Helps to Learn the Bible.
UNDOUBTEDLY the Bible, as such, is but little used in some Sunday-schools. Lesson-leaves and kindred helps supersede the one book. Good helps have their mission. They are means of opening up and enforcing the Scriptures. But they should never supplant the Bible in the classes. President Chadbourne, of Williams College, recently enunciated sound doctrine upon the point:— “There is danger, in the multitude of books and studies, that the Bible will be neglected. It is neglected sadly even in Christian families. When the Bible was the one book of the family many learned its truths as they are not now learned by the young. There is a demand that the Bible be banished from our public schools. All these efforts and this talk, which will poison the minds of our children, make it more important that the Bible should be exalted in every Christian school and college. And especially is it necessary that the Sabbath schools should do their work in the most efficient manner. They should teach the Bible, and not merely something about the Bible. The Bible will remain when the earth and the heavens pass away; and when the great white throne is set, it is one of the books that will be opened. Can such a book not be ignored in any system of education—a book that fits men for all in this life—for citizenship, for social life, for old age, for sickness, and for death—and for that other life for which this whole life is simply an education? Let us come to simple Bible truth!”