Jand ig particularly interested Lamaland and is, prepared to spend. considerable sums of money in circulating the Scriptures. For 25 years enormous quantities of literature printed in the Tibetan language have been, distributed among the lamas and nomads with apparently Ultle or no result, but the N.BSS. is stil prepared to carry on this good work. In preaching to the lamas I have always avoided the most beautiful "story in the English literature: and for obvious reasons.
Quite recently a journalist got into trouble with the Japanese in Shang-hal, and when he appealed to his Minister, the Minister replied: "Good heavens! You surely dont want us to declare war on the Japanese." Yet the New Testament is very largely a declaration of war on the Tibetan lama, We read: Then assembled together the chief lamas and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtility and kill him." "Further: "Then the high lama rent his clothes, stying, "He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of wite nesses?" Again: "The chief lamas sought how they might take him by raft, and put him to death" And soon through the pages the lama's Ditterness and opposition to. Christ rows from day to day till their final culmination in the words: "Away with him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.