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BIBLE.' SOCIETY'S RECORD
Three bishops. Bishop J. D. ' Langlev
(Bendigo), Bishop A. W. Pain
(Gippsland), and -'Bishop T. H. Arm
strong (Warigaratta), will take part
in the annual meeting of the Victorian
Branch of the British and Foreign
Bible Society at Bible House, Flin
ders lane, tomorrow morning. ;The
annual report of the parent society for
the yonr 1915-16 shows that the year's
issue of, the Script'uros reached the un
precedented total of 11,059,617 copies.
This enormous' number is made up of
889.000 Bibles, 2,433,000 Testaments, and
7,737,000 smaller volumes,- each contain
ing at least one complete book 'of holy
Scripture, The copies issued in Eng
lish wore just double what they- were
two years ago, and nearly all -these ad
ditional copies went into the . soldier's
knapsack or the sailor's ditty '.box. The
total issues by' the society since its
foundation lmvo exceeded 274:000,000
copies. ._.
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