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the co-operation of many m1ss10naries, over 10,000,000

copies of Scriptures are circulated each year-the figure

for 1929-30 is 12,175,292-bringing the total circulation

since its foundation to over 400,000,000.

The Society has.made the Bible the cheapest and most

accessible of bookS. It supplies the over-seas missions of

almost every Reformed Church with the Scriptures which

they need. It co-operates with the missionaries in preparing

the versions; it prints the editions,

bear~

the loss involved

in their sale at reduced prices, and pays the carriage of the

volumes to the farthest mission-stations. Its popular

editions supply the Sunday-schools and home missions of

nearly every Christian denomination, and all the varied

agencies of religious and philanthropic activity.

The world-wide spread of education is raising up millions

of new readers every year. The vast modern: movements

of emigration create linguistic needs which no other institu–

tion can meet. The triumphs of Christian missions involve

ever-increasing claims upon the funds of the Bible Society.

On the whole, out of every

£1

which the Society spends

in producing and distributing the Scriptures, it is receiving

back about

8s.

as the proceeds of sales. The Society stands

in urgent need of more generous support from lovers of the

Bible, so that it may continue its sacred mission.

Gifts may be sent to the Secretaries, British and Foreign

Bible Society, 146, Queen

V~ctoria

Street, London.

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD

BY JOHN JOHNSON, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY