This year we celebrated the fourth centenary of the English Bible. But as the Archbishop 04 Canterbury in calling for the observances in June so clearly reminded us, "The more we value our English Bible, the more we are bound to enable other races, nations and tribes to read or hear the Word of God in their own tongues wherein they were born.' And it is deeply significant that in this year we also celebrate the tran-station and publication of some substantial part of the Holy Scriptures in more than 1,000 languages and dialects, 173 of them in Europe, 212 in Asia, 345 in Africa, 89 in the Americas, and 189 in Oceania.
We think of'our'own English translators—Caedmon and Bede, John Wycliffe, Tyndale and Miles Cover-dale; to-name a few of them. In China, of Robert Morrison, who clung to his foothold at the barred gates of Cbtna; serving as a clerk and inter-prefer in Canton, that he might la seventeen long years put the scriptures into the language of the millions behind the barriers. William Carey in India, Judson in Burma, Henry Martyn in Persia, Robert Moffat in Africa, and so one might go on, But these are a few, and a few only of the better known names. But there are hundreds upon hundreds of whom the world will never hear but each of whom some band of Christians in some obscure tribe, will forever hold in grateful memory, because through him the Eternal Light shone upon them. pr
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.