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Show Book of Books Still Holds First Place as Best Seller f "-""1 il fti-i imttfc ii . r- ri Wars, floods, fire, famine and epidemics epi-demics have played hob with this old world of ours. Evii human nature na-ture has undergone cnange under the lash of dictatorship. But through it all the Holy Bible has steadily held its place at the top of the list of the world's books and we mean the books that have been written ever since man first Learned to make marks with meanings. Here in America, Bible sales i reached a new high in 1942. Figures are not yet available, but it appears certain that the peak sales of 1941 have been exceeded. The American Bible society distributed no less than 8,096,977 volumes in 1941. The figure fig-ure seems to have been topped in 1942. The Christian Commercial Men's association (Gideons) have purchased 4,000,000 for the armed forces. The Bible has been translated into almost every language on the face of the earth. Nine versions are printed for the Solomon Islands alone. Seventy feet of the Bible in Hebrew He-brew comprises the text of Genesis, Exodus and part of Leviticus, written writ-ten on sheep or goat skin in China about 500 years ago. This scroll belonged be-longed to a colony of Jews whose ancestors settled around Kai-Fung. The Scroll Bible. |
