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A Romanized Bible in China

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 18, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 7.

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A Romanized Bible in China

The American Bible Society has just issued a "Romanized" edition of the entire Bible in the Hinghwa dialect, used in the Fukien Province, China, not Romanized doctrinally or ecclesiastically, but by the use of our Roman—that is, English—alphabet, instead of the difficult Chinese character. The book has an explanatory "Foreword" in English. The translation was made by four Chinese scholars under the direction of the Rev. William N. Brewster, and is put on sale by the society at about one fifth of the cost of publishing. The Bible, we are told, is finding a ready sale in China, not more than one merchant in thirty, in Honan Province, refusing to buy.