BIBLE NOT OUT OF DATE
A trader passing a converted cannibal in Africa, asked him what he was doing. “Oh, I am reading the Bible,” was the reply. “That book is out of date in my country,” said the foreigner. “If it had been out of date here,” said the African to the European, “you’d have been eaten long ago.”
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BIBLE, OFFENSE OF THE
A New York City missionary, accustomed to speak in the lowest sections of the city, was going to hold an open-air meeting in Paradise Park. Before he began to preach he heard a man in the crowd say, “Damn the Bible, anyhow.” He mounted his barrel and announced, “My text to-day is ‘Damn the Bible, anyhow.’” That made that man and every other man eager to hear what he was going to say next. Then he told why the devil wanted the Bible damned: because it closed up all liquor stores and brothels, cleaned men’s lives and taught truth and salvation.
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BIBLE OUTWEARS ASSAULT
Dr. John Clifford puts into the following verse the vanity and failure of all assaults on the Bible:
Last eve I paused beside a blacksmith’s door,
And heard the anvil sing the vesper chime;