The Bible and missions . en financed. Year after yeargrants have been made to some missionary or in aid of the translation of the Bible. The firstbook ever published by the British and ForeignBible Society, in 1804, was St. Johns Gospel in thelanguage of the Mohawk Indians, a great expense forfew people. The same society voted Morrison ^50,-coo for expenses incurred in preparing and printinghis first Chinese Bible. With no niggardly hand thesocieties co-operate with the missionaries, preparingthe versions, printing the editions, and sending themout, carriage free, to stations often
The Bible and missions . en financed. Year after yeargrants have been made to some missionary or in aid of the translation of the Bible. The firstbook ever published by the British and ForeignBible Society, in 1804, was St. Johns Gospel in thelanguage of the Mohawk Indians, a great expense forfew people. The same society voted Morrison ^50,-coo for expenses incurred in preparing and printinghis first Chinese Bible. With no niggardly hand thesocieties co-operate with the missionaries, preparingthe versions, printing the editions, and sending themout, carriage free, to stations often most remote. Fromone agency in one year missions of seventeen differ-ent denominations have been supplied with and The enormous and continuous salecontinuous caie of of the Bible Staggers belief. Yearthe Bible. after year, decade after decade, the sale goes on, gathering volume as it goes. It is diffi-cult to bring together the total sales. There are theBible Societies, the commercial publishing houses ^. :#^%
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