’s business. The loudest call for the ex¬ 
 tension of Christ’s kingdom to-day comes to 
 business men. And yet there are many young 
 men who when converted think they must enter 
 the ministry. The men and the machinery are 
 ready, but the money is minus. God made sil¬ 
 ver ore as well as sermon ore, but man must 
 mine and mint it before it will pass current in 
 the markets of the world. People to-day do 
 not need special instruction as to how to make 
 money, but we do need light on how to spend it. 
 Young people need to be taught that it is just 
 as sacred a thing to make money for the exten¬ 
 sion of God’s kingdom as to make sermons. 
 More than anything else, the Bible Society needs 
 money to-day that it may enter open doors with 
 God’s word. 
 
 What shall we do. Make provision for the 
 presentation of this work in the churches. In¬ 
 form the people. Give them a chance to give. 
 Let the seed, which is the word, be scattered, 
 and abundant harvests will be ours. 
 
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 IT AT AN EARLY DATE, 
 
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 for the work of The American Bible Society, 
 
 Payment to be made —-- 
 
 to William Foulke , Esq., Treasurer , Bible House, 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
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 Date— . 
 
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 Member, and of $150 a Life Director of the Society. 
 
 Gifts of $1 or more include a subscription to “World- 
 Wide Bible Work,” 
 
 Copies of this Leaflet may be had for free distribu¬ 
 tion, in limited quantities, upon application to the 
 American Bible Society. 
 
 American Bible Society Series, No. 5. 
 
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