Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — NEW MISSIONARY BIBLE. [ARTICLE]

NEW MISSIONARY BIBLE.

The first printing of the entire Bible in the language of the Gilbert islanders took place in the composing and press rooms of the American Bible Society, in the Bible House, at New York, Wednesday. It marked the end of thirty-four years of labor on the part of Rev. Hiram Bingham, a missionary to that group of islands in thesonthern Pacific. Mr. Bingham was present to see the last type set and the first revolution of the press which mado complete the first Gilbert Island Bible.