Read Your Bible Slowly

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 23, 1866

Read Your Bible Slowly.

Take time even if you have but little time. A great mathematician once said, if his life depended upon solving a problem in two minutes, he would spend one of the two in deciding how to do it. So in reading the Scriptures. If you are pressed for time—and this ought to be a rare case—then spend the precious moments on a portion of a chapter. When you feel that the mind and heart are beginning to drink in the sentiment even of a single verse, then stop and drain the heavenly chalice, because the divine Spirit is filling thy cup. It is a true, solemn, and interesting thought that we are to wait, to linger, to tarry, for the blessing to come from the word before us.—British Messenger.