is literature. It is the privilege of Odd-Fellowship to enthrone the
Bible in the lodge-room, and in the home. It teaches the intellectual
life from above and lifts it to the Bible's own level.

Dean Stanley was visiting the great scholar, Ewald, in Dresden, and in
the course of the conversation, Ewald snatched up a copy of the New
Testament and said, in his impulsive and enthusiastic way, "In this
little book is contained all the wisdom of the world." There is a
sense in which this statement is not extravagant. The book contains
the highest and fullest revelation of truth the world has known. The
greatest themes man's mind can ponder are here presented. The most
profound problems with which the human intellect has ever grappled are
here discussed. We maintain that a mastery of the contents of this
book will in itself provide an intellectual discipline no other book
can give. Refinement of character, refinement of thought, refinement
of speech, all of the essential characteristics of the intellectual as
well as of the spiritual life, have been found in our own church from
the beginning, among those whose only advantages have been a personal
religious experience and the consequent love and continuous study of
God's word as well as among those who have had all the advantages of
the schools. No man need be afraid of exhausting the truth in the
Bible. No man can ever flatter himself that he has got beyond it.
Whatever his intellectual attainments may be, the Bible will still have
further message for him.

There was a very suggestive spectacle on the streets of London one day,
just after Elizabeth had become England's Queen. As she was riding by
the little conduit at the upper end of Cheapside an old man came out of
it, carrying a scythe and bearing a pair of wings. He represented
Father Time coming out of his dark cave to greet the young Queen. He
led by the hand a young girl clad in flowing robes of white silk, and
she was his daughter, Truth. Truth held in her hands an English Bible,
on which was written "Verbum Veritatis," and which she presented to the
Queen. It was a pageant prepared for the occasion but suggestive for
this occasion as well. Truth is the daughter of Time. Our backs may
be bent and our hair may be gray before we can lead Bible truth forth
by the hand. We may be old before we know much; our intellectual life
may be matured in fullest measure and we still can know more; we must
grow a p