FOR THE SABBATH.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 586, 19 July 1913, Page 7

FOR THE SABBATH.

♦ • BIBLE READING. We hope that there are very few of our readers who have not already formed the habit of reading some part of the Bible every day. Our king began to read his Bible regularly when he was a boy, and is still doing so. A short time ago the secretary of the Scripture Gift Mission wrote to the king to ask if it was true that he read his Bible every day. The anßWer which he received, which was signed by the king's private secretary, was this—"Dear Sir,—l have the honour of submitting your letter of the 15th inst. to the king, and I am directed to inform you in reply: It is quite true that be promised Queen Alexandra aB long ago a? 1881 that he would read a ,chapter of the Bible daily, and that he has ever since adhered to this promise. Yours very truly, Knollys." If we had no better reason for reading our Bibleß every day our desire to follow in the steps of our king might prompt us to do so. We may place side by side with this letter the words of Dr Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States: — "No great nation can survive its own temptations and its own follies that does not indoctrinate is children in the Word of God, so that as schoolmaster and as Governor I know that my feet must rest with the feet of my fellow-men upon this foundation/ and upon this foundation only, for/the righteousness of nations, like the' righteousness of men. must take its source from these foundations of inspiration." I am sorry for the men who do not read the Bible every day. ... It is one of the most j singular books in' the world,. for every time you open it some old text that you have read a score of times suddenly beams with a new meaning." "I should bj afraid to go forward if I did not believe that there lay at the foundation of all our schooling and of all our thought the incomparable and unimpeachable Word of God." The following is an extract from the Christian Express, of Lovedale, South Africa:—"Having received from the Bible Society a specially bound copy of the Luganda Bible, King Andereya, of Bunyoro, in the Uganda Protectorate, expressed hi? thanks in a striking letter. He wrote:—'l am de lighted at receiving it, a gift of great glory, which excells everything in goodness an! in value. 'For the Bible is the inheritance of God, the King of kings. This Book is of greater value than all the dominions and crowns of the kings of the earth. A country that does not put its trust in the Bible j is not to be accounted of, but the , kingdom that believes in the Bible shall endure; it shall stand, for all authority is in God's hand, a St. Paul writes in Romans xiii., 1. In my own kindgom of Bungyoro, through faith in the Bible we are progressing, and now there are many who believe in Christ.'" The following suggestions in regard to Bible-reading were published in the Parish Magazine of St. George's in the East: — If you are depressed, read the twenty-seventh Psalm. If your pocket-book is empty, read thethirty seventh. If you are losing confidence in people, read the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. If people seem unkind, read the fifteenth chapter of St. John. If you are discouraged about your work, read the hundred and twentysixth Psalm. Tf you find the world growing small, and yo«raelf great, read the nineteenth Psalm. If you cannot have your own way in everything, keep silent, and read the third chapter of St. James. If you are at all out of jortp, read the twelfth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews.