The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-24


ting your letter to the king and am
directed to inform you in reply tnaI
| it is quite true that he promised
Queen Alexandra as long ago as lSS
that he would read a chapter CT the
Bible daily, and that he has ever
since adhered to this promise"
The plan of American Sunday
school leaders to send Gospel portions
to the armies of all the warning ma
ltions is having extraordinary sue
| cess; not only because the. Sunday
school members In this Land are
eager to contribute their nickels for
| the purpose, but also because there
is real desire for the Bible among
the men in the trenches. The war
has stirred the sleeping deeps OF re-
| ligious feeling among all men.
Whenever I make any decision I
ask myself what the Bible would
teach me to do in that particular
case 1t is to me a foundation from
which I draw light and strength,
and in hours of sorrow and depres-
sion 1 seek consolation therein
Emperor William of Germany.
The existence of the Bible as a
book for the people, is the greatest
benefit which the human race has
ever experienced. Every attempt to
belittle it is crime against human
ity.-Immanue1 Kant.
The Bible thoroughly understood is
a literature of itself-the rarest and
richest In all departments of thought
or agfnation.-Richard Hurrell
Froude.
ANYBODY who is interested in help
ing people to understand the Bible is
a patriot-Justice David Brewer.
If we abide by the principles
taught in the Bible our country will
go on prospecting and to prosper: but
instructions and authority, no man
can tell how sudden a catastrophe may
overwhelm us and bury all our glory
in profound obscurity.-Daniel Web
Ster.
1t is supremacy, not precedence,
that we ask for the Bible. 1t is con-
traSt as we'll as resemblance, that We
must feel compelled to insist on. The
Bible is stamped with specially of ORR
gin and an Unreasonable distance sep
arates it from all competitors.-Wm.
E. Gladstone.
The most original book in the world
is the Bible Shakespeare, the first
| literary genius of the world, the high
est in whom the moral is not the pre-
dominating element, leans ON the BIZ
BILE; his poetry presupposes it.-Ralph
| Waldo Emerson.
The Bible has been the Magma
| Charta of the poor and of the OPP
pressed; the Bible is the most demo-
cratic book in the world. By
the study of what other book could
children be so much humanized?
| have been seriously perplexed to know
by what means the religious feeling
in mankind, which is the essential
basis of conduct, is to be kept up with
out the use of the Bible.-Thomas
| Huxley.
The period of the Reformation was
a judgment day for Europe, when all
the nations were presented with an
open Bible and all the emancipation
| of heart and intellect which an open
| Bible involves.-Thomas Carlyle.
Somebody says that every Christian
| life is fifth Gospel"
Large mindedness should be taken
to the study of the Bible. Pettiness
| of vision fails to see the woods for
the trees. The wise advice has been
| given that, a-t- .4,F
Students of the Bible ought to
guard themselves against the tempta-
| ton which seems to be prevalent in
some circles, to make a puzzle book
of it, trying to get spiritual mean
| ing out of every word and phrase and
figure. In so doing the deeper, larger
meaning is often missed. Jesus did
not so use the word, nor the apostles
volume was not a collection of relig-
ious riddles, but a mighty revelation
from God of great spiritual truths
concerning God and man and the way
of salvation. To use it a textbook
| of small conceits is to abuse it"