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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 47.

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PHILIP GIDDINGS

By Philip Giddings

“FROM GENESIS TO REGULATION.”

PHILIP GIDDINGS

Speaking to some one a while ago, one remarked, “I am not learned, but I can read my Bible from Genesis to Regulation.”
He missed the exact word, but struck another one suggestively good. What is the Bible but Genesis to Regulation? “Wherewithal shall a young man [anyone] cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.” Ps. 119:9. “Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.” Verse 11.
God’s word in the heart is the anchor to the soul in the hour of temptation’s tempest, and no less the helm by which to steer in the right course.
It regulates the feet: “Order my steps in thy word.” Ps. 110:133. “Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.” 17:5. “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” 119:105.
It regulates the hands from doing any evil (Isa. 56:2); the eyes, so that they look straight before (Prov. 4:25); the lips, so that a watch is kept before the door. Ps. 141:3. We can’t go, can’t do, can’t see, can’t speak, but according to the Word. Oh, to have one’s life so checked! What a blessed regulation that would be!