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  Speaker 1: Preface of the History of the English Bible. This is
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Miriann Spiegel. The History of the English Bible
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  Speaker 1: by John Brown preface. The celebration of the trecenary of
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  Speaker 1: the Authorized Version of the English Bible of sixteen eleven
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  Speaker 1: has called into existence the little Book here presented to
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  Speaker 1: the reader's notice. It is the brief repetition of a
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  Speaker 1: story beginning in six seventy a d. And reaching on
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  Speaker 1: for twelve hundred years to eighteen seventy. It takes us
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  Speaker 1: back to the Monastery of Whitby, where Cadman the Monk
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  Speaker 1: paraphrase scripture story in Saxon's Song, and brings us through
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  Speaker 1: the sentries to the Abbey of Westminster, where a distinguished
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  Speaker 1: body of English scholars met in eighteen seventy and commenced
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  Speaker 1: that revision of scripture which first saw the light in
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  Speaker 1: eighteen eighty one. The history of the English Bible, like
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  Speaker 1: the records of Bunyan's House, Buy Beautiful, is the history
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  Speaker 1: of many famous things, as of things both ancient and modern.
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  Speaker 1: It is a tale of devoted service rendered often by
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  Speaker 1: men in loneliness and exile, of faithfulness even to martyrdom
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  Speaker 1: and death on the part of those who counted not
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  Speaker 1: their lives dear unto them, if only they could serve
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  Speaker 1: the great cause of spiritual enlightenment. It tells of great
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  Speaker 1: gifts of mind and great attainments in scholarship, consecrated to
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  Speaker 1: the sacred cause of truth and the elevation of mankind.
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  Speaker 1: It will be found that our greatest book has a
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  Speaker 1: great history of its own, apart from the nature of
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  Speaker 1: its contents. It is not too much to say that
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  Speaker 1: to the men who have rendered such high service to
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  Speaker 1: the English speaking people here at home and in our
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  Speaker 1: wide speaking empire abroad, we owe it that their memory
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  Speaker 1: shall not perish, or their names be forgotten. J. B. Hempstead,
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  Speaker 1: eleventh of March nineteen eleven, and of preface