Article August 25, 1962 ISSUE

Signs of the Times

Ralph E. Knudsen

Bible Society Record

The Rev. Dr. Ralph E. Knudsen Dean, Berkeley Baptist Divinity School in the American Bible Society Record New York, New York

Dr. Francis Stiller, the Society's former Editorial Secretary, in his well-known series of broadcasts on the Bible designated one of them "How Unread Is the Best-Seller?"...Millions of Bibles or parts of the Bible are sold annually in the United States, and year after year it is listed as the bestseller in this land of ever more books. That fact means very little unless this best-seller is read and studied. The mere possession of a Bible is not enough, since it can be found so often where men live or work.

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