This interesting piece was sent to me by cartoonist Bruce Yurgil after he discovered it in The Funnies #11, a 1937 comic book that features newspaper strips.  (The piece originally ran in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on December 21, 1935.)    

While the number of times Barbara read the Bible is not readily known, she was deeply religious.  She received some of her childhood education in convents.  As an adult, her religious inclinations ran the gamut from Catholicism to Christian Science, and it was said that her fervent interest in spirituality led her to explore (in addition to the Bible) the Koran, Confucianism, Buddhism, and the philosophical writings of Rabindranath Tagore.  Highly intelligent, Barbara proclaimed that she “read omnivorously” and preferred books to any other type of company.  Since she furthermore considered becoming a nun at different times in her life, she likely knew the Bible well enough to speak with some authority on it.