THE BIBLE SOCIETY.

Waikato Times, Volume xxx, Issue 2424, 24 January 1888, Page 2

THE BIBLE SOCIETY.

The Rev. H. T. Robjohns, 8.A., agent for the British and Foreign Bible Society, preached in the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, on Sunday morning. His text was the 22nd and 23rd verses of the 3(ith chapter of Jeremiah: "Now the King sat in fche winterhouse in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. And it came to pass that when .Tehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth." The major portion of the discourse wont to show the wonderful manner in which the Holy Scriptures had been preserved during all the vissicitudes through which the world had passed, the burning of the roll by King Jehoiakim and the rewriting of it by liaruch from the dictation of Jeremiah being used as the principle illustration. The preacher has a happy manner of bringing Scriptural events within the understanding of the young, by likening the action of them in men of modern times. For instance, Jehoiakim, who was kept on the throne of Judah by Egypt, he likened to the present Khedive being the puppet of the Turkish powers : Nebuchadnezzar, who was then only a general, to Napoleon, and so on. The external history of the Bible he divided into four chapters : First, tradition ; second, writing ; third, translation ; and fourth, printing. He stated that the Bible was now printed in 333 different languages, and that there were 3000 yet to do. At the beginning of the present century there were only five million Bibles in existence, now there are two hundred and thirty millions. Even in the present day Bibles were sometimes publicly burnt on the European Continent ; but the immortal word of God would never be killed. In the afternoon the Reverend Mr. Robjohns addressed a meeting of Sunday School scholars in the Public Hall, and in the evening preached at St. Paul's Wesleyan Church. Last evening the annual meeting of the Society was held in the Public Hall when Mr Robjohns explained the operations of the parent Society during the past year.