Volume 10

“I HAVE many books,” said John Newton, “which I cannot sit down to read, they are indeed good and sound, but like pence, there is a great quantity to a little amount. There are however, silver books and a very few golden ones, but I have one Book worth more than all the rest. It is called the Bible, and it is A BOOK OF BANK NOTES.”

It would be utterly impossible to calculate the value of these notes, but experience enables us to say that the store of wealth is inexhaustible. We have been now for ten years spending these heavenly bills of exchange, and have not yet come to the end of one of them. Nay, they all seem to have grown more precious.

There is to our mind, more fulness and richness perceptible in the Scriptures of truth than when we first began to prize them for ourselves, and publicly to commend them to others. What a mercy for minister, that we have such a text book, for there would have been an end to our preaching long ago, if the book had not been an infinite treasury of truth. We marvel more and more at the abiding novelty and power of the Word. The clear flowing stream of Scripture may well sing-- “Men may come, and men may go, But I go on for ever;”