Stuart Bell on Churchill’s Bible studies:
Sir Patrick Cormack (South Staffordshire) (Con): If these particular splendid words are to endure for ever, would it not be a very good idea to ensure that every child attending a Church of England school was given a copy, not of a green Bible, but of the King James Bible, to commemorate the anniversary?
Sir Stuart Bell: That is an interesting suggestion. May I divert the House briefly, Mr. Speaker? Mr. Randolph Churchill’s mouth could never be kept closed, so, during the war, to keep him quiet for a while, he was bet a couple of crates of brandy that he could not read the authorised version of the Bible from cover to cover.
Even Randolph Churchill failed in that task; he lost his bet. I would be happy for schoolchildren to have a copy of the authorised version, but I would not recommend that they tried to read it from cover to cover.
Quiet at the back…
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Actually there are some interesting bits in the Bible which rarely make it out into the world; things like the list of people who rebuilt Jerusalem.
This was, in historical terms, an event of great importance, but it reads like the stuff about sponsors at the back of a theatre programme…
October 10th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Frist - ha!