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(To the Editor.) Dear Madam, — I have taken the liberty of sending you the following extract from “The Christian Statesman,’’ Decemlnjr, 1930, published in Pittsburg, U.S.A. The report says that a State-wide vote was taken in Arkansas on Noveml>er sth, 1930, on the question of Bible reading in schools, and was carried by a majority of 16,000 votes. Arkansas has a population of 2,000,000. “The Christum Statesman” states that the movement which means the reading cf the Bible daily to 400,000 children, was started in the Arkansas State Convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the State Secretary of the Bible in Schools Movement was Mrs John I*. Alma ml, of the State leaders of the W.C.T.U. Address Little Rock. —Yours truly, ‘ OBSERVER.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 36, Issue 426, 18 January 1931, Page 2
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