This week, in its own handsome six-story office building on Manhattan's Park Avenue, a publishing house with only one book on its list holds its annual meeting. The meeting celebrates an important milestone for the organization it is the 135th anniversary of the American Bible Society.
On May 8, 1816, a number of Christian leaders met in Manhattan's Garden Street Dutch Reformed Church to discuss the country's need for Bibles. Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was among them; so was Preacher Lyman Beecher. Then & there, the American Bible Society was founded. Elias Boudinot of New Jersey, a onetime president of the...
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