BIBLE SUNDAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21167, 27 April 1932, Page 12

BIBLE SUNDAY.

BRITISH SOCIETY'S WORK. A WORLD-WIDE INFLUENCE. Next Sunday is the day annually set apart by the British and Foreign Bible Society as Bible Sunday, and appropriate references to the work of the society will be made in many pulpits. In some churches the Scripture lessons will be read m Braille by persons who have been trained at the Jubilee Institute. The Bible Society is known as the greatest missionary society in the world. If there were not a Bible society already in existence the Christian Church would at once have to take steps to institute one. The society aims at securing that the Bible shall bo made accessible to every man by means of translation into the tongue ho can understand, and that eveiy man shall bo given an opportunity of securing a copy for himself. The number of Uio world's languages and dialects captured by the society now totals 644, including 38 languages in Braille type for the 'blind. Last year the circulation of lho Scriptures surpassed all previous records excepting only that of 1929. The demand for the Scriptures indicates that the Bible meets a human need. More and more the moral and spiritual truths of the Christian religion are receiving attention from the leaders of national thought in the world. Many experiments in social and political reconstruction are ending disastrously, and it is felt that secure moral and spiritual foundations for economic and national progress must be found. Even in the Far East the ethical code which'ls drawn from the Scriptures is more and more finding sway in the commercial and social life of the peoples.