Study the Bible

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 9, 1873

Life is short and art is long. In the secular sphere it is conceded that the powerful minds are those who rigorously confine themselves to one department of thought. Newton cultivated thought and neglected literature. Kant wrought in the quicksilver mines of metaphysics for fifty years; and was happy in one work. These men made epochs, because they did not career over the whole encyclopædia. And the same is true in the sphere of religion. The giants in theology have dared to let many books go unread, that they might be profoundly versed in Revelation. And the mighty men in practical religion, the reformers, the missionaries, the preachers, have found in the distinctively evangelical elements of Christianity, and their application to the individual soul, enough, and more than enough, to employ all their powers and enthusiasm.—Dr. Shedd’s Homiletics.