Orominay / Oromo Bible History (3)

**List: Oromo Ministry the Bible ( the Bible ) Oromo... GALLA. "III.--VERSION OF THE SCRIPTURES IN THIS LANGUAGE.    The Gospels of St. Matthew, St. Luke, and St. John, the Epistle to the Romans, and the book of Genesis, were translated into Galla by Dr. Krapf during his residence in Shoa, between the years 1839 and 1842.   The Gospel of St. Matthew and five chapters of the Gospel of St. John were printed in Roman letters, the copies being designed for distribution among the Galla tribes around Shoa, where the Church My. Society contemplated the establishment of a mission.   The opposition of the Abyssinian priesthood led, however, to the abandonment, in 1844, of the Shoa mission, and the station was accordingly transferred to the Wanika country (southward of the equator and beyond the limits of the Galla nation), whence it was hoped that opportunities for a wider dissemination of the holy volume than that originally contemplated by the Society might accrue.   By aid of the rivers that enter the Indian Ocean upon that portion of the coast, it was thought that a road to the interior might be found, which would not only bring the mies. again into communication with the savage Galla tribes, but would enable them to commence the realisation of the idea--for a time fondly indulged in--of a chain of mission stations across the entire breadth of the African continent.   But these hopes--like so many others that have been formed in connection with this benighted land--have been doomed to be dis- appointed, and all access to the interior of Africa from this direction is, for a time at least, closed."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second Edition)   Samuel Bagster   [Info only] GALLA. 1860   S. Bagster   [Info only: n.d. Matthew 5:1-12 unknown.]

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