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tian conservation movement. There must be a return to the study of the Bible as a whole, which will lead to the conviction on the part of many now in great doubt and distress that the Bible as a whole is true. It was by this means that I myself have been brought out of great uncertainty to ‘deep conviction. Therefore I . write earn estly,”— w . W. White, in The Bible Mag azine. “Wholly- apart from its ethical or its religious value, the Bible is the one book that no intelligent person who wishes to come in contact with the world of thought and to share the ideas of the great minds of the1Christian era can afford to be igno rant of. All modern literature and all art are permeated by it. It is not at all a question of religion, or theology, or dogma. It is a question of general intelligence. A boy or a girl at college in the presence of the great works set for either to master, without a fair knowledge of the Bible, is an ignoramus and is disadvantaged ac cordingly.”— Charles Dudley Warner, in “A College Address.” I have surveyed most of the learning that is among the sons of men, yet at this moment I can recall nothing in them on which,to rest my soul, save one word from the sacred Scriptures, which rises, much .to my mind: “The grace of God that bring- eth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, .we should live soberly, right eously, and godly, in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave Him self for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”— John Selden. A missionary to Persia, when leaving this country some years ago, was given a farewell meeting at a stopping-rplace on his way to his steamer. Fie had made no
“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on pros pering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and au thority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”— Daniel Webster. Joe had, been converted. He had been a swearer and drinker. His comrades made fun of him, and once tried to force the whisky down his throat; but Joe could not be forced into doing wrong, either by their threats or taunts or laughter. Someone asked Joe if he did not feel bad when the fellows laughed at. him. “.No,” said he, “I don’t mind it, because I have the laugh in side, of me.” The Rev. F. B. Meyer tells us of Hud son Taylor’s visit to his church, when he spoke on the text, “Have Faith in God.” “This meant,” said Mr. Taylor,, “reckon on God’s faith to you. All my life has been so fickle; sometimes I could trust, and sometimes I could not. but when I could not trust, then I reckoned that God would be faithful,” Is not this the faith that wins?. “If I, from my spy hole, looking with purblind eyes upon the least part of a frac tion of the universe, yet perceive in my own destiny some broken evidences of a plan and some signals of an overruling goodness; shall I then, be so mad as to complain that all cannot be deciphered ? Shall I not rather wonder, with infinite and grateful surprise, that in so vast a scheme I seem to have been able to read, however little, and that that little was en couraging to faith?”— Robert Louis Steven- son, in Reflections and Remarks on Human Life. “The mountains of hply Scripture are being divested of their forests. Floods of infidelity and arid wastes in the spiritual life are fast following. We need a Chris
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