Show The Fastest Selling Rooks In Ogden Shops Sheps Are Bible And the Book of lorl lo I I It iI Tim m miss U uses a Bible to press Posies coa 1 c 1 z uj old 01 1 family Bible wa a va a of 01 family facts BOOKSELLERS of O Ogden den have havo J some cheering news for tor those who are ar ot of o the tho opinion that the world Is going to the bow wows bow At least that ll Is so o It If the th sale of Bibles In comparison with Ith other books booles can be bo taken n as a criterion of ot tho the goodness goodne s of ot the wOd With all the tir controversies be- be between between be between tween the and the tho modernists people its ro buying moro more Bibles Bible today than anyone any one boOk for sale It Is the classic of all literature It may be that the differences In opinion ex cx- cx I in religion add to the sale rather than diminish It But It remains that the Bible BibI Is the big seller lIer ALSO Ij Ii L D S VOLUME One Ogden book sto store e sells 1000 copies of o the th Bible Biblo a year and approximatelY the tho same s sam number of ot the th Book of Mormon Another Ogden n n book bookstore bookstore store doesn't sell aeU set nearly as many but It does doe sell sen more moro than of any other classic The Tho Th first book bookstore store has a larger larter trade trod In ec- ec ecclesiastical ec ecclesiastical works while the th second econ store sells more mor fiction Ono One On merchant said when quer quer- querIed quer- quer queried led as to the th sale Its too bad that there her Isn't more mor J gambling A quarter of II a a century ago we w sold most of our Bibles to gamb- gamb gamblers Jars lers and they always ought bought a avery avery very expensive copy Despite the tho fact tact that all this seems to point to an Interest In religion one dealer mad made mado a state state- statement statement statement ment which carried an Ironically negative air lie He H said yes the th Bible Is the tho big bis seller buys bus a Bible for tor the tho home tome whether they read It or not OF BULK The Tho picturesque old Bible Billie with Its chronological family history births deaths and marriages has been replaced In popular popular- popularity popularIty popularIty ity by a a leather covered BibleS Bible The style old Bible which used tobo to tobo tobe bo be a a common sight on the pulpit was most unwieldy but the thol th stand stand- standard standard standard ard size siz Bible Bibia today will measure only about eight by ten ton Inches A A few tew colored bindings binding suede especially have been placed on the tho market recently An Ogden ORd asked a II book merchant the other day tor for a Bible bound In wood from the th Mount of ot OlIves 01 Ol- Ives v The merchant believes bellive th the citi- citi citizen citi citizen zen was sincere In his request stating that ho bad had seen Keen such Bibles and know knew them to be b on the market but the tho th merchant I II has hns not yet heard o or of such uch It 4 I binding rho The ou es art are are Bibles In which to press pre s flowers but a type new Bible Lle half hal 30 handy hady for tor- that thai purpose pUr o e as a Dictionaries Are arc the Ws-arost Ws big gest sellers In the United States Slates oday odar according to 3 a recent surf sur survey vey Defoe's Robinson Crusoe I comes next neat Swifts Swift's Travels and Carrolls Carroll's Alice Alic In InI Wonderland are still popular I I sellers along alons with Sh Tennyson Wahington Wi Irving Lon Longfellow and and and- Whittier success s nut But Ogden ORdon ani WI we sell 10 Bibles to ovary everyone one ot of those old 01 claries The only book which gives gives given th the Bible Biblo ft t close race Is a new popular seier and Its competition Is short l-cd l Somo Some people havo have a passioni passion for pre Ung Bibles a gifts Two merchants spoke of such I IThe customers The Tho Th fundamentalists and the modernists will likely conti continue nul their arguments argument ar and stu students of oth the tho Bible will likely debate debaie de ale upon the tho moaning meaning ot of this ana that whether allegorical or literal etc ete the Bible will wilt likely conti continue nul to sell readily after arter au all of ot us have passed from the tho scene |