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 How We 
 Got Our 
 American 
 Standard 
 Bible 
 
 THE PERFECT 
 BIBLE ISSUED 
 BY THE OLDEST 
 BIBLE PUBLISH- 
 ING FIRM IN THE 
 
 BIBLE PUBLISHERS FOR 50 YEARS 
 
 37-41 EAST 18th STREET, NEW YORK 
 
" We believe the American Standard 
 Bible is the product of the highest scholar- 
 ship, and further, we believe that it more 
 nearly brings the message of God to his 
 children than any other of the great ver- 
 sions. We are glad to note its increasing 
 use. Three years ago this Association 
 approved of this American Standard Re- 
 vision, and we again commend it, and 
 earnestly urge its use in our schools." 
 ^Adopted by the Sunday School Edit- 
 orial Association at its Annual Meeting, 
 June 8th, 1906. 
 
 (Signed) C. R. Blackall, Sec'y. 
 
 * The above resolution was unanimously adopted bv 
 the Sunday School Editorial Association composed of 
 the Sunday School Editors and Lesson Writers of the 
 United States and Canada at their Annual Meeting of 
 all the denominations, June 8th, 1906. 
 
 Since the year 1816, the American Bible 
 Society has published only the King 
 James Version of the Scriptures, but re- 
 cognizing the merits of the work of the 
 American Committee, and to meet the de- 
 mands, of Churches and Sunday Schools, 
 the Society has recently had its charter 
 amended so as to enable it to publish the 
 American Standard Bible. 
 
 The Society therefore arranged with the 
 publishers, Messrs. Thomas Nelson & 
 Sons, and are issuing an edition, bound 
 in cloth only, specially for church and 
 Sunday School use. 
 
 This endorsement of the American 
 Standard Bible by the American Bible 
 Society emphasizes the great merits of 
 this work, and is in harmony with all the 
 other great religious authorities. 
 
THE STORY 
 
 jHE Bible is composed of sixty-six 
 (66) different books written by 
 about forty (40) men selected 
 and inspired by God. 
 These inspired men first wrote 
 the Old Testament scriptures in Hebrew and 
 the New Testament scriptures in Greek, and 
 our English Bible of to-day consists of a 
 series of translations and revisions from the 
 Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, Latin and Anglo-Saxon 
 languages, beginning at the tenth century. 
 It is estimated that there are in existence 
 at the present time nearly 4,000 manuscripts 
 in whole or in part of the Bible. All of the 
 older and more complete sacred manuscripts 
 have become available for study only within 
 recent years; among these a single leaf con- 
 taining a portion of Matthew's Gospel was 
 unearthed in 1895. This is believed to be a 
 full century older than the most ancient Greek 
 New Testament manuscripts in existence. 
 
 It was not until 1384 that the first complete 
 Bible was translated into Enghsh by John 
 Wycliffe. A hundred years later this was 
 followed by a translation and revision made 
 by WilHam Tyndale, which was the first 
 printed Bible, all previous editions having 
 been in manuscript only. Tyndale 's Bible 
 was followed by the Great Bible; this was 
 followed by Matthew's Bible, which was 
 almost wholly copied from Tyndale 's. StilJ 
 another Bible largely based on Tyndale 's 
 was issued called Taverner's Bible. Other 
 
translations and revisions following in the 
 next few centuries were the Great Bible of 
 Cranmer, The Greneva Bible which is some- 
 times called the Breeches Bible, and others. 
 
 This brings us down to the time of the 
 translation and revision of the Bible which 
 is called the King James Version, which was 
 completed in 1611, after seven years devout 
 study by the most prominent scholars of that 
 time. The King James revision was the 
 first translation into what may properly be 
 called the English Language. 
 
 It is now nearly 300 years since the King 
 James Bible was revised and translated into 
 its present form, since which time the most 
 authentic and accurate manuscripts of the 
 Bible have been discovered, the Alexandrian 
 in 1628, Sinaitic manuscripts in 1859, which 
 contains the New Testament entire and the 
 greater partof theOld Testament. These and 
 a mass of other and later discoveries, including 
 many ancient manuscripts and inscriptions, 
 together with the fact that Philologists have 
 acquired a much more accurate understand- 
 ing of the ancient languages gave rise to 
 comparisons which completely changed the 
 meaning of a large number of passages in 
 the King James Bible; besides this, the 
 gradual transformation and change of the 
 English language in the course of 300 years 
 made a re-translation all the more imperative, 
 as in the lapse of time the significance of 
 many words have been completely altered, 
 while others have become obsolete and ob- 
 
Since the translation and revision of the 
 King James Bible upwards of forty English 
 Dictionaries have been issued. For the 
 reasons above stated, it was deemed necessary 
 that a new translation and revision of the Bible 
 be made. This was begun in England in 1870, 
 and in the United States in 1872. The Ameri- 
 can Committee was divided into two compan- 
 ies, one for the Old Testament and another 
 for the New Testament. These committees 
 were composed of the foremost scholars of 
 America, representing all the great religious de- 
 nominations as well as the universities and 
 colleges of the United States, and their work 
 was finished in 1901, thus covering a period of 
 nearly thirty years of consecutive labor and 
 study in the preparation of the American 
 Standard Bible. 
 
 The American Standard Bible is a new 
 translation* of the Bible in the light of twenti- 
 eth century scholarship and knowledge, using 
 the marvelous and priceless manuscripts and 
 other material which have been discovered 
 in the last 300 years. 
 
 It represents fifteen years of study, con- 
 sideration and preparation by a company 
 of the most eminent Biblical scholars of all 
 the Evangelical denominations of Great 
 Britain and America, and fifteen years of 
 additional devout study and prayerful con- 
 sideration by the American Committee who 
 continued their organization after the English 
 company disbanded. The American Stand- 
 ard Bible therefore is the product of thirty 
 
 * Edited by the American Revision Committee with its 
 attestation on the back of the title page and published by 
 Thomas Nelson & Sons. 
 
years continuous, careful study by the emi- 
 nent American scholars representing the great 
 Universities, Theological Seminaries and 
 Evangelical demominations of America. 
 
 It was a labor of love, reverently under- 
 taken by these scholariy ministers and teach- 
 ers, for the good of humanity and the glory 
 of God. Their time and the results of their 
 long experience were freely given without 
 pay or compensation. 
 
 The American Standard Bible was pre- 
 pared because in the older versions there are 
 admitted inaccuracies in translation, obscuri- 
 ties due to words and phrases which are no 
 longer in common use and many errors in 
 the ancient text followed by the old translators. 
 All these inharmonies have been found to 
 cause serious misunderstandings and to hide 
 from the devout seeker the real, true and 
 clear meaning of the passage. Words have 
 changed their significance in the course of 
 years and many words in the older versions 
 give a wrong impression to the reader of to- 
 day. All the great nations have had new 
 translations of their Bible during compara- 
 tively recent years and in no language has 
 this been so necessary as in the English, be- 
 cause the changes in it have been so numerous 
 and the growth so great. 
 
 The revisers who prepared the King James 
 Bible completed their workinaboutseven years. 
 The American Committee was nearly thirty 
 years in preparing the American Standard 
 Version of the Bible — thus giving nearly five 
 times the length of time to their work. It is 
 the work of the best American scholarship, 
 6 
 
focussed upon every word and phrase. ^ It 
 has the advantage of all the accumulated 
 wisdom and scholarship of the world since 
 the publication of the King James Version in 
 1611. In addition to all these added re- 
 sources, are the authentic and valuable manu- 
 scripts which have been discovered since that 
 time. Bible study has made marvelous 
 progress and the revelations of modern arch- 
 •ology throw a new light of interpretation, 
 enabling scholars of the present day to reach 
 the real meaning of the sacred writers with 
 an accuracy never before possible in the 
 history of the world. 
 
 The American Standard Bible is the 
 most accurate in translation, the most 
 thorough in method, simplest in expression, 
 and gives a clearer conception of the thought, 
 than any other translation yet produced. 
 
 The American Standard Bible is iix 
 paragraph form, which is the form of the 
 original manuscripts, and preserves the 
 sequence, strength and spirit of the real Bible, 
 as no other translation has ever done. 
 
 Its accuracy, clearness and simplicity make 
 it eminently the people's Bible. Every 
 stumbling-block to the perfect understanding 
 of the Word has been removed, so far as lay 
 within the power of the wisest Chris tiar 
 scholarship. The translation into dignified 
 but living English of the present day removes 
 the difficulty from many of the passages that 
 have been puzzling and misleading to thou- 
 sands. It does not require a scholar to in- 
 terpret this Bible, though it required many 
 scholars to produce it. 
 
The unqualified approval of the leading 
 ministers of all denominations, presidents of 
 colleges, theological seminaries, of Bible 
 training schools, the leading critical journals, 
 the great religious papers of the world, pro- 
 fessors, and scholars, attest that for them, 
 as well as for the general public, the Amer- 
 ican Standard Bible is the most perfect 
 English Bible in existence. This approval 
 has been won by the American Standard 
 Bible in less than a brief five years. Hun- 
 dreds of colleges and seminaries through- 
 out the country use it in their regular chapel 
 services and as a text book in Bible study. 
 In fact, there is not an important college 
 that has not indorsed it by word or use. 
 Thousands of clergymen of all denominations 
 give this edition the first place in their studies, 
 in the pulpit, and in the pew, and in countless 
 homes of the nation it is taking its place as 
 the Bible of the household. 
 
 , THEREFORE 
 
 Every American lover of the grand old 
 Book of Books should recommend and buy 
 the American Standard Bible because it 
 is the best version of the World's Best Book. 
 They should recommend and buy it because 
 it represents the best thought and study of 
 the best equipped Bible scholars of the age. 
 They should buy it because it represents the 
 concrete scholarship of the past two thousand 
 years. They should buy it because a larger 
 number of competent scholars were engaged 
 on the American Standard Bible than on 
 any former translation. They should have 
 
it because these translators spent a much 
 longer time than was ever given to any trans- 
 lation in any language. They should study 
 it because these translators had the use of 
 the latest and best manuscripts, unknown to 
 former revisers. They should buy it because 
 the unanimous verdict of the best scholarship 
 and of the common people of the world, after 
 five years of examination and use, is, that 
 this is the best translation ever made into any 
 language. 
 
 In the selection of general Hterature, the 
 thoughtful reader exercises great care as to 
 authorship, authenticity, beauty of style and 
 other hterary quahties. Should we not 
 exercise even greater discrimination and care 
 in a matter of such vital importance as the 
 selection of our Bible ? 
 
 FINALLY 
 
 All living language is progressive and this 
 applies to the language of the Bible, as well as 
 to all literature. Upwards of forty English 
 Dictionaries have appeared since King James 
 Bible saw the light in 1611, each marking a 
 step farther ahead in the transformation of 
 the Enghsh language. A Bible is demanded 
 which reproduces as closely as possible the 
 very thought and sense of the ancient writers, 
 clothed in modern form, intelhgible to all, and 
 free from the errors of previous translators. 
 
 These requirements are fulfilled in the 
 American Standard Bible, which corrects 
 some 2,000 inaccuracies, obsolete phrases and 
 misinterpretations that are found in the Eng- 
 lish Revised Version. 
 
What Authorities Say 
 
 The unanimous verdict of the best Chris- 
 tian Scholarship and of the common people 
 of the world, after five years use and ex- 
 amination, is, that the American Standard 
 Bible is the best translation ever made in any 
 language. 
 
 READ WHAT THEY SAY 
 
 Rev. G. Cam - 
 BELL Morgan, D. 
 D., says: 
 
 " I certainly value 
 it, and am using 
 that edition con- 
 stantly. It is by 
 far and away the 
 best translation that 
 we have had." 
 
 Wm. R. Moody, 
 of Northfield, Mass. 
 says : 
 "The American Standard Bible is some- 
 thing every Christian worker should have." 
 
 John R. Mo it, General Secretary of World's 
 Student Christian Federation, 'N.Y. C. says: 
 
 "I find it most stimulating and helpful to 
 turn to the use of this version, having used 
 other veisicns all the rest of my life." 
 
Rev. J. Wilbur 
 Chapman, D. D., 
 Corresponding See 
 retary. The Gene- 
 ral Assembly's Com- 
 mittee on Evange- 
 listic Work, Winona 
 Lake, Ind., says: 
 
 "The translation 
 of this edition is 
 more accurate than 
 that of any other. I 
 have myself been 
 very slow to adopt 
 the use of the American Standard Bible, 
 but it will be my pleasure from this time on to 
 emphasize the use of your special edition," 
 
 Prof. Ira M. 
 Price, Ph.D. LL. 
 D., University of 
 Chicago, in The 
 S u n day Schod, 
 Times, says: 
 
 "The most per- 
 fect Enghsh Bible 
 in existence. It 
 embodies in itself 
 the greatest num- 
 ber of good quali- 
 ties, and is the best 
 representative of 
 the ripest scholar- 
 ship at the close of the nineteenth and the be- 
 ginning of the twentieth century." 
 
Rev. Henry W. 
 Warren, D. D.. 
 BwhopM.E.Church, 
 says: 
 
 "I use this version 
 exclusively in my 
 study and in quo- 
 tations for the press. 
 Consider it very de- 
 cidedly preferable 
 to the King James 
 Version." 
 
 Rev. J. W. McGarvey, President College 
 of the Bible, Lexington, Ky., says: 
 
 "We use it both in chapel and all of our 
 classes. Immensely preferable to King James 
 Version. It is folly to use the Authorized 
 Version any longer anywhere. It avoids 
 many false renderings of the Authorized 
 Version and many false readings of the Greek 
 from which the Authorized Version was trans- 
 lated, and it is truer to modern EngUsh than 
 the English Revision." 
 
 Rev. J. S. Stahr, D.D., LL.D., President 
 of Franklin and. Marshall College, Lancaster, 
 Pa., says: 
 
 " I prefer the American Sfandard Bible as 
 gix'ing a better translation of the original 
 Greek, and I feel that it ought to be generally 
 introduced." 
 
Rev. C.R.Black- 
 ALL, D.D., Editor 
 of Periodicals, Am- 
 erican Baptist Pub- 
 lication Society, 
 Philadelphia , Pa . , 
 says: 
 
 "I earnestly wish 
 that it might be 
 adopted as stand- 
 ard in every Church 
 and Sunday School 
 the world over." 
 
 Rev. H. a. Butts, D.D., LL. D., President 
 of Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. 
 J., says: 
 
 " It represents the best of American scholar- 
 ship and as such may fitly have a place among 
 our people and in our institutions of learning." 
 
 J. H. Garrison, 
 
 Editor of The 
 Christian Evang- 
 elist, St. Louis, Mo., 
 says: 
 
 "I not only use, 
 but I recommend it 
 constantly through 
 our paper as the 
 best version of the 
 Bible in English 
 now in existence." 
 
Rev. J. T. Mc- 
 Farland, D.D., 
 
 Editor, S. S. Litera- 
 ture for the M. E. 
 Church, says : 
 
 "We use, through 
 
 the courtesy of 
 
 Thomas Nelson 
 
 & Sons, the text 
 
 of the American 
 
 Standard Version 
 
 in our Sunday School 
 
 Journal and Bible 
 
 Student's Magazine 
 
 and in ourannual vohmie, The Illustrative Notes. 
 
 We do this because, in the first place. 
 
 We consider this to be the most accurate 
 
 translation of the Bible, which is the first 
 
 essential 'to the student, and because also 
 
 It is the simplest and clearest in its lang- 
 uage, and so the most easily understood by the 
 average person. 
 
 While of inestimable value to the scholar, 
 it is also preeminently the version of the 
 Scriptures for the common people." 
 
 Rev. J. T. McFarland. D.D. 
 
 Rev. J. G. Merrill, D.D., President Fisk 
 University, Nashville, Tenn., says: 
 
 "I am glad to say that I own a copy of the 
 American Standard Bible and that I use it 
 constantly and the chief reason why I prefer 
 i t to the King James Version is that I regard 
 it as containing the Word of God more fully 
 than King James or any other version that 
 I know of." 
 
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W I L B E R T W. 
 
 White, President 
 of Bible Teachers^ 
 Training School, 
 New York, says: 
 
 "We use exclu- 
 sively the American 
 Standard Bible in 
 our School. We do 
 this because we be- 
 lieve that it isthebest 
 English version of 
 theBible published.'* 
 
 Rev. H. a. Buchtel, D.D., LL.D., Presi- 
 dent University of Denver, Denver, Col., says: 
 " I use the American Standard Bible quite 
 all the time. Our professor of the English 
 Bible uses the American Standard in his 
 class work " _^ 
 
 Charles Gall- 
 audet Trumbull, 
 says: 
 
 "It is not a new 
 Bible. It is the 
 same old Bible that 
 our fathers and fore- 
 fathers read and 
 treasured. But the 
 American Version 
 brings the messages 
 and truths and eter- 
 nal promises of that 
 Bible closer home to 
 us than ever before." 
 
 Charles Gallaudet Trumbull 
 Elditor S. S. Times 
 
 »5 
 
Rev.A.W. Pitzer, 
 D.D.,LL.D., Wash- 
 ington, D, C, says: 
 "The merits of 
 the American Ver- 
 sion are so many 
 and manifest that 
 I cannot undertake 
 to mention them 
 in detail; my won- 
 der is that any 
 scholar should hesi- 
 tate for a moment 
 to give this the 
 preference over any 
 English translation that has been made. The 
 Washington City Bible Society, of which I am 
 president, has cordially indorsed this version.'* 
 
 W. G. Ballantine, International Y. M. C. 
 A. Training School, Springfield, Mass., says: 
 
 "In this School we regard the American 
 Version of the Bible as preferable to all 
 others. Those who still cling to the old 
 King James Version voluntarily deprive 
 themselves of all that Christian scholarship 
 has gained in exact knowledge of the Bible 
 during the last three hundred years." 
 
 J. P. Sheraton, Principal Wycliffe College, 
 Toronto, Canada, says: 
 
 "It more nearly fulfills the conditions that 
 i^ust be reahzed in an ideal English Version, 
 than any other translation in existence." 
 
Rev. William F. 
 McDowell, D.D., 
 Bishop M .E. Church, 
 says: 
 
 "When the Re- 
 vised Version of the 
 Bible waspubhshed 
 about twenty years 
 ago, careful students 
 were disappc* ited 
 that the suggestions 
 of the American re- 
 visers had not been 
 adopted and made 
 a part of the text. Now after twenty years, 
 I believe there is general satisfaction that an 
 American Standard Version of the Bible has 
 been published. I do not hesitate to say that 
 I regard it as altogether the most satisfactory 
 version of the scriptures in existence." 
 
 R. S. MacAr- 
 THUR, D.D., Cal- 
 vary Baptist Church, 
 New York City, 
 says: 
 
 "The best edi- 
 tion of the Bible 
 ever given to Eng- 
 lish readers. I wish 
 it were in use in 
 all our homes and 
 churches. I use it 
 exclusively in my 
 pulpit." 
 
Dr.W.W. Moore, 
 of Union Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, -^says: 
 "We do not think 
 it too much to say 
 that this is the 
 best version of the 
 Scriptures that has 
 ever been made. 
 The American Re- 
 vision is by far the 
 most exact and 
 faithful translation, 
 and also the most 
 accurately and 
 beautifully printed Bible that has yet appeared." 
 
 Rev. R. a. Laps- 
 ley, Editor of Sun- 
 day School Litera- 
 ture for the Pres- 
 byterian Church 
 (South), says: 
 
 " We place the 
 Text of the Sabbath 
 School lesson in the 
 American Standard 
 Version at the begin- 
 ning of our special 
 lesson treatment in 
 the Earliest Worker; 
 and I take pleasure 
 in testifying to its value as retaining, to a large 
 extent, the unrivaled Hterary charm of the 
 
 Authorized Version." 
 iS 
 
Rev. O. W. 
 Powers, D. D., 
 Pres. American 
 Christian Conven- 
 tion, says : 
 
 " The American 
 Standard Bible will 
 be the authoritatiTe 
 translation for gen- 
 erations. This fact 
 alone is a sufficient 
 reason for its im- 
 mediate adoption, 
 especially for teach- 
 ing purposes. It is 
 not fair to the children in our Sunday Schools 
 to impose upon them the double burden of 
 becoming familiar with two versions. To 
 cUng to the common version is but to prolong 
 the period of confusion. Besides, it is well to 
 avoid the puzzle of obsolete words, and the 
 embarrassment of uncouth and offensive ex- 
 pressions which we would not allow to another 
 book intended for common use. While teach- 
 ing the children the Bible, let us give it to 
 them in the best possible form." 
 
 Rev. George U. Wenner, President of the 
 Evangelical Lutheran Synod of New York and 
 New Jersey, says: 
 
 " The American Standard Bible has re- 
 moved many stumbling blocks from the way of 
 a ready comprehension of the meaning of the 
 Scriptures. It is to be commended to all 
 who desire a clearer knowledge of the Word." 
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Unsolicited Endorse- 
 ment and Testimo- 
 nial from the Great 
 Oriental Biblical 
 Scholar, 
 
 Rev. Jacob 
 Chamberlain, M. 
 D., D, D., LL. D., 
 Coonoor, India, 
 says: 
 
 " After reading 
 the testimonials 
 from Occidental 
 Bible scholars, it 
 has occurred to me 
 that you might like to know how the Ameri- 
 can Standard Bible strikes one who looks 
 at it from the standpoint of an Oriental 
 Bible translator and reviser. 
 
 "In our work in the re- translation of the 
 Bible into the Telugu language, we were 
 in contact with the work of the English and 
 American Committees as the revision was 
 going on. I was elected a corresponding 
 member of the Committee in 1877, and given 
 access to their findings and confidentially 
 used them in advance in our work in Telugu. 
 I also met members of the Enghsh companies 
 and confidentially talked over matters with 
 them in London. 
 
 "Having been engaged for more than 
 twenty years as Chairman of The Telugu 
 Bible Revision Committee, in the re-transla- 
 tion of the Bible from the Originals into one 
 of the-Principal Languages of India, and hav- 
 ing at times had open before me on my table 
 
TRANSLATIONS OF THE BiBLE IN ELEVEN 
 
 LANGUAGES to note the peculiar turn of an 
 idea in particular passages, and having watch- 
 ed with intense interest the work of the Eng- 
 lish and American Revisers from the first, 
 and now having used the Completed Work 
 of the final American Revision Committee 
 since its first issue in 1901, I am free to say 
 that I regard the American Standard Bible 
 as the most accurate and vivid rendering of 
 the Hebrew and Greek Originals of any 
 version yet issued IN ANY LANGUAGE. 
 
 "For the last five years it has been of the 
 utmost use to me in my daily work in prepar- 
 ing a New Oriental Bible Dictionary from an 
 Oriental standpoint for Oriental people, for 
 often its new turn of thought or expression, 
 more hke the Oriental Originals, has been 
 very suggestive of explanations for an Orien- 
 tal people. 
 
 **It« is to my mind incomparably the best* 
 English Version yet» issued for all true 
 seekers after the Real Revealed Thoughts 
 of God.** 
 
 The Bible Study Secretaries of the Inter- 
 national Committee of Young Men's Christian 
 Associations on February 25th, 1907, recom- 
 mended the American Standard Bible for use 
 in Association Bible Classes. 
 
IN COLLEGES AND SEMINARIES 
 
 Among the Colleges, Theological Seminaries, 
 Bible Training Schools, etc., etc., using the Ameri- 
 can Standard Version, are the following: 
 
 Adelphi College, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Albany College, Albany, Ore. 
 
 Albright College, Myerstown, Pa. 
 
 Alma College, Alma, Mich. 
 
 Amer. University of Harriman, Harriman, Tenn. 
 
 Arkansas College, Batesville, Ark. 
 
 Auburn Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 Baker University, Baldwin. Kan. 
 
 Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio. 
 
 Baylor University, Waco, Texas. 
 
 Beamsville Bible School, Beamsville, Ont. 
 
 Belle vue College, Belle vue, J\eb. 
 
 Beloit College, Beloit, Wis. 
 
 Berkeley Bible Seminary, Berkeley, Cal. 
 
 Bible Teachers' Training School, New York. 
 
 Blackburn College, Carlinville, 111. 
 
 Boston University, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Butler College, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 California College, Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Carson and Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn. 
 
 Central University, Pella, Iowa. 
 
 Central Wesleyan College, Warrenton, Mo, 
 
 Chicago Training School, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Christian Biblical Institute, Stanford ville, N. Y. 
 
 Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
 
 Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y. 
 
 College of the Bible, Lexington, Ky. 
 
 Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Col. 
 
 Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 
 
 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 Cotner University, Bethany, Neb. 
 
 Dakota University, Mitchell, S. D. 
 
 Delaware College, Newark, Del. 
 
 DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.] 
 
 Doane College, Crete, Neb. 
 
 Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J. 
 
 Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. 
 
 Eureka College, Eureka, 111. 
 
 Findlay College, Findlay, Ohia. 
 
French American College, Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Furraan University, Greenville, S. C. 
 
 Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, 111. 
 
 German Wallace College and Nast Theological 
 Seminary, #Berea, Onio. 
 
 Girls' Latin School, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Guilford College, Guilford, N. C. 
 
 Hamilton College, Chnton, N. Y. 
 
 Heidelberg University, Tiflfin, Ohio. 
 
 Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich. 
 
 Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. 
 
 Hope College, Holland, Mich. 
 
 Howard University, Washington, D. C. 
 
 International Y. M. C. A. Training School, Spring- 
 field, Mass. 
 
 Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 
 
 Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky. 
 
 Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa. 
 
 Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 Maryland College for Women, Luther ville, Md. 
 
 McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 
 
 Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Mo. 
 
 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. 
 
 Nebraska Wesleyan University, University Place, 
 Neb. 
 
 Northwestern College, Naper ville, III. 
 
 Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. 
 
 Oberlin College, Oberhn, Ohio. 
 
 Oberlin Theological Seminary, Oberlin, Ohio. 
 
 Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kan. ' 
 
 Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio. 
 
 Parsons' College, Fairfield, Iowa. 
 
 Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 
 Potter Bible College, Bowling Green, Ky. 
 
 Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky 
 Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Providence University, Oak Hill, Ohio. 
 
 Rad cliff College, Cambridge, ISIass. 
 
 Rochester Theological Seminary, Rochester. N. Y. 
 
 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. 
 
 Scarritt Bible and Training School, Kansas City, 
 
 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 
 Ky. 
 
 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. 
 
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Talladega College, Talladega, Ala. 
 Texas Christian University, Waco, Texas. 
 Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, 
 
 Princeton, N. J. 
 Theological Seminary of the Refonned Church in 
 
 America, New Brunswick, N. J. 
 Trinity University, Waxahachie, Texas. 
 Union Biblical Seminary, Dayton, Ohio. 
 Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. 
 University of Alabama, University, Ala. 
 University of California, Berkeley, Cal. 
 University of Chicago, Chicago, lU. 
 University of Denver, Denver, Col. 
 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal. 
 University of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. 
 Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa. 
 U. S. MiUtary Academy, West Point-, N. Y. 
 U. S. Naval Academy, Ajqjcrap'olis;, Md. *" ,".. 
 sVassar College, Poughkefepfeie, N. Y. 
 Washington and Jeff Aeon CoUfege, Washington, Pa; 
 Washington and Lee University, Lexington/ Va. 
 Wellesley College, WelleMeyv Mass. 
 Wesleyan Theological CoU^e, Mo9treal; Canada. 
 Western Bible and Literals College, Odessa^ Mo. 
 Western Maryland C611e|^' •WestitfinSt<^r,*Md. 
 Western Theological Seminary,; Allegheny, Pa. 
 Western University of Pennsylvania, Allegheny, Pa. 
 Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa. 
 Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash. 
 Woman's College of Baltimore, Baltimore, Md. 
 Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 
 Yankton College, Yankton, S. D. 
 
 It is a noble work, destined to become the accept- 
 ed Bible of the majority of the Anglo-Saxon race; 
 and we are tempted to wish that it might be adopted 
 as the one final revised version of the English- 
 speaking world. The present volume, it is believed, 
 will on the one hand bring a plain reader more closely 
 into contact with the exact thought of the sacred 
 writers than any version now current in Christen- 
 dom, and on the other hand prove especially 
 serviceable to students of the Word. — London 
 Quarterly Review. 
 

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