Look and see if half the Book of Proverbs, for instance, with all its noble promises to a godly youth, is not clipt clean out of your dismembered Bible.

That fine leaf also, 'My son, give Me thine heart,' is clean gone out of the twenty- third chapter of the Proverbs years and years ago.

As is the best part of the noble Book of Daniel, and almost the whole of Second Timothy.
'Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and meat and drink, and wife and child shall be added unto you.' Your suicidal shears have cut that golden promise for ever out of your Sermon on the Mount.

So much so that if any or all of these temporal mercies ever come to you, they will come of pure and undeserved mercy, for the time has long passed when you could plead any promise for them.

Still, there are two most excellent uses left to which you can even yet put your mangled and dismembered Bible.