Search the Scriptures

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 6, 1865

Search the Scriptures.

I HAVE somewhere read of a silver egg once curiously fashioned for a present to a Saxon queen. Within the outer case was found a yolk of gold. Open the yolk and there was discovered the form of a beautiful bird, bright plumaged with precious stones. Press the wings of the bird, and it flew open, displaying a crown, jewelled and radiant. And still inside of the crown, sustained by a spring, was a ring of diamonds just fitted to the Princess' finger.

Thus is it with every promise of the gospel. There is a covenant within each covenant; there are decrees within decrees; there are purposes within purposes. How much of the gospel is lost because it is not studied. How few even of the most intelligent believers ever find their way far enough within the springs to gain the crown for their own wearing, or the ring of God's choicest love for themselves.