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The Bible House at New York City

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 28, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 22.

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The Bible House at New York City

THE BIBLE HOUSE AT NEW YORK CITY has recently made a shipment of 1,000 Bibles on a voyage of 15,000 miles. Poison was worked into the covers of the books to hinder the operations of destroying insects. The Bibles were soldered up in tin boxes containing ten each, for protection against waves and weather. The tin boxes were repacked in pairs in heavy wooden crates designed to withstand the hard knocks incident to many reloadings and to long journeys under varying conditions. These Bibles, being a part of the eighth edition printed in the language of the Gilbert Islands, are to arrive ultimately at Ocean Island, a small speck in the Pacific 5,000 miles southwest of San Francisco, lying almost under the equator. Ocean Island is only a mile and a half in diameter, but it is visited by many steamers on account of its rich deposits of phosphate. Hence its choice as a distributing center for Bibles in the islands of the Gilbert group.