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Using the Bible Like a Compass

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 17, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 3.

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Using the Bible Like a Compass

The following anecdote is a good illustration of the manner in which some people use the Bible: An old hermit in Michigan, when the country was new, several times lost his way in the woods. At length he was advised by a friend to get a pocket compass. He did so, and being instructed as to its use, got along for awhile very well. In course of time however he lost his way again, and lay out, as usual. When found he was asked why he did not travel by the compass. He did not dare to, he said. He wanted to go north, and he "tried hard to make the thing point north, but it wasn't no use, 'twould shake, shake, shake round, and point southeast every time."