The Bible the Best Church Lamp
Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.


Glorious church lamp, this Bible. Luther found it in the cloister at Erfurt, and he lifted it, until the monasteries and cathedrals of Germany, and Italy, and France, and England, and the world saw its illumination. It throws its light on the pulpit, making a bulwark of truth; on the baptismal cup, until its waters glitter like the crystals of heaven. It strikes penitence into the prayers and gladness into the thanksgiving. It changes into a church John Bunyan's prison, and Covenanter's cave, and Calvin's castle, and Huss's stake, and Hugh M'Kail's scaffold of martyrdom, Zwinglius carried it into Switzerland, and John Wycliffe into England, add John Knox into Scotland, and Jehudi Ashman into Africa.

(T. De Witt Talmage.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

WEB: Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.




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