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Show THE BIBLE IN THE HOME BY DR. JAMES I. VANCE. "The trouble with thrn 1b, they have put ihts book out of their home." This was ihe (Orange cry which pounded through th hall of the city poller court that Monday morning. The room was filled with the back-w.-iBh of the underworld. Tho judge had asked me to sit with him that Monday morning as he tried tho cases. Anyone who has been In a police po-lice court on Monday morning has some Idea of the docket. I watched the bedraggled line of soiled humanity as it drifted by in squalor and wretchedness indescribable. Then came a man and his wife. He jraj sullen and defiant. She was hysterical, and so nervous that she could scarcely make her story coherent. They were arrayed against each other husband and wife both accusers. It seems they had sent for a policeman to quell a disturbance dis-turbance in their neighborhood, and while he was there had started the row which ended in their being locked up themselves. After listening to their 6tory, the Judge said: "You have broken Into the police court. This Is no case for me. Go home and try' to treat each other right." Then it was that an old man who had been on the witness stand In the case stepped buck on the little platform. He wis the father of the wife. Drawing a book from under his coat and holding It up before the Judge and that soiled crowd from the slums, he said: "Your honor, the trouble with them is, they have put this book out 3i their home I have plead with them and begged them, but they will no; listen to me. They will never be happy until Lhey put this book back." The book was the Bible! The old man had accurately diagnosed the cause of the min of many an American home The best friend of the home Is the Bible. The old Book will never lead us astray. Better put It back, my friend. In the still hours let It speak to you and yours of that 'Which makes this life worth while. And heaven a surer heritage." |