25-Million Sets Record
Kenneth N. Taylor, right, holds the 25-millionth copy of
the Living Bible, which he later presented to Cliff
Barrows, left, vice chairman of the Billy Graham
Association.
Even in these days of inflation
when people deal in millions, 25
million of anything is a huge
amount. And, when it comes to
Bibles, the sales of 25-million
copies in just ten years is almost
unbelievable, but that's just what
the Living Bible has done.
Actually, the Living Bible got
its start in 1936 when a resident of
Wheaton, Illinois commuted
back and forth to Chicago, and
began paraphrasing the letters of
Paul into contemporary English
so that Americans who think and
speak colloquial English could
better understand what they were
reading. As Kenneth N. Taylor -
the man on the commuter train -
later explained, . . what people
were missing out on was the
meaning of the Scriptures. The
words the older versions used
weren't the only words available
to express God's meaning." Ap
parently Taylor was right, be
cause at least 23-million people
now have a better understanding
of the Bible because of his work.
The road wasn't easy for
Taylor, however. The Bible was
published in portions to begin
with, and at first sales weren't all
that encouraging. Living Letters
was published at Taylor's own
expense because even the pub
lishing house he then worked for
rejected the manuscript. In 1962
only 800 copies sold. Then Billy
Graham came across a copy of
Living Letters, liked it, and con
tacted Taylor. In fact, Graham
was so impressed he ordered 50
thousand copies to be used as
giveaways on his telecast. Within
a year. Living Letters was a best
seller.
Taylor began a small publish
ing company in his garage and
named it "Tyndale House" for
William Tyndale who was burned
at the stake for translating the
Bible from Latin into English
some three centures earlier.
Taylor kept on paraphrasing until
he had completed the Living New
Testament, which was an instant
success.
Fourteen years later in 1971
Taylor had completed paraphras
ing the entire Bible. A few copies
came off the presses just before
Christmas 1971 and book dealers
began crying for more copies
The typically conservative Taylor
had far underordered on the first
printing. 1971 was a banner year
Even through
1972 back orders were usually on
hand awaiting delivery from the
printing house.
Taylor never intended, from
the very first, to make any profit
for himself out of his paraphrased
Scriptures. He said that "The
Bible is God's word, not mine.
He just allowed me to make it a
little more readable and under
standable "
Taylor decided to put all of
what would normally be consid
ered the author's royalties into a
foundation. This foundation
would fund, along with the dona
tions of private individuals, Liv
ing Bibles International, an or
ganization that would paraphrase
the Bible into the contemporary
^nguages of the people in many
other countries. Currently this
work is going on in over 100 other
languages around the world, with
31 New Testaments and 5 entire
Bibles now completed. This
pleases Taylor because he be
;'^ve? people can better live out
theirfaith when they better under
stand what God is communicat
ing to them through His word
each time a Living Bible is sold
more funds go into the work of
paraphrasing the Bible into other
languages.
Because it was new, the Living
Bible was the best selling book of
Chrisn.U1 (ficl2s non-fiction,
w sccuUr> m both years
^L*nd 1972 This is an un
reco,d in itsc|f in the
publishing business. This is one
of (he reasons Taylor was re
cently presented the annual
r Uku"^ Award by the Chicago
Bible Society. He now joins the
ranks of other Gutenberg awar
dees such as Billy Graham, Her
bert Hoover and Fulton Sheen.
Still now - ten years later - the
Living Bible sells over I-million
7WtLeuCry year And a* for
Ty"dale Housc-'?'s still growing
and currently has over 400 Chris
tian titles in publication.
And, Taylor still marvels re
membering 1956 when he began
paraphrasing the Bible on a
scratchpad while riding a dingy
crowded Chicago and Northwest
ern commuter train.
Golden Gleams
Whether therefore ye eat,
or drink, or whatever
ye do, do all to the
glory of God.
?1 Corinthians 10:31.
1 make no haste to have
my numbers read.
1 Seldom comes glory till
a man be dead.
-Robert Herrick.
Bryan Memorial
Learning Center
King and Queen
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DEEP BRANCH CARNIVAL HELD OCT. 30 .
of orach eidtemcal on Octo
ber 30, aa the new Halloween
Carnival King and Qneen were
crowned.
Pictured above are the new
Halloween King and Qneen,
N. LocUear, bekig crowned by
Mr. John N. Sampeon, prind
pal of Deep B?amii Qemeo
tar7. The Kh| I* the son of
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son. The Queen le the daugh
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Locldear. He etndente were
representatives from the 2nd
grade classroom of Mr. and
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dents are In the 4th grade
classroom of Mrs. Phyllis
Hart.
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place rnnnere-up?Eddle
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Lee Edward Sampeeo, and
Carolene Hunt, daughter of
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Mr*. Doreen Hall and Mr*.
Debby Prevatt are tbdr daaa
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our gratitude to everyone for
thehr tup port during our fund
raising Carnival."
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