 | Christianity - 1857 - 542 pages
...would infinitely prefer giving their money to • their poor countrymen. ' Let us examine what becomes of these books: — Bibles are ' given to the Turks,...rationally in the Turkish ' character : one hundred and ninety out of every two hundred • cannot read. An ignorant Turk takes one of them with about ' as... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...patronage of appointing missionaries, Bible distributors, &c., would cease. Let us examine what becomes of these books. Bibles are given to the Turks, printed very rationally in the Turkish character — (199 of 200 cannot read). A Turk takes one of them as he would a Treatise on Fluxions, or a Life... | |
 | Thomas William M. Marshall - Church growth - 1863 - 664 pages
...patronage of appointing missionaries, Bible distributors, &c., would cease. Let us examine what becomes of these books. " Bibles are given to the Turks, printed...Turkish character, — one hundred and ninety-nine out of two hundred cannot read ! A Turk takes one of them as he would a treatise on fluxions, or a... | |
 | Thomas William M. Marshall - Missions - 1864 - 652 pages
...patronage of appointing missionaries, Bible distributors, &c., would cease. Let us examine what becomes of these books. " Bibles are given to the Turks, printed...Turkish character, — one hundred and ninety-nine out of two hundred cannot read ! A Turk takes one of them as he would a treatise on fluxions, or a... | |
 | 1864 - 684 pages
...proceed to notice the fate of the Bibles so liberally doled out by the British and Foreign Society : — "Bibles are given to the Turks, printed very rationally...Turkish character — one hundred and ninety-nine cannot read. A Turk takes one of them as he would a treatise on fluxions, or a life of Lord Bacon,... | |
 | Thomas Scott Preston - Protestantism - 1888 - 236 pages
...have never seen any one of them reading the Bible, nor, do I believe, has any Englishman there." f "Bibles are given to the Turks, printed very rationally in the Turkish character, but one hundred and ninety-nine out of two hundred cannot read." "The Hebrews take the Bible with great... | |
 | Stephen K. Batalden, Kathleen Cann, John Dean - Bible - 2004 - 396 pages
...action. But then the patronage of appointing missionaries, Bible distributors etc. would cease. . . Bibles are given to the Turks, printed very rationally...and ninety-nine of two hundred cannot read). A Turk. ..either keeps it as a curiosity, or tears it as waste paper... The Hebrews... carefully destroy the... | |
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Turkish character — (one hundred and ninety-nine of two hundred cannot read). A Turk takes one of them as he would a Treatise on Fluxions, or a Life of Lord Bacon, and with about as much interest... 