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Reading the Bible for 1879

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 3.

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Reading the Bible for 1879.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Who will read the Bible through during the year 1879? I will for one; who will for another? If we read three chapters on each working day and five on the Sabbath, we shall read the entire Bible in fifty-two weeks. It takes only a few minutes to read three ordinary chapters. Brethren and sisters, let us adopt this plan at once.
A great many times I have taken a vote in an ordinary congregation to ascertain how many had read the Bible through, and, incredible as it may seem, at least nine out of ten, on the average, have never read the entire Bible, and these, too, are church members and our own brethren at that. Now this is a shame; nay, more, it is a sin against God. Here are the precious, golden words of our Heavenly Father and his holy apostles and prophets, and we do not care enough about them to even look at them. May the Lord pity us in our indifference and laziness.
But should not the Bible be studied by subjects instead of by course? It should be studied both ways. But I have observed that those who study it simply by subjects soon drop off even that, and do not read it at all. System and order are good in anything. They are good in studying the word of God.
D. M. CANRIGHT.