The Teacher of the Bible.
By William Walton Clark
THIS is the Holy Ghost. John 14:26; 1 John 2:27; 1 Cor. 2:13. He who wrote the word is most competent to teach it. The mere acquisition of scriptural knowledge does not denote growth in the wisdom of God. We may learn the geography and chronology of the Bible, and may have its historical parts on our tongue’s end, and yet be wholly ignorant of its underlying spiritual principles. Man can teach much that is on the surface, but only the Holy Ghost can teach the deep hidden things of God. And this the great Teacher will help us to do, for it is his special province, “to search all things, yea the deep things of God.” The Holy Spirit enables us to search these important truths and to digest the strong meat of the word. Whether we look into these pages for ourselves or for our scholars, let us invoke the aid of the divine spirit in its interpretation, and cry out as did the Psalmist, “Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” “Holy Ghost, with light divine
Shine into this heart of mine.” In conclusion—let us, students and teachers, “read, mark, learn and inwardly digest” these sacred oracles, that every page may become “a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.” It is a wonderful book. It is an eternal book. As we look around us we see decay, destruction, ruin, and death stamped upon everything. These beautiful flowers will fade; these grasses will wither; this lovely earth which we delight to inhabit will soon “melt with fervent heat” and “the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll,” but the word of God, as he gave it, will endure forever. Yes, heaven and earth shall pass away, but thy word, O God, will never pass away.—Rev. William Walton Clark.