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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded – March 8, 1698
This week marks the anniversary of when the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, a prominent United Kingdom-based Christian charity publisher, was formed.
The SPCK traces its existence to a meeting of five friends at Lincoln’s Inn in London who wanted to found a society aimed at promoting Christian belief through published works.
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The Society still exists in the modern day and boasts of having distributed more than 30 million books, as well as helping to translate the Book of Common Prayer into over 200 languages.
“We sent the first printing presses to India, opened the first British schools for poor children (with equal education for boys and girls), sent the first printed books to Australia, provided tracts for sailors in Nelson's ships, established libraries for clergy and missionaries in many countries, helped to set up teacher training colleges, and published the first Braille books,” stated SPCK.
