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FIRST PRINTED ENGLISH BIBLE

  THE ARTICLE IS THE EXCERPT FROM THIS BOOK 1. GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS.- SEPTEMBER 1902. THE ARTICLE IS PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THE WEBSITE- GOOGLE BOOKS- SAME ORTHOGRAPHY. BY LAURA M. LATIMER  One Christmas day many years ago five merchants were unloading their goods in London. Now and then they cast quick glances up and down the street. They seemed anxious and troubled as though they feared some unseen danger. It was the time when the city puts on her holiday dress; the season for festivals, and Christmas gayeties. But London was not gay. The five merchants stopped their work, and marveled at the stillness of the great city. They questioned the passers by, and they learned that a dreadful pestilence was sweeping through London.The King had fied from his palace. The court had suspended its sittings, for the judges and officers of justice had fled also. As the men were relating to them the horrors of the scourge, and they saw the death carts, filling the streets the look of ...