The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-10

Without Gods Word Its Light IL
lunines Earth Valuable Hints as I,
Bible study.
The Rev. Fred Winslow Adams
preached Sunday morning in Epwortt
church to large congregation on The
Bible and How to Use It." Mr.. Adams
took for his text every Scripture in
spred of God is also profitable for
teaching. for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness: that the
man of God may be complete, furnished
completely unto every good work. -
II Timothy 3, 16.
Mr.. Adams said in part
There has nothing come from the
Divine throne to benefit the race that
has not come through man. Man is
more wonderful than all the organiza-
tons girdling the earth, all the build
ings piled to heaven, or all the tele-
scopes which have brought an unseen
world down to earthly sight and vision
for behind them all stands the brain
and heart of man. Gods supreme gift
to satisfy the soul hunger of human
1ilCt lIlG DlUlGy dISO CttIIlG llllOuSll HAL.
"Holy men of old spake as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost" The Bible
then came through man, but it came
from God. God always works through
agency, and it is the glory of man that
he is exalted to be the chief agency
through which the Father speaks of
sin, salvation and the home to come.
Man is hopeless without the Word of
God-hopeless Hear it all we who are
inclined to lnfidelity, man is hopeless
without the Word of God But the
Word of God is powerless without the
man of God behind it. Hear it We pro
Tossing Christians. The Word only
comes to its power and maturity
through the man of God behind it. 1t
is useless to send the Bible alone to
the heather, there must go with it the
missionary, but it is useless to send the
missionary without the Word. How
then shall we use the Word in order
to impart its life into our life, that we
may be nourished and built up by it,
and to make its blessings felt by 9TH
ers, that they may be born again unto
a lively hope, to an inheritance incor-
ruptible and undefiled and that fadeth
not away? / indicate five ways: Garry,
study, mediate, teach and WELD the
Word.
l. The man who wants the benefit
and light of Gods Word must carry it
with him. If the wheeman would see
his way in a dark night he must carry
his lantern. Though it shine ever so
brightly from the store window, it is
useless to him unless he carries it with
HI WI Tho orr of he
Reformation was not that Luther
taught justification by faith but that
he unclaimed the Bible and gave it to
the world. He broke the seal which
the church had put upon it. He took
it from the hands of the priests and
put it into the hands of the people
We should always carry the Bible with
US, carry it in hand, head and heart.
Garry the Bible in your hand. On Sun
day morning you can see men with a
Sunday newspaper in their hand, a
cigar or cigarette; you can see church
going people with Sunday school books
and papers in their hands, and good
Catholics with the rosary and prayer
book, but how few people are seen car
rying the Bible. The great parlor Bible
is gilt edged ornament never read,
but the little pocket Bible might be a
great EDUCATOR. You could become ia
miliar with the New Testament Just by
carrying a small pocket edition with
you, and using it at odd moments.
Next, have the Bible in your head, at |
your tongues end SO you can tell it. |
Gods command to Joshua was THE |
book of the Law shall not depart out |
of thy mouth" Every morning before
breakfast commit a verse, and keep it |
with you all day as a charm against |
sickness, failure and sin. Talk about |
it to your neghbor. When you say |
Good morning to friend, add, What
is your verse;"
What is my verse;
Eyes; what is your verse for to-day:
mine is Commit thy ways unto the !
Lord trust also in Him. and He shall
bring 1t to pass " Let your head be
a ready reference library of Biblical
literature. Have the Bible, most i'm
portant of all, in your heart, Thy
Word have I hid in my heart, that I
might not sin against Thee" 1t is well
to have the Bible in the hand for ready
use, in the head for handy reference,
but best of all to have it in the heart
as a preventive against sin, as a we'll
IF water springing up unto everlasting
life. His Word in the heart will keep
Us from sin, from despair, from i'm
purity, from death-O blessed Word of
Iodl
2. Study the Bible, study it intelli-
gently, Systematically, understanding :
" Philips word 10 the Eunoch was ,
'Understandest thou what thou read ,
,st?" And beginning where the Eunoch i
vas read in Esaias he explained to him {
he Prophecy of the Word, preaching l
into him Christ. We ought to open :
he book to any unbeliever and begin
ling with the prophecies in Genesis, e
The seed of the woman shall bruise !
he serpent's head" and the promise ,
o Abraham, I'm thy seed shall all the !;
lations of the earth be blessed" and |
he prophecy of Jacob of One unto I
whom the gathering of the people
hould be, to pass from book to book, E
pening up the Scriptures, and preach !
ny Christ, showing His coming in the
Jew Testament and its complete full :
Ilment of the Old Testament record, :,
nd His complete fulfllment of the
7ather's plan, and of every need and :
1nging of the human soul. We should
now the scope and purpose of every
'ihle book and he able to nut ii in !
ingle sentence or two, as for example