The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-04-03
TIE NEWBERRY HERALD AND NEWS April 3, 800.

/
| are s;readiny farther and farther ana
welding the scep,er Of thcir dominant
power over incrCasinV number. Of hI.
, I.ai, :rarl,.
ND'lairc said that he was tired Of
| having it said that = doz,n Galilcap,
| had cstablithed Christianity. he said
be was going 10 destroy il. A. some
one as said. he broke down France
but he did not break Gown Cnri-,ianj-
ty. The very house in which he lived
is q depository for Bibles today, l.
was some ten years after Tom Paine,
| cage Of Reason" WAS pu(li.hcd tina,
the British and E'orniyn Hi,l. Sur,c,v
was organized in 1904, Shortly after
that three State Societies were oryar
lied in thi, country and united viii,
| the American Bihln Sncin,v i, lSlr
| a nd let Us note the grand aoyrnpa,. Of
| the work Of these two societies, Ttc
| Bible Society that was organizod in
| lS0l has published 100 600 Ono coui.. nf
the Bible and parts thereof, The
American Bible Sonjo,v Ga o,o ooo
Otbcr Bible Societies have distrioY,rd
something like 20. .UOO, 900, So ,ha, we
| have a grand agrrera,o Of sono,bi,,
| like 27j. 900 600 comics. Tti. i. ,hn
fruit, however. merely Of Christian bc.
ncvolence and this work is carried on
through voluntary con,rihu,ions ri
those who love the Bible. But in adj
dhion 10 that we have scores Of millions
OF the Bible According TO DR. Donni. in
the past century were Gistrjhn.od Yin
uOO, 900 copies Of the Bible. Now lo, ,,y
see if we can grasp that, am .nre wo
can fully. Suppose we could load ,boso
Bibles into WAGONS. We wonl1 r,,,
1000 in wagon. !, would take 1-o uno
wagons TO load them. Now. snnno.o
we try 10 haul these Bibles from tho
City OF New York and allow POO feot
70 each wagon. The procession ,cou1d
stretch from New York across the Mis-.
sissippi, across the plains, across tho
Rocky Mountains and as far across tb.
Pacific Ocean as to Honolulu. Suppose
that we could Law these Rihlov do,r,
side by side and spread ,hem ont j.,
this style. Allow foot for n Riblo
Then we would have 40 Oro Ooo of
feet, a string Of Bibles aG oOO n,i,os
long, reaching around this u}oho moro
than three times. Suppose we star, :,
railroad engine at one end of ,b,, ,;,o
"'u we get up speed Of thirty miles
an hour. 1t would take ninety davs at
The rate Of thirty miles an hour or very
nearly lhree months TO reach the other
ehd. think such facts - these are a
very strong illustration that Tom Paine
was remlss prophet.
Let us take another view of the great
speed with which these two leading So
c'e'les are doing their work The
american Bible Society publishes abou,
l'''ooo' the british Bible Society about
t"lcc mat much. So that the twopub-
!lSh ABOUT 600 for every working hour
ior every hour OF the twenty-four hours
~ ''e week 30 from these two societies
mere le howlng this perennial current
ol 'Ee waters OF life. SO while we wait
anu "h'le we nope the current flows on
ana oh " ~ on, extending further and
io' '"cr ln'o lhc VIDE waters of sin.
you were 10 silence every preacher
anu iea'e these Two great societies
rnvou nas, w." WI 0' u onr'sV would
H"o'her very Interesting part Of this
"'.N Has pech translation. When Tom
aine uttcred'hls prophecy, there we're
on'' 'or's.se'eh versions OF the Bible in
VIC "orlo' but about that time the
ga, WORK ol missions came to develop,
"uu ."'o mas come 10 'e known as the
's''o'''ry century, 1T has been nee
S W ',ehe 'he hloIe speak in the
n FX. a. ri