The Bible in Esperanto
By C. M. S.
THE new international language, Esperanto, has been so rapidly gaining in favor during the last few years that the Bible societies have deemed it a safe investment to have the entire Bible translated into that language and published. The New Testament, “La Nova Testamento,” is already published, and may be had now in the same bindings as the English or German or French Bible. The work of translating the Old Testament is rapidly going forward under the direction of Dr. Zamenhof, the inventor of the language. There are now nearly three million persons who read and speak Esperanto. Not all of these are Christians, but they will read the Bible in the new language because of their interest in the language. Thus, out of the invention of a new language, some will learn the message of the gospel. John 3:16 in Esperanto reads: “Dio tiel amis la mondon, ke li donis sian sole naskitan filon, por ke ĉiu, kiu kredas je li, ne pereu, sed havu eternan vivon.”