Show V MORE iiii EACH YEAR ARE READING BIBLE LONDON Oct Ott 20 A people A-people P People are reading the Bible today tItan than ever er before says the Dally Daily j which quotes figures of the British and foreign Bible Dible Society to support its assertion Theto Thelo was vas an Increase In the number of Bibles published in the English an ant and f Welsh elsh language during the war var fOlio followed ed by a decrease after atler the close of hostilities The sear Car 1922 net again showed shoed an In- In rease In-rease tease rease ht e ej which points to tois toi is of Bible reading In the homeland Significant of the world wide In- In influence In Influence fluence of the tho Bible Dible are the t so- so so Iet s 's figures of their I issues sues in all languages for tor the past century and anda anda Ii a The figures are ore sum arum summaries manes maries of o totals at Intervals of 26 25 ears ard include Bibles Testa Teta- fe Testaments ta ments and portions of o th the tho tuns tut s I 80 88 1883 2964 1833 1908 1858 1853 23 1922 8 Tal Take e too the test of translation Homer has been rendered Into more than a 0 score of languages and Shakespeare into nearly forty together tall foIl tar far short of the tran of the Bible for tor the Gospel ha has been actually prInted In moro more than OO different farms of human speech and the tho Bible Society as OJ their share oharo of this work worl has ha h helped h ed to spread the tho mes message age In 68 58 languages and dialects |