REDS’ BAN ON BIBLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1925, Page 4

REDS’ BAN ON BIBLES

PEASANTS DESIRE THEM

The determined attempt of the .Moscow Soviet Oovernment to stamp' out Christianity is emphasised in the report of the British and Foreign Bible Society lor the year ended .March 1 OoiJ: The society states: The importation ot the Scriptures inLn Lue Soviet Republics (from Retrograd to Vladivostok) is still forbidden. The Society has inquired from the Russian Charge d’Alfaires in London whether it would he allowed to print liililes in Russia; the letter has been courteously acknowledged, hut a final reply lias not yet come to hand. All our endeavours to gain an entrance into Russia have failed. Yet we have every reason to !„•- lievc that the religions Russian peoples have not lost their love tor the Scriptures. We hear of .Siberian peasants who would willingly give a ion tor a Bible. The report states that despite unrest and anti-foreign sentiment in China last year tiie three Bible Societids (American'. Scottish, and our own placed nearly 9.")00.(l;)t) copies o> Holy Scripture (chiefly CJospels) in the hands of the Chinese—an increase of over 1,! 1(10.000 on the figures for If!".’.'). Out of every ten hooks sold by us in 1021 about four wore sold in China. Half our increased circulation last year took place there.