olars, said: "I have
carefully perused the Bible, and independent of its divine origin, I
believe it contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer
morality, more important history and finer strains of poetry and
eloquence than could be contained within the same compass, from all
the books ever published in any age or any idiom."

A passionate lover of poetry has said: "The Bible is a mass of
beautiful figures. It has pressed into its service the animals of the
forest, the flowers of the fields and the stars of heaven; the lion,
spurning the sands of the desert; the wild roe, leaping the mountains;
the lamb led to the slaughter; the goat, fleeing to the wilderness;
the Rose of Sharon; the Lily of the Valley; the great rock in a weary
land; Carmel by the sea; Tabor in the mountains; the rain and mown
grass; the sun and moon and morning stars. Thus hath the Bible swept
creation to lay its trophies upon the altar of Jehovah." Patrick Henry
continually sought the Bible for gems of expression, while today the
politician on the rostrum and the lawyer at the bar, quote the Bible
to give force and effect to their speeches.

Some say: "There is so much in the Bible we cannot comprehend." Yes,
there's very much in there doubtless God did not intend you should
understand. One wades in the ocean knee deep, waist deep, neck deep,
and gives it up that he can't wade the ocean. If God had intended one
should wade the ocean He would have made it shallow enough to wade.
So, one finds he can climb to the mountain's top, or sail thousands of
feet above the mountain in an air ship, but he can't sail to the
skies. Two good women went to Sam Jones and said: "Mr. Jones, here are
several passages of scripture we don't understand. We have been to
several ministers and they cannot explain them satisfactorily; perhaps
you can." The great evangelist said: "Sisters, you haven't as much
good hard sense as my cow. We keep a cow and through the winter we
give her hay to eat. Now Georgia hay has a considerable mixture of
briars. When we give the cow an arm full of hay she has sense enough
to eat the hay and let the briars alone. But with the blessed Bible
full of good hay, you are 'chawing' away on the briars." Young people,
there is enough in God's word you can understand to serve you if you
live a thousand years, enough in there to save you if you die tonight,
so don't worry over what you can't understand.

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