Tárogató, 1944-1945 (7. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1944-09-01 / 3. szám
TÁROGATÓ 15 heavy surf. On the other hand, Bibles for Annám were put up in boxes of fifty-eight pounds — the prevailing load for coolie burden-bearers. Other shipments had to be made up to protect the Bibles against tropical insects and dampness. It was a rare day that two million copies of the Bible, embracing three hundred and seventy different languages, were not to be found on the shelves of the London packing-room. The catalogue of the British society carried two thousand titles; in that of the American society, there were seven hundred and eighty Bible listings. Publishers of the Bible have always been spared one worry that often bothers the printers of secular books. They need not be afraid of producing too many copies! —Onward. BRITISH BIBLE SOCIETY’S CONTRIBUTION TO EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTION Owing to shortage of paper in this country, and the clamant need for Scriptures on the Continent, the British and Foreign Bible Society, with the American Bible Society, have made arrangements to print the following Scriptures in Sweden, for immediate postwar needs: 25,000 French Bibles, 50,000 French Testaments, 25,000 Czech Bibles, 50,- 000 Czech Testaments, 5,000 Estonian Bibles, 10.000 Estonian Testaments, 10,000 Greek Testaments, 5,000 Lettish Bibles, 10,000 Lettish Testaments, 25,000 Polish (Danzig) and 25.000 Polish (Wujek) Testaments, 10,000 Roumanian Bibles, 20,000 Roumanian Testaments, 25,000 Serbian Bibles, 50,000 Serbian Testaments. The Treasury has allowed the British Society to transmit to Sweden its share of the cost. This combined effort is one of the many examples of Anglo-American Christian Co-operation, and also augurs well for Britain’s share in the Christian Reconstruction on the Continent. At the Annual Meeting of the Society, held in London on May 3rd, and addressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Dr. Nathaniel Micklem, Dr. J. R- Temple, a Secretary of the Society, reported that the income during the year had risen by £59,000 to £438,367, and that a great part of a special sum of £200,000, earmarked for reconstruction work in Europe, had already been raised. THE SPARE ROOM A speaker recently said, “Many who have a spare room in their housees have no spare room in their hearts.” In the old days in Canada the spare bedroom was usually off the parlour which was only used, and therefore only heated, occasionally, and this spare room was frequently cold, damp and uncomfortable. The parlour has now become the living-room, and the spare room the guest room and with different methods of heating no longer remote and fearful, but warm and cheery. A spare room in the heart is very essential, and we are glad to believe that on the whole there are more of them today than in the past, more tolerance, more fraternity, more hospitality of soul. Right here in Canada religious denominations once largely filled their own little space, they were self-contained, exclusive, or even scornful. Anglicans had only a paper wall between themselves and Rome, Presbyterians were hardheaded Calvinists, Methodist dissenters or fanatics, and Baptists simply immersionists- Now they have built more stately mansions for their souls, with a guest chamber to entertain other disciples of Christ. Many people used to have no spare room for new ideas and methods. Spare rooms of openmindedness, of abounding sympathy and of good will have been installed. —Onward. FEATHERED HERO Looking more than a trifle sorry for itself, a storm-battered pigeon entered the Air Force loft at a point on the rugged Scottish coast. For nine hours it had battled with mists and rain to cover seventy miles. But that gallant pigeon had thus saved the lives of nine airmen, the crew of a giant Catalina flying boat that came to grief in the sea off the storm-bound coast of the Shetland Isles. Huge seas were running and it was apparent to the crew that what could be done must be done quickly. The Catalina’s wireless was defective. She could receive, but she couldn’t transmit. Although those in charge at control seventy miles away well knew that the Catalina was overdue, surface vessels they sent out in search failed to locate her.
