Evening journal., 1910-02-09

for the fight against the devil and the
rules for daily life are plainly set forth.
The Bible is ono OF the most interest
ing books one can study. You are always
finding new things In Il that have never
come 20 your notice before There are al
ways new truths TO be dug out and new
aspects of the old ones. The best way 70
study your Bible is TO select some por-
tion that you want to get well acquainted
and get good commentary on IL. Read
small part every day. Better read fve
verses than five chapters, FOR you'll get
along faster in the end Look up all your
marginal references and study your COM
mentary. Look at it in every light you
can imagine. and think about 1t in your
spare moments the next day. Try TO think
what lessons God means you TO take out
OF the passage and memorize the most Inn
portant verse IN It. In few weeks this
memorizlng will come almost natural and
you won't have much trouble remember
ing the parts you want TO- Have a regular
time for studying your Bible and try not
to let anything interfere with It. To get
anything out OF your Bible study you
must pray about It. Ask God TO throw
light on the parts you don't understand,
and He will make clear all that ought TO
be made clear Prayer Is the most power
full agent a Christian has.
Our subject Is Texts that help" We
have not room here TO tell OF anywhere
near all the helpful texts, for that would
necessitate copying the Bible, but there
are a few that stand out so prominent
they cannot be overlooked. The twenty
third Psalm is one OF these, and it is one
Of the most beautiful chapters in the
Bible. The confidence that David places In
God gives US lesson in faith that ought
to make us get on our knees and pray to
God for a faith like that To us it seems
almost impossible that one should have
such perfect confidence as David describes
in Cod. He knows that he shall not want
and that God WIN care for Him. He de-
scribes the life OF a God-fearing man IN
connection with God as a sheep with the
shepherd and no care can be more tender
as that OF the shepherd and no faith so
implicit as that the sheep have in the
shepherd. We probably have al learned
this chapter in our young days, and so II
brings back memories that no Rther
chapter can. Many OF US learned it on oui
mothers knee. trusting her as David die
his shepherd
in the ffty-third chapter Of Isaiah we
find one Of the most prominent and real
istic prophecies OF our Lords coming,
Here we are told that He was wounded
for our transgressions-and with His
stripes we are healed" The story OF the
life OF Jesus Is told here so many years
before He came to earth, and Is told as
graphically as though the prophet had
seen It with his own eyes. The lesson
brought out that He was wounded for our
transgressions ought to move the heart OF
anyone who Is not Of stone.
The Sermon on the Mount" must next
attract our attention. Christ did most Of
His work on earth dealing with individu-
ais, but this is one Of the places where he
dealt with a crowd. We don't read how
many converts he made and how many
we're baptized as in the usual description
OF a modern missionary field, but Christ
dealt with quality, not quantity. Every
one knows the "Blesseds' In the sermon,
and how blessed they are. The lessons
that are taught. how the law has not
been destroyed, but fulfilled and even in
creased. and the precepts that are tausn'
here will make a model Christian If they
are followed. Christ won't ask US whether
we are a Baptist or a Methodist, but lie
will ask us II we have loved our enemy
He doesn't ask any question OF doctrine
but He does tell us to be perfect even as
our Father in Heaven is perfect How
complete this sermon is and what a mint
there must have been to preach it. Il
there were no other proof of Christs di
vinity IL would be enough for me TO know
that no one but God could compose sucl
a perfect sermon.
In Saint John there are so many gemi
that it is hard to select one. The four
teenth chapter. Let not your heart b'
troubled. We believe In God believe also II
Me-" etc, is particularly sweet and on'
which NAV bring a great deal Of comfort
The seventeenth chapter is our blessed
Lords prayer In the garden Of Gethse
meme and everyone should be acauainte'
with this. Here he pleads with God 10
us in words that cannot help moving yol
as YOU read them. Here Christ tells Co
the sum total Of His work on earth. Chris
is pleading just in these kind Of word
for US to-day up FOUNDER.
The twelfth chapter OF Romans ough
to strike every Endeavorer right In Oh
heart. for that is the Christian Endeavo
4 Chapter. Here Paul sets out a model Q
4 Christians and It is marvellous how clos
4 he follows Christs as set forth In IN
sermon on the Mount. There are enoug
texts in this one chapter 10 provide mir
lister with sermons for the next 81
q months. Every Endeavorer ought 70 stud
n this chapter thoroughly. Take it apaI
and see how many different lessons 70
/. can get out Of 1t. See how many appl
to you, and then see how near you ca
follow it in your daily walk Of life. The
see how near you measure up to the Er
deavor standard
The thirteenth chapter Of First CORN
thians is one Of the many bright spots 1
PauPs writings. Love is the greatest @
passions and the one thing essential TO
Christian. This is probably the most OF
ten quoted chapter in the Bible.
The last chapter in the Bible is one Q
pure beauty. John describes our heavenl
home as he saw It I'm vision on the Isl
of Patmos. What a place OF Joy and bear
~ it must be, and what glory awaits U