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H. R.I-I.

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DuKE

OF CoNNAUGHT, l{.G.

Treasurer:

WILLIAMSON LAMPLOUGH, Esq.

Oha~rrrian

of Oommittee

SIR CHARLES

OvVENS,

C.B.

Vice-Ohairmen:

Sir ANDREW WINGATE.

Major-General Sir G. K. ScoTT-MONCRIEFF.

The Vice-Presidents include the Archbishops of

Canterbury, York, and Wal es ; twenty English and

Welsh diocesan bishops; and representative leaders

of the Free ·Churches; together with such dis–

tinguished laymen as the Duke .of Devonshire;

Field-Marshal Earl Haig; Lord Shaw of

Dun~

fermline; Lord Robert Cecil, M.P. ; the Right

Ron. John Hodge, M.P.; the Astronomer Royal;

Sfr Frederic G. Kenyon; Sir Charles Stewart

Addis ; Sir George

Grierson ; Sir Thomas Barlow

aud Sir Michael E. Sadler.

The Honorary Foreign Members include the

Archbisbop of Upsala; the Archbishop of Finland;

Bishop Nicola.i

elimirovié, of Ochrida, Serbia; the

Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople; the Greek.

Archbishop of Syria; and the Armenian Patriarch

in Constantinople.

The Society was formed in 1804, solely 'to en–

courage the wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures

without note or comment '. It is a

partne~·ship

Christian people, belonging to many different con1-

munions, who unite to provide every inan who can

read with God's message to him, in bis mother

tongue.

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