Missionary Bible and Bom From 1970s

[caspianrex]

Yesterday, I acquired a neat little addition to my library: a Bible and a Triple Combo (Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price), missionary editions from the late 1970s (just before the Standard Works were published in a "new" format).

They are both thumb-indexed editions in a white zipper-case. The Bible had a little slip of paper inside it, printed with these words:

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This is your missionary Bible. Day by day, over the years, it will go with you and be your guide, your strength, your courage, and your wisdom.

What is in the Bible commands your respect and your devotion. So the physical book itself must command care from your hands.

Given proper care this Bible will last a lifetime. It should not, of course, be allowed to get damp, nor should it be subjected to too much heat. Never put a Bible down on a steam radiator.

It is most important with a new Bible to get the backbone supple by gentle opening. Take your new Bible and place it closed with the backbone flat ona table. Now open the two covers and gently run your fingers down the part where they join the pages. Now take twenty or thirty pages from the front of the book and the back and again run your fingers down the inside edge of the pages. Continue to take twenty or thirty pages more from each end until you reach the middle of the book.

Never, NEVER wrench a Bible open forcibly, especially when it is new. This will break the back of the book.

 

The Bible also has a section in the middle, between Old and New Testaments, called Ready References, a handy little guide for the missionaries on a variety of topics. There is a Bible Dictionary, that was extensively adapted when the church published its own KJV in 1979. This edition also says on its title page that it is specially bound for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and distributed by the Deseret Book Company. (I believe the edition was actually printed by the Cambridge University Press, which would later print the Church's edition of the KJV.)

Both books are in excellent condition, so I'm quite happy with this addition to my library!

[Tacenda]

We gave my mom one of these white triple combinations for her birthday in the late 70's, the siblings/spouses. And each wrote a message in the front blank pages, I'll have to go take a look and see if it's the same. Looks just like this one.