The sun., 1907-04-14
INSTRUCTION.
BuSin ,ss Colleges.
for their books all kinds OF peculiar ar
t.cIes from IVORY 10 a hasket OF hreadfrnit

for their books all kinds Of peculiar ar
t.cles, from ivory TO basket Of breadfruit,
a few skins, or "A baby camel.
Notable among many IS the case Of Hiram
BINGHAM, who went out to the Gilbert ISL
ands among South Sea saVages who had no
written language and where there was no
one TO teach him. Little by little this
daring pioneer gathered words from the
natives lips, learned how they combined
them into phrases, and spent night and day
for years in comparing his written notes
with what he heard around him. At last
he ventured to put the Lords Prayer and
a simple Psalm into the savage vernacular.
Next came Gospel, and then an Epistle.
and so on.
Long before China opened even five ports
To Western trade far seeing men outside
its walls We're struggling with its ideo-
graphs and getting primitive version Of
the Bible ready for the people. Again,
while Japan still refused TO let a foreigner
land upon her shores, Messrs. Gutzlaif and
Wells Williams were picking up Japanese
words from shipwTecke1 sailors and pre-
pairing, without dictionary or grammar,
one or another of the Gospels for the Jap
anose.
And so in the course of years the Bible
Society has amassed translations in more
than thirty European, forty-three Asiatic
eleven African. nine Oceanic and twelve
American tongues. Many romances Of a
remarkable kind are connected with the
manuscripts. just as DR.. Judson had fin
ished his Burmese translation OF the New
Testament he was thrown into prison. This
was in the old days before the complete
British occupation His wife. however.
took the precious manuscript and buried
it in the ground.
DR.. Judson was in a dilemma. II the
manuscript-the labor OF many years-were
left buried it would decay, while il its ex-
istence were revealed it would surely be
destroyed Ii was at last arranged that
Mrs. Judson should pack il into a roll OF
cotton and bring it into his prison in the form
of a pillow so hard and mean that even the
laier would not Covet II.
After seven months this pillow, so un-
inviting externally, yet SO precious TO Dr.
Judson, was taken away, but his wife re-
deemed It by giving a better one in ex-
change. Not long after this he was hurried
to another prison and had TO leave every-
thing behind. The old pillow was thrown
into the prison ward TO be trodden under
foot. but friendly Bknlaaa- dRscovered
the roll and took 1t home as a relic Of the
strange white prisoner. And il was in the
possession of this native that the complete
manuscript of the Bible in Burmese was
found long afterward wrapped uninjured
within the cotton.
The task of translating the Bible into
some Of the thrtv-four languages and
dialects of the Philippines was begun within
two weeks after Admiral Dewev's victory
at Manila TODAY a complete TestaYnent
in Tagalog, Ilocano and Pampanga may
be had. while the Pan9asinanes Biools.
tebuans and Levteans row read the Bible
ia their own tongues through the Gospels
shipped ont and srread broadcast in the
2.oon islands OF the Philippine group
This leads us 10 still more interesting
and romantic phase Of the worIS-the dis
tribution of the Bibles in remote and savage
laNds. The men who do this work are
evp'orers, who sometimes fall bv the wav.
victims % wild beasts. disease, hostile
savageS and the forces Of nature, ran0inc
liwhF
distrihution cost more thar s2OO ,OOO lastvear,
Notwithstanding the value received In
BAXTER aud cash.
The Amnricaq Bible Society employa
n small army ~ from four 10 five hundred
men Of intelligence and ability. These
in nIrn emO'ov great murnhers of native
cODorteurs who travel inland upon water
was, over mountains. throWgh forests.
with their pacSS on their backs or with
strange caravans Of men or beasts Of burden.