Show search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me john 5 39 the question que otton was wag asked recently of a representative group of people numbering about a score how many of you have read a chapter of the bible during the week only live five hands were raised in the affirmative notwithstanding the fact act that to read a chapter from one ot of the books of 0 the new testament was a part ot of the preparation pa for the meeting where they were assembled moreover many of those present in fact most of them are parents who are rearing families and who should be teaching those families the truths contained jn in the bibie regardless of j what religion we profess we are all i agreed that the bible la is the book of books poets sages and statesmen all down through the ages have so BO regarded it and to its teachings most of them have attributed their achievements achievement gi and yet in a meeting of professed 1 i ly religious people only twenty five per cent of them have read a single chapter in a week it Is likely too that it the group referred to Is any exception to ta the run of the community it Is because the per cent of bible readers in III it was bigger than the average I 1 our thought in this connection is that it is quite probable that our in j crease in the amount of crime and i vice particularly among our young people Is la j drift arif t from the rea aing hud and teaching J ot of the truths of the bible to young people it seems not improbable to us ug that a return to the customs of our grand parents ot of reading the bible in our homes and to our children might go tar far toward eliminating our juvenile delinquency and crime 0 0 |