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1926-27

President:

R.R.H.

the

DuKE OF CoNNAUGHT,

K.O.

Treas'Uirer

J AMES STEEL,

Esq.

Chailrman of Committee:

SIR CHARLES J. ÜWENS,

C.B.

Vice-Chairman :

W. H.

PoATE,

Esq.

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

courage tbe wider ci.rculation of the Holy Scriptures

witbout no te or comment ' .

It is a partnership of

hristian people, belonging to many different com–

munions, who unite to provide every man who can

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

tongue.

'l'he 'Times' a¡ys of

' Li ttle i

tion ·s

ueed~cl.

to uu

rstancl the

value of t

' ]

bours.

Its object is simple

anu compren u iv

am ' ly, to tran lahe thl;l one Book

"hi~hcan

ccess beexpected toprovide the

common

liH)

aucl spiritual knowledge to

all memh

'l'S

of th human family ,intoevery language

howe\'er barbarous; to print it in any script how–

r complex; to place it in every man's banda

however remate; and to provide it at a price at

whioh tbe poorest mny purchase it. Towards the

fulfilmont of these aims the Society has already

gt:ne far, for the language which it can comruand

ur •po1 en by aeveu-teuths of mankind.'

'lt

truly an international orga.nization, and its

i1leal

aro as practical as any that have yet been

deví d by international statesmanship for the im–

prov ru nt of tbe relations between people ancl

people aud mau and mau. There cau be little trua

humun fellow hip if la.rge portions of mankind

ither u ver 1 arn or ar

e aJl

owed to forget, tbe

pl'in ipal 1

on of hi tor '

a.ud

the ceutral religious

trutb which the page of th Bible eushrine. How–

,·er int rpr ted, the New Testament, if the brother-

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