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large family, often questioned the love and mercy of God. As she grew older, and as death entered the home, as she was forced to carry burdens beyond her years and to see her drunken father neglect his family and.mistreat her frail Christian mother, the questionings grew to hatred. But Christ finally wooed and won.her to Himself. Telling her story with the fine simplicity of a true artist, Miss Moore weaves into this piece of fiction a definite presentation of the plan of salvation. The book is especially attractive to teen-age girls. 259 pages. Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. Cloth. Price $1.50. A land, a race, a civilization—all are portrayed in word pictures so plain that the reader feels, after finishing this book, that at last he has mastered the primer of a great country. He sees that child hood in Korea, as in most civilized lands, is happy and free. But he learns also that mature life brings constant fear of the spirits of evil. With shame, he finds that, while contacts with the West have changed the surface of things and have removed the restraints that centuries-old customs have inflicted, except where Christian standards have been raised, such contacts have too often only substituted license for liberty. The hope of Korea, as for every other country, lies in the native Christian church. In that land, it has had an unusually vigorous and inde pendent growth. 160 pages. Revell Co. Cloth. Price $1.50. h e bible , or some part of it, has ap peared in 919 languages and dialects, according to a statement issued today by the American Bible Society from its head quarters, Bible House, New York City. This figure, in which no duplication of languages or dialects occurs, represents the publications of the three major Bible societies functioning throughout th e world: the American Bible Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the National Bible Society of Scotland, as well as some missionary organizations and others. The latest book from the press is the Gospel of St. Mark in Atche, a dialect used by one of the tribes on the French Ivory Coast of West Africa. Of the more than 500 languages and dialects spoken in Africa, only about 275 have been published, while a large percentage of the remaining have not yet been re duced to writing. India has the Scrip-, tures printed in only 111 languages, al though there are 179 languages and hun dreds of dialects spoken in this thickly populated land. That a dearth of Scrip tures also obtains in other countries is evidenced by the fact that there are mil lions of Indians' throughout South Amer ica who have no Scriptures in their va rious dialects. The New Testament ap pears in but three of the many Indian tongues of South America. Of the two New Testaments so far published for the Indians of Central America, the latest to appear is in .Cakchiquel, issued recently by the American Bible Society for a tribe in Guatemala. Korea— The Old and the New B y E llasue W agner The Scriptures in Many Languages
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