3512 — Regarding the Bible
By Editor
Would it not be well to place in tract form a history of the Bible, and how it was brought together, how written, manuscript, etc., one which we could carry in our Bible? We would say that there was prepared at the beginning of the year a little booklet of this kind, entitled "Our Bible Band," for the Bible Band readers of the "Signs of the Times." It tells us the meaning of the word "Bible," of the word "canon," what books are canonical, the division of the Scriptures,—Old Testament and New,—Bible writers, the languages in which the Bible was first written, how compiled, etc., etc. It is not a full setting forth of these facts; that would be impossible in one small tract. There are excellent books upon this subject, costing all the way from 50 cents to $5.00. If you have an Oxford Bible containing Oxford helps, this will give you a great deal of information—more information than could be compressed in a little tract; but for a small publication we know of none any better than our Bible Band booklet, the price of which is 10 cents.