Inside The Bible House 
 
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 NEW YORK 
 
 AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY 
 
 1907 
 
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Inside • The • Bible • House 
 
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 The Contrast Between Outside and Inside 
 
 T he Bible House in New York is a solid brick building out¬ 
 wardly suggestive of age and of quiet, easy unconcern toward 
 the busy life of the streets. Few contributors to the work of 
 the American Bible Society have very clear ideas about what goes 
 on inside of those walls. The very word “work” so often used in 
 reports and letters from the field, is a good deal like the cloth of a 
 favorite old coat—worn smooth and glistening with use until none 
 of its former characteristics remain to inform the eye. Doubtless 
 many, especially those living at a distance, are curious to know just 
 what makes up the daily occupation of Bible Society workers in 
 that quaint old building. We invite all such to enter to-day with 
 us and look about for themselves. 
 
 Once inside the building one will find any idea of easy-going, 
 unconcerned quiet quickly driven away. The workers have the con¬ 
 strained look of pressing activities. The workshops thrill with the 
 quick throb of machinery, and with the fine eagerness of trained 
 laborers. Perhaps the contrast between outside calm and inside 
 action may remind one of a like contrast found in some great river, 
 ages old between its banks, unostentatious, and apparently subdued 
 and quiet, and yet holding in its depths strong motion; power to 
 move many mills, to bear much tonnage of shipping, and to render 
 noble service to many people. You feel that the Bible House is a 
 place of power. 
 
 Preparing Work for the Society 
 
 Take the elevator at the Ninth Street entrance and fly up to the 
 fifth floor. Turn to the right and you enter a great room sixty feet 
 long and thirty feet wide, filled, except for narrow alleyways, with 
 paper in large square piles. Each great sheet of paper bears printed 
 upon it many pages from the Bible. On some piles the pages are few 
 and large, with large type; on some the pages are many and small, 
 with small type; and on some the words are in strange languages. 
 Women, sometimes singing as they work, are endlessly counting and 
 arranging these printed sheets, and two or three men are perpetually 
 wheeling them away on trucks. It seems a work that may easily 
 weary one by its drudgery, but so is every part of the process by 
 which sheets of white paper are taken into one door of the Bible 
 House and transformed into finished volumes of Scripture which go 
 
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forth into the world from another door at the rate of 300 volumes for 
 every working hour, day after day, week after week, month after 
 month, year after year. 
 
 A like wearisome drudgery appears in the next great room, where 
 the compositors’ wooden cases occupy the space, and men are picking 
 up one type at a time and setting it in its place in the composing 
 stick, and so building up from the little bits of metal, words, and 
 sentences, and pages. The same sort of patient drudgery appears at 
 the proofreaders’ desks, where the whole force of the men goes into 
 detection of errors; and on the next floor below, where men pile the 
 sheets to be pressed flat and smooth; where others feed the sheets into 
 jaws that bite them in two, a hundred at a time, and where the half 
 
 sheets are handed to wise machines 
 that take them with a knowing twist 
 and almost instantly hand them out 
 into the trough below, folded, with 
 each page facing its fellow, ready 
 for the girls who patiently gather 
 all the sheets needed to make up a 
 volume and pass them on to other 
 girls who deftly sew them together. 
 You see the same small drudgery 
 on the third floor, where the space 
 is occupied by many curious ma¬ 
 chines and work-benches, and where 
 men cut the pasteboard, or the cloth, 
 or the leather for the covers. Some 
 paste the covers, some emboss them 
 and letter them; some trim the leaves of the volumes, some round 
 the backs; and so on through the long, delicate process, until the 
 parts of the book are brought into place and the finished volume 
 lies before you neat, clearly printed, and attractive, as the Book of 
 God should be. Pass on down to the pressroom on the second floor, 
 with its great, clattering, rumbling printing machines. There, too, 
 men are doing the merest drudgery—handing the large white sheets 
 to the mouth of the machine, in order that it may take hold of the 
 paper with its teeth, draw it in out of sight, and quickly send it forth 
 below, sharply, beautifully printed in pages with the words that are 
 for the healing of the nations. 
 
 The Invisible Part of the Story 
 
 The visible part of the'story of making these books is the taking 
 of infinite pains in trifling and tiresome acts of drudgery. This is 
 typical of all work done in the Bible House. Yet to workers who are 
 Christians there is an invisible part to the story. A good old minis¬ 
 ter once comforted a discouraged saint by saying, “Even the disciples 
 at Bethphage who went to get that donkey were doing work for Jesus 
 
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Christ.” To those who love Jesus Christ, during- this slow drudgery 
 of making the Book vision comes of what the Book will do for the 
 world. That beautiful reference Bible in flexible morocco covers will 
 be the life companion of some faithful pastor of the flock. That 
 large Pulpit Bible, when it has gone to its church, year after year 
 will guide the thoughts of a worshiping congregation to life in 
 Christ. Those little Bibles, just being inspected before they are 
 wrapped for shipment, will permanently shape the lives of Sunday- 
 school children because given them in their impressible years. That 
 little Gospel which can go into a vest pocket will be taken home by a 
 rough man from a revival meeting, the instrument in God’s hands of 
 saving a life from corruption that had already set in. Vision of re¬ 
 sults glorifles the drudgery of labor in all departments of the work of 
 the Bible Society because all deal with the book which has a mission 
 appointed by God himself. By making Bibles at the lowest possible 
 cost consistent with good workmanship, the Bible Society fosters a 
 great work of Bible distribution at home and abroad, through its own 
 Agents, and through missionary or other societies supplied with 
 Scriptures at the actual cost of production. The greatness of this 
 boon to missions is little understood. Yet it stamps the work of the 
 Bible Society through this manufacturing department with a charac¬ 
 teristic named by Jesus Christ as marking his own work. Through 
 this busy group of workshops, “to the poor the Gospel is preached.” 
 
 The Executive Department 
 
 Every separate shop in the Manufacturing Department of the 
 Bible House has at its head a skilled master in its special branch of 
 the work; a Superintendent sees that the shops work accurately, 
 harmoniously, and uninterruptedly together; and finally, the Treas¬ 
 urer of the Bible Society is General Manager, controlling the work, 
 paying the bills, and taking over the product as an executive officer 
 of the Board of Managers of the Bible Society. Thought and skill 
 direct the whole process of making books. Keen desire, not to com¬ 
 pete with others, but to secure the best results at the lowest cost and 
 greatest profit to all men, possesses all concerned. Questions of 
 popular demand, of taste, of proportion of the page, of type, paper, 
 a,nd binding are continually brought to the Secretaries, who are com¬ 
 monly supposed to be strictly executive and administrative officers, 
 absorbing a notable amount of their time in this preliminary work. 
 For the making of books, notwithstanding the important place which 
 it holds in the activities of the Bible House, is but preparation for the 
 real work of the Bible Society. This will be seen if you come into 
 the Bible House by the main entrance on Fourth Avenue. Here you 
 are in the midst of the Executive Department. 
 
 Beyond the glass doors which face the entrance is the Committee 
 room. At the long table in this room the standing committees of the 
 
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Board of Managers—on Finance, on Agencies, on Versions, on Auxil¬ 
 iaries, on Distribution, etc.—wrestle with the great problems of Bible 
 translation, manufacture, and circulation, hearing continually the 
 cry for more books that comes literally from the four quarters of the 
 globe, and doing what can be done with means always too meager. 
 After discussion in committee these problems are acted upon by the 
 Board, which meets the first Thursday of every month in the Man¬ 
 agers’ room, a beautiful assembly hall on the second floor, opposite 
 the head of the main staircase. The decisions of the Board are then 
 left to the executive officers, who are two Corresponding Secretaries, 
 a Treasurer, and a Recording Secretary, to be put into execution in 
 the whole world-wide field of the Society. Their preparation for 
 this work is love of it and special knowledge of all its parts. 
 
 The Treasurer 
 
 The door on the left as you go into the main entrance hall of the 
 Bible House, gives access to the mail-order room, the salesroom, the 
 packing room, and shipping office. These all are sections of the De¬ 
 pository, witli its stock of Scriptures in many languages, and in the 
 curious raised letters for the blind. All of them are under the imme¬ 
 diate supervision of the Treasurer, and in all of them busy clerks are 
 perpetually writing the invoices, and the records, and the accounts 
 that have to be kept in order to show what becomes of every book 
 added to the stock or taken from it. 
 
 The door on the right of the entrance hall leads to the Treasurer’s 
 private office and the counting room. These offices are as quiet as a 
 bank. Their fittings and equipment, and paraphernalia of records, 
 and ledger accounts, and vouchers, and bills, are like those of any 
 business house, for the processes by which money is accounted for 
 
 are generally much the same 
 the world over. But here these 
 processes are not quite color¬ 
 less. This office has financial 
 relations with every state in 
 the Union. On its books are en¬ 
 tered the doings of those long- 
 robed printers in Constantino¬ 
 ple, Beirut, Bangkok, Shang¬ 
 hai, and Yokohama, who are 
 printing more than a million 
 volumes a year of Scriptures 
 for the Society; drafts drawn 
 here are cashed in Cuba, in 
 South America, in Japan, or in 
 South Africa ; and the account of moneys paid includes details of the 
 work of eleven foreign agencies, besides those in the United States, 
 as well as picturesque bills of materials for book manufacture; from 
 
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tools, iiiacliiiiery, and paper by the ton, to glue, and needles, and 
 thread. In this department, too, are kept the accounts of the Bible 
 House itself, for the Bible Society occupies only about half of the build¬ 
 ing, and the rent of rooms oc¬ 
 cupied by business firms it care¬ 
 fully husbanded, so that they 
 shall cover the expenses of 
 the building and, furthermore, 
 yield a surplus to pay the sal¬ 
 aries of the executive officers. 
 
 No contributions for the gen¬ 
 eral work of the Society are 
 used for repairs of the build¬ 
 ing, taxes, insurance, or for 
 salaries of the executive of¬ 
 ficers; nor do any of these ex¬ 
 penses serve to increase the cost of the Scriptures here manufactured. 
 The variety of these transactions suggests the qualities demanded in 
 the Treasurer. 
 
 Stringent rules govern the Treasurer’s office. A warrant from the 
 Finance Committee is drawn for every payment, and every check 
 signed by the Treasurer is countersigned by a Secretary who has 
 examined the warrant. Every cent that passes through the office 
 leaves its mark, so that all transactions can be traced. Thus the 
 financial situation of the Society can be seen at any time, although 
 this requires more experience than is acquired in a village store; for 
 these complicated accounts cover Bible translation, manufacture, and 
 distribution by sale or gift in two hemispheres. The Treasurer’s daily 
 duty is to hold all branches of the finances of the Bible Society in the 
 masterful grasp of his mind. For this reason, he can act toward the 
 Society somewhat as the governor does to a steam engine; if the rate 
 of progress is too rapid, so that the appropriations tend to exceed the 
 receipts, it is his duty to give warning, so that the speed may be re¬ 
 duced. Contributions from churches, Sunday schools, and indi¬ 
 viduals fix the pace at which Bible work advances. They are given 
 for increasing the circulation of the Bible, and they are sacredly and 
 immediately applied to that one purpose. 
 
 The Secretaries 
 
 The great problem ever confronting the Society is the problem of 
 using all opportunities for taking the Scriptures to those who need 
 them, at home and abroad. So great is this problem that when any 
 society or any individual takes up Bible distribution, with or without 
 the co-operation of the American Bible Society, its advent into this 
 vast field is hailed with delight. To promote this one work the 
 Society exists, and all connected with it. The Society is in some de¬ 
 gree responsible, in each of its widely differing fields, for providing 
 
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millions of people with the Scriptures, notwithstanding obstacles 
 special to each. In the Secretaries’ rooms on the second floor of the 
 Bible House are the letters, documents, and other sources of informa¬ 
 tion about Bible circulation in the whole field of the Society. 
 
 To plan for the supply of destitute villages in the Unites States or 
 destitute empires in Asia; to know in detail the elements of the whole 
 problem, to place them lucidly and accurately before the members of 
 the Board of Managers, and then to give effect to their decision, is 
 the duty of the Secretaries of the Bible Society. 
 
 Commonly, details of the work are divided between the two Corre¬ 
 sponding Secretaries; one becoming by long, careful study, a specialist 
 in matters relating to China, and the other, on the situation in the 
 Levant, etc., etc.; one on the Southern States, and the other, on the 
 Northern; and so on. This expert knowledge of fields and their needs, 
 makes the Secretaries’ rooms the scene of frequent and important con¬ 
 ferences with missionaries; with masters of language who co-operate 
 with the Society in Bible translation; with pastors and leaders of 
 thought; with agents of the Society; and with visitors who come to 
 express kindly sympathy, to learn what is being done, or simply to 
 see something of the process of printing Bibles. This part of the 
 duty of the office absorbs time, but is of great importance. A simi¬ 
 larly important, and little known, duty of the Secretaries, is that of 
 reporting progress and needs at the great meetings of the denomina¬ 
 tional Assemblies, Conferences, or Associations, or of the Auxiliary 
 Societies; or even of single churches, which beg for a speaker to come 
 and talk about Bible work. These calls to go out of the city, and 
 perhaps half way across the continent, have to be met. But the ful¬ 
 fillment of this duty in such a way as to bring no harm to other 
 equally pressing duties of the office is often perplexing, to say the 
 least. Moreover, no one can have an intelligent interest in the work 
 of the Bible Society who is without information about its details. 
 The writing out of this infor¬ 
 mation is another of the duties 
 of the Secretaries. They gather 
 the material, plan and edit the 
 Bible Society Record^ the pon¬ 
 derous Annual Report, and the 
 leaflets or booklets that tell in 
 briefer form the story of the 
 Society’s work from month to 
 month and year to year. 
 
 The lighter correspondence 
 of the Secretaries is of great 
 volume. Every year the min¬ 
 isters of a score of ’denominations have to be informed by letter 
 about the work and needs of the Society ; some thirty thousand life 
 members must be told by letter the things that especially interest 
 
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them ill the experiences of the Society to which they belong. The 
 mails bring letters from all points of the compass which touch the 
 springs of many and various emotions, presenting needs, hopes, 
 petitions for Bibles, requests for information upon specific points; 
 individual difficulties presented to a Bible Society Secretary as to 
 a pastor, and many other matters not dreamed of by those who 
 gaze at the Bible House from the outside. All such letters are to 
 be answered kindly, helpfully, and as promptly as the process of 
 intelligently reading the mass will allow. But aside from this the 
 mail-carrier at any moment may lightly toss upon each Secretary’s 
 desk a letter which in ten lines raises questions that require days of 
 labor for mastery of their elements, or that demand clear interpreta¬ 
 tion of vague and confused details before the Board, and even before 
 the churches, on whose contributions the work of the Society depends. 
 
 The Call of Our Own Land 
 
 The hope of reaching a point where all the destitute in the United 
 States will at last be supplied with Bibles can never come true until 
 children cease to reach the Bible-reading age each year, and immi¬ 
 grants who never saw a Bible cease to land on our shores each week. 
 Ignorance of the first principles of right and duty is a fiood that 
 always threatens the land. The barriers against it raised by general 
 instruction in the Bible, can never be finished. Like Holland’s dykes 
 against the North Sea, these barriers must be added to, and strength¬ 
 ened, and extended every year, or catastrophe is certain. In our 
 cities, as well as in the farming regions; in the remote mountain dis¬ 
 tricts ; in the mining regions; in the forests of the lumbermen; on 
 the river steamers; along the canals and the coasts of the ocean; even 
 in the Sunday schools of our own neighborhood, are numbers who do 
 not have and do not read the Bible. Probably over fifteen millions 
 of people in these United States are living without the Bible, shaping 
 their lives by “unwritten law,” which makes for anarchy and ruin. 
 The duty of finding means of impressing this inert mass of people 
 ever weighs upon the minds of the Secretaries of the Society, 
 
 Lack of Money for the Work 
 
 A thorny element of the problem before the Bible Society is the 
 question of money to do work which ought to be done. The duty of 
 discrimination between degrees of need hampers every proposal for 
 supply of Bibles or of extension. A natural impulse is to grant every 
 request for books. But if this were done indiscriminately many 
 Bibles would be tossed aside with other acquisitions that cost nothing, 
 many would be sold for the price of a drink, and nearer districts 
 would be certain to get a larger proportion of Bibles, while those 
 more distant, however needy, would be left in disappointment, like 
 the cripple of Bethesda who always found someone else stepping 
 down into the pool before him at the moment of blessing. A perpet- 
 
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ual free distribution is impossible, and, if possible, might be foolish 
 waste. The rule followed by the Society is to fix prices at cost, so that 
 no one shall pay more than the cost of the books, to require payment 
 of cost where this is possible, to grant books at less than cost where 
 there is ability to pay something, and to give without cost where one 
 who really wants a Bible cannot raise the few cents needed to pay for 
 it. The lack of money may never prevent a Bible lover from possess¬ 
 ing a Bible. 
 
 Auxiliary Societies that Die 
 
 Auxiliary and other local Bible societies are doing a great work 
 in canvassing their own fields, to learn and supply needs. Any soci¬ 
 eties or individuals who order books to sell again, receive the help of 
 ten per cent discount from catalogue prices. Where it is necessary, 
 their work is further aided by the National Society. These facts open 
 another line of duties laid upon the Secretaries. Applications for 
 Scriptures from the field of one of the Auxiliary Societies are referred 
 to that society. But sometimes an applicant who is so referred re¬ 
 plies in an aggrieved tone; he feels that his need was mocked; he 
 cannot find the local auxiliary. It then comes to light that local 
 Bible societies sometimes lose vitality with age and die. For such 
 cases, the National Society has decided that where any auxiliary fails 
 during three successive years to report active operations, it must be 
 warned that without activity it cannot retain the name of a fellow- 
 laborer. It is the delicate duty of the Secretaries to convey this 
 warning in such a way as to quench no smoking flax, and at the same 
 time to end a situation which, if hopeless, is unendurable. After a 
 reasonable delay, if there is still no response, the Secretaries report 
 the fact to the Managers, and the name of the dead society is erased 
 from the list of auxiliaries. 
 
 The Burdens of the Foreign Field 
 
 The question of Bible circulation is more complicated abroad, if 
 possible, than at home. Numbers are enormous, distance is greater, 
 opportunities are insistent, and the language difficulty, with its steady 
 call for new translations, is only one of many discouraging hin¬ 
 drances. The danger is always present of waste of means by spending 
 money where it is not really needed; that is to say, in a field where 
 another Bible Society works well. A man comes full of enthusiasm 
 with a new version of the Bible which he has made, himself, in a 
 language of Africa, and he almost demands that the American Bible 
 Society shall publish his translation at once. The Secretaries’ knowl¬ 
 edge shows that the Scriptures have been translated already into that 
 same language, and have been published by another Bible Society. 
 Or another good man comes to the Bible House with a request for a 
 thousand Bibles, which he wishes to circulate in a missionary cam¬ 
 paign abroad. The Secretaries’ grasp on the whole situation, at home 
 
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and abroad, shows that tho place to which he wishes to carry the 
 Bibles is already ellicieiitly canvassed by agents of the British Bible 
 Society. Economy, as well as common Christian courtesy, must lead 
 the American Society to refuse both of these requests, referring the 
 men interested in them to the sister society. Only thus can the Sec¬ 
 retaries fulfill the trust committed to their charge, for endless waste 
 and confusion would result if Bible societies should disregard each 
 other. If the reader can bring the implications of such incidents of 
 daily experience within the field of his imagination, he can see that a 
 Secretary’s daily mail is not to be disposed of at a sitting, and his 
 day’s work is not compassed by the four walls of his office, nor lim¬ 
 ited by the click of his stenographer’s untiring writing machine; it 
 deals with a throng of the greatest interests of mankind in four con¬ 
 tinents. 
 
 Every day councils of the Secretaries and the Treasurer are made 
 necessary by some pleasing or distressing occurrence reported from 
 near or from far. Often a new phase of Bible circulation forces its 
 irrepressible demands or its difficulties upon the attention. These 
 the Secretaries carry in their minds wherever they go until new 
 plans are invented, ruminated in night-watches, prayed over 
 in the closet, meditated in railroad trains and at the office desk; 
 beaten into shape in conversation; discussed, analyzed, searched for 
 flaws, and given form in Committee and Board room; cautiously 
 tested in the field, with misgivings and with close watch for weak 
 spots that practical use alone can reveal. These crucial times of 
 advance and of new adaptation are the times that whiten a man’s 
 hair. For such momentous decisions shape a world-wide campaign 
 whose results constantly effect the extension of the Kingdom of 
 Christ and have issue beyond this life in eternity. 
 
 The Spiritual Influence of the Work 
 
 Nothing visibly distinguishes the commonplace drudgeries of the 
 manufacturing department, or of the Treasurer’s duties from those 
 of a business whose object is to increase profits and dividends. So, 
 too, little may visibly separate the daily work of the Secretaries in 
 the Bible House from the work of experts placed in charge of any 
 great enterprise. But the work done in the Bible House has special 
 and notable characteristics, some of which have been already sug¬ 
 gested. Its aim is to benefit mankind in a way that God has chosen. 
 Its support comes from the people at large who believe in this aim, 
 and whose throbbing hearts, full of love for the Bible and desire for 
 the Divine blessing on all engaged in circulating it, make themselves 
 felt through letters that daily flutter in upon the Bible House desks. 
 The money contributed to the work of the Society is the fruit of 
 self-denial, and is dedicated in prayer by thousands of Christians 
 from Maine to Alaska, from Dakota to Texas, from Turkey, China, 
 
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Japan, Mexico, South America, and many other lands. The expecta¬ 
 tion of the donors is that their dollars and dimes will have direct 
 result in advancing the Kingdom of Christ. Every cent received 
 by the Treasurer is a sacred trust, of which account has to be ren¬ 
 dered to God, as well as to the auditors who monthly examine ex¬ 
 penditures. The peculiarity of this feature of the work is, that these 
 gifts, sent in with touching words of consecration, stir spiritual life 
 and devotion in all connected with it; for all are fellow-workers 
 with an uncounted host of godly people, whose aim is to forward 
 the execution of God’s merciful purpose toward men. 
 
 Give Ye Them to Eit 
 
 The ever-pressing task before the Society then, is the same task 
 that worried the disciples as they looked at the hungry crowd on the 
 hills beyond Lake Tiberias. The Master’s word of instruction, “Give 
 ye them to eat,” always stands as the command to his followers, but 
 the Master’s intervention too is always sure to be repeated when 
 courage and resource seem about to fail. The empty treasury, with 
 which each year begins, always somehow furnishes provision, and 
 those who see this wonderful result of Divine interposition are made 
 strong in their faith with thanksgiving. The Christian’s single token 
 of success is some such positive crown of blessing bestowed upon the 
 work of his hands and his faith. And this task of the American 
 Bible Society is divinely appointed, divinely assisted, and daily di¬ 
 vinely crowned. 
 
 The Door of a Million Bibles 
 
 Thus we come back to the power that goes out of the old building, 
 
 of which we have been trying to 
 explain the place in the work of 
 Bible circulation. The door of the 
 shipping office at the Bible House, 
 by the side of the workmen’s en¬ 
 trance, performs a service which 
 makes it worthy of the attention 
 of angels. It has all the familiar 
 marks of doors of shipping offices 
 anywhere—battered side-posts, 
 polished iron shute, boxes on the 
 sidewalk, marked with names that 
 seem taken haphazard from a gazet¬ 
 teer ; rough-looking truckmen go¬ 
 ing in and out, and clerks check¬ 
 ing off lists. But every book that 
 goes out of that door is the fruit of faith and prayer. The prayerful 
 support of hundreds and thousands of Christians has made the work 
 possible, and the prayers of the Society, the officers and other work- 
 
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ers; prayers of consecration, prayers of entreaty for wisdom, and 
 prayers of humble acknowledgment, mark every stage of the work 
 which places Bibles among men whose path will thenceforth be 
 lighted. 
 
 This circumstance makes this humble door of the shipping office 
 a point of immeasurable importance, although no inscription calls 
 attention to the mighty influences which it sends forth. From that 
 door go out every year about a million volumes of Scriptures—Bibles, 
 Testaments, and portions. Each volume, because it contains the 
 gospel of a new life, carries with it the blessing and the promise of 
 the Most High, ‘^My word shall not return unto me void, but shall 
 prosper in that whereto I have sent it.” For this reason that narrow 
 doorway is a point of profound significance to the growth and well¬ 
 being of the United States and of many other lands. It were well 
 if all who pass by might know it as it is—the Door of a Million 
 Bibles. 
 
 THE SALESROOM 
 
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