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Earnest servants of the Lord who are doing their best to point men to the Lamb of God, have found their work hindered in a large degree by such unwarranted attacks. Some of them have allowed their spirits to be broken down by making the mistake of reading the anonymous letters sent to them by these strictly orthodox literary geniuses. We plead with our readers to seek earnestly in these last days to know and practice the fundamentals of Chris tian ethics and brotherly love. Those who know our Lord as they ought to know Him will surely not lend themselves to Satan in the ways referred to above.
other editors upon our columns? Might they be able to “read something between the lines”? Then what would they do? We are frank to say that we believe a good part of the lambasting of one another that has been going on among Evangelical Christians in these days is, due to the habit of “reading between the lines.” And back of a lot of it may be found some of the pen-pushers who make it their business to create suspicion by putting interrogation marks upon the orthodoxy of others. A man may be as orthodox as Paul, and at the same time allow himself to be the tool of the devil to carry on this despicable business.
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The Book That Makes One Great B y R ev . W illiam H . P ik e
H ILE I was playing golf with a stranger the other day, he chanced to speak of the Bible in this way, “I do not see how the Jew can believe the Old Testament, He might be able to believe the larger part of the New Testa ment, but not the Old.”
true apprehension of the power, and wisdom and mercy of God.” “That Book [the Bible], Sir, is the rock on which our Republic rests,” said Andrew Jackson. “Hold fast the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties,” said General U. S. Grant. When Chas. Dickens, the Great English author, was writing to his son, he said, “I send you a New Testament with the other books, because it is the best book the world has ever known and will know.” And in his will he wrote, “I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teach ings of the New Testament.” Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur, said, “After six years given to impartial investigation of Christianity, as to its truth or falsity, I have come to the deliberate con clusion that Jesus Christ was the Messiah of the Jews, the Saviour of the world, and my personal Saviour.” T estim on ies of O ur P residents Listen to our own Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president of the United States, when he says, “To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible. No man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.” And ex-President Woodrow Wilson said, “A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world, who has deprived himself of an intimate knowledge of the Bible.” And our immortal Abraham Lincoln said, “I am profitably engaged in read ing the Bible. Take all of this book on reason that you can, and the rest on faith, and you will live and die a bet ter man.” And again from another ex-president, War ren G. Harding, who wrote, “I have always believed in the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, whereby they have become the expression of the Word and will of God. I believe that from every point of view the study of the Bible is one of the most worthy to which men may devote themselves and that in proportion as they know and un derstand it, their lives and actions will be better.” President Coolidge is another Bible-loving president. He wrote the New York Bible Society on Feb. 7, 1920, when Governor of Massachusetts, as follows: “There is no other book with which the Bible can be compared, and no other reading that means so much to the human race. It is the support of the strong and the consolation of
After a few minutes, I said, “Friend, I think I know why you and the Jew do not believe the whole Bible.” “Why?” he asked. “Well,’’ I answered, “probably it is because neither of yOu have studied it sufficiently to know much about it.” “Oh,” said he, “my father was a min ister, and I have heard it from my earliest childhood.” “That may be true,” I continued, “but I have read and studied the Bible from one to four hours a day for over thirty years. And I am convinced that the Bible is so far ahead of science and the wisdom of this generation that we can’t see it, for the dust of unbelief.” He looked at me in amazement and said, “I admit I haven’t looked in the book in twenty years.” This man was an up-to-date medical physician but an antique in the things of God. Many do not see the great ness of the Book because they have not studied and obeyed it sufficiently to see its greatness or to see the love and wisdom of its Author. One Book, and one only, has made men great. This Book has made the weak, strong; the strong, mighty; and even the small and worthless, great. Hear what some of the great men of the world have to say about it: W h a t G reat M en H ave S aid Coleridge, an English poet, said, “To give the history of the Bible as a book would be little else than to relate the origin or first excitement of all the literature we pos sess. From this storehouse of literary materials, our lead ing writers have most freely drawn.” Hon. William E. Gladstone, one of England’s great est statesmen, said,. “God’s best and richest gift to man kind is the Bible. Talk about the questions of the time; there is but one question—how to bring the truths of God’s Word, the impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture, into vital contact with the minds and hearts of all classes of people.” Ex-President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, said, “I look upon it [the Bible] as the source from which those who study it in spirit and truth will derive strength of character, a realization of the duty of citizenship, and
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