U.S. Soc'ety's Work Shows Change in Language 'The American Bible Society has just compiled the sixtieth annual re-Bort of its China Agency, Although the Sociely began operations in this country more that a century ago, it was not until April 23, 1876, that' its first missionary representative, Dr. Luther Gullick, came to China to organize and direct its work. During. these sixty years the Agency has put Into circulation more than 75,000,000 volumes of scripture.
For the year just closed the cir elation has been something over two) million, Of there 47,000 were Bibles and New Testaments, The figure for whole Bibles circulated, 23,652, 1s greater by 1,500 than in any previous year. In conjunction with the other two Bible Societies which carry work in this country a total of 89,389 whole Bibles were circulated in 1999, which is some 9,500 more than during the previous year. This indicates 'a remarkably encouraging condition, the Christian community in Chi Another 1,000 Bibles have been sent to the Chinese in the Philippine Islands, and. similar quantities of scriptures to other parts of the world. Most of these figures represent books: sold, but the Society has made rather Yarge donations to military hospitals, to prisons, and to three new lepresano this past year,
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