Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — What Becomes of the Bibles. [ARTICLE]

What Becomes of the Bibles.

The announcement of Dr. James Morrow, secretary of the Pennsylvania Bible Society, that his organization alone distributed 10,000,000 Bibles last year, while 5,000,000 were sold by the trade, again “Calls attention to the immense circulation of the book. Where all the Bible issued go to is a wonder even among the agencies that are concerned in the work. Distributions are supposed to cover, as far as possible, places and persons not yet reached, but it would appear that there are no longer any such places and persons left. Even supposing there were Bibles In the knapsacks of some or even all of the slaughtered thousands on the field or buried-with their clothes on at Port Arthur and Mukden, that would be but a drop in the ocean of production. The proportion of Bibles to be found on second-hand book stalls is not greater than of other books, nor are they probably stored away more than other books are. Persons who have investigated this question says it is one of the unexplained mysteries.— Philadelphia Press.