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could it have been? “The law is never enforced,” Of course not when bish ops are talking it down and saying it can’t be done. Same rotten argument used by bums and bootleggers against the Eighteenth Amendment to our Constitution. Methodism in New Eng land spiritually dead and the resident bishop spending time in talking down the law of the Church and hob-nob bing with Unitarians.— Eastern Meth odist. ¡ROBERT M O R R ISON C E N T E N N IA L One hundred years ago Robert Mor rison, the first Protestant missionary to China, mighty in word and deed, finished his great service of love— the translation of the Bible into Mandarin Chinese. The occasion was fittingly observed under the auspices of the American Bible Society by a group represent ing all the missionary activities in China, at a luncheon given at the Hotel B iltm ore,' on December 28, 1923. The American Bible Society, in 1882, made a grant of $3,000 to help in the publication of this first Chinese Bible; the British and Foreign Bible Society made even larger grants. The one hundred years that have followed have been, full of activity on the part of the Bible Societies and missionary organizations in preparing the Bible for the Chinese; and it is said that the book is now available in China in as many as thirty-nine languages, dia lects, and colloquials. The average circulation on the part of the Amer ican Bible Society during the past two or three years has been about 2,000,- 000 volumes. Since the Society first established its China agency in 1876, it has circulated 32,789,716 volumes of the Christian Scriptures in China. Robert Morrison is conspicuous for many other achievements besides the translation of the Bible. His first work to be published was a Chinese gram mar, which was followed by the New Testament, and later by the Old Testa ment. In 1820 he established an An- glo-Chinese College at Malacca “for the reciprocal cultivation of Chinese and European literatures.” In 1821 he published a Chinese dictionary in six volumes. In 1823 his complete Bible was brought out, In 1826, after a short visit to England, he returned to China and began the preparation of a Chinese commentary on the Bible. He also established a dispensary, which marks him out as the forerun ner of modern medical missions. Robert.Morrison was born of Scott ish parents at Bullers Green, near
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