06.14. The Book Of Books

14. THE BOOK OF BOOKS The Bible is the "only" book, it is "The Book of Books." Nowhere else can we find what we are, where we came from and whither we are bound. It is the only book that tells of a salvation from sin and the Christ who made it possible. It is the only book that pushes civilization before it wherever it goes, and it is the only book that decay will follow its removal. If you build a school, a church or a home and want it to stand, build it on this Grand Old Book.

Come and build you a home on this Rock, the Bible,
It is safe you can there abide,
Though the tempest may howl, not a wave can reach you,
In its cleft you can safely hide.
Here is shelter from the cold, from the storm and tempest,
And there’s manna for the soul every day.
I am building my home on this Rock, the Bible,
I am building my home to stay.

Dr. Baldwin of Troy, New York, in closing his pastorate of forty-one years, said, "I can testify that at thirty, after examining the religions and philosophies of the world, I said, "There is nothing better than the Bible." At forty when burdens began to press heavily and years seemed to hasten, I said, "Nothing is as good as the Bible."At fifty when there were empty chairs in my home and the mound builders had done me service, I said, "There is nothing to be compared with the Bible." At sixty when my second sight saw through the illusions and vanities of earthly things, I said, "There is nothing but the Bible." And now at seventy amid the many limitations and deprivations of declining years I can sing,

"Should all the forms which men devise,
Attack my faith with treacherous dart,
I’d call them vanity and lies,
And bind the Bible to my heart."