Texts in the Memory

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Sep 4, 1855

Texts in the Memory.

MANY blessed consequences flow from having the words of Scripture in the memory. We cannot always have our Bibles in our hands; especially if our calling leads us to manual labor.

When you walk by the way, good thoughts will be promoted and evil thoughts will be shut out by some good word of God turned over in the mind. Choose your text in the morning with this view.

When you are at work, you may derive unspeakable profit and comfort from ruminating on some savory promise. It may, by the blessing of God, do you as much good as a sermon.

When you are at prayer, texts of Scripture in the memory will aid your devotion, by awakening right feelings, suggesting seasonable requests, and prompting to suitable expressions. Thus you join "the word of God and prayer."

When you retire to rest, or lie awake during the night-watches, or sit beside the sick or dying, you may taste the sweetness of many a gracious promise; and may say, "In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul."

When you are in pain, fear, sorrow, or sudden peril, one verse of the Bible may be like a star to the benighted mariner.

O be persuaded to make it a part of every day's duty, to commit to memory at least one new verse; and fail not to store up like treasures in the minds of your beloved children.