Copyright of Our Authorized Bible Vindicated

On occasion I have run across statements online that Our Authorized Bible Vindicated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson was only copyrighted in England, but not in the United States.[i] This is not correct. It was copyrighted in England and the United States. I expect this may be a misreading of the copyright page of the original book.

1930 copyright page (Photo courtesy and by permission of Matthew Rose)

Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 1, Books
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1931, page 975

---

[i] When I looked back to find and cite such a comment, I did not find anything. Perhaps this is just a comment I have heard made in discussion forums and groups rather than in print.

Advertisements

"BIBLE BELIEVING." This is easy to say, hard to practice. We almost laugh when we see this on numerous church signs. No one ever says, "Here, we DO NOT believe the Bible." That would be too blatant. We had rather craftily say that we do believe it. But, again, is not this false advertising? Does a church have to say that it believes the Bible? Come on. True church = Bible believing! Don't we prove this by what we teach and how we live? Ever seen any restaurant advertise that they have "Bad Food Here"? They may indeed have such, but they always advertise, "Good Food Here." The truthfulness of the statement is only in the eating! So it is with a church. Labels and names mean absolutely nothing. The proof is in the teaching, experience, and practice of the Christian people themselves, not in any thing they advertise. See I John 2:3-6 for "proofs" of true Christian love and character. -- From Deception AKA False Advertisements, by W. F. Bell (October 13, 2006)