CIRCULATING BIBLES BY THE MILLION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 12

CIRCULATING BIBLES BY THE MILLION

WORLD-WIDE TOUR SECRETARY IN AUCKLAND By the time the Rev. Mr. Bradm? returns to England he will have visited every Continent in the world a®* nearly every country. He arrived in Auckland this from China and the East and will to* elude New Zealand in his list of coUE * tries. Mr. Brading is secretary of Scripture Gift Mission and the >' aT *; and Military Bible Society. HisJJ or . tour is being made in the interests the mission and the society, as ;r are branches of the organisati° n every corner of the world. “We circulate from eight to - million copies of the Scripture ® v year,” said Mr. Brading, “and they translated into 100 languages.” He has seen some of the effect*: the upheaval in China, and he suu that there are 300 missionariesChina who are unable to get back the regions in which fighting is ***“*■ place. .My “There is no doubt that the dist® a nee in China has been caused d Bolshevik influences,” said Mr. * ing. Only two or three months . he was in Manchuria and altnc there was no fighting there, tne ernment was arresting people. P r pally theological students and r f “ S Brading wax pressed with Korea, which is < wonderful progress. This, he ®adue to the efforts of Viscoun the Japanese Governor-Genera Japanese have revolutionised country. During the first years . occupation of Korea they inaugu military dictatorship, but W- g. saw their mistake and sent v £ Saito, who has now done won the country^^^^^^^^