Is your Bible your own Bible? that is, is it a real comfort and advantage to you. Or are you merely acting the part of a watchman or police officer, who protects property in which he has no interest? A miser, who had buried his money in his garden, was robbed of his treasure. “Poor fellow!” said one, “he has lost the whole of his property.” “His property!” replied another, “it could hardly be considered his, for he never did make and never would make any use of it; I should call it the property of his heirs.” A man living in England, who had money to spare, purchased land in Australia to the extent of a thousand acres, not that he ever received any benefit from it or even ever saw it, for these things are quite out of the question. He had bought the land, thinking it would turn out a fine fortune for his children or his grand-children. “That man has a great deal of property abroad,” said a neighbor, speaking to a friend. “Not half so much,” replied his friend, “as I have in the sun, and moon and stars, for I do see them, and they afford me great satisfaction, whereas he never sees his estate, and never derives from it any advantage.” Some years ago I had occasion to send a parcel to an honest, hard-working mason and bricklayer who lived in the country. It contained, besides sundry little presents for his wife and children, a trowel for his own use, made in a superior way, with a mahogany handle, and often did I fancy that I saw him, hard at work with the trowel in his hand. It happened that last summer, being in the neighborhood, I called at the cottage of the honest bricklayer, and to my surprise, I saw the trowel I had sent him, exhibited over the chimney piece as a curiosity. It had been considered too good for use and consequently had never been of the slightest use to its owner. Now if you are using your Bible as the miser used his money, the rich man his Australian estate, and the honest bricklayer his mahogany-handled trowel, the less you say about its being your Bible the better.