Don't Neglect Your Most Valuable Possession



Posted: Saturday, May 03, 2008

by
firstcenturychristian

You may have heard of people who inherited some precious object or found it at a yard sale or thrift store but did not recognize its value Not realizing its worth they may have neglected or abused it to their own loss. Such is commonly the case with people's bibles. The following lines will help you see how notable people whose lives were also full and busy viewed God's Word.

Thomas H. Huxley, noted scientist and agnostic wrote "there still remains in this old literature a vast residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And then consider the great historical fact, that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life all that is best and noblest in English history...By the study of what other book could children be so much humanized and made to feel that each figure in that vast historical procession fills, like themselves, but a momentary space in the interval between two eternities and earns the blessings or the curses of all times..." ( The Contemporary Review, Dec. 1871).

James A Foude, critic of Christianity wrote, "The Bible, thoroughly known, is a literature in itselfthe rarest and richest in all departments of thought and imagination which exists."

Frederic Harrison wrote, "The English Bible is the true school of English literature. It possesses every quality of our language in its highest form. The book which begot English prose is still its supreme type."

Lord Macaulay wrote: The English Biblea book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone show the whole extent of its power and beauty.

To his son Charles Dickens wrote, "I put a New Testament among your books...because it is the best book that ever was or ever will be in the world, and because it teaches you the best lessons by which any human creature who tries to be truthful and faithful can possibly be guided."

In his History of European Morals, Lecky wrote, that those who believe and live by the Bible have"covered the globe with countless institutions of mercy, absolutely unknown to the pagan world."

Don't neglect you most precious gift. Read it like you would any other book. Read it regularly and systematically. Read it, believing it is a message from God to you personally. Read it with faith in its genuineness and truthfulness. Read it with a desire to understand God's will for your life that you might obey it. For this you will never feel you have wasted your time nor suffered harm by so doing.

(Quotes from The Book Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton, Bobbs-Merrill Co. Inc. NY, 1956).

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