McCracken Sermon

the pain the text is taken from the book of the sam's the one hundred m nineteenth chapter one hundred and thirty am that's the entrance off by word give earth like the bible is far and away the best selling book in the united states from the point of view all situation no other book comes within sight of rival india in nineteen sixty three a million

four hundred thousand bibles and six million eight hundred thousand new testaments we're so in our country the king james vests and opponents law seventy five percent of the bible's purchase but every time a modern translation is published goodspeed moffett revised expanded version the new english bible it is their dishes itself to act as lobbyists that year after year by those are bought by the museum is a peculiar phenomenon there must be one somewhere in the majority of forms in north america but what does that signify it does not follow that

it is in every d us or familiarly known on the conflict and his evidence in the plan say that it is red as seldom as the collected works of william shakespeare on the volumes of the classics presented as dividends to members of all clubs in a recent poll over four fifths of those cameras saying they believe in the bible to be not merely a great piece of literature yet when asked to give the names off of the first four are folks in the new testament fifty three percent who would not name even one so protestants to be

need to be reminded of the police give them to the bible by their spiritual forebears her father was a bible into the hands of the people in their own language they have to read it for themselves they told that firsthand knowledge of it was necessary or christian paluck that all christian church measure what christians citizenship and eros most was voicing the conviction and stingley and co and cranmer and not when he wrote i wish that even the weakest woman she would read the gospels should read the epistles of paul and i wish the sweat translated into all languages

saw that they might be your age and understood not only by scott some bad restless or that they were a while and done really breed but also by cyrus in some tips to make the members doing is charmaine the first stay i'm lauren burke the husband motion saying portions of them to himself as he follows the blow that believes that showed humbling to that shooting of the shuttle let the travelers should began with their stories the tedium of his dna this week showed us most was realized name like william to know who were translating the bible into the language of his fellow come from was a bun at the state

insure its realizes protestants today the demeanor minded or what happened when the word of god house armed raid only by the elite by those who knew he'd grown greek and latin was pulled into the hands of the people in town that human form it became the creative sauce all the high way of life for millions it was as though contact had been made with a y at a live with the law all electricity lest you think i'm exaggerating i brought on the judgment of a historian join richard green describing what happened in the land of ten though when the bible was made available

to the people and proved so popular between fifteen sixteen and sixteen forty that one hundred and forty eight editions appeared in the geneva of lesser known green wrote no greater moral change ever possible that a nation and asked all voting and joining the us which parked in the middle of the raid only listen to elizabeth from the long parliament inman became the people of the book and that book was the bible it was read in genesis and raid at home and everywhere it's words as they fail on he has which passed them had not didn't kindled a startling enthusiasm as amir literally monument the english version of the bible remains the noblest

example of the english far greater what's the effect on the bible on the part of the people elizabeth might silence or june the pulpits but it was impossible to silence or june gray creatures of justice and nestle and throat who spoke from the book the whole template of the nation still the change a new conception of life and man superseded the or a new moral and religious impulse spray through every class yes some protestants need to be informed of what is happening in our only when the bible is called

for the first time into the hands of people in their own language you and i i've had it so long that we take it for granted that's what we do i'm eliott it may not thoroughbred prompt him but it has been it something like indifference custom as did and then there's what green display this happened a long time ago and it's hard to conceive of anything of the saw happening know it's time to conceive because we dont know most of us what is going on in the matter of pointing the bible of the first outing into the hands of people in their own land i remember a cd is a lot to who's running a newspaper some years back under the title if i wear a dictator leading citizens when invited to say how

they would order to finance if they were in so commando if i want a dictator in riverside it's it's an attractive for the minister of maya clinton's told me the best committee is a committee of one mr huerta dictator in riverside i would've cost be a benevolent one i would make reading the annual report of the united bible society is compulsory not only four ministers and officers of the church but for every church member i wish indeed that that report might be raided by every north american christian but we just don't know what is going on the

lands in which the book is being disseminated the languages into which it is being translated and this in particular the life changing influence it begins to exact on people when the immediate thought whoever it far the first time in many many instances seemed to take place without any contact with any outside person grow or agency at typical case i'm carrying on and all i can offer is that typical case is that of john seven a bishop of the messages change in north india in boyhood he attended a muslim school and he studied the colorado under the supervision of a mother he had no associations of any kind with christian people are christian

institutions he had never met a missionary he had certainly never listened to any bit of christian exposition and eight christians someone then he made any gospel only one of the four only one it was sufficiently said it convinced may i decided to become a christian that was no other influence at work except the single gospel john mcbride cites a similar case and what is called the coffee mountain at all brazil there is a well organized and active set it traces it aren't going to if you buy items sold by a new york hoped to farmers assad must began to talk to one another

about this book they were reading this man to their meeting together occasionally to read and then discuss the bible which in turn lead the holding of sunday services years later thirty years later the little company by then about one hundred and fifty eight in number willing themselves to the presbyterian church all blows to another and different pieces that of the members of asylum only two generations ago were head hunters on the first sunday in advent nineteen sixty four the aisle now the bible the fest the first in any magma language was dedicating thanksgiving service at employer and not to learn the following day between six and eight in the morning more than five hundred representatives from sixty village

congregations bought nearly three thousand copies elliot i said that it is hard to conceive of what happened in elizabethan england happening to date for example one hundred and forty editions of the bible is shipped to make public demand in eighty years but something else is happening demands for the bible in the upsurge in countries of the world are so great that bible societies cannot produce them fast enough and so lewis' cop isn't available yet eagerly purchased two hundred all of the long awaited soccer testament bought in less than five minutes you should know what is being done to put the bible into the

hands of the people in the upset in countries of the week and i'm a werewolf with two thousand three hundred languages spoken by the human race the french academy estimate of two thousand three hundred and seventy eight is decidedly on the conservative side since the last sixteen hundred and fifty in india over five hundred in new guinea some two hundred and fifteen and talese at one forty in the philippines to live under the least in thailand us and china did it some parts of the bible has been published in one thousand two hundred and thirty two languages and dialects the extract on the front page of the church calendar for this morning was taken from a book published in nineteen fifty follow when asset that

date there were one hundred and ninety languages in which for bible had been probably that i know two hundred and thirty six and that out two hundred and eighty nine in which the war new testament has been published asia is look on all multiple languages and that presents the churches and the bible societies with a tremendous talent for the entire bible has been translated into only at all the languages of asia the year and thailand new testament into only eighty two and single books of the bible into only one hundred and sixty nine must be playing to you that there's a tremendous amount of princely sum

to be done that are millions of people will have had no opportunity of reading the word of the ball and that is the huge tom has more all communist controlled insurance infiltrated countries china mongolia north korea north vietnam to be a clear bubble societies are nonexistent in that connection lot of these actors that you should have uppermost in your mind one is a population explosion in india for instance the population increased every twenty four hours this factory so that it may yet it is close to twelve million just saying what that means for bible society is permitted to pull the bible into the hands of every man

another factor is the rapid growth of literacy you see for the first time in history the mobsters i'll ellen terry you're great thing to see illiterate people landing to lead in the philippines jimmy yes and took me into a hole where people adults what i mean terry pope he had known a black hole and shock wearing in the old fashioned the older folks will remember it's c a t and then the whole sentence that care is on the rug you could see the light that comes into the face of a man who can read equivalent and whatever the

language is in the philippines have something like a cat is on the run the first time in history the masses and learning to read the question is what are they going to read despite the development of that has increased the importance of the printed page and it has accentuated the struggle for the minds of men it confronts those of us who are christians with a non press event didn't opportunity an obligation to make the word of god available enough long understandable to millions and the sad that it has to do with the role of communism in the struggle for the minds of men communists are wide

awake to the question what are they going to read part of hamas is going to read they know all that in africa and in asia reading material is scarce and that's sad waltz says there are a costly for the average reader so there they're flooding the bookstores all the east with fran talks to really inexpensive malt and beauty articles i remembered in india see in lenin's mocked six five hundred and eighty pages cloth sailing for about forty cents and a book by seven i suppose we've brought in from the bookstores are no one hundred and seventy six pages people about sailing will you believe that for less than

five cents when i was in bubble wrap among anti communists was that if you bought enough of the communist literature you would ultimately break the salty a bunch of stuff and nonsense from the communist party to you every penny of it is well so then this is a way to make contacts there is no other way to match it is in the hands of the people so that they can read and think for themselves and we want at the corners marked his last act you think the bible out to lead have you tried and um das capital or what faith we have had the children of doctors

or wise and that generation and the children of the light the communists and a shrew sums of money disseminating the literature by comparison and contrast to christianity in the east is operating on our fields is hampered and highest form a lot of your money so i must speak to refinement about money and the uses to which we you're so much thought it up looking at the shop all the iran in a recent letter addressed to a meeting of the executive board of unesco the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization announced a gift of seven hundred thousand

dollars for the worldwide war against illiteracy he said that for his little time trips wealthy country though it was the equivalent of one days military budget and he called on other chiefs of state to follow his example and he said that if he'd been iran's contribution would become a manual one then speakers at the meeting from such countries as the ivory coast morocco brazil are on the plea hearing the guests at and pleading that it should be emulated the big powers were silent representative said you know what they would say that they could not a remote instructions from their governments and they added that they doubted whether their governments would contribute even a few hours old one

dies military about the united states is the biggest seller of all according to the new york times the united states is spending one hundred and sixty five million dollars a day for military purposes as taxpayers we want you in some small our lives to that memo of total we are citizens of the state wolves top priority is military preparedness and which is spending money to get to the moon not really any idea of taking bible's clear we are christians as well as citizens of the united states with a christian conscience with christian concerns

with christian priorities we're on tv to make the gospel of christ know all over the world the bible societies are right in the forefront of that undertake my friends they haven't played on your financial support and yup there's no but after twenty years i want to know you pretty well in your past no budget you'll make a place for a religious and charitable contributions may i ask you are the bible societies on humans are you giving to make mine was available

for millions more who are lot is not even a name a corporate or read the christmas story on the bible verse started to the people of an asian village he was asked oh where's this big day when god's son was born about two thousand years ago he applied that a giant hair was and why has the news in solo in reaching us who has been a lighting mobile wallet on let us pray

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