Story of the Bible Society by William Canton

Among the boxes of books kindly given to me by Redcliffe College for digitisation is a multi-volume work by William Canton on the history of The Bible Society. This single volume is clearly a condensed version of Canton’s major work. The multi-volume version will be digitised in due course. This book is in the public domain.

William Canton [1845-1926], The Story of the Bible Society. London: John Murray, 1904. Hbk. pp.362. [Click to download complete volume in PDF]

Contents

Prelude

1. “Why Not For The World?”
2. “Built In Troublous Times”
3. The Bibles of Britain
4. The Book and the Sword
5. English Gold
6. Beyond the Atlantic
7. Morning Lands and Savage Isles
8. “A Wheel Within a Wheel”
9. The Salt of the Earth
10. Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
11. The Continental Agencies
12. The Bible in Russia
13. From Three Continents
14. The Myriad-Peopled East
15. The Americas
16. West and East-Gold
17. The Power of the Written Word
18. Specimen Days
19. The Pillar and the Chain
20. The Ministry of Children
21. Crowns and Cannon
22. The Gates of Dawn
23. “Out of Every Nation”
24. Of the Making of Versions
25. The Men
26. The Centenary and After

Preface

In the following pages an attempt has been made to sketch the origin, growth, and progress of the British and Foreign Bible Society during the hundred years which began on the 7th March 1804, and which will be brought to a close on the 6th March next by the universal observance, among the Reformed Churches, of “Bible Sunday” as a day of thanksgiving for the blessing which the free circulation of the Holy Scriptures has been to the world.  [Continue reading]