Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-30
- HERE is a great deal of spec
ulating going on about the
- Bible nowadays.

49, HERE is a great deal of spec
ulating going on about the
- Bible nowadays.
The booksellers speculate on it fin
ancially, and the book writers speculate
on II intellectually. All these specula-
tors find paying business. / dare say.
Let one try the experiment for HIM
self; and he will find more Bibles ana
more sorts of Bibles in any book
store he may enter than he Will ma
copies of any other book. The sup
ply is large because the demand IS
great and unceasing. The people want
IL. and they want il all the time.
II is the most popular of all gift
hooks: for love in its best moods,
turns to the noblest things. Parents
present II to children just entering life
as the best possible guide for their
feet in the perplexing journey upon
which they are setting out. Children
present ii to parents who wait, a brief
season in the twilight of life. as the
best of all solaces to the bereaVed ana
the clearest light that has ever been
given to disclose the certainty and ex-
ceIlency of the better land. The book
binders art is invoked to embellish II
with every possible attraction, that
fits outward appearance may be In
keeping with its inward worth.
Professor whitney characterized 1t
Soma wears ago as 1.-THE vehicle of lit
erature and instruction everywhere"
Mailman in his Literary History or
Europe" referring to the fact that the
Bible was the first book printed by the
inventors Of the art OF printing says:
cit is a very striking circumstance
foA fnynnfnTG nf this
great art tried at the very outset so
bold a fight as the printing an entire
Bible. and executed IT with astonish-
ing success.
1t was Minerva leaping on earth In
her divine strength and radiant ar
mour, ready at the moment of her
nativity to subdue and destroy her
enemies.
Theodore Parker warmly declared;
Some thousand famous writers come
up in this century to be forgotten In
the next But the silver cord of the
Bible is not loosed nor its golden bowl
broken as time chronicles his tens Of
centuries passed by. Some
Of the greatest human institutions
seem built on the Bible; such things
will not stand on heaps of chaff, but
on mountains of rock"
Professor Bowen, of Harvard uni
versity did not overstate the case when
he said of the sixty-six books that
compose the Bible: II say then that
these books contain a body of history.
poetry and philosophy. the study of
which has done more than any single
cause to modify the course and hap
piness OF thinking men on the earth,
and to color and direct the whole
course of modern civilization. II is
not too much to say that the books OF
the old and new testaments have ex-
erted more influence, whether for veal
or woe. on the course of human affairs
among civilized nations, than all other
books put together. Their imprint is
on most Of the literature, the philos-
ophy, the legislation and the history
OF the last seventeen hundred years"
Yet, in the face of all these testimo-
MES and hundreds more like them,
which might easily be arranged, and
in the face of the great and unconceal-
able facts to which these great testi-
monies point, 1t has grown quite the
fashion, of late for certain class Of
callow college professors and pert
pulpiteers. all be-spectacled and be-
gowned. to rush frantically before the
foot-lights and inform the public that