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 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.
