Bibles to Military, endorsed by Generals & Presidents

American Minute ^ | October 4, 2019 | Bill Federer

[Perseverando]

During England's Civil War, in 1643, Oliver Cromwell gave out The Soldier's Pocket-Bible.

The American Bible Society, founded in 1816, supplied Bibles to sailors on the frigate USS John Adams in 1817.

The American Bible Society gave Bibles to Pony Express riders, 1858-1861.

During America's Civil War, 1861-1865, the American Bible Society gave Bibles to both sides, as did the Protestant Episcopal Church which distributed Army and Navy Prayer books.

As soldiers carried the small Bible in their shirt pocket, there are numerous instances where the Bible saved a soldier's life by stopping a bullet.

A Soldier's Prayer Book, 1861, contained the prayers:

"Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally, by thy mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

During World War I, the thousands of American soldiers heading to France and Belgium were given pocket Bibles with the forward written by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917:

"The Bible is the Word of Life.

I beg that you will read it and find this out for yourselves, -read, not little snatches here and there, but long passages that will really be the road to the heart of it.

You will find it full of real men and women not only, but also of the things you have wondered about and been troubled about all your life, as men have been always;

and the more you read the more it will become plain to you what things are worth while and what are not, what things make men happy,-loyalty, right dealing, speaking the truth, readiness to

[Perseverando]

Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I have a couple of these fro WW II.

[pfflier]

My dad gave me his pocket bible and Lutheran medallion from WWII and Korea. It served me in my service through three separate conflicts from 1971 through 1995.

Maybe I didn't open it as much as he did but when I needed it, it was always there.

[WKUHilltopper]

4 later

[SkyPilot]

Obama ordered that Bibles in Afghanistan be burned.

[Midwesterner53]

I carried a Gideon’s New Testament bible in my shirt pocket every time I jumped out of an airplane in the Army. I figured there should be some common sense somewhere around me.

[Hoffer Rand]

I’m helping my parents clear out their house and sort through tons of family history and keepsakes. We’ve found pocket Bibles from WWI and WWII.

[sauropod]

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[Albion Wilde]

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