Tárogató, 1948-1949 (11. évfolyam, 1-8. szám)
1948-07-01 / 1-2. szám
14 TÁROGATÓ sixtyfive dollars for pulpit Bibles. The Canadian division of the Bible Society says that ninety per cent, of its output is sold at less than cost, largely because losses are borne by legacies and contributions from churches. Standard editions of Bibles are turned out in ten hundred and sixty-eight tongues, and Braille editions feature forty languages. The Bible has even been recorded on one hundred and sixty-nine phonograph records for the benefit of blind who cannot read Braille. The job took three years. During the war a million copies of Bibles were sent by Britain to the United States ... reverse Lend Lease involving the Holy Scriptures. It is near St. Paul’s Cathedral, in London, that the largest Bible distributing house in the world is located. It speeds Bibles everywhere. Bibles are distributed in places like China, the Middle East, the Far East, India and parts of Europe by “colporteurs”. These are wandering Bible salesmen who carry their wares heaped high on trays. Many of them work for nothing. It is also interesting to note that the Bible has lots of readers in Soviet Russia and Germany. The Moscow Patriarchate related to the Russian Orthodox Church has printed millions of copies. God’s Word is meant for all, and in every country of the world are people who read and heed it. In the interests of disunity there are evil or stupid people who like’to claim that residents of some other countries all shun God and have no interest in religion. Such board statements are dangerous and untrue, but unfortunately too many believe them. Even during those periods when Hitler’s government officially discouraged worship there were unquestionably millions of Germans who, in their hearts, believed in God just as deeply as we do, and who worshipped him just as sincerely, if not so elaborately. God does not reserve his goodness for members of one nationality, which is a peculiar and highly unchristian idea that many seem to have. A sincere Russian, German, Japanese or other “foreign” prayer—and there are many of them—is received with quite as much favour by God as any other. IMPORTANCE OF SCRIPTURES “One of the finest Polish Baptist churches in Liege, Belgium, was started a little over ten years ago by two Polish coal miners who came to an evangelical faith simply through the reading of the Scriptures,” reports Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg, on his return from a survey of church conditions in Europe. “These instances can be multiplied in so many places all over Europe that I returned with an overwhelming sense of the importance of supplying Bibles to Europe and Asia as never before.” THE OTHER CHOICE By Dorothy Brown Thompson If Jesus in Gethsemane Had said, “My life belongs to me, And spite of all the world’s distress, I have my right to happiness—” If Jesus in the Roman court Had said, “The years of life are short, And some abuses we forgive, Since, after all, a man must live—” If He had said what still we say, He’d not have trod the bitter way, But lived a life in full content— And oh, our lives—how different! HISTORY WITH THE MEAT RATION The other day a Cambridge housewife unwrapped her meat ration which she had just brought home from the butcher’s, and this paragraph on the wrapping caught her eye: “Mr Pimme’s Report of the Message: By Order and Command of this House, I repaired to the Lords and there in the name of this House did accuse the Earl of Strafford of High Treason ...” And the date art: the head of the paper was November 10, 1640! The lady informed her son, who happens to be a member of the reporting staff of Hansard’s Parliamentary De-
