The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-13
Bible NEWS
Bureau in Cincinnati Sees Sue
cess in Move Among Editors.
Messages From Scripture Given
to International Papers.

| The Topeka State Journal is the
| first newspaper in the United States
to start the printing of the New Tes-
lament to interest the public in. the
back to the Bible" movement. The
New Testament. is being printed in
serial form. the first installment start
ing with last Saturdays paper.
| Cincinnati. o., March 1s-Stating
/ that THE object of this bureau is to
secure the cooperation of editors ard
| publishers thruout the United States
and other countries. in an effort TO
reach the great masses of the people
daily. with a helpful and inspiring BIZ
/ BILE message. and thus inculcate in the
minds of the readers a greater rever-
ence for the Supreme Ruler and a
desire for better things in government
and all industrial and social rela-
tons"
The Back to the Bible Bureau of
! Cincinnati. o.. declares its object in its
articles of incorporation.
Organized January l, 1920. the bu-
reau is governed by men who are
counted successful according to the
scale usually reckoned by today. Each
is. financially, a power. But, notwith-
standing their material success, they
have not lost sight of the spiritual side
of life.
AS the article pertaining to the OBJ
ject of the bureaus inception states,
their desire is to broadcast the word
of operation is to induce newspaper
editors and publishers to insert daily
in their columns a brief quotation
from the Bible
The first insertion by the bureau of
a verse of Scripture from the Bible
was made in a Cincinnati newspaper
on the day of the bureaus organiza-
ton. The same paper since then has
published daily a verse in a conspic-
uous place in its columns
Since that beginning the work has
grown steadily. Monthly the publica-
lions which are using its passages have
increased with leaps and bounds, until
today 81 papers in the United States.
twenty-six in Canada, two in Hawaii,
two in Alaska, one in the Virgin
Islands and one in far-off Korea are
being served by the bureau.
The bureaus service to publications
in this and other countries is free.
The Back to the Bible Bureau is
supported solely by voluntary contri-
buttons. One dollar day has actually
paid all Of the expenses involved in
securing one million of newspaper cir
culation. Upon this basis, the organi-
zers and directors figure that $110
daily will pay for the 10 million cir
culation necessary to reach the entire
population of the United States.
The possibilities of good to be
Cleaned from the work of the men
who figure in the bureau, are difficult
to estimate. The daily Biblical quo
tation. altho it be merely short verse,
reaches men and women who are ut
terly without any church or religious
affiliation of any sort. Men and
women who long ago reached the
point in their religious attitudes not
only of carelessness, but of absolute
neglect.
One of the outstanding features of
the work being carried on by the bu-
reau is that it is non-sectarian. Its
wish is simply to pass on the words of
the Bible to all creeds and religions
alike thruout the world.
The bureaus headquarters are at
222 West Fourth street, Cincinnati.