March 6

On Bible: Neglect of

“There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write “damnation” with your fingers.” (15.112)

“Perhaps there is no book more neglected in these days than the Bible. I do verily believe there are more mouldy Bibles in this world than there are of any sort of neglected books. We have stillborn books in abundance; we have innumerable books which never see any circulation except the circulation of the butter shop, but we have no book that is so much bought, and then so speedily laid aside, and so little used, as the Bible.” (88.273)

“But we must search the word, for unread Bibles are evidences against rebels, and are unbecoming in believers.” (1118.355)