Chapter 81—The Value of Bible Study
The study of the Bible is superior to all other study in strengthening
the intellect. What fields of thought the youth may find to explore
in the word of God! The mind may go deeper and still deeper in its
research, gathering strength with every effort to comprehend truth; and
yet there is an infinity beyond.
Those who profess to love God and reverence sacred things, and
yet allow the mind to come down to the superficial and unreal, are
placing themselves on Satan’s ground, and are doing his work. If
the young would study the glorious works of God in nature, and His
majesty and power as revealed in His word, they would come from
every such exercise with faculties quickened and elevated. A vigor
would be received, having no kin to arrogance. By a contemplation of
the marvels of divine power, the mind will learn that hardest but most
useful of all lessons, that human wisdom, unless connected with the
Infinite and sanctified by the grace of Christ, is foolishness.
The Mediatorial Work of Christ
The work of God’s dear Son in undertaking to link the created with
the Uncreated, the finite with the Infinite, in His own divine person, is
a subject that may well employ our thoughts for a lifetime. This work
of Christ was to confirm the beings of other worlds in their innocency
and loyalty, as well as to save the lost and perishing of this world. He
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opened a way for the disobedient to return to their allegiance to God,
while by the same act He placed a safeguard around those who were
already pure, that they might not become polluted.
While we rejoice that there are worlds which have never fallen,
these worlds render praise and honor and glory to Jesus Christ for
the plan of redemption to save the fallen sons of Adam, as well as to
confirm themselves in their position and character of purity. The arm
that raised the human family from the ruin which Satan has brought
upon the race through his temptations, is the arm which has preserved
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