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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, December 31, 1867

Prize the Bible.

“Oh! what mines of wealth are there in the Bible, of which most of us know nothing. This is one use and need of afflictions; they make the word of God precious. A single text becomes more to us in hours of trial than was the whole Bible before. We cling to it as a drowning man clings to the plank which saves him from a watery grave. We bear our whole weight upon it, and find it strong enough to bear us and not break. Hear Bunyan: “Ah! what did I now see in that blessed sixth of John? ‘and him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out.’ Oh, many a pull hath my heart had with Satan for that blessed sixth of John! A word, a word to lean a weary soul upon. It was that I hunted for.”