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GOMERY, 1895. wmaanmmm ^ ' ^ ^\f ,'' mum \ SOME TALK ABOUT THE BIBLK SOCIETY AND !TS MONTREAL AUXILIARY. ^ "Will you help lis ?" asks a member of ihe British ami Foreign Bible Society. The society has done and is doinj,^ a great work in the world, [t was founded in 1804 with tlie one simple object of givinjr the Bible to the whole human race, that all may read there the message of life and salva- tion through the Saviour that the Book makes known. The Bible Society belongs to no sect or i)arty, but invites all who love the Bible to help in the work of spreading it. Great Britain has long possesseil the treasure of an open Bible, for the great John Wycliflfe first gave it t(; us in Knglish in 1380, more than 500 years ago, though that was before there was any priming. Then noble William I'vndale gave us the tirst printed Knglish New Testament in' 1525, and Miles Coverdale the whole'printed Bible is.^S- Still, at the beginning of this century the sacred volume was a scarce and dear book even in our Mother-land, when the cheapest Bible cost 4s 6d, and a New Testament is 4d, while throughout the greater portion of the world the Book was entirely unknown. Now the Bible Society provides a whole English Bible for sixpence, a New Testament for a i)enny, any one of the four gospels for a half-penny, while it gives every year thousands of copies, without money and without price, 1.0 all who cannot jmy for it. It sends its colporteurs, or Bible-hawkers, all over the'continents of Europe and Asia, carrying the message of the Gospel to the millions in France. Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Russia.as well as to theMoham- niedans in Turkey. Then, wherever the missionaries are going to preach the gospel to the heathen, the Bible Society goes with them, providing the word of God in 320 languages for India, China, Japan, Africa, South America and the many If islands of the sea. while all the British coloiiiL'S are diligently careil for. Already nearly 140,000,000 of copies have been sent over the world, while about four millions are circulated annually, beini,' six or seven copies every ndnute, day and night, throughout the year. The results of this no man can H'.W, for no man knows it ; but we may be certain that multitudes have been made liappy, because pardoned and purified by the Saviour the Bible makes known to thorn. Let us see what the Bible can teach ignorant and degraded people. A poor woman, born a heathen, but brought to a knowledge of the gosi)el, lived the latter years of her life entirely alone in a solitary hut. A missionary oncu passing that way called in to see her, ami when making the remark, 'How lonely you must be here all by yourself." she replied, ** Not so lonely as you think ; for when I go on my knees and pray, then I talk to God, and when I read my blessed Bible, then (joil talks to me. While I can do that I am never lonily," Did you ever hear o\' the tlying chief in the South Sea Islands, on the other side of the world ? lie had once been a bloodthirsty cannibal feasting on human llesh, but he had been brought to Christ, and to read and love his Bible. One night he had a remarkable dream, which at first troubled him, not understanding it — though afterwards he saw its meaning. To a missionary who visited him, and asked him what his dream was, he .said, '' I dreamed that I saw at a great distance a beautiful city that seemed to be built of gold, and shone and glittered in the light of the sun. 1 thought I would like to go there, and I set off, but the way lay over great mountains. I tried to climb over them, but fell down sorely wounded. I tried again and again, but all in vain, till at last, after many falls, I lay down wearied and bruised, and thought I shall never be able to reach the beautiful city. But just then I saw a drop of blood come down from heaven which toaohed the great mountains, and they all melted away, leaving the way clear and open to the beautiful city." On being asked how he understood the dream, the dying chief replied, "Ah ! those great mountains v^'ere the mountains of my sins, and trying to climb over llicm IS like Irving to -^vi to litavcii hv m\ own slrivini^'s and iloiiiK's. Hut ihtj precious Mood of iln' Laml. ol Cnn\ can lakf away all my j,'rtat sins, and open the way (or nx- to glory." This is what the liihle is tearhin;^ dark and ignorant nnn all over tl»e worUI ; and how tagerly they often lon^ and search for the h«-avenly light may he seen in another siin[)le but touching slorv. A missionary to the Indians of North Amerii a, now Bishoj* Wiiipple, of Minmsola, relates: "One who had been a healiien reil man came 600 miles to visit nje in mv home. As he came in at the door he knell at my feet. Fie said to me. ' I kneel to ttdl you my gratitude that vou pitied the red man. I was a wild man living l»eyon' 1 came 150 miles more, an riim>, niassa." " Well, if y( arc a preai her, you ought to understand the i'.ihle. Now, tell m<; what does this mean ;" and he opened the Bible and re.id, " F()r wlnjm He did foreknow, Ife also did predestinate "-words that have puz/.led wiser men than i.ie poor slave. And, said the slave, '• I\[assa, where is it r " " lis in Romans," said the master. " ( )li, my dear massa ' I wil! explain dis 'ole business to vou. It is very simple. Vou begin with Matthew, and do all the d<'ar Lord tells y(ju to do there; and then you go on lo Mark, and Luke, and John, and when vou get to that place it is easy enough, but you can't begin tliere." And so, dd was ^mvcm as her rontri- biition. Another elderly woman, Mary Ivcrelt. livintr at W'itihamplon, in Dorset, having neither orehard nor Ixes. possessed a parrot, the only companion of her hiimhle (ottaKe. Findinj,Mhe bird possessed powers of speerh, she allixed to its cape a tin ( olI.Mting box. and taught the parrot to beg from the visitors who earn.- to set? and hear it. .ontri- biitions for the Hible Societv. The box frecpientlv in a vear prodni eil as much as £i, and