A Word For All
"The entrance of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." -- Ps. 119:130
I have been writing these little daily newspaper sermons now for nearly two years. Many words of appreciation and assurances of help received have come to me from readers. And this has been my chief inspiration and satisfaction in performing this service.
In the preparation of these little messages I try not to overlook anybody. I keep constantly in mind the shop worker, the store clerk, professional and business people, those who toil in the home, the invalid and shut-in, the young and old, the sick, the troubled and the sorrowful. My constant effort all along is to get in a heartening word for everybody, for the aspiring youth as well as for those of mature years, for the scholar and the unlettered, for the successful and un-successful, for the rich and the poor, for the optimist who sees only "the silver lining" and for the disillusioned, the weary and discouraged.
For the appropriate word to say to each and all, I look to the Bible. More and more I am amazed at the resourcefulness of this wonderful Book. Never once has it disappointed me in my search for the needed word. It seems to know and understand all the varying moods of the human heart. It seems to know human nature and to understand all its complexes. And it has something that answers to all its moods and needs. It has an appropriate word for every conceivable condition and circumstance.
No matter to whom I have wanted to speak, whether to those who toil and suffer in hidden places, or to the man amid the crowds of the court, or the forum, or the street, or the market place, never once has the Bible failed to supply the appropriate word.
If these messages go home to the human heart and do anybody any good, it is because they come from that Book that knows and understands the human heart—that has a healing balm for all its woes and points the way to the fulfillment of all its hopes.
