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Why
Bring the Bible
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tnto
THAT?
1
REMEMBER
the first article
1
ever read in
The Plain
Truth.
It
was back in
1959.
The magazine had been
coming to our house for severa!
months, but I had not taken
much notice of it. Then one
evening my mother or someone
left a copy lying open at an
article about space travel-a
subject 1 was becoming inter–
ested in.
1
started reading casually, then
with more interest. Just when 1 was
starting to think that maybe there
might be something to this
Plain
Truth
magazine after all, the
writer ruined everything . He
quoted the Bible. That did it!
1 looked through the rest of the
issue. Sure enough, there were
severa! interesting articles, but
they
al/
ended up quoting scrip–
tures. Why? What did the Bible
have to do with the space race,
the decline of the British Empire
or a crisis in· Berlin? 1 found it
very irritating.
The Plain Truth
was otherwise a potentially inter–
~sting
magazine.
Now, 26 years later, J'm doing
the same thing to others. Do you
sometimes feel like I did? Do the
scriptures in
The Plain Truth
annoy you? Do you ever put down
November/ Oecember 1985
by
John Halford
this magazine with exasperation
and ask, Can ' t they write
anything
without rounding it off with a quo–
tation from the Psalms, the prophet
Ezekiel or the gospel according to
Luke? Why does
The Plain
Truth
keep "bringing the Bible
into that"?
A Point of View
Every major magazine has a point
of view. Each sees the
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