WHY I READ MY BIBLE
(By Bishop Paul B. Kern.)
"I read my Bible because it is tbe most astounding book ever written. Civilisations crumble; but the Word of God endures. "1 read by Bible because witbin its pages 1 find power for the ordering ',of ray inner life. Most of life's destructive evils would not have come upon us if men had not forgotten the Word of God. We have foolishly thought that we could live by bread alone. "I read my Bible because in its pages are found the secrets by which men walk the pathways of light and hope and freedom, The contemporary tendency to belittle human personality in an increasmgly mechanised world is another of the central problems oi our time. "I read my Bible because it offers me a sound social philosophy. There is only one fundameiltal thing wrong with the world — It is that men have never been willing to put love in their
hearts and make it regnant in the world about them. "I read my Bible because it teaches me; That the lesson of life js to believe what the years and the centuries say, as against the hours.5 We need again to discover the sense of eternity in the midst of time, and to learn to judge events . . . in the light of theii bearing upon . . . the happiness of our children after us."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 12
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