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Fun Fact: Communion Tokens!

February 29, 2012

Did you know that the Society has one of the largest collections of communion tokens in the world?

We hold thousands of communion tokens from the United States, Scotland, Ireland, and other European countries. Communion tokens originated with John Calvin and were used by worshipers in the Reformed faith beginning around 1560. The token system addressed early church irregularities regarding who could observe the Lord's Supper. Without a token, a person would not be admitted to the Lord’s Supper. The church elders typically collected the tokens using small wooden trays....

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Foundations of the Faith, American History

Celebrating 400 Years of the King James Bible

October 27, 2011

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the printing of the King James Bible, also known as the King James Version or the Authorized Version. Six teams of scholars labored to produce the translation from 1604 to 1611 under the auspices of King James I of England.

American scholar John Livingston Lowes called the translation the “noblest monument of English prose” for the tremendous influence it exerted on English literary style from the seventeenth century onward.

The Society holds two early folio editions of the 1611 King James Bible, also known as the “He...

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Henry McCook, Rare Books, Foundations of the Faith

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