The
Bible And The American Home -
by
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
More than nineteen hundred years ago St. Paul
wrote to a young man named Timothy: “From a child thou hast known the holy
Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith
which is in Christ Jesus” (II Timothy 3:15).
Timothy was a fortunate young man. His father was
not a believer, but his godly mother made up for the lack, and her mother
helped as, day after day, from his earliest childhood, they taught him the Word
of God. As a result he came to know Christ as his Savior at an early age, and
later became Paul’s faithful co-worker and closest associate in making known
the wonderful “gospel of the grace of God.” In his very last letter the Apostle
recalls Timothy’s “unfeigned faith… which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois,
and thy mother Eunice” (II Timothy 1:5).
If only we had more such grandmothers today, and
mothers, with husbands to help them! If only our American children were not set
adrift on a tossing sea of human speculation, but were taught the eternal
truths of that Old Book, the Bible!
Certainly the rebellion of so much of our American
youth against law, authority and morality is directly related to the
disappearance of the Bible from American life. It is not those young people who
have been brought up in Bible- reading homes and in Church and Sunday School,
who are making us ashamed today; it is those, from backgrounds both rich and
poor, who have been brought up without Bible teaching.
We all need to “know the holy Scriptures,” not
only because they teach reverence for God and build moral character, but most
of all because they “are able to make [us] wise unto salvation through faith…
in Christ Jesus.” The theme of the Bible, Old Testament as well as New, is the
Lord Jesus Christ, the riches of whose saving grace are unfolded to us in the
Epistles of Paul, the chief of sinners saved by grace.
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