The Detroit Tribune

William H. Bonds

A BIBLE IN EVERY HOME

THERE IS SOMETHING about the Bible that gives the mind ease and contentment: soothes the heart and stiffens the upper lip and journeys onward. A few quiet moments with your Bible may set you at ease.

It's a wonderful Book of Books.

Furnishing 66 books, 31,173 verses, 773,692 words, and 3,586,489 letters.

While it is not to be found in every home, it is the world's best seller.

THE BIBLE GROWS in popularity as one understands more clearly how to read and interpret its meaning. If you already have a Bible and haven't seen it for many a moon, look for it diligently, and when it is finally located, brush away the dust and cobwebs, and place this valued treasure on your reading table.

Let it take precedence over all the other popular and modern books of this age and time. A book that comforts like the Scriptures should ever be at the fingertips. Like a rose-bud it evolves gradually as we read it with open mind, a clear conscience and a clean heart.

ITS TRUTH UNFOLDS itself, arrayed in all its glory, and a guide that unerringly leads to better and greater things. Why not take this great book as a constant companion?

Other books spring up, and for a season, shine forth as the noon-day sun, but soon fade away in the twilight of the evening and become relegated to the rear rank.

But the Bible, like the fabled tortoise, plods steadily on, and keeps out in front a country mile.

NO LIBRARY OR reading room should be complete without a Bible. Not only the minister, but many lawyers have considered the Bible second only to Blackstone, in solving some of their most perplexing legal problems. It's a Book that you can hardly do without.

The American Bible Society is largely responsible for the popularity of the Bible in many lands. It has translated the Bible into a thousand different languages, one of the latest being the Sakata tongue, spoken by approximately 70,000 people in the Belgian Congo.

Although it is now available to approximately nine-tenths of the peoples of the world, recent information points out that three-fourths of them probably have never heard of it—a statement which sounds almost incredulous, in view of the fact that for many years hundreds of missionaries have gone forth into foreign fields and have given their very lives to the task of "telling the world about Jesus."

Although we have come a long ways in our effort to Christianize the world, but the long road which leads to our coveted goal almost dwarfs our past achievements into insignificance.

THIS REVELATION IS brought at this time, not as a note of discouragement, but rather as a reminder to spur us onward in double-quick time, to hurry the message of the Lowly Nazarene to all peoples of the world, and thus unite us as "One World" recognizing the Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God.

A slogan of "More Bibles and less bombs" should be our ultimate aim, and we should press forward to this aim with might and main; for indeed, it is later than we think!