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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 9.

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BIBLE STORIES.

How we all have loved them, and love them still, even we grown-up ones, and you who feel yourselves almost grown-up! When the little ones of a family circle are gathered to listen to a Bible story, you will seldom fail to see the older ones listening, too, although they may know the story by heart. And surely this is well, for our blessed Lord caused these Scriptures "to be written for our learning," and we never shall find that we have grown too old or too wise to learn fresh wisdom from them.
These dear, familiar histories of Abraham and Isaac, of Jacob and Joseph, of David and also Samuel, and of the prophets, should not be read or listened to merely for amusement. It was meant that we should learn something from all that is told us of their earthly lives. Yes, by carefully studying these "Bible stories" of the saints of old we may learn to "embrace and ever hold fast" that blessed hope which cheered them on—even the hope of everlasting life.—Cross and Crown.