Eleven New Tongues Hear the Word by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 27, 1906

Eleven New Tongues Hear the Word

By W. A. S.

BECAUSE the message of the everlasting gospel must quickly go to every nation and tongue, the Lord is hastening on the work of Bible translation and publishing by missionaries and Bible societies. Last year the British Bible Society added eleven new languages to its list, making over four hundred now in which it is breaking the bread of life. The new tongues reported by the Society’s organ are as follows:—

1. Singpho, spoken by tribes in the mountains of the far east of Assam.

2. Kuliviu, one of the languages of the New Hebrides Islands.

3. Mech, a dialect of a quarter of a million people in north Assam.

4. Zigula, a people living in German East Africa.

5. Ladakhi, spoken by dwellers in Leh, on the western frontier of Tibet, eleven thousand feet above the sea.

6. Laotian, the language of peoples living in central Siam and eastward into French Indo-China.

7. Bemba, a central African tongue, used north of Lake Bangweolo.

8. Egyptian colloquial Arabic, the tongue of the unlettered peoples of Egypt.

9. East Santo, another New Hebrides language.

10. Bribri, used by some Indian tribes in Costa Rica and on the Isthmus of Panama.

11. Saa. This is the language of Mwala, hard to find on the map, one of the islands of the Solomon group, in the far South Pacific.

The Good Shepherd has been looking for his lost sheep among all the isles, and here is his Word calling now in the Saa tongue.

The missionary awakening of this century of missions is God’s wonderful work of preparation for the coming of the Lord in power and glory.

Now at last every nation and kindred and tongue and people is to hear the warning cry, “The hour of his judgment is come.” The Lord, who has so exactly timed the developments of the missionary century to meet this “time of the end,” when the gospel work is to be finished, is well able to send the final message ringing through all these tongues. God is at work with mighty power, not overlooking the uttermost parts of the earth, nor the most remote peoples. The time of the finishing of his work is truly come. W. A. S.