Excerpt from Forty-Third Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Bible Society: Read Before the Society, May 7th, 1851

This was followed by a translation, by the same author, of the Genevan Bible m 1560.

Upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the throne of her father, the four principal prisoners, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, were released from their long and perilous confinement, and made their public appearance in the Bishop's Bible, under the patronage of the Queen, in 1568. This Bible was trans lated by several of the most learned English prelates. Here we find again Divine truth flowing like a broad and deep river to fertilize the plains of old England once more. During this reign, from the year 1560 to 1603, there were one hundred and thirty distinct issues of the Bibles and Testaments, - the stream of truth, like a great river, widening and deepening as it rolled on, until finally we arrive at that point in the history of Bible translation when God so overruled the affairs of nations as to direct the mind of King James I. To promote a new trans lation of the Sacred Scriptures. In 1604 was the mind of this Prince directed to this great enterprise; in 1611 that noble folio issued from the press, forty-seven of the most learned men in Great Britain having been studiously engaged in the work. This' is the version we now distribute a version which has stood the test of time, and received the repeated and accu mulated commendations of the learned; and it is to be doubted if ever there was a period in the history Of Christendom, either before or since the time of the translation of the Word of God, that there could be found such a body of talent and learning, so peculiarly fitted for this work, as was then engaged upon it. It has proved a translation which we believe will be the common platform upon which all Christian denominations will eventually stand, although for a time, from mistaken notions, some may seek another.

The spreading of this Bible, thus given us in the providence of Almighty God, is our work; and we rejoice that the past year has been one of peculiar prosperity to the Bible cause.

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