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some years, met. One had come under the influence of the Bible and had become a Christian. The other said, after- a few days, “ I do not know what is the matter with you, but you are a great deal easier to live with than you used to be.” —G. B. F. H allock . 2. “The Bible is a loaf, every chapter is a slice, and every verse a big bite.” There is no need of starving with such an abund ant supply of the “ bread of life.” — P ic k e r in g . II. A S o ld ier ’ s S t r e n g t h “ Great peace have they which love thy law” (Psa. 119:165). “ One day at the front,” says a soldier, “when death and destruction were all around, and when no one knew how soon he would be summoned into the presence of God, several of the men desired to read from His Book con cerning the solemn things of life and death. But only one Testament was available. In order that each man might have a portion, the little Book was torn apart. There in the trenches, as the shells flew overhead, the soldier boys pored over the Word, seek ing in it some message of comfort and strength for their immediate need.” —Sunday School Chronicle. III. E sse n t ia l E d u c a t io n There are twenty-four chapters in the Bible with which Ruskin says his mother “ established my soul in life.” And he adds, “That property of chapters I count con fidently the most precious and upon the whole the one essential part of all my edu cation.” I have known many men, who, like Ruskin, have had a property of verses, if not whole chapters, but I have never known a weakling, or, as Uncle Billy Wat son expresses it, “ a two-for-a-cent” man among these reciters of Scripture. There seems to be some mysterious brain-building quality in the Words of the Old Book. It enriches, educates, refines. It gives a voice and a vocabulary.— W il l ia m H. R id g w a v . FEBRUARY 21, 1937 SCIENCE AND OUR GROW ING APPREC IATION OF GOD 1 T im o t h y 6 :2 0 , 2 1 ; I s a ia h 4 5 :9 , 12 Meditation on the Lesson Paul had fought the battles of intellectual knowledge, and he knew the danger of feigned scientific penetration. Doubtless having seen many lives wrecked by a false apprehension of wisdom, he earnestly en treated his son in the faith: “ O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.” He warned him of the snare of “so called” science, and urged him to cling to the cer tain Word of God. He wanted him to be able to say, “ I have kept the faith,” as Paul himself triumphantly declared at the conclusion of his fruitful ministry. Even in Paul’s generation, there were “oppositions of science falsely so called.” But he, enlightened by the Spirit, knew that there is no conflict between real sci ence and faith in God, for science is
knowledge, and in God are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. A l though the Bible was not written to teach science, it does not contain one unscientific statement. Does it not seem reasonable that the Creator of this universe would have an accurate knowledge of His own creation? And He is the Author of the written Word. The Book of Job contains remarkable truths which science has but recently con firmed. For example, we read: “He stretch- eth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing,” and “ He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds” (Job 26: 7, 8). Although these laws have governed the universe since its formation, men have not always believed these simple statements of Scripture. Again we read, “ Surely there is a vein for the silver . . . Iron is taken out of the earth.” Do recent discoveries of the metallurgist surpass this statement of fact? The Bible, although a revelation of God’s plan of salvation for sinners, cannot be divorced from the realm of biological and physical science, for it contains the basis or “first cause” of life and matter. The rational, honest mind is forced to ascribe to God the omnipotence which alone could produce the universe in which we live. God says, “ I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I com manded” (Isa. 45:12), and to this we must reverently assent. Although some scholars will not accept the sublime words of Gen esis 1:1, there are many true scientists who bow humbly before the Creator and say, with that godly astronomer who had just discovered a new law, “O God, I think Thy thoughts after Thee.” Some men are doubtful about their im mortality; others scorn the idea as unsci entific. But there was a man who was in no uncertainty. “ For we know,” he wrote, “that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” (2 Cor. 5:1). Paul knew this truth because the Spirit of God had revealed it to him. That is science—knowl edge—in the highest sense.— Examiner. II. B elievers T h o u g h C h e m ist s Edgar Fahs Smith, President of the American Chemical Society, and ex-provost of the University of Pennsylvania, point ing to about forty portraits on the walls of his office, said: “These are the makers of modern chemistry. Not one of them is an infidel; not one of them is an agnostic; all are believers.”—W. F. T h o m p so n . III. S c ie n t if ic D efen ders o f t h e B ook 1. The law of gravitation is generally asso ciated with the name of Sir Isaac Newton, for, if the tradition is authentic, the fall of an apple in a garden led him to the discovery of that universal law. He was a great mathematician, an astronomer, and Helps fo r the Leader I. C e r t a in K n ow ledg e
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