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series of dramatized blood-and-thunder stories of certain Biblical
incidents. There was no connection between one and another, or
with the Gospel. They were shorn of their real meaning. They
seemed to me to degrade the Bible in children's minds to the
level of nursery myths like Jack killing the giant by cutting down
the beanstalk. Their REAL CONNECTION with the very PURPOSE of life
-- of God's message to mankind -- was ignored.
Yet I knew all these incidents had real and deep MEANING.
They teach vital lessons.
Children NEED, as they need life itself, an awareness of
the basic TRUTHS of the Bible as they are growing up! If only we
could get to them a knowledge of God -- of the Creator and His vast
creation -- of His authority and rulership over all He created --
of the basic knowledge of the very PURPOSE of humans being alive --
of the vital connection between these Biblical incidents and the
meaning of LIFE -- that is what children NEED!
God supplied the man for this important undertaking.
Basil Wolverton is a nationally-known artist in the United States.
His work has appeared in more than 50 national magazines. He is a
student of the Bible.
So, The Bible Story started, serially, in the November,
1958, issue of The PLAIN TRUTH. It is definitely NOT a series of
disconnected stories of violence. It is just what it's title
implies -- the STORY OF THE BIBLE, starting with Genesis 1:1 the
account of the CREATION.
Actually, it is NOT for children only. We like to say it
is written for children from 5 to 105. In language understandable
by children from 8 or 9 to 12 -- plain and simple language -- yet
language adults will enjoy reading too -- it begins at the
beginning, and tells, interestingly, the story told in the Bible
itself.
Did you know a continuous story thread runs through the
whole Bible? Mr. Wolverton, with the expertness of a professional
writer and artist, puts this plain, simple, but THRILLING story in
plain and simple words. Parents can read this to a four or five-
year-old, and with a little explaining, make it interesting,
absorbing, and perfectly UNDERSTANDABLE.
Mr. Wolverton has stuck tenaciously to the literal
Biblical account. Nowhere is the real true meaning altered or
changed. Where it has been felt necessary, he has taken author's
license to portray certain sequences in conversational style, or to
add a few natural and obvious little incidentals for clarity and
realism -- but without "adding to or detracting from" the real
meaning of the Scriptures.
And so I am truly PLEASED to be able, now, to offer you,
FREE, your copy of VOLUME THREE.
I am writing this letter from my office in the college in
England. I will telegraph the Pasadena office to order this HUGE