When he was growing up, there were just "three books" in his house: "the family Bible and two others," as well as the first eleven pages of "Robinson Crusoe," which Ammons said he memorized.
Several students said they had to fight fears of rejection or ridicule when they first proposed an in-house Bible group.
Embracing the fact that most of the people it features look more like elderly architects than pop stars, the magazine has started presenting them in huge spacious exterior frames, whose elegant compositional structure recalls architects' house-bible Blueprint.
There was no Jesus in that house, no Bible, no devotional materials of any kind, no crucifixes or homiletic asides, nothing.
The church housed a Bible school and broadcast its services through a television ministry.
Ms. Berrigan and her two siblings grew up in Jonah House, reading the Bible at night (as well as Dickens and Shakespeare).
Visit to the Bible House at Fourth Avenue and Astor Place the first office building in New York that covered a whole block.
He does a thriving business in nothing… Visit to the Bible House at Fourth Avenue and Astor Place the first office building in New York that covered a whole block.
The New Yorker, December 12 , 1931 P. 13Visit to the Bible House at Fourth Avenue and Astor Place the first office building in New York that covered a whole block.
By Alexander Sandow and James Thurber The New Yorker, December 12 , 1931 P. 13Visit to the Bible House at Fourth Avenue and Astor Place the first office building in New York that covered a whole block.
By this time Bible House and the Mercantile Library had attracted publishers to Astor Place, among them Thomas Crowell and John Wiley in the Mercantile Library building and Isaac Funk and Adam Wagnalls in 10-20 Astor Place.
