Pleasure & Profit in Bible StudyMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Bible -- Study and teaching
Notwithstanding all that skeptics and infidels say against the old Book,
it goes on its way. These objectors remind one of a dog barking at the
moon; the moon goes on shining just the same. Atheists keep on writing
against the Bible; but they do not make much progress, do they? It is
being spread all abroad--silently, and without any blasts of trumpets.
The lighthouse does not blow a trumpet; it goes on shedding its light
all around. So the Bible is lighting up the nations of the earth. It is
said that a lecturer on Secularism was once asked, "Why can't you let
the Bible alone, if you don't believe it?" The honest reply was at once
made, "Because the Bible won't let me alone."
CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE.
The Bible was about the first book ever printed, and to-day New
Testaments are printed in three hundred and fifty-three different
languages, and are going to the very corners of the earth. Wherever the
Bible has not been translated, the people have no literature. It will
not be long before the words of Jesus Christ will penetrate the darkest
parts of the earth, and the darkest islands of the sea. When Christ
said, "The Scriptures can not be broken," He meant every word He said.
Devil and man and hell have been in league for centuries to try to break
the Word of God, but they can not do it. If you get it for your footing,
you have good footing for time and eternity. "Heaven and earth shall
pass away, but my Word shall not pass away." My friends, that Word is
going to live, and there is no power in perdition or earth to blot it
out.
What we want to-day is men who believe in it from the crown of their
heads to the soles of their feet, who believe the whole of it, the
things they understand and the things they do not understand. Talk about
the things you understand, and leave the things you do not. I believe
that is one reason why the English and the Scotch Christians have got
ahead of us, because they study the whole Bible. I venture to say that
there are hundreds of Bible readings in London every night. You know
there are a good many Christians who are good in spots and mighty poor
in other spots, because they do not take the whole sweep of the Bible.
When I went to Scotland I had to be very careful how I quoted the Bible.
Some friend would tell me after the meeting I was quoting it wrong.
CHAPTER V.
Fulfilled Prophecy--Unexplored
Country--Babylon--Tyre--Jerusalem--Egypt--The Jew.
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