THE humble home, the farmhouse, the miner's cabin, to-day, as in the past, owe their virtue and worth largely to the inherited and acquired faith in Biblical teaching. It has been said of Lincoln that he was essentially "a man of one book—the Bible;" and the dignity, reserve, noble simplicity, and elevation of his style are directly traceable to the Bible. No English classic could have been written as it was without the Bible since the King James Version, and no classic can be understood without a knowledge of that version. Parents do not always know how to render the Bible attractive to school children. Ruskin was always thankful to his parents for the compulsory study of the Bible they had imposed on him, and he attributed the matchless eloquence and grandeur of his style to the Bible. In many cases compulsion is useless or worse, but there are better means than compulsion. Readings, frequent recurrence to favorite passages, quotations from admired men and women—exemplars to youth—showing what moral, spiritual, and literary strength and wealth they derived from the Bible, constant allusions and subtle intimations implying that true culture or education is based on the Bible, will do what stern compulsion fails to do. This is a good time to resolve to make "the best seller" the most cherished treasure of the younger generation. Colleges, schools, churches, and homes should coöperate in this celebration of the tercentenary.