Sacrifice Enthusiasms ware fired by. the inspiring facts und' Sgures of the Work of the British and. Foreign Bible Society's China Agency during the past year revealed to the Tepresentative gathering on Mar. 28 at. the general meeting in the Cathedral hall. Sir Peter Grain, retiring vice-president, presided, Sesisted on the platform by' Dean Trivett and the Rev. G. W. Shepard, secretary.
'Mr. Sheppard, called upon to wake' his report, referred to. the dunted report. distributed prior to the meeting and asked that It might de. taken but among: the points he would' emphasise' was particularly the fact that in spite of the severity of trials Brough? about by the Chapei incident, floods and famine in the Yangtze area, the Manchurian incident and. the Red menace in central China, they' had nevertheless maintained' both Production and distribution, Altogether 29,921 Bibles were circulated during" 1982, 49,140 New Testaments including the 8,722 for the Million Testaments campaign, and "4,116,498 "portions making. a total of "4,205,599 to compare favourably with the total of 4,506,- 416 circulated in 1931, Theye were ued during the past Testaments and 4,551,369, OF the 3,915, 016 printed and received in stock, 82,900 were Bibles, 44,000. were New Testaments and 3,913,015 were portions, The total printed "and Received during 1931 was 2,057,185, To these circulation figures should be added those of the Americas Bible Society and the National Bible Society of Scotland, the combeing able bef sell as many volumes fore in spite, of extremely ed-'The total of complete Bibles and the contribu. tions reflected rear credit upon the jes. Tu conclusion expressed his regrets that he would longer be amongst them bat felt sure that he would not lack the opportunity of keeping in touch with the Society's activities when Jat home., Mr, G. F. Andrew, of the Flood Relief Commission, then addressed the meeting a survey from hi wide experience in China, gave a testimony of the nonce of the good work done by the society, He fully. realised the translation and jstaneed how, fay in the interior, translated version of the text, "May the Glory be to God," had split a ity from the governor down into two factions, taking it at its mended meaning and the other int epreting the characters: jas meani the "This memorial ftablett testifies that the giver of it kas. retuned Spirit to the Glory of the Mr. K. 8. Li Cantonese, also spoke early, life and. dfeadvanta ie ud dad a testimony of his How ho had come to be a Eh and ian grown to understand the inner} Jmcaning of the Christian religion.
Shanghai's year totalled funds of the Society contribution 0 the 082.44 to which ving the past to must be added a total of $582.13 being the. off focal churches, ngs in the various The nominations of officers and Jcommittees for the Shanghai Anxil-Niary. for the ensuing year, moved Sir Peter Grain, resulted as follows rents 9,654,198 portions. It was Insp) to realise that' the had wi a of complete Bibles never been Progress shad been Bivtes sold in 1927 us. from the 22,419 complete the record been raised to 61,100 in 1931 and to 63,224 last year," was also. great tribute to. their activities to know that there were more translations being made into the Chinese language than in any other language in the world.
In illustration of the tremendous sot-back they, had received when the: Chapei "war" broke out at the be-gluming of their work that The Right Rev.
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