| Show lit II I. I Year Old Bible Prize Possession Here A year old Bible Dible com corn completely completely Intact In its sewn hand leather binding is one o of Loren Robertson's most prized possessions Handed Banded down through his family for tor many generations the yellowed pages pages pa pas of the old Bible are arc still completely ly legible The Bible Dible was wag originally owned by Mr Robertson's Scottish ancestors It was given to him by his grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother Mrs Martha Charlotte Charlotte Charlotte Char Char- lotte McClelland Her ller grandfathers grandfather's grandfathers grandfather's grandfathers grandfather's grand grand- fathers father's birth date Is recorded on a page In the family Bible Robert McClelland Born Dorn inthe Inthe in inthe the Year of Our of-Our Our Lord October 11 1771 The first entry In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Bible Dible is the birth date of Jean JeaR McClelland born August August Aug Aug- cast 8 1701 1761 According to tai information printed on the title page of ot the bible it Is a New Testament Testament Testament Testa Testa- ment tr translated and printed in 1744 from the original Greek and diligently compared com corn pared and revised with the for forn er r translations It was printed By Dy his Majesty's Special Special cial dial Command appointed to tobe tobe tobe be read in Churches Standing in Mr Robertson's barber jarber shop on Locust Lane with its modern electrical equipment the sound of purring purring purring pur pur- ring automobiles passing the thedoor thedoor thedoor door and distant echoes of planes crossing the valley the year old Bible Dible suddenly E seemed med to represent an era eraas eraas I as Unbelievable to present day I inhabitants as this modern world would have been to Mr Robertson's ancestors when they first acquired the Bible In 1744 there were no electric elec elec- electrio trio trie lights tIghts or electricity for lor that matter No radios no phonographs no TVs There were no rockets or missiles no airplanes tines nes indeed not even cars America was still under English rule for that was prior to the Revolutionary War The United States was In Its beginning stages with the 13 colonies on the East Coast toast under English rule Mexican and Russian settle settle- settlements settlements ments comprising what Is the West Coast and New Mexico settled by Spanish I now the State of California on colonists Here in th the area Father Escalante and his followers were a attempting to establish a land route to Los I Angeles It was over years after t the Bible was printed before the Elk Mountain Mission Mission Mission Mis Mis- sion made the first attempt to settle Moab Valley Is I it that years years' from now our own ancestors' ancestors can hold holda a 1964 1004 publication of the Bible and find it as hard to ac accept pt the changes that have havo been wrought since U Its Its' publication |
