SOMEONE asks us to tell him which is the longest verse in the Bible. We don't know. More than that, we haven't any special curiosity in the matter. There are some lottery schemes gotten up in different parts of the country, usually connected with some so-called literary journal, whose proprietors offer prizes to the ones who will send correct answers to certain simple questions concerning the Bible. Thus they make a pretense of stimulating Bible investigation. We suspect that our questioner has got hold of one of their offers. We would therefore say here that all such schemes are unmitigated swindles, and that hunting for the longest or the shortest verse in the Bible is not studying the Bible at all. It is no more profitable than it would be to hunt for the largest or the smallest Bible in the world. The way to study the Bible is to study it, and any part of it, even the shortest verse, will be found to contain abundant matter for thought, without which there can be no study.