The Archive · 1926

THE FIRST. JAPANESE

BIBLE — Fiftieth Anniversary

in Tokyo Tokyo, Oct. 11.

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first Japanese Bible will be held at the Okuma Hall here on Friday next. The occasion will also be taken for the exhibition of various remembrances of carly martyrdom in Japanese Christian history.

In this connexion, it is stated that the number of Bibles, published by the Bible Publishing House of Yokohama since 1875 has already reached the enormous figure of

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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