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The Bible Stands without a Peer, January 19
The Bible in My Life
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and
mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Jeremiah 33:3
No other study will so ennoble every thought, feeling, and aspiration
as the study of the Scriptures. No other book can satisfy the questionings
of the mind and the craving of the heart. By obtaining a knowledge of
God’s Word, and giving heed thereto, men may rise from the lowest
depths of ignorance and degradation to become the sons of God, the
associates of sinless angels....
As an educating power, the Bible is without a rival. Nothing will
so impart vigor to all the faculties as an effort to grasp the stupendous
truths of revelation. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon
which it is allowed to dwell. If occupied with commonplace matters
only, it will become dwarfed and enfeebled....
In its wide range of style and subjects the Bible has something to
interest every mind and appeal to every heart.... In it the most simply
stated truths are involved—principles that are as high as heaven and that
encompass eternity.
There is no position in life, no phase of human experience, for
which the Bible does not contain valuable instruction. Ruler and subject,
master and servant, buyer and seller, borrower and lender, parent and
child, teacher and student—all may here find lessons of priceless worth.
But above all else, the Word of God sets forth the plan of salvation:
shows how sinful man may be reconciled to God, lays down the great
principles of truth and duty which should govern our lives, and promises
us divine aid in their observance. It reaches beyond this fleeting life,
beyond the brief and troubled history of our race. It opens to our view
the long vista of eternal ages—ages undarkened by sin, undimmed by
sorrow.
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