Is it a lamp to your feet? Not merely a lantern to keep you out of the
mire, but a treasure like that miner's lamp; a light by which he is not
only guided, but able to walk in the shadow of death. All around him is
the gas that would slay him, and yet by that lamp he walks to the place
of safety! This is what the Bible must be to you, or it is nothing.
Mind you, it is not enough for you to know the Bible. We have heard
drunken men quote it with correctness, but it had not saved them from the
demon which haunted them. It is an instructive thought that the man who
wrote some of the Bible, who is spoken of in the pulpit as "The Wise
Man," the author of the Book of Proverbs, was led away into sin and
eternal disgrace. In fact, it matters not what we know, if we are not
led of the Spirit we shall come to grief. The more deeply a ship is
laden, if she gets aground, the more likely she is to become a wreck. It
takes the wisest of men to make the fool Solomon became. Perhaps the
most serious aspect of this story is, that it was not while the king was
young, but when grey-headed, that he wandered from God, and this leads me
to say that