Readings from Solomon

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 16, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 19.

Readings from Solomon

Our readings for this week lie almost wholly in the writings of Solomon. Chapters 30 and 31 seem to be from others, and yet Solomon may have written both. The last contains a splendid description of a worthy woman. One of the great dangers in the reading of such short, condensed, sententious sayings, is that of hurrying over them without thought. They are not narrative nor connected argument. They need time.

Ecclesiastes should be read from the view-point of one who had yielded himself to all the follies and pleasures of life, and failed to find profit or pleasure in any. Such did Solomon, and the book reveals his experiences, that men may profit by them.