Teaching Through Scripture History
Use of Scripture History.—God certainly had a purpose in making history and biography the broad basis of all Scripture. Is it not manifest that, by putting so large a portion of his Word into this narrative form, he thereby sought to attract and interest the youthful mind? If so, it will profit by the indication. It is wise to follow, in our own instructions, the Divine pattern thus set us. Religion never speaks more gracefully than when she speaks by example. It is chiefly through the living voice of example that she speaks to the young in all the Scriptures. To inculcate Bible truths, through Bible characters, whether from the pulpit, the press, or the teacher's chair, is to adopt the Bible's own method of instruction. And certainly it is one which experience proves to be most effective, as it is the most pleasing.