The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-09

en him directly by the Great Spirit, and they had come to learn about it. They were directed to Captain William Clark The explorer and Indian eOmm ssloner, The story when ubllshed resulted in Che sending of Methodist and Cathollc mlssionaries to the New Peroe indians and in the printing in 1871 of NeH Percc Bible,
 A Cherokee worked out Cherokee alphabet in 1891, and by lS3l the soci- ety had published most of the Bible in that language, Tho greatest of all the Indian translatIons was the complete Bible In Dakota, the tongue of the Sioux, published in 1879,
 Often the translator had had Go cro- ate words as well as alphahets, How shall the dweller in some low lying atoll know the word mountain? How write Lamb of God for Estimos, who know no lambs? Little seal" the translator had to put It al last.
 Bad to eat" was as near as the translator into mosquito could get to sin Nice smelp' had to serve as na- tive Australian for frankncense. In Uganda the translator had to walt five years before he could catch word that meant plague Then one day he heard man bewailing the influx of rats, such a "dlbebu" they were Out came the notebook down went the long sought word.
 How translate the gospel Into an- guage that has no words for city, mar riage, wheat, barley, in which pig, rat and dog exhaust tho geological terms, in which the word for five Is my hand, for six, my hand and one" and SO on,
 Then the revision. An American trans lated the Gospel of Matthew Into Mic mac for the Nova Scotian Indians After all his long toll and faithful proofreader up from the south came the printed word, and he read the pug ziinB sentence, "A pair of snow shoes shall rise up against a pair of snow shoes. One letter wrong had changed nation into pair of snow shoes"
 But If for some races the translator mad to create a written language. for others he worked in fear of criticism more learned than hls own, The story of the Arabic Bible, the greatest Of modern translations and the greatest of al Bibles in non Christian tongue, re- minds one of Aldus and his Venice print shon.
 The first task was the creation of |; type which should pass muster with the fastldious and artistic Mohammedan scholars, who to this day prefer manu- script books to printed volumes. In cludlng vowel points 1S00 differen types are necessary to print an Arabic alphabet.
 The creation of the steel punches with which to strike the matrices to cast tho type in a form to dIsarm all criticism, and their eventful casting at Lelpsic. whither they were transported overland from Syria, took five years. The whole work proceeded al the same rate. Every proof was corrected by the 100 leading authorities In tho world, Syrian Arabic, American and European.
 No Occidental can conceive the com plexity of page of Arabic proof. or the sight destroying labor of reading it. Men grew gray and lost their eye sight putting the work Into type From Inc moment of Its inception to that of It's hnal electrotyping in ten different forms. seventy-slX years passed, and the American Bible society had spent $l00, 100 on 1t.
 The result Is the standard Arabic Bl- ble which clrculates all along the North African coast, across the Sahara to Timhuktu, and south to Niger and Mombasa- II Is called for at the Cape Cape of Good Hope, In Persia, Central Asia, India, China. Malaysia. the Philip pines, Yucatan and Brazil Imported from Beirut it Is the Bible used by Syraus in New York and Chicago.
 One of the heroic tales of inc socie- tvs annals is that of Bishop Scheres- chewsly, who, stricken with paralysis. pounded out a Chinese translation with two fingers on the typewriter. For twenty years preceding his death he was practically confined to an arm chair, During this time he translated the whole Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew Into the Easy Wenli dla- lect of China.
 He was unable to speak plainly enough to be understood by chinese scribe, He could not hold a pen, hav- Ing only one finger on each hand under control. so he made the translation with these two fingers on the typwrit- CT, and it was then copied by hand Into tho Easy Wenli dialect by Chinese woman, Mrs. Wei His original type written manuscript is now preserved in the Lenox Library as a monument of one of the most stupendous literary m dertakinEs ever made.
 In ninety-one years of existence the society contributed sO.t2O,3S2 copies of tho Bible. Last year it distributed 2,oOo,ooo. These Bibles are paid for in queer circulating medium sometimes Within i's history tho society has accepted dried cocoanuts. salt fish knives, spoons, rugs. beads cowrle shells, grass mats bracelets. porpoisa teeth. rice. sugar cane and south SeA Island money for Bibles. In little na | tive boats the colporteurs creep down among the islands By dog sedge and l komatik In Alaska, by Buffalo cart ir | Borneo, camel in tho Gobi desert mul train and llama pack in the Andes, h,
 elephant and straw matched cart ir | Siam and native junk on Chinese rlver' l they push their wares. One white man and his wife noated s,n0 miles dowr | the Lena river on m open raft witt l half ton of Bibles, selling gospels tr | the Yakuts In their own language. Colporteurs distributed Bibles ir
 twenty-seven different languages in tn.
 United States last year They founi | cd down stairs in tenement houses b, | free thinking immigrants Tho socie' | tvs colporteur among the Poles anf l Russians of the Chicago stock yard,
 Is Paul Chaser who. as member o
 the first Russian duma in 1o1s, and h, | reason of that fact was hanished tr ] r..l.. |. l