Yes, dear friends, it is quite true, there is nothing in this world to be compared to “the precious Word of God.” It is, as the Psalmist says in Psalms 119, “the rejoicing of my heart,” “better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.” My dear young friends, believe me the reading of God’s precious Word from my earliest youth, morning and evening, has so entwined itself in my heart that it is my food day and night. I fall asleep saying His Word, and I awake repeating it. Just like what the Rev. Horace Myers, late of Clifton, writes to his children: “My Bible testified to my daily readings. I read from the first verse to the end, marking daily as I read. What I sought I cannot say, but I read it as the Word of God to comfort me in my distress. Gradually my intense home-sickness became sorrow for sin. Then I began to read my Bible as a sinner seeking God and forgiveness”; and he received it, too, by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
A friend of mine was talking to me yesterday, and said: “Surely you do not read every word of the Bible as you say; you surely do not read the first six chapters of 1 Chronicles! Why, it is all names!” “Oh dear yes, I read every name, and many a jewel comes to light even as we read names. Witness, ‘they dwelt with the king for his work’; and besides, if you have never read those chapters of names you have missed that most lovely jewel of Jabez’s prayer, ‘Oh, that Thou wouldst bless me indeed and enlarge my coast, that Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldst keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me; and God granted him that which he requested.” “But surely you do not read Leviticus.” “Yes, surely I do, and if you have not read even the nineteenth chapter you have missed pearls. of price in those verses, specially if a master read and carried out the last part of the thirteenth verse.”
What is so wonderful with the precious Word of God is new light breaks forth as the blessed Holy Spirit shines on what we read. This is the special reason why we are so, anxious to send Testaments to all parts of the world, to men, women and children, that they may be led to the Saviour through the Word. Do help to send it.
Emily Leakey.