What is home without a Bible?
   'Tis a place where day is night,
Starless night; for o'er life's pathway
   Heaven can shed no kindly light.

What is home without a Bible?
   'Tis a place where daily bread
For the body is provided,
   But the soul is never fed.

What is home without a Bible?
   'Tis a vessel out at sea,
Compass lost and rudder broken,
   Drifting, drifting, aimlessly.

What is home without a Bible?
   Listen, ponder, while I speak:
'Tis a home with Bibles in it
   But not opened once a week!

Monday comes and goes, and Tuesday
   Comes and goes, and Wednesday, too;
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
   Book unopened all week through!

—Selected