Our Bible Band by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 9, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 19.

Our Bible Band.

By Editor

SHALL we read the Bible through next year, 1909?—Of course we will. At least, that is the way many of our Band members feel. They have received so much good, they have learned so many things, the Bible seems like a new book to many; surely they wish to read it through once more in 1909.

They wish to visit again the ancient Eden home; learn anew of the devotion of Abel, Enoch, and Noah; visit Abraham, and hear from his lips the lesson of growing faith as he viewed the shining stars in the clear nights of Syria. They would read again the story of Joseph and his brethren. Once more would their hearts grow tender at the thrilling, eloquent appeal of Judah for Benjamin. They would follow Israel through their wilderness wandering to their triumphant entrance into the "Land of Promise."

They would listen to the voices of the prophets as they predicted the coming Messiah, and weep with the captive Israelites, whose weary eyes failed with longing for the coming One. But time would fail us to even mention the thousand and one gems of beauty and knowledge and love and tenderness which greet us in a journey through the blessed Book.

"But I have failed to keep up with the course," says one, "and I hesitate about trying it again." But why? If we failed in 1908, by all means let us not fail in 1909. If we have not gotten the knowledge we desired this year, all the more should we redeem our failures next year. For about a third of a century the editor has gone through the word with one or two exceptions each year, sometimes oftener. He is a busy man, but he feels that it will well repay him to read it again. In fact, he reckons that he can not afford not to do it. But he wishes company, lots of it. How many of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES family will go with him?