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bear's services were required by the Bible Society
for the translation of the entire Bible into the
Malay language, the management of the Press,
now known as the Methodist Publishing House,
was handed over to the present agent, Rev. W. T.
Cherry, who has brought the enterprise up to its
present efficiency and commercial prosperity. The
plant is now housed in a beautiful three story brick
building of its own, and is valued at more than a
hundred thousand dollars. From its presses have
come thousands of Bibles, tracts, leaflets, periodi-
cals, hymnals, catechisms, dictionaries, and school
textbooks, — ^the working tools of the Church. The
literature is scattered broadcast by the mission-
ary on his rounds, and it not only serves the pur-
pose of teaching the truth to those who have al-
ready entered the church, but it sows the seed of
future harvests.

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