The World of Moral and Religious Anecdote, Gathered by E.P. Hood
by Bank the US World (9781143562464)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BIBLE. That is a remarkable story of a society of educated gentlemen, who, having all adopted principles of infidelity, determined to set apart one evening meeting to the burning of the Bible. A large fire was prepared, the Bible placed on the table, the glasses round it, from which they proposed to drink a blasphemous dirge. One of their number was fixed upon to perform the task; he took up the Bible, and was walking forward to cast it into the fire when he was arrested by himself looking upon the book; he trembled, turned pale, and laying down the Bible on the table, he said, " No, we will not burn that book till we get a better " In innumerable similar instances the Bible has remarkably proved itself, by long-forgotten texts which have come back to the memory, and by words upon scraps of paper which have flashed converting truth into the mind, -- sudden strokes, like that story mentioned of the farmer who, returning from church, where he had heard the text, " The ox knoweth his owner,"

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