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William created the first four readers and Alexander McGuffey created the fifth and sixth reader. [1] [2] [3] About 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. [4] Since 1961, they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. [4]
Page from the 11th century "Bamberg Apocalypse", Gospel lectionary.Large decorated initial "C". Text from Matthew 1:18–21 [1] (Bamberg State Library, Msc.Bibl.140).. A lectionary (Latin: lectionarium) is a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.
William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was an American college professor and president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary school-level textbooks.
As in its predecessors, readings are prescribed for each Sunday: a passage typically from the Old Testament (including in Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican churches those books sometimes referred to as the Apocrypha or deuterocanonical books), or the Acts of the Apostles; a passage from one of the Psalms; another from either the Epistles or the ...
The Bible Companion is a Bible reading plan developed by Robert Roberts when he was 14 years of age, in about 1853, [1] and revised by him over a number of years into its current format. [2] It is widely used by Christadelphians, who place particular importance on personal daily Bible reading. Many Christadelphian congregations read one or more ...
The Revised Version (RV) or English Revised Version (ERV) of the Bible is a late-19th-century British revision of the King James Version. It was the first (and remains the only) officially authorised and recognised revision of the King James Version in Great Britain. The work was entrusted to over 50 scholars from various denominations in Great ...
William wrote the first four readers, and was believed to have had assistance from Alexander McGuffey, who wrote the Fifth and Sixth Reader. [4] [1] [5] He entered into a contract with W. B. Smith on September 30, 1841 to create a rhetorical reading book. The McGuffey’s Rhetorical Guide or Fifth Reader of the Eclectic Series was published in ...