Power of the Bible by Talmage

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 11, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 40.

Power of the Bible

By Talmage

A MISSIONARY in France offered a Bible in a humble dwelling. The man took it, tore out a dozen pages, and with them began to light his pipe. Some years after, the missionary happened in the same house. The family had just lost their son in the Crimean War, and his Bible had been sent back home. The missionary took it up, and saw that it was the very same Bible that he had left in the house, and from which the leaves had been torn. The dying soldier had written on one of the leaves of the Bible, “Rejected and scoffed at, but finally believed in and saved.” The Bible may be used to light the pipe of witticism by some, but for us it is a staff in life, a pillow in death, and our joy for eternity.—Talmage.