BIBLE SOCIETY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 4

BIBLE SOCIETY

MEETING IN MASTERTON. DISTRICT ORGANISER’S VISIT. Miss Ruth Fawcett, district organiser for the British and Foreign Biible Society, has been in Masterton during the last few days. She met the Landsdowne branch in the Presbyterian Manse, when Mrs D. McNeur and Mrs L. B. Maunsell (president) entertained the collectors and some interested friends at afternoon tea. The Central branch held its meeting in the Methodist Schoolroom, when collectors and friends of that area were entertained by the president Mrs G. G. Tolhurst. The presence of the Revs F. J. Parker and J. M Simpson was greatly appreciated. Mrs A. T. Thompson very kindly entertained a gathering of ladies in her home at Upper Plain.

At Masterton South the collector? and friends' met in the home of the president, Mrs F. E. J. Ractliffe.

Miss Fawcett stated that this was ?. red letter year in connection with thc work of the British and Foreign Bible Society as during the year the number of languages into which some portion of the Scriptures had been translated had risen to 1,013, the British and Foreign Bible Society being responsible for 723. The Archbishop of Canterbury, who was the chairman at the annual meeting held in London recently, was presented with a specially bound copy of St. John’s Gospel, in Sakata, the onethousandth translation.

At all meetings interest was shown in the work and many friends responded to the appeal for help in the collecting.

During this month and in August the annual appeal for help will be made again through the work of the collectors.