Slide set: Where is the Bible? (story: Bamforth & Co., 29 slides, 1901)

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There, covered in dust she finds the old Bible

Slide 5

Down at the bottom there is a large family Bible

Slide 6

She brought down a large book that was sewn all round in green baize

Slide 7

'Do you know what St Paul told the people to pray for?'

Slide 8

A traveller walked along the highway, parched, dusty, tired

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The woman brought the traveller a cup of water

Slide 10

'He said that there was a great treasure here if we could only find it'

Slide 11

Her hand stopped for a moment with the knife half way through the loaf

Slide 12

When children and husband were in bed she searched

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The husband came home for dinner but found no signs of any

Slide 14

Dick went to the taproom and explained to the landlady

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She fell, bringing down the shelf and all that was on it

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Sitting there, her thoughts began to wander

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She saw again the little cottage, neat and clean

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Dick found the supper waiting and his wife clean and tidy

Slide 21

When they had all gone to bed she read the Bible

Slide 22

Dick was more and more astonished at the change in her

Slide 23

There she knelt with the open book before her

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He turned to the cover and then looked at page after page

Slide 25

For some time she sat in silence, Dick watching her curiously

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She opened the book. 'Look at what it says here,' she began

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By God's help I will be a different woman

Slide 28

Dick and his wife read the Bible together for the first time

Slide 29

'Search the scriptures, for these are they which testify of Me'

Catalogue entries (6)

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 257

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 6

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 453

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 254

1912

Wood's catalogue of over 200,000 slides, optical lanterns etc.: 1912-13, sixty-seventh issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1912), 361

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 271

Lucerna ID 3001525

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 17 March 2024

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Slide set: Where is the Bible? (story: Bamforth & Co., 29 slides, 1901)