n the avenue but would have
changed places with the young man, and allowed his ears to cool. Girls
cannot sit too close during this weather. The climate is rigorous.

FOOLING WITH THE BIBLE.

Reports from the stationers show that there is no demand at all for the
revised edition of the Bible, and had it not been for the newspapers
publishing the whole affair there would have been very few persons that
took the trouble to even glance at it, and it is believed that not one
reader of the daily papers in a hundred read any of the Bible, and not
one in ten thousand read all of it which was published. Who originated
this scheme of revising the Bible we do not know, but whoever it was
made a miscue. There was no one suffering particularly for a revision
of the Bible. It was good enough as it was. No literary sharp of the
present day has got any license to change anything in the Bible.

Why, the cheeky ghouls have actually altered over the Lord's Prayer, cut
it biased, and thrown the parts about giving us this day our daily
bread into the rag bag. How do they know that the Lord said more than
he wanted to in that prayer? He wanted that daily bread in there, or He
never would have put it in. The only wonder is that those revisers did
not insert strawberry shortcake and ice cream in place of daily bread.
Some of these ministers who are writing speeches for the Lord think they
are smart. They have fooled with Christ's Sermon on the Mount until He
couldn't tell it if He was to meet it in the Chicago _Times_.

This thing has gone on long enough, and we want a stop put to it. We
have kept still about the piracy that has been going on in the Bible
because people who are better than we are have seemed to endorse it, but
now we are sick of it, and if there is going to be an annual clerical
picnic to cut gashes in the Bible and stick new precepts and examples on
where they will do the most hurt, we shall lock up our old Bible where
the critters can't get at it, and throw the first book agent down stairs
head first that tries to shove off on to us one of these new fangled,
go-as-you-please Bibles, with all the modern improvements, and hell left
out.

Now, where was there a popular demand to have hell left out of the
Bible? Were there any petitions from the people sent up to this
self-constituted legislature of pinchbeck ministers, praying to have
hell abolished, and "hades" inserted? Not a petition. And what is this
hades? Wher