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THE BlBLE,-W What is the reason that the Bible is at the present day so generally banished from schools as book of exercising and reading? Does any other book afford greater variety for exercising pupil in the art.of reading :? If not read at school wl.lt be so likely to he read in after life? If not read and studied in youth, can its truths and moral precepts be so strongly impressed. on the mind in after life? Would it not be better to make the Bible class-book for reading lessons in all our schools? Has not the banishment of this book from our schools for so long a period, been one Of the causes operating to pave the way for the general lawlcssnes and mobocracy at present stalking over the land ? Can any one venture to answer this question in the negative? If this cannot be an- swercd in the negative, ought not the friends of christianity to have it speedily restored to our schools ?-Wheeling Times.