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Virginia Methodist Episcopal Conference.
. . . In the report of the Soldiers' Tract Association we find that there have been printed, for gratuitous distribution,-- "Thirty-seven thousand bibles (sold), nine thousand catechisms, four million pages of tracts, seventeen thousand two hundred bibles and testaments, thirty-seven thousand psalms, five hundred thousand copies of the Soldiers' Paper (issued at Richmond) and the Army and Navy Herald (issued at Macon), thirty-seven thousand copies of the Soldiers' Hymn Book (for camp worship); and to Sunday schools, in and out of the army, nine thousand catechisms and primers.
"The cause has been liberally sustained by our citizens and soldiers — our receipts during the past year have reached $126;900. Twenty-five laborers have been actively engaged during the year in distributing the publications to the soldiers and making collections for the cause.--Besides these, the army chaplains, the church missionaries, and many soldiers, officers and privates, have been heartily employed in distributing religious literature in camps and hospitals. (The Richmond Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864.)
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