All Men Profess Honesty As Long As

Westward The Star Of Empire Takes Its Way.

I Have Made It A Practice For Several Years To Read The Bible Through In The Course Of Every Year. I Usually Devote To This Reading The First Hour After I Rise Every Morning. As, Including The Apocrypha, It Contains About Fourteen Hundred Chapters, And As I Meet With Occasional Interruptions, When This Reading Is For Single Days, And Sometimes For Weeks, Or Even Months, Suspended, My Rule Is To Read Five Chapters Every Morning, Which Leaves An Allowance Of About One-forth Of The Time For Such Interruptions.

I Speak As A Man Of The World To Men Of The World; And I Say To You, Search The Scriptures! The Bible Is The Book Of All Others, To Be Read At All Ages, And In All Conditions Of Human Life; Not To Be Read Once Or Twice Or Thrice Through, And Then Laid Aside, But To Be Read In Small Portions Of One Or Two Chapters Every Day, And Never To Be Intermitted, Unless By Some Overruling Necessity.

If There Have Been Those Who Doubted Whether A Confederated Representative Democracy Were A Government Competent To The Wise And Orderly Management Of The Common Concerns Of A Mighty Nation, Those Doubts Have Been Dispelled.

It Has Been My Custom For Many Years To Read The Bible In Its Entirety Once A Year