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down in the Bible. I consider the Bible the one up-to- 

 date book in a world where most books are soon out of 

 date and behind the times and needs of men. When a 

 boy on my father's farm in Wales it was reading the 

 Bible hours each day by myself for over a year, fighting 

 it all the time, that caused me to offer Him my life 

 without condition or reservation. I sought to know His 

 Will for my life and I was not sure that I knew what it 

 was. I knew His last command to His disciples was to 

 go into all the world, to preach the Gospel, to teach all 

 nations, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever 

 He had commanded. I was not sure where He wanted 

 me, or what He wanted me to do. But until He made the 

 way plain, I considered it was my duty to get ready to 

 obey His last command and prepare for that which was 

 farthest off, and if He wanted me anywhere else it would 

 be easy for Him to stop me at any intermediate place, 

 if that were where He wanted me to live my life and do 

 my work. 



So when criticisms became severe and I felt uncertain 

 of myself it was again to this Book that I went. I 

 wanted to be sure first of all that I knew what the Gospel, 

 the "Good News," really was. I studied anew the life 

 of Our Lord. I noticed that on the threshold of His 

 public ministry He went into the synagogue where He 

 had been brought up and, as was His custom, the village 

 carpenter stood up to read. The scroll was handed to 

 Him and He unwound it till He found the place where 

 it is written, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, be- 

 cause He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the 

 poor, He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to 

 preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of the 



