The Bible Society’s Vast Distribution
DURING the nineteenth century the British and Foreign Bible Society distributed 165,000,000 copies of the Scriptures. The weight of these books is estimated to be 30,700 tons; and “to transport this mountain of Bibles a train sixteen miles long, drawn by 150 locomotives, would be necessary. The area of the printed pages would furnish standing room for twice as many persons as are now living throughout the world. If all these Bibles were made into a single volume, the book would be 202 feet high, 140 feet wide, and 41 feet thick; each page would weigh 60 tons, and to turn one of them would take the strength of 1,200 men or 40 horses.”