The Word of God

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 2, 1916

MOST wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of eternity! the only star By which the bark of man could navigate The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss Securely; only star which rose on Time, And, on its dark and troubled billows, still, As generation, drifting swiftly by, Succeeded generation, threw a ray Of heaven’s own light; and to the hills of God, The everlasting hills, pointed the sinner’s eye: By prophets, seers, and priests, and sacred bards, Evangelists, apostles, men inspired, And by the Holy Ghost anointed, set Apart and consecrated to declare To earth the counsels of the Eternal One, This book — this holiest, this sublimest book — Was sent. Heaven’s will, Heaven’s code of laws entire To man, this book contained; defined the bounds Of vice and virtue, and of life and death; And what was shadow, what was substance taught. Much it revealed; important all; the least Worth more than what else seemed of highest worth.

— Pollok’s “Course of Time.”