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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 29, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 52.

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Study the Bible

By Uriah Smith

YOUNG people of reason and common sense, give your serious attention to these points. Read your Bibles again. Read carefully — read prayerfully. See whether these things are true or not. Dare to think for yourselves. Do not trust to commentaries. Do not build your faith on bodies of divinity. Go to the fountainhead of truth. “The words of the Lord are pure words.” “The law of the Lord is perfect.” This can not be said of the writings or opinions of any man or of any number of men, however wise and holy they may be.
To err is human. God and his truth are alone infallible. Show yourselves true Protestants, and cast away the “traditions of men.” You have the Bible. The wisest and holiest of the “fathers” had no more. Your ministers have nothing else to guide them — at least they ought not to have. “The Bible, and the Bible alone, is the religion of Protestants.” Go, then, to your Bibles, and see whether the God-dishonoring doctrines to which your attention has been directed are found there or not. — Uriah Smith.