Bible Society
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Oct 2, 2026
Clare Heath-WhyteGUEST
Um, so she was always thinking.
Clare Heath-WhyteGUEST
She was one of the founder members of the, um, British and Foreign Bible Society.
Clare Heath-WhyteGUEST
Um, she founded night shelters, um, in London for, uh, for people to stay.
Clare Heath-WhyteGUEST
Um, she was involved in nursing training well before Florence Nightingale came along.
Patrick MadridHOST
They were included in the Old Testament section in a separate section, a separate appendix, under the heading of Apocrypha.
Patrick MadridHOST
And it wasn't until roughly the middle part of the 19th century in which the British Bible Society, I think the title is actually longer than that, but it was removed, they were removed rather, from the King James Version of the Bible at that point.
Patrick MadridHOST
And I think if you go into the details of it, a lot of it had to do with this sense that, well, those are Catholic books, and we don't like Catholic books because they're Catholic, so we're going to take those out.
Patrick MadridHOST
But if you had looked at a King James Bible, and there's still any number of them around, I mean, you can see them in museums, for example, you'll notice that those seven books are actually in the King James Bible.
speaker_5NARRATOR
But I keep this record for another chapter, and with it some account of other friends of Simeon's.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Here, apropos of the Church Missionary Society, let me say a little of other similar works into which Simeon threw much zeal and effort, the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The conversion of the Jews was perhaps the warmest interest in his life in the way of extended religious enterprise.
speaker_5NARRATOR
In May 1813, he tells Thomason that the Bishop of London is about to consecrate the new chapel which is building for the Jews Society at Bethnal Green, and that the Archbishop of Canterbury had expressed regret at not having given them his countenance before.
speaker_5NARRATOR
All the scriptures cited are dictated at full length in the paper.
speaker_5NARRATOR
We may think how intense would have been Simeon's interest in the Jewish phenomenon of our day, the Judenhetze of Germany and of Russia, and the steady flow of Jewish immigrants into Palestine, now at the rate of many thousands in a year, if the statistics are even moderately accurate.
speaker_5NARRATOR
His part in the mighty enterprise of the British and Foreign Bible Society, founded in 1804, was chiefly that of the wise and energetic advisor on the first introduction of the society into Cambridge and the steady friend of its cause there afterwards.
speaker_5NARRATOR
There were serious difficulties in the way when, in 1811, the first Bible meeting was proposed.
speaker_2NARRATOR
But I keep this record for another chapter, and with it some account of other friends of Simeon's.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Here, apropos of the Church Missionary Society, let me say a little of other similar works into which Simeon threw much zeal and effort, the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The conversion of the Jews was perhaps the warmest interest in his life in the way of extended religious enterprise.
speaker_2NARRATOR
In May 1813 he tells Thomason that the Bishop of London is about to consecrate the new chapel which is building for the Jews' Society at Bethnal Green and that the Archbishop of Canterbury had expressed regret at not having given them his countenance before.
speaker_2NARRATOR
All the scriptures cited are dictated at full length in the paper.
speaker_2NARRATOR
We may think how intense would have been Simeon's interest in the Jewish phenomenon of our day, the Judenhetze of Germany and of Russia and the steady flow of Jewish immigrants into Palestine, now at the rate of many thousands in a year, if the statistics are even moderately accurate.
speaker_2NARRATOR
His part in the mighty enterprise of the British and Foreign Bible Society, founded in 1804, was chiefly that of the wise and energetic advisor on the first introduction of the society into Cambridge and the steady friend of its cause there afterwards.
speaker_2NARRATOR
There were serious difficulties in the way when in 1811 the first Bible meeting was proposed.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
But I keep this record for another chapter, and with it some account of other friends of Simeon's.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
Here, apropos of the Church Missionary Society, let me say a little of other similar works into which Simeon threw much zeal and effort, the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
The conversion of the Jews was perhaps the warmest interest in his life in the way of extended religious enterprise.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
In May 1813, he tells Thomason that the Bishop of London is about to consecrate the new chapel which is building for the Jews' Society at Bethnal Green, and that the Archbishop of Canterbury had expressed regret at not having given them his countenance before.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
All the scriptures cited are dictated at full length in the paper.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
We may think how intense would have been Simeon's interest in the Jewish phenomenon of our day, the Judenhetze of Germany and of Russia, and the steady flow of Jewish immigrants into Palestine, now at the rate of many thousands in a year, if the statistics are even moderately accurate.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
His part in the mighty enterprise of the British and Foreign Bible Society, founded in 1804, was chiefly that of the wise and energetic adviser on the first introduction of the society into Cambridge, and the steady friend of its cause there afterwards.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
There were serious difficulties in the way when, in 1811, the first Bible meeting was proposed.
Andrew OllertonGUEST
Why are people having to walk a marathon to get a Bible? It should be more available.
Andrew OllertonGUEST
And so Together with others, they established the British and Foreign Bible Society, and its aim really was to help people have access to the Bible.
Andrew OllertonGUEST
Now, of course, the challenge has changed a bit.
Andrew OllertonGUEST
In our digital age, you can download the Bible anywhere in the Western world for free.
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