THE SEED IS THE WORD

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 11, 1906

THE SEED IS THE WORD.

THE ninetieth annual meeting of the American Bible Society, which was held on May 10, in the Bible House, New York City, presents some interesting features. The debt which was reported a year ago has been paid, and the new year opens with a balance of $27,477 in the treasury. The total cash receipts of the year were $842,488. The total issues of the year amount to 2,236,755, about two-fifths of these volumes being issued in New York, and three-fifths from the mission presses in China, Japan, Siam, Syria, and Turkey. The figures are by far the largest in the society’s history of ninety years. The circulation of the Bible in foreign countries during the past year, shows that China has received over 500,000 copies, and Japan half as many. More than 100,000 copies have gone to the Philippines, which before the American occupation were absolutely closed to the free circulation of the Scriptures. In Latin America more than 130,000 Bibles and parts of Bibles have been distributed in the past year. The work of the American Bible Society is supported by contributions from nearly all the American Protestant churches, including our own. Its production of cheap and uniform editions of the Scriptures is one of the most efficient factors in home missionary work, and it deserves the hearty support of all the churches.—Christian Advocate.