The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
A DISPLAY OF NOTED BIBLES.
Interesting Volumes of Sacred Liter.
nture in Boston.
From the Philadelphia Record.)


Boston, Mass, June 16.-Great interest
| is manifested in the free exhibition OF a
| collection of Bibles and sacred literature at
| the Bible room OF the Congregational
House on Beacon Street. The greater part
| Of the collection consists of what are
known as workers +" Bibles, and are from
the library of S. Brainard Pratt. of Boston.
| II is probably the finest collection OF BIZ
bles to be found in the United States, and
the existence of q better one in the world
| is not known.
! One of the books which is attracting
| rather more attention than any of the
| others Is the illuminated Bible long used
| by the late Dwight l.. Moody, and con-
tanning many notes in his own handwrit-
| ing Mr. Moody once said in Boston: "Bi-
| BILE marking with the insertion of side
notes, marginal references, etc, converts
the margin OF ones Bible into notebook
! at hand at any moment" and he evinced
his faith in the statement by making CO.
| pious notes in his own Bible.
| Another Bible which is of general inter-
| est is the one used for more than thirty
years by Rev Henry Ward Beecher- In
! the thirty years in which he had this Bible
in service he wore out the binding, and
then he had the book cut down and re-
| bound. For twenty years after that, or
until his death, he used the Bible at fun
erals.
Almost equaling the Beecher Bible in in
terest is the John Knox Bible, with oak
covers made from wood from the John
Knox house, Netherboat, Edinburgh,
Scotland Knox was a Roman Catholic
| priest in 1880. a Protestant reformer in
| 1913 and for two years galley slave. 1t
| was said Of him that Mary Queen of Scots,
was more afraid Of him than she would
have been of regiment of soldiers.
| Another remarkable Bible is one used on
| the march and in three prisons during the
civil war by Rev. DR.. Henry Clay Trum-
bull. a chaplain in the Federal Army. He
| preached from this Bible while confined in
| Libby prison, and used the marginal
| leaves as a sort of diary. There is aalso in
| the collection an ancient Bible owned by
Philip Meancthon. professor of Greek in
| the University of Wittenberg in the six
teen;h century. and between whom and
| Luther there was the most touching friend
ship This Bible is accompanied by Lutn-
ers translation of the Psalms, published
in Leipzig In 1541. There is a Geneva b.
BILE of 1877, which is said to have once been
owned by Queen Elizabeth.
One of the rarest books in the collec-
ton is that used by the Apostle John Ell
hot in preaching to the Indians. There is
said to be no person alive who can read
this Bible. but Mr. Pratt has been offered
81. coo for it. He is collector however
and never sells a book.
Among the other things in the collection
now being shown there are the Psalms
with Calvin's commentaries of 1871; an
autograph of Samuel Mather, dated 1905
and with memoranda by the Mather fami-
ly: the Gospel of st. Luke, printed in ia
panese raised letters in Japan for the
blind the Bible used by Phillips Brooks,
with his autograph: the one used by
Charles Haddon Spurgeon in which entries
made in red ink he kept track OF his ser
mons when printed. a gift from Mrs. Spur
geon In London In 1906, containing 200
quaint engravings; New Testament
printed in letters of gold upon thick enam-
eled card paper; New Testament from n
noted Spiritualist and purporting to have
been corrected by the spirits, with intro
ductory remarks and explanations by the
spirit Of Jesus Christ: two leaves of parch-
ment found in the old Greek Church at To-
STA. Aisa Minor near the Black Sea;
Scriptures of William f. Dodge. Rev. Dr.
Cyrus Hamlin, Mrs. Elizabeth II. Prentiss.
, author Of stepping Heavenward, and a
Bible Of Henry Thayer, of the American
Bible Revision Committee. There are also
copies of rare Bibles and other sacred pub
locations and manuscripts from Africa
Arabia, Asia Minor. Egypt, Holland, Japan
Siam and Micronesia.
A unique New Testament is the "Midg-
ct" the pages of which are only five
eighth by threc-fourths of an inch in size,
and there is Bible with pages Ia by
/ 7-S inches. This Bible contains eight
illustrations.