Our Bible Band Readers
By Editor
WE have received many appreciative letters regarding the Bible Band. Below is one which expresses it beautifully, and it is an echo of many others. A sister writing from British Columbia says: "I want to say here that I do not think I ever enjoyed any reading more than the daily reading of the Bible since I became a member in 1908. I can not begin to tell you how much I have been helped, but I will say I have been helped very much, and to me the journey through the Word has been both pleasant and profitable. I sometimes think if I were a missionary I would just like to try to get everybody to read the Bible. If I could get them to read the Bible, then God would talk to them and they would hear His voice, and I would just trust them to Him. "I see that a good deal is to be omitted from the reading details, and I suppose it is rather hard for us to pronounce some of the names in the genealogical records, and there are times when I am not sure if I give them the right pronunciation, but I call them the best I know and go on. "With your permission, I will relate a story I read some time ago. A minister was visiting at the home of a member of his church, and had worship with the family. Before reading the Scripture, he asked the head of the family if there was any chapter he had a preference for. The man replied that he would like such a chapter read. The minister looked it up, and after reading a few verses full of hard names, he asked the man if he had not made a mistake in the chapter. The man said, no, that was the one. 'And why do you prefer that one?' said the minister. The man replied, 'If God knew all these names and remembers each one, I know He knows my name and remembers me.' So I trust that all our Bible Band readers—and may there be many more—will find the journey through the Word profitable and pleasant this year."