"GARRY-YOUR BIBLE."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 11 May 1912, Page 9

"GARRY-YOUR BIBLE."

A new religious movement is taking deep hold of the people of Scotland. Originated by the Pocket Testament League and sometimes described as "Carry your Bible" movement, it seeks to get people to carry about with them a Bible or Testament, and to read at least one chapter daily. Great progress has been made by the movement among all classes in Glasgow, where about 450 policemen, 300 tramwaymen, 100 soldiers, and 100 telegraph boys now carry small Testaments with them on their rounds of duties. The chief constable of the city is one of the 50,000 members. The central idea of the movement is to bring the country back to the intimate knowledge of the Bible which prevailed in past times. The crusade originated a number of years ago in Birmingham, with Miss Cadbury as sponsor. Then, before being taken up in Great Britain, it spread over America and Canada, and even gained tens of thousands of converts in China and Japan. In March, after the quiet working of the pioneers, the whole of Scotland fell in with the movement.