BIBLE study in childhood and youth brings into the life a blessing unmeasurable. Parents who neglect the training of their children in knowledge of the Bible are robbing them of a priceless heritage. A visitor to a penitentiary once asked the chaplain if he thought that the five hundred men incarcerated there had been surrounded by Christian home influences in their childhood. The chaplain’s reply was that most of them were there because of the woeful lack of home training. The world will never outgrow the loving, living truth of God’s Word.
“Study it carefully
Think of it prayerfully,
Deep in thy heart let its pure precepts dwell;
Slight not its history,
Ponder its mystery,
None can e’er prize it too fondly or well.
“Accept the glad tidings,
The warnings and chidings,
Found in the volume of heavenly lore;
With faith that’s unfailing,
And love all prevailing,
Trust in its promise of life evermore.”
ML-11/21/1920