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ing country of the world. It is antici pated that the shipment will find its way into the villages and homes throughout Indonesia where some 90 million people live.” Miss Winona Walworth has been ap pointed by Scripture Press Publica
Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro, president of the Republic of Bolivia, South America, received representatives of the Pocket Testament League recent ly in the presidential palace in La Paz. Field Director Sam Befus pre sented two handsomely bound copies of the New Testament to the Presi dent for himself and his wife. The occasion was to mark the formal ini tiation of a campaign by PTL teams to distribute 200,000 copies of the Gospel of John in Spanish throughout the country. President Paz agreed that the spiritual need of his country was as great and as important as its, material needs that are being sup plied by friendly nations. He com mented that in these difficult and un certain days all people need to find inspiration a n d strength through reading the Word of God. Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia, receiving New Testament from Pocket Testament League Team, left to right, Charles Wuest, Ken Fowler, Sam Befus, Dr. Paz. Dr. Harlin J. Roper, pastor of Scofield Memorial Church of Dallas, Texas, has announced that, due to the in sistence of missionaries and laymen, the THROUGH THE BIBLE STUDY Course has been translated into Span ish. Book XV, covering John 1-11, is the first of 24 units to be published in Spanish, with additional units of the Genesis to Revelation series sched uled in the near future. For over 33 years the THROUGH THE BIBLE STUDY Course has been widely ac claimed for its emphasis on personal study of the Bible itself and its effec tiveness in producing Bible - taught workers. Ken Taylor, director of Moody Lit erature Mission, reports that a ship ment of paper sent to Indonesia by MLM has been printed into 8,000 Indonesian-laguage books which are being sold in Indonesian bookstores. Also being sold are 2,000 English- language books included in the four- ton shipment from Chicago. Says Mr. Taylor, “There is more interest in English-language books in Indonesia than in any other non-English-speak
tions as Christian Education Consul tant. For the past six years Miss Wal worth h a s b e e n head of the train ing program f o r the Moody Memo rial Church in Chi cago. She has also served in churches in San Jose, and
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Oakland, California. She has served as Associate General Secretary of the National Sunday School Association and has written many articles on the subject for leading Christian maga zines. Kenneth McVety, manager of the Word of Life Press in Japan, reports that twenty-one new book titles have been printed by the Press this past year, the most significant of these being the Japanese Amplified New Testament. The two Japanese lan guage magazines published by Word, of Life have grown to the place where they reach 100,000 people a month. Mr. James Thomas of the Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company, has announced the release of a new sacred song book compiled by the three million listen ers of the “Haven of Rest” broadcasts. The 132-page book, plastic spiral bound with four color cover, contains words and music for all the old-time favorites, led by the consistently num ber one hymn, “The Old Rugged Cross.” Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland, Biola Presi dent, has received a first copy of the New Testament in the Mazateco lan guage, presented by Dr. George Cowan, president of the Wycliffe Bible Trans-
Paul's ro55B$3Snargs to Tjroothy rings cle^ h rd iig b nineteen hundred years, and still today the Scriptures have power, for young and old alike, i n t a k e thee wise For nearly four hundred yeirs — longer than any otlfef— Cambridge University Press Dr. Sutherland, with Dr. and Mrs. Cowan. lators. More than 85,000 natives com prise the tribes of this remote people. The copy will be placed in the La Mirada Library of the training cen ter. AT ALL BOOKSTORES 4 THE KING'S BUSINESS
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