The Bible continues to be the most popular of books, as shown
by the report of the American Bible Society for 1909. The total
number of issues amounted to 2,826,831, of which 1,427,247
came from the Bible House in New York, and 1,399,584 from the
society’s agencies abroad, in Turkey, Syria, Siam, China,
Japan, etc. These issues consisted of 327,636 Bibles, 545,743
New Testaments, and 1,953,452 Scripture portions. The number of
volumes was 673,803 in excess of the issues of a year ago, and
590,076 in excess of any year in its history.
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