RUSSIA AND THE BIBLE.

Evening Star, Issue 21254, 8 November 1932, Page 9

RUSSIA AND THE BIBLE.

' TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —On the subject of religious toleration in Russia someone must be lying, and that in a tall fashion, for in the issue of your paper for last evening there appears the following information under London Topics, sub-title The Bible and the World ’: “ When it is remembered that throughout European and Asiatic Russia the importation, printing, and even reading of the Bible is forbidden.” I cannot harmonise this with the information contained in a number of ‘ The Missionary Record ’ of the Seventh Day Adventists, which stated that permission had been granted by the Soviet to the missionaries to print and publish some thousands of Bibles at Kiev. And last Sunday evening Major Pharazyn, in His Majesty’s Theatre, informed us that not only is the Bible allowed to circulate and be read, but that the State printing and publishing concern there has printed and published some Bibles in languages or dialects, and to do this it had to invent characters for an alphabet in some instances. These languages or dialects the British and Foreign Bible Society has not yet tackled. It is strange that the Rev. Dr Rushbrook, whom I listened to, said nothing in his lecture on Russia that would support the statement of your propagandist in London. It would now be interesting to hear what our own Dr Salmond has to say on this matter. —I am, etc., John Gilchrist. November 8,