The Worldwide Spread of the Bible

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 20, 1906

The Worldwide Spread of the Bible

THAT God has indeed set his hand to the work is evidenced by the mighty flood of Bibles that is pouring out into the world at the present time. During the past year the British and Foreign Bible Society alone has published and sent out nearly six million copies of the Scriptures. This is thirty-three thousand copies more than were circulated for any previous like period. This is the more remarkable when we take into consideration the disturbed conditions existing during the past year in Russia, Japan, and China, where this Bible Society's heaviest sales are made. As an indication of the fact that God is preparing “every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people” to hear and understand the third angel's message, there were added to the Society's list of versions during the past year eleven new languages. At Winnipeg the Bible is sold in forty-three different languages, and at Johannesburg, South Africa, in fifty-two. No other book in this world is having such a sale, no other book has been translated into so many tongues, and all this in spite of the abuse and criticism that has been heaped upon it by the enemies of the cause of Christ. God is preparing his great harvest-field for a quick and mighty work.