The Bible comes to us rich with the blood of men who died that we might have it. It is our greatest inheritance from the past. Read it and live with it. In joy it will sing for you. In sorrow it will comfort you. In perplexity it will be a lamp in the darkness. If you visit the Tower of London you will see scratched on the walls of some of the dungeons words engraved by prisoners who long ago awaited trial or death. Nearly all come from the Bible. The Bible is an old book, but the up-to-date soon becomes out-of–date. The Bible deals with those questions which will always, be the earliest and the last in our lives. It speaks of all the deepest things in life, but it always has an outlook beyond this life. Those who do not read it miss the greatest treasure on earth. There are many exciting, interesting, informing stories in literature, but there in only one book which leads always from man upward to God. Other books fade. The novel which was a best seller a year or so ago is now forgotten, but this book stays. “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the Word of our God shall stand for ever.’ |
