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 RESOLUTIONS OF SOCIETIES.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.

Board of Managers of the American Bible Society desire to place on record an expression of the loss they have sustained in the departure from their midst of their honored associate and friend, Mr. Robert Carter.

He was elected a Manager on the nomination of the Rev. Dr. De Witt, in the year 1855, and in 1878 was chosen a Vice-President. From the beginning until the end of his long service he evinced an earnest and unwearied interest in the wide and varied details of the work of the Society. To him the Holy Scriptures were the oracles of God. With a profound and abiding conviction that a personal knowledge of the truths which they contain was as essential to every human being as to himself, he viewed with devout thankfulness every movement that increased the circulation of these Scriptures, alike in Pagan and Christian lands.

For his fidelity to the trusts committed to him by this Society; for his constant and useful labors in the educational and missionary work of the Church of God; for his far-reaching and enduring influence as a publisher of Christian literature; for his lifelong example of simple Christian living and thinking; for his constant witness to a good confession; for the full assurance of a comfortable hope in his death,— we would render thanks to Almighty God, into whose presence he has now entered, to go out no more forever.