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Show DAILY TONGUE IS USED IN NEW BIBLE A revised New Testament, couched in the "language of Americans" Amer-icans" and representing eight years of work by leading Biblical scholars, held Protestant interest this week as plans were completed complet-ed for formal presentation in Co-lumbu, Co-lumbu, Ohio. Meeting in that city, the International Inter-national Council of Religious Education Ed-ucation will receive the first copy off the press and inaugurate distribution. dis-tribution. Forty denominations were represented rep-resented in the ceremonies which included a processional by the Capital University choir and was presided over by Dr. Arlo Ayres Brown, president of Drew University, Univer-sity, Madison, N. J. Completion of the work, which is the first revision made in forty for-ty years, was announced by Dean Luther A. Weigle of Yale University Univer-sity divinity school, chairman of the revision committee. He described de-scribed it as the shortest ever made by any individual or group. |