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Exciting Experiences Await Bible Students, April 21
And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the
Scriptures.
Luke 24:45
, NKJV.
Open the Bible to our youth, draw their attention to its hidden treasures, teach
them to search for its jewels of truth, and they will gain a strength of intellect such
as the study of all that philosophy embraces could not impart. The grand subjects
upon which the Bible treats, the dignified simplicity of its inspired utterances, the
elevated themes which it presents to the mind, the light, sharp and clear, from the
throne of God, enlightening the understanding, will develop the powers of the mind
to an extent that can scarcely be comprehended, and never fully explained.
The Bible presents a boundless field for the imagination, as much higher and
more ennobling in character than the superficial creations of the unsanctified in-
tellect as the heavens are higher than the earth. The inspired history of our race is
placed in the hands of every individual. All may now begin their research. They
may become acquainted with our first parents as they stood in Eden, in holy in-
nocency, enjoying communion with God and sinless angels. They may trace the
introduction of sin, and its results upon the race, and follow, step by step, down
the track of sacred history, as it records the disobedience and impenitence of the
human race and the just retribution for sin.
The readers may hold converse with patriarchs and prophets; they may move
through the most inspiring scenes; they may behold Christ, who was Monarch in
heaven, equal with God, coming down to humanity, and working out the plan of
redemption, breaking off from mortals the chains wherewith Satan had bound them,
and making it possible for them to regain their godlike humanity. Christ taking
upon Himself humanity, and preserving the level of a man for thirty years, and
then making His soul an offering for sin, that the human family might not be left to
perish, is a subject for the deepest thought and the most concentrated study....
People may have enjoyed the training of the schools, and may have made
themselves acquainted with the great writers on theology, yet truth will open to the
mind, and impress it with new and striking power, as the Word of God is searched
and pondered with an earnest, prayerful desire to understand it.—
The Review and
Herald, January 11, 1881
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