_It is always pleasant to receive the annual report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, a statement of the 's working of one of those societies which does so much without unduly promenading, the fact. Last rear was not, a goo year for the distribution of Bibles, not because there were fewer opportunities of distribution, but because the abnormally high price of paper and skilled labour prevented a printing programme on the same scale as those of previous years. Consequently with 1,837,400 volumes printed, there was a decrease of 2.109.751 as compared with 1918, but issues amounted to 3,377,044, an increase of 118,933, and circulation 3,290,496. an increase of 191,849.
It is fascinating to read that the books of the Bible are even now being translated into new tongues, into the Ningpo dialect, Sart-Turki, Chuan Miao, Hsu and Nisu, and to know that among the new printings of last year were various books of the Bible in such languages as Annamese, Qazaq-Turki and Mandarin-Arabic, to quote a few examples. Such work deserves the widest recognition, and it is to be hoped that the income of the Society from subscriptions will increase to enable it to keep pace with the demands. Tt ought to, if the European's belief in the truths the Society is spreading is worthy of propagation at all, and the history of the past 1,900 years shows that it is. correspondent writes to the "China Post." "Cannot something be devised by which 250,000 Chinese soldiers and 100 Tuchuns and other military officers ma' promptly loss their lives for thei country's good? The greatest benefactor to the nation at the moment would be the man who could bring that about But it world be necessary that he should be followed by another who would prevent the missing ranks being again filled." Where is this correspondent's imagination? Many ways might be "devised"—but he must give his own power of invention to the job,
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