...Sectarian jealousy and party prejudice were laid aside in order to insure combined endeavors in promoting " a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment." The American Foreign Bible Society was established in 1836 by the Baptist denomination, which withdrew...

...is the offspring. The object of this beneficent organization is declared to be "the encouragement of a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment." The genius of the Society is In harmony with the broadest principles of Christian economics. Its organization...

...Sectarian jealousy and party prejudice were laid aside in order to insure combined endeavors in promoting "a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment." The American Foreign Bible Society was established in 1836 by the Baptist denomination, which withdrew...

...appointed, all of whom were laymen of seven diU'ercnt denominations. The avowed object of the society was to " encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment." In the first year of its existence it issued 6,410 copies of the Scriptures. ?n 1808-99 the issues...

...the Authorized Version, without note or comment." As altered, the latter part of the rule reads, " to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment : the only copies in the languages of the United Kingdom to be circulated by the Society shall be the Authorized Version." The...

...the wording of its first rule — "The designation of the Society shall be the British and Foreign Bible Society, of which the sole object shall be,...encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures. The only copies in the languages of the United Kingdom to be circulated by the Society, shall be the...

...the Authorized Version, without note or comment." As altered, the latter part of the rule reads, " to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment : the only copies ^jn the languages of the United Kingdom to be circulated by the Society shall be the Authorized Version."...

...Hall, May 11, and elected officers, Elias Boudinot being made president. Under this constitution " the sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment" (art. i). The board of managers is composed of thirty-six laymen, one-fourth of whom go out of office...

...life at Hoboken, NJ BIBLE SOCIETY, AMERICAN. A religious organization founded in 1810 for encouraging a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment. The issue of the year 1907-8 amounted to 1,895.941 volumes, Bibles, Testaments, and Gospels, or other single...

...caravan moves on." In the city of New York, in May, 1816, the American Bible Society was organized, "of which the sole object shall be to encourage a...circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment." It was stipulated further that "this Society shall according to its ability extend its influence to...