New Britain herald., 1921-11-28

ocean under its own steam, because | it would require coal enough to sink l the boat at the wharf The catastro- ! phc of that argument, he said, was | In the fact that 1t was done. He l said, "A catastrophe Is q theory bust l cd by fact"
 Most Hated Book.
 "The Bible" continued the speak CT, has been the most hated book | in the world Men have gone to the i fagot and lions bccaSsc they read it, ! they have gone into the iastness Of the mountains, across the impossible deserts and into the graves Of the dead 10 read it. Trans,ators have given up their lives for their work. Voltaire one time said that loo years from the time he spoke there would be no copy Of the Bible eNtant The same house from which he issued that statement was used as a storage house by the Geneva Bible society and was packed with Bibles from eel lar to garrct 100 years later
 Inspired the Printing Press.
 "Printing was invented so that this book could be circulated, When the first revision of this book was print ed in America the streets of New York were congcsted by express wagons waiting to take 1t to trains and steamers.
 Longest Message.
 "The longest telegraph message in the world contained 11S,0OO words all the way from Matthew to Romans, and was wired from New York to Chi cago in order to beat the trains by 70 hours and get it into q sunday news paper. That's the most religious thing l ever heard about Chicago. Its the most religious thing I ever read in a Sunday newspaper Some peo- pie would feel different about Sun day newspapers if they would print more of this kind Of reading"
 Millions in Circulation.
 Novels are circulated by the tens of thousands and hundreds of thous- ands. When they reach the hundreds of thousands the newspapers talk about them as best sellers, The cir cuation Of this book is over TOO, 0,000,- OO0; more than Virgil, Browning, Dante, Homer, Tennyson, Shakes peare, Carlisle and Milton put Logeth- CT. You study the English language in high school and college. Why are you fooing around with Shakespeare and Milton when you have in the Bible the greatest masterpiece in the English language?"
 Nations Foundation.
 Professor Phelps, of Yale, said, grT.l- ,1, .FI,t t1.,, I,F nation Most books are written by one or two men in q few years. The Bible was written in two languages and translated into 400 others. It re- quired 1900 years to write it. Once in a while you find book which has one part of it's story on one side of the water and one part on the other. The Bible has part of it's setting in time and on the earth and another part in landG beyond the sun and in the eternities. There has never been q history since the beginning of the world that the world believes in, more than it does in this book
 Whats In The Book.
 "The Bible contains the greatest poem ever written in the history of the world. It was written by a boy who never went to school. It is called the 23rd Psalm. It has a love story too. Forecasts by great proph- cts, q wedding story whole chapters of wisdom from the Wisest man the world ever knew, It claims for itself that it was begun in heaven and tin- ished on earth.
 For Great Speakers.
 If there are any politicians here, if you want to make a great speech, man can spring from obscurity to publicity in a moment by quoting Scripture. One man became famous by making use of the statemont' 'crucified on a cross of gold Roose- welt had half the reporters in Ameri- ca searching newspaper files and wiping the dust off of newspaper Bibles to find out when and where was the battle of Armageddon."
 Invited to Remain Another Week.
 About 50 people attended an after meeting and discussed the progress of the campaign. It was voted that the first week was a success as a pre- liminary and that Dr. Goodell was in- vited to remain here for a third week. He was unable to accept as he starts a series of lectures at Boston uni versity next Monday morning.
 Mrs. Howard Horton sang two solos. Both selections she sang at the South church last week. "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Co.," and There's a Green Hill Far Away" and were repeated by request Fred La tham sang two solos at the men's meeting in the afternoon.
 Bible Class Gut in Force
 Of the new Bible class recently formed at the Methodist church, ilO members turned out in a body and