A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY BY WILLIAM CANTON WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS VOL. I LONDON 1904

C O N T E N T S FIRST PERIOD, 1804--1817 CHAPTER I Earlier Bible Distribution--The Originating Causes--The Dearth of Welsh Bibles--Charles of Bala in London--The 7th March 1804--A Union [Ecumenical from the beginning] . . PAGE 1-14 CHAPTER II THE SOCIETY FOUNDED "Without Note or Comment"--The Laws of the Society--The Society's First Prospectus--Its Welcome on the Continent-- Correspondence with Calcutta--The Threat of Invasion--The Shadow of Napoleon . . 15-29 CHAPTER III GLIMPSES OF THE EARLY MEN The Cla. Circle--Granville Sharp--Henry Thorton-- William Wilberforce--Lord Teignmouth--His Career in India--The Rev. J. Hughes [Baptist]--The Rev C. F. Steinkopff [Ger. Lut.an]--The Rev. J. Owen   30-45 CHAPTER IV Unforeseen developments--Rules for the Auxiliaries--Importance of the Auxiliaries--The Bible Associations--Growth of the Associations--"A Tax on the Poor"--Ladies' Bible Societies --Mr Dudley's System . . 46-62 v

vi     CONTENTS CHAPTER V Summary of the Auxiliaries--The Liverpool Aux. founded-- The Charges against the Society--The Cambridge Aux. --The Norwich Aux.--The Gurneys of Ear.--Joseph John Gurney--The Murder of Mr Perceval--The Oxford Aux.--"Not unto us" . . PAGE 63-83 CHAPTER VI THE BIBLE CAUSE IN SCOTLAND David Dale of Gla.--Scotland in 1804--The State of the Highlands--The Gaelic Bible--Gaelic Bible Schools--Growth of Scottish Aux.s--The Edinburg Bible Society-- Roman Catholic Schools . . 84-89 CHAPTER VII THE WORK IN WALES AND IRELAND Editions in various Tongues--Purchase of 10 Earl Street--The Channel and Sicilly Isles--The Manx Bible--The Work begun in Ireland--The Hibernian Bible Society--Growth of the Irish Aux.s--The Irish Version-- The good Bishop Bedell   . 100-118 CHAPTER VIII THE ISLES OF THE SEA ...--Modern Greek New Testament--Malta as a Bible Station-- . . 119-142 CHAPTER IX THE YEARS OF THE LOCUST Dis.s in France--Rat. and Canstein--The Berlin Bible Society--The Misery of Prussia--Issue of the Bohemian Bible --The Bible for Lithuania--Thoughts turned to Turkey-- Pastor Oberlin--Oberlin and the R.T.S. . . . . . PAGE 143-162 CHAPTER X FROM SAGA-LAND TO KALMUK TENTS J. Paterson and E. Henderson--Copenhagen bombarded-- Bible Work in... . . 163-183 CHAPTER XI THE CONTINENTAL SOCIETIES (I.) ....   . 184-209 CHAPTER XII THE CONTINENTAL SOCIETIES (II.) Mr Stei. Second Tour--Mr Henderson in Iceland--A Song of Thu.--Societies in Sweden and Norway--Grants to Continental Societies--The Death of Henry Martyn--The Czar's Version in Russ-- Pinkerton in South Russia--Interview with Mett.--Adhesion of Russian Catholics-- Spain and Portugal--The Greenland Eskimo . . 210-234 CHAPTER XIII THE NEW WORLD The United States in 1800-10--The first United States Bible-- The Unitarian Movement--Rarity of the Scriptures--Roman Catholic Approval--Summary for 1815--The American B.S. founded--British North America--... . . PAGE 235-258 CHAPTER XIV IN THE EAST (I.) The Policy of the E.I.C.--...of Kali--Hostility to Mies.--Indian Versions begun--Carey at Serampore-- The College of Fort-William--First Grant to India--Henry Martyn--The Bengal Committee at work--The Malayalam New Testament--the Calcutta Auxiliary . . . . . 259-281 CHAPTER XV IN THE EAST (II.) John Leyden's Versions--Death of David Brown--Armenian and Malay Versions--Sabat the Arabian--Martyn's Persian Testament--Grants to India--The Syriac New Testament-- The Holy Eastern Church--Robert Morrison in China-- The Scriptures in Chinese . . 282-302 CHAPTER XVI THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST PERIOD Reply to Dr Wordsworth--Dr Marsh and the Prayer Book--Four unfriendly Bishops--Anniversary Meetings--the Death of Bishop Porteus--"There is a Refuge"--Summary of Thirteen Years . . 303-318

CONTENTS     ix SECOND PERIOD, 1817--1834 CHAPTER XVII THE APOCRYPHA CONTROVERSY Unrecorded Influence--Distress and Reform--"Monthly Extracts" --Bible Work on the Thames--Owen and Oberlin--The Death of Oberlin--The Death of Owen--The Apocrypha Difficulty abroad--Resolutions rejected--A Special Committee--Decision of the Committee--The Death of Captain Shore--The Scottish Secession--The Work Done in Scotland--The Dearth in the Highlands . . PAGE 319-350 CHAPTER XVIII THE TESTS CONTROVERSY District Agents appointed--The Test Proposals--The Basis of Union--Conflicting Views--The Exeter Hall Meeting--Gerard and Baptist Noel--Four District Secretaries--The Grave of Joseph Hughes--The Death of Lord Teignmouth--Lord Bexley, Second President . . 351-369 CHAPTER XX THE AUXILIARIES IN FRANCE The Turkish Bible--Henderson and Paterson resign--The Protestant B.S. of Paris--Professor Kieffer's Agency--Breton and Basque Versions--Colportage--Death of Professor Kieffer --The Work of the Period . . 388-403 CHAPTER XXI CATASTROPHE IN RUSSIA The Sixth Anniversary -- Scriptures in many Tongues--Dr Pinkerton's Tour--From St Petersburg to Tiflis--The Russ New Testament--Intrigues against the Society--The Policy of Seraphim--Suspension of the Russian B.S.--A New Start . PAGE 404-422 XXII THE CONTINENT AND THE APOCRYPHA "We must at last return"--The Prussian and Saxon B.S.S.--Dis- tributions in Bohemia--Stein. Fifth Tour--The Nether- lands Bible Society--The Parting of the Ways--Hopes of Reunion--Leander Van Ess--The Frank. Agency--The Effect of the Secession . . 423-444 XXIII NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE APOCRYPHA The Danish Bible Societies--The Swedish Bible Society--The Norwegian Bible Society--Adherence to Custom--The Codex Argenteus--The Need for Agencies--Dr Paterson's Tour--The Grants for the Period . . 445-461 [p. 18: On the 9th October 1901, it was unanimously decided at ... "The only copies in the English language to be circulated by the Society shall be either the Authorized Version of 1611, or the Revised Version of 1881-5, or both."]

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