Excerpt from The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon People IN this little book an attempt is made to trace, in outline, the history of Bible translation from its small beginnings among the earliest English people to its splendid accomplishment in the Authorized Version, to indicate the cost in human life and suffering at which it has been bought and preserved, and to suggest rather than to describe the place which the Word of God in the vernacular - however rude or fragmentary the form - has always taken in the life of the people of these islands.

The Latin verses which follow, and of which I have given a rough translation as the motto for this sketch, were found written in an eighteenth-century hand in a copy of the Book of Common Prayer (thomas Parsell's Latin version, edition They are placed here as still more appropriate in their tenderness and beauty to the common fountain of our prayer and praise.

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