“Our lives we cut on a curious plan,
Shaping them, as it were, for man;
But God, with better art than we,
Shapes them for eternity.”
Many people only half read their Bibles. They skim the surface, and fail to get the full, deep meaning of the golden words. They get but half-truths, and half-truths ofttimes are misleading. Even inspired sentences standing alone do not always give the full and final word on the doctrine or the duty which they present: frequently it is necessary to bring other inspired sentences, and set them side by side with the first, in order to get the truth in its full, rounded completeness. When the Tempter quoted certain Scriptures to our Lord, he answered, “It is written again.” The plausible word in its isolation was but a fragment, and other words must be brought to stand beside it to give its true meaning.
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