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productions of learned authors, and disregard the word of God? It is
this great longing for something they never ought to crave, that makes
men substitute for knowledge, that which cannot make them wise unto
salvation.
“For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we
make known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He received from God the
Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to Him from the
excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with
Him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in
a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private
interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of
man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost.” “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written
for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures
might have hope.” “Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to
them; that thy profiting may appear to all.” “For all flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth,
and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth
forever.”
It is by the perusal of the Bible that the mind is strengthened,
refined, and elevated. If there were not another book in the wide
world, the word of God, lived out through the grace of Christ, would
make man perfect in this world, with a character fitted for the future,
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immortal life. Those who study the word, taking it in faith as the truth,
and receiving it into the character, will be complete in Him who is all
and in all. Thank God for the possibilities set before humanity. But
a study of the many different authors confuses and wearies the mind,
and has a detrimental influence upon the religious life. In the Bible
are specified distinctly man’s duties to God and to his fellow men; but
without a study of the word, how can these requirements be met? We
must have a knowledge of God; for “this is life eternal,” said Christ,
“that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
Thou hast sent.”