What Do You Do with your Old Sunday School Manuals?

The Acts and the Epistles...The New Testament by Russel B. Swensen:  ( He was an ancient history professor at Brigham Young University). 

This manual was purchased in May 1995 by my husband, Ed Harris,

from the Ward Library (Fort Walton Beach, Florida), via Sister Mary Powell.  Ed and I had been married for just over 10 and a half years.  I knew well, by now, that Ed always needed a soft-covered book to stick by behind his back under his belt.  That way, he was never without a "good" book to read whenever or wherever he had a few minutes to kill.

My husband, Ed, and I were residing at 37 Maples Street, in Fort Walton Beach, at this time and our phone number, 850-243-4589, written on the face sheet of the book. 

This manual was published for use in the Sunday Schools of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.   The copyright was 1955. 
 
Swensen was an ancient history professor at the time of the publication of this manual.   This book can be borrowed for 14 days, via the Internet: https://archive.org/details/newtestamentacts00swen.

So a book can become a member of the family; I often was quick to mark up a Sunday School manual and make it my own, though the highlighting or underlining process didn't look particularly nice.  My husband, Ed, had been taught, by the nuns, perhaps, that such a habit was, in effect, a defacing of the book.  He may have learned over time to disregard that opinion, that "rule" of his first religion, Catholicism, but not in this case.  I cannot even determine that any of the pages are "dog-eared".

This is a scholarly book, a serious treatment of the subject and the first chapter is titled, "The Religious Significance of Acts".  Perhaps, I will read the book.  Paragraphs like this one make it a tempting proposal:

"Luke had written a most beautiful and appealing account of the career of Jesus wherein he stressed the Master's humanitarian and tender regard for the despised and underprivileged groups of the contemporary society, such as the poor, the sinners, the women, and the foreigners."