William Marshall Quotes
Unless timely care be used to prevent it we shall not have bibles for our Schools, & families, & for the publick Worship of God in our Churches. We therefore, think it our Duty to our Country & to the Churches of Christ to lay this design before this honourable house, humbly requesting that under your care, & by your encouragement, a Copy of the holy Bible may be printed, so as to be sold nearly as cheap as the Common Bibles, formerly imported from Britain & Ireland
One of the “crises” created by the American Revolution was the cutoff of imported Bibles. The ministers petitioned Congress for a subsidized printing of the Bible. The petition was referred to a committee which included John Adams. The committee recommended against the subsidized printing idea, but did recommend that 20,000 English language Protestant Bibles be imported from Holland. However, just as the recommendation was made, the Continental Congress had to flee Philadelphia to escape the oncoming British. When Congress finally met again, the Bible issue got lost among other important problems resulting in an American Bible shortage which the young nation survived. It was not until 1782 that the first Bibles were printed in America.
William Marshall, 1740-1802, John Ewing, 1732-1802, Francis Alison, 1705-1779, Philadelphia Presbyterian Clergymen, Petition submitted to the Continental Congress, July 1777.
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