Pleasure & Profit in Bible StudyMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Bible -- Study and teaching
CHRIST speaking of the law, said: "One jot or one tittle shall in no
wise pass from the law until all be fulfilled." In another place He
said: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my Word shall not pass
away." Now, let us keep in mind that the only Scripture the apostles and
Christ had was the Old Testament. The New Testament was not written. I
will put that as the old and new covenant. "One jot or tittle of the law
shall in no wise pass away until all be fulfilled,"--the old covenant;
and then Christ comes and adds these words: "Heaven and earth shall pass
away, but my Word shall not pass away,"--the new covenant. Now, notice
how that has been fulfilled. There was no short-hand reporter following
Him around taking down His words; there were no papers to print the
sermons, and they wouldn't have printed His sermons if there had been
any daily papers--the whole church and all the religious world were
against Him. I can see one of your modern free-thinkers standing near
Him, and he hears Christ say: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my
Word shall not pass away." I see the scornful look on his face as he
says: "Hear that Jewish peasant talk! Did you ever hear such conceit,
such madness? He says Heaven and earth shall pass away, but his Word
shall not pass away." My friend, I want to ask you this question--have
they passed away? Do you know that the sun has shone on more Bibles
to-day than ever before in the history of the world? There have been
more Bibles printed in the last ten years than in the first eighteen
hundred years. They tried in the dark ages to chain it, and keep it from
the nations, but God has preserved it, and the British and American
Bible Societies print thousands of Bibles every day. One house in New
York has sold one hundred thousand Oxford Bibles during the last year.
PRINTING THE REVISED VERSION.
Suppose some one had said that when we had a revised version of the New
Testament, it was going to have such a large circulation--men reading it
wherever the English language is spoken--the statement would hardly have
been believed. The new version came out in New York on a Friday--on the
same day that it was published in London. Chicago did not want to be
behind New York. At that time the quickest train between the two cities
could not accomplished the journey in less than about twenty-six hours.
It would be late on Saturday afternoon before the copies could reach
Chicago, and the stores would be closed. So one of the Chicago daily
papers set ninety operators at work and had the whole of the new
version, from Matthew to Revelation, telegraphed to Chicago on Friday;
it was put at once into print and sold on the streets of that city next
day. If some one had said years ago, before telegraphs were introduced,
that this would be done, it would have been thought an impossibility.
Yet it has been done.
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