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The Daily Study of the Sabbath-School Lesson

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 30, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 48.

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The Daily Study of the Sabbath-School Lesson

By Mary Culver Warner

MARY CULVER WARNER
God is getting a people ready to inhabit the glorious home that he is preparing for them,—a people whose garments are made white in the blood of Jesus, in whose mouths is no guile and whose hearts are made pure and clean through the Word of God.
If the heart, emptied of evil and made clean, is filled with the Word of God, there is no room for the evil that is lurking about, ready to come in and take possession. In these last days much light is being shed on the Word of God. Scripture lessons are prepared by God's servants to whom he is revealing the true light. These are just what the people need to educate and prepare them for what is soon to come to pass on the earth.
These lessons take up, one after another, the various points of faith as taught in God's Word. It is necessary to learn them thoroughly if we would become familiar with the principles they contain, and be prepared to live a life of righteousness by faith.
God's Word must be hid in the heart and become a part of the life, in order to have a sanctifying influence. It was by a knowledge of the Word, and the power that accompanies it, that Jesus successfully met the temptations of Satan. The Word of God is the “sword of the Spirit,” and by it we may “quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”
The child of God may rest secure in trials and temptations if he knows a “Thus saith the Lord,” and can trust in God's promises. Daniel was saved from the mouths of the lions because he trusted in his God. He was acquainted with his Word, and believed it.
We should not let the cares of this life press in to rob us of our reward. “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.” Search and find the sanctifying truths that are in these lessons. In studying we behold the Lord revealed in his Word, and we become changed,—changed into his glorious image. We discern the immutable plan of God to bring fallen man back into holy allegiance to his Creator. We admire, then worship and adore his great and excellent name.
Not one of us can afford to be found among that number who are mentioned in Amos 8:11-14: “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God; that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. . . . Even they shall fall, and never rise up again.” What a day of mourning and sorrow that will be! What a regretting of lost opportunities! What a picture for those who neglect the daily study of the lesson!
On the other hand, if we know the Word of God, and believe it, we may safely rest under the shadow of his wing. We shall then be able to obey the apostle's injunction: “Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”
The time is not far distant, even now we begin to see the signs indicating that it is near, when God's people will be brought before kings and rulers for his name's sake. As one stands pleading his case before earthly courts, how grateful he will be when the Lord fulfils his promise by bringing to his mind just the text needed among the manyhe has committed to memory in the past.
How sweet to listen to the words of the Lord spoken by the still, small voice: Thou art “called, and chosen, and faithful.” And when he comes to take his people home, he will say to the trusting one, “Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”