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| The Preacher Of the Holy Bible: |
It is essential that a preacher should be well acquainted with the book from which he preaches. In order to teach mathematics, one must know mathematics. What would you think of a “music teacher” who did not know English? He who called to preach the Bible, is also called to study the Bible, for there cannot be one without the other: the first necessitates the last. Like David, each preacher should be able to testify: “Oh, how love I Thy Law!” (Ps. 119:97).
The preacher should be acquainted with the Bible as a whole, and this can only be accomplished by reading the Bible from cover to cover. The entire Bible can be read in fifty-four hours, reading three chapters of the Old Testament in the morning, and two chapters of the new Testament each night, the Old Testament can be read once a year, and the New Testament twice a year. Surely this is not too big a price to pay for a working knowledge of this book of books.
“There is no royal or easy road to acknowledge. It comes through persistent and painstaking study. Someone has said that “Study consist of the application of the seat of the chair, until such time as the subject has been mastered!” It is the maintenance of this point of contact that calls for earnest and self denying determination.
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