Great Progress in Circulating Bibles
By Editor
THE annual meeting of the American Bible Society was held in the Bible House in New York on May 14, and the published report of that meeting has just reached us. This report shows that the society has issued, during the year, 5,251,176 volumes of the sacred Word. This is an increase over 1912 of 1,201,666 volumes. In the ninety-eight years of the society's existence, it has circulated, all told, 103,519,891 volumes of the Scriptures. The society maintains twelve agencies in foreign countries. In the republic of China, during the past year, 1,653,956 volumes were circulated. This is an advance, in that country, of 286,561 volumes over the previous year. Wherever the sun shines and human beings live, earnest workers representing this great society are carrying the sacred Word into the homes of the people. One of the most significant occurrences of the day is the receiving of a superhuman burden into the hearts of men, which sends them with impelling orders from the divine throne, to put the great Book of God into the hands of every individual on earth. God is sending a message of warning to this world, of the soon-coming Christ; and a part of the great plan of the Infinite is to give His word to every creature, so that they may know for themselves the prophecies that predict the Coming One. There is no more important work in all the realm of evangelical endeavor than that carried forward by our great Bible society in this country, and the British and Foreign Bible Society in England, and the kindred institutions that are working throughout the world. Money and service devoted to that purpose will surely bring their reward.