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J t was during his first term as president that Thomas Jefferson con ceived the idea of making a scrapbook contining the life and words of Jesus as they are recorded in the four gospels and in chronological order. He cut the passages he wanted from two or three Bibles and pasted them in his hook. A year or so later he added parallel columns of the passages in French, Greek and Latin, and bound the 160-odd pages in morocco, titling it The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. In 1895 the U. S. Government bought the book from the heirs and it is now in the National Museum in Washington. In 1904 the 57th Congress had a limited number printed for \ distribution among its own members. Since then it has occasionally been printed by pub lishers for sale to the public. The book is known as the Jefferson Bible. Jefferson said of it, in a letter to a friend, “ A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen: it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.” But Jefferson was careful to leave out everything that is miraculous or supernatural! His book contains all the parables but no miracles. The Sermon on the Mount is there, but not a word of Christ’s con versation with Nicodemus. The 14th chapter of John, the farewell address and the great prayer of intercession are missing. How can we "have a Bible without John 3:16? It is probably the grandest verse in all literature, yet Jefferson left it out. The arrest, trial, crucifixion, death and burial of Jesus are all there in his little book, but it was the death and burial of only a victim of a miscarriage of justice. Jefferson’s Bible closes with this sentence: “ There they laid Jesus; and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed.” There are no visits of the women to the tomb, no meeting with the two men on the road to Emmaus, no showing of scars to the doubting Thom as, no resurrection, no ascension, no coming again and no salvation. Edmond de Pressense, noted French Protestant clergyman of the 19th century, had this to say of the resurrection, “ The empty tomb of Christ has been the cradle of the church, and if in this foundation of her faith the church has been mistaken, she must needs lay herself down by the side of the mortal remains, I say, not of a man, but of a religion.” Jefferson took the foundation of the church and the way of eternal life out of his Bible. And all he had left was a “ precious morsel of ethics.” “ And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept” (1 Cor. 15:17-20). —Ernest H. Goff
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