"Within the covers of one single book, the Bible, are all the answers
to all the problems that face us today - if only we would read and
believe." - Ronald Reagan
Martin Luther said, "I study my Bible like I gather apples. First, I
shake the whole tree that the ripest may fall. Then I shake each limb,
and when I have shaken each limb, I shake each branch and every twig.
Then I look under every leaf. I search the Bible as a whole like shaking
the whole tree. Then I shake every limb--study book after book. Then I
shake every branch, giving attention to the chapters. Then I shake every
twig, or a careful study of the paragraphs and sentences and words and
their meanings."
When John G. Mitchell, was pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Washington, he heard Dr. G. Campbell
Morgan preach. The man knew his text, and young Mitchell was impressed.
In fact, he asked the visiting Bible teacher how he
