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Show What the Chinese do with Bibles. In Father Bertram Wolferstan's long-expected work, "The Catholic Church in China," startling light is thrown on the use mode by the Chinese Chi-nese of the Protestant Bibles so lavishly lavish-ly bestowed upon them. About 90 per cent is lost, a large proportion being used for making the soles of Chinese boots and shoes. That the remaining 10 per cent do not always conduce to edification is made abundantly clear by Father Wolferstan in a series of well-attested and very remarkable anecdotes. an-ecdotes. The comments of Lord Cur-zon Cur-zon on such indiscriminate distribution distribu-tion of Bibles are quoted. We are reminded re-minded of the incident related by Dr. Campbell Gibson of the missionary I who lived at Hong Kong and sent native na-tive evangelists to distribute copies of the Bible among the people of the interior. in-terior. The evangelists, however, stopped at home and sold their Bibles to the printer, who re-sold them to the missionary. So missionary and printer maintained between them a continuous circulation of Bibles. |