SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK
AIDED BY CHINESE PHONETIC
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The following is some of the literature which may now be- had in the Chinese phonetic script :—Two hymn books of. about 400 pages each; three smaller hymnals of about 400 hymns each; the entire New Testament in different editions ; four books of the Old Testament; Matron's Old Testament History; }.:«iiutifullyillnstyaled Bible stories of Daniel and Moses; about a dozen well-selected booklets; "Pilgrim's Progress". 400 pages, unabridged. A significant summary of results is that "tie poor have the Gospel preached unto them." Th» China Sunday School Union, the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Christian Literature Society" have cooperated lij preparing books'and leaflets wjth the simplified- type consisting of thirty-nine characters. Not more than 5,000,000 of the 400,000,000 in China can rear? the old style Cliineso books. At the World's Sunday School Convention in Glasgow, the Bey. E. G. Tewksbury, secretary of tho China, Sunday School Union, held up a. New Testament in the phonetic, and said that any average Chinese could learn to read that book in about two weeks, and if he was at present an educated person, he could learn to .read it in a few .hours.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 34, 8 August 1925, Page 14
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199SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 34, 8 August 1925, Page 14
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