We never fully realize the value of the Bible till it becomes our very
life. The way to deal with the Bible is not merely to study it or to
meditate upon it, but actually to live on it, as that squirrel lives on
his beech-tree.
A preacher, one day, resting under a beech-tree, pondering on
the divine wisdom that had created it, saw a squirrel running
round the trunk and up the branches, and he said to himself,
“Ah! little creature, this beech-tree is much more to you than
it is to me, for it is your home, your living, and your all.”
Its big branches were the main streets of his city and its
little boughs were the lanes. Somewhere in that tree he had his
house and the beechnuts were his daily food.
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