[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 38 (Monday, March 14, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H1781]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1910
                  THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, in the days of merry old England, King 
James commissioned the translation of the Bible into English. He made 
it possible for the common man to have access to the Scriptures. This 
is the 400-year anniversary of the 1611 translation of the King James 
Version of the Bible. Explorers and then Christians seeking religious 
freedom carried the King James version to the New World. Millions of 
American school kids used the King James for decades as a basis for 
learning English. Pioneers carried it in covered wagons while taming 
the West. In some families, the only book they had was the King James 
Bible. U.S. military took pocket copies of the version in both World 
Wars. And hundreds of courtrooms use the Bible to swear in witnesses. 
Presidents still place their hand on a King James Bible at their 
inauguration. For 400 years, the King James Bible has made it possible 
for the Judeo-Christian beliefs of the Good Book to be read and studied 
in the English language.
  And that's just the way it is.

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