HOW SOME MEN READ by R. F. C.

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1879

HOW SOME MEN READ.

By R. F. C.

People read the Scriptures through a pre-adopted creed; and the way they transform, nay, contradict, the text is marvelous. As an example take Ps. 103: 13-16, which they read something like this: “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that our bodies are dust. But as for man, he is immortal, and not like the grass that to-day flourishes in the field and to-morrow is cut down and withered; or like the flower of the field, which, when the wind passes over it, is driven away and gone, and its place is no longer known [James 1: 10, 11]; but he is destined to live in conscious weal or woe as long as God exists and eternity endures.”

We prefer a more literal reading. R. F. C.