Christian Endeavorers 
 
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 A CHINESE COLPORTEUR. 
 
 1900-J90I 
 
THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, 
 
 PRESIDENT. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
 
 JoSHTTA L. Chamberlain, Me. 
 Oliver O. Howard, Vt. 
 CORILANDT Parker, N. J. 
 Frank M. Cockrell, Mo. 
 
 John W. Foster, D. C. 
 TnEOpniLus A. Brouwer, N. Y. 
 Cyrus NORTimor, Minn. 
 
 James H. Carlisle, S. C. 
 Howard Van Errs, Ga. 
 
 James H. TAft, N. Y. 
 
 Annis Merrill, Cal. 
 
 William P. Dillingham, Vt. 
 
 E. E. Beard, Tenn. 
 
 David J. Brewer, D. 0. 
 Merrill E. Gates, D. C. 
 William J. Northen, Ga. 
 Edward II. East, Tenn. 
 William A. Robinson, Ky. 
 Elbert A. Brinckeriioff, N. J. 
 John Noble Stearns, N. Y. 
 James A. Beater, Pa. 
 
 Daniel C. Gilman, Md. 
 Benjamin Harrison, Ind. 
 
 John B. Smith, N. H. 
 
 Francis M. Drake, la. 
 
 Horace Hitchcock, Mich. 
 
 SECRETARIES. 
 
 Rev. EDWARD W. GILMAN, D.D. REV. JOHN FOX, D.D. 
 Rev. WILLIAM I. HAVEN, D.D. 
 
 TREASURER. 
 WILLIAM FOULKE. 
 
 MANAGERS. 
 
 Term-lS97 to I'.'Ol. 
 
 William Hoyt. Ezra B. Tuttle. Alexander Maitland. 
 
 T. G. Sellew. James S. Raker. Henry S. Stearns, M.D 
 
 George Foster Peabody. Henry C. M. Ingraham. 
 
 Andrew C. Armstrong. 
 Alexander E. Orr. 
 Gerard Beekman. 
 
 John E. Parsons. 
 Frederick Sturges. 
 F. Wolcott Jackson. 
 
 William T. Booth 
 Churchill H. Cutting. 
 John S. Pierson. 
 
 Term-1898 to 1902. 
 
 E. Francis Hyde. 
 
 H. D. Nicoll, M.D. 
 William H. Harris. 
 
 Term—1899 to 1903. 
 John Crosby Brown. 
 George G. Reynolds. 
 James A. Punderford. 
 
 Term—1900 to 1904. 
 Daniel J. Holden. 
 John S. McLean. 
 
 Wm. j. Sciheffelin. 
 
 Ezra P. Hoyt, M.D. 
 Edward P. Tenney. 
 A. H. Gilbert. 
 
 John Truslow. 
 George E. Sterry. 
 Thomas Whittaker. 
 
 James Wood. 
 
 Charles D. Leterich. 
 Edward Kirk Billings- 
 
 The American Bible Society Scries, No. 7. 
 
 1900: 7: 30, lOM. 
 
A FAMILIAR LETTER. 
 
 Dear Endeavorer : 
 
 That you value the Bible highly is proved by your 
 pledge to read it every day, and to do what Christ 
 has there said he would have you do. 
 
 But do you know that there are hundreds of lan¬ 
 guages and dialects, spoken by possibly two hundred 
 millions of people, into which no part of the Bible 
 has yet been even translated ? 
 
 A hundred years ago there were only fifty-six 
 languages which had been favored with some ver¬ 
 sion of the Bible. During this century the number 
 of languages has been brought up to four hundred, 
 but of these less than one hundred possess the entire 
 Bible, and into scores of them only a single book of 
 it has been translated. 
 
 The population of the world is about one and a 
 half billion souls. If all the Bibles, Testaments, and 
 single books of the Bible that have ever been printed 
 were available to-day they could only supply one 
 fifth of the human race. But when we remember 
 that nineteen twentieths of all these copies have been 
 absorbed by Protestant lands, the destitution in the 
 rest of the world is pitifyl. The great work already 
 done is, therefore, only a fair beginning of the 
 greater task of translating the whole word of Ood 
 into every language under heaven, and placing a 
 copy of it in the hands of each of His children. 
 
 Is it not the chief duty of the Church and of every 
 individual Christian to promote the spread of the 
 Holy Scriptures, to the knowledge of which we owe 
 our own salvation ? 
 
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 Have you or your Society yet taken any part in 
 this glorious work f Do you knoiv how you can f 
 
 Our great national agency for securing new trans¬ 
 lations, and for printing and circulating the Scrip¬ 
 tures in all lands, is the American Bibee Society. 
 During the past eighty-four years it has sent out 
 over sixty-seven million volumes of Scriptures. 
 
 The American Bibee Society needs and claims 
 the help of all Christian Endeavorers, because : 
 
 1. Its work is essential in winning the world '■'■for 
 Christ and the Church.” 
 
 S. There is nothing wasteful or doubtful in its aim 
 or methods. Its funds are used solely for circulat¬ 
 ing the Bible without note or comment. 
 
 S. It is most cordially all-denominational, re¬ 
 sponding to needs both at home and abroad with¬ 
 out regard to sect. 
 
 4 . The Bible is the best missionary. The paralyz¬ 
 ing of the American Bibee Society through lack 
 of funds would mean the crippling of all missionary 
 societies which must look to it for Scriptures. 
 
 5. The diversion to other denominational enter¬ 
 prises and to local charities of streams of benev¬ 
 olence which should come to the treasury of the 
 Bible Society is a danger to which all should be 
 alive The possibility of such a danger is simply 
 that the Society's work of circulating a million and 
 a half volumes yearly is carried on so quietly as 
 not to command the attention and support which 
 it deserves. This is all the more reason why you 
 who now know the need should help. 
 
 Will not yon and your Society taUe a part 
 in this great work ? 
 
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 A full SHARE is $30. 
 
 Donors of this amount in a single payment may 
 designate themselves or some one else as a Life 
 Member of the American Bibee Society, entitled 
 to draw annually one dollar's worth of Scriptures 
 for distribution. 
 
 What $30 will do. 
 
 It will support a colporteur to represent you in 
 the Orient for six months. 
 
 It will provide 150 destitute families with the 
 entire Bible, or 600 with the New Testament, or 
 1,000 with a single Oospel. 
 
 If you cannot raise a full share fSO, can you not 
 take half a share ^15, or one third flO. The Juniors 
 are glad to help by filling collecting cards, which 
 will be sent on request. 
 
 All societies that will give a meeting to this ob¬ 
 ject, and send a conti-ibution large or small, may 
 receive for one year, free, the Bible Society 
 Record, a sixteen page monthly paper with in¬ 
 teresting news from many lands—very helpful for 
 missionary meetings-. 
 
 There will also be sent to any one who will try to 
 help the cause, and who is properly vouched for, a 
 collecting card and copies of this booklet for dis¬ 
 tribution, and a pamphlet containing specimens of 
 translations in 24:2 languages. 
 
 You have been ''put in trust with the gospel." 
 
 Please do not lay this aside till you and your So¬ 
 ciety have done something to fulfill this sacred trust. 
 
 Send all eontrihutions to 
 
 WILLIAM FOULKE, Treas., 
 
 Bible House, NeW York. 
 
What Can the Young People 
 Do For the Bible Cause ? 
 
 BY WILLIAM SHAW, 
 
 Treasurer, United Society of Christian Endeavor. 
 
 T his is a practical question, and deserves 
 a practical answer. I might confine my¬ 
 self to referring to the need of cultiva¬ 
 ting a personal love for the word on the part 
 of the young people, or speak of plans and 
 methods of securing better results from Bible 
 study. But the Spirit does not lead me along 
 these lines. As a business man, I have been 
 thinking of the business side of the question. 
 
 The American Bible Society is the recog¬ 
 nized agency for the publication and circulation 
 of the Bible. It was dear to the hearts of the 
 fathers who gave to it largely both of prayer 
 and money. But for some reason it dropped 
 out of sight while the claims of other forms of 
 missionary work were pressed upon the churches. 
 Some months ago, I heard Mr. Colton (the 
 special Agent for Eastern Massachusetts) de¬ 
 liver the first address on the needs of the Bible 
 Society that I have heard for more than fifteen 
 years. A generation has grown up that “ knows 
 not Joseph,” and to whom the story of the mag- 
 
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 nificent work done by this old Society is as fresh 
 as the latest novel. 
 
 Therefore, in answering the question I have 
 asked, I would say : 
 
 I. Let the young people inform themselves 
 concerning the work that must be done by this 
 Society, if it is to be done at all. The work is 
 fundamental. Before any real progress can be 
 
 made in mission lands, the people must have the 
 word. If I had to choose between the mission¬ 
 ary without the Bible, or the Bible without the 
 missionary, I would choose the latter. God s 
 word shall not return unto him void. But I 
 need not say that I prefer both the man and the 
 Book, 
 
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 2. By furnishing a score or a hundred such 
 splendid fellows as Captain Carrington, the ear¬ 
 nest Christian Endeavorer, who is scattering the 
 Bible in Siam. No better missionary work is 
 being done by any man in any land. 
 
 3. The most important service the young 
 people can render to this and every other good 
 cause, is to make their business a branch of the 
 King’s business. The loudest call for the ex¬ 
 tension of Christ s kingdom to-day comes to 
 business men. And yet there are many young 
 men who when converted think they must enter 
 the ministry. The men and the machinery are 
 ready, but the money is minus. God made sil¬ 
 ver ore as well as sermon ore, but man must 
 mine and mint it before it will pass current in 
 the markets of the world. People to-day do 
 not need special instruction as to how to make 
 money, but we do need light on how to spend it. 
 Young people need to be taught that it is just 
 as sacred a thing to make money for the exten¬ 
 sion of God’s kingdom as to make sermons. 
 More than anything else, the Bible Society needs 
 money to-day that it may enter open doors with 
 God’s word. 
 
 What shall we do. Make provision for the 
 presentation of this work in the churches. In¬ 
 form the people. Give them a chance to give. 
 Let the seed, which is the word, be scattered, 
 and abundant harvests will be ours. 
 
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 WHAT THE AMERICAN BIBLE 
 SOCIETY DOES 
 
 For America; 
 
 1. It forces down the price of Bibles for 
 everybody by selling them at cost. 
 
 2. It searches out the poor and 7 ieglected in 
 cities and in isolated regions who would other* 
 wise be deprived of God’s word. 
 
 3. It supplies the brave men of our army 
 and navy, and through its auxiliaries, the in¬ 
 mates of hospitals, prisons, homes, and many 
 other institutions. 
 
 For Foreign Lands: 
 
 1. It promotes the accurate translation of the 
 Scriptures into other languages, a work requir¬ 
 ing wise unsectarian supervision. For each 
 sect to make its own translations would mean 
 great extravagance and increase of the scandal 
 of divided Christendom. 
 
 2. It bears the expense of printing and bind¬ 
 ing these translations, a work beyond private 
 enterprise and the resources of missionary 
 boards. The extensive printing of Scriptures 
 in Turkish, Armenian, and Greek at Constan¬ 
 tinople, in Arabic at Beirut, Syria, as well as 
 similar work in China, Japan, and elsewhere, 
 is, in reality, done at the expense of the Bible So¬ 
 ciety, though missionary boards naturally often 
 get the credit for it, as the work is done in 
 their fields and in connection with their mis¬ 
 sionaries. 
 
 3. It maintains a thorough and extensive 
 system of distribution through about three hun- 
 
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 dred able and devoted agents and colporteurs, 
 who also expound and vindicate the Scriptures 
 
 THREE JUMNA GIRLS. 
 
 in the home, the shop, or the street. These 
 brave workers are the advance guard of the 
 
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 great missionary army that is to conquer the 
 world for Christ. 
 
 4. It thus lays the foundation for and sup¬ 
 plements the work of foreign missionary socie¬ 
 ties of every creed. 
 
 “The Bible is the missionary,as a dis¬ 
 tinguished missionary has himself pointed out. 
 It is practically the only missionary for reach¬ 
 ing Mohammedans, Roman Catholics, and 
 Greeks in lands where the direct efforts of 
 preachers and teachers are not tolerated or 
 are obstructed, as in Turkey, Arabia, Austria, 
 Spain, South America, and Russia. 
 
 The Increase in Gifts 
 
 to the American Bible Society should be im¬ 
 mediate and abundant because of the increas¬ 
 ing importance of its work, and because 
 
 1. Its foTinen income has been Inn^ely^ divented 
 by the increasing appeals for denominational 
 causes and for local charities. Christians of 
 all creeds accept God’s word, and should not 
 forget that their jh'st duty is to spread it, 
 the source of all truth and life. How can 
 any chuch treat this cause as an “outside 
 object! ’’ 
 
 2. Its work is easily forgotten because it is 
 done quietly and out of sight. The prepara¬ 
 tion and distribution of Scriptures, though 
 essential, is not romantic. It is like the work 
 of stokers who feed the fires that drive the 
 ocean liner. 
 
 3. There is a false impression that the Society is 
 rich. The fact is that its entire income from 
 investments and from rents of that part of the 
 
PRESS ROOM OF THE A'lERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, 
 The Modern Miracle of Pentecost. 
 

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 Bible House not used for its own manufactur¬ 
 ing plant is only enough to carry on its work 
 for six weeks. The Society needs at least 
 $250,000 a year from the public. 
 
 Let all who believe the Bible give this cause 
 their love, prayers, and support. 
 
 A SUPREME CLAIM. 
 
 The American Bible Society is limited by 
 its charter to the sole object of circulating the 
 Bible without note or comment. 
 
 Thus none of its work can be of a temporary, 
 doubtful, or controversial character. There is no 
 waste to the Bible. It is, therefore, a cause 
 peculiarly worthy of being remembered with gener¬ 
 ous bequests. The spiritual investments which 
 it offers are of the highest value, bonds of the 
 kingdom of heaven. Whether a contribution 
 or a legacy, your money will be used solely to 
 promote the knowledge of'the tinadulterated word of 
 God. This is the world’s greatest need, and 
 will continue to be as long as the world 
 stands. 
 
 How much will you give to meet it ? 
 
 ‘ Unto whomsoever much is given of him shall be 
 much required.” “And he saw also a poor widow 
 casting in thither two mites.” 
 
 Form of a Bequest to the Society. 
 
 I give and bequeath to the American Bible Society, 
 formed in New York in the year eighteen hundred 
 and sixteen, and incorporated in the year eighteen 
 
 hundred and forty-one, the sum of., 
 
 to be applied to the charitable uses and purposes of 
 said Society. 
 
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 FACTS FROM THE FIELD. 
 
 O NLY the briefest items can be given from 
 the Annual Report, and the Bible 
 Society Record, published monthly. 
 
 THE NEW WORLD. 
 
 The countries of Mexico, Central and South 
 America, are wrapt up in our own destiny. 
 Our commercial and political interest, as well 
 as our religious duty, demand that we should 
 give them the enlightenment and stimulus that 
 come from the open Bible. This will not be 
 done unless we do it, for the religious forces 
 of Europe have left the new world to us. In 
 answer to prayer, our opportunities have been 
 greatly increased. All legal obstructions to 
 the circulation of the Scriptures in these lands 
 have at last been removed. 
 
 We cannot reap without sowing. Now is 
 the seed-time. The seed is the word. God 
 has done his part by preparing the seed and 
 the soiL Shall we do ours by putting in the 
 seed ? 
 
 CUBA AND PUERTO RICO. 
 
 We have given our bullets to free them from Span¬ 
 ish tyranny. Let us now give them our Bibles that 
 they may be free indeed. The Bible Society now 
 appeals for special gifts to meet this new, sacred, and 
 patriotic duty at our doors, as well as in the distant 
 Philippines. 
 
 MEXICO. 
 
 half a million copies of the Scriptures are 
 yet in the hands of the twelve millions of Mexicans. 
 
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 Oar Nearest Neighbors. 
 
 In 1899 we circulated 26,264 volumes. In 
 face of all difficulties we can double these 
 nunibers each year if the free Bible loving 
 Christians of America will give the means. 
 We were only able to slightly increase the 
 work last year. Mr. Hamilton, in charge of 
 this Agency, writes : 
 
 These poor people, “for whom no man careth,” 
 after they have humbly listened to a chapter from the 
 Bible, will make sacrifices to obtain it. They offer, 
 in default of money, a rosary, a crucifix, pictures of 
 saints, the sandals off their feet, eggs, firewood, any¬ 
 thing in their poor possession, to obtain a copy of 
 the “book of God,” as they call it. 
 
 There is a slow and quiet movement in Mexico 
 toward the simpler and deeper religion of the New 
 Testament. The Mexicans are not an irreligious 
 people; sheer atheism is not known ; they have only 
 been crushed by ecclesiasticism in times past. 
 
 CENTRAL AMERICA 
 
 This Agency, with half a dozen colporteurs, 
 covers the Isthmus of Panama, Costa Rica, 
 Honduras, San Salvador, Guatemala, and 
 Nicaragua. Mr. Penzotti, the Agent, reports 
 that in spite of revolution, sickness, and the 
 newness of the work, '],2iS Scriptures were 
 sold, for which the people paid $1,813 34- 
 
 Of the three million inhabitants in Central America, 
 more than half are unable to read. The governments 
 of these five republics are generally progressive and 
 liberal; and while the Roman priesthood puts forth 
 all its influence to hinder progress, the current is too 
 strong for them to impede it. 
 
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 VENEZUELA AND COLOMBIA. 
 
 Mr. Norwood writes of the revolution, in 
 spite of which over 2,000 volumes were sold 
 in the half year from January to August, and 
 adds interestingly ; 
 
 While we were not allowed to distribute the 
 Scriptures among the government troops, the gen¬ 
 erals of the liberal army not only allowed us to enter 
 the barracks and offer a copy to every soldier who 
 would promise to read it, but did all in their power 
 to facilitate our plans. The courteous attention of 
 the officers, the eagerness of the men to receive the 
 book, and the marked attention given to every word 
 I said, made the work of those few days very enjoy¬ 
 able. 
 
 BRAZIL. 
 
 Mr. Tucker reports a circulation of 32,025 
 copies for the year, an increase over the sales 
 of 1898. He says : 
 
 The sales of entire Bibles and New Testaments 
 have been larger this year than ever before. There 
 can be no doubt that the Bible is becoming more 
 popular in Brazil, and that an increasing number of 
 persons are seeking after the light of God’s word. 
 
 THE LA PLATA AGENCY 
 
 embraces Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, 
 Chili, Peru, and Ecuador. Thirty-five years 
 ago this was the only Agency our Society had 
 in Latin America ; to-day it is one of six. 
 
 Power of the Bible. 
 
 The report of Mr. Milne contains many instances oi 
 conversion through Bible distribution. 
 
 “ In Las Flores eight persons in one family were 
 brought to Christ through the sale of one Bible. 
 
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 They had not read it long when they cleared out all 
 the images, saints, and relics to which they had been 
 bowing down. 
 
 “One man found a Spanish Bible in a heap of rub¬ 
 bish. The more he read the more his interest deep¬ 
 ened until he found forgiveness and rest of soul, and 
 that before attending any evangelical meeting what¬ 
 ever.” 
 
 Christianization Without the Bible. 
 
 For more than a century and a half the Jesuits had 
 absolute control over Paraguay. In three years they 
 baptized 24,970. At the time of their expulsion in 
 1767 they had the whole thoroughly christianized 
 after their manner. To-day all that remains of their 
 work is the ruins of their houses, and the orange 
 groves they planted. Not a vestige of any spiritual, 
 moral, or intellectual enlightenment. 
 
 THE LEVANT AGENCY. 
 
 _ This is in charge of Mr. Bowen at Constan¬ 
 tinople, and covers Bulgaria, European and 
 Asiatic Turkey, and Egypt. Issues last year, 
 volumes in thirty languages. 
 
 The 52,893 copies in Arabic show that a great work 
 is being quietly done among the Mohammedans who 
 cannot be reached by open preaching. 
 
 In the Track of Massacres. 
 
 More copies of Scriptures have gone into the hands 
 of those who never looked on the book than for years 
 previous ; and it has been read and explained also to 
 large groups of women. Perhaps the very fact that 
 they had seen this word trampled under feet, torn 
 and^ burned, led them to wonder what it was that 
 excited so much hatred, and lo! they found it com¬ 
 fort and rest for just such weary ones as they. 
 
 A young Armenian girl who was carried off among 
 
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 the Koords saw her own Testament in the midst of 
 plunder that was brought to the village. She did not 
 dare to ask for it, but one day after being allowed to 
 return to her own home, an Armenian friend brought 
 in an old, well-read Testament which he said he had 
 bought from a Koord, and behold ! it was her very 
 own. How God had watched over that book to 
 comfort her broken heart! Many are the scorched, 
 battered copies of God’s word which we see as we go 
 about. They were rescued from the destroyer and 
 are loved and cherished as never before. The Lord 
 breathe his Spirit’s power through them all! 
 
 CHINA. 
 
 The eyes of the world have been turned upon 
 China. This is one of the greatest fields of the 
 American Bible Society. Its issues last year 
 were 514,295 volumes. 
 
 Dr. Hykes reports that they have been scattered in 
 thousands of towns and villages, throughout eighteen 
 provinces, and will do much toward molding the 
 thought and life of the new China, which is bound 
 to supersede the old. There is a great demand for 
 Christian Scriptures far beyond what we can supply 
 with our limited funds. 
 
 The dreadful outbreak of the Boxer rebellion may 
 retard the work in the North, but vast regions are as 
 yet undisturbed. 
 
 Similar reports of the work in Japan, Korea, 
 Siam, India, Africa, and the islands of the sea 
 might be given if space permitted. 
 
 THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
 
 The Bible is practically an unknown book 
 there. The Agent of the British and Foreign 
 Bible Society sent to Manila in 1889 was 
 promptly poisoned and the work stopped. 
 
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 The American Bible Society’s Agent for 
 China, Rev. Dr. Hykes, visited the Philip¬ 
 pines immediately after the battle of Manila 
 Bay. He reported ; 
 
 I feel safe in saying that sacerdotal despotism and 
 official rapacity are alone responsible for the present 
 rebellion. The exactions and iniquities of the friars 
 are the subjects of common conversation. I thought 
 the desecration of the Cavite churches was very sug¬ 
 gestive of a changed attitude toward the Church. I 
 visited one of the churches and found that the insur¬ 
 gent soldiers had destroyed the altar and cut up the 
 images of the saints. 
 
 THE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. GOODRICH, MANILA. 
 
 I think it would be difficult to find a more needy 
 field, and the call that comes to the Protestant 
 churches of America is loud and urgent. The people 
 
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 are, and have been, without the Bible, They know 
 there is such a book, and that is about all. 
 
 The Gospel of Mark is ready in Tagalog and Pan- 
 gasinan, the two principal languages of the Philip¬ 
 pines. 
 
 The Rev, Jay C. Goodrich has been sent 
 by the Society to this field as the Agent of the 
 American Bible Society. He reports a most 
 eager demand for the Scriptures. Of a recent 
 visit to Dagupan he writes ; 
 
 We found the market place crowded, and when we 
 offered our Gospels for sale we were soon surrounded, 
 and as fast as we could make the change the people 
 bought the blessed word. It did not take long to sell 
 every book in their language that we had been able 
 to procure. Walking through the stalls afterward 
 we saw the people reading on every hand. I can¬ 
 not tell you how I longed to be able to speak words 
 of counsel and direction to them, but all I could do 
 was to mark passages and listen as they read the 
 invitations of Christ over and over again. 
 
 For three cents you can place a Spanish 
 Gospel, or for twenty-five cents a Testament, 
 English and Spanish parallel, in their hands. 
 
 THE BIBLE SOCIETY AND FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 A careful student of missionary operations 
 has said : 
 
 The Bible Society offers a wider range of Christian 
 efficiency than any missionary board. It transcends 
 denominational lines and reaches out to places and 
 peoples that are otherwise inaccessible. 
 
 TESTIMONY OF A MISSIONARY. 
 
 “ If there were no Bible Society, and as a conse¬ 
 quence no Bible, we might as well ‘pack up shop 
 and go home.’ Our first and great concern is to get 
 the word into the hands of the people and into their 
 hearts.”— Rev. Samuel Jessup, Sidon. 
 
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 DENOMINATIONAL ENDORSEMENTS. 
 
 Congregational.— ' The Bible Society is a grand aux¬ 
 iliary to our work in every —Rev, Judson Smith, 
 D.D., Secretary, American Board. 
 
 Presbyterian.—General Assembly: 
 
 “That the thanks of the Assembly be extended to 
 the American Bible Society for generous aid in 
 
 BIBLE CART, JAPAN. 
 
 supplying our missionaries with all Bibles needed for 
 gratuitous distribution, and that our churches be 
 exhorted to remember this Society in their gifts.’’ 
 
 Reformed Church.—General Synod : 
 
 “ Resolved, That we heartily and earnestly recom¬ 
 mend the American Bible Society to all our 
 churches as being worthy of our fullest confidence 
 and support, and helpful in all departments of our 
 work.”