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READING THE BIBLE FOR 1868

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 30, No. 25.

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READING THE BIBLE FOR 1868.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

ALL acknowledge that it is important to have a knowledge of the Bible. Many desire to become familiar with it who, nevertheless, have not yet done it. How shall we best become interested in reading the Bible, and best succeed in continuing to read it? I have found no method that succeeds so well as reading a certain portion every day. There are 1,189 chapters in the Bible. By reading three chapters each day, and five on the Sabbath, you will read the Bible through in one year. This is my rule, hence, I read it through every year. If by any means I omit it one day, I make it up the next. If I do not have this definite rule to go by, I soon neglect it more and more, and finally read it but little. This has been my experience. So I recommend it to others.
Brethren and sisters, who of us shall read the word of God through in 1868? I am sorry to say that I know ministers who have preached for years, who never read the Bible through! I hope this will not be true of them another year. Let us begin with the first of January and carry this rule out through the year. Who will do it? D. M. CANRIGHT.