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Written by John Henry Jewett (1864-1923), a British preacher and author.

If we wish to retain “the word of the Lord” everything depends upon where we keep it. If we just keep it in the mind, a leaky memory may waste the treasure. A Chinese convert declared that he found the best way
to remember the word was to do it! The engraved word became character, written upon the fleshy tables of the heart. He incarnated the word, and it became a vital part of his own personality. He lived it and it lived in him. The word became flesh. This is the only really vital “way of remembrance,” to convert the word into the primary stuff of the life. There is a secondary way by which we may help our apprehension of God’s word. “Ye shall teach them.” Our hold upon a truth is increased while we impart it to others. The gospel becomes more vivid as we proclaim it to our fellow men. We see it while we explain it. It grips us more firmly as we use it to grip our children. This is a great law in life. In these matters, it is literally true that memory best retains what she gives away. A truth that is never shared is never really possessed. The word that we teach becomes rooted in our own mind.

You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you
shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. [Deuteronomy 11:18]

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