"The Great Controversy should be very widely circulated.  It contains the story of the past, present, and the future.  In its outline of the closing scenes of this earth's history it bears a powerful testimony in behalf of the truth."  Letter 281, 1905

  "God designed the Bible to be a lesson-book to all mankind, in childhood, youth, and manhood, and to be studied through all time. He gave his Word to men as a revelation of himself. Every new truth discerned is a fresh disclosure of the character of its Author. The study of the Scriptures is the means divinely ordained to bring men into closer connection with their Creator, and to give them a clearer knowledge of his will. It is the medium of communication between God and man."  {GC88 69.1}