sar was a record year for ind. Foreign Bible Society in. 99,912 Bibles alone being sold, an increase of 3,319 over
ber of Bibles, New Testaments, Gos-the figures for 061, "The total mam-pels, and other books of the Bible Sold in this country, amounted to the figure of 4,206, 669, the highest umber of books circulated here by the Society in any one year on record.
The sale of New Testament amounted to 49,140 books, an crease of 9,281, but the Society an-ounces a decrease of 313,498 in the sale of single books of the Bibi, this despite the fact that, the total number of these books sold reached 4116498.
The reason for this decrease is accounted for by the tremendous difficulties the Society's colporteurs experienced in Manchuria, Shang-jéze Valley which were devasted by tung; and those parts of the Yang [the floods of 1981.
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