The Word o f God in Our National Life
> here is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of consecrated wisdom. Whether it be of the law, business, morals, or that vision which leads the imagination in the creation of constructive enterprises for the hap piness of mankind, he who seeks for guidance in any of these things may look inside its covers and find illumination. The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a postgraduate course in the richest library of human experience. As a nation, we are indebted to the Book of books for our national ideals and repre sentative institutions. Their preservation rests in adhering to its principles. —H erbert H oover . jQj'oMETiMES it seems as though a popular familiarity with the Scriptures is not as great at the present time as it has been in the past in American life. The foundations of our society and of our government rest so much on the teach ings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teach ings should cease to be practically universal in our country. Every one who has given the matter any thought knows of the great literary value of the Bible and the broad culture, aside from its religious aspect, that comes from a general familiarity with it. Although it has been the subject of most careful and painstaking study for hundreds of years, its most thorough students find in it a constant revelation of new thoughts and new ideals which minister to the spiritual nature of the race. It would be difficult to conceive of any kind of religious instruction which omitted to place its main emphasis on the precepts of this great Book. It has been the source of inspiration and comfort to those who have had the privilege of coming in con tact with it, and wherever it goes, it raises the whole standard of human relation ship.— C alvin C oolidge .
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