This ig the one hundred and twenty-eighth year of Bible society work in China, In spite of the dimeult conditions which exist throughout the country owing to the hostilities with Japan, there hay been an unusual demand for copies of the Scriptures, according to the report for last year of the China Bible House, which isan amalgamation of the British and Foreign, Bible Society and the American Bible Society in this part of the world. The report hay just been, issued, and makes most interesting fe ing. The circulation of the China Bible oust during the past year was 117170 Bibles, 100,170 New Testaments, and 3,619,551 "portions," make ing a total of 4,045,906 volumes. As the report To appreciate this record one must bear in mind the diMicutties which have been overcome fo make it possible. "There are. so many" bat fronts in China that it requires constant study ta discover, what lines of transportation are. open, Quick changes in plans often become necessary arried out, that was the case, wi lunged. that as many books at possible be shipped Indo-China for transport by rail to Kun The morning one large shipment word came that the railway line hi fed in Haiphong and the handling of cargo. waa fora. thine suspended. Adter four months hat particular consignment of Scriptures ins not been recovered, The transportation problems were one reason for introducing a new line of smaller sized Bibles and Testaments, the smallest of which is, only three and a half inches by two and a half Inches. Since the disruption of much of th communications system of the country and Feturn of the old-style postal courier, thes ismail' volumes have proved Be the most convenient, and students in the Me {erior, who have been moved to comparatively remote spot as the result of either the cupation or the bombing of the sites of their universities and colleges, have given these small volumes a great welcome, These communica. tions dimeuities have also ied to the placing of printing orders with formerly unknown pressed {in the interior, and often to the use of the most primitive type of paper. In Chengtu, for ox-ample, New Testaments were printed' on Chiese bamboo paper. from matrices which were lent from Shanghai by alr mall letter post, Other volumes have been printed on. paper which haz been made in the most primitive [Paper mills. The report describes the production of tome thiy pay the chinese 8 primitive Back Int Finally native glue and well stirred." A' fibre screen. the Size of the desired paper, 1s now dipped into the Inistre, Taled above, the vat unt the water Grains off. What hae formed on the screen is paper, 'Tis 1s now stuck against the sides of a Forge atone oven, which Is heated from the inst fand allowed to ary. Thus one sheet of Paper is made ata time. It is "Hand Made" as well as "stade' in Chi From Hero and There Most girls have the skin they love to retouch, 'A. woman's face is her fortune only when it draws a lot of interest inexe ip looking rather old lately."
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