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Bible Society News
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Most pupblishers agree
that heavily advertised
books are the ones that
usually hit the bestseller
list, and a boudoir belle on
the cover often turns a
loser into a winner.
But a paperback that
was published Without fan
fare last September and
without a suggestive cover
is proving to be the excep
tion that proves the rule.
If it’s going rate of about
25,000 copies a day con
tinues, the runaway best
seller will rack up sales at
over nine million in the
next 12 months.
Priced at 25 cents com
pared with the average
paperback now selling for
68 cents, the 600 - page
sleeper sports an eye
catching cover of charcoal
gray newspaper mastheads
from around the world as
background for the title,
“Good News For Modern
Man.” The “Good News”
is the American Bible So
ciety’s fresh, idiomatic
New Testament in Today’s
English Version featuring
almost 200 lively line
drawings by Anne Vallot
ton, a contemporary Swiss
artist.
In a little over six
(months after publication,
more than two million
copies of the TEV had
been distributed in this
country and overseas with
over 720,000 additional
ones on order. By early
April approximately 1,850,-
000 TEVs plus over 13,000
special imprints had been
distributed in the United
States. At the same time,
more than 310,000 copies,
including over 83,000 spe
cial imprints for Canada
and Australia, had been
shipped overseas.
These figures are im
pressive considering that
rare is the best seller with
a press run exceeding
50,000 copies, although
press runs of 80,000 to
100,000 are not uncommon
for top grade Scriptures.
But what makes the statis
tics even more spectacular
is that while Bibles are
marketed in about 5,000
stores across she
country, the ABS sells its
Scriptures in this country
only through its New York
headquarters, regional of
fices and associated Bible
Societies. >
Published during the
150th anniversary of the
ABS last year, the TEV is
sold at the amazing low
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of continuing efforts by
the non-profit ABS to pro
vide every iman with a
copy of the Scriptures in
his own language. Toward
this goal the society sells
Scriptures at cost or gives
them away when people
cannot pay for. copies. One
of 35 national Bible So
cieties which form the
United Bible Societies, the
ABS supplies Scriptures
for more than 65 Protestant
denominations. It is the
This Is The Life
By D. R. THOMAS
Immanuel Baptist Church
ARE YOU READY?
Take your Bible, please,
and turn with me to I
Thess. 4:13-18. Today, I
want to ask you a very
important question. Are
you ready to meet Jesus?
As we watch television and
read our newspapers about
the war in the Middle
East, we see Bible pro
phecy being fulfilled. In
the Bible we see Noah
preaching to the people
about the great flood that
was coming, but they only
laughed and said he was
crazy.
John the Baptist went
about preaching, “Repent
ye, the Kingdom of Heaven
is at hand.” He was pre
paring the people to meet
Jesus.
Today, people are liv
ing and acting like the
people did in Noah’s day.
They have forgotten God
and only call on Him in
time of trouble. How many
of us think we have done
something for God if we
give Him an hour or two
on Sunday. If you should
die right now, would you
be ready to meet Jesus?
He is coming back. Are
you ready? My heart is
very sad because some of
you will reject Christ as
your saviour and will live
in this wcrld only to please
yourself. Are your sins
covered under the blood of
Jesus? I love each and
everyone of you who are
reading this. Won’t you
please corng to Christ be
fore it is too late? He
cbufd corfie *nfeybfe
the next minute. Are you
ready?
The Bible says: “In a
moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last
trumpet, for the trumpet
shall sound, and the dead
shall be raised incorrupt
ible, and we shall be
changed.”—l Cor. 15:52.
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURBDAY, JUNE 29, 19C7.
world’s largest organiza
tion devoted solely to
translating, publishing and
distributing Scriptures here
and abroad without note
or comment.
Originally designed for
people with a grade school
iducation, those for whom
English is a second langu
age and to reach an esti
mated 10 million Americans
who do not read the Bible,
the TEV is proving popu
lar with people of all ages
and levels of learning.
Even seminary students
and scholars find the TEV
provides a refreshingly
new approach to the
Scriptures.
With its typography and
layout as contemporary as
the language, the TEV has
been aptly called “the
New Testament in street
clothes.” It is the first in
any language to be based
on a Greek text of the
New Testament that was
published in the spring of
1966 by the ABS in co
operation with the British
and Foreign Bible Society,
the National Bible Society
of Scotland, the Nether
lands Bible Society and
the Worttenburg Bible So
ciety of Germany. Dr.
Robert G. Bratcher, ABS
translations special secre
tary, prepared the basic
TEV translation in asso
ciation with a team of
Biblical scholars.
Most translations are
made by scholars in the
field, with the help and
supervision of the ABS,
which then sponsors the
translation and publishes
it. A few translations are
done directly by the ABS,
with the TEV New Testa
ment being the first Eng
lish translation by the so
ciety.
The American Bible
Society’s “Good News For
Modern Man” is helping
millions to understand the
Good News of the Gospel.
Let’s Go To Church Sunday
Sunday School Lesson
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International Sunday School Lesson for July 2
Memory Selection: “So hath the Lord com*
manded us, saying, I have ret thee to be a light
cf the Gentiles, thah thou shouldest be for salva
tion unto the ends cf the earth.” —Acts 13:47.
Lesson Text: Acts 13.
The start of this new quarter finds the empha
sis still on witnessing for Christ. Certainly, in
studying the enthusiastic Spirit-led witness of
Paul, we should be inspired in our determina
tion to do our part to spread the glorious words
of the Gospel.
If we study seriously, in retrospect it will be
quickly seen that—although the progress of the
Gospel was efttimes threatened in the early
days of Christianity—it was never hindered by
mortal man. That challenge confronts us to
day, when the forces of evil seem rampant all
over the world.
Our lesson today points out very forcefully
that the Gospel was intended for all men—not
just a . select few. And today, as never before,
it fills our needs just as gloriously as it filled
the needs of mankind all those thousands of
years ago.
Over and over again, as we study the Bible,
we see that God reaches through men and
churches, offering salvation to all.
Barnabas and Saul (later called Paul) were
especially chosen by God—the Church merely
released them to answer His call.
Perhaps the word “merely” is not especially
applicable in this instance; for in this act of
release can be seen the action of a far-seeing
church bedy. Missionary work is not just an
individual responsibility, but a church-involved
thing. And the church at Antioch was a living,
breathing, expanding exposition of missionary
work. It had its inception through Paul’s mis
sions; it was a living proof of what could be
accomplished through earnest and dedicated
preaching. Therefore it is not surprising that
it applied itself earnestly to promoting the
spread of Christianity to the unenlightened,
whatever their race or creed.
This “world outlook” is essential to our
churches today. A church that is obedient to
the Word of God, and His Will, will pulsate
with life; it will not be contained in narrow
defines.
Paul and Barnabas addressed themselves,
first to members of. the church. When they
were refuted by some, they then proceeded to
spread the Word to the Gentiles, and with great
success.
For Paul and Barnabas were shrewd enough
to realize that they must gain the people’s at
tention in some spectacular way, as we will see
tin our. nestt ilsaaon -on the healing of the man
lame from birth, they proclaimed to everyone
that they had something to offer. They “broke
ground” with the tools they had at hand, and
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