British and Foreign Bible Society

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5709, 4 March 1890, Page 3

British and Foreign Bible Society

Sir, — It is not very generally known that r% rfup some -years the British and Foreign ♦"' Iftble Society has had an agency in Gisibpme, managed by a committee appointed SSkimxuily, This agency has' never suc-.{L-^Ciaded.Jlii^atteacting public interest, posr^'^lJf ifiepwiseifii had not much scope for i| -si^tif I because it had not sufficient I iijiiqlk^ef power to do the work that might | -hken done, v P ' : \- i'fjLv^wnual visit of Mr Bobjohns, the I r«^ergei!c,; Secretary for the Society in -|| Australasia,, reminds me of the miserable • ' ' meeting wifeh which he was received last i- year^J?oot:as the meeting was his story , |i«f what. thw; great Society has done and *? then was doing was most interesting, and Iftitis with the hope that a larger circle may s liftve the pleasure, which L myself and a ,!r very lew 6t|ie^jsXgeigfi.ncea.laßfe year, that I ram Bsjdjig^ii to grant me space for this '^letter. " ■ A ""'-—"" '.'" "......' -'.

| B ;I am.<4iot Bure but that Mr Robjohns : . f|i|^U^tvised..Ui holding his meetings in c ".'■=- ; tatS^^cliur^mes,^** 1 * i * n erroneous impression |; v; fenat , the movement is a deX" il|fblftui*jtlpf^ one. 'ln fact, there is no : i : ' \-'. iiM6^&pien6 which is so genuinely catholic v ' Ifas^fchjatfJ organised by the Society, for its >'-- " llsoi^ofijecfc js l»spread the Bible in nlllands "■■' i^rfdf^ap, languages and among all creeds, ' ||tf:T|^»sy iell them at a low cost it will do f*^, ; If ifc cannot sell them it will give '■'* J%tiesfeti^F. 4- Society which has circulaBibles in more languages r and without v Wjmiaye; asingle proselyte is l^^t^oi^ hewng^P«*» » nd its accre : X; flaiiia^gelfe^deserve 'such measure of Christian communities ■■?<-' as? «iey : travel in^the en- >*> ; deavor' to ifl,crea^e public knowledge as to # ; ■ wl^^^in^done by;^blunbvry effort in Wi ?ffiFßsM%^e to spread the Bible 2^ * i^grer the world. Here we have a 'Zs:%:'£Wffioi fpfetform for^ all: the 'denomma--oy--\&fl^.^jriM*ce f ev*v been mvpnted among ls'^h^^S-i>eN>i)les; Mr Robjohns should |pS^^^©%^|g©'audience;iwv -Thureday even'sW^^^r^^Jiaarl -'am qaite sure no one -will to hesur him. I am,