THE BIBLE IN RUSSIA.
No association was allowed in Russia for religious purposes,—no printing presses were permitted for printing the Bible in modern Russia, and no versions of the Scriptures were allowed to be imported into Russia except those that were in English, French, Italian, and German. Not a single copy of the Bible in modern Russ, the only language which the people understood was allowed to be in circulation. This was forbidden under the severest penalties and it was believed that not a copy of the scriptures had been printed in Russia in the language of the people since 1823. The Emperor of Russia had within his dominions a population of nearly 2,000,000 Hebrews but he did not permit to pass his frontiers for the use of those people, a single copy of the Scriptures in Hebrew. — Speech of the Earl of Shaftesbury in the House of Lords,
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 November 1855, Page 14
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149THE BIBLE IN RUSSIA. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 November 1855, Page 14
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