The Bible in Every Church Service
The custom is growing of having some special thing to emphasize on a particular Sunday. This process has developed to the place where quite a large number of the Sundays of the year are already taken up. Among these we have recently had one for the purpose of emphasizing the importance of the Bible. It was called “Bible Sunday.” Why would it not be a good idea to emphasize the importance of Bible study all the time? What is a church service for if it is not to study the Bible? And is it not a sad commentary on these times, that we have to have a special Sunday set apart for emphasizing the very thing that every church service should emphasize? If the Bible is not the basis of a service, and if it is not emphasized in that service, the service is a failure; but the very fact that the Bible is not emphasized as it should be, is one reason why we have the state of morals that exist in the world at the present time. But mere theories about the Bible will not suffice. Lectures concerning its importance do not reach far enough. The Bible must be brought into the very soul life of the individual through a personal experience in order for it to accomplish its purpose, and this is an individual work.