The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03
MARYLAND BIBLE SOCIETY
1.-THE Word of Our God Shall Stand
Forever"

Today the Maryland Bible Society
makes it's initial bow to the people of
Maryland through the pages of the
excellent journals of the State whose
editors have graciously opened their
columns to the executive secretary
of this time-honored institution for a
weekly message.
1t is not the purpose of the writer
to spread sectarian propaganda, or to
introduce controversial matter into
these columns, but rather to tell the
story of great Book, and how it has
been preserved through chaging CIV
ilizations to bless the world with its
message of comfort and deliverance.
There is scarcely to be found in the
annals of literature, sacred or pro-
fame, more dramatic story than that
of the Bible, that inestimable gift of
God to man for the rule and guide of
his faith. It's glorious truth, now so
universally familiar, and accessible to
all who will receive it, was once the
possession only of the learned. Its
propagation was from mouth to ear,
its record the repository of the sacred
breast. In those far-off days of be-
ginnings the prophets method of gain
ing the truth-precept upon precept,
line upon line, here a little and there
a little, was the only method by which
the story of divine revelation could be
known, the only means by which men
could catch glimpses of that Light
which lighteth every man that COM
eth into the world.
We are apt to think that the golden
age of happiness and light is far in
the past-some believing that the
Garden of Eden was its home-or else
far ahead, in some glorious future we
may never hope to share. Perhaps
the truth lies somewhere between
these extremes. Revelation, whether
in the realms of science or religion, is
developing thing, and must suffer
many reverses and hindrances as it
struggles toward completeness of ac-
ceptance by the rank and file of man.
kind.
"Never in customs oiled grooves
The world to higher level moves,
But CRATES and grinds with friction
hard
Ger grants boulder and fiinty shard.
1t is our purpose to trace through
the centuries the gratings and GRIND
ings attending the progress of the
Divine Word from the Fathers heart
through divinely chosen messengers,
in divers ways, and successive ages,
down to our own day.
The articles will be brief and each
one unit in itself, so that if any
should be missed, the story will not
be spoiled for the reader, and yet a
continuity will run through the series
so that each monograph will be link
in the Bible story chain.
If, while following this series of
articles, our readers should be i'm
PEELED to ask questions, the writer will
be happy to have such questions print
ed in the Maryland Bible Society's
corner and will endeavor to answer
any and all that are not of a contro-
versial nature.
Next week the story of the origin
and purpose of the Maryland Bible
Society will be told. Watch your fav-
orite county paper for this and sue
ceeding stories of the Bible in it's re-
lation to the march of civilization and
the emancipation of the human race.
Samuel Taylor, Coleridge, poet,
philosopher, omniverous reader, de-
clared that "The Bible is the only
book that finds me in all my moods"
The book that calls forth such a
statement from such a man, is not to
be lightly passed by. 1t has mes
sage for today. Let US seek it to-
gether.
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