Excerpt from A History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Vol. 1 In these circumstances it was found impossible to carry out the original project of the Committee. They arranged accordingly that the present volumes and the smaller History should be issued as soon as they could be prepared, and that Vols. III. And IV. Completing the official History should follow with the least possible delay.
Vols. I. And II. Close with the account of the Jubilee of the Society - an event which marks a natural line of division. In other respects the year 1853-4 might well have been chosen for a stopping-place. A new President had recently been elected, and new Secretaries had just been installed. Modern England may be said to have then superseded the England which had been passing away since the last of the Georges; and the discovery of gold in California and Australia had decided the course of those migrations which were to enlarge the already vast fields of Bible work. In these volumes the record of the fifty years has been divided into three periods, and in each instance the line of demarca tion has been determined by some fresh development or departure in the work at home. Some such divisions were necessary if any attempt was to be made to represent the synchronous character of the Society's operations. To have treated each country separately and continuously would have reduced the work to a series of monographs.
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Vols. I. And II. Close with the account of the Jubilee of the Society - an event which marks a natural line of division. In other respects the year 1853-4 might well have been chosen for a stopping-place. A new President had recently been elected, and new Secretaries had just been installed. Modern England may be said to have then superseded the England which had been passing away since the last of the Georges; and the discovery of gold in California and Australia had decided the course of those migrations which were to enlarge the already vast fields of Bible work. In these volumes the record of the fifty years has been divided into three periods, and in each instance the line of demarca tion has been determined by some fresh development or departure in the work at home. Some such divisions were necessary if any attempt was to be made to represent the synchronous character of the Society's operations. To have treated each country separately and continuously would have reduced the work to a series of monographs.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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