This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... the board sent a supply of Bibles and Testaments in the German, French, Italian, and modern Greek, for the benefit of those speaking the above tongue in Turkey and the surrounding regions. To the Rev. Mr. Smith, for the purpose of circulating the Arabic Scriptures in schools among the destitute in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... the board sent a supply of Bibles and Testaments in the German, French, Italian, and modern Greek, for the benefit of those speaking the above tongue in Turkey and the surrounding regions. To the Rev. Mr. Smith, for the purpose of circulating the Arabic Scriptures in schools among the destitute in Syria, the board appropriated five hundred dollars. In regard to the circulation of the Bible in Syria, the Rev. Mr. Thompson, in a letter to the board, says, "I am in favor of putting a Bible into the hands of every one of the thousands of pilgrims who annually flock to Jerusalem, the city of sacred associations. In this way Bibles will find their way to every country from Ethiopia to Siberia, and from India to Spain. The only possible way by which we can reach the millions of this country is by sending them the Bible. The few and feeble missionaries in the field can not supply them. From that quarter there is absolutely no hope. There are several hundred thousand Christians of the Syriac and other churches in and around Mosul. They are destitute of both Bibles and priests, but keep up a most inveterate hostility to the pope, and are anxious to receive the Word of God. Various Oriental sects in Aleppo, Torsoos, and Cesara, with the countries around them, are equally destitute.' From the Bev. Justin Perkins, missionary in Persia, the board received the following: "The field for the distribution of the Scriptures among the Nestorian Christians is wide, and wide open. They have reverence for the sacred Volume, and, unlike all other Oriental Christian sects, they make it their only rule of faith and professedly of practice. Until I came to Persia, they could prociire no copies of the Bible save those furnished at long intervals by the slow motion...
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