READ YOUR BIBLE DAILY

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 29, 1876

READ YOUR BIBLE DAILY.

The celebrated painter, Benjamin Robert Haydon, gave the following admirable advice to his son at a very critical time of his life:—

“You are quite right to read history; make yourself master of the histories of Greece and Rome. The English people are in many respects not unlike the Athenians without their art, and like the Romans without their profligacy. Read your Bible daily. There is no more interesting book in the world, and it is becoming more necessary to read and study it, because I already perceive a tendency among our scientific men, in all their pride of knowledge and what they call discovery, to set the Bible aside as an oriental legend. Do not believe them. The Mosaic account of the creation is the most simple and the most natural, and will be found, you may rely on it, confirmed by science, when science has got down to the real facts. Generalization, founded on our present knowledge of the laws of nature, is the very thing which our present acquaintance with those laws does not justify. I am convinced that no thoroughly established and settled theory will be found to contradict the truths revealed in the Bible. But you are too young yet for me to enter further on the subject. I only tell you of it to put you on your guard. You will find many men, old and grown-up men, who will laugh at the Bible. Don’t believe them. Mathematics are all very well; but the differential calculus, my dear boy, can never prove or disprove the existence of God. Read your Bible, do your duty, and leave the rest to God.”—Sel.