p. 7 | The One Book

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 3, 1909

The One Book.

A WEEKLY paper has been inviting its readers to say what single book they would desire to have with them if they were to be left for a year upon a desert island. Among the answers sent in is the following: “I am a rationalist, an agnostic, and a free-thinker. . . . I make this statement with all the seriousness that should accompany expression on such an important subject; that if I were stranded on an island and doomed to live in solitude, the one book that I should wish to have by me for constant study and reference would be the English Bible. For I know of no book that has so helped me in the past and promises to be a steadfast guide in the future. After years of study, the profundity of its psychological message astounds the intellect, and the apparent sincerity that resounds through all its chapters adds a fervent tone. Besides, for simplicity and beauty of word and phrase it undeniably holds the monopoly of all the most ennobling and the most inspiring of the verbal possibilities of the English language.”—Present Truth, London, Eng.