Reading the Bible for 1868.
By A. S. Hutchins
In Review No. 25, Vol. xxx, is a suggestion under the above head, which I think much of, and which if we act agreeably to, we shall read the Bible through in 1868. How many will act upon it? Some have not health and strength to, but let those who have, pursue the system there proposed and doubtless many would read this sacred volume through next year who never did before in any previous year. A faithful servant of God now laboring in the great harvest field, who has traveled and preached much, has in addition to a great amount which he has written, and all of his other reading, read the Bible through nineteen times. In order to have accomplished this, he must have read it through or nearly so each year since commencing to read it by course, even if he began when a youth. It is a fault with too many of us, that we study this great and precious fountain of light and truth so little. It is a lamp to our feet, and a light unto our path. O, may we peruse its sacred pages more, and live more in harmony with its teachings. “Lord, make me understand thy law,
Show what my faults have been;
And from thy gospel let me draw
Forgiveness for my sin.
Here I would learn how Christ has died,
To save my soul from hell;
Not all the books on earth beside,
Such Heavenly wonders tell.”