Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . 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 memoria
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . 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 BEUE S TOMB IN UUKHAM {JATHEDRAI/. CHAPTER VIII THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CENTURIES ALCUIN Such a manMight be a copy to these younger times. During these centuries there can be no doubt that Anglo-Saxon Britain was won for Christ. The conquering wereconquered ; the life-full Word swept out of the landthe superstitions that had been brought into it. Andthe spiritual conquest was much the faster of the two,though there was many a discouraging season. It tookeven the fierce Saxons a long time to conquer England,for they had to contend with a people in most respectssuperior to themselves, a Christian people, with schools,poetry, music, and something of the Roman was only their brave and unwearied hardihood thatprevailed, and this they had been trained to through along history of struggle. Even then it took them a long time. It was 688before Ina became the first Legislator-King of the wholeof the West Saxons. Two hundred and thirty-nine yearshad elapsed since the first Sax
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