Mr. Beecher And The Bible

The Kev. ienry w ara JJeecner, oefore comniencing his sermón recently, made an explanation whioh he requested the newsparer reporters present to specially note. A few weeks ago he stated in his sermón thatrighteousness was the central theme of the Gospel, and, that as farasherecolleeted the word "religión" was not in the Biblo. Hehadn't got out of thechurch when a good brother told him whero it was to be Jound in James, and at the evening service he corrected the mistake into which lio hafl fallen. Now he spoke of it again to stop the letters which were continually coming to him about the matter. Something less than a million had arrived. They began to come the next day, and the circle had kept on widening, and now had reached the región of Iowa, and he supposed would spread to California. He didn't know that so many people read the Bible. One newspaper had said thathe hadn't lost his watch, but had lost his Bible. The fact was that he did lose his watch and not his Bible. The word "religión" oceurred five times in tlia New Testament and not once in tl'. When he made an error bc was peady tq confesa it - Brooklyn Union