Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1914 — A MARVELOUS BOOK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A MARVELOUS BOOK.

(By HENRY AUGUSTUS BUCHTEL. " LU D., Chancellor Unlversttjuof Denver, Former Governor of Colorado.) “There Is a book worth all other books which were ever printed.”—Patrick Henry, revolutionary patriot For educated men, the Bible la the greatest wonder in the world of

books. The British and Foreign Bible ''society since 1804, has published 240,000,000 volumes of some part or the whole of the Bible. The Ameri- . can Bible society, since 1816, has published 100,000,000 volumes. The record of other publishers is so great that the total list, fqr the past cbntury probably approximates 500,000,000 volumes. The Brit-

ish museum holds the largest collection of books in the world, 4,000,000 volumes, yet more copies of the Bible, In whole or tn part, have been published for every year of the past century than the entire list of books in that great museum. In every, city within the limits of civilisation the beet seller in every year is the Bible. In 1013 the American Bible society published a chronological list of versions of the Bible, beginning with the . Jyatfn Bible which was the first book minted with movable type, and the