Article August 21, 1920 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Paul S. Leinbach, Craig S. Thoms

[Annual Report of American Bible Society]

The annual report of the American Bible Society shows that over 3,400,000 volumes were issued during 1919. Of these about 350,000 were Bibles, 550,000 Testaments, and 2,500,000 portions of Scriptures. Nearly 140,000,000 Scriptures have been issued by the Society during its history of one hundred and four years. During the World War 6,678,301 Testaments were distributed among the belligerent forces of all nations.

A novel feature of the year is the completion for the Chinese of the great Mandarin Version of the Bible, which has cost several hundred thousand dollars and took twenty-five years of work on the part of the translators. This version makes the Bible accessible to over four hundred million people, or one-fourth the population of the entire world—more people than were ever reached by any one translation in the history of the world.

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