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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 142, 18 June 1938, Page 13

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THE FOURTH CENTENARY OF AN OPEN BOOK IS3B 1938 Described by King George Vas 'THE FIRST OF NATIONAL TREASURES' « -- HISTORY OF THE OPEN BIBLE THE CHALLENGE OF THE FOURTH CENTENARY In 1537, Miles Coverdale issued a revision of the first English printed Bible and it received .. ~ . . - . _» i i i_ t. ( a »..i the King's licence. Archbishop Cranmer was anxious that the Bible should be circulated and _ur e D lons *j s are n< ? on ® , e \ . e ' , U J* IUC jttore o e Open le. j d i • • £i j.l . rtl r ii i.u iv/r w £lj \/m d i Once the Bible was closed to us. It was closed mainly by the seal or a foreign language, read. By his influence and that or lhomas Cromwell, the Minister ot Henry VIII., a Koyal t- l i r D t tr* j i *. lj- l-ij • ..l • 1 a j t . . j • I coo .1 ..i D-ii i i, 1 .1 r> • l /~*u l " lhe lesson of Pentecost was that C_»od speaks to His children in their own language. And Injunction was issued in I jJo that the Bible should be set up in the rarish Churches. . t , D . LI . . . , . , 1•. . y l s COUn l Sanl-cij so t " e translators gave us the Bible in our mother tongue; they opened it, and opened it at "The effect of the continual domestic study of the Book upon the national character, imag- great c ° st - A " ' hose associated with the opening of the Bible suffered. Tyndale, Cranmer, ination and intelligence for nearly three centuries to come was greater than that of any Rogers—those whose names are most intimately associated with our English B.ble — literary movement in our annals or any religious movement since the coming of Saint f ll died at , s J; ak f • Let the common people hold fast our common possession. Therefore Augustine " • us reac * Book. Let us read it for ourselves. Better still, let us read it in fellowship. Professor Trcvehjnn, "History of Etvjland." The most hopeful movement to-day is the growth of the Associations which enable hundreds of thousands of our people day by day to read together the same passage and to study rpi ||i nni?C T? \T TH o fTTA IVT together the same theme. Our fathers laid it open in 1 538. If we have not helped to spread 1 rit rKtOt-lN I I Uul 1 IUIN it, let us do so from now on." —lit. lion. Isaac Foot, r.C. Over 1,500,000,000 Bibles have been put into circulation. The Bible is published in over " Nearly all the renewals and moral reforms within Christianity have sprung from a re--1000 different languages and is to-day the world's best seller—do you read it? The British discovery of Scripture. Cation Berry. and Foreign Bible Society, since its formation in 1804, has issued nearly 500,000,000 Bibles "Praise of the Bible and a life divorced from it, are typical of the man, of whom George and Portions, whilst last year 1 1,686,000 copies were issued in 704 languages. This repre-> Herbert tells us, whose house is dirty though he adore his broom." sents on the average 1 copy for every 3 seconds, day and night. '—The Bishop of Manchester. 989 Colporteurs distributed these Scriptures to the remotest corners of the earth and last year the Society spent £372,418 on this great work. "When fhou hast read what JTcaven hath writ, Working hand in hand with all Societies which print and distribute the Bible is the Scripture Ijpt t,n J f)Cst practice second it. Union, which offers a guide to intelligent daily Bible reading and has attained a world-wide Then twice. Hie precept, read shall be, membership of 800,000. First in the Book, and then in thee." THE BIBLE'S MESSAGE-VITAL TO YOU . „ , • L , 5. That in the death of His Son, God has provided a sinless substitute, to bear 1. That God is holy. . , £ , . the penalty or man s sin. *• I the Lord your God am holy."—Lev. 19:2. .. GoJ wag {n CKri]jt Teconci|in , the wor , d unto Himself. For Re Be ye holy, for I am holy. —1 Pet. 1:16. hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him."—2 Cor. 5:19 and 21. 2. That God created man for the purpose of communion with Himself. " Who Hi ' own " u b " e ou ' "" in H " own body Z & Tai "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God 6. That pardon on a righteous basis is now offered to everyone. created He him. Gen. 1.27. -j* 0 J ec l are J 8 time His righteousness that He might be "There I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee." just and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus." —Rom 3:26. Ex. 25:22. "Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. And by Him I*lll • all that believe are justified from all things."—Acts. 13:38, 39. 3. That man by sin broke that communion. n , , . , /. 1 hat those who accept Jesus Chnst as Saviour and Lord are brought back ("Sin is rebellion against the holy will of God."—lst John 3:4.) . . # 1 J 'II L * 1 "So He drove out the man."— Gen. 3:24. into communion with God that is experienced now and will be enjoyed " But your iniquities have separated between you and your God." thrOUgllOUt cicilliiy Isaiah 59.2. "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt . J™ heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou 4. That God being holy cannot condone and must condemn sin. shalt be saved. —Rom. 10:9. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son " The wages of sin is death."—Rom. 6:23. that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have ever--44 It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." lasting life- John 3.16. _ "Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His son Jesus —Heb. 9:27. Christ."—l John 1:3.