MAKE A FEW | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 31, 1878

MAKE A FEW.

A pretentious student in Brown University once told Dr. Wayland that he thought it would be easy to make proverbs like those of Solomon. The only reply of Dr. Wayland was, “Make a few!” If skeptics who have spent so much time in railing at the Bible would try their hands at making a better book, a book that would take hold upon the heart of humanity; which would interest children and comfort old age; which would inspire manhood and womanhood with the highest, truest, and noblest thoughts; which would chasten them in joy and comfort them in sorrow; if infidels would produce the first page of such a book as this, we would gladly listen to what they have to say. But this eternal fault-finding, this everlasting negation; this seeking to rob people of a healthful and comfortable faith and leave them nothing in its place; this parading of a few worn-out sneers and objections, never will accomplish much with a world that is hungering for the bread of life, and that longs to drink of the waters of salvation.