Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-10
BACK TO The BIBLE.


ou this country of ours, most of
which burden the mails every day
with literature of myriad kinds and
waste more paper and printing than
several big mills could supply work
ing "a hours a day, one stands out
so far above all the others, is so un-
usual, and it's occasional visits so re-
freshing, that commands atten-
ton and respect in every newspa-
per office. Located in the city of
Cincinnati, at 222 West Fourts
street, is an institution called the
"Back to the Bible Bureau" 1t was
organized on January /, 1920, and
incorporated on October 5, 1921.
This bureau unlike most others, has
nothing to sell and nothing to give
away axcept a simple Christian serv-
ice to mankind. 1t makes a special
ty, and apparently it is its exclusive
work at this time, of compiling in
a form for easy use by busy editors
the best brief quotations from the
Bible for publication daily. Because
of this simple service, wholly unself-
ish and behind which every editor
knows there can be no concealed pro-
paganda and no object other than the
spread of a knowledge of the Bible
among all people, more newspapers
today are publishing daily Biblical
extracts than ever before. And the
bureau deserves the whole credit for
developing and executing the simple
idea.
The object of the bureau is set
forth in the following section of its
articles of Incorporation:
"The object of the Bureau is to
secure the cooperation of editors and
publishers throughout the United
States and other countries, in an eff
fort to reach the great masses of the
people daily, with helpful and in
spring Bible message, and thus in
culcate in the minds of readers, a
greater reverence for the Supreme
Ruler, and desire for better things
in government and all industrial and
social relations"
The power of the bureau, working
in this way for the furtherance of
religion, government and mankind
lies in the realization that the news
papers of today constitute the great
est pulpit, because through the news
paper, and only drought it, can the
masses really be reached. Faith
cometh by hearing" quotes the bu-
reau. Therefore, the first thing to
do is to get a hearing. To get a
hearing the Apostle Paul resorted to
the synagogue when in a Jewish COM
and to the market-place |
when among the Greeks. In mod
ern community, the place where men
go to hear or tell some new thing is |
neither the synagogue nor the mar
ket place, but to the daily newspaper. i
Roger w. Babson has said: "The
need of the hour is not more legisla-
lion. 1t is more religion"
The Wall Street Journal says;
What America needs more than rail.
way extension is a revival of
oiety to clean the country of graft,
petty and big"
The Manufacturers Record says.
in the Golden Rule there would be
found solution for every business
And that corresponds completely
With our own notion. Therefore, ii
S with considerable pride, that the
rimes-Recorder has accepted this
laily Bible service, and is now giving
he honorary position on it's editorial
page each day to a thought from our
greatest of books.
Many men resent being Emporium,
I'd to attend church or give an ear
% religious matters. But the con-
slant reading, day after day, of a |
bit of our sacred literature, is
pound to have its effect.
Perhaps the success of this move
nent will teach mighty lesson to
'eligious leaders. 1t is the spreading
If the Bible simply as 1t is, pure and
lnembellished. And isn't the simple
religion, after all, what we all need
more than anything else? When that
becomes more generally realized we
will pay less attention to denomina-
and more to real religion.
WHY THEY PARTED.
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