Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1917 — THE WONDERFUL BOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE WONDERFUL BOOK.

It Has the Power to Speak to People of Every Race, Condition and Every Age. The Bible is the universal Book of the wide worldsln—hund reds-of languages and dialects, heathen countries are today reading its pages, and a great army of missionaries is expounding its truths. When Doctor Paton was printing his first New Testament in the Aniwan language, Chief Namakel, an old man, eagerly watched the missionary, and one day he said: “Does it speak?” “Yes,” said Paton. “It can talk now in your own language." “Oh, let it speak to me —let me hear it speak.” Paton then read a few lines, when the old man cried: “It does speak ! Oh, give it to me!” Grasping the book, he turned it round and round. Then, pressing it to his heart, he shouted: “Oh, makwir _ speakto - me“ again!" Is not this the greatest work of the missionary, making the Bible speak to men? It is said that more than five hundred thousand sermons are preached every Sunday from texts taken from the Holy Scriptures. Any but,a divine book would have been worn out ages ago, but the more the Bible is used, the better it is liked. The cry everywhere today is, “Come over and help us I” All the gates are open to the Christian soldier sent of God, carrying with him the World of Power and preaching Christ to every creature.— Christian Herald. • *