Show scriptural truth now spread to all lands A bew mcw edition of a work valuable to the scientific lc study of speed speech as well as to religion Is about to lie be issued at london observes the lie st louis globe democrat it contains some passages front from the scriptures as translated translate into no less than ClIffer different erit languages it Is said there Is no tongue and no important dialect in which a version of at least some part of the scriptures Is unknown the total copies of the bible printed in all these cco GG i languages are now placed at the number of languages and of copies increasing of course almost yearly samples of the CO 60 different alphabets in which these GG CG i versions are arc printed are given in the hie work and range from roman to script like ilke the cherokee to the hieroglyphics gly phles of chinese and similar tongues and nn even to writing forms now obsolete it Is of course the bibla bialk society which has compiled and published this interesting hook book an index of the amazing and profitable activity of this his tireless society Is afforded in the statement that when it was organized in 1804 the nible bible was available in only 72 languages with unexpected developments now and then surprise e Is cause caused hy by evidences of the slow but sure influence which the western world has exerted on the static civilizations of the east surprise Is lessened by a knowledge of what this society and other organizations have done during the last years |