"It is no presumption to say that our educated Catholic laity is, unfortunately, too little acquainted with the safely stored treasures of Catholic tradition and learning regarding the Holy Scriptures. We fear also that too little time is given to biblical study and questions in many of our Catholic colleges and high schools. When the divine character and the historical authority, the genuineness and credibility of our holy books are more than ever attacked, even in popular literature, with the most insidious arguments of a pretended science and criticism, it behoves the educated Catholic to know something of the unanswerable proofs, by which the Catholic Church, the divinely appointed custodian and interpreter of God’s written Word, defends her claims to and her belief in the Sacred Scriptures. Nor should he forego the enhanced pleasure and profit in reading the sacred Books which he will assuredly derive from a better knowledge of their historical, geographical, political, and domestic surroundings. The wider the budding rose unfolds its fragrant leaves, the more abundantly will it drink of the refreshing morning-dew. So will the Christian soul open itself, by study and prayer, to receive in fuller measure the waters of eternal life, flowing, as from a rich fountain-head, from the Words of the Living God."