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THE BIBLE STRENGTHENS
THE INTELLECT!
IF THE BIBLE WERE
STUDIED AS IT
SHOULD BE, MEN
WOULD BECOME
STRONG IN INTELLECT.
THE SUBJECTS
TREATED UPON IN
THE WORD OF GOD,
THE DIGNIFIED
SIMPLICITY OF ITS
UTTERANCE, THE
NOBLE THEMES
WHICH IT PRESENTS
TO THE MIND,
DEVELOP FACULTIES
IN MAN WHICH
CANNOT OTHERWISE
BE DEVELOPED.
IN THE BIBLE A
BOUNDLESS FIELD
IS OPENED FOR THE
IMAGINATION. THE
STUDENT WILL
COME FROM A CON-
TEMPLATION OF ITS
GRAND THEMES,
FROM ASSOCIATION
WITH ITS LOFTY
IMAGERY MORE
PURE AND ELEVATED
IN THOUGHT AND
FEELING THAN IF
HE HAD SPENT THE
TIME READING ANY
WORK OF MERE
HUMAN ORIGIN TO
SAY NOTHING OF
THOSE OF A
TRIFLING CHARACTER.
YOUTHFUL MINDS
FAIL TO REACH
THEIR NOBLEST
DEVELOPMENT
WHEN THEY
NEGLECT THEIR
HIGHEST
SOURCE OF
WISDOM--THE
WORD OF GOD.
THE REASON
WHY WE HAVE
SO FEW MEN
OF GOOD
MIND, OF
STABILITY
AND SOLID
WORTH,IS
THAT GOD
IS NOT FEARED,
GOD IS NOT
LOVED, THE
PRINCIPLES
OF RELIGION
ARE NOT
CARRIED OUT
IN THE LIFE
AS THEY
SHOULD BE.
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