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(sometimes with five), and confined in a loathsome cell. Mrs. Judson, knowing that the precious manuscript would be found and seized in her home, at first buried it; and then, fearing that it would decay if left longer in the ground, she wrapped it about with cotton and made it into a pillow for her husband in his cell. Once the pillow was stolen by the sol diers, but Mrs. Judson redeemed it by giving them a better one. Then one night Dr. Judson was hurried off to another prison and his pillow was thrown out into the prison yard. There one of his faithful converts found it and took it home, because it had belonged to his be loved teacher. Dr. Judson mourned for his lost Bible, but long afterwards, to his great joy, he found it uninjured in the house of his convert. Is it not wonderful that this book was saved? Dr. Judson lived to see thousands reading it and keeping its law s .— Tarbell’s Teacher Guide. Dr. Robert Moffat was a great mission ary to South Africa. One day a native came to him in distress, and said that his hunting-dog had eaten two page's of his Bible, and now he would be useless for the hunt. The man argued that because reading the Bible tamed down fierce war riors so that they no longer cared for cruel warfare, it would do the same for a dog. He was right, at any rate, as to the Bible’s transforming effect on men. A man a few years ago went from the Far East to Jerusalem, in order to make a survey of the Holy Land. He was a noted Jewish lawyer. He took a Testa ment with him, not because he believed it was the Bible, but because he believed it would help him to find out the true geog raphy of the Holy Land. While seated on the hillside one day, he began to read about that land, and his eye fell upon the margin referring him to the 22nd Psalm and the 53rd chapter of Isaiah. He read them over, and instead of finding out the geography of the Holy Land along the Mediterranean Sea, he found the Holy Land of heaven, and became one of the greatest converts to the true faith among the Jews, and at this day is preaching the Gospel of Christ to thousands of people every Sunday.—Y. P. Long. Carey and his associates in India trans lated the Bible into several score of tongues, and put it within the reach of 300,000,000 people. Whenever a volume was completed, they laid it on the com munion table and dedicated it to Christ. When I visited Mexico, a year or so ago, I found that in various places con gregations had been formed and held to gether that no living preacher had ad dressed. Soldiers had left copies of the New Testament, and the people had read them, forsaken their grosser sins, and met together to talk and read and pray. One day I went up into a mountain or high hillside where was a cave, a kind of amphiteater in a fort, where the people had met by one and two hundred to avoid persecution of the government, and there they read the Scriptures and sang and prayed. The same thing occurs in Syria and among the Mohammedans in Arabia. Wherever God’s Word is circulated it stirs the hearts of people; it prepares for public morals. Circulate that Word, and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God speaking to man.— Bishop Simpson.
culáted nearly 43,000,000 copies of the Scriptures. Since the Society was founded in 1804 it has SENT OUT OVER 345,- 000,000 VOLUMES. The Bible is a treasure. It contains enough to make us rich for time and eternity. It contains the secret of happy living. It contains the key of heaven. It contains the title-deeds of an inheritance incorruptible, and that fadeth not away. It contains the pearl of great price. Nay, in so far as it reveals them as the portion of us sinful worms, it contains the Sav iour and the living God Himself .—James Hamilton. You will want a book which contains not man’s thoughts, but God’s—not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you—not even a book that can in struct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity—not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul—a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour’s book and the sinner’s .—John Selden. Eighteen centuries have passed since the Bible was finished. They have been centuries of great changes. In their course the world has been wrought over into newness at almost every point. But today the text of the Scriptures, after copyings almost innumerable and after having been tossed about through ages of ignorance and tumult, is found by exhaus tive criticism to be unaltered in every im portant particular—there being not a sin gle doctrine, nor duty, nor fact of any grade, that is brought into question by variations of readings—a fact that stands alone, in the history of such ancient lit erature.—£. F. Burr. In thè city of Washington there is a unique and remarkable copy of the Con stitution of the United States. If one ex amines it closely it appears simply a chaos of irregular lines and peculiar lettering. But when the visitor steps back and views it in proper perspective he is sud denly surprised to see the face of George Washington looking out upon him. The lines are so spaced and the letters are so shaded as to make a good likeness of the Father of our Country. And just as Washington’s face shines through all our early history, as crystallized and reflected in the Constitution, so does the glorious face of Christ look out upon us from the pages of our Bible. In his great address, “The Making of a Man,” the Hon. William J. Bryan advises young men, when challenged by unbeliev ers to explain the mysteries of the Bible, to ask them in turn to explain the every day occurrence on the farm—how a red cow can eat green grass and give white milk that makes yellow butter. A thing may be true, even though you cannot ex plain how, nor understand why.— Chris tian Endeavor World. Two and a half million copies of the Revised Version of the New Testament were either bought or ordered by Eng lish-speaking people within forty-eight hours after it was declared ready for de livery. And the whole of the Revised New Testament was cabled across the ocean, and appeared the next day in the Chicago Daily Tribune, complete.
April 28, 1929 The Triumph of the Bible on the Mission Fields Rom. 1:16, 17; 1 Cor. 1:17-21 Daily Readings
Apr. 22. Triumph at Berea. Acts 17:10-12. Apr. 23. Peter used the Bible. Acts 2 :16- 21 . Apr. 24. Taking the Bible Home. Acts 8 :27. Apr. 25. Conversions. 2 Cor. 5 :17-21. Apr. 26. A New Life. Rom. 6:12-14. Apr. 27. The Cleansing Word. John 15: 1 - 8 . There is a world of difference between the beginning of the life of Livingstone and the end of it. Blackie writes thus: “He was sent to preach one Sabbath even ing at a place called Stanford Rivers. He took his text, read it very deliberately, and then—then—his sermon had fled. Midnight darkness came upon him, and he abruptly said, ‘Friends, I have forgot ten all I had to say,’ and, hurrying out of the pulpit, left the chapel. He never became a preacher, and in the first let ter that I received from him from Eliza bethtown in Africa he says: ‘I am a very poor preacher, having a bad delivery, and some of them said if they knew that I was to preach again they would not enter the chapel.’” This was at the beginning —notice what Punch writes at the close: “Open the Abbey doors and bear him in To sleep with king and statesman, chief and sage, The missionary come of weaver-kin, But great by work that brooks no lower wage. He needs no epitaph to guard a name Which men shall prize while worthy work is known; He lived and died for good—be that his fame: Let marble crumble: this is Living stone.” A Brahman said to a missionary: “We are finding you out. You are not so good as your Book. If you were as good as your Book you could conquer India for Christ in five years .”—Bible S o c i e t y Record. The Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, was once preaching in Shanghai, when a company of godless sailors came into the meeting. He devoted himself to them with great energy, and before they left he made them promise to write out Isaiah 53:5, putting their own names in the place of the pro nouns thus: “He was wounded for...... ,.’s transgressions; he was bruised for.......... ’s iniquities; the chastisement of............... ’s peace was upon him, and with his stripes ..................is healed.” Some months later when Mr. Taylor was again in Shanghai, these same sailors came to him, and re minded him of the incident. With great joy, they told him that they had done as he requested, and, in doing it, had found God. Whoever personally seeks Jesus Will find Him. Adoniram Judson, the American Mis sionary in Burma, had translated the Bi ble into the Burmese language when war was waged between Burma and England, and he was put in prison, suspected of being a spy. for England. His suffer ings were terrible, for he was bound for nineteen months with three sets of fetters
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