Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-05
Why Young People Should Study the
Bible,

DIDiCs
Let us directly come to the point,
| for If there is one thing above another
the average young person of our day
needs, it is to have things pitched at
them like a league pitcher would fire
ball, so they simply must stand up
straight and take notice, in order to
be intelligent.
No. man can claim to be intelligent
in this late day who is ignorant OF
the Book. To cultivate intelligence is
! just to cultivate common sense, that's
all. We can get lots of learning from
other books, but Gods word is the
only vehicle by which He can give us
wisdom except by His spirit, and these
two agree. Get wisdom; it is free, and
can be had for the asking and taking,
just as We can get the products OF
Gods earth for the asking and TAX
ing. But we will have to sweat for II
if we get anything worth while Don't
forget that. So when it comes to get
ting intelligence, wisdom, common
sense-mark it-even the Almighty
Himself will not give us sense II we
are lazy and neglectful. Some one
says: Don't He promise to give Il
by, His holy spirit?" Yes, but never
to the dawdler who is too lazy or in
different to study the Bible. He will
indeed bring things to our remem.
brance. but never If we forget to put
the stuff away in our thinking ma.
chine
In order to be abreast of the times.
do we ever think what marvellous
book the Bible must be to keen right
up with the procession of the ages?
Other books have dropped out OF the
race long ago, and vet in their day
they were great. They run dry; the
Bible never has We may have n
thousand books in our libraries which
we prize highly, but somehow they
seem quite out of date now. some OF
the once leading scientists have
changed their views since they were
written, and really we can not feel
quite sure they are just up-to-date
now; but of the Bible we are a mighty
right more sure of its APPROPRIATENESS
than we are of the latest magazine.
In order to be appreciative of the
best, certainly there are lots of good
books, and we ought to read them:
for young people who never read
book that has brains in its makeup
from one years end to another in this
day are not worthy the privilege of
reading at all. Such really ought to
have been born in a land where they
know everything at the start and
never find it out till after the finish.
There are lots OF good books, but why
neglect the best and the only book
that claims to have come from God:
that claims to tell the authentic story
OF the one man that all agree lived
the blameless life; that makes no
apologies or enters into no arguments
to prove its statements, and yet keeps
away up at the front in claiming the
attention of the best, most intelligent.
civilized, clean and cultured of earth?
Then, too, it is the best seller of the
lot. Talk about the best Sellers" we
wonder why they don't put it in the
list, Perhaps it is because it probably /
outsells all of the six sellers COM
bined. Young people, study it by all |
means, personally, in classes, at lee. |
lures, any way, every way, every day.
and then some more on Sunday. It
Will pay you big and growing and con-
tinuing dividends.