INTRODUCTION

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KEY

Throughout this volume initials are used to indicate titles of volumes in which references are found, as follows:--

G.B. Golden Book.
H.T. Hero Tales.
T.J. Tales of Old Judea.
L.J. Life of Jesus.
S.A. Songs of the Ages.

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INTRODUCTION

Why Read the Bible?

If Bible readers everywhere could return their answers what diverse and interesting points of view the replies would bring!

For instance, one perceives in the Bible record the worst and the best that men have always thought and felt; for him it is full of the universal motives of humanity. He has noticed, too, that in sketching often but the single act of a character, the Book brings the essential man or woman vividly out of the darkness and into the light for all time. As a student of men, we can imagine such a one replying that the Bible is "The Book of Human Nature."