Life Story of C.I. Scofield

Biography  by 
Charles Trumbull

The boy’s father and mother were true Christians, Old-fashioned believers. His father read the Bible to him and encouraged him to read it for himself. The father was not instructed in the full range of Biblical truth, but he lived very much in the Book of Psalms and loved David greatly. And the boy read his Bible lessons, like any other boy in a respectable Chris tian family; but he did not dream that the Bible was a book to be studied like other books, and he gave it little attention. Yet what a preparation he was getting, all unconsciously, in mental habits of thoroughness and of verification and of the first-hand study, all of which make for scholarship, for the producing, years later, of the Reference Bible