Show THE ll binie inEr at a late meeting of the brit ish and foreign bible Society it was stated slated that I 1 first established in 1804 the society now numbered in connection with it na not t less than branches when the society was first established the translations of the bible were not more than gif fir ty there were now one huud hund hundred red and fifty languages in which the society llad had bad promoted the distribution distri bullon bulion printing and trag trat translation of the scriptures I 1 the total sum bum expended bv the society since its formation had been M and nearly copies of the scriptures had been circulated cu of which number had been distributed in great britain and cocin in europe in america and 2 among jews mahometano Mahome tans and heath en eni ni i in other parts of the world 1 the society have resolved tn to send a million copies of the new testament into china |