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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 6, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 1.

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Bible Brought $29,000

THE Huth library at Sotheby's was sold at a London auction, and a Mazarin Bible brought $29,000. Bernard Quatrich, the bookseller, opened the bidding at $10,000. The next offer was $15,000, and $2,500 raises were bid till Mr. Quatrich took the prize at double the price obtained for it when sold at auction once before. The real value of the book is not in the binding or paper or edition, but in the substance, which is the eternal truth. A Bible that costs only a few pennies has the same power to reform the individual heart and revolutionize the nation as the $29,000 one. And yet to the bookseller the Mazarin Bible was worth what he bid for it, or he would not have bought it. If there were but one Bible in the world, twenty-nine million dollars would be a cheap price for it. Of the statutes and judgments of the divine law the psalmist has said: “More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.” Ps. 19: 10.—Christian Herald.