Laymen’s Corner

by WILLIE HOLT

 

This column is about studying the Holy Bible. The following is a poem about that. I SUPPOSED I KNEW MY BIBLE, READING PIECEMEAL, HIT OR MISS.----------------------NOW A BIT OF JOHN OR MATTHEW, NOW A SNATCH OF GENESIS.---------------------- -CERTAIN CHAPTER OF ISAIAH, CERTAIN PSALMS (THE TWENTYT H I R D ) . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TWELFTH OF ROMANS, FIRST OF PROVERBS, YES I THOUGHT I KNEW THE WORD.---BUT I FOUND THAT THOROUGH READING, WAS A DIFFERENT THING TO DO.----------AND THE WAY WAS UNFAMILIAR, WHEN I READ THE BIBLE THROUGH.----------- ------YOU WHO LIKE TO PLAY AT BIBLE, DIP AND DABBLE HERE AND THERE.-----------------JUST BEFORE YOU KNEEL AWEARY, AND YAWN THROUGH A HURRIED PRAYER.-----YOU WHO TREAT THE CROWN OF WRITING, AS YOU TREAT NO OTHER BOOK.-------JUST A PARAGRAPH  DISJOINTED, JUST A CRUDE IMPATIENT L O O K - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TRY A WORTHIER PROCEDURE, TRY A BROAD AND STEADY VIEW. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - YOU WILL KNEEL IN VERY RAPTURE, WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE THROUGH.