Gift From U.S. Bible Society Shows American Gratitude To Russians
Ten thousand copies of the first Russian Bible to be published in the U.S.A., together with 5000 Russian Testaments and Psalms, 100,000 Russian Gospels and 1000 Greek New Testaments were presented by Daniel Burke, president of the American Bible Society to Metropolitan Gregory of Leningrad and Novgorod of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Bible House, in New York City, on a recent Thursday. Metropolitan Gregory is on a special mission in the United .States and will very shortly return to Russia. These copied of the Holy Scriptures are a Christmas gift from the American Bible Society, to Patriarch Alexei of Moscow for the churches and people of Russia. Metropolitan* Gregory has already cleared the import lioence for these Scriptures, so that it is expected they will be in Russia very shortly and will constitute a gift from the people of the United States through v the American Bible Society and Patriarch Alexei of Moscow to the churches and people of Russia.
All of these Russian Scriptures are in the Holy Synod Version and in the new Russian orthography. They have been set up and published in the United States by the American Bible Society in the past few years to show the goodwill and gratitu.de of millions of American Christians to the Russian people for their supreme courage and sacrifices in the great fight against military aggression. The Greek New Testaments will be distributed among the theological students. The Holy Synod Version was first published in 1860 in St. Petersburg by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1926 T the American Bible Society paid for having a Russian Bible in the Holy Synod Version set up and printed in the Government printing office at Leningrad. This Bible was in the new orthography, but after two editions were printed the plates were lost. The American Bible Society, however, recently set up and published in the United States several editions of th'e Russian Gospels and of the Russian New Testament and Psalms in the Holy Synod Version and in the new orthography. On September 13, 1946, a shipment of 5000 Russian Testaments and Psalms, 100,000 Russian Gospels and 500 Nestle’s Greek New Testament was donated.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 22, 17 February 1948, Page 6
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