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price. But if they wish to purchase at bare cost, and then sell at an advance on the catalogue price, they could be led to see at once that they would not thus by carrying our the benevolent spirit and object of the Society, and that they had better purchase of those who make Bibles to be sold on mercantile principles. How are books furnished to Life Directors and Life Members? Each Life Director (having paid $150)receives annually two dollars and fifty cents' work of books, provided they are called for within the year; and each Life Member (having paid thirty dollars) receives one dollar's worth in like manner. It is expected that these books will be called for, or sent for, at the Society's House, and that they will be of such kinds as suitable to give to the destitute. These books can be drawn from a local auxiliary, in case the Parent Society is early informed of what is done, so that the auxiliary may be credited, and the person drawing charged. No books can be thus furnished except for the current year. The above regulation was adopted from a conviction that there are multitudes of individuals in the community, orphans, apprentices, servants, boatmen, stage-drivers, and the like, who have no Bibles, and but few religious privileges; and who might, to some extent, be supplied by the method thus proposed; for who will be more likely to scatter the Sacred Volume among those who are destitute, than those who have shown such a regard for that volume as to make it themselves members and directors of an institution which furnishes it for distribution? How are other benevolent book circulating societies to the furnished with Bibles? Such societies have, of course, as the main business, the circulation of their own peculiar publications. It cannot be expected that they will sell Bibles to any great extent at their depositories, as they were not organized for that purpose. But their agents or colporteurs will at times meet with destitute families or individuals, who will need the Bible as a gratuity. To supply such cases, it is hoped that the Bible Auxiliaries will always furnish the needed books when called for, and without compensation if necessary. If the agent or colporteur can at times sell some of these books, for whole or part cost, he can take the proceeds and purchase a further supply of any auxiliary at the cost price. Where there are no auxiliaries to purchase them, they can be obtained through the bodies which they serve. Grants are and will be cheerfully made to such bodies, to meet cases of this kind. If this plan is carefully adhered to, no agent or colporteur need fail of obtaining Bibles for the needy. Those who are able and ready to purchase can obtain them of Bible societies. What is the present regulation of the Board as to the prices of books to Auxiliaries and others? The regulation, as fixed by the Constitution, is to sell books to all Bible societies at the cost price exactly, which is the catalogue price. Then to those societies which become auxiliary, and agree to give their surplus funds to the Parent Society, a deduction of five per cent. is made from catalogue prices. Encouragement is thus given to auxiliaries to keep up depositories with books for sale, and also for the supply of the needy gratuitously. They are sold to no other parties for less than the catalogue or cost price.