p. 7 | The One Book

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 47.

The One Book.

It is worth while, when so many who profess to be ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who have taken vows to preach the Word, are cutting and carving that Word to suit their own theories and so-called scientific hypotheses, are discarding and criticizing that great book, to find a noted educator and one who seems to be developing into a great statesman, expressing views of strong and extreme loyalty to the Bible. Here is one paragraph from an address by Professor Woodrow Wilson:

"Our present life, ladies and gentlemen, is a very imperfect and disappointing thing. We do not judge our own conduct in the privacy of our own closets by the standard of expediency by which we are daily and hourly governed. We know that there is a standard set for us in the heavens, a standard revealed to us in this Book, which is the fixed and eternal standard by which we judge ourselves; and as we read this Book it seems to us that the pages of our own hearts are laid open before us for our own perusal. This is the people's book of revelation—revelation of themselves not alone, but revelation of life and of peace. . . . He knows the kingdom for which he is bound, he has seen the revelation of himself, and his relations to mankind; he has seen the revelation of his relations to God his Maker; and therefore he has seen his responsibility to the world. This is the revelation of life and of peace."