Watson´s Magazine, Vol. 24
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Excerpt from Watson´s Magazine, Vol. 24: April, 1917 We are told that the eagerness of the people to either read the Bible or to hear it read, was so great that sixteen editions were printed within three years, after the King had placed it where the people had access to it. Not many commoners had been to school, for there were no schools, except for the favored few; and therefore, in each church, might be seen a group of men and women listening intently while some reader gave voice to the Scripture. The priest at the altar, mumbling his Latin "mass," was neglected: the congregation hung upon the English words of the reader. Great was the rage of the clergy; the mob of middle-men who station themselves between Man and his Maker, were about to lose their reason-for-existence. Of course, they were furious; and of course they set themselves to work, most vigorously, to preserve their self-assumed brokerage - the enormously lucrative and powerful office of transacting all the affairs between the natural and the supernatural; not allowing the layman to approach his God, face to face; pray to Him, heart to heart; or beg His forgiveness, creature of Creator. They first wrung from the King a proclamation forbidding the reading of the Bible "with a loud voice," and forbidding comment upon the text. The reader must use a low voice, and if the narrative, parable, or sermon in the Book filled him with exalted thoughts, he must not express them! Read the Sermon on the Mount, but do not moralize upon it, for the text is not in harmony with the social life of Christians. Read the terrible denunciations of unjust judges, tyrannical kings, corrupt priests, and ravenous Pharisees, but maintain silence, because the text might excite condemnation of persons and things as the little audience know them to be. Read the Ten Commandments, but stand mute, because every one of them are being violated in Church and State, and nowhere more plainly than within the cathedral itself, where the graven images of wood, clay, stone, and marble made in contempt of the Decalogue - are bowed down to and adored, in spite of common sense and the plain forbiddance of Holy Writ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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