The stories, fables, philosophies, and poetry which make up the Old Testament are manifold, and, as far as the Vagabond is concerned, those few bits with which he is conversant are eternal and inviolate--chiselled into his youthful Sunday School memory while it was yet malleable. There is no comparable literature so beautifully turned and so thoughtfully set down; none other has survived the harsh voyage down the ages, through third and fourth generations, even unto the hundreth and two hundreth and more.

In these days of atheism, Communism, Hitlerism, and all the other "isms," the Vagabond cannot but wonder at the fact that the sale of Bibles still far surpasses that of metcoric best-sellers. Like its contents, the Bible remains constant, steady, year in, year out. Abuse it has had, and plenty of it. Incongruities are constantly being magnified and then challenged by students and by those who would tear down its precepts. Politicians of the boom-and-bellow school still mouth its apt passages as reason for, or argument against, their platforms. Men, worthy and unworthy, have been swept into office on the tide of such biblical quotations.

But the Bible was not written as a political tool, nor as a history or a grammar for those yet unborn, even as we ourselves, to puzzle over. Nay, it was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has ever known. I should be studied as such, with realizations of that sincerity and with appreciation of those timeless truths.

It is thus, without benedictions, that the Vagabond, who, alas, spent yesterday in sloth and who will spend today in feverish retribution therefor, directs, as a modern Messiah, his followers out of the wilderness of worldly college life to the basement lecture room of Fogg Museum tomorrow at noon. There Professor Kirsop Lake, who knows Palestine as intimately as Winchell knows his Broadway, will read the Bible as it should be read and talk of it as it should be talked of, interpreting its grandeur with alternate wisdom, emotion, and humor.