Article May 18, 1957 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Herschell H. Richmond

From an American Bible Society release, New York, New York

There has probably never been a greater evidence of the power and need for the Bible than has been shown by the thousands of requests for Scriptures received by the American Bible Society from the desperate and homeless Hungarian people.

"The very first convoy of trucks driving into Budapest found terrible depredation—absence of bread, loss of great stocks of clothing—but the cry was for an adequate supply of Scriptures," according to a report made to the Bible Society by [a] well-known churchman whose information came from an authenticated source.

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