Christians Should Talk Bible
How often it is the case that two or more Christians meet together, perhaps on the Sabbath, and allow the time to pass in an aimless conversation; each of them wanting to hear something that is improving, yet neither of them knowing how to get hold of it. So they talk about the weather, the meeting-house, the singing, the minister, and very likely, before they know it, they are talking gossip and scandal. Suppose that one should say to the other, "I was reading this morning these words of our Lord about so and so; do you suppose they are used literally?" Or some passing event, some scenery, might call up a passage of Scripture. Or a sermon just heard might give the key, and might start a very profitable as well as pleasant conversation, which would leave only elevating recollections, so different from the humiliating reflections that so often beset us after we have spent an hour in profitless and perhaps injurious conversation. Men of the world talk horse, they talk shop, they talk business, they talk stocks, they talk farms, they talk saddle, they talk fishing-tackle, they talk gun; why should not Christians talk Bible?—Sel.