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Show Printer Absolved of Charge of Irreverence An average layman, fairly famlllur with bis Bible, hastily opened the Good Book to verify the statement of the Literary Digest's lexicographer that In the Scriptures the personal pronoun representing Our Lord did not begin with a capital letter. To bis surprise, the learned doctor was right And If the reader turned back to the Old Testament, be discovered also that the pronouns referring to God were In the same style. The reason for this, the lexicographer explains. Is that early-day prlntsbops had Inadequate Inad-equate upper cases (capitals) and that tbe rule was invoked, not because of a lack of reverence, but of necessity. So far as we know, Bible publishers are the only printers who have remained re-mained true to this tradition. Certainty Cer-tainty there are few, If any, newspapers newspa-pers that do not use tbe upper case first letter In a pronoun referring to Christ or God. St Louis Post-Dispatch. |