Many Christians have their heads stored full of catechism, creed, and Scripture, and yet when trouble comes they have not one truth on which they can really lean or trust their weight, or which gives them any actual support or help. Piles of doctrines, but no rod and staff to lean on in weakness; lamps hung away in great clusters, but not one of them burning to throw its light upon the darkness; bundles of alpenstocks tied up in creed and text, but no staff to walk with over the dark mountains. Let us learn to study the Scriptures for ourselves, and to know what we should believe and why we should believe it. Second-hand Bible truth is not the kind of food our souls need.