THE BIBLE READING OF TO-DAY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 8

THE BIBLE READING OF TO-DAY

Sir—l notice in onb of Mr. Combs's recent articles on education that lo speaks of the reading of the Bible as be. in;; practically obsolete nowadays. Tins nmv l>e the case in New Zealand advanced educational circles (I do hot know if it is), but is certainly not true of the foremost leaders of men in this fateful moment of history. , In tho February, number of Scnhncr's" there is an "interesting account of an interview by an American Bed Cross commissioner in Palestine with' General Allenby, just after the wonderful Victories which have Riven' him .rank among the highest soldiers and strategists of any nation. 'Theso two men spent an evening stndving the Book of Isaiah, and the great soldier was able ito give the oilier new liffht, from his everyday, experience in bis campaign, as deliverer of the Holy Land., ■ _ , General Pershing, the American Com. mamW-in-Chicf, is an active member of the Presbyterian Church, and in tho three years he served in the Philippines his chaplain says ho never missed a single Sunday service. Marshal H»i(j is well known to be a faithful member of the Church of Scotland, and Marshal l'Vir-h—surely tho foremost soldier of our times?—is a devout member of bis Church. But tho tunc won'id fail me to enumerate hnimw of light and leading in other circles who are Bible students; Lut perhaps a few names snob as Mr. Balfour. Mr. Lloyd George, and many other statesmen may 1)0 weighed against thoso of our educational authorities who consider the Bible a "back number."—l am, etc., A. U.