The Chicago ministers who called attention to the dangers of studying the Bible by piece-meal, struck a large principle and deserve thanks. It is a poor church that is built on a few chapters taken here and there from the catholic whole, and it is a poor and dangerous kind of Christian opinion and of Christian character which is built on odd passages or books, selected, it may be, at random, or, worse yet, to suit a compiler. The word must be its own interpreter, and it is only in the broad and free comparison of its parts, the interpretation of one passage by another, the weighing of one against another, and the bringing of the less illuminated portions into the strong light of Christ and his apostles, that we escape the danger of using the word of God "deceitfully." Every child should have his whole Bible and study it as a whole. There is a solid realism and hard-headed good sense, for example, in the Old Testament, which, in combination with the idealistic tone of some portions of the New Testament, bring out exactly the right result. In this broad view of the whole, things appear in the right proportion and come to the right equation.