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PRACTICAL THINGS TO DO by W . A. Lawrence JKX. 2 1 U ï*"_XX XY & ** z i r WITNESS CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 3, 1935 BIBLIA t$,ct)çf)o(p Scripture ofcje (Dlbe anbETew îTefïament, fairf;- fully anb truty tranflateb out of ï>oud)canb alatati in to tEnghfte. Œ.paul. n. Cefi«.nr. prate foi »e,tl>attt)et»oibe ofŒfob «taie Ijaue fre paffage.anb be glortjkb.tcî. Q .paul Col. III. JLct tt)e wotbe ofC^tifi b well in 70» plen teouflf in all wyßbtme 7tf. 3o(îte L £ et «ot tt>e bote of t&fe fawe beparte out0ft|>7mout^,but exercyfc tl^felfe ttjerin ba^e anb mgìjte tei. H TITLE PAGE OF THE COVERDALE BIBLE f t in; xx x* m 2 d Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. SCHOOLS WITNESS GAME NASMUCH as this number is devoted largely to The Bible, in' commemoration I of the 400th Anniversary of the printing ©fye Oknmtl cilimlngtral of the first English Bible, the questions this SAINT MARY'S HALL week are about the Bible. 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Junior School from six years. IVINSON HALL FOR GIRLS ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. Housemother. Separate building. Catalogue, SHERWOOD HALL FOR BOYS Carr, A.B., Box A, Staunton, Va. Dr. J. J. Wicker, Fork Union, Virginia. Box 856 Laramie, Wyoming Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Associate Editors Irving P. Johnson rjT \ TT TT* TT T T FTS VT TT^ Ç Ol Frank E. W ilson Managing Editor A A A JLJ V V A A AN| H j U U W illiam B. Spofford James P. DeW olfe Literary Editor A National Pa-per of the Episcopal Church Robert P. Kreitler Gardiner M. Day Vol. XX. No. 3. OCTOBER 3, 1935 Five Cents a Copy THE WITNESS is published weekly by the Episcopal Church Publish ing Company, 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The subscription price is, $2.00 a year ; in bundles of ten or more for sale at the church, the paper selling at five cents, we bill quarterly at three cents a copy. Entered as Second Class Matter April 3, 1919, at the postoffice at Chicago, Illinois, under act of March 3, 1879. Circulation Office: 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago. Editorial and Advertising Office: Tribune Building, New York City. T h e B ib le in E n g l is h By BISHOP WILSON ROM the end of the fourth century for more than comments in the margin containing bitter attacks F a thousand years the Bible of western Christendom against the Church and the crown. T h e' times were was the Vulgate in the Latin language. Here and feverish and such statements were bound to meet with there bits of it had been translated into English, such opposition, even when surrounded with good Scriptural as St. John’s Gospel by the Venerable Bede and some texts. at least of the Psalms by other translators. But, broad Ten years passed with many and quick changes. The ly speaking, the Bible was a closed book to the people. desire for an English Bible would not be denied. Myles Toward the end of the fourteenth Coverdale took up Tyndale’s work century the great John W yclif and finally in the city of Antwerp made a bold effort for reform in produced a complete Bible in the Church, and among his other English, using Tyndale’s New activities translated the whole Testament and adding his own Bible into the English tongue.

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