| The Secrets of a Beautiful Life |
Chapter 7 |
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But there have been interpreters — men with eyes which saw, with ears which heard, and they have told us something of the meaning of the wonderful things God has written in his works.
Or take the literature of the world. It is the harvest of many centuries of thought. In every age there have been men who have looked into truth with deeper, clearer vision than their fellows, and heard whispers of God’s voice; then coming forth from their valleys of silence they have told the world what they heard. Take the treasures of spiritual truth which we possess; how have they come to us? Not through any scrolls brought from heaven by angels, but through human interpreters. God took Moses up into the mount and talked with him, as a man talks with his friend, revealing to him great truths about his being and character, and giving him statutes and laws for the guidance of men; then Moses became an interpreter to the world of the things which God had spoken to him. David was an interpreter for God. God drew him close to his own heart and breathed heavenly songs into his soul; then David went forth and struck his harp and sang — and the music is breathing yet through all the world. John was an interpreter for God. He lay in Christ’s bosom heard the beatings of that great heart of love, and learned the secrets of friendship with his Lord; then he passed out among men and told the world what he had heard and felt and seen; and the air of this earth has been warmer ever since and more of love has been beating in human hearts. Paul was an interpreter for God. God took him away from men and revealed himself to him, opened to him the mystery of redemption as to no other man in all Christian history; and Paul wrote the letters of his which we have, which have been marvelous in their influence all these Christian centuries.
But not alone have these inspired men been God’s interpreters; many others since have taken up the word of God and have found new secrets, blessed truths, precious comforts, that had lain undiscovered before, and have spoken out to men what they have found. Evermore new light is breaking from the Bible.
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