# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S606
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

606 PUBLICATION MATTERS

“What do You want us to do?” God wants us to help our people
and to give them a Bible translation which, is —

- 1) accurate (John 8:32);
2) in the people’s language (Acts 2:6-8; 1 Cor. 14:9).
This is clear. This is a Positive program. Let us, then, in God’s
name, go ahead and do it.
Our people want such an aggressive program. One of our men
presented to a large gathering of Sunday ‘school teachers a long

the same Passages were given in the simple English of Pastor W.

AV RSV Beck's
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pressed in letters urging and demanding that this New Testament
—and the Old Testament — printed as soon as Possible. These
letters speak of this translation as “g delight,” “wonderful,”
“a swell job,” “far better than the RSV” (29 different pastors make
that statement in individual letters); “it is by far the best”;
“I LOVE IT”; “] have found the language most fascinating”; “the
best news that has come to us for a long time”; “the gladdest
announcement that ever came from the Publishing House”; “the
sooner the better”; “what are we waiting for?”

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