Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1908 — Beveridge Calls Bible Best All Round Book. [ARTICLE]

Beveridge Calls Bible Best All Round Book.

When In search of good matter turn to the bible. When in need of hard, material advice on hard material subjects, turn to the bible. When in search of exciting tales of battle, of love, of tales of the goodness of humanity, always turn to the bible. It contains all this and much more, according to United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, who spoke on “The Bible as Good Reading” before the Chicago Sunday evening club last Sunday. Every seat in the »auditorlum and on the stage was occupied when the evening services began. “No stories published in the magazines of today have such gripping Interest as the stories In the bible,” c'ecjsred Senator Beveridge. “Purely as a volume of entertainment I have often wondered that the bible Is r.Q$ more widely read. Like other gifts of God, It is so common that we fall to appreciate It”