The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

541FRENCH REVOLUTION, CH. 9, PAR. 1 (BOHN, 1894); A. ALISON,HISTORY OF EUROPE, 1789-1815, VOL. 1, CH. 14 (NEW YORK, 1872,VOL. 1, PP. 293-312).ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 287. THE CIRCULATION OF THESCRIPTURES.--IN 1804, ACCORDING TO MR. WILLIAM CANTONOF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY, "ALL THEBIBLES EXTANT IN THE WORLD, IN MANUSCRIPT OR IN PRINT,COUNTING EVERY VERSION IN EVERY LAND, WERE COMPUTEDAT NOT MANY MORE THAN FOUR MILLIONS. . . . THE VARIOUSLANGUAGES IN WHICH THOSE FOUR MILLIONS WERE WRITTEN,INCLUDING SUCH BYGONE SPEECH AS THE MOESO-GOTHIC OFULFILAS AND THE ANGLO-SAXON OF BEDE, ARE SET DOWN ASNUMBERING ABOUT FIFTY."--WHAT IS THE BIBLE SOCIETY? REV.ED., 1904, P. 23.THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY REPORTED A DISTRIBUTIONFROM 1816 THROUGH 1955 OF 481,149,365 BIBLES, TESTAMENTS,AND PORTIONS OF TESTAMENTS. TO THIS MAY BE ADDEDOVER 600,000,000 BIBLES OR SCRIPTURE PORTIONSDISTRIBUTED BY THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.DURING THE YEAR 1955 ALONE THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETYDISTRIBUTED A GRAND TOTAL OF 23,819,733 BIBLES,TESTAMENTS, AND PORTIONS OF TESTAMENTS THROUGHOUTTHE WORLD.THE SCRIPTURES, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, HAVE BEEN PRINTED,AS OF DECEMBER, 1955, IN 1,092 LANGUAGES; AND NEWLANGUAGES ARE CONSTANTLY BEING ADDED.ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 288. FOREIGN MISSIONS.--THEMISSIONARY ACTIVITY OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCHHAS NOT BEEN DUPLICATED UNTIL MODERN TIMES. IT HADVIRTUALLY DIED OUT BY THE YEAR 1000, AND WASSUCCEEDED BY THE MILITARY CAMPAIGNS OF THE CRUSADES.THE REFORMATION ERA SAW LITTLE FOREIGN MISSION WORK,EXCEPT ON THE PART OF THE EARLY JESUITS. THE PIETISTICREVIVAL PRODUCED SOME MISSIONARIES. THE WORK OF THEMORAVIAN CHURCH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WASREMARKABLE, AND THERE WERE SOME MISSIONARY