(Continued from page 313) motor caravan travelled 5,650 Visiting 40 towns, 134 villages, humorous isolated houses in outlying districts on the fringe of the great desert, and for every mi it went a copy of the Scriptures into the possession of an Early one morning a soldier "discovered a Gospel in his own tongue, and soon after he had returned' to camp with his treasure a company of his comrades paraded at the ear and were encouraged by their officers to fall out and. purchase books both French and Bambara, their ye tongue. In Morocco' colpor-3 reached places far away the Atlas region which had probably never been' previously visited by Bible-sellers.
In Turkey the political changes of recent yeats are making it more easy for the Society's workers to place the Scriptures in the hands of Turks—in and around Consta tinople, at least. The reaction against Atabie elements in the Turkish language, and changes in the language itself, have rendered necessary a revision of the Osmanti version and the reprinting of roman. characters. This. revision is proceeding under the auspices of the American Bible Sceiety and the British and Foreign Bible Society. of the revised Gospel of St. Matthew was rapidly sold out ina few months. The first edition of 10,000 copies of Pro. Yerbs in roman characters, printed a few years ago, was also exhausted oint' became necessary.
T understand. by observation and experience, respect for the Bible increasing' among the Turks.
Almost. 60,000 volumes of Seripture were distributed in Persia and Trag, mostly by the colporteurs, and this was considerably in advance of previous figures. In one remote dependent up stakes and funnels, 90 arranged in order that the centre of the deck may be clear for the {three lines of car track.
As the ship left the ways she Ras named Changkiang, the nam: ing ceremony being gracefully, performed by "Madame Quo Tai-Chi, the wife of the Chinese Minister in London,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.