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of the existence of other countries and other civilizations and of a great past stretching back to the farthest limits of the oldest nations of the world.” The Bible Meets Every Phase of Life For information, then, for history and literature, for poetry and art, read the Bible! For romance and drama, for thrilling tales of fire and flood and field, read the Bible! For tenderness and pathos, for tales of love and pity, for imagination that leaps to the highest bounds and fires the very soul of man, read the Bible! For helpfulness in weary homes and strength and blessing when you are the most in need, read the Bible! It peoples earth with heavenly visitants that carry grace and strength and comfort for our longing souls. It carpets our path with flowers when the cruel rocks have bruised our bleeding feet. It gives us literature in its highest forms and knowledge in its deepest depths. It shows us truth and duty which we must fulfill and gives us also grace and strength with which to do it. It opens heaven and on our awestruck ears there falls the music of the angel song as they chant in loud hosannas the glories of our Lord and God. We se6 the dazzling brightness of that great white throrte, we see the bending angels as they fair prostrate at the feet of Him who sits thereon, we hear them crying “Glory and honor and blessing and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever!” We get at last indeed the vision splendid which our eyes have missed and for which all our hearts were aching. Yes, read the Bible! Study the Word of God, for, remember above all things, it will make you “wise unto salvation.” It will not only give you this vision, but it will make you “partakers of the Divine gift.
each Sabbath studying the Word of God? Well, here in the United States we have 150,000 schools with 1,544,000 teachers and officers, and 12,777,000 scholars, a total enrollment of 14,321,- 000, or one school for every 526 of our population. That shows that the Word of God is precious to the fathers and mothers of the children of the land, that they are anxious for them to have the stimulus, uplift and guidance of God’s blessed Word, does it not ?And for the world—what; Well, here we have a population of 1,624,- 321,004. I often like to think I am One of those four! Or that my four children are the ones that make the extra four of the world’s count! We have 285,999 Sunday schools, 2,607,- 371 teachers and officers, 25,403,823 scholars, or a total enrollment of 28,- 011,194, making a school for each 5680 of the world’s population. Doesn’t that show that the Word of the Lord is precious throughout the world today. When we realize how many heathen lands there are, when we realize the hostility of so much of the world, a Sunday school for every 5000 of the world’s population is certainly a good showing and proves that the Word of the Lord is indeed precious to the world’s great millions. • * * * Do you wish to know literature ? Ruskin says: “Read your Bible. To my early knowledge of the Bible I owe the best part of my taste in literature.” Do'you wish to know, poetry? Count Tolstoi says: “I do not know a book which gives in such complete and poetic form every phase of human ideas as the Bible.” Do you wish to know history Even Huxley says: “For three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history. * * * It forbids the veriest hind who has never left his village to be ignorant
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