Show finishes his fiftieth F reading of the bible new hew york physician Is proud of his record new york bible stories never grow old to dr william woodward eathle physician and bookseller of yonkers who recently completed his fiftieth reading of the bible and celebrated his seventy seventh birthday at the same time having no favorite passage doctor woodward always reads the bible from cover to cover both the N new ew and old testaments As a student of the newton theological ins institution in 1873 doctor woodward began reading the bible A friend told him biblical passages co could uld be easily memorized it if one read them over 25 times although he had little success in ill committing the scriptures to memory he became so interested in the bible lie has bos continued reading it since that time by 1925 1025 he be had read it 40 times and remembering that by 1034 lie he would complete his fiftieth year as a mason he decided to make his readings of 0 the scriptures correspond although he be reads leisurely as a rule lie he once finished the bible in 18 days devoting as many as 12 hours a day to it he regards the bible as the word of god literally true throughout in his bis own words too many people now and especially in new york elti city read the bible solely to disprove its truths lis if there were fewer hypocrites in the christian church there would be less talk about the inaccuracies of the bible among his varied achievements doctor woodward looks with pride on his big degree as doctor of osteopathy his law studies his editorship of the charleston news arid and his CO 00 articles for the encyclopedia americana |