SOME men suppose they have made a great argument against the Bible, when they say there are portions of it unfit to be read in the family or in the congregation. Men who are themselves vile, in life and in speech, pronounce the Bible a vile, obscene book. Let us classify the replies to this. a. There is not an obscene expression in it repeated with approbation. Deeds of vileness are only recorded to be condemned. b. It could not give a true picture of human nature if it narrated nothing vile. The men who now traduce it for obscenity, if all vileness were expunged, would censure it for giving a false view of human life. c. It is the purest book of the age. It throws a veil over the indecencies of the times through which it has passed. It is a shame to even speak of the things done in secret by the rejecters of revelation. Horace died eight years before Christ. The school-boy who reads his poems and epistles, unexpurgated, will be the bell sheep for obscenity in his class. d. At the time of the translation into English, no book of poems, or plays, or anything else for the masses, was as pure in language as was the King James translation (1611). The poems of Chaucer, who died about A. D. 1400, called "a well of English undefiled," are so obscene that no one dare read a page selected at random, before a respectable audience to-day. There are books of Laurence Sterne, a clergyman, who died about 1780, that will not bear reading in public. Shakespeare, who wrote his plays while the English translators were at work, has to be carefully expurgated. e. The Bible proposes to give the exact truth just as it was, and, of course, it will be expected that it will describe and denounce secret sins and vices, as well as public crimes. f. No one has ever said that the study of law is a vile pursuit, or that the study of medicine involves obscenity, and yet there are laws, and treatises on medical science that no one would read before a promiscuous audience, or in the family. g. The word of the Lord is pure. No sacred writer makes or shows a liking for the impure. Filthiness is denounced as a crime. No writers abhor it as do they. h. No one who reads and loves the Bible is ever impure. Obscenity is found only among its enemies.—Golden Censer.