A nearly 200-year-old church building burned to the ground in a “scene of complete devastation” last week but firefighters were able to pull a historic Bible from the blaze giving the congregation hope to cling to.
The fire took place in Oxford, Mississippi at College Hill Presbyterian Church. It was built in 1844 and the Bible has sat on the pulpit every day for 178 years.
“We are a Bible-believing church, and we believe that that is the word of God, and that is sustaining,” Doug Paul, one of the church’s elders, told WATN-TV.
