The Waimate Advertiser. Published every evening since (Established 1898). SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 19 GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND BIBLE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 24 August 1929, Page 4

The Waimate Advertiser. Published every evening since (Established 1898). SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 19 GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND BIBLE.

A man of cuitu His Excellency [ne ( Ct J eral. Sir Chas. Fe,J> day expressed his the “Book of Books "a his hope that would be brought to ' its worth. He Wellington auxili arv * and Foreign Bible S Miet ’ is that our voung .--J brought llp t 0 a p said His Exeellei lcv ■■? Government House not ' “ yards from here, tl>»> t how, when I was a morning we children w en ,'' father’s room and read „, ’ ° f ‘f 0 1 Sunday afternoon,, OUr ’ light was to give half an havmg one of the Bible J and discussed; U n ( | the game, which consisted of. and answers from the Bi’ aren't we now thankful a/, to the parents who bwF? appreciate the Bible and ri. it? Therefore, Ido prav| L generation may b P same appreciation and knowledge of the Bible" K celleney evidently speaks fi heart, knowing well the lw Bible has been to himself. | extreme desirability of hi s not be gainsaid. As Chads ens observes, “It i s , book that has been or ev n ’ written, because it t faf j( finest lessons by which any creature can possibly be ■ Bruce Barton nicely sunuun contents of the Bible as Wbj (1) A bird’s-eye view of ;a from the birth of the w»i some of the finest poetry even ten; (3) the finest possible human nature; and i4| the greatest life ever lived, i which changed the whole t» human thought and which sti nearly two thousand years, vs to influence and transform iii als, communities, and nations; any wonder, then, that » i tures have been greatly tresswi the Christians of the past, ul one should feel solicitous tin. ceeding generations should I their worth and derive i-ai the pleasure and benefit oil ed to make our ancestors tie men and women they mostly i