DISTRIBUTION

The distribution of Scriptures in the United States during the year 1913 amounted to a total of 2,030,630 volumes, in eighty-nine languages.

In addition to this, Scriptures were sent from the Bible House in New York to Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines amounting to 20,468 volumes, bringing the total from the Bible House in the United States and its island possessions to an aggregate of 2,051,098 volumes. This aggregate does not, of course, include the Scriptures printed by our Society in other lands for its Philippine Agency.

The number of volumes sent from the Bible House to foreign lands was as follows:

REMITTANCES TO FOREIGN LANDS

Expenditures. for work abroad are here summarized as follows: To the Society's Agencies in

The following table presents, at a glance, a résumé of the statistics of the year under review, together with the corresponding figures of five preceding years (1909 to 1913). The receipts from other lands are made up principally from the sale of books, and the excess of these receipts over the value of books sent abroad is accounted for by the fact that so large a part of the foreign issues are printed at the Society's expense in China, Japan, and the Levant.

TABLE OF FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION

sent abroad.... $48,412 39 $41,541 72 $43 500 60 $48,478 56 $39,177 82 $34,286 68

Value of Books

Funds sent to

other lands....$305,678 56 $291,217 57 $265,413 39 $254,669 34 $231,334 81 $214,742 44 Receipts from

other lands.... $71,344 59

$75,299 03 $66,081 26 $60,757 54 $50,987 40 $64,706 28

In the following pages will be found, first the reports of the Home Agencies in the order of their establishment,

then the reports from the various Foreign Agencies of the Society, and from missionary correspondents in lands where the Society has no established agencies. The foreign reports begin with the foreign fields nearest to us in Latin America; then come reports of the European and Asiatic Missions and of the Asiatic Agencies. These are followed by reports concerning the work in Micronesia, Africa, etc. After the foreign reports we present the story of the Auxiliaries and the report of the Treasurer.