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Show TO READ BIBLE THROUGH. Clflht Months Is Estimated as the Necessary Time. I'm jmi pver figure out how long K nl 1 toK- you to irad tho Mule?' i in ormermnt nmn, "Well, you i' 'i ' ourprlietl to know In what " -' ii spuo of time you could fiiilih ' .1-1 rhnpter of the Holy Hook ff ' mip there arc dlffcreiit wnyn of K i.ln . , 1 1n i arc In the Old and New Tet-Mim Tet-Mim his (ombliK-d h totnl Of Mxty-sk v,"i- lonulnlng 1,189 chnptars, 31,-!"' 31,-!"' mi-, s. mill n total of 773,002 words approxlmntely. Tho Old Toe-1 Toe-1 inn in contains thlrty-nlno boolm, ' i hunters, 23.21 1 versos, and n- proximately B82.230 words, while In 'the N, Testtimont there nro twenty-Etn twenty-Etn books, 2(50 chapters, 7,059 ver-(s and 181.253 words npproxl-rnntcl npproxl-rnntcl AdilhiB thoso togethor, wo Pt tin- totnl given. How long will It ,takc a in rson to rend tho Old Testament Testa-ment with Its 592,230 words, or tho 181253 words of the New Tcatamcnt7 Anil how long to read the 773.G02 vords of both? A man can road un-derslandlngly un-derslandlngly 100 words, every minute. min-ute. Uy hurrying a mnn enn rend ICO wwds. or probnbly more. I will as siime that n man can rend crltlcnllv tnat Is, carefully and iinilorstnndlngly, at least sixty words a minute. That Is slow reading, being only 3.G0O words an hour. Suppose a man should devote an hour a day to the lllbtc. "At this rato he would read 108,000 words In thirty days, or In a month's time At this rato lie would rend Uio Old Testament In less thnn bIx months, nnd he could finish the Now Testament In less than two montns." |