POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE
A LIVE MOVEMENT. News of the Pocket Testament League will remind many people of the stirring days of the Chapinan-Alexander mission here 10 years ago. Among that mission party was the Rev. G. 1. B. Davis, whose special work it was to promote the work of the Pocket- Testament League, which, as its name indicates, exi.-rs to encourage anti spread the reading of the Scriptures. This week Mr Davis, accompanied by the Rev. A. T. Thompson, dominion agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society, has again been on a visit to Dunedin. ’ These two gentlemen came at the invitation of th© Board of the Otago Bible Sovietv t,h© Council of Christian Congregations, and th© Y.M.C.A. to make preliminary preparations for the launching of a campaign here to encourage the reading of the Scripiures among young people. As a result of a meeting with representatives of these bodies it was decided that (Hugo should take its part in the dominion campaign, and Mr Thompson and Mr Davis wore authorised to secure 10.000 of the League's Testaments for distribution here. A committee, the nucleus of which is the Board of the Otago Bible Society, has been set up to further the project.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3613, 12 June 1923, Page 54
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204POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE Otago Witness, Issue 3613, 12 June 1923, Page 54
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