p. 6 | Search the Scriptures by Miss Z. I. Davis

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 16.

"Search the Scriptures"

By Miss Z. I. Davis

BIBLE study is the surest way to keep the faith pure. There is always something new and fresh to be found in the old texts. They must be faithfully mined for, but nuggets more precious than gold are sure to reward the seeker.

Jesus said, "If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." Christ's Word can not abide in us until we have made it ours. It needs to be assimilated that it may bear fruit.

A plant draws upon the earth for what it needs to form the leaf, bud, and stalk. It must make these elements its own before it can bring forth bud and blossom.

Only by feeding on God's Word are we nourished by it. It is "sweeter than honey in the honeycomb" when once we have learned to love it.

It was said of Lincoln that there were few clergymen who knew the Bible as well as he did. Luther, Gladstone, and Washington were all men who searched the Scriptures.

What a vast field for the sowing of the Word are China, Korea, Japan, and Africa. More Bibles were sold in China last year than in England and Wales combined. We need to increase the standing army of the Lord in the foreign lands. "Recall at once from all mission fields every man and woman who doubts the authority and integrity of the Holy Scripture, and who questions for a single moment the supreme glory of the person of Christ."