p. 83 | Untitled article by L. E. Millne

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · July 23, 1867

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

By L. E. Millne

THIS blessed volume grows more precious to me every day, as I read the sweet and soul-cheering promises made to those who will walk in wisdom's ways. All her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. As its truths are daily unfolding to my mind, how oft my heart ascends in praise and thanksgiving to its divine Author, that my poor heart has been enlightened by the Holy Spirit, that I have been enabled to discern the glorious light of present truth, which shines from its pages so brightly in these last days, these days of peril, when Satan is working with all power and lying wonders, to deceive if possible the very elect.

This precious volume is a sure guide in these days of darkness. As I study its holy precepts, light from the heavenly sanctuary illumines every page. Like sparkling gems, in mines of gold it bursts upon our enraptured vision and even here we gather clusters of grapes from the heavenly Canaan. Oh! who would not be wise and seek an understanding of its glorious truths, that when the earth shall reel to and fro like a cottage and its foundations are shaken, and the heaven shall be rolled together as a scroll, amid all this commotion we may be enabled to stand with our loins girt about with truth.

Dear Bible, thy pages, I love to behold, They are dearer by far than mines of pure gold. Here treasures exhaustless so sweet do I find To strengthen and comfort my sorrowing mind, L. E. MILLNE. *Health Institute, B. C., Mich.