BIBLE SOCIETY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 286, 31 October 1933, Page 10

BIBLE SOCIETY

y PALMERSTON! NORTH BRANCH. f \ ANNUAL MEETING. TSe annual mleting of the British and Foreign Billie Society (Palmerston North branih) was held in the Baptist Church, yesterday afternoon, when Rev. C. Si Matthews presided oVef a good atte' dance of members. Proceedings were entered upon by the singing of a hyri n, following which Pastor Richards a prayer - of thanksgiving ' iand the president 3 pronounced tho j ord’s Prayer and s read a passage of the Scriptures. ; THE ANNEAL REPORT. f In presenting t!e annual report of j the branch, the Fsecretary (Mr A. ; Wylie) stated tha ft he year 1982 had ’ proved to he a d fficult one to many j and, like numeroife business organisa--3 tions, the society fhad had to face a f reduced jthe extent of £6 6s 3d as th 1931, which was, 3 under the cir< instances, happily small. The total from the city and out! ang districts had been £163 8s 6d, ! Vhile the total for the Wellington-M area had amounted to £l4s' . In Airs F. Porter the society ha ! been well repret sented, for her orj anising ability and i addresses to the t t jirious sub-branches 1 on the work of th' ■ society had been • of ihitold value. ! [ In moving tiff ; the report he 5 adopted, D. ‘ Salder, 8.A.. Do- | minion secretary, ■ Congratulated the : branclk on the plel sing outcome and ; the mffimbers on t Sir successful aoti- , vities.* "While it ! was not known . what the returns w told he for the enr- • rent year, he if (derstood that the . position was quite j satisfactory and lie - felt that it was a ‘fitting recompense j for to abilities of Airs ' Porter who, unfo Tunately, was not ’ able to be with the n that afternoon. ELECTION 0 l OFFICERS. ’ The election of of cers for the incom- . ing year resulted:- r President, Rev. G , S. Matthews (re- lleeted) dents, ministers of fue city! and the Salvation Army cogfimandant; secretary. Air A. Wylielfre-elected); treasurer, Air J. T. B®rell (re-elected); . committee, Ales claims AI. Aitehiv'ay* J. .M. Rose, - r Jfij i 1 ’A - W>k oB East, Gillanders, - A. N. Scot ter, H. 1 Whitehead, T. R. > Aloore, Pritchard, L. T. Brougham, 3 Alisses Jamieson, R ;m. Aitken, Aiathe--1 son, L. Neilson, C trk, Olga Clausen 1 and Vautier, Alessi ; J. B. Gerrand, I J. R. AVood, G. H ( Bennett, T. R. . Hodder, C. East, h. J»Stt, 0. Mon--1 rad, J. J. AVliiteln SL G. H. Stiles, s W. L. H. Cliapmai , AY. G. AVilby J. 2 O. Boniface and A ; Boniface, j A GROAVII h NEED. | Air Calder, ill on | the Dominion 'activ the past 2 year, stated that iJe council at its „ recent meeting had paid a tribute to ( the wondertui sacr iices madg by the 3 collectors and to t lose contributors .' "ivlio had given so • nobly-towards a - worn. Hovi aver, he realised > that collectors and contributors were 1 'acting under the fi 1 in conviction that ; j bhey were working i jr a worthy cause. «3teterring to the ' 'onderful increase : in the distribution .of Bible reading .1 fin the world, the s; leaker stated that .: 10 years ago the . output of Gospel - 1 works in the Dot iinion was 10,000, v whereas three yea! is ano the res ■ had advanced to 31 Bibles 2 alone to the numb r of over 10,000, ‘ while last year f sales of Bible? _ had advanced to l! 'OOO or, actually, an increase of 5949 'copies. For the 1 year ended Aiarcl 1 1, 1932, 58,000 ! copies had been dis; psed of’ in Engf land, while the figui 5s in China were t phenomenal. The list copies of the Scriptures printed in Chinese had ■ been distributed in : 1813, just over f 100 years ago, yet (for the past 10 jfcars their sale hat ' been averaging | 10,000,000 for the t ree societies. Oi : 1 that number tlie Bi tish and Foreign , Bible Society had be gi responsible for i the distribution of t,500,000 copies, i The increase in the jemands for Gos- - pel works in China during the past 5 year had been pheno penal and it had 5 become apparent th® | readers of the ; Sflaiptures were anxi us to carry their • knowledge further, e ;id, to that end, 1 purchased the Bible. . The same won- | derful progress was \ llso being made \ in the Alohammedan countries in the East, and it was verj evident that the whole world was hungering for the MAVord of God. •: r ! Some littlfe time ag ) the British and *• (Foreign Bible Societj ; placed an order ’ lor 600,000 copies of fa new edition of : Sunday School Bib' e. Air Calder 3 iad feared that it svould be impos- ! s\ib[le to dispose of 1 hem, yet within j tiwi first year 387,06) had been sold - alia before the expir ition of the secs old year the numb, r had growifsto - 837,000. The threei large Bible soelv ' etles had now printed the Bible in 937 languages and the British ’ citify had been respc nsible for 667 of 7 that number. ;(App] ruse.) Ilev. H. L. Richar Is expressed his 3 pleasure at the w- mderful progress which had been att lined and hoped , tha! the society w mid continue to ■ stride to attain even greater heights. Albreak in the proceedings was ‘ then! made to parti ke of afternoon tea, 1 which was serv< d by the ladies. , and ithe meeting cjmcluded with a ' vote \of thanks to th®~ Baptist Church [ for tie use of the rohms and the pronouncing of the Benjidiction.