Recommended reading from the past

[Don777]

Recommended reading from the past

This thread intends to highlight quality essays written by Adventist authors of past times.

[Don777]

Recommended reading: The Power and Influence of the Bible

Carlyle B. Haynes. "The Power and Influence of the Bible." Our Times, September, 1950. Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tennessee. pp. 4,5,32

Excerpts:

"Single sentences from God's Book have humbled proud spirits; bound up broken hearts; dried up tears of bitterness; replaced sorrow with joy....

"The Bible has had, and has now, the power of multiplying itself and of impelling men to produce enormous masses of literature about it. Altogether astonishing is the ceaseless activity of men in translating, teaching, explaining, interpreting, propagating, and defending this Book. Every succeeding generation and each race, community, or nation that falls under the fascination of the Book seem smitten with the same incurable contagion of doing for or against this Book what it would not dream of doing for or against any other book in the world.

"It stirs men and moves them to intense activity. It induces them to encounter every form of peril and to make the most gigantic sacrifices just to get the mere chance of preaching it; it moves them to undergo the most enormous labors in order to translate it into difficult and barbarous languages; it impels them to submit to the most arduous drudgery in order to reduce spoken languages to written form so that the Book can be made to speak in these languages...

"The life of God Himself is imparted to the one who believes and appropriates the Word."

http://docs.adventistarchives.org/docs/WM/WM19500901-V59-09__C.pdf#view=fit

[LifeHiscost]

Beautiful observations, worthy of reading and then reading again.

Thank you for bringing them to our attention.

God cares!