I ONCE asked a man on the train, who was reading his daily paper, what the difference was between a newspaper and the Bible. He looked inquisitively at me, and said he did not know.
“Well,” said I, " you’ll not be reading that paper tomorrow, will you?” “No, sir, I won’t.” “But why not?” I asked. “Why, because it will be out of date,” he replied.
“That’s it,” I said. “The newspaper, which was printed last night, is out of date in a few hours; but the Bible, which was finished nearly nineteen hundred years ago, and which took seventeen or eighteen hundred years to write, is not out of date yet, and never will be.”
ML-10/14/1962