BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 899, 23 May 1903, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY.

key. f. \y. McDonald s visit Tiie Hi? A- in evil:,-:-': V, with the vis : i f .j.L Ri v. L\ W. M, Der.i.ld, of the British Hi-.d 1 'cii Bible Bud.ty, were c , :;:.u ,i -i -.y. At half-past two >l - -y,,i ~ -on '■ -.li ".Am; ri. to ir.i i-t- -- v. ..s . . : -i . ■■ul An Mi•= sc 3 A,.,.Ac, Uiii! i, nin . ...- v. >s a large I inil •. la A .. ik I . Ih.laivi I P'l ■ il ... , . 'I -I , ,1-s -I An :. v. " V. . M--D„i...i i V.t.> a--... in it M. , ... mt- ic.'t. i.K i-t; A.. i . it- ii.i a. i" l .:y disired that th lAir.k-; i-.iri; ui nil (hi,;. :-:ii > -A u.-.i i. ,i; ..; up ini' A e wniHiuim, Pi .A na i.i r c,. is .• lu.irviiK.usiy :>ssi n il l. u 11::.) n iv.'cii-;;, dining the hun i,e.i veus ui . .i-n-u- e. ti 9 pointed o.i, timt n: '.ii, begin:.i-ig uf An- cuiiuiy, Winn lln.iv i\, : k w a • .•ii.irl 1:1 I.early the whole ui Europe. I .in ~ m d Japan, tiny w ,re not pciuiittcd la enter. Bast year in Uiiinu tiff-iie a miUiuu in-pies 1.1 tho fcYriptim s or pul-lions' were sold. lie spt lie ut tne gnat diffn-ul tits winch existed m eoe.ueetioit with A tr-insl.itioii of the Scriptures into the > ous iui.gu.'gi s, liu-special gills which wero"

mcos-aiv tor iiic iighl Hccump.ishnniit of such u cik. and liow Aic Society had been Ik iped 111 tiiis weak by suitable Christians tieii g ruisi :i ui) to accomplish it when requirt d. By way of illustviitiou he slated Hint live ye tis pievious lie hold a meeting at Naples, w.n-vo a number of Italian ministers in eoimi ctiou with ”>c Wes!,. \ an

Church conducted a meeting ui Iho 1: titan language on Pint, slam lim -, ... ging Protest,nt liymr.s close to the dungeon in which-111 \ ears previous many had boon incarcerated and sutVored lingering deaths ou account oi their possessing Binles. At that period squadrons of soldiers, when meetings were discovered, marcl ad AlO offenders off to prison, but now they held their met tings with open doors. The rev. gentleman concluded a most u’oquont address by appealing to till to assist by every means in their power the Bil !e Suciety in ns great work.