Peter says, “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God.” There is a great need for, and advantage in, obeying this injunction. We live in a day when men speak in a style very different from the oracles of God. There is a famine, not of bread, but of the Word of the Lord. A conceited philosophy on the one hand, and an utterly impoverished theology on the other, have given the world a colorless language, destitute of all truly nutritive elements. The Spirit of God calls reason upon the sons of men to turn from their famine-stricken diet, to the fatness provided in the oracles of God, in which they may delight their souls; but the call is disregarded, the world is enamored of its own ways and its own thoughts. A few, however, amid the teeming millions will be found in wisdom’s way when that day arrives. It is our privilege to have been invited to walk in this way. Let us hold fast well by this first lesson of wisdom: “if any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God.” We are helped to do this by our practice of reading the Scriptures, not only in our daily private life, but in all our assemblies, as the foundation of our thoughts.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One