Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
1923, $50 Copies OF Bible
Or Parts Placed Last Year
Circulation Increases in Ma ny Lands but Many Homes
Still Are Without Bibles; CCC Camps Supplied
and Service Is Rend cred to Blind PEOPLE

7222355O COPIES 80. cmfCinp
New York, May ia continued
demand for the Bible throughout the
world was reported at the 120th an
nual meeting of the American Bible
Society held on Thursday, May IA, at
it's Headquarters in Bible House, Aston
place. New York City. The Society
distributed during 1885, at home and
abroad. 7,223,55O volumes of Bibles
Testaments and Portions of the Bible
in 1872 languages and dialects. Scrip
TIRES in over one hundred languages
were circulated in the United States
alone.
The years circulation brings the
grand total of Scriptures distributed
by the Society during it's 12O years
OF service to more than a quarter of
billion volumes.
Circulation Increased in Many Lands.
An increase of thirty percent was
reported from the Philippine Islands.
In China, for the fifth year in sue
cession, more entire Bibles were dis
tributed by the Bible Societies than in
any earlier year since the beginning
".
A marked increase occurred in Siam,
thousands of Scripture portions being
distributed in villages previously UNI
reached, and in eastern Siam the dis
tribution accompanied a widespread
movement toward Christianity in
which whole villages were affected. In
Japan the circulation exceeded that of
the preceding three years, and in
Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Bulgaria
the Societys colportuers placed more
entire Bibles than in any previous
year. From the Society's agency in
Brazil came the report of a decided
increase.
4OOth Anniversary of Printed
English Bible.
From the national and regional com
mittees appointed last year to COM
memorate four hundred years of the
first printing of the English Bible
came a report stating that many hum
dreds of communities had held an
niversary programs sponsored locally
Tens of thousands of churches O1ser-
we'd the commemoration through adj
dresses, exhibits of historic Bibles, APP
propriate exercises in church schools
and in young peoples societies. The
anniversary was recognized in col
leges and universities, by women's or
CARNATIONS, service clubs and by other
groups not directly related to the
churches. Pamphlets, leaflets, a pag-
cant drama, special articles, news
items, editorials, and a national broad
cast were among the channels thro-
ugh which the commemoration reach
ed the people of America.
Many Homes without Bibles.
Numerous fresh efforts to spread
the Scriptures among the people of
the United States were reported. In
city in upstate New York a veteran
colporteur visited 1902 families or in
dividuals, finding about one-fifth
without Bibles. In many centers the
400th anniversary commemoration
stirred pastors and ministerial asso-
Citations to survey the needs Of their
communities. One minister canvassed
every home in a large parish and
finding one-tenth of them without the
Scriptures supplied them.
CCC Camps Supplied.
The Society continued to supply
New Testaments free to the boys in
the Civilian Conservation Corps thro-
ugh the chaplains. Since the organiza-
ton of the CCC the Society has fur
nished nearly 100000 Testaments and
several thousand Bibles. The chief of
chaplains, after an extensive tour in
forty-five states, wrote the Society
that the Scriptures are generally US
ed by all those who receive them and
that he seldom visited a day-room
after working hours in which he had
not seen a number of men reading the
Society's Testaments.
There was reported a continuation
of the steady supplying of Scriptures
to workers in Federal and state pri-
sons, local jails, hospitals, and chill
dren's homes, to mission churches and
missionaries, at ports to sailors, and
to a core of other groups in cities and
country. Bibles were distributed from
the farthest north hospital at Point
Barrow, Alaska.
A Century's Service to the Blind.
In April, 1885, the Society complet-
ed one hundred years of work for the
Blind, during which period total of
121,400 volumes of Scriptures were
supplied in % systems and languages
The Society inaugurated a new SER
vice to the Blind last year in manu-
facturiny Scripture passages in talk
ing book form on double-faced rec
ords, which can be used on any new