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has done all that and vastly more ' and if you ask “How?” the answer is to be found in a single sentence and the only sentence that has any meaning whatever, namely it has given the world “a Bible ' and out of that Book has blossomed every blessing personal social or national known to man. Who can believe that such a stream will flow from an uninspired; fountain? But I turn from this question to THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE confidently affirming that it is with the claims of inspiration. The anticipations of the liible positively prove inspiration A, J. Gordon said Prophecy is the mould of history ' If so, we have in prophetic fulfilments a scientific demonstration of inspiration. Here we come upon a wealth of argu¬ ment the weight of which is as irresistible as would be an avalanche sweeping the sides of Mt. Everest, The comparatively minor sentences of prophecy that majored in history, who can measure? In the book of Deuteronomy we read of Israel Ye shall be plucked from the land. The Lord shall scatter ye among all people Among these nations thou shalt find no ease. Every man who knows aught of the Jew knows that that prophecy finds in history a literal fulfilment Jesus looked on Jerusalem and declared its coming destruction. Descending to very minutiae of speech He said, Not one stone of the temple shall be left upon another ' Forty years later it was so! Daniel in the second chapter of his book prophesied an outline of history from which twenty-seven centuries have de¬ parted in no particular ! But to show how the prophets could express even the very particulars of an incident remind yourself of Zeohariall’s statement concerning the Christ who was to come He shall ride into Jerusalem upon a colt, the foal of an ass”—a sentence that waited seven hundred years for its fulfilment and at the end of that time saw the last word of the assertion realized. To show how potent is this argument only remember that prophecies concerning the Christ begin in the third chapter of Genesis and conclude with the twenty-second of Revelation, and only those have failed to find tile forms of history that remain for certain fulfilment. The total character of the Book demands inspiration I have spoken of The Book, and such it is. Someone says, No, it is a library! It is sixty-sis hooks!” Yes! Written by forty authors? Yes! Produced in a period equalling if not exceeding fifteen hundred years? Yes! By men, many of whom never met each other or heard one of another. Yes, and yet we find it one book. The unity of the Scripture is an evidence of its divinity. Its authors lived in different coun¬ tries; were affected by different circumstances, spoke different languages em¬ ployed diversities of literary style represented all grades of culture and yet from Moses to Malaehi the Old Testament moves without a break, and from Matthew to Revelation the New proceeds without a hiatus. Not one of the sixty-six is in conflict with another Yea more, not one of the sixty-six but produces an essen¬ tial part of the glorious whole and so fits what he has to say into the consummation as to complete and perfect it. Men know that our Bible cannot be improved upon. Yea better, they know full well it will never again lie equalled. If not. why make a mock of the masterpiece of the ages? If not why neglect tlie Book of Books? If not, why shut the cars against sentences that are so clearly from God? If not why sit at t)u i feet of men and permit them in your presence to scorn its evident di¬ vinity? If not, why not accept it as the basis for life building, as the Pole Star for life’s direction and as the source of Information concerning the life that is to come? Students, fear not to believe nor yet to preach and teach it. It is the in¬ spired Word! [ 3 ]
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THE BIBLE—Is It Inspired? W. B. It i lev “AU script are is gtuen by inspiration of God” —II Tim. 3:16. TUDENTS in the Northwestern Bible Training School art; uniformly taught O that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. Without exception the graduates of the institution have gone forth to propagate such a faith. Is there an adequate defense of this faithr Are our students justified in accepting it? Wc briefly ex¬ press here sonic of the reasons for such teaching. The supreme question for the twentieth century student is this: “The Bible is it an inspiration?” Since this question affects the very life of Christianity itself, I claim at once an inalienable right and a comparative fitness for its discussion. THE CLAIM OF INSPIRATION That contention has hack of it the dear claims of the B ' Me itself. Every prophet professes to record what he received from God. Tlie Old Testament claimed that word and thought alike were given of God. God was with Moses ' mouth. Ex. f: 10-12, and taught him what he should say. God was in David ' s tongue, 2 Sam. 23:1-2, imparting speech God put Ilis testimony into Jeremiah ' s mouth, Jer 1 ;6A). The New Testament writers were equally explicit in their contention of divine authority. Peter said. “No prophecy ever came by the will of man.” Paul contended that both the thoughts and words in which he expressed himself were alike inspired, 1 Cor. 2:12-13. Jesus said of His speech, The Father gave me a commandment, what I should say and what 1 should speak. I)r. Kuvper has wisely remarked, You can as easily have music without notes or mathematics without figures as thoughts without words! The only thoughts that have been regarded as of sufficient importance to record had first to take the form of words, and that theory of the inspiration of the Bible which accords divinity to the thoughts and denies it to the language in which they Hire clothed, is as illogical as ijnscriptural, as unscientific as superficial. Again, it has beneath it the buttressing walls of Bible History. This hook is not a novelty. Its latest utterances wear the ermined majesty of millenniums. Its every page has been exposed to any and every investigator, friend or foe, for thousands of years and in all eases where unbelieving prejudice did not exceed that of Pilate, candid men have been compelled to say, Wc find no fault in it.” For fifty years every turn of the archaeological spade lias proven tlm moral dishonesty and scientific inaccuracy of Bible opponents. Concerning the New Testament the case of divinity in origin and preservation is stronger still. Unmade, the destructive critic, has to consent that the four Gospels belong to the First Century and that the hook (if the Acts is a companion piece. Paul looms too large in history for any intelligent man to dispute either his existence or Ins authorship and as for John and the Revelation, we have the writings of his disciples extant, witnessing alike to his personality and his pro¬ duction. Its enemies themselves being witnesses, there is not a New Testament book nor yet a New Testament author named, whose inspiration has been success¬ fully disputed. The claim of inspiration has around about it the hotly of Christ—the Church, That institution must be accounted for, and the Bible alone provides an explana¬ tion, Its twenty centuries of challenging conquering history demand interpreta¬ tion. Walter Itauseiibusch, a critic, said of it: ft has abolished slavery, miti¬ gated war, covered all lands with a network of charities to uplift the poor and the fallen, fostered the institutions of education, aided the progress of civil liberty and social justice, and diffused a softening tenderness throughout human life. It
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