p. 13 | THE BIBLE IN CHINA by A. C. J.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 30.

THE BIBLE IN CHINA.

By A. C. J.

[A. C. J. in World's Crisis.]

ONE of the most hopeful signs in China is the wide circulation of the Scriptures. Notwithstanding the disturbances in 1900, the aggregate circulation of the Bible in that year was 1,523,930 copies; 991,300 of these were in Mandarin, and 291,900 were in Easy Wenli. These figures represent the operations of three Bible societies at work there. Then, too, the present year has opened most encouragingly in this respect. During the first eight days of January, orders were received at the Shanghai depot of the British and Foreign Bible Society for upwards of 150,000 copies of Scriptures, of which about 15,000 are Bibles and Testaments.