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vital themes of Christianity are revealed from Genesis to Revelation.
The golden links of truth form a chain of evangelical truth, and the
first, and staple, is found in the great teachings of Christ Jesus. Why,
then, should not the Scriptures be ennobled and exalted in every school
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in our land? How little children are educated to study the Bible as the
word of God, and feed upon its truths, which are the flesh and blood
of the Son of God! “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and
drink His blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth My flesh, and
drinketh My blood [that is, continues to receive the words of Christ,
and practice them], hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last
day. For My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He
that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, dwelleth in Me, and I in
him.” “And he that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in Him, and
He in him. And hereby we know that He abideth in us, by the Spirit
which He hath given us.”
There is necessity for every family to make the Bible the book of
their study. Christ’s sayings are pure gold, without one particle of
dross, unless men, with their human understanding, shall try to put
it there, and make falsehood appear as a portion of truth. To those
who have received the false interpretation of the word, when they
search the Scriptures with the determined effort to obtain the very
marrow of truth contained in them, the Holy Spirit opens the eyes of
their understanding, and the truths of the word are to them as a new
revelation. Their hearts are quickened to a new and living faith, and
they behold wondrous things out of His law. The teachings of Christ
have a breadth and depth to many which they have never understood
before.
The doctrines of grace and truth are not really understood by the
larger number of our students and church members. Blindness of mind
has happened to Israel. For human agents to misconstrue and put a
forced, half truthful, and mystical construction upon the oracles of
God, is an act which endangers their own souls, and the souls of others.
“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy
of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add
unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man shall
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take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take
away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from
the things which are written in this book.”
Revelation 22:18, 19
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