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Show PRESS ASSISTS STUDY OF BIBLE Secular Newspapers Present Selections to Millions of Readers CINCINNATI, Ohio. Match 11. Secular newspapers using the service of the Bick to the Bible bureau.! which has headquarters here. hav given wtthout charge over 1950,001 worth of space for the publication r.f Scripture, a. cording to Addison Y. Reid secretary of tin- bureau "The' response from the newspapers i.i 1 amasing." he says. Mr. Reid report;' that the combined circulation of the I more than 90U papers using the erv- ! .v, -..vv-j,-. v,v w.uvv. cyne 01 uie I first large dallies to carry a 1 Ible selection free has printed one at the I head of Us editorial column dally since September 7. ll2f. records I show. The service also Is upple, to Papers in Canada. Hawaii, Alaska and the V.rgin Islands. The bureau, of which James N. Gamble is chairman, supplies editor-with editor-with clip-sheets bearing passages from the Bible under brief captions, for use as a feature. Many editors report that readers have welcomed the ptt.-..l);-,. .0 01 .twig i.j ,,r:, . ,, the bureau. The organization seeks to reach the publli through the seou-lar seou-lar press, "the only way it cm be reached." Mr Held asserts. Representative passages suppli .1 by the bureau follow: "The Road to YVanl He that oppressed op-pressed ihe poor to increase hi 4 riches, and he thai giveth to the rich hall surely come to want. Proverbs J I '. 1 6." The Best Medicine a merrv heart doeth good ilke medicine: but a broken spirit diioth the bones Proverbs II; 1." The bureau U nonaeetarlan, sa" .Mr Reid. and as clean of commercialism commer-cialism as a hound's tenth. |