If a man hauls
down the American flag, we shoot him on the spot; and now we suggest that
if any man mutilates the Bible, we run an umbrella into him and spread it.
The old Bible just filled the bill, and we hope every new one that is
printed will lay on the shelves and get sour. This revision of the Bible
is believed to be the work of an incendiary. It is a scheme got
up by British book publishers to make money out of pious people. It is on
the same principle that speculators get up a corner on pork or wheat. They
got revision, and printed Bibles enough to supply the world, and would not
let out one for love or money. None were genuine unless the name of this
British firm was blown in the bottle.
Millions of Bibles were shipped to this country by the firm that was
"long" on Bibles, and they were to be thrown on the market suddenly, after
being locked up and guarded by the police until the people were made
hungry for Bibles.
The edition was advertised like a circus, and doors were to be opened at
six o'clock in the morning. American publishers who wanted to publish the
Bible, too, got compositors ready to rush out a cheap Bible within twelve
hours, and the Britons, who were running the corner on the Word of God,
called these American publishers pirates. The idea of men being pirates
for printing a Bible, which should be as free as salvation.
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