WORK OF THE BIBLE SOCIETY
MANAIA BRANCH MEETS. A meeting of the Alanaia branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society was held in the Presbyterian Sunday school hall on Alonday afternoon, Airs. Davi; presiding. Miss Violet Taylor, recently from London and now organising for the society in Taranaki, gave an address on its work in the world and related many interesting travel incidents from her experiences. She described how in Algiers street rubbish is occasionally flushed away by a river being made to flow over a portion of the town. Pedestrians must stand aside on some high and dry spot while cabbages, empty tins and other garbage float away. Describing the difficulty the society’s translators sometimes had in rendering certain words and idoms into native languages, Aliss Taylor related how one of them could not find a word for “obedience” until one day he heard a peasant say that when he commanded his dog the creature was instantly “all ears.” This gave the clue and so he rendered the Scripture word for “to obey” as “to be all ears,” and the natives easily understood. The speaker told of the amazing growth of the society’s activities, and the ever-increasing demand for copies of the Bible in fche L’ast, especially in China.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1930, Page 12
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