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Show -xxxxxxxxxxxxc-xxxxxxxxx4-xxxx-dX9 Gospel in Form That Appeals to Tibetans Tibetan printed books are printed from wooden blocks on very fine buff-colored buff-colored paper manufactured In the country from the bark of a certain shrub. The pages are long and narrow. nar-row. They are not bound Into a volume, vol-ume, but lie loosely one above another. When not In use the leaves are In closed In two wooden slabs, which are often finely carved, and tied with silk ribbons. The whole Is wrapped It) a beautifully embroidered silk cover. The sacred books of Tibet, produced In this way, are. regarded with the greatest reverence. A lady mission n ry working on the borders of Tibet suggested to the I'.rltlsh and Foreign Bible society that a part of the New Testament fhould be produced In Tibetan Ti-betan style. "This," reports the society, so-ciety, "has now been done. St. Mark has assumed a dress which will make a strong appeal to the Tibetans. They will be led from the attractive appearance ap-pearance to the contents, which ar still more attractive, and we hope that many of them will be led to the l.or.i himself." |