Show BURNED BIBLES Fanaticism Undoubtedly the Cause of the Trouble NEW YORK Jan 17 William Blake treasurer of the American Bible society so-ciety reference to the dispatch from Lima Peru about the burning of all the Bibles belonging to the American Bible society says Our Bibles have been burned before in Peru Fanaticism is the cause of it The native are opposed to the distribution distri-bution of our Protestant Bibles and every now and then they seize our stock and destroy f What will be done Nothing What can we do They have destroyed the Bibles before they destroy them now and will probably prob-ably destroy them again But just the same we shall continue to send our Bibles there Rev Penzotti is our agent in Peru Only two years ag he ya imprisoned there for no reason rea-son other than that he was distributing distribut-ing our Bibles He was kept in jail for five or six months and was only released then through the interposition interposi-tion of the state department in Washington Wash-ington |