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American Bible Society Distribution Record

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 12, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 40.

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American Bible Society Distribution Record

DURING the past year the American Bible Society distributed 6,388,717 volumes, which is an increase over the previous year of 1,137,541. This surpasses anything done by the society in its history of ninety-nine years. Since its founding, the society has circulated 109,908,608 copies of the Bible or parts of the Testaments. The large increase of the past year is partly due to the extraordinary progress in the missionary fields of the Far East. Translations of the Bible into the tongues of many peoples and revisions of old translations are going on vigorously and systematically. A new translation of the whole Bible in Portuguese, for use in Brazil, has been completed; a revision of a Bible translation in Spanish is going on, to be completed as far as the New Testament probably next year, and revisions for use of the Chinese and Japanese. Then work is progressing on the Scriptures in the tongues of the Philippines, the Marshall Islands, and the Zulus of South Africa.