BIBLE A young Christian packing his bag for a journey said to a friend, I have nearly finished packing. All I have to put in are a guidebook, a lamp, a mirror, a microscope, a telescope, a volume of fine poetry, a few biographies, a package of old letters, a book of songs, a sword, a hammer, and a set of tools. But you cannot put all that into your bag, objected the friend. Oh, yes, said the Christian. Here it is. And he placed his Bible in the corner of the suitcase and closed the lid.I speak as a man of the world to men of the world, and I say to you: search the Scriptures. The Bible is the Book of all others to read at all ages and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through and then laid aside; but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters a day and never to be omitted by some overwhelming necessity.Not mans word about God, but Gods word about man.The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.Let the men of science and learning expand their knowledge and probe with their researches every detail of the records which have been preserved to us from these dim ages. All they will do is to fortify the grand simplicity and essential accuracy of the recorded truths which have lighted so far the pilgrimage of man. In this little Book will be found the solution to all the problems of the world. The New Testament is the best Book the world has ever known or will ever know.The Bible is a window in this prison world, through which we may look into eternity.In the Scriptures we have the only key that unlocks the mystery of the universe to man, and the mystery of man to himself. When you read Gods word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, It is talking to me, and about me.In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine book.The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. You cant destroy the Bible! It is like a cube! Every time you turn it over it comes right side up!In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world-God and you. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.It is impossible to govern the world without the Bible. Joh 5:39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; Joh 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written. Ro 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope. 2Ti 3:16 Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. 1Pe 1:24-25 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you. 2Pe 1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. 2Pe 1:21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit. Re 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.
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