Show Sales of Bibles to Chinese in 22 Broke All Records SHANGHAI I April 2 27 By A A. P P. Chinese in China paid Mexican for tor Bibles In 1922 buyIng buyIng buying buy- buy Ing last year more Bibles than in Inan according to an any previous year reports given out In Sha Shanghai by bythe bythe bythe the agency pt of the American Bible society The sum paid Is some Mexican above the previous high mark and ald the record number of Bibles issued was That That the anti Christian movement has awakened a n new Interest in the Scriptures In China Chind Is attested by tho the fact tact that In in 1922 a half doi dozen n book shops Pekin alone sold moro more than 2000 and New Testaments Testament to tho the Bibles value of ot 1200 Mexican ItIs Itis It Itla went almost ex exclusively ex- ex said these Is la largely largel to non Christians ely elusively schools students In the government total of ot volumes were A In China b by the tho AmerIcan American Amer Arner- circulated In Bible society These were ican lean and dialects of sixteen n languages f foreign the country and Jn In n eight tongues 1 |