| Edwin Munsell Bliss - 1891 - 726 էջ
...following : 1. The designation of this society shall be the British and Foreign Bible Society, of which the sole object shall be 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... | |
| 1891 - 828 էջ
...city of New York, the American Bible Society was organized. The constitution adopted declares: "The sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment." On May 13 ol the present year it celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary. The reports read show that... | |
| 1892 - 536 էջ
[ Ներեցեք, այս էջի պարունակությունն արգելված է: ] | |
| American Bible Society - 1893 - 64 էջ
...SOCIETY. ARTICLE I. THIS Society shall be known by the name of the AMEKICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, ol which the sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment. The only copies in the English language, to be circulated by the Society, shall be of the version now... | |
| James Grant Wilson - 1893 - 794 էջ
...adopted with entire unanimity. The sole object of the society, as stated in its constitution, is " to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment." The constitution also declares that the society will not only cooperate with other organizations in... | |
| Moses King - 1893 - 1020 էջ
...formed in various portions of the United States. Its constitution declares that its sole object is to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment. Its field is the world. Its founders expressed the purpose to extend its operations to other countries,... | |
| Moses King - 1892 - 938 էջ
...number of religious publications. The American Bible Society, Bible House, was organized in 1 8 16 to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures "without note or comment." During the 76 years of its history it has received $21,000,000, and has distributed 55,500,000 copies... | |
| Elwood Morris Wherry - 1895 - 500 էջ
...THE MOST STRIKING CHARACTERISTIC. The Constitution of the British and Foreign Bible Society declares that its " sole object shall be to encourage a wider...circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment." The same words are embodied in the Constitution of the American Bible Society, and they set forth the... | |
| John Lincoln Brandt - 1895 - 544 էջ
...religious freedom. The Popes condemn all Bible Societies, and especially those whose sole objects are to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment. The Second Plenary Council, held in Baltimore in 1866, urged the clergy to "keep away from their own... | |
| Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - 1902 - 588 էջ
...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... | |
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