A FAMOUS SOCIETY.

Shannon News, 11 August 1922, Page 3

A FAMOUS SOCIETY.

The Rev. A. T. Thompson. M.A., 8.D., a distinguished clergyman an l Agent of the British and Foreign BibJ a Society, will be in Shannon this weekend as the guest of Rev. J. G. Abbot, and will conduct services, in the Presbyterian Church at 11 a.m. on Sunday next, 13th inst., and in the Anglican Church at 7 o’clock evening. On the same day he will also address a united ’ meeting of the Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodic I Sunday Schools, in the Parish Hall, at 2.30 o’clock, and parents and children belonging to the various denominations are urgently requested to make an effort to be present at these services. The British and Foreign Bible Society is interdenominational in creed and universal in outlook; it is a partnership of Christian people, who unite to provide everyone who can read with God’s Message, printed in his own tongue. Already it has helped the Gospel to speak in 540 different languages and dialects; it has provided the Scriptures in 38 different languages in embossed type for the blind; it employs nearly 100 colporteurs who carry cheap editions of God’s Ro ik into remotest corners of the earth. The Anglican community throughout the world is teaching to-day in fully 193 separate languages and dialects; the Presbyterian Missions ust 136 versions, and the Methodist Missianary Society 103. During last year the Society sent out over eight and a-h.tlf million copies of Scripture.