The truths of the Bible are manifold and eternal. There is no literature so beautifully turned and so thoughtfully written; and which has been handed down from father to son even unto the third and fourth generation. The Vagabond has always felt that one of its most quoted precepts, "And the fool sayeth in his heart, there is no God" is adequately rebutted by the fact that the sale of Bibles far outstrips the sale of any other book.

But it has been borne in upon the Vagabond that of late years the Bible has, in a certain sense been neglected. Politicians are frequently heard to mouth its more quotable passages. They use it as an authority upon world peace, upon farm relief, upon harbor legislation. And William J. Bryan won a presidential nomination by a Biblical simile as astounding as it was inept. But the Bible was not written as a political tool, nor yet as a grammar. It was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has known. It should be studied in the full realization of that sincerity and with high appreciation of its timeless truths.

It is therefore with gratitude and pleasure that the Vagabond directs his followers, like Moses, out of the wilderness of scholastic Harvard to the Large Lecture Room in Fogg at 12 today. There Professor Lake will read the Bible as it should be read, and he will interpret it in such fashion that his listeners will wish that his words, like Job's, might be graven in stone.