"Ah! You know more about your ledgers than your Bible; you know more about you day-books than what God has written; many of you will read a novel from beginning to end, and what have you got? A mouthful of froth when you have done.

But you cannot read the Bible; that solid, lasting, substantial, and satisfying food goes uneaten, locked up in the cupboard of neglect; while anything that man writes, catch of the day is greedily devoured.

Ye have never read it. I bring the broad charge against you. Perhaps, ye say, I ought not charge you with any such thing. I always think it better to have a worse opinion of you than too good an one.

Some of you have never read it through. I know I speak what your heart must say is honest truth. You are not Bible readers. You say you have the Bible in your houses; do I think you are such heathens as not to have a bible? But what you have lost, have not been there for the last three years? many people have not turned over its pages for a long time, and God might say unto them, "I have written unto you the great things of my law, but they have been accounted unto you a strange thing."

Other there be who read the Bible; but when they read it, they say it is so horribly dry. ........Do you know why? Blind men cannot see, can they? But when the Spirit touches the scales of the eyes, they fall off; and when he puts eye-salves on, the Bible Becomes precious. I remember a minister who went to see an old lady, and he thought he would give her some precious promises out of the word of God. Turning to one, he saw written in the margin "P" and he asked, "What does this mean?" "That means precious, sir."

Further down, he saw "T. and P.", and he asked what the letters meant. "That," she said, "means tried and proved, for I have tried and proved it." If you have tried God's word and proved it-if it is precious to your soul then YOU ARE CHRISTIANS; but those persons who despise the Bible, have "neither part nor lot in the matter." If it is dry to you, you will be dry at last in hell.