REDS’ BAN ON BIBLES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16869, 26 October 1925, Page 5

REDS’ BAN ON BIBLES.

The determined attempt of the Meeeow Soviet Government to stamp out Christianity is emphasised in the report of the British and Foreign Bible Society for the year ended March, 1925: Tho society states: The importation of the Scriptures ifito the Soviet Republics (from Betrograd to Vladivostok) is still forbidden. The society has inquired from the Russian Charge d’Affaires in London whether it would be allowed to print Bibles in Russia; the letter iiar, been courteously acknowledged, but a final reply has not vet come to hand. All our endeavors to gaifi an entrance into Russia have failed. Yet we have every reason to believe that the religions Russian peoples have not lost their love for the Bcriptnree, We hear of Siberian peasants who would willingly give a cow for a Bible. The report states that despite unrest and anti-foreign sentiment in China, last, veor the three Bible Societies (American, Scottish, and our Own) placed nearly 9,500,000 ’copies of Holy Scriptures (chiefly Gospels) in the hands of the Chinese—all increase of over 1,900.000 on the figures for 1923. Chit of every ten books sold by us in 1924 about four were sold in China, Half onr ificreaSed circulation last year took place' thero.