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"This world wasn’t made for you or me or even for the U.S.A., but for those who are able to handle themselves well, and respect the reasonable rights of others."
I wish I had written that. But, as a friend once suggested, tactfully: "In teaching English composition in school, I guess they neglected to tell us that before you can write anything worth printing, you must first find an idea.” •
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In this day of “The world is too much with us,” in its superlative degree, an item falls occasionally that spurs one on to know that the times are not all bad.
We read, with fascination, .of a great story of how he achieved some outstanding work. That’s usually in history. But a genuine sense of welldoing prevades the soul when we hear of one of our fellow present-day workers doing a masterpiece in his particular line of work.
If you think that too much of man’s work today is just routine and nothing of real value is being achieved, read the story of the few men who printed the Great Lectern Bible at the beginning of the 1930's.
A Lectern Bible is one designed to be read by the clergyman before his congregation. It is permanently lodged on the lecture. It is heavy and of a page size greater than most book printers have occasion to create.
The Oxford University Press was
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