NO OTHER one book has been multiplied in the world as has the Bible. It has been circulated in whole or in part in nearly all of the languages and dialects of the earth, and scattered by the millions of copies. It is professedly taught in Sunday-school and church everywhere. It would, therefore, seem that men would be familiar with its history and teaching. But the simple fact is they are not. With the multiplication of printing presses a perfect deluge of literature is now flooding the world, good, bad, and indifferent, but mostly bad; that is, it does not result in the formation or building up of robust, pure characters. It is of the earth, earthy. It tends to gross materialism and unbelief in God; at the same time it perverts man's religious faculties in lines as truly superstitious as beliefs of the Kongo natives. It is such literature as this that shuts out from thought and study and heart the all-important Word of God. In the Sunday Examiner, of San Francisco, January 16, Emerson Miller states that three-fourths of the public-school pupils of California do not go to Sunday-school. The Sunday-schools, Mr. Miller tells us, “are the Protestant child's only resort for knowledge of Bible history and Bible literature, but the average Protestant parent evidently fails to realize it.” This is a sad and shameful condition, but is probably true. And yet in every Protestant home, or perhaps we should say in every truly Christian home, there ought to be at least six times more Bible taught than is taught in a Sunday-school or Sabbath-school. It should be a continual teaching in precept, in conversation, in example. The life of Christians must come from the Word of God, not as literature or history merely, but eaten, digested, assimilated, and used in work for Christ. “The words which I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63. This is what ails Protestantism to-day, she has forsaken her life for the myths and creeds of Babylon. “Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me the Fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” Jer. 2:12, 13.