A Hindoo Paper on the Bible
A HINDOO paper published in Bengal, called Sojjona Rajina, speaks of the excellence of the Bible. In advocating the introduction of the Bible into government schools, from which British timidity, indifference, and infidelity, had excluded it, these heathen writers describe it as “the best and most excellent of all English books, and there is not its like in the English language. As every joint of the sugar-cane, from the root to the top, is full of sweetness, so every page of the Bible is fraught with the most precious instructions. A portion of that book would yield to you more of sound morality than a thousand other treatises on the same subject. In short, if any person studies the English language with a view to gain wisdom, there is not another book more worthy of being read than the Bible.”—Southern Presbyterian.