Jesus Christ

          While many people may difer on many points about Jesus Christ, they are agreed that his fame has no rial, that his grip on human hearts has no equal, that his word is sharper than any sword, and that his power command is mightier than any general.
           To his ollower, Christ is "the way, the truth, and the life," the Paragon of Goodness, the Model of Morality, and the Savior of the Lost.  After nineteen centuries his footrints still glow with a radiant helpulness, and all who are guided by them lift their own eet of clay to ictories over self.

                I ask them whence their victory came:
                         They, with united breath,
                Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb
                         Their triumph to his death.
                                                              -Isaac Watts

                             Christ also sufered for us,
                               leaving us an example,
                          that we should follow his steps.
                                                              -1 Peter 2:21

        

The Books our Mothers Read

          The Bible contains the richest and rarest literature of the world.  It appeals to the intellectual and aesthetic as well as to the spiritual and moral faculties.  It marks the literature of the scholar just like it colors the speech of the street.
           JohnRuskin considered the Bible "the grandest group of writings extnt in the rational world."
           The most brilliant passages of Macaulays writings are rounded with Scripture quotations.
           Pope saturated his classics with quotations rom Isaiah.
           Cowper's "Task" drew much of its imaginaryrom the Scriptures.
           Bryant's "Thanatopsis" could never hae been written but for the pages of Job.
           And myriads of other authors would never hae done so excellently without the Bible.

                            And, weary seekers of the best,
                        We come back laden from oru quest
                            To find that all the sages said
                          is in the Book our mothers read
                                                           -John Greenleaf Whittier

All scriputre is given by inspiration of God and is useful for...
                                                            -2 Timothy 3:16

                The Education of Folly

                At times, all of us have played the fool, but there is a difference: wise ools and stupid fools.  The sagacious fool learns rom his folly; the thickheaded ool never does.  If we can avoid the same blunder, there is hope for us.  After all, the world doesn't like the one who never makes a mistake; neither is it fond of the person who keeps on committing the same ones.

                     Let us take courage: get up from eery fall, wipe off the dust and be thankful-note for the slip, not for the bruises, but that we are now a little smarter.

Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.
                                                 - Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux

I have played the fool and erred exceedingly.
                                                  - 1 Samuel 26:21