Show scriptural truth now spread to all lands A new edition of a work to the scientific study of na as well as to religion Is about to be issued nt at london observes the st louls globe democrat it contains some passages from froia the scriptures na as translated into no less than GC ca i different languages it Is wild said there Is no tongue and no important dialect in which a version of nt at least some part of the scriptures Is unknown the total copies of the printed in nil all these GG 1 languages are now placed at 4 the number of languages and of copies increasing of course almost yearly samples of the CO different alphabets in which these cco versions tire arc printed are ilven given in the work vork and range from roman to script like the cherokee to the hieroglyphics of chinese and similar tonnes tongues and even to writing forms formal 0 now O obsolete 1 it t Is of course the laibl society which has compiled ind put pub lulled this interesting anoh an all in ilex of the amazing and profitable table activity of this tireless society Is afforded in the statement that hint when it was tn in 1804 the bible was in only 72 languages with unexpected developments now and then surprise Is cause by evl evi dences of if the slow hut but sure influence which the western world has ahna exerted on nn the static or of the east surprise Is less lessened enel by n knowledge of what this society and other organizations anve done during the last years |