A WORLD-WIDE SOCIETY

Northern Advocate, 4 October 1930, Page 8

A WORLD-WIDE SOCIETY

One of the most remarkable organisations in history is the British and Foreign Bible Society. It was founded 120 years ago by a combination of Christian missions—the London Missionary Society, the Religious Tract Society, and the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge. This menus that tire society is undenoma* tioual, or, more stnelly speaking, Interdenominational, for every creed is able to make use of it. The extent of its work may be gathered from tho fact that it has translated portions of tho Scriptures into CIS different languages, while no less than 19 new versions were .added last year. In that year over eleven and a half million copies of the Scriptures were distributed, which is one and a half millions more than in-any preceding year. By the aid of the society, the Bible has boon brought to every race in every quarter of the globe. Apart from distribution by the various churches and their missionary organisations, the British and Foreign Bible Society employs 950 colporteurs, who, going from door to door, often in the out of -the w-ay parts of the , world, bring tho Scriptures to the people. The claims of the society upon Christian people are to bo urged in all the local churches tomorrow, and the annual appeal for help is to be made during the coming week. One advocate of the society’s claims put the matter in a untshell when ho said: "I would like to point out to contributors that is is necessary to look beyond tho actual contribution offered, and lot imagination follow’ their money when it is turned into copies of the -Scriptures, in hundreds of tongues, finding its way, north, south, east and west, into cities, towns, villages and hamlets, and lonely homesteads far removed from church organisations.”