How to Live a Holy Life 

C.  E.  Orr 

DEVOTIONAL READING. 

A person may almost be known by the books he reads.  If he habitually reads
bad books, we can pretty safely conclude that he is a bad man; on the
other hand, if he habitually reads religious books, we can reasonably
presume that he is a religious man.  Why is this? It is because the nature
of a person's books is usually the nature of his thoughts; and as a man
thinks, so he is. 

Consequently, our reading devotional literature is a great aid to our
being devotional.  Too few, I fear, realize how important to our spiritual
advancement is the cultivation of a taste for devotional reading.  As a
rule, those who have a taste for spiritual books and gratify that taste
prosper in the Lord, while those who have no relish for such books labor
at a great disadvantage.  Some one has said that "he who begins a devout