As indicating the marked change! which is taking place in the Chinese language the report shows that the Kuoyu (Mandarin has almost entire. ly supplanted the use of Wenll. Of all scriptures issued by the China Agency only a trifle over one per ent. were in Wenll, The sale English Bibles and Testaments in China now far surpasses that of Wenli, and the number of Wenli Bibles and Testaments bought for use in China is now considerably ower than that for sale to the United States. That there Is a constant demand for the phonetic scriptures. connection with work among the Mliterates is indicated by the steady output of newly published books of the Old Testament in the combined character and phonetic type, Genesis, Exodus, Ruth, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, "Daniel and Jonah have now been issued in this form in addition to the New Testament which has been in use for some years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.