"The Eternal City" Hall Caine

"A Voice in the Wilderness" Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

"The Thirteenth Commandment" Rupert Hughes

"The Hands of Esau" Margaret Deland

"A Certain Rich Man" William Allen White

"The Promised Land" Mary Antin

"Prince of the House of David" J. H. Ingraham

"The Far Country" Winston Churchill

"Unleavened Bread" Robert Grant

"Judas Iscariot" L. N. Andrew

"These Twain" Arnold Bennett

"The Good Shepherd" John Roland

"Prodigals and Sons" John Ayscough

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"The Lost Boy" Henry Van Dyke

"God's Remnants" Samuel Gordon

"The Foolish Virgin" Thomas Dixon

"The Heritage of Cain" Isabel Ostrander

"Behold the Woman" T. Everett Horre

"If Any Man Sin" H. A. Cody

"The Crown of Life" Gordon Arthur Smith

"The Clean Heart" A. S. M. Hutchinson

"The House of Bondage" Reginald Wright Kauffman

"The Mark of the Beast" Reginald Wright Kauffman

"The House of the Lord" J. E. Talmage

"Where the Laborers are Few" Margaret Deland

"The Old Adam" Arnold Bennett

(These are only a few of the many books that have drawn their
titles from the Bible.)

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THE BIBLE'S GIFT TO OUR LANGUAGE

How often in listening to a speaker or in reading our everyday
literature we find our imagination stirred by a forceful phrase taken
from the Bible. If we know the part of the Bible from which the phrase
comes it always throws a flood of light upon the message. But due to
ignorance of the Bible, too many of us grope for the phrase's
meaning.

Ignorance of the Bible a Handicap to the Student

In these days even high school and college graduates cannot explain
the simplest Bible allusions. Charles Dudley Warner, writing in
Harper's Magazine, says that a "boy or girl at college, in the
presence of the works set forth for either to master, without a fair
knowledge of the Bible, is an ignoramus, and is disadvantaged
accordingly. For example, in Shakespeare there are quotations from
fifty-four books of the Bible, thirty-one from Genesis alone; in
Tennyson there are two hundred and one quotations or allusions from
the Old Testament. Wholly apart from its religious or its ethical
value, the Bible