Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — One Man Distributes 23,000 Bibles. [ARTICLE]

One Man Distributes 23,000 Bibles.

Nathan Goff, Esq., of Clarksburg, W. Va., an uncle of the Hon. Nathan Goff, Congressman-elect from that State, has for sixty years, notwithstanding his numerous and engrossing business engagements, been a volunteer distributor of the Scriptures. He thui concludes a letter to the American Bible Society: “During the war I continued the distribution throughout Harrison county, and also gave a great many Bibles and Testaments to soldiers in the Union army. From my earliest connection with the cause, whenever I have sent to the Parent Society I have met with prompt and generous answers to my requests. After the war I began to supply the freedmen. At one time the society sent me a donation of seventyfive Bibles for that purpose. It is understood all through this country that I keep on hand all kinds of Bibles and Testaments for sale and for gratuitous distribution to the poor, so there is hardly a day passes that I do not distribute from one to twenty. As near as I can calculate, I have distributed between 23,000 and 24,000 volumes.”