Isubu Bible History (3)

**List: Isubu Ministry the Bible ( the Bible ) Isubu... ISUBU. "ISUBU is spoken in a small maritime district, called Bimbia, lying at the foot of the Cameroon Mountains.   Its population is under 10,000.   Around the Cameroon Mountains there are extensive districts, with a scattered population, in which dialects of Isubu and Dualla are spoken.   Parts of the Scriptures were translated into Isubu by the late Rev. Joseph Merrick, of the Baptist My. Society.   This devoted my. was of African descent, and was educated in the schools of the Baptist Society in Jamaica.   He spoke the Isubu language with great precision, and spent the last years of his life among the Isubu tribes.   He died in 1849, just as the fruit of his labours was ripening, and when five natives had evinced a desire to be baptised.   His labours, however, have been continued by Mr. Saker and his fellow-labourers in the same field, and not without success.    The portions of Mr. Merrick's labours which have been printed are the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. John, the book of Genesis, a portion of the book of Acts, and a series of selections from the Old Testament.   These have issued from the local press of the Baptist mies.   The two remaining Gospels have been subsequently translated, and 100 copies of the whole Gospels were completed in 1852."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second Edition)   Samuel Bagster   [Info only] ISUBU.--1860   S. Bagster   [Info only: n.d. John 1:1-14 unknown.]

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