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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 28, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 17.

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Conducted by the Department of Circulation of the Review and Herald Publishing Company

Announcement of the Revision and Completion of the Series Easy Steps in the Bible Story

For a number of years the publishers have been studying how to meet the growing demand indicated practically in the following oft-repeated expressions written them by parents in search of a simple, pure, and connected story of the whole Bible:—
“We want a book that will give our children a clear, clean, and connected conception of the Bible story. We wish the children were taught the story of the Bible in a simple, connected way. When we were children, we were taught the Bible consecutively from Genesis to Revelation, and we knew it, too.”
In the study of the books now published by the denominational press one was found in which the supplying of this demand was contemplated and successfully begun, but through the oversight or neglect of the publishers it had never been completed. After bestowing careful study on the plan and the nature of the book, and receiving safe counsel, it was decided to ask the author of this book, “Easy Steps in the Bible Story,” to complete her first plan, and to produce a full story of the Bible for children, in a series of six books, 6½ x 9⅜ x ½ inches in size, printed on good quality of paper, in new, large, open-face type, profusely illustrated with original, full-page drawings, colored plates, and new attractive marginal illustrations that really illustrate the text, every page to contain a picture made especially for illustrating and impressing the story recorded on that page, and a beautiful new cover design for the entire series.
The first volume is to cover that part of the Bible story from the creation of the world to the giving of the law—the old book revised and four new chapters added.
Volume two will resume the narrative, and give the story of Israel in the building of the Tabernacle and establishing its services, The Sin of Nadab and Abihu, The Numbering of the People, Israel Leaving Mount Sinai, The Sending of the Quails, The Sin of Mariam and Aaron, The Report of the Spies, The Sin of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, Moses and Aaron Dishonor God, The Fiery Serpent, The Victory over Sihon and Og, Balaam, Death of Moses, The People Cross the River Jordan, The taking of Jericho, The Sin of Achan, and the Defeat of Ai, The Sun and the Moon Obey Joshua, The Land Divided, The Last Words of Joshua, Gideon, Samson, Story of Ruth, Child Samuel, The Ark Taken by the Philistines, The Ark Sent Back to Israel.
The other volumes will cover the remaining story of the entire Bible, with the wars, intricate and complicated narrations, only necessary for adults, eliminated, and practical moral lessons woven in where the child would not be able to draw them from the text without the aid of a more mature mind.
The work on the first two volumes is far advanced, and we are pleased to be able at this date to announce that they will be completed by August 1, and that the remaining volumes will be published as early thereafter as possible. This series of the “Child's Bible” will be bound in two styles, board and cloth, and will sell for 50 and 75 cents a copy.
Undoubtedly these will be the best books on the story of the Bible that have ever been produced for children, and the price is low for the quality.