The Daily Use of the Bible.
MANY weary and heavy laden with care live from day to day forgetful of the help and comfort so much needed by all. If we all knew the value of the Bible, and the importance of reading it daily, it would not be left on the table unopened for a week. Let busy, anxious women defer some other morning duty and take time to look at the way-bill given us to guide our erring feet through life. To attend to this matter at night, after the combat is over, is too late. We need strength and courage for the hour of duty and trial. It is by daily study of God's word that we receive benefit therefrom and learn the hidden meanings of that word as applicable to ourselves. Often we are surprised and comforted in reading some familiar passage, the meaning of which we never saw before. Thus God often speaks to us through his word, and comforts our troubled hearts. Thy word can give a sweet relief
For every pain I feel. Bishop Thorold says: "When we open our Bibles, quite as much as when we fall on our knees, we place ourselves in God's immediate presence, and we should read his word both in the sense of listening to his voice, and with the object of discovering his will."—North Carolina Presbyterian.