...the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and that book...the Bible. It was as yet the one English book which wu familiar to every Englishman ; it was read at churches and read at home, and everywhere its words,...

...the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and that book...as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. . . . The power of the book over the mass...

...graphic writer of modern date, " England*became the people of a book and that book was the Bible." tt was as yet the one English book which was familiar...as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six...

...the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. It was as f« the one English book which was familiar to every Englishman ; it •is read at churches and read...

...the years which parted thu middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and that book...Englishman ; it was read at churches and read at home, and every where its words, as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty,...

...times, too, fraught with grand issues. It was the perplexed and chequered but yet great Puritan era. " England became the people of a book ; and that book...as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm."! And the study of that one book made General...

...of the people at large. The Bible was as yet the one book which was familiar to every Englishman ; and everywhere its words, as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. The whole moral effect which is produced...

...even more than the Bible was among the Puritans of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when " England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible."3 "The power of the book over the mass of Englishmen shewed itself in a thousand superficial...

...supremacy attained by the Bible. Says an eloquent and graphic writer of modern date, " England*became the people of a book and that book was the Bible."...as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six...

...thronged daily by crowds listening to the Word of God. Its influence permeated the whole of society. "Everywhere its words as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm." The masses ignorant, degraded, whom the...