| The Other Wise Man | The Sign in the Sky By the Waters of Babylon |
| THE BIBLE STORY | The Wise Men, [41 L.J.] |
| The Other Wise Man | For the Sake of a Little Child |
| THE BIBLE STORY | A Journey to the Land of the Pharaohs, [45 L.J.] |
| The Other Wise Man | In the Hidden Way of Sorrow |
| THE BIBLE STORY | The Crucifixion, [281 L.J.] |
| The Other Wise Man | A Pearl of Great Price |
Book Titles Taken from the Bible
The fact that many books of every style and content bear names taken from the Bible and develop themes suggested by the Bible is a tribute to the beauty and picturesqueness of Bible diction and indicates the extensive scope of its writings. What would you expect the theme of each of the following books to be, judging by the thought which the titles suggest?
| "The Inside of the Cup" | Winston Churchill |
| "The Fruit of the Tree" | Edith Wharton |
| "All the Days of My Life" | Margaret Sangster |
| "From My Youth Up" | Amelia Barr |
| "Titus" | Florence Morse Kingsley |
| "Following the Star" | Florence Barclay |
| "Barabbas" | Marie Corelli |
| "The Yoke" | Elizabeth Miller |
| "The Wages of Sin" | M. S. Harrison |
| "The Sins of the Father" | Bertha M. Clay |
| "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.)
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 is the one book of which no intelligent person, who wishes to come into contact with the world of thought, and to share the ideas of the great minds of the Christian era, can afford to be ignorant."