The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-14

A CLOSED BOOK

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He who is not familiar with the Holy Writ is ignorant
CARELESS of the number of scholastic degrees may
Some people do place library table
folks might think them religious It stylish religious
It is so easy for people to He religious she's
luny reigionw
wonder how much dust your Bible It would be
interesting know how we'll preserved your Bible
finger marks the pages of your Bible? you
pencil notaons in your Bible? All these things
portan story Many people know their edges and journals
ter than the Bible know yes, mothers who
familiar with the writings of Bertha Clay than the Glorious
bay Ashes of Love- interesting than the Gospel
According to st. Matthew'S"
Today there thousands in Christendom who hate the
Bible They seek to tear down it's the lives of many
of U.S. There be delight something the way of
religion that is not Biblical The faith of Christians is fire.
quen shaken by the of words written and spoken against
the Bible.
happens time that ministers get weary of
preaching the Bible They talk politics instead have heard
many with mention made of Jesus the Christ
II can't always be preaching Christi says preacher
If minister breaches from the Bible he must preach
Christ Every that may be selected leads the
development the thought directly Jesus From part
England there road that leads to London So in the Bible
every text leads to Jesus
But to many ministers the Bible is closed book
What is the Bible?
To begin with, it is library Its very tells that
The Bible is a revealer and interpreter Of God.
The Bible is a rule and guide of faith
AS library the Bible has something for every clean taste
the every temperament beyond
the Bibles great Variety all moods find rich food in the Holy
writ
IF you enjoy history you will find the Book of Moses
teraning you love, you would enjoy the Book of
Ruth The contempave to James The afectionate
to loving John will The the tender
lamentations of jeremiah The sangune will with the
graphic and creative JOEL you Of practical turn of mind
you will go the Ecceastics the outspoken Peter
You who like brilliant apohgms should study the book of
Proverbs The lover of pastoral and quiet deineations will
with the Psalmist would take the wings of Imagination
and leap earth heaven wander through eternity then
open the Revelation and pour and fill yourself with the
glory of the New Jerusaem and listen to the under
and on the pear and golden streets of the
ly city.
And yet this rich braray not gwen to young folks
for study In systems of education shun the Bible
if it something immoral and devilish.
In list of 1.-THE hundred best books the Bible always
heads the list And yet the Bible closed book to most of
1t is startling fact that dislike to read the Old Book
for fear people might think old fashioned.
With the possibility of becoming tedious shall dare to
give the words of Archbishop Feneon
he Scriptures surpass the most ancient Greek authors
vastly native simplicity loneliness grandeur
self reached the suby of Moses songs Never did
ode either Greek Latin the oftness the
Psalms Neither Homer great poet equaed ISAIAH
scrbng the majesty of God What is there antiquity that
with the lamentations of Jeremiah when he tender
depors the misery of his country the prophecy Nahum
when he oesees in the spirit of the proud Nnevah fall
the of invisible Everything painted such
lively strikes the imagination the prophet
does Homer Read likewise Daniel denounng Beshazzer
divine ready to overwhem him. and try find
anything the most sublime original of antiquity that be
to those passages of the Sacred Writ AS for the
of the Scripture portion of is uniform and constant
bears the peculiar character that becomes it. In short
there much difference between the heather poet and
prophets there between false enthusiasm and the true
And yet the Bible remains closed book to most of US.
William Lyon Phelps said:
PRIESTS atheists skeptics, devotees agnoscs and
lists generally agreed that the Authorized Version of the
English Bible the best example of English literature that the
world has seen'
And yet it is not worthy of place in public schools
even from purely literary standpoint. wonder why?
We who read the English language fortunate. In
language has the Bible been accurately and beautifully
translated On good authority that English trans
aon better than the original Greek and Hebrew Our
Version must have been inspired account for its
accuracy, beauty and simplicity of dcon in other
The Bible the most wonderful library AS reveaer and
interpreter of God the Bible and Gods Pictured BookNatur
rank close together.
AS read the Bible God the Beginning;
see Him the End realize that God Love; God the
Creator God is the Great Fountain of Life; God the Com
feter God is Wisdom God is Truth; God is the Father God
the Physician God the Great Providers God the Comforter
the Way God Righteousness; God stands forth the
Grand Architect of the Universe.