The best time for Bible reading is in the morning. The mind and body are fresh after the repose of the night, and the highest powers of thought may be brought to bear upon the chapter selected. But, with most people, each recurring morning brings its own pressing tasks. Business cares, the daily toil, and the duties of the house, are the first and most engrossing concerns. Some hours must pass, with many, before they can find time to sit down to any quiet reading.
Let the plan be honestly tried by taking some words from God's book for the first meditation of the morning. Make for a month a fair, steadfast trial of the plan of studying the Bible when your faculties are at mental high-water mark. You wonder at the familiarity of this or that friend with the psalms, the epistles, the gospels. It has been gained, a little at a time, by patient, daily reading—thoughtful, prayerful reading, too, which was hived by the soul as something worth treasuring. We shall all gain immeasurably in our influence, as well as our comfort, by giving more of our unwearied thought to the holy book. A few tired, sleepy, worn-out moments at night, and those only, are almost an insult to the Master whom they profess to serve.—Sel.