The Washington herald., 1916-05-06
TO give Bible
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200 Persons in Spectacle
Marking Centennial If Amer
lean Bible SOCIETY,".
HISTORY in TABLEAUX
President Wilson and Vice President
Marshall Will Be Ipeakers at
Tomorrow's Celebrations.

An cpoch in celebstons will be marked
TODAY when more han 200 persons VIII
participate in a rgeant at Convention
Hail to commemorate the Tooth anniver-
sary of the foudtng Of the American
Bible Society the pageant is cntltled
The Bible Amhg the Nations. Ihree
performances VII be given, the hrst at
II o'clock, anoher at clocA' anu 'he
third at s o'clek.
-rba nageanI will consist of a set OF
taLIeau1 givig the history Of the Bible.
The particiunts have been Tehearsing
faithfully foJ the past several weeks I'M
der the dirttion OF Mrs. Randolph X.
Forrest. Tere will be fourteen tableauN
and a grad finale.
M. W0drow Wilson has signihed her
intention ( attending the evening per
formancef she is in Washington.
The drS tableau will represent the
traneIstIh of the Hebrew Bible into
Greek ii Egypt, 80 B. c.
The scond will be the Latin transla-
tfon. : st. Gerome. This translation
was csIed "Vulgate."
The third tableau will present the
Russjn Bible. translated about 800 B. Z.
Folth tableau the Bible in the day
OF CRrlemagne.
Fin tableau the German Bible. trans
latet BY Martin Luther This tableauX
wiIlbe given by Lutherans.
To show First Printed Bible.
Tte sixth tabeau will present the
r7ahod of printing the first Bible. The
vrk was done by John Gutenberg, who
is credited with being the inventor oil
psntinE. The Bible also was tie hrst
box ever printed IN steel type. One of
tlese copies, which was owned by Car
dDal Magaruen, sod recently for SO,GCO.
The next tableau rill depict the burn
ing At the stake in Belgium of the body
Of William TyndaL who was prosecuted
Nv King Henry VII for his efforts to
translate the Bible Ito English. Tyndal
finally was driven q Belgium. where he
was arrested. stra gled ami his body
burned In recent years, however,
monument has beerierected to his mem
Ory.
The. other tablea twill present the dis
tributiOn Of the ible throughout the
world In the grail finale more than 20
persons will be on ne stage.
Has Distributed : 900, 900 Bibles.
The American BILE Society. according
to a statement rgde by officers yestcT-
day. has distributed 100000 Bibles
within the past ,ar. bringing the total
number distribud in the past century
TO III 100000 tt society has had the
Bible translatedinto $50 different Ian
suaEes. A Navnoe translation has re-
Gently been disputed and a Zulu trans
lation IS now Otthe press.
Vice Presider Marshall will be the
principal sDeak' at an open meeting to
be held at the asst steps Of the Capitol
tomorrow afteIOon at $50 o'clock. The
Marine Band III give a concert before
the meeting.
President won will be the principal
speaker at a eetlng to be held in Me
mortal Conti1htal Hall at 4:50 o'.lock
Members Of . diplomatic corps, mem-
bers Of Congfs and pastors Of the vari-
Gus Washingn churches will be in at
tendance
Mrs Wooow Wilson is honorary
chairman orhe general committee hav-
Ing in chart the direction Of the cole
bration in is city. with Rev Dr. Geo
A. Miller. astOr Of the Ninth Street
Christian Cnrch, serving as active chair
man. GenJOhn W. Foster. former Sec
retary Of safe, and DR.. Merrill E. Gates,
former prudent of Amherst College, are
honorary ice Chairmen. Mrs. Randolph
Keith Ffest is the producer Of the
pageant md J. Wilder Tomlinson. the
assistartproducer. Fl. 5. OmOhundro is
the mgTber Of the general committee in
charge 81 Convention Hall and seating
srranements.