THE BIBLE TERCENTENARY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13340, 31 March 1911, Page 5

THE BIBLE TERCENTENARY.

A WORTHY MONUMENT. Press Association.—Telegraph.-Copyright. LONDON, March 30. The Marquis of Northampton presided at tho Bible Tercentenary celebration in the Albert Hall. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister, in the course of his speech, said that surely there could not be a worthier or more splendid monument of the Tercentenary year than its witnessing of the sealing of a solemn compact between Britain and America, ending once and for all tho hideous and unthinkable possibilities of fratricidal strife. Tiro American Ambassabor read a message from President Taft, in which he remarked that the Bible, besides reigning supreme in England for three centuries, has bound together as nothing else could the two great Anglo-Saxon nations, one in blood and speech. In their common religions life, their laws, literature, and social life they owed whatever of excellence they possessed largely to this, their chief classic. The Americans therefore joined in thanksgiving to the God of tho Bible, who had united the old and tho new' world by so precious a tic,. The Primate and the Rev. E. B. Moyer also spoko.