Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — The Bible In Foreign Lands. [ARTICLE]

The Bible In Foreign Lands.

The British and Foreign Bible Society now distributes the Scriptures in no fewer than 400 languages. This is one of the many interesting facts presented recently at the society’s meeting in London. Copies of the Bible are purchased from the British and Foreign Bible Society for cheese, eggs, arrowroot and many other commodities. In the New Hebrides natives pay for the Bible in arrowroot. In on* of the New Hebrides—Aneityum— so generous have the native Christians become that during the last eleven years they have grown and given arrowroot to the value of $5,000 for the good of the Christian cause and for starting other churches. Nothing else is used in these islands for the purchase of the Scriptures, but arrowroot, 15 pounds of which will buy a Bible. In Saa, one of the British Solomon Islands, Bibles are bought with dead dogs’ taeth. Other things used to purchase Bibles in different parts of the world are r barley, eggs, pigs, goats, fowl and beads..