No Christian, if asked what were the most momentous and fruitful pursuit for those that apply their hearts to seek out wisdom, would hesitate in his answer: there is, there can be, nothing like the study of the New Testament. In these writings we meet with a complete revelation vouchsafed, while yet the believer can but know in part; they place GOD before him in that light in which it is his privilege to walk, where the understanding is quickened and the heart gladdened by the things revealed to the soul's affections.
ITS SUBJECTIVE SIDE.
" God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last clays spoken unto us by [His] Son," by Him whose words shall abide when heaven and earth alike have passed away. The Gospels contain our Lord's utterances on earth; the remaining New Testament books His words from heaven. (Cf. John 16:12,13; Acts 1:1 Rev. 1.; Rev 10.) The impression we receive in a favored land, and from earliest childhood, of the power of Christ's word, of its unction, ever operative and ever fresh-which indeed, thanks be to God, adheres somewhat to all who have at any time experienced it-might well render useless the consideration of these scriptures in any other
aspect than that in which they form the food of the believer's life. (Cf. 1 Cor. 14:37.)