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THIS GOSPEL

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 4, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 18.

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“THIS GOSPEL.”

Jesus says: “This Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matt. 24:14. Here is one of the mighty agencies set forth in an exchange:—
The American Bible Society announces that the Bible is now circulated in the languages spoken by seven-tenths of the population of the globe. A fact so majestic and gratifying must be pondered a little before we can fully comprehend it. The population of the earth is estimated by the best-informed geographers to be about 1,488,000,000. Seven-tenths of this would be over one billion (1,041,000,000). The Bible Society says that one century ago only two-tenths of the earth’s inhabitants had the Bible in their own tongues, so that within one hundred years the Bible has been translated into the languages of one-half of the earth’s inhabitants (744,000,000), which is nearly ten times the population of the United States.