In upon this situation the Scriptures come like winds fresh from the mountains. You Wave the crowded cities with their highly organized life. and pass out upon wide plains, and climb the heights of regal hills, and feel an emancipation of the spirit in every adventure in the Old Testament and the New. But deeper than his the Scriptures set a constant and supreme value upon personality. Individual men are all the while lifted from the mass of life. The Bible is a book of heroes. Egypt cannot crush out the personal vigor of Moses. As-syria is but a background for the greatness of Isaiah. Jeremiah is more than Babylon. The great Galilean is more than the Rome of the Caesai To a man caught in the meshes of organization there is something infinitely refreshing about all this. In this great world of the spirit of man and the spirit of God you need not say "things are in the saddle and! ride mankind." The individual does count. "All souls are mine" rings from the lips of a great prophet.
Organization has indeed taught us that the individual is a part of something larger than himself And this perception is kept keenly alive in the Scriptures. The heroes of the Bible are always heroes because they have found a cause, a God greater than themselves. And as you see their vision of God's way in human life, you begin to fee] that. organization itself can be made the servant of personality and not its tyrannical master. At the very moment when the Bible shows a way of inner emancipation it reveals a way of outer mastery. The organizations themselves become the instruments of the God who is the father of men.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.