1. Myers Park Pulpit Bible The first Pulpit Bible of Myers Park Methodist Church was a gift to the Church from Mrs. Ella Rozzelle, mother of the first Pastor, the Reverend Excelle Rozzelle. The Bible was given to the Church in 1925.

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The Myers Park United Methodist Church Library Ministry Team and its patrons will be sponsoring several events and activities to celebrate National Bible Month in November. Goodness Gracious! Gifts will carry a large assortment of bible translations and biblical study resources For you to peruse and purchase. An exhibit entitled “Bibles With a Story,” will display a variety of unique and unusual bibles including a 1599 Breeches Bible and one from the Civil War era. This exhibit will be in Room 213, just outside Jubilee Hall in the Parish Life Building. A four-week course, How We Got Our B/h/c, will be offered on Thursdays during November at both 11:00 am. and 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Life Building. November 2: Session I - Discerning What is Scripture; November 9: Session 2 - Jerome and the Latin Vulgate; November 16: Session 3 - John Wycliffe; November 30: Session 4 - The King James Bible and Modern Translations

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donRedding > 1. Myers Park Pulpit Bible

The first Pulpit Bible of Myers Park Methodist Church was a gift to the Church from Mrs. Ella Rozzelle, mother of the first Pastor, the Reverend Excelle Rozzelle. The Bible was given to the Church in 1925.

donRedding > 2. Pulpit Bible (1955)

This Pulpit Bible was given to Myers Park Methodist Church in memory of Mrs. John Delaney by her sons. The Bible, which was bound in sealskin, was given in 1955.

donRedding > 3. Pulpit Bible (l960)

Walter Ball, former organist and choir director of Myers Park Methodist Church, presented this Pulpit Bible to the Church about 1960. It was given in memory of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Walter C. Ball. It will be go to the conservator after this exhibit.

donRedding > 4. 1599 “Breeches” Bible--Ellen Chason

My great grandfather, William Hutto, was an itinerant preacher in South Carolina and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and other circuit riders needed a Bible small enough to carry on horseback.
Until the Geneva Bible was published in 1560 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Bible was referred to as the “Great Book,” and it was often as big as 12” X 18” X 6” thick. The Geneva Bible was small enough (about 6” X 9”) and light enough to be carried from place to place easily, and it was popular with Protestants even after the publication of the King James version in 1611. Mine is dated 1599.
The Geneva Bible was also called the “Breeches” Bible. The King James version says about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: “. . .and their eyes were opened and they saw they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves APRONS.” The Geneva Bible says “. . . and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves BREECHES.”
My Geneva Bible is 407 years old, in good condition, and very rare.
husband, a Civil War veteran and U.S. Marshal. She and her fourteen children probably spent many lonely nights while her husband tried to maintain order in parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
The Bible contains Memory Cards that were to be handed out in Sunday School. The fourteenth chapter of John was read from this Bible at Mary Jane’s funeral.

1. Myers Park Pulpit Bible

The first Pulpit Bible of Myers Park Methodist Church was a gift to the Church from Mrs. Ella Rozzelle, mother of the first Pastor, the Reverend Excelle Rozzelle. The Bible was given to the Church in 1925.