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PACE FOUR BEST SELLER ATCHRISTMAS 1S THE BIBLE By JOHN SELBY Associated Press Arts Editor NEW YORK — Everybody Knows the Bibie is the best seller of all time—especially at Christmas—but not everybody understands that it is one of the most tinkered-with books in history. Publishers schol- ars, and the laity can't keep their hands off it In 1940, there were 6,267,529 copies of the Bible, New Testament and Gospels sold in war-drained China alone, and the American Bible Society estimates that 25 mil- lion coples of the Bible, or some portion of it. were sold throughout the world last year The Bible tinkers are not the many translators always at work either. These take care of great languages such os Chinese and Arabic; of little languages such as Miskito, which serves only 25,000 people on the central American coast. Nor are they merely laymen with an itch to express themselves The Catholic Church now has a revised New Testament, its first since Bishop Richard Chaloner’s version two centuries ago. And the | tament ‘from the Latin Vuigate; guished Catholic scholar, Franeis ed his There is still another translation s distinctive quality which b on its source u vernacular, from Aramaic accepted For example, for camel and rich man's chance of en- heaven is bettereéd, for here and the tering Both of these are drawn Bible” a distin- | J. M. Goorispeed. lated the version four years ago. i is called The ding to the odd things world pieturt the Very Spencer Al Bible™ New Tes lations sources translation from which is to say, Sttling's 1t is by George M New Tes- with our the World"” 100 the Aramaic words rope are the same ligions. it is a rope, and not a camel, which needle Another version is “The Basi¢ English.” simplified v C. K. Agden lation) expanded by total of 1.000—however cential words are not in b “Take, eat lish So 26:26) cemes the sometimes His James Basic E abulary worked out by and (for this trans- hecomes version, and the “will” “pleasure” of God, or who “purpose.” Moffatt's disconcerting Testament in wlish is the. 150 words to a heex certain es- C] Christmas W (Matthew Yuletide is true. “take it" in this had heard “Peace on Earth” translation of to Men" six years, although his New Testa- hem to worship mént was published first in 1901. years ago ‘“The Church is at work on the Old Tes- Two IR RRRRRIRRRARARN RRFRRIRRRRAX @ 0 @ T INN " AR RRRRRERE e B T R T S T EEcstssscesssttsesss 5 RO BRERRERGEY AR BBNEE R SARARRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAR RRRRRRRG ARG R R R R R R R R RRRAR R AR R R RF RTINS . MERRY ARRRRRRRREGR Complete RRRRRRRARS Home Grocery American Meat Co. Home Liquor Store R. F. Weymouth's ish-Christian Bible, RRRRRRRER was published in Chicago by | around Bcthlehem last year the maples, oaks, same scholars produced “The Bhorhlocks At last ‘there ‘erept in'd ih the Modern Libfary, an| ik trce from the'frozen norui! tament di- abrifigement =~ with ctly from the Greek and publish- cHronological order, selected the and the trans- | paid “any ‘atfention’to it until ‘sud- from various “The New Tes- little tree, tament in Modern Speech” has been cther, until the fir tree was spang- dnid John led with' celestial lights well Knowh for 39 years, “The Bible for probably will eirculate widely. But the tinkers go much farther. ... christmas ‘tre Eastern Robert O. Ballou's - -— FULL STORY OF CHRISTM fate fi? o\d mas itself, if the story w of God be- Thrée Wise Men and the shepherds the angels and had worshipped the complete Bible has been out babe, trees began coming to Bethie: the Holy Child; wafers. trees from all parts of the world. First came the native ... and Good Wishes for the Coming Year! We’ve enjoyed serving you and we’re looking forward to your continued friend- ship in the coming year. as| “Here," which | “is the living tree. Eng- has come down to us from the first the sign of your new worship. Carry alms from was set up in Waaster, RRRRT ¢ | immigrant. birches, and in| wak so émall and“modest’ that nohe denly a star dropped from the skies and twinkled on a bough of the then another and an- Decoration Idea Old Many more stories are told about e." The idea of “The Bible of yecorating trees for festivals is very is a condensation of |old, going { essential passages from the Jew- | pharaohs, but also ‘from|paj teven other of the great world re- g winter. back to the Egyptian whose people dressed homes with palm leaves in { Another story is about Winifred, (an English crusader who happened jupon a group of Teutons worship- | ping a mighty oak in honor of Thor, their thunder god. Winifred stopped them from sacrificing 'a young boy to appease Thor's “anger.” then with his great sword felled the oak In its place there IREE‘\\HN one stroke y | tuddenly appeared a young fir with 4 |a star twinkling on its top branch. said the Christian knight, This shall be this fir tree into your home and The, legend relates that after the worship it there.” Some historfans say the Christ- mnu mas tree originated in Alsace in “Good Will| 1605 when the people brought fir Mary's trees to their homes and decorated them with paper roses, apples and America’s first Christmas tree Ohio, in ,11843, by August Imgard, a German The first 'lighted tree ; in a church was at a Cleveland /)| Lutheran church in 1848. A FENAPRGE VOGP § 9 CHRISTMAS CANDLES ¢)| Christmas tree candles date back )) fo thé 'very earliest times in the | Christian era. The Yule candle, of 1 goodly size, scenes. 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