Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1911 — SECOND BIBLE A NECESSITY [ARTICLE]

SECOND BIBLE A NECESSITY

k Junlor"Now that you are married,” said the experienced minister to the young curate, “you will have to stop using the church Bible for home study. Oh; yes, I know how „it is. You get attached to a certain Bible, and can study better with that right under your nose, and‘would willingly pack It back and forth for the inspiration it affords. I’ve, been through It Used to do that very thing v myself, but after half a dozen veils and a pair of gloves, and some little lacey things that I shall not attempt to specify floated down from the pulpit on Sunday mornings in view of the astonished and amused congregation, I accustomed myself to two Bibles. The women folk will put things into the Bible to press. It is a habit you can’t break fhem off, and the first thing you know these feminine knick-knacks go sailing away to humiliate you.” That flight the curate turned the pages of his Bible carefully. A veil and a scrap of luce fell out. He sighed. The next (day be began to cultivate an affection for a second Bible.