| Show Ia OHI O OP 01 TilE m l E EAt At Urn times attention n has baa hemp been to the fact that tut Ignorance bout about the Bible Ja Is becoming alarmingly Gen General oral eral In country Dr C F h iii lately spoken this subject and aM tome some data dala which are almost Tta Teste were wre ma nude with Mu u uI dente I of an OhIo and an m college and nd It t WU was I found that ot of If 11 men from northern I Ohio central Nw New York and western and of PI young foune lad ladles I from yew New Ragland the greater portion could not answer a feW simple Bible questions correctly Only one a young youn lady ladr could give the til correct answer to all 1 the question The result makes Dr draw the nil conclusion that the world la II sinking back InI Into paganism Th The facto speak for tor themselves Of the students about twenty tnt k knew anything about the crown ot of thorns Pretty k knew w almost nothing about Cain EMu 1 su Huth and the Ih tomb of the Ule Savior Thirty wore wre unable to relate the incident of Moon I striking II a rock to o obtain water or the i ot of Jacob wIth an angel L SIty I Ih t nothIng of gourd ur and wr were at II a does Me when ten an anIon to was made maa Tb girls rIll w were re pretty well 11 up on story ot of Lot Lots wife but of the man only D 1 bore It In their n nodes Tille a Mm number Dumber ot of the male students w were stamped by II a question tb parle rl and swine Swill and 41 10 of et the girls nixed II a reference to the guilt 0 of One ODe ot of tIM the Ind Indeed made the amazing that Is II meant the tw told of Ruth grieving for tor b her r dreg These were ed In an which to that gourd was the emetic that caused tb the whale to ut east Jonah albore It I Is certainly one of the phenomena of the I present teM t age that there then le II such ucb sucha a growing to the or of Ute the Book of books Ant It lIS 15 what may be expected tram frem the elimination or of the BIble from h and Its all but f rn time modern putt too where hint l and other quo Are theta the ethics at t Writ It I Ino is no there thre Is 1 to the Word of Cod tar for th the World profess i ilD to 10 be by JI it clearly I that It does not In Its III teach I 1 InI inga If It II a fact the oWen golden tIlt rule h bA nos IH t everyday bust r to o ne bet between n man and aDd man n If nod aM nation why hould It not be It alt a abelt to together ther with the silk I In It wu was once III n to mm Why hr should the be toted te to read a book the th par me ua molt u as It if It were all an an I ut of DC date te and out ot of west Our t haft bare tak taken I Im m much h pain to le the I at as an I people We do not bout boast ot of perfection In anything probably Probably ably the Saints do not study sacred literature ae a much 11 an they ought to do maybe e their children n a are nt net al alWO I WO ways Iok looked after as al tim h a as would he be but hUI It II Nib a r o venture to toor soy or that If the tnt teat Ia arc made mad with Mormon students In an any of the Utah I schools the result Would be vastly dlf trent ferent from that thaC obtaIned In eastern l rn of learning as related by Dr Fur though the public have no r religious Instruction the Ihl yun un unda da day schools classes and the Ihl training at home supply the d de It Ia divine taw 1111 that a light lIht rejected d d dI I ii withdrawn The candlestick le II It almost looks ook III as If t the h horld world orld wIre were about to be left Ire without the light ot of tb the BIble It appears appear as It Ii a condition were gradually dually coming ren rendering dering deM the mane blind equally I to the literary and aDd poetic beauties ut of the tho la ea end CId volume olum and to te It Its grand rovela Ia lions tlona or the glory clury of truth It so 10 a anew ne new witness fur 0 God 11 is I greatly greallY need needed ed It la II this the I Lord hot haa supplied In the Church of Ihl this dispensation dl tray It Its testimony resound to the uttermost ends end of the earth |
