Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . rld ! He loved his work, and never wandered away fromhis Northern home, or was absent from its means of would say, I know that angels visit the Congregation,and what if they should not find me ! Would they notsay, Where is Bede ? When he was a boy the angels might have found himalmost alone. Food was so poor, and sanitary mattersso neglected, that the pestilence often walked in darloiess,and destruction at noonday. It so thinned the brother-hood at Jarrow in Bedes early life, that there was notone monk le
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . rld ! He loved his work, and never wandered away fromhis Northern home, or was absent from its means of would say, I know that angels visit the Congregation,and what if they should not find me ! Would they notsay, Where is Bede ? When he was a boy the angels might have found himalmost alone. Food was so poor, and sanitary mattersso neglected, that the pestilence often walked in darloiess,and destruction at noonday. It so thinned the brother-hood at Jarrow in Bedes early life, that there was notone monk left who could take up the responses with theAbbot. For a week this went on, until the dreariness ofit could be borne no longer; and after that. Abbot andchild laboured day by day through the ciistomary service. A national memorial to the Venerable Bede has latelybeen erected on the Cliff at Roker, Sunderland. It is abeautifully sculptured Saxon cross, twenty-five feet high,and was erected in clean and pure air, where it will beseen by the hoUday population of Wear and Tyne. In. THE VENERAliLK I5EDE , THE LAST VVOKDS OF OF THE lilELE. Ill BEDE 1^3 tte sculpture there are scroll patterns from the Lindis-farne Gospels, extracts from his works, busts of his friendsand associates; and to illustrate his love of nature, ascroll introducing birds and animals, springing froma harp, emblematic of his poetic gifts. There was asignificant ceremony, largely attended, on 11th October1904, when the Archbishop of York handed over thecross to the town, saying it was the memorial of a greatscholar, a great historian, a great theologian, and a greatlover and interpreter of the Word of God, and one who,in the highest sense, was a man of God.
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