BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1927, Page 6

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

WHY It SHOULD BE SUPPORTED

The British and Foreign Bible Society respectfully offers the following reasons why its work is worthy of support: — Because it has helped to send out the Gospel in odd different languages. Because it provides nearly all our Foreign Missions with editions of the Scriptures in all 'the languages which they need, and because it does this practically without cost to the Missions themselves. Because missionaries in every held agree with Bishop Steere in his confession: “All our work is unsound apart from a vernacular Bible.’’

Because the Society is continually aiding the Scriptures to speak in new languages and publishes the Gospel in a 'fresh tongue (on an average) once' every live or six weeks. Because hundreds of millions of the inhabitants of the world are still without, the Gospel printed in their own speech.

Because the -Society has issued more than 34”),000,000 copies of the Scriptures.

Because it employs over 900 colporteurs to sell cheap copies of God’s Book in the remotest corners of the earth.

Because its editions penetrate into countries where no missionary can enter. ' i

Because it is (as Mr Spurgeon declared) itself “a missionary society of the first water.”

.Because the Society is managed in London by a committee of business laymen, and worked on thoroughly economical lines.

Because it leaves questions of interpretation to authorised teachers, and devotes itself simply to spreading the Scriptures without note or comment.

Because it forms the chief bond which unites Christians of many communions and countries in this sacred task.

Because it never had such wide opportunities before it, or such imperious claims upon it, as it has to-day. Because to produce its popular editions is costing the - Society two or three times as much as cost before the war.

The annual meeting of the Levin brach of the society takes place tomorrow afternoon as advertised.