2 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 13

BUNYAN AND THE BIBLE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

have heard a School Board member in Aberdeen quote Scripture, not Wesley, to the effect that cleanliness is next to godliness, and now I have lived to read a review in the Spectator quoting Bunyan in regard to the men and women who are " asking their way to Mount Zion with their faces thitherward." I mention the matter because I rejoice in being owner of an old reference Bible which has the insight to elucidate: Jeremiah, chap. I., v. 5, where the words, of course, occur, by pointing on to John vii. 17 : " If any man will do His will, he shall know of the