Article July 25, 1942 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: The Bible

with contributions from John H. K. Miller, Charles S. Ryckman, Lester Westerberg

[Charles S. Ryckman, in the News-Post, Baltimore, Maryland]

The Bible, according to Lord Macaulay, is "a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

It is the sort of literature which more completely than all the other literature of the ages meets Macaulay's definition of good literature in that it "consoles sorrow or assuages pain," and "brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears...."

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