Bibles Needed in American Homes
By Editor
THE following from the Advance does not reveal so much beauty as regards the general spiritual enlightenment as many would have us suppose:-- "A mistaken notion prevails that everybody has, or can get, a Bible who wants one. The writer knows from over eight years of personal visitation of homes in city and country, in Illinois and Iowa, that it is not so. In sixteen months' recent work between eleven and twelve thousand families were visited, and between nine and ten hundred families were found without Bibles. About six hundred of these families received the word gladly, as did also five hundred other destitute persons." When one-twelfth of the people of our "most favored" States are without the word of God, it calls for renewed effort on the part of our Bible societies and home missionaries. Some families have one or more Bibles to every member; some families have none. If those who had the Bible really prized it, would it not soon be found in every home where it was possible to place one?