p. 672 | Unprofitable Labor by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 5, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 42.

Unprofitable Labor.

By Editor

THE Interior very sensibly says that a minister who endeavors by his own personal explorations to cover the disputed territory of advanced scientific studies, is only wasting his time. Some ministers eagerly follow all the ramifications of so-called science, even in its undermining of Bible truth, for fear that they will fall behind the times. Others think that they must follow all its deductions in order that they may overthrow those that are false. Both classes are wasting time, and are in danger of letting their flocks starve for want of "the sincere milk of the word." Only be patient, and professed scientists themselves will furnish the evidence with which to overthrow their own false theories. Besides, the Bible contains a good deal more than is commonly supposed. It is very common to speak of it as not being a book of science, and therefore many people are led to suppose that it is an unscientific book; but the truth is, that when men of the greatest intelligence have fathomed all the science that sages have ever hinted at, they are infinitely below the Bible; and when some real discovery in science is made, they will find from the Bible that it was known ages before they were born.