Have you a Bible ?" Mr.Hall shook his head.
"I have brought you one;" and the missionary drew a small Bible from his pocket.

"No man is safe without a Bible." "Oh, I am glad! I was just wishing for a Bible," said Hall as he reached out his hand to receive the precious book.
"If you read it every night and morning--if you treasure its holy precepts in your memory, and call them up in times of trial, or when evil enticements are in your way--God can come near to your soul to succor and to save, for the words of the holy book are his words, and he is present in them.

If we take them into our thoughts, reverently seeking to obey them, we make a dwelling-place for the Lord, so that he can abide with us; and in his presence there is safety." "And nowhere else," responded Hall, speaking from a deep sense of personal helplessness.
"Nowhere else," echoed the missionary.

"And herein lies the hope or the despair of men.

It is pitiful, it is heart-aching, to see the vain but wild and earnest efforts made by the slaves of intemperance to get free from their cruel bondage.