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Show BIBLE TO MANY IS CLOSED BOOK Statesman Fumbles Through It Seeking Quotation Against Wars BY GILSON GARDNER YV VSHINGTON, D. C The Bible is nol as well known hook as it was some years ago. This was shown during a hearing before the house military affairs committee recently. Somebody quoted from the Rlble, He who llveth by the sword shall die by the sword." Representative Caldwell of New York expressed the opinion that ihl was not an accurate quotation. "Ho who useth the sword shall die by the sword" was what Caldwell hough t was th passage, so thev sent for a Bible. Caldwell went al it. He turned to thr front and to the back and to the middle, then be WSOt at the front-asking front-asking his neighbor, "Hasn't this got an index?" Hi iiandod it io a woman aaat him and suggested that probably she could find !t better. "Look for it yourself." she replied "li will do you good. If you don't ftnd what you want you ralRhi find something else in the Bibb- that "ill 40 'on good." When Caldwell flnall found the pasuage he discovered that It read-He read-He who taktth the sword shall nurivh by the sword." ' We were both WTODfM lie uDUounc-cd. uDUounc-cd. Representative Kabn angajeeted that record should abOW ihe chapter und verse. Caldwell had lost the place; so there was another long search before It was foitnd But now thp . e i. preserved in tho records of the military affairs committee. |