Record Sale of Bibles
The sales of Bibles by the British and Foreign Bible Society in Now Zealand last year reached tho total number of 16,062 copies. This is 5949 in excess of the previous best year, and about double the number sold three years ago. Tho sales of Testaments and portions reached 29,791, making a grand total for the society for 1932 of 34,602 copies of the Scriptures. “Records in the sales of whole Bibles,” says tho Rev. David Calder, Dominion secretary of the society, “are a marked feature of the world work at the present time. Particularly is this so in China and among the Mohammedans of the Levant.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7068, 30 January 1933, Page 7
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111Record Sale of Bibles Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7068, 30 January 1933, Page 7
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