READ THE SCRIPTURES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 8, 1869

READ THE SCRIPTURES.

MULLER says, “I fell into the snare into which so many young believers fall, the reading of religious books in preference to the Scriptures. I read tracts, missionary papers, sermons, and biographies of godly persons. I never had been at any time of my life in the habit of reading the Holy Scriptures. . . . . The scriptural way of reasoning would have been: God himself has consented to be an author, and I am ignorant about that precious book, which his Holy Spirit has caused to be written through the instrumentality of his servants, and it contains that which I ought to know, the knowledge of which will lead me to true happiness; therefore I ought to read again and again this most precious book of books, most earnestly, most prayerfully, and with much meditation; and in this practice I ought to continue all the days of my life. But instead of acting thus, my difficulty in understanding it, and the little enjoyment I had in it, made me careless of reading it, and thus like many believers I practically preferred for the first four years of my divine life, the works of uninspired men, to the oracles of the living God. The consequence was, I remained a babe in Christ, both in knowledge and grace.”