A Year of the Bible Society

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 9, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 18.

A Year of the Bible Society

"For the first time the British and Foreign Bible Society has issued over 6,000,000 copies of the Scriptures in one year. Of these 843,784 were Bibles, 1,198,226 were Testaments, and 4,578,014 were portions. Nearly 6,500,000 more were circulated by the Scottish, Hibernian, American, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian societies; and if we add to these those sold by ordinary publishers, it raises the total circulation of Bibles or portions to 15,000,000 in one year. The popular report of the British and Foreign Bible Society may well say that no book can compete with it in the number circulated. Over 3,500,000 copies were sold by the different societies in China, mainly Gospels or Psalters."