Show lPTURES READ IN EVERY TONGUE e abl ANSLATINS OF HOLY WRIT labor or Peril Too Great for Those Engaged t t in Sowing the Bible rJ t China to Peru an Army of Trained Explorers Are irtlf f Lded to Reach the Readers of the NationsMany a omance Might Be Written on the Work of Circulating I Worlds II Best Seller t BEN nil is said It Is the I w1 l Bible that Is the worlds i best Boiling bookand L that by a tremendous mar 1S fin It takes a tremendously tremen-dously successful novel to sell 10000 or 50000 copies real tats year whereas this record the Bible In late ISlIy beaten by ist gle day the world over Last i 16000000 copies translated in SCI nit babel of nearly 600 tongues at4 scattered broadcast over tho i rr1 L American and British Bible sos so-s Jed the way with nearly 9000 II meen thorn It Is hard to realize agnitude of vast a work o L Williams was 20 long years ° I g the savages of Tahiti In the Pa before he could produce even the out Its I Testament In the Islanders own rip ie And old Bishop Schereschew spent onethird of his long life don do-n lle Bible Into the Easy Wenll air jalect of Chinese that opened up Llan truths to 70000000 of the Ltial people Bfl len there was the romance of HI ts f BIngham This man went out to I Gilbert group in midPacific and ts himself among South Sea cannl tilt as a Billie translator with no tiltuil en language at all and no one to h him Day by day this pioneer lered words of common usage from 011 natives lips and spent years com AN ng and verifying his written notes slating for Cannibals It last he was able to put the Lords 01a er and a simple Psalm Into the t tongue Later on came the Gos at and so on But the first edition neh a Bible Is necessarily full of rs More than 16000 was recent f pent In correcting the Llfu Bible st I the Loyalty Islands and It was tit d necessary to make the enor hr number of 62310 corrections da tatter t all perhaps the most stir tales of all are those recording art I adventures of the vast army of leers that distribute the Bibles aft ley are translated and shipped to local depots In all the continents the world Bible cargoes go crash Ion elephants through the jungles pica and Slam or on queer little mar over the greal passes of theM the-M between Bolivia and Peru or I jitt on the heads of cannibal coolies and < tin base of the Mountains of s Moon near the source of old Path Vie on camel banlc across the I thing deserts of Nubia and Arabia I e Stony or In flatbottomed boats Led by man haulr + t bamboo cables rOugh tho 8tupe IOUs gorKPfl Of tbs Mr arks + r Nr teen wlw 111 this work are rq4t1ed cxl > lorurs Mio oftou tail by tho r Vlctms to wild beasts disease im o savages and the forces of na ture ranging from lightning to tempestuous tem-pestuous seas The American Bible society alone employs four or live hundred hun-dred white men In savage or remote lands literally from China to Peru These In turn employ great numbers of native colporteurs who travel inland In-land upon waterways over mountains and through forests with their packs on their backs or with strange caravans cara-vans of laden men or beasts Brave All Dangers The experiences of the Hevs Bear and Turner In the Philippines would alone fill a volume of varied adventure adven-ture Night and day on one tour they traveled through almost Impassable swamps in clumpy ox carts and barely bare-ly escaped drowning more than once while descending swift rapids on a rudely built raft In South America from the Equator to Cape Horn the Bible carriers are on the march and the political revolutions revo-lutions wars storms poisonous reptiles rep-tiles and a thousand other obstacles only Increase their enthusiasm The Bible is carried Into the camelhair tents of the wandering Bedouin Arabs of Syria and If these men are not able to read classical Arabic then they have Bibles in their own dialect for which they pay coined money being unknown to themIn butter eggs milk horns and brass ornaments Steamship and train are but the first step In transportation Then come little sailing vessels among the coral Islands of the Pacific canoes and houseboats for IndoChIna and tho west coast of Africa bullocks and oxcarts ox-carts In South Africa dogs and sledges with furclothed drivers above the arctic circle patient asses long necked supercilious camels smartly stepping llamas for rough mountain passes pack horses hardheaded negro ne-gro porters and a hundred other methods of transport according to the region rho work of a colporteur is one of terrible risk to life and limb His Bl bloladen boat may be jnanhauled through the rapids and gorges of the giant Yangtse only to come to grief on the rocks whereupon he must unload un-load and camp upon the desolate bank getting what shelter he may s4 t do 0 i iiL ° t v r H r 5 irlGrA outpr Crsr cv Br rr rrN YLe its uA vas Q CAIN sAR7 wq POR YA1 a ii Ci4 1 l 4 6 al a i 1lS S r hrfANSLA7O 4A2 lJ JXQ2 r YI1uP47n7 erir9Xl Zlad C nX dNINP1 IIGLN2 N 7lYu from a few tarpaulins until help arrives ar-rives from Ichang or some other considerable con-siderable town Robbery Is Frequent In Asiatic Turkey the patient BIble man with his pack on his back Is often oft-en attacked by Kurdish brigands or robbed In overcrowded khans where he has perhaps stayed a night or two delayed by the terrible roads and broken brok-en bridges In plam and tho Laos states at this moment tho Rev John CarrIngton Is traveling elephants and through devious waterways by boat circulating tho Scriptures In re t 1 mote markets In wats or temples whore till silver bells tinkle from on high i In opium dens and Rambling houses too and remote villages whose Inhabitants live In pilebuilt houses or In trees In case of attack by hostllo tribes Turning for a moment to tho far stretching Philippine group wo find the Uov Mr Mllloy almost hewing his way through Impassable tropical growths haranguing amazed crowds In fluent Tagalog at fiestas and cock fights and selling them the Scriptures In their own tongue In the Interior of Cuba travels Senor Torres tin old and tried BIble porter whoso adventures would fill another book Once on coming back from Moron Mo-ron after having visited 68 towns villages vil-lages and hamlets Senor Torres sailboat sail-boat was capsized and lashing him elf to tho nnst for four days ho and his little crew oscillated between life and death Another agent reporting from the Interior of Bolivia where there are no roads at all and wheeled conveyances are Impossible carried his Bibles 1000 miles on muleback while another covered 22000 miles In fourteen months selling 8573 books for 23l > i Paying for Bible In Eggs One of the most Interesting workers work-ers Is Mr Archibald order who from his headquarters In Jerusalem car TThThTh S C J zgrS A lo i V L s v > o Hh3 jy ° twwlL ifi j l v Lft iXV c Qiiz = s r Gox rJ INrW4 D44 44W wuvQ1W Iv es r4JlV Zb AARJtl r 4r 4 441 IN FfaI7L1Fx YZ rles Bibles to the Arab tribes cast of the Jordan and In the Arabian desert des-ert They pay for the book In eggs From Bangkok in Slam we hear from the Rev John Carrlngton who works the whole of this remote empire It must have been awkward when one of his buffaloes hitched to a cart containing con-taining Testaments In Siamese and Laos suddenly bolted and scattered boxes and beds along the swampy track for half a mile Or again we find Mr CarrIngton using tiger skins for the binding of his Bibles and holding weird auction sales of his books under the tamarind trees of SamolIsland 300 miles down the west coast of the Gulf of Slam says a writer In the New York Times I can but briefly touch on the adventures adven-tures of William Laughton In his boat on the Yang tse which ho rented for 330 tools and then loaded up with Bibles Bi-bles only to run on some rocks and become a total wreck Indeed were It not for the skill of the native trackers track-ers and towers In handling the bamboo bam-boo pumps It Is possible that Mr Laughton would have lost his Bibles If not his life In many Instances tho book Is thought to possess magical attributes Among the Mbundu people In Central Africa an old man bought a Bible and said Would It be safe for me to keep this book In the house or must I build a place for it outdoors Nor are dark tragedies unknown among tho Bible pioneers The Rev H J Johnson once dropped down tho great Yang tso In a houseboat laden with Testaments He was accompanied accompani-ed only by a trusted Chinese colporteur colpor-teur For nineteen years nothing more was heard of eIther Then the tragic story came to light Johnson and his man had landed at an inland town to sell their Bibles But the first night a fire broke out and burned down many houses with much loss of life Next day native mischief malcers attributed at-tributed the disaster to the evil In Iluence of the Foreign Devil And before the white man and his assistant assist-ant could get back to their houseboat they were set upon by a mob and murdered mur-dered with every circumstance of cruelty cru-elty Turning to bleak Siberia we find an unobtrusive hero and his wife sailIng sail-Ing on an open raft with half a ton of Scriptures down the great Lena river Great vigilance was necessary ho says for many murders had been committed by the wild tribes I would sleep from 11 p m to 2 a m while my wife watched Then as soon as It was dawn she lay down and slept Lastly wo hnvo adventurous F A Larson a Bible subagent In the Mon golan deserts Ho travels eastward by camel caravan from Knshgar taking with him all necessary provisions besides be-sides cooking utensils and barrels tot carrying water over the arid stoppes Wolves Ate Packhorse On one occasion a native assistant of Lnrsons was set upon by robbers who bent him and took away his horse and saddle us well as his pack ol bopks Larson bought another animal In Urga for 28 taels about 19 Bui this ono tho wolves ate where t bo win tethered outside our camelhair tent Here then Is a 1 world labor of pa tlcnt scholarship of heroism Mr from the limelight of business acumen and organization that may well awaken the Interest of the most blase And vast sums are spent upon tho work The last revision of the Malagasl Bl blc for the Madagascar natives cost lf > 000 and the Chinese BIble from first to last has probably cost 250000 Taking the British and Foreign Bl ble society of London with the Amer lean 1 Bible society and similar bodies throughout Europe it Is safe to say hat not less than 7000000 a 1 year it spent upon the work and well over 120000000 during the last century The parent society In London maintains main-tains nearly 1500 representative tin gulsts missionaries and native assist ants organized Into committees the world over Their work Is supervised and financed from headquarters where editorial subcommittees composed com-posed of eminent philological export meet every month In one year sucl a committee will have matters before it In 200 different languages In fact the diversity Of the worlds speech Is I a staggering thing when one goes intc It Last year tho Scriptures were sole In 20 different tongues In the Austrian Empire and 60 In Russia Our hundreds of thousands of polyglot poly-glot Immigrants are met on tho very threshold of the Land of Liberty and a Bible Is put Into their hands In their own tongue whether It be Greek 01 Magyar Polish or Japanese Gaelic 01 Croat Arabic or Chinese There are scores of languages Into which the Bible Bi-ble has been done that you novel heard of Aside from the translations Into Cherokee and Choctaw one rune ones eye In bewilderment down the list taking In such dialects as Rub and Ponape Dlkelo John Samoglt Vis ayam Llocano BIcol Pangaslnan Ta galog Arrawack and Shcctswa Forced to Change Phrases In a great number of cases an entire en-tire literature has to bo formed and a language reduced to writing before anything can be done at all And there are difficulties which you or I would never suspect Thus when translating the Now Testament Into Eskimo the phrase Lamb of God had to be rendered Little Dog otherwise oth-erwise It would have been entirely meaningless to the little furclad men who have never seen a sheep And of course there Is no thought of profit Our Bible society sells a well made Gospel In his own tongue to a Congo cannibal for the equivalent of 2 cents a New Testament for 6 and a complete Bible for 16 cents All kinds of money are taken In exchange I ranging from Ivory tusks to a basket of breadfruit a few leopard skins ot oven a baby camel Long before Tibet was opened by the British the New Testament was being printed In Tlbelnn at Ghoom I high up In the Himalayas and carried back and forth to Lhassa by Hindu and Bmldhist trdders Only Abyssinia and Nepal are now closed to the Bible army but It Is thought that the old Emperor Menellk at least will soon capitulate At all events he recently sent a magnificent pair of elephant tusks to tho British Bible house In London with a flowery letter n Am harlc from The Conquering Lion ol Judah Menellk tho Second Emperoi < of Ethiopia by the Will of God |