The Bible and missions . Take its topics. They are the great fundamentalsin which all men alike are concerned; life and death,sin and righteousness, God and the soul. It sets outto answer questions that rise in the soul of man,savage and philosopher, saint and sinner, white andblack alike, and will not be silenced. Whence am I?What does life mean? Where am I going? To whatpurpose is it all? Its answers have a quiet authoritylike the mountains, which do not ask our poorconsenting. Consider its style: so styleless that the Book canbe translated into any language without loss of ener-gy; so devoi
The Bible and missions . Take its topics. They are the great fundamentalsin which all men alike are concerned; life and death,sin and righteousness, God and the soul. It sets outto answer questions that rise in the soul of man,savage and philosopher, saint and sinner, white andblack alike, and will not be silenced. Whence am I?What does life mean? Where am I going? To whatpurpose is it all? Its answers have a quiet authoritylike the mountains, which do not ask our poorconsenting. Consider its style: so styleless that the Book canbe translated into any language without loss of ener-gy; so devoid of ornament that its poetry in all itsnaked beauty is poetry to Occident as to Orient; sofree from all self-consciousness or pose that its narra-tives need depend on no adjective or descriptivephrase to heighten their effectiveness or drive hometheir point. Some of the most precious treasures ofthe worlds literature are pale or tasteless in trans- Drop Eight Oibles at each telegrapb post fromNew York to San Franeisco. WL^^SJ^x ^ jtfter (31 triPiSthere will be ^ left of the ,000 BIBLES Meripture Portions Message of the Old Testament 9 lation, because their beauty is so largely in themarriage of thought to sound and rhythm. TheKoreans say of the Bible, **It can not be so beautifulin any other speech as in our Korean. It speaks toour souls. Of no other great literature can it be said that intranslation it actually supplants the original in theworlds esteem. Great in its reticence the Book is adapted to a long lifeof continued influence. Consider the handicap whichany sacred hterature written in the worlds childhoodhas to surmount; those impossible cosmogonies of theEgyptians, the Greeks, the Romans; that centralmountain of Buddhism with its seven encirclingocean belts, each millions of miles in circumference;that Chinese view of the great Demiurge at work onhis world: His breath made the wind, his voice the thunder; his lefteye the sun, his right eye th
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