WIDE FIELD OF BIBLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 12

WIDE FIELD OF BIBLE.

USE IN M ANY LAN GUAG ES. ;AN INTERESTING. DISPLAY. Among the many interesting exhibits at "the' Missionary' Exhibition at- the Town Hall is the display of the British and Foreign Bible Society. There are in the World about 1400 languages, and the Bible Society alone has issued' Scriptures in 577 languages, and has printed copies for the blind in Braille type in 38 of these. The blind man's Bible in English occupies 39 volumes, fills a shelf 7ft. long, and in buik is equal to three petrol cases. The cost of production is £l4 a Bible, but it is sold to the blind man at two shillings and : threepence -a volume. " ' On the stall is a copy of the smallest Bible issued, in clear type, but measuring iess than 2in. long and than lin. thick. There are also copies of the Bible in various Melanesiain languages, Japanese, Spanish, Hungarian, Kaffir, Yiddish, Chinese, Russian, etc., showing the widespread operations of this sooiety. Of particular interest to New Zealand is the new Maori Bible, chiefly the work of Archdeacon H. Williams, of: Waiapu, who travelled recently to England at his own expense to supervise the printing of this important revision. This handsome volume has been placed on the market at a price a, little less than one-third of the cost of its publication.