Psalm 119: 130. — The entrance [unfolding] of thy
words gives light, it gives understanding to the simple.
A profane shop man crams into his pocket a leaf of a Bible,
and reads the last words of Daniel: "Go thou thy way, till the end be, for
thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days, "and begins
to think what Iris own lot will be when days are ended. A Göttingen Professor
opens a big printed Bible to see if he has eyesight enough to read it, and
alights on the passage, "I will bring the blind by a way that they knew
not, "and in reading the eyes of his understanding are enlightened.
Cromwell's soldier opens his Bible to see how far the musket ball has pierced,
and finds it stopped at the verse: "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth,
and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth; and walk in the ways of
thine heart and the sight of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these
things God will bring thee into judgment." And in a frolic the Kentish
soldier opens the Bible which his brokenhearted mother had sent him, and the
first sentence that turns up is the text so familiar in boyish days: "Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden," and the weary profligate
repairs for rest to Jesus Christ.
James Hamilton, 1814-1867*. (From the additional notes and comments to Charles Spurgeon's The Treasury of David)
*The year of Hamilton's death is given as 1871 in the Wikipedia entry, and elsewhere.
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