When a very young minister, I asked the famous holiness preacher, Joseph H. Smith, whether he would recommend that I read widely in the secular field. He replied, \u201cYoung man, a bee can find nectar in the weed as well as in the flower.\u201d I took his advice (or, to be frank, I sought confirmation of my own instincts rather than advice) and I am not sorry that I did.<\/p>\n
John Wesley told the young ministers of the Wesleyan Societies to read or get out of the ministry, and he himself read science and history with a book propped against his saddle pommel as he rode from one engagement to another. Andy Dolbow, the American Indian preacher of considerable note, was a man of little education, but I once heard him exhort his hearers to improve their minds for the honor of God. \u201cWhen you are chopping wood,\u201d he explained, \u201cand you have a dull axe you must work all the harder to cut the log. A sharp axe makes easy work. So sharpen your axe all you can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 9:9; Ecclesiastes 12:11; 2 Timothy 4:13<\/p>\n
The Size of the Soul,<\/i> 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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