Show BIBLE READINGS HIGH LITERATURE Educator Declares It Not Solely for Texts CHICAGO Ill III March 11 Contrary Contrary to general supposition the Bible Is not nota a a. collection of texts for ministers to toi i preach from Theodore G. G Soares professor pro pro- I fessor lessor at the University of Chicago and preacher at the tho Hyde Park Congregational Congregational Congregational church declared In an address here It is a collection of literature the greatest which was developed be before before before be- be fore the coming of the Greeks creeks BenI Ben- Ben jamir Franklin I recognized d th thI that Professor Pro Pro- I lessor fessor r Soares substituted u r ti a a. dramatic reading of Ruth for a usual sermon from a text I While Franklin was in France Franca during during dur dur- ing the period when the age of reason reason reason rea rea- son had swept away reverence reverence- for the Bible JUble said sald Professor Soares he re remarked remarked remarked re- re marked at a meeting of a skeptical society In the course of my antiquarian antiquarian anti anti- researches I have discovered I a rare oriental table In an obscure obscuro vol vol- ume I should like to have It read at I some future gathering of this circle I The members enthusiastically Insisted S that the esteemed Dr Franklins Franklin's alsI discovery dis als- is I covery be Introduced at their next S meeting Accordingly Franklin procured a o skilled reader who read Ruth before the society Charmed by the story which they supposed was a new discovery discovery dis die S covery tho the members voted that it be bo published In the records of th the tho organization or or- or- or S That would b be unnecessary ry said LS L Franklin as the story is already widely widely wide wide- S ly published In a volume which con con- tame 1 many any others of equal merit the merit the Bible Professor Soares said that aside from froni L Its purpose which was to combat nationalistic na na- na- na LS S bigotry Ruth Is la a a. beautiful prose Idyll |