Show scriptural truth not now spread to all lands A new edition of a work valuable able to the scientific study of speech as well as to religion is about to be Is sued at london observes the at louis globe democrat it contains some passages from the scriptures as translated into no less thin ggs different 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 un known the total copies ol 01 of ine the J gible dic printed in all these ag ian language grages are tire now placed at the num her ber of langua languages es and of copies in creasing of course almost yearly samples of the CO different alpha bets in chich these cco versions are am printed are given in the work ind range from roman to script I 1 be ke the cherokee to the etero of chinese and similar tongues and even to britini wr itin forms I 1 now ewt it I 1 Is obsolete s of course the british bible society which has coin illel ile I 1 and pub dished this interesting book an in de dex of the amiling and profit lible activity of this tireless society Is Atford afforded ed in the statement t that h a t when it was organized in 1801 t the 1 ie I 1 ible was available in only 72 languages lingua inith ith unexpected developments now an ani I 1 then surprise Is caused by evi dences of the slow but bu sure influx ence which the western world has evertee on the static civilI ns of the east surprise Is lessened by a knowledge ot of what this society and other ther organizations have d ne during the last years |