Vintage Bible Teaching Tools: Scripture Stamps

"Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." - John 3:7.

It has been a while since my last post, but I have no plans of closing shop. In my research on Bible-based drama across various audio-visual media I run into fun examples of Sunday School tools and instructional media from the past.

Cover for a "Scripture Stamps" booklet. Date unknown. Warner Press. Anderson, Indiana. 

"Scripture Stamps" were a product of the Warner Press company that were distributed as early as the 1930s. This booklet in my collection may be from the 1960s or 1970s. The ideas was to attach these one inch scriptures with your cards, letters, and packages in the hopes that they would "produce eternal revenue through the silent effective preaching of the Gospel."

The original size of each of these stamps is about 1.25" inch by 12/16" inch.
"The Father sent the Sone to be Saviour of the World" - 1 John 4:14

I think materials like these stamps are still every effective (think about all the memes and other Gospel spreading graphics used in social media today). Stamps can still be used when sending out your cards, invitations, care packages and other materials in the mail or in person. Today there are rubber stamps and scrapbooking products similar to these stamps, but I am not aware of anything close to the original "Scripture Stamps" on the market today. These could be made today by a church ministry using desktop publishing and/or illustration software when making care packages.

A set of green and red "Scripture Stamps". 

This last group of stamps may not have belonged to the "Scripture Stamps" series and were found in the back of the booklet. However I can think of no better image or question to end this post. 

If anyone recalls using the "Scripture Stamps" please leave a comment with this article.