Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 27, 1916

Bibles and the Contending Nations

The following interesting note we clip from the United Presbyterian of January 6:—

The British Bible Society, as well as the American Bible Society, has been exerting itself to the utmost to distribute the Scriptures among the forces in the field in the great war. What a multiplicity of tongues is engaged in the struggle! Leaving out the great nations whose names readily occur to every one, there are Flemish, Bohemian, Serbian, Polish, Esthonian (West Russia), Lithuanian, Ruthenian, Lettish, Turkish, Armenian, Arabic, Dutch (in South Africa), Japanese. Hebrew, Tunisian Arabic, Fijian, Mogrevi (Morocco), Persian, Pashto (for Pathans), Urdu, Nepauli, Punjabi, Slovenian, Slovak, Finnish, and Maori. In forty-odd languages the Bible Society had the Scriptures ready when war broke out; sometimes in portions, sometimes the whole Bible, in other cases the New Testament only. The plates were ready to print off editions of any size. The society's agents have been distributing copies of the Word of God as though no war existed. The governments of all the belligerents have allowed the society to ship their Bibles to and fro.