Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — BOOK FOR FIGHTERS [ARTICLE]

BOOK FOR FIGHTERS

President Wilson Urges Soldiers to Read Bible, Key to Own Heart. Bibles for American soldiers and sailors, to be given by the Scripture Gift mission of Philadelphia, will carry a foreword by President Wilson urging the troops to read’the Scriptures diligently. The president has written this inscription: “The Bible is the word of life. I beg that you will read it and find this -out for yourselves—read, not little snatches here and there, but Jong passages that will really be the road to the heart of It. “You will find it full of real , men and women not only, but also of things you have wondered about and been troubled about all your life, as men have been always; and the more you read the more It will become plain to you what things are worth while and what are not; what things make men happy — loyalty, right-dealings, speaking the truth, readiness to give ev- • erything for what they think their duty, and, most of all, the wish that they may have the real approval of the Christ, who gave everything for them—anji things that are guaranteed to make men unhappy —selfishness, cowardice, greed, and everything that is low and mean. “When you have read the Bible you will know that it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your '"'ownheart, your own happiness, and your own duty. “WOODROW WILSON.”