What They Said

“We should ever approach that sacred book with reverence. Though written by men, remember that those men "spake, as they were moved by the Holy Spirit."  The medium through which it was communicated, detracts not from the divinity of the matter. When we open the sacred volume, we listen to the voice of God. It is the same voice, though unaccompanied by those terrific circumstances, which issued from that awful cloud which curtained the summit of Sinai. It is the same voice that was heard in such piteous lamentations from Calvary, when our Immanuel trode for us the wine press of the wrath of God. Should we not, therefore, give a reverential attention, when Jehovah speaks? Should not our posture be that of the deepest humility and awe?”

Jared Bell Waterbury