 | Findlay Muirhead - London (England) - 1918 - 692 pages
...on the same side, is the house of the BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY (No. 146), founded in 1804 " to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment." Visitors are admitted daily (except Sat.), 10-4. The society issues every year over 10 million Bibles,... | |
 | Findlay Muirhead - London - 1924 - 350 pages
...On the same side is the house of the BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY (No. 146), founded in 1804 " to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment." Visitors are admitted daily (except Sat.), 10-4. The Library, perhaps the most polyglot room in the... | |
 | Japan - 1925 - 872 pages
...THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY is an interdenominational missionary organization whose sole object is " to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment." Translation, publication, and distribution are all involved in the accomplishment of this purpose.... | |
 | Marshall Raymond Olsen - 1927 - 140 pages
...society мау b, Washington nail, i^'ew Yorfc. 16 паше of the American jibie society of *faioh the sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or cogent. The only copies in the English langage to be circulated by the society shall be the version... | |
 | A. S. Van Der Woude - Religion - 1990 - 142 pages
...the motion "That it is contrary to the first Law of this Society, which declares that the Society's 'sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment' to aid in publishing or circulating any edition of the Bible Society containing the Apocrypha". This... | |
 | William Allen Smalley - Religion - 1991 - 300 pages
...translation.' In the words of its original "Laws and Regulations" the "sole object" of the Society "shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures. . . . without Note or Comment."4 The Society had several precursors, one of which was the Society for Promoting Christian... | |
 | American Bible Society - Bible - 1838 - 1038 pages
...American Bible Society, evidently under an incorrect impression of the principles upon which they could be admitted as such; and as others in distant places...place their surplus revenue, after supplying their own districts with Bibles, at the disposal of this Society.' These being fundamental principles, and... | |
 | Paul A. Soukup, Robert Hodgson - Computers - 1997 - 402 pages
...mission public: This Society shall be known by the name of the AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, of which the sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scripture without note or comment. The only copies in the English language to be circulated by the... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...church. D. Bogue, Sermons Preached in London at the Formation of the Missionary Society (1795) 12 The sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment. W. Canton, History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1, 11 (1910) 13 A concern arose to spend... | |
 | Stephen K. Batalden, Kathleen Cann, John Dean - Bible - 2004 - 396 pages
...paragraph of the Society's laws and regulations, which stated that the sole object of the Society was "to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment", reflected the non-sectarian, non-denominational approach of the Society. Since the Society wanted to... | |
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The American Bible Society, of which the sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment. 
