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Show THE PRESIDENT'S BIBLES, Clerk McKenney of the supreme court of the United States has purchased pur-chased Bibles for all the president Inaugurated since he has held his of- fice, but two or three of them did not I use the Bibles he pun based When I Hrover Cleveland came to the capltol II for his first inauguration he brought I with s little red Bible his mother had given him when he was a boy, and I which be had always cherished as a I keepsake. On that Bible he took the I oath of office. A few days before I Mr McKinley'B inauguration a number num-ber of African Methodist bishops came into .Mr McfCenney.'s office one morn- jr ing with a tremendous package, which proved to be a large family Bible In a big plu6h box, and they wished lo have Mr. McKlnley use It. Their request re-quest was granted, and the big Bible j w;is one of the show objects In tho I red parlor of the White House for a long time afterward. When Mr Roose- elt was inducted Into office as governor gov-ernor of New York some one present- (. ed him with the Bible which be used on that occasion His name, which wus written on the fly-leaf, was mis- f spelled, but he used the same Bible at his second inauguration, and It has been one of Mrs. Roosevelt's most treasured mementoes ever since The Christian Herald. I oo LLS |