The Bible and Free Thinking
By Watchman
SOME men grow so wonderfully broad that there is not room for their vast minds between the covers of the Bible. To be sure, David found that God's word was exceeding broad; so broad that he found himself walking at liberty when he was keeping God's precepts. But many have thought themselves wiser than David or Daniel either. When a man's mind swells in what he calls "free-thinking," he very soon finds the Scriptures to be an obstacle to him. A little girl planted some potatoes, and following her own ideas, put them very close to the wall of the house. By and by, she came to her mother with a rueful countenance, to say: "O mamma! my potatoes have grown so large that the house is in the way." Haec fabula docet—the ten commandments will be very much in a man's way if he is trying to climb over them. But if he loves to live in them, he shall find that they have room like the spaces between the stars.—Watchman.