Show scriptural al truth now spread to all lands A new edition of a work valuable to the scientific study ot of speech as well as to religion Is about to be issued at london observes the st louis globe democrat it contains some passages from the scriptures as translated into no less than different languages it Is said there la Is no tongue and no important dialect in which a version of at least some part of 0 the scriptures Is unknown the total copies of 0 the bible printed in all these cco languages are now placed at the number of languages and of copies increasing of course almost yearly samples of the go CO different alphabets in which these 3 versions are printed are given in the work and range from roman to script like the chelolee Ch croLee eroLee to the hieroglyphics gly phles of 0 chinese and similar tongues anil and even to writing forma form now obsolete it la Is of course the british bible society which has compiled and published this interesting book an index of the amazing and profitable activity of this tireless society to Is afforded in the statement that when it was organized in 1804 the bible was adall available able in n only 72 languages with unexpected developments now DOW an and then surprise Is caused by evidences of the slow but sure influence which the western world has hag exerted on the static civilizations of the fast east Sur surprise prIst la Is lessened liy by a knowledge of what this society and other other organizations have done during the lost last years |