Ralph Cooper Butchison President of Lafayette College in an address reported in The Lafayette Alumnus Easton, Pennsylvania

There are voices speaking for those who will listen. These voices, these truths, are in the realm of the mind. They require thinking and good thinking.

You need not be confused! You can be men of education holding to noble truths even if you do not have all the answers.

The great Teacher said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." I think, among other things, he meant free from confusion and fear.

Confidence and orderliness of mind are found in laying hold on truths that remain true no matter what happens today or tomorrow.

These truths ... of right and wrong have remained steads and unchanged during all the vicissitudes of human development.

The St. Vital Lance Manitoba, Canada

The righteous man will discover as the result of the experience of life that there are higher sources of power than himself; that there are certain conclusions not open to debate; that there are some matters on which no intelligent man is in doubt. As a wise spiritual leader once said, ... "We do not send our children to school where the teacher is open-minded about the multiplication table."

Just so, the righteous man will find undestroyed the fundamental foundations of the moral order. He will find that he can build his life on love and justice and righteousness. In his dilemma he can go on being righteous—"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" He can believe in the redemptive power of love—"Love never faileth"! He can seek peace and pursue it. "What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

The Honorable Alfred M. Landon in a speech quoted in the Bible Society Record, Chicago, Illinois

The Honorable Alfred M. Landon, speaking from Topeka, Kansas, over the Columbia Network on "The Bible Comes to Life," ... said in part:

"Nothing can take the place of the Bible in the life of an individual or the life of a nation, if we bring to its reading an open mind, a contrite heart, a reverential awe, and an abiding faith in the eternal verities which we know as God's righteousness.

"And I might add to these primal essentials another, namely, a little intelligent common sense. ... In Bible reading, as in every other human endeavor, we get back in kind what we put forth. We find what we seek. If we read the Bible merely because it's the traditional thing to do, we gratify our sense of having done the proper thing. That's something; but not much, as compared with what we might be getting. The scoffer looking for inconsistencies will find what looks like them to him. That's what he is looking for. The student of literature finds a rich harvest in its epic stories, its drama, its poetry, its oratory; but that may well be all that he finds. He may altogether miss the deeper eternal significance of what he reads.

"The devout man, listening with awe and reverence for the very voice of God as he scans the pages, will hear it ringing in every line— in denunciation of evil, in exhortation and guidance toward the good, in hope and in promise. He finds what he seeks. ... The words of the Bible, of themselves, are not a talisman that will bring good luck, nor a magic charm that will assure success. ... But to him who with a contrite heart, devout reverence, and an abiding faith heareth and doeth the words of the Bible, they are a guide to the way of life, a comfort to those who mourn, a consolation to the afflicted, a rein upon the wanton will, an inspiration to the straying mind, a hope to the fainting heart and divine food for the famished soul."

Lord Samuel The Listener, London, England

We may see the great religions and all the independent beliefs standing, as it were, in a circle, some close together, some far apart. Within the circle stands Truth— nearer perhaps to one side, farther from another. If they turn their backs on her, and each goes in search of some distinctive way, the circle will grow wider and the faiths more separate. But if they face inwards and try to approach the place where Truth is, they will be drawn nearer together, and should they at last come within reach of her hand, they will find that they are able also to grasp each other's.

Rome News-Tribune Georgia

There has been a tremendous growth in the realization that material and scientific advances are not enough. Man has come to understand that all the heaped-up knowledge of the ages, as it concerns temporal things, is not enough. There must be a knowledge of spiritual things, an understanding of the great eternal purposes of God and of His divine plans.

Thus accompanying the endless search for Truth has come an understanding upon the part of millions of persons that the most vital of all forms of knowledge is that there is a God and that He has prepared a pattern of human conduct that makes for happiness here and happiness throughout eternity.

Concerning the truth in all such matters, the Bible is the great textbook, and familiarity with it should be commonplace. No person should deny himself the high privilege of becoming acquainted with the eternal truths of the Bible, which point the way to escape from all the vexing problems of life and make serene all expectations touching the ages that lie ahead.

The Venerable C. H. Lambert, M. A., Archdeacon of Blackburn The Expository Times Edinburgh, Scotland

The Gospel must be seen, known, and proclaimed with prophetic conviction as true in itself and for itself. It must be proclaimed as news, good news of the action of God, as that which God has done and does, for God is. The Gospel is fact; it is ... timeless, not confined to a historical moment, transcending all time, changing all history, significant to every man, whether of yesterday, today, or tomorrow, because it is the mighty work of God.

Again, the Gospel must be seen and proclaimed as a Gospel of redemption from sin and evil, as that which God has done for man which man cannot do for himself. It is the announcement of a great deliverance, consummated on the cross, guaranteed by the resurrection, and brought to man now by the power of the Holy Spirit. It means new life and new power, an eternal life, here and now and fulfilled in the heavenly places.

Charles A. Wells Youngstown Vindicator, Ohio

How many centuries of observation must man have before he realizes that strength based on physical might is in the end—weakness? How many political and economic empires must we see rise and fall before we discover that the only enduring power we can build upon is the power of truth and justice? Many men have been laughed at, mocked, and tortured because they would not be a part of the crumbling, sordid systems of "might makes right." They seemingly stood alone and helpless. But they were not alone and they were far from helpless.

Human progress has not been made by guns, brass, braid, and banners, as necessary as these have sometimes been in defense. Progress has been made by the brave and lonely who stood for truth when it was unpopular. But they stood with a strange and serene strength, for behind them was the lightning of God's mighty judgments.