Browns Illustrated Family Bible.

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Object Description

Object Name

Bible

Object ID

2005.007.002

Title

Browns Illustrated Family Bible.

Date

1933.

Description

A brown leather bound Holy Bible. The cover is leather with a gold frame design. The spine reads "Browns Bible" in gold. The title page reads "The Illustrated Family Bible / Containing The / Old and New Testaments / According to / The Authorized Version / With / Marginal References and Illustrations, Practical and Devotional Reflections and Numerous Explanatory Notes / By the Reverend John Brown / And / Critical and Explanatory Notes With Concluding Remarks On Each Book / Prepared For This Edition Exclusively / By The Rev. J.B. Patterson And The Rev. J.B. Patterson And The Rev. A.S. Patterson / Also / A Historical And Geographical Gazetteer Of The Holy Scriptures / Containing The Proper Name Of Every Person And Place, With Its Pronunciation, Literal Meaning, And First Occurrence / By Robert Young, LL.D., / Author Of A New Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible, Etc." It was published by A. Fullarton and Co: London, Edinburgh and Dublin. An inscription inside the front cover reads "Presented to the Murrayville Presbyterian Church by the late James A. Tait, March 1933" also signed "G.W. Rogers, Pastor." Also inscribed in the book are the names: "Christina Annabell McVey" "Robert Walter Roper" "Donovan Harry Winter" and "Genevieve McVey."

People/Subject

Murrayville (B.C.)

Paul Murray was born in Ireland in 1811 and immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eighteen. the Murray family settled in Oxford County, Ontario, and ten years later Paul married Lucy Bruce. They bought land in Zorra and had seven children together. In May 1874, after his children were grown, Paul left Ontario and relocated in B.C., accompanied by three of his sons. Their first home in Langley was a roughly built shelter they made for themselves from a gigantic fir tree, and after his wife and two of hisdaughters arrived, they all lived there together. After these humble beginnings, Murray opened a hotel on Old Yale Road to service travelers making their way into the interior, building up a reputation as one of the finest carpenters in the area. The corner where the hotel was eventually came to be known as Murray's Corners, as the family had 160 acres of land on each corner. Murray's Corners eventually came to be known as Murrayville, and all of Paul's sons worked on Old Yale Road, building more hotels and other businesses to increase commerce. Paul was an ordained church elder, dring a time when there were no official churches and services were held in a small schoolhouse on the corner of Glover Road and Old Yale Road. Holding the title of founder of Murrayville, Paul Murray died in 1903. Murray's Corners did not officially become Murrayville until 1911, when the local post office changed its name to Murrayville Post Office.

Sharon Presbyterian (United) Church

During the Presbyterian ministry of Reverend Alexander Tait in the late 1880's this site was donated by Henry Mutrie for the construction of a new church. The lumber was obtained from a mill located two miles to the east. The name for the church is taken from the Song of Solomon, chapter1, verse 2, "I am the rose of sharon and the lily of the valleys". In 1925, with the unification of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches, this became the home of the United Church; those that remained Presbyterian constructed a new church on 216A Street. A new entry has been added to the simple form of the church, and a new hall built at the rear. It is, however, a well maintained local area landmark and provides the community with important link to it first settlement.

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