WHEN we were in California we went to visit some friends in Sacramento. While we were waiting for our friends to meet us we walked around the station and noticed an old fashioned engine.
The name of this engine is “The C. P. Huntington” and it was taken by boat from New York to California in 1864 all the way around Cape Horn, which is at the tip of South America, and then north to San Francisco. This long trip took many weeks of travel. In those days there were no railroad tracks across the United States, and the Panama Canal had not been constructed.
As we stood looking at this interesting locomotive the thought came to us that times have surely changed. This engine would be very out-of-date now that streamlined trains are used. It no longer takes months to travel to California only a few hours by air and a short time by rail.
Yes, times have changed, dear boys and girls, but we know that there is one Book that has not changed or become old-fashioned and out-of-date — and that is the blessed Book of God—the Bible. This wonderful Book has been a comfort to men and women and boys and girls in all ages. The people who lived one hundred years ago, when this engine was new, had to be saved the same way as we do today — that is, by believing what God has said in His Word and by coming to the Lord Jesus as poor lost sinners. The Word of God lives and abides forever (see 1 Peter 1:2323Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. (1 Peter 1:23)). We read:
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Ps. 119:105.
Messages of God’s Love 6/9/1957