The only Man in the United States

who has read the Bible through this year"! There are many old women who make it part of their duty to read it so. But even they are not always the most conversant with its facts; and this egotist has a good deal of imbecility apparent in his ignorance of its contents. He did not learn much from his reading. When he got through Revelation he had nearly forgotten the earlier books, and knew so little of their individual contents that he had to refer to what he had read as being in "some book," and then he grossly misquoted it. It was a profound truth he uttered when he said, "I have wasted that time;" for when a man devotes so much time, and so little attention to any subject, it cannot be otherwise than wasted; and to waste time in this manner is a criminal matter, which will have to be accounted for to the great Recorder. "But I had a purpose in view," adds the brilliant gentleman. And no one who reads his lecture will for one moment doubt that statement. What then was the purpose which he had in view, when he wasted a year in reading the Bible? He gives no verbal answer to the question. But it is evident throughout the whole dissertation that his purpose was to find some way of turning the Bible into a "jest book," that he might be able to draw a good house, and pocket a large "taking at the doors."