The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-04-23
DETROIT TIMES


cess; not only because the Sunday
school members in this land are
eager to contribute their nickels for
the purpose. but also because there
is "a real desire for the Bible among
the men In the trenches. The war
has stirred the slumping deeps OF
religious feeling among all men.
Whenever make any decision
ask myself what the Bible would
teach me to do In that particular
case. II Is to me a fountain from
which ] draw light and strength,
end In hours OF sorrow and depres-
sion | seek consolation therein
Emperor William of Germany.
The existence OF the Bible as q
book for tho people is the greatest
benefit which the human race has
over experienced. Every attempt to
belittle It is a crime against human.
ity.-Immanuel Kant.
The Bible thoroughly understood
Is o literature OF itself---the rarest
and richest in all departments of
thought or observation-disclosures
Hurrell Froude.
Anybody who is interested In help.
Ing people TO understand the Bible
Is a patriot.-Justice David Brewer.
II we abide by the principles
taught In the Bible our country will
go en- prospecting and to prosper; but
II we and our posterity neglect its
instructions and authority. no man
can tell low sudden a catastrophe
may overwhelm us and bury all our
glory In profound obscurity.-Daniel
Webster.
II Is supremacy, not precedence.
that we ask for the Bible. II Is con-
trast as well as resemblance. that
we must feel compelled to insist on.
The Bible Is stamped with specially
OF origin and an Unreasonable dis.
lance separates II from all competi.
tors.-Wm. e. Gladstone.
The most original book in the
world is the Bible. Shakespeare, the
first literary genius of the world. the
highest In whom the moral is not the
predominating element, leans on the
Bible; his poetry presupposes it,
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Bible has been the Magma
Charta Of the poor and OF the op-
pressed; the Bible is the most demo
cratic book in the world. . BY
the study OF what other book could
children be so much humanized?
have been seriously perplexed to
know by what means the religious
feeling IN mankind, which Is the es.
sential basis Of conduct, is to be kept
up without the use of the Bible
Thomas Huxley.
The period Of the Reformation was
judgment day Tor Europe, when al
the nations were presented with ar
open Bible and all the emancipation
CT heart and intellect which an opeI
Bible involves.-Thomas Carlyle.
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Somebody says that every Chris
tian life Is "Afth gospel"
Large-mindedness should be takeI
to the study OF the Bible. Pettines
OF vision fails to see the woods 70
the trees. The wise advice has beer
given that.
students of the Bible ought Il
guard themselves against the temp
tntion which seems to be prevalen
in some circles, TO make a 'puzzl,
book of II, trying to get spiritua
meaning out Of every word ant
phrase and figure. In so doing tn,
deeper. larger meaning is Otter
missed. Jesus did not so use tn,
word, nor tho apostles and evange
lists. To them the sacred volum,
was not a collection of religious rid
dies. but mighty revelation from
God OF great spiritual truths con
corning God and man and the way Of
salvation. To use It as a textbook
OF small conreits ie IN ahusa 81"