Page 283 . Retribution . --For further details concerning the retributive character of the French Revolution see Thos . H . Gill , The Papal Drama , b . 10 ; Edmond de Pressense , The Church and the French Revolution , b . 3 , ch . 1 .
Page 284 . The Atrocities of the Reign of Terror . --See M . A . Thiers , History of the French Revolution , vol . 3 , pp . 42-44 , 62-74 , 106 ( New York , 1890 , translated by F . Shoberl ); F . A . Mignet , History of the French Revolution , ch . 9 , par . 1 ( Bohn , 1894 ); A . Alison , History of Europe , 17891815 , vol . 1 , ch . 14 ( New York , 1872 , vol . 1 , pp . 293-312 ).
Page 287 . The Circulation of the Scriptures . --In 1804 , according to Mr . William Canton of the British and Foreign Bible Society , " all the Bibles extant in the world , in manuscript or in print , counting every version in every land , were computed at not many more than four millions . . . . The various languages in which those four millions were written , including such bygone speech as the Moeso-Gothic of Ulfilas and the Anglo-Saxon of Bede , are set down as numbering about fifty ." -What Is the Bible Society ? rev . ed ., 1904 , p . 23 .
The American Bible Society reported a distribution from 1816 through 1955 of 481,149,365 Bibles , Testaments , and portions of Testaments . To this may be added over 600,000,000 Bibles or Scripture portions distributed by the British and Foreign Bible Society . During the year 1955 alone the American Bible Society distributed a grand total of 23,819,733 Bibles , Testaments , and portions of Testaments throughout the world .
The Scriptures , in whole or in part , have been printed , as of December , 1955 , in 1,092 languages ; and new languages are constantly being added .
Page 288 . Foreign missions . --The missionary activity of the early Christian church has not been duplicated until modern times . It had virtually died out by the year 1000 , and was succeeded by the military campaigns of the Crusades . The Reformation era saw little foreign mission work , except on the part of the early Jesuits . The pietistic revival produced some missionaries . The work of the Moravian Church in the eighteenth century was remarkable , and there were some missionary societies formed by the British for work in colonized North America . But the great resurgence of foreign missionary activity begins around the year 1800 , at " the time of the end ." Daniel 12:4 . In 1792 was formed the Baptist Missionary Society , which sent Carey to India . In 1795 the London Missionary Society was organized , and another society in 1799 which in 1812 became the Church Missionary Society . Shortly afterward the Wesleyan Missionary Society was founded . In the United States the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formed in 1812 , and Adoniram Judson was sent out
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