The National Bible Society of Scotland has been active in China for no less than seventy years and in its annual report the Society states that Guring the year 1933 it. distributed amongst Chinese in their native land and elsewhere no fewer than 3,165,- 240 Bibles, Testaments and portions of the Scriptures in the Chinese language. During the seven decades since the Rev. Alex. Williamson landed in Chefoo a total of 62,363,- 308 Chinese Scriptures have been circulated, and it is stated in the report that with the increase of education and literacy in the country the Chinese Church is growing in appreciation of the Word of God as an instrument of evangelism. During 1982 the society printed the Book of Proverbs in Mandarin, with annotations and at the close of the first of its publication it was found hat 164,574 copies had been 0 more than four times as many as' the annual average for the unannotated work. From all over the country: letters have been received from missionaries of various affiliations reporting the excellent work that being done by these publications. The various reports from different parts of China detail the disastrous state of affairs to be found in 50 many ares, and in particular with regard to Fukien, Kuangtung and Kuangsi of which the agent writes:—
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