THE BIBLE AS AN EDUCATOR by Dr. Cuyler

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 12, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 7

THE BIBLE AS AN EDUCATOR.

By Dr. Cuyler

Even as a mental discipline, there is no book like God’s book. Nothing else so enlightens the intellect. No other study so strengthens the understanding and clarifies the perceptions, and enlarges the views, and purifies the taste, and invigorates the judgment, and educates the whole man. The humblest day laborer who saturates his mind with this school-book from Heaven, becomes a superior man to his comrades. Not merely a purer man, but a clearer-headed man. It was this honey from Heaven which gave to the Puritans much of their sagacity, as well as of their stubborn loyalty to the right. The secret of the superiority of the Scottish peasants is found in that “big ha’ Bible,” which is the daily study at every cottage ingleside. What an argument this is for keeping God’s own school-book for his children in every school of our land, high or humble. As the honey strewed the forest for Israel’s common soldiers to partake of, so the Lord has sent down his own word for the masses.—Dr. Cuyler.