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Show Read Bible Through in 69 Hours, 15 Minutes Yucnipa, Calif. The Bible can be read from cover to cover in 09 hours and 15 minutes by any ordinary church congregation with a taste for the task. This was demonstrated by the 1'iO members of the First Methodist Meth-odist church of Yucnipa when they completed at 9:15 p. m. Tuesday a Bible "marathon" begun at midnight Saturday. Though attendance lagged at times during the long relay reading, in which one volunteer after another took up the sacred text, there was a throng of several hundred persons In the church as the marathon swung Into Its. last lap the Book of Revelations. All joined the readers in pronouncing the final verses of the hook, then con eluded the long service by singing the Doxology and adopting unanimously a resolution to make the Bible marathon mara-thon on annual event. |