The Bible by Rev. E. E. Adams

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 12, 1864

The Bible.

By Rev. E. E. Adams

Oh, friends, if there is one great thing in this world, it is the Bible of God; great in origin, great in thought, great in promise, great in beauty, great in purpose, great in power, great in its results! It hangs as by a golden cord from the throne of the Highest, and all Heaven’s light, life, love and sweetness come down into it for us. It hangs there like a celestial harp; the daughters of sorrow tune it, and awake a strain of consolation. The hand of joy strikes it, and feels a diviner note of gladness. The sinner comes to it, and it discourses to him of repentance and salvation. The saint bends an ear to it, and it talks to him of an Intercessor, and immortal kingdom. The dying man lays his trembling hand on it, and there steals thence into his soul the promise, “This mortal shall put on immortality, and this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and death shall be swallowed up in victory.”

Where is promise, where is philosophy, where is song like this? Magnify the Word of God!—Rev. E. E. Adams.